I had a long day yesterday, culminating in meeting Michael Sheen and (thankfully) not making a complete tit of myself. So, in honour of that, here's a set of memes dedicated to Aziraphale. Also, I get people often saying "these are so relatable!" - this is mostly because I identify with Aziraphale and these quotes are pretty much me too 💜
You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
Made myself sausage and eggs for breakfast. Accidentally cooked the sausage on too high of a setting, so that it was quite crispy before the inside was done. I unironically said to myself-
"hmm, this sausage isn't as hard as I thought it would be."
CW: this post vaguely describes both physical and verbal abuse.
It strikes me that while I endured both physical and emotional abuse growing up, the emotional abuse is so much more traumatic. Cutting without knives.
I can get over, or at least not dwell on, the beatings and even the attempted murder. After years of therapy, I don't think about them very often, or even the perpetrators. But the verbal abuse.... that's with me constantly. I'm not intelligent, I'm not good enough, I'm ugly, I'm incapable, etc. In my head, I know these things aren't true, but my heart still hurts with it. I still feel fearful at every new interaction and almost paralyzed with them at any job interview.
This is why those posts discussing non-judgement ring so painfully true to me. We truly never know what scars people carry on the inside. Cutting without knives doesn't leave visible scars.
I feel like Aziraphale and Miss Julia Springer would be very good friends as long as they never discussed tea.
I bet he giggles when he reads those books. Or if they should happen to exist in the same universe, he'd absolutely be amused or boggled by her idea of religion.