oh boy I hope my good friend Jonathan Harker has a good trip this year

The Sound of Music + textposts

Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

"Tilting sharply bitchward." <<< a phrase from Galavant that lives in my head, constantly rotating like a rotisserie chicken

embroidery from peacocksandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

MEG’S VALENTINE’S COUNTDOWN | Yusuf Al Kaysani & Nicolo Di Genova

shrek is 15 years old today

shrek is 16 years old today

Shrek is 17 years old today

Shrek is 18 years old today

Shrek is 19 years old today

Shrek is 20 years old today

Shrek is 21 years old today

Shrek can now drink in the US.

Shrek is 22 years old today

Shrek is 23 years old today

Twenty years ago, February 15th, 2004, I got married for the first time.

It was twenty years earlier than I ever expected to.

To celebrate/comemorate the date, I'm sitting down to write out everything I remember as I remember it. No checking all the pictures I took or all the times I've written about this before. I'm not going to turn to my husband (of twenty years, how the f'ing hell) to remember a detail for me.

This is not a 100% accurate recounting of that first wild weekend in San Francisco. But it -is- a 100% accurate recounting of how I remember it today, twenty years after the fact.

Join me below, if you would.

you want to read this

hold on a second man…

@insect-p0sitivity tags peer approved

Someone: yeah it was so sad when this character died

Me, who’s already read 15 fix-it fics and no longer can tell the difference between canon and fanon: when they what

@ileolai:# WHY DOES AZIRAPHALE LOOK LIKE HES BEEN FED THRU A WOODCHIPPER THO # LIKE HIS CLOTHES ARE JUST SHREDDED # IN CLOSER SHOTS YOU CAN SEE WHAT LOOKS LIKE HASTILY SEWN ON PATCHES # MEANWHILE CROWLEY IS READY TO POSE FOR AN EDITORIAL 

Due to a wildly misspent youth, I can actually answer this one! The answer is that they’re actually BOTH dressed for a Vogue editorial - the difference is that Crowley’s actually up-to-date and is wearing expensive clothing for the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean, while Aziraphale’s wearing expensive clothing for the nomadic Ancient Near East.

Aziraphale’s overcoat looks so ragged and patched because it’s lots of tanned skins sewn together - you can see it better HERE. He’s wearing the same linen clothing with golden beads at the neck that he wore in Mesopotamia three thousand years ago, but he’s added the skin coat and a turban. More skins = more animals. More linen = more work. Along with the gold, a very long tunic, a long coat (WITH SLEEVES), and a turban of a lot of material all indicate that Aziraphale is dressed very expensively, but very expensively for a Canaanite nomad in 3000 BCE. However, by 33 CE, the major indicator of wealth wasn’t the amount of material being used in clothing: it was the dye the material was coloured with. We think of black being a minimalist, ascetic colour, but right through to the Middle Ages, black was one of the most expensive clothing colours because of the sheer amount of dyes used to achieve it. Crowley’s veil and sash in particular are a deep black - that’s a large amount of dye that’s being used! (Crowley’s veil is also very sheer, meaning it’s either very fine linen or even silk, which was around in the West at this point but was desperately expensive) The difference between Crowley and Aziraphale in this scene is actually demonstrated by my very favourite Biblical mistranslation. Genesis 37:3 reads, “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a ketonet passim.” This phrase is only used twice in the Tanakh, here, and to describe Tamar’s clothing in 2 Samuel 13:18-19. More importantly, this is the only use in the Torah. 

From context, we know that this item of clothing was special. In the English-speaking word, this is the “coat of many colours”, the “amazing technicolour dream coat”. But passim is more likely to mean “to the extremities” (i.e. hands or ankles), thus meaning a long coat, or a coat with sleeves. JUST LIKE WHAT AZIRAPHALE IS WEARING. 

When the Torah was being translated into Greek in Alexandria in about 250 BCE (the Nevi'im and the Ketuvim are translated later, often using whatever precedents for rare words were set by the translators of the Torah), the translator comes across this rare adjective, and thinks, “Fucked if I know what that means.” And they know from context that this coat is special and expensive, and they live in a world in which colour and dye are the main things that makes clothing special and expensive, so they write in poikilos (multi-coloured), and move on to the next sentence. 

tl;dr: Both Crowley and Aziraphale are well-dressed in the Crucifixion scene, Aziraphale’s just out of fashion by two or three millennia.

two things

one: holy shit my guy that’s a fascinating knowledge bomb and i thank you for giving it to us

two: aziraphale really does just find exactly one outfit to wear until he literally can’t get away with it in public anymore huh

1. You’re very welcome, so glad you enjoyed it! :D

2. Yup

I’m in constant awe of the costume department on this show. And of it’s fandom x

So Bail, get this, Bail Organa sends some ships to an Imperial-controlled planet. And those ships get stolen by The Rebel Scum. Bail goes ‘how dare you let my ships get stolen I demand full compensation’ and the Imperial Senate goes ‘ohhhHH of course of COURSE we are SO SORRY here are your credits Mr. Senator Organa sir’ and Bail, get this, Bail uses those credits to buy MORE ships and send them on Relief Missions to planets Suffering From Rebel Presences and those ships get STOLEN right out from under the Imperials’ noses. How could this be??? The INCOMPETENCE. In THEIR GREAT EMPIRE.

And Palpatine, who knows Bail had tea on the weekends with Obi-Wan Kenobi, has seventeen different reports on his desk every week telling him that the Empire is compensating Alderaan for losses sustained on Imperial planets and he’s seething as he signs them because he just KNOWS it’s never an accident and he’s actually funding the Rebellion but he can’t do anything about it because Bail, when asked about it, just presses a dramatic hand to his own heart and says, ‘why, Emperor, I have NO IDEA how The Rebel Scum keeps acquiring my vessels. Maybe if YOUR security forces were more effective we wouldn’t be in such a TRAGIC situation so often. Sign here.’

I guarantee you it’s some random Imperial admiral signing the checks thinking Bail’s just claiming fake losses and pocketing the money himself like any other self-respecting senator who has the good fortune to be married to a planetary head of state would do, so he doesn’t ask questions but Bail’s just SO goddamn popular with the Empire’s dedicated grifters. They’re in awe of him. He’s legendary. Mercy missions! Fleet after fleet getting “captured by Rebels.” The sheer NERVE of the guy to risk admitting to bad news like that, again and again! And he gets points for “honesty” every time, because who would willingly cop to losing ships to the Rebellion when there’s convenient pirates and criminal underworlds to be blamed? Bail Freakin’ Organa, that’s who!

Every grifter and self-enriching con artist in the Senate, the Navy, and anywhere else in the Imperial bureaucracy wants to be like him. He’s got the trust, the courage, the reputation of a saint, he even courts suspicion of Rebel sympathies—freakin’ TREASON—as his decoy vice, and he keeps disappearing entire fleets to line his pockets with the insurance money!

The efforts of Vader, the ISB, and even the Emperor himself to nail Senator Organa for treason just fizzles away to nothing, every time, because the Imperial machine they depend on to do the heavy lifting is like 85% grifters and embezzlers and thieves all the way down and none of them will entertain the notion for even a second that he’s ACTUALLY funneling all this wealth to the Rebellion.

just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

You sold some shitty copper, man, I don’t know what to tell you