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sometimes neurodivergence questions will be like ‘do you find activities more enjoyable when they are activities you enjoy’ and it really makes me wonder if this ‘neurotypical’ thing has just been a big practical joke all along
‘do you find it disruptive to your focus when your focus on a task is disrupted suddenly and without warning’ this CANNOT be diagnostic criteria. they are playing us for fools
Over the last couple of nights, I’ve been skimming my copy of Good Omens again, because so many people in the comments of my other post were somehow surprised by the suggestion that Aziraphale might be a garbage angel. But like… He is. He really is.
1) That time he chose his CD player over Heaven.
“That’s it, then,” said Crowley, with a gleam of triumph. He knew Aziraphale’s weak spot all right. “No more compact discs.”
2) That time he lit a traffic cop’s ticket book on fire because he didn’t want to pay a fine.
As they drove past an astonished traffic warden his notebook spontaneously combusted, to Crowley’s amazement.
“I’m pretty certain I didn’t mean to do that,” he said.
Aziraphale blushed. “That was me.”
3) That time he collected Bibles, but all of them were evil.
And he had a complete set of the Infamous Bibles… These Bibles included the Unrighteous Bible… the Wicked Bible… the Discharge Bible… the Buggre Alle This Bible…
4) That time even the apocalypse couldn’t dent his manicure or his obsession with occult prophecies.
No one knows what happened to the legions of unsold copies of Agnes Nutter’s book. Certainly none remain in any museums or private collections. Even Aziraphale does not possess a copy, but would go weak in the knees a the thought of actually getting his exquisitely manicured hands on one.
5) That time he may or may not have done… something ominous to the mafia.
Or sometimes, while they were talking, other men in dark glasses would wander around the shop shaking their heads and saying how inflammable paper was, and what a firetrap he had here.
Aziraphale would nod and smile and say that he’d think about it. And they’d go away. And they’d never come back.
Just because you’re an angel doesn’t mean you have to be a fool.
6) That time he was just an absolute mannerless heathen.
“You said it was him!” moaned Aziraphale, abstractedly picking the final lump of cream cake from his lapel. He licked his fingers clean.
7) That time that he actually considered moving to Hell with Crowley.
“I suppose–get off the road you clown–” Crowley said, “your people wouldn’t consider–and the scooter you rode in on!–giving me asylum?”
“I was going to ask you the same thing.”
8) The raw confidence it took to deliver THIS:
“Some Southern pansy,” Shadwell said, “I heard him. He was in here, suggestin’ things to yer. I heard him.”
Madame Tracy’s mouth opened, and a voice said, “Not just A Southern Pansy, Sergeant Shadwell. THE Southern Pansy.”
9) That time the line “You go too fast for me Crowley” was amusing to any book reader who remembers book!Aziraphale beating Crowley’s top speed by over 90mph while driving a scooter:
Look at Crowley, doing 110mph on the M40… …This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scooter. And it probably wasn’t going at more than two hundred miles per hour.
10) That time his sass game was so strong even Crowley had no answer.
“We seem to have survived,” Aziraphale said. “Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.”
“Um,” said Crowley.
And this isn’t even mentioning the time he left a loaded gun in the hands of a sugar-high 11-year-old, was the only main character responsible for actually killing an animal, dropped the book’s one (1) F-bomb, manipulated a human into agreeing to murder a child, performed what looked exactly like a demon summoning ritual, lied to God, and broke the first commandment…
Are you okay?
I'm okay. Confused as to how I am getting accused at the same time seemingly of both not just not wanting to admit that s2 of Good Omens was bad by people while simultaneously being accused of being relentlessly negative about calling it bad, tbh. Don't really know how many times I can express to people that I LIKED the season, on the whole, and that I just think something is up with the tropes Gaiman chose to engage with and what he's trying to say that s3 is gonna continue to work through.
Also remembering why I sort of drifted out of the fandom and some of its spaces after s1. But whatever... Happy to DM people and engage with people who want to engage with me about it, that's all.
More evidence that my sexuality is 80's time travelling lesbian.
So I always joke with people that my sexuality is "on the ace spectrum until I watch an 80's movie and become a lesbian". I am 80's boss bitch-sexual.
So here is a mood board that states my case, your honour.
Me: “Yeah I read all the time! I’m always reading a book-”
My books sitting unread on my bookshelf:
Feminism isn't "Women vs Men"
Feminism is "Us vs The Patriarchy"
And "Us" includes everyone.
the patriarchy is the men btw.
No, it's not. The patriarchy is a system. Women can also enforce the patriarchy. Women can be and often are misogynistic and sexist.
Understanding the difference between a hierarchical system and individual human beings should be feminism 101.
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Crowley's hearing "I can finally make you good enough to deserve Heaven"
but Aziraphale's saying "I can finally make Heaven good enough to deserve you"
Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.
and i really dont gaf!!!!!!!
I would like you to consider the political implications of mocking non-American film, dismissing the arts, and replacing thought provoking and stimulating media with media that’s just designed to entertain and sell. Just for a moment.
The most expensive CGI in the world will never impress me as much as Muppets riding bicycles
I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"
“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain
Things my local public library provides beyond just books:
And on and on.
Support your local library by using it. There's more available than you think.
I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard but excuse me while I clean up the coffee I shot out of my nose and across the room.
ive been on tumblr almost eight years and i still dont know what homestuck was. was it a tv show? a comic book? a web series? i dont know and if you tell me i’ll block you immediately
homestuck has the opposite energy to supernatural.. without having ever seen a single spn episode you still know everything about it including actors and behind the scenes drama. homestuck we've been exposed to for years yet have no idea what format the media is even in
I’ve had students write papers on it. I still don’t get it
I recorded an entire hour long episode of my fan podcast just dedicated to having two Homestuck fans explain to me WTF it was. And afterwards, I think I was actually more confused than ever.
When your co-captainsdadssplit up — [1.08 WE GULL WAY BACK]
hello hi this is the funniest thing i've ever done in my life
Underrated ofmd lines that are made even better by their absolutely perfect delivery:
Okay I am absolutely seconding "I'm forming a small search party to retrieve the hostages from their pee", which kills me every time.
But may I add some additional moments played perfectly that people don't often mention that make me fall of my couch:
And the one that I just cannot ever ever get over, which is the long introduction Stede makes Lucius introduce him with in the bar, followed by:
