Good Omens (2019)

5 HCs AU: When Sita tries to call upon Bhumi Devi to swallow her up, nothing happens.

1. It is–not quite nothing, a rumble from the earth whispering Not yet, my daughter; but it is not the rest that Sita has wanted for so long. 

Around her, courtiers and commoners whisper alike of Maithali’s failure with as much surprise as satisfaction: now, at least, they can silence the lingering guilt at their part in their queen’s exile. Certainly she was to blame all along, and their King’s decision above reproach. 

Sita does not speak again, but turns to leave, head held high.

2. She goes back to her cottage in Valmiki’s hermitage, the only place–other than an abandoned hut in Panchavati–that feels like home. 

Some, Sita knows, might urge her on to giving up her life: but fire had let her pass unscathed, the son of wind spoken in her favor, and earth her mother forsaken her. Why ought she to imagine the waters might be any different?

In the back of her mind, faint but fixed, is the throb of anger; her husband’s wrath might threaten to destroy the world, but Sita’s is a thousand times more destructive. Lanka learned that lesson all too well; Sita closes her eyes and prays for peace. 

3. Kush might be the elder, but Luv the bolder, and Luv the one who asks her at last one night.

“Would you have left us?”

A mother’s instinct almost brings No, of course not to her lips; but Janaka’s daughter does not lie, no more than she hides from hard truths. 

“Yes,” she says. 

“With a father we scarcely know?”

“Your teacher’s stories–”

Luv scowls. “Are just that.” His mouth curls up, just as it did when he was five years old and refusing to eat his dinner. “You would have left us.”

Sita sighs, and holds out her arms to him. “And I never will again.”

4. “You might have been princes,” she reminds Kush, who should have been heir to Ayodhya. “You might have taken your rightful places.”

He only snorts. “And rule the same louts who scorned our mother? Never.”

She does not dare admit that she is proud of him, but her smile betrays her nonetheless.

5. Sita is tending to her garden when she hears footsteps approaching, coaxing weeds to take life elsewhere; she looks up to find her husband peering down at her, clearly awkward and somehow not yet out of place. His clothes are stark; his head is bare, devoid of the crown. She wonders if Bharata was convinced to take it at last, or if Lakshmana obliged instead.

(She knows too, enough of the ways of ruling to know that a king does not simply wake one morning and renounce his throne. He must have been planning this, moving the pieces into the motion, since the day she and the boys had departed Ayodhya forever.)

“Forgive me,” he says, and Sita, who had half-feared she would never be able to do so, feels her rage ebb at last. 

Beneath her bare feet, the earth hums her contentment. 

we’re all distracted by the beautiful queer love between an angel and a demon but can we talk about Adam Young? about Adam as, well, as Adam, as the first man, the first representative of all humanity? it’s not a mistake or coincidence the baby wound up with that name, of course. (ineffable…)

he might have been Satan’s son but he is raised human, by humans, with humans. he is human, in all his upbringing and outlook and emotions, in all his flawed glory. he is proud, yes, and he is a leader (the Them always have looked to him, he has the best ideas) and yet he loves. he loves so deeply and so selfishly, in that very Pratchettian way – selfishly, yes, because he makes everything he loves into his own, and so he protects it as he’d protect himself. and isn’t that such a human thing to do? to take that flaw and make it something beautiful instead?

Tadfield is his Garden, is his youth and his innocence. he’d give the world to his friends but he… he would stay right there, he says. he’d stay in his Garden. it is his paradise, unspoiled, loved so much that Aziraphale felt it at once, that all the summers were perfect summers, that all the weather in general was idealized in a way which it never really is in reality. he reached out through his love and made the world better. and when he came into his powers, what spurred it? a boy’s naive but genuine desire to fix things. it wouldn’t have fixed anything, of course, in the end. he abused his power and hurt people accidentally, and could so easily have abused it more, worse… but the motivations were good. he wanted to help. to make it better. and isn’t that such a human flaw too? 

but at the end, through all of it… with the help of his Them – of his Horsepersons, who aren’t just concepts made by humans but are themselves human – and of the same angel and demon who were there at the very first – and that isn’t a mistake or coincidence, either – he knows. he understands. his father, his real father, the one who was there for him all along, says that he might not quite know what Adam did wrong, but that Adam does.

and he does. he knows. after 6000 years outside of the Garden, that first bite of the apple has finally come to, ha, fruition in Adam, that so entirely human boy. he knows what he did wrong. he knows the difference between good and evil. between right and wrong, and between Right and Wrong, too.  

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Just curious-- what makes the 2009 Emma adaptation a work of art?

*cracks knuckles* *pulls out color coded binder* I’m so glad you asked.

I’ve seen a lot of Emma adaptations: Clueless, Emma (1996), Aisha, the other BBC series (the one with Kate Beckinsdale and Mark Strong), Emma Approved, and of course, the 2009 BBC Miniseries. The 2009 version is my favorite, it always has been, and it always will be. Most of that comes down to characterization, but it is also about the way it captures Austen’s story magnificently though language, set design, costuming, and music.

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Hey all, remember when I said I’d never do another picture-fic because I don’t have photoshop and it’s straight up the devil’s work? Yeah, I lied. 

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little (100% canon) things i love about the end of pride & prejudice that don’t usually make adaptations:

Lizzy offers to burn The Letter because Darcy’s embarrassed about how bitter he probably sounded when he wrote it

Darcy tells Lizzy that he told Bingley he was wrong about how Jane felt. Lizzy (parphr): “Did you decide that for yourself or were you just going off what I told you at Hunsford?” Darcy, the stubbornest nerd: “No, I figured it out for myself” Lizzy, sarcastically: “okay, Darcy”

When Lizzy tells Jane she’s in love with Darcy, Jane asks her if she’s joking six times

Next day: Darcy and Bingley show up at the house. Mrs Bennet’s upset that Bingley always brings Darcy. To get rid of him, she tells Kitty and Lizzy to take him on a walk. Bingley: “Kitty looks sick. Maybe Lizzy and Darcy should go…….. by themselves” Mrs Bennet: “I’m sorry Lizzy you must find a way to survive this” Lizzy, sarcastically: “Oh nooooooo”

 Direct quote, Mr. Bennet on Darcy saving Lydia: “It will save me a world of trouble and economy. Had it been your uncle’s doing, I must and would have paid him; but these violent young lovers carry every thing their own way. I shall offer to pay [Darcy] to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.”

Lizzy writes a friendly, clever letter to her aunt and uncle that’s included in the text, the next line is “Darcy’s letter to Lady Catherine was in a different style”. The text of Darcy’s letter is omitted

Jane and Bingley move in next door to Lizzy and Darcy

I feel like you’ll appreciate this photo I took several years ago when I was in school of a raven getting spooked by something in the bushes

Sunflowers painted with Dr Ph Martin’s Hydrus Liquid watercolours, on Bamboo mixed media paper. Special thanks to Cee-Roo for letting me use his track “I’m So Happy” :)

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