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Angels at the Ritz
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"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"
edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying "uh huh"
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From the book:
“But after we win, life will be better!” croaked the angel.
“But it won’t be as interesting.”
Also, “Bloody ancient bird” makes me laugh every time.
From the tv version:
“What’s that he said that got everyone so upset?”
“Be kind to each other.”
“Oh, yeah. That’ll do.”
(It’s something that Sam Vimes could say.)
And from the radio version… “Also, I have caller ID.” (I’m quoting from memory. But if you’ve heard it, you know what I mean.)
#good omens#good omens quotes#neil gaiman and terry pratchett#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett
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Fact: The earliest reliably dated use of the phrase “fucked up” appears in the court records of a US Navy court-martial case from 1863; the way the phrase is used suggests that its meaning was already well known at the time, but this is the first known printed record of it that we can confidently put a date to.
Additional fact: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in 1897.
Conclusion: It would not anachronistic for your Dracula fanfic to have a character describe the Count as a fucked up old man.
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It Began In A Garden features:
@ednav with "Moving Miracles"
Here's your sneak peek!
GET YOUR GARDEN GOODS HERE
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Oh. That’s… A LOT. And right, of course.
it has taken me until today to interpret the story/moral of sodom and gomorrah within aziraphale accepting jim into the bookshop and giving him sanctuary. and in his decision to return to heaven. are you serious
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Good Omens + text post memes
[give me more memes]
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More minisode connections:
Right here.
All of the minisodes are on this matchbox.
The matchbox is from the Resurrectionist pub.
It has a quote from the Book of Job on it.
The quote is 41:19, or, if you flip that, 1941.
What is up with these intense minisode hints??
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Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol
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#reblogging it again#sometimes I’m a bit down and just thinking about this post makes me laugh out loud#good omens#good omens text post#ineffable husbands
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I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head
There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know
You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed
You fascinate me so
You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie
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now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like
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A little scavenger hunt for the Good Omens fandom in London
I am visiting London and I did a thing. Because this fandom is the best thing in this world and I love you all.
If you go to the Bandstand (yes, that one) in Battersea Park (see the printscreen), look for 3 benches.
There is a piece of GO-themed artwork hidden behind each one of them.
The artwork is the same on all the benches, so please take just one :)
Have fun! Don't forget to share if you find the art! And if you can, please reblog this post. My reach on tumblr is super small but I would like this to get to the people. Thank you ❤️
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Moral purity and imaginative resistance as influencing factors in fandom 'anti' attitudes
Jessica Black et al.'s 2019 experiment on the correlation between enjoying dark/villainous characters, personal morality and purity beliefs, and imaginative resistance is so interesting when applying it to anti culture and fandom.
They created a Dark Character Scale where participants self-selected how strongly in agreement or disagreement they were with a series of statements about dark or villainous fictional characters. Some of these questions were the following:
"I enjoy films and books that feature main characters that choose morally questionable actions."
"I can often understand where the bad guys in fiction are coming from."
"My favourite fictional characters are morally ambiguous and often do horrible things."
They then utilised the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (Graham et al. 2011) to see what participants considered important when deciding on whether something is morally right or wrong, for example:
Whether or not someone suffers emotionally
Whether or not someone did something disgusting*
Whether or not someone was cruel
Whether or not someone was denied [their] rights
Whether or not someone acted in a way God would approve of*
as well as how strongly participants agreed or disagreed with statements such as:
Compassion for those who are suffering is the most crucial virtue
People should not do things that are disgusting, even if no one is harmed*
It can never be right to kill a human being
I would call some acts wrong on the grounds that they are unnatural*
Respect for authority is something all children need to learn.
One of the final scales participants used was the Black & Barnes (2017) Imaginative Resistance Scale. This is basically used to gauge how resistant the reader is to enjoying or consuming fictional content that contains characters, situations, or worldbuilding that they personally find morally disagreeable. They had to select how strongly they agreed/disagreed with questions like:
Reading books where bad things are depicted as morally acceptable makes me feel dirty
I just can't go along with a story when it violates my beliefs about morality
At times it feels like the author of a book is asking me to endorse actions that I know are wrong
Some things just shouldn't be done, even within a book
I sometimes cannot go along with a story when the "good" characters do morally reprehensible things
Sympathising with immoral characters makes me feel immoral myself.
Unsurprisingly, analysis of the data revealed that there was a strong correlation between disliking or not enjoying dark fictional characters or villains and having a higher purity morality score and more imaginative resistance.
They performed this test in three studies done on three completely different demographics - the first being mostly liberal women from social media sites, the second being mostly younger conservative college undergrads, and the third being adults split 50/50 in gender recruited from MTurk. All three studies showed that having stronger imaginative resistance and higher purity morality scores is directly linked to a lower score on the DCS - meaning that they would like or enjoy dark fictional characters and their actions less.
This tracks pretty well with what can be seen in the emerging anti culture within fandom:
Self-identified 'antis' are likely to agree strongly with the statements from the Imaginative Resistance Scale, and are more likely to score highly on the questions in Moral Foundations Questionnaire that are specifically demarcated as being concerned with purity (marked above with an asterisk *). This means that they are also, according to these studies, much more likely to disagree with dark fictional characters and their actions.
There is also a very interesting point in one of the discussions areas where Black et al. state "It is worth reiterating that the participants in Study 2 tended to be more conservative, and therefore potentially more likely to have greater concerns about moral purity" which tracks with what people in fandom have been saying about antis parroting conservative/puritan talking points and arguments.
What I find the most interesting is the following statement:
"However, moral purity and imaginative resistance are consistently positively correlated, both in the current studies and in prior research ... and are both likely to reflect a fear of moral contagion that would discourage people from identifying with and liking [dark fictional characters]."
This, when applied to antis, suggests that antis may harbor the subconscious belief that enjoying dark fictional content, and therefore being a 'proshipper', is literally psychically contagious. They may view this as some kind of moral disease which is spreading and infecting fandom, which could explain why they are so vehemently against it - fear. This is the puritan Moral Panic all over again.
Black et al. also discuss theories of fictional engagement and parasocial relationships/identification, and whether these studies is relevant to "when and for whom fictional engagement could have the potential to negatively affect real world attitudes or behaviour".
Jessica Black and Jennifer Barnes often publish articles together and have some incredibly interesting reading of morality and fiction that I'd be interested to see applied to fandom and anti culture in an academic setting. Perhaps some people in the field like Samantha Aburime (@rainystudios) are already looking into it - and I'm hoping I can do the same in my studies.
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It Began In A Garden features:
@wasleichtesart with "Their Own Eden"
Here's your sneak peek!
GET YOUR GARDEN GOODS HERE
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@p4nishers: thank you for this tag
but YOU STARTED IT.
do you think havelock kept tabs on sam after the revolution bc he wanted to do SOMETHING for keel? do you think he kept thinking about what keel would do in certain situations (average teenage crush experience)? do you think he followed him home one time and saw how sweet sam was to his mother and never did it again bc it made him miss his own mother too much? do you think he was there when sam moved out? do you think he was there the first time sam drank himself black out drunk (and maybe even made sure no one jumped out at him from the shadows)? do you think he silently despaired every time he saw sam with a drink? do you think he thought about keel? do you think that while his plans were working to take down the watch he didn't feel even remotely proud bc he was destroying sam with it? do you think he finally let himself feel something for sam when they were in the dungeon? (do you want think he calls him 'sam' in his head all the time?) do you think the revelation that sam was keel makes it harder and harder for him to deny his feelings?
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