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Inktober # 6 - Urgent

John Watson on his way to Buckingham Palace.

  From @bluebellofbakerstreet ’s Prompt List for Inktober 2019

Again, many thanks @Bluebell for providing the list.

Ink on brown paper, A4 I made a first try with coloured ink, and more cross hatching with a dip pen.

Worth evening dress, 1890′s

Bc you guys, this is Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman poking fun at the whole trope of the star crossed lovers who are destined to be together, who fall in love and into bed as soon as they meet each other with nothing in common and no real basis for a relationship. Bc when does Newt and Anathema's relationship start to feel like something real, something good? When Anathema burns the book of prophesy and, for the first time in her life, chooses to take the plunge into the unknown. And we see that Newt is clearly smitten with her, but both of them are stepping off that precipice and taking the risk of getting to know each other, seeing just where their relationship could take them with no meddling or influence from an outside prophesy.

And, to me at least, this idea of love being a choice is really the central idea of the entire book. Not in the sense that people choose to feel love, but that people choose to act on that love, to accept love and give love. I mean, you've got Crowley and Aziraphale, who choose again and again and again to seek out each other's company, who choose to confide in each other and trust each other and to allow their feelings towards each other to grow and blossom into the incredible relationship we get to see. Newt and Anathema choose to explore a relationship, these two people--Anathema, who has always been a loner, and Newt, who has always been an outsider--choosing to embrace this connection with another person to see where, if anywhere, it may lead. You've got Adam, who averts the apocalypse by choosing to defy both Heaven and Hell, choosing to stand firm and fight for the Earth, and all the friends and family and humanity within it that he loves. Even with Madame Tracy and Shadwell, you've got Madame Tracy choosing to be kind to this crazy bastard across the hall and, at the end, Shadwell choosing to step just a bit outside of this completely neurotically isolated world he's built around himself to let her in.