idk what i'm doing anymore

Listen, God said that She would start the universe again from the Big Bang and eventually there would be people in all their mundane glory, or however she worded it, and we pop right into that new universe in 2026, to see every major character from the show now living in the same neighbourhood in human form.

There is no way that's a coincidence or the first time these particular human souls have been drawn to each other. If there is no Heaven and no Hell, where do human souls go after we die? Presumably back to Earth for another go. The reason "Asa" felt such an instant connection to Anthony is because he has fallen in love with him before, hundreds of times, and yes as humans their lifespan is comparatively short, but if they keep finding each other over and over again then aren't they still the same people, in a way?

Maybe it's an optimistic way to interpret it, but it seems unlikely we're supposed to read it as 2026 is the first "go" at being human these characters are getting, and they're all so drawn to each other they've created a little found-family based around the street the bookshop was in.

We have the universe and each other.

To the world.

No more apocalypses.

god looked at a queer man and told him that his love for another man always made them smile

say what you want about the finale but

the characters dismantled the cosmic systems of injustice, and they did it while holding hands

say what you want about the finale but

as if the entire movie was not created out of love for terry pratchett and his stories, his life. as if his memory isn't the reason we have an ending to the story in the first place.

that THIS:

(idk why Tumblr isn't showing it but the gif is from @crowley-anthony )

is what everything! THE WHOLE SERIES! every season and every episode boils down to!?!???!

The ending we got is the best ending we could have gotten. It's all they ever wanted. From the very beginning. From season 1 episode 1. From the beginning of time itself.

They only ever wanted each other and the universe. They wanted humans to have a chance of free will without influence from heaven or hell.

And they actually got it. They actually got what they wished for!

because THAT is who he is. he loves his stars and creations, he loves humanity, he loves the messiness, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, he loves watching them. he showed jesus all the kingdoms of the world to share that love with someone who he knows already felt it.

in the end, they made that choice together. it's a choice they have made before, over and over, saving humanity over themselves. no god, no angels, no demons, no thousands of years of suffering for all the millions of eternal beings.

personally, i choose to believe that god's last gift to them was integrating them into the fabric of the new universe, so they will find each other in every lifetime. but without anyone watching, without any plan behind it, without senseless suffering, without creating stars just to destroy them.

Imagine finding out you have 90 minutes to tie up a love story that's developed over thousands of years. You create something beautifully in character and completely on point for the plot. You pay homage to the original writer's legacy in a fitting and poetic way and create an ending that not only shows the depth of two people's love for each other but the wider love they have for the thing that brought them together in the first place.

And then you go online to find the loudest outcry is that everyone hates it and "THEY DIDN'T EVEN KISS!"

Ship Tournament — Round #3 / Match 12 of 22

Ashur/Tarquin

"Look at them, they have it all. Mage/templar romance? Soldier/highborn noble? Revolutionary leader and his second in command? Grumpy/sunshine? The holy knight and his Divine? What more could you want? They complement each other so perfectly, they fight and make up, they're never far from each other's sides. Tarquin is jaded and sarcastic and cynical and yet he's right there anyway, leading this somewhat hopeless cause because it's the right thing to do and Ashur makes him believe. Ashur is devout and fervent and wants to see the best in everyone, and Tarquin keeps him grounded and level. They had me from the moment you can call Ashur a legend, with Tarquin groaning about how that's going to go right to his head and the fond little smirk in Ashur's voice when he says "you'll keep me humble.""

"Tevinter's magic pope and a templar end up freedom fighting together, and I get to see them bicker like an old couple while being ride or die for each other"

"I legit thought they were going to get together in the game cause of their interactions"

vs. Neve/Rana

"If I didn’t know Veilguard’s pairings going into the game I would have expected Neve and Rana to become a couple. The first time we see them interact Neve comes off being flirty imo and Rana is clearly one of the people most important to Neve regardless, the two even starting a detective agency together in one of Neve’s endings."

English, Elvhen, Tevene, Anderfels, Antivan, and Nevarran alphabets!!!

The Way of Kings

"For a moment, Cenn thought he could see something surrounding the squadleader. A warping of the air, like the wind itself become visible." (Chapter 1)

"The storm continued to blow, shaking the wagon. Those winds felt like live things at times. And who was to say they weren’t? Were windspren attracted to gusts of wind, or were they the gusts of wind? The souls of the force that now wanted so badly to destroy Kaladin’s wagon?" (Chapter 4)

"Nobody cared for the bridgemen. Nobody cared for those at the bottom, with the darkest eyes. And yet, that wind seemed to whisper to him over and over. Life before death. Life before death. Live before you die." (Chapter 43)

"“Winds are changing,” Wit whispered....“It’s been happening for months now. A whirlwind. Shifting and churning, blowing us round and around. Like a world spinning, but we can’t see it because we’re too much a part of it.”" (Chapter 54 -- might just be metaphorical but who knows with Wit)

"“A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.”" (Epigraph to Chapter 55)

"Kaladin danced with the wind." (Chapter 65)

"“He’s like a part of the wind itself,” Drehy said. “Pulled down and given life. Not a man at all. A spren.”" (Chapter 68)

Words of Radiance

"We speak of the wind as if it has a will of its own." (Chapter 1, Jasnah talking to Shallan about spren)

“I am the only honorspren who has come,” Syl said. “I . . .” She seemed to be stretching to remember. “I was forbidden. I came anyway. To find you.” “You knew me?” “No. But I knew I’d find you.” She smiled. “I spent the time with my cousins, searching.” “The windspren.” (Chapter 9)

"You bonded it in the fury of the raging storm and were reborn with a new body. People had been doing this from the arrival of the first winds." (Interlude I-4 -- probably metaphorical)

"Syl spun around him, and he felt the wind stirring. He felt the tempest raging, urging him onward. He came at the assassin with the remnant of his spear wielded like a quarterstaff, and felt the wind guiding him." (Chapter 32)

"“More than that,” Eshonai said. “The winds obey me. And Venli, I can feel something . . . something building. A storm.”" (Interlude I-8, about stormform)

"Kaladin charged through the chasm, and the wind joined him, blowing at his back." (Chapter 52)

"He felt as if something were boosting him from behind, the wind itself carrying him." (Chapter 52)

“It’s like when I first picked up a spear,” Kaladin whispered. “I was just a child. Were you with me back then? All that time ago?” “No,” Syl said, “and yes.” “It can’t be both.” “It can. I knew I needed to find you. And the winds knew you. They led me to you.” (Chapter 52)

"Wind. Motion. Kaladin fought two Shardbearers at once, knocking their Blades aside with the helm. He couldn’t attack—didn’t dare try to attack. He could only survive, and in this, the winds seemed to urge him. Instinct . . . then something deeper . . . guided his steps. He danced between those Blades, cool air wrapping around him. And for a moment, he felt—impossibly—that he could have dodged just as well if his eyes had been closed." (Chapter 57)

"Despite his inward grousing and complaints, he desperately wanted this power. He had claimed the sky, the winds themselves. Giving them up would be like giving up his own hands." (Chapter 68)

"There will be stories told of one of these bridgemen. Miraculous survival. Favored of the winds." (Interlude I-14, Taravangian speaking)

"I am the sliver of Him that remains. I saw His corpse, saw Him die when Odium murdered Him. And I . . . I fled. To continue as I always have. The piece of God left in this world, the winds that men must feel." (Chapter 82, Stormfather speaking)

"“You sent him to the sky to die, assassin,” Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, “but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”" (Chapter 85)

"Kaladin looked toward the sky. He was free once again. Winds surged beneath him, seeming to lift him, propel him. Carry him." (Chapter 86)

"No. The wind is mine. The sky is mine. They have been mine since childhood. You are the trespasser here. Not me." (Chapter 86, Kaladin speaking)

"You are a coward, the Radiant had said, the man who owned the winds." (Chapter 88, Szeth referring to Kaladin)

Oathbringer

Syl walked up to him in the air. “They’re like I remember them.” “Remember them?” Kaladin whispered. “Syl, you never knew me when I lived here.” “That’s true,” she said. “So how can you remember them?” Kaladin said, frowning. “Because I do,” Syl said, flitting around him. “Everyone is connected, Kaladin. Everything is connected. I didn’t know you then, but the winds did, and I am of the winds.” “You’re honorspren.” “The winds are of Honor,” she said, laughing as if he’d said something ridiculous. “We are kindred blood.” “You don’t have blood.” “And you don’t have an imagination, it appears.” She landed in the air before him and became a young woman. “Besides, there was … another voice. Pure, with a song like tapped crystal, distant yet demanding…” She smiled, and zipped away. (Chapter 6)

Consumed by his pain and feelings of betrayal, Kaladin surged with Stormlight and flung his hand forward as if to try to push back the wind itself. A hundred windspren spun in as lines of light, twisting around his arm, wrapping it like ribbons. They surged with Light, then exploded outward in a blinding sheet, sweeping to Kaladin’s sides and parting the winds around him. Kaladin stood with his hand toward the tempest, and deflected it. Like a stone in a swift-moving river stopped the waters, he opened a pocket in the storm, creating a calm wake behind him. The storm raged against him, but he held the point in a formation of windspren that spread from him like wings, diverting the storm. He managed to turn his head as the storm battered him. People huddled behind him, soaked, confused—surrounded by calm. (Chapter 31 -- notably, Syl had no idea that Kaladin could do this)

"They flew for a good hour like that before a current in the winds nudged him toward the south." (Chapter 31 -- Syl attributes this to the Stormfather)

"...there were even three stormwardens, the odd men with the long beards who liked to predict the weather. Shallan had heard that they would occasionally use the blowing of the winds to foretell the future, but they never offered such services openly." (Chapter 44)

“Your overseer told me,” Leshwi said. She had a distinct serenity about her as she floated with feet down. The wind up here tugged at the ribbons she wore, pushing them backward in careless ripples. There were no windspren in sight, oddly. “Where did you get that name?” (Chapter 54)

"Everyone knew you didn’t linger around Aimia, though everyone had different explanations why. Some rumors told of a vengeful storm here, one that sought out and destroyed approaching ships. The strange wind they’d encountered—which didn’t match the timing of highstorm or Everstorm—seemed to support that." (Interlude I-4)

"Odium rides the very winds, like the enemy once did." (I-6, newly awakened Fused speaking)

"High sky. Dead winds. Blood rain." (I-6, different newly awakened Fused speaking)

"Today, I leaped from the tower for the last time. I felt the wind dance around me as I fell all the way along the eastern side, past the tower, and to the foothills below. I’m going to miss that." (Epigraph to chapter 74)

"I snuck away,” she said with a grin. “I gave up my mind and joined your world, hiding among the windspren. We can barely see them on this side. Did you know that? Some spren live mostly in your realm. I suppose the wind is always there somewhere, so they don’t fade like passions do." (Chapter 95)

"We took them in, as commanded by the gods. What else could we do? They were a people forlorn, without home. Our pity destroyed us. For their betrayal extended even to our gods: to spren, stone, and wind." (Chapter 111, from the Eila Stele)

"A spry ocean wind blew in through the window, shaking Dalinar’s hair as he stood in his villa in Thaylen City. The wind was sharply chill. Crisp. It didn’t linger, but passed him by, turning the pages of his book with a quiet ruffling sound. It fled from the Everstorm." (Chapter 115 -- probably metaphorical)

"Kaladin thought he could hear the wind as he stepped from beneath the obsidian trees. Syl said this place had no wind. Yet was that the tinkling of glass leaves as they quivered? Was that the sigh of cool, fresh air coursing around him?" (Chapter 116)

"He felt something. A stirring on the wind." (Chapter 120 -- Maya responding to Adolin, likely metaphorical)

"As he lay there in agony, he felt something—a faint panic on the wind." (Chapter 120 -- Adolin sensing Maya)

"Lethargically, the black storm faded until it was a mere overcast stain, rippling with drowsy red lightning. It finally rolled across the island—impotent, bereft of wind—and vanished to the east." (Chapter 120)

Rhythm of War

"Kaladin felt the wind encircle him as he spun between the two of them..." (Chapter 7)

"The wind swirled around Kaladin as he stepped into the rippling sheets." (Chapter 15)

"He’d always liked being up high. Even before becoming Radiant, he’d felt a certain kinship with the open sky. Standing here, part of him wanted to jump, to feel the rushing wind." (Chapter 55)

"In that moment, difficult though the exercise was, he felt something come alive in him again. The wind in his hair. His body soaring, claiming the sky, albeit in an imperfect way. He found the experience familiar. Even intuitive." (Chapter 63)

"Today, Kaladin reached the winds. And like everything else today, they tried their best to kill him." (Chapter 70 -- when Kaladin leaps into the highstorm from Urithiru)

"Kaladin existed in a place where the wind hated him." (Chapter 80 -- during Kaladin's nightmare)

"Each time the wind spoke, it broke something inside Kal. Ever since he could remember—since childhood—he had loved the wind. The feel of it on his skin meant he was free. Meant he was alive. It brought new scents, clean and fresh. The wind had always been there, his friend, his companion, his ally. Until one day it had come to life and started talking to him." (Chapter 80)

"He opened his eyes and searched upward to find a column of radiant light stretching hundreds of feet in the air, holding back the storm. Windspren? Thousands upon thousands of them." (Chapter 110)