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#staged#stagededit#staged 3#staged spoilers#neil gaiman#michael sheen#anna lundberg#michael and neil#:D ❤#(I love you neil! :D but this was funny)
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Hi Quinton!! I have been a HUGE fan of your stuff since a friend sent me the Tobuscus Fallen Titans (I used to watch him back in high school and was like "huh, wonder what happened to him after those allegations") and I gotta say, it is REALLY FUNNY every time my fiancé and I watch the iCarly videos again, because when you cover Gibby's stunt double breaking his ribs, you cut to a clip of The Official Podcast. I used to play D&D with one of the main dudes from the podcast, so when he talks during that clip I do a goddamn double take literally every time.
Anyways, I remember an original Patreon stretch goal being a Fallen Titans on Homestuck! I was really big into Homestuck in my early 20s, and was wondering if that's still on the table at some point? If not that's fine, I understand plans change! I just love Fallen Titans lol, the Fred episode and the Neil Cicierega unFallen Titans are some of my favorite videos of yours!
That's a real funny story!
So here's the rundown on the Homestuck video. When I first started making long videos, they were actually inspired by the relationship I had with other YouTubers at the time. I used to watch, like, H3H3 and Filthy Frank, etc; and I'd always see people obsessed with the versions of creators from the past. Like, "Oh 2015 H3 was the best" and "Oh 2012 Frank was peak." So I had this idea that it would be crazy if H3 posted, like, a video he spent a decade on and you got a new video with 2015 H3 10 years on. (I don't watch H3 anymore ironically)
So the original idea for the "long video" format was that it would be cool if, throughout a long, analysis/review/recap video, you kept noticing someone get older. Maybe my months, maybe by years. That's why I always like to get a haircut when I start one of these videos. If you scrub through and you see my hair get longer and messier as it goes on I think that adds something magical you can't fake.
So... My pitch to the Homestuck video was that it would be funny to work on it just once per year. To record one segment, say "That's it for 12 months", and then come back around to it. And when I was making the iCarly and Victorious videos I actually recorded a few minutes of the video! I think it was two segments in total. But then I had a bunch of personal stuff happen and my work drive has been much lower, so any "back burner" video hasn't gotten much attention since then.
Now that the iCarly mini-series is done with, I want to focus on some short one-off videos I can make before April. But once that's done with, I would REALLY love to start work on a few more long-term projects which will take months or years to finish. I think returning to work on the Homestuck video, to at least get the first 20-30 minutes done, would be a great idea this summer.
Now, if you want to know my pitch for that video, here it is. The video is not a recap of the creative history of the franchise. I do not get into drama, community hell, lawsuits, or other YouTubers. My idea is this: you always hear about Homestuck as an outsider but you never hear about the actual content. Most franchises on Earth I know something about, even and especially if I've never been interested in them. I can tell you a bunch of facts about wrestling and MLP and the Fast and the Furious simply through cultural osmosis and having friends who are into those things.
I can't tell you the plot of Homestuck, who the characters are, what the themes are, nothing. I've known a lot of people who were into Homestuck but nothing about the series!
So I thought it would thus be funny to make a video about a bunch of people who know nothing about the series starting from the beginning and giving their reactions, even if it's been years since it all started. I call this part of the video the "Homestuck Book Club." So the next step is me picking out the members (who all have to have no history with it) and making sort of a podcast setup. We'd then read and record every six months or so, IDK.
This is why the video has been stuck in production hell! Everyone who wants to work on it and messages me about it already knows the franchise. I don't want spoilers, I don't want people writing for the video who get it already. I want to capture the "what the fuck is this" energy of three dudes just getting in the middle of it.
Also, I think that I really like the theme of the video capturing our lives as they go by, capturing us aging and changing. If you came back from the future and told me this video comes out in five years, I'd say great. If you told me it comes out in ten years, I'd say awesome. Until then, the latest edit will always be on Patreon, even if you have to dig a little.
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GUYS WAIT.
Have you heard the songs from the Aziracrow playlist?
I THINK THEY MIGHT BE… A CLUE ✨
1- I would say “cry me a river” might foreshadow how Crowley is feeling after the bookshop “i forgive you” incident. I don’t know if he’ll feel the need to be petty, but i BET he’ll act cold towards Aziraphale when they first see each other again.
2- It seems like Neil confirmed the South Downs cottage with “Just my imagination”. I mean: “a cozy, little home out in the country” just SCREAMS south downs cottage.
3- OH MY FUCKING GOD? In “Heart and Soul”, the lyrics revolve around a stolen kiss that changed it all between two people, and how much the narrator’s been thinking about it and about their love, how he loved that kiss and loves this person madly - also, BEGGED TO BE ADORED? What in the Mr. Anthony “You Can’t Leave This Bookshop” J. Crowley?
* this one kinda makes me feel like EVERY maybe wasn’t their first kiss but let’s wait and see - it feels very 1941 to me.
4- These ones just made me go “OMG they’re so in love i might explode”
- The Book of Love: references to dancing, “i love it when you read to me”;
- In Dreams: what crowley wanted vs what he got “i awake and find you gone”;
- Could’ve Been: this is PINING at its peak!!! “think about you when i’m alone”. PLUS the obvious reference to “could’ve been us”.
5- Midnight Rain is clearly the final fifteen from Aziraphale’s perspective: “all the love we unravel d and the life i have away, ‘cause he was sunshine, i was midnight rain”.
Also peaking through a window is very Aziraphale checking up on Crowley from heaven!!!
Well, there’s definitely more clues and references and little funny details on that playlist, but these were my favorite ones!
What songs do you guys associate with them? Let me know, I need some recommendations!
#good omens#aziracrow#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#neil gaiman#gomens#angel#gomens s2#prime video
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It's the Return of the Revenge of the Sequel to
Fanart Free For All
(Part 5... or is it 6? I lost count...)
And I got to use a lot of cool-ass inking techniques on this go-around! Let's see what you guys had me draw!
First up... WHAT IF... @catboy-bill-nye 's Cordelia got to meet the other Dethmoms? I have a feeling it'd go fine... but then again... she might end up suggesting to her son Charles he have Molly killed. Oh well!
WHAT IF... Murdertooth Records was a thing that actually happened? @claudia-nomusaabara 's Tina would almost certainly find success with the label... even if her name and the title and credits and everything else was dwarfed by the producer's credit on the front and back of the album. :P
And another request from @claudia-nomusaabara -- WHAT IF... Skwisgaar and Tyr were still close? God I miss this fuzzy little stepdad-man. I wish this happened (maybe it could still happen..?)
And so we come to WHAT IF... Toki and Teja got along for five minutes....
It's never gonna happen, @curiouslyhigh. We both know it. But at least it's funny when Teja puts a hand on his old man's younger incarnation's mouth and tells him to shush because the grownups are talking.
And speaking of Toki! @pan-flute-skeleton asked WHAT IF... he actually practiced for once? I'd say he'd be just in time to bang out some tunes with Neil! Happy April 13th to all who celebrate!
But that's not all! WHAT IF... Skwisgaar and @pan-flute-skeleton's Vivi publicly endorsed the very Swedish use of bananas on pizza? I probably don't have to tell you that such praise for an obscure topping might just be the hot new trend of our immediate futures, kids!
And now for something a little different... WHAT IF... @el-michoacano's Aurelia was getting married? But to whom is she getting married? Nacho? Domingo? Jesse? (okay not Jesse) (God I love that dress. You're right, King. So extra. But so what?)
And now for the opposite side of domestic bliss! WHAT IF... Caj was Shawn Michaels and her "Diesel" was an entire entourage of some of her very favorite chicks (Dolly @dolly-macabre - St. Cecilia @gointothevvater - Ness @failedintsave and Nita (me buuut requested by @andreaswasneverhere ) (where can I get a belt-buckle that says "DADDY"?)
And last but certainly not least, we have the best thing I've ever drawn, here... WHAT IF... Charles took some punk fashion lessons from @cruisingheightswithdragons's Kris? I'd say it's about time. The old boy could use a makeover. :9
Really really fun to doodle your babies and your brain droppings, my loves! I look forward to doing more of these as soon as possible. :D
#fanart free for all#mtl#mtl oc#dethklok#metalocalypse#toki wartooth#skwisgaar skwigelf#charles foster offdensen#mtl tyr#mtl molly#i love each and every one of you who trusts me with your babies like this#it's quite the compliment
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Aziraphale is Lucifer, Sauntering Back Upward
There's an amazing meta post about Crowley being Lucifer, and it got me thinking about the nature of their own rebellions. I love the idea that Crowley is Lucifer, and I totally think it fits, but he's a a version of the Adversary seen through a very Jewish lens, possibly even placed there deliberately by God herself as a sleeper agent. (I'm not placing Good Omens God as the good guy here; the whole point of the show is that neither side is good or bad, they're just sides to be on.)
In Judaism, Ha-Satan is an Adversary in a way that translates to "The Opposing Advocate" or "The Prosecuting Attorney" (Hebrew is Really Old and only has so many words to convey concepts), and his actual job, as appointed by G-d, is Asking Questions. He's appointed to do that. He's one of the mazikim, an angel who does G-d's dirty work of testing, tempting, judging, and destroying (I know Neil knows what this is, he named a character that!). And why was Crowley placed as the Tempter of Man? Well, he's really good at asking questions. He was turned into a demon because he had a lot of questions.
The assumption is that this is a punishment.
Job also thought he was being punished, but he wasn't. He was being used as a test because he was such a great example. Crucially, the Jewish interpretation of this story is not about trusting G-d and being rewarded or whatever, it's "Being very good doesn't mean that you'll be rewarded on Earth, it means that you'll probably have an even harder time here because G-d is using you to prove something." The double livestock and children are not meant to be a reward, they are due compensation for damages. (The Mishnah says equal cost, but I think Pain and Suffering counts for an awful lot in this case, so it's only right that he gets twice the livestock.)
Whereas Aziraphale, actually? Is not only a Christian angel, but a Christian Lucifer who is sauntering very slowly downward. A Lucifer whose job is not to ask questions, but who actually tests the angels themselves and leads them to rebellion.
(Additionally, I think it's really funny that Aziraphale and Crowley are having the exact same argument as G-d and Satan in the Book of Job, which is that it's very easy to do the right thing if you're rich but hard if you're poor, but they pick a very poor person instead of a rich one and end up taking everything away from her, and she's tempted to suicide. Great job, Aziraphale. Proves my point.)
Let's look Before the Beginning.
The first line in Genesis is about G-d creating the heavens and the Earth. So this is obviously even before "Let there be light," Market Version. The Miltonian War in Heaven takes place before that, so obviously this is before the Earth even happens. So what's Crowley doing, speaking the Divine Command when the Earth isn't around yet?
Well, without God looking over his shoulder, he's setting the stage for things like matter and energy to even be able to exist before the Earth even has the conditions to form. He's disbursing the Divine Light that's contained in the now-shattered vessels of the Sfirot.
Rav Wikipedia sums it up thusly: 'Because the sephirot are pure and unrelated to each other at this stage, each attribute alone is unable to contain the enormity of the Divine light as it descends into them, and the "vessels" (Keilim) of the sephirot undergo a "shattering" (Shevirah), creating the World of "Chaos" (tohu). Their Divine light is released and reascends, while the broken vessel fragments descend, still animated by "sparks" (Nitzotz) of light."
So, Crowley summons that Divine Light, it Big Bangs out and shatters existence into being, and Divine Light shoots out all over the place. Now, in medieval Kabbalah, this separation was considered to be a result of humans sinning, but in Lurianic Kabbalah, which is a reaction to the very beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition (the thing that got Crowley so upset with humanity), it's a necessary part of Creation. Divine Sparks being trapped inside the shards of the vessels it was stored in and forgetting what they were is necessary for consciousness that's not just a part of G-d to exist.
That's Crowley's job. It's necessary. We used to believe this was a mistake, but turns out it's not! This cosmic separation is actually really important, otherwise the Divine Sparks cannot forget their origin and experience individual consciousness and thus free will.
"In the Lurianic scheme, Creation is initiated by a primordial radical Divine "self-withdrawal" (Tzimtzum), forming a figurative "empty space/vacuum" (Khalal) in which only an "imprint" (Reshimu) remains of the withdrawn Ein Sof."
Compare this to Crowley and Gabriel's discussion of their lack of memory feeling like a house where furniture used to be. But also, consider how out of touch Crowley is with the whole Divine Bureaucracy at this point. He's clearly been left alone to do his own thing and hasn't heard what's going on in the scheme of things.
So what's Aziraphale doing there? He's just blithely winging his way across empty space, a little spark of light, when Crowley calls out to him. He doesn't appear to be doing anything more urgent or important. He comes over, asks what's up, and Crowley gives him a task -- holding the blueprint while he activates it into existence by turning a crank. Crucially, Crowley needs somebody to help him bring existence, as imperfect and chaotic as it is, into a place where it can even start to think about being. Trapping the Divine Spark in matter.
This is real fuckin sexual. It suggests Hesiod's placement of Eros as an act of attractive, sexual love as the beginning of existence, but also it's a pretty obvious sexual pun.
(The Gnostics would identify Crowley as the Demiurge for this, but we're not talking about them. I don't think Neil is trying to do anything with Gnostic mythos here; it would be a lot more obvious if he was.)
What is Aziraphale's response to this? He's disappointed that Crowley is praising Creation instead of praising his own personal beauty. It's only a second, but wow, how petty can you be? Someone has just unleashed the full beauty of the first moments of existence before you and you're like, "Wait, I'm pretty, too!" I mean, you did just metaphorically cum existence into being and I guess you're stuck in the wet spot, you could use some aftercare.
That sounds a lot like Milton's Satan. He's the prettiest boy in Heaven, and his whole thing is that he's not impressed by humanity and they should be worshipping him instead of him having to serve them. Aziraphale is a little jelly of Creation from the very start. So jelly, in fact, that he starts talking shit about it. Oh, this? Yeah, it's not that important. It's just a backdrop for humanity. Yeah, some little apes on an unregarded little blue-green planet far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy. That's what this is all about. Yeah, uh-huh, sucks to be you. Well, I wouldn't do anything stupid like raising a fuss about it. Oh, you're gonna? Ooh, don't, it's pretty dangerous. Little old angel like me could never. I don't even know what gravity is.
And yeah, maybe he was sent there to give Crowley the news in the first place, but still.
(@mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea , who suggested I tag @neil-gaiman , also points out that many interpretations suggest that Milton portrays the Fall as a Felix culpa or necessary fault, a planned thing like the shattering of the Divine Vessels in Lurianic Kabbalah -- both are necessary for independent consciousness to exist.)
God could have totally sent him to check up on Crowley, not just inform him of the new developments in the plan. Oh yeah, that one nerdy angel who got all geeked about nebulae. He's gonna flip his shit when he realizes this isn't going to run long enough for any new stars to form. Let's send my insecure little gay gossip over to see how he takes it. Ooh, he came right the fuck up to my office with a serious attitude. I mean, I don't wanna deal with that on a daily basis, but he's making some good points. I need to put him where I can use that attitude and also not have to deal with that attitude...
Not only that, but Aziraphale gives fire and the first weapon of war to Adam. These are traits identified with Prometheus and with Azazel, another name for Satan, in two different traditions.
One common interpretation of Milton is that his sympathetic Satan shares traits with Prometheus, acting as a bringer of enlightenment and a heroic figure to humanity, risking his angelic status for actions that will ultimately free humanity from the yoke of the gods. Prometheus risked the wrath of Zeus to give fire to the humans and was punished endlessly for it, and is prophesied to someday rise and do battle with the forces of Order at the end of time. Prometheus is also associated with the human brain and toolmaking (because of the fire), as well as being ultimately responsible for Pandora, the First Woman, who likewise doomed humanity because of her curiosity and disobedience of the gods.
According to the Book of Enoch, the angel Azazel, another name for Lucifer or Satan (I think by now it's pretty clear that Satan is just gonna be whichever angel is being an Adversary at the time, but w/e) was the leader of the Grigori, the angels who lusted after humans so much they decided to fuck them. Azazel personally taught them smithing and how to make weapons of war (and makeup; Aziraphale does love disguises and sleight of hand). Very Promethean. Aziraphale didn't Fall then, true, but he's also Human Gay. Possibly because his first individual experience was being attracted to (and, uh, Used for Cranking It until Creation exploded into being by) Crowley. Regardless of how much agency he had in his Gayness, he probably brought humanity the gift of Gay Sex and thus avoided having any Nefil babies that had to be drowned like half-tabby Siamese kittens in the Sandman, so he didn't Fall then either, but gee it was a narrow miss. He must have been worried about what else God could do to angels, which is why he was so terrified about his child-saving lie with Job.
(Of note is that literally the only remotely Biblical book that refers to an archangel rebelling directly against G-d for the Throne of Heaven is the Book of Enoch. Yep! Just there! It's not a Jewish belief at all, along with the idea of Original Sin or the snake being Satan--that is your Animal Urge, and it's necessary to live but you should not let it control your behavior, in Jewish thought.)
And the thing is that he does Fall a little after lying to God. She never speaks to him again, so he's left in constant doubt and has to be forced to make his own decisions, just like a demon. He obviously never tells any of the other angels, just Crowley. But you can see his anxiety about this constantly, and I bet there's a little part of him that wonders if he's actually Fallen and somehow nobody has noticed yet, but worries that the moment they do he'll be officially kicked out of Heaven. That's gotta be so, so bad for you.
But there he sits, acting as an angel, irritating the other angels to the point of extreme measures simply by being himself, the way that Crowley does to humans and other demons with lots of thought and cleverness.
He even offers Crowley the temptation to defy God's decision and take control in Heaven. Yeah, Crowley is horrified by the idea, but he's gotta stop and think about it for at least a moment, right? Crowley just didn't take it because he sees beyond the system. He already knows that the sides are bullshit in the same way I told my Christian classmates that they didn't need to worry about devils because they were really still just all angels and Hell was obviously a lie to keep them under control. (Mazikim!) Crowley wasn't tempted to take power because questioning the System is literally his job right now.
He obviously corrupted Gabriel by being so clearly in love and enjoying himself on Earth. Gabriel has his clothing tailored special and wants to save it, just like Aziraphale, even though he doesn't give a shit before. He wants to stop the Apocalypse and keep things status quo, even though he didn't before -- that's Aziraphale rubbing off on him. He wanted to meet his Hellish counterpart in a place where humans eat and drink, just like Aziraphale. And he decided that he was going to fall in love with his counterpart and even start enjoying music, just like Aziraphale, and face exile with graciousness just like Aziraphale.
Aziraphale literally tempted Gabriel to Fall. He didn't do it by asking questions, just by being himself. Enjoying things. Enjoying clothing and music and love and Earth and peace and the status quo. Indulging himself and his desires above serving God or, frankly, the humans. (Yeah, I know, he tries when he bothers, but he's still a lazy, petty bitch who prefers his personal drama and own sense of comfort to nearly everything else, and he barely tries to hide it. That's why we love him.)
And now?
Baby is Supreme Archangel. And he's gonna defy God about it. This is everything the Miltonian Lucifer ever wanted.
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Ask meme for...Kimberly Garner, Vincent Kim and/or Zangr Stewart please!
(Good luck with your presentation! You got this 🥳)
Hi exhausted-impact!!
These are GREAT choices, I feel like I would have more to say if I wasn't so tired but here goes anyway:
Kimberly Garner
First impression: I honestly don't remember much, but one thing that stood out was probably that Artem got his eyes from her! I love finding the resemblances of the NXX team members to their biological family.
What I think now: I like her! Although she's not a perfect mother by any means, I like that she's very casual with Artem. She definitely loves him and wants the best for him, even if she wasn't able to be with him as much as he might have wanted when he was young.
Favorite moment: I'll be honest here, canon and stuff I've read in fic kind of blend together when it comes to Kimberly, but one thing I remember from the game is from the 2023 LNY call. It's where Artem is like, "my mom told me off for not bringing you over for dinner :((" and although it's off screen, it's a fun little interaction. (Non-canon wise, I've written a fic where Kimberly comes over to Artem's place to celebrate his birthday, only to get stuffed into a Trojan horse type thing with the other NXX members to surprise him. Along a similar vein, there's a fic called once more around the sun (i revolve around you) by @samsspambox where Kimberly tries her best to be present for Artem's birthdays after Neil tells her off.)
Vincent Kim
First impression: oh Marius has an assistant! He seems young! Why is he wearing gloves? (<- probably my primary thoughts upon seeing Vincent)
What I think now: I think he's super underrated and underutilized!!! I think there is so much more to Vincent than just being Marius' PA, but the main story almost never goes into these things. I mean, you'd have to be a pretty special person if Marius is going to trust you with research or work for the NXX Investigation Team. I also feel like canon maintains this professional barrier between Marius and Vincent when I think that they should actually be friends outside of work. Because the trust is there, and also because Vincent has canonically walked into Marius trying to flirt with MC. So Vincent has seen things that other people in Marius' life probably wouldn't get to.
Favorite moment: When we learn that Vincent is actually into romance media. It's such a delightful detail to know because it means he's a normal guy, too!!
Zangr Stewart
First impression: ohh fourth wall break guy!!! :D he's so silly. surely he's a one-off guy and won't return later. (also in the Lost Gold event, I was one of those guilty of assuming the picture of Zangr from behind was just Artem. Their hairstyles are very similar from the back.)
What I think now: I'm so glad you asked about him because I love Zangr's character so much, I'm truly delighted every time he appears in an event. Ever since he showed up in Skadi, every time he's not in a major event, I'm a little disappointed he's not going to join in the hilarity.
Favorite moment: My favorite funny moment(s) is probably in the Skadi event when the game mechanic has you approach Zangr to debate him multiple times, because the idea of MC marching up to Zangr nearly every day during her time at Skadi is such a funny idea to me. No matter what, Zangr's not going to get rid of her, and she's not going to stop bumping into him, either. (Slight tangent to this is how I actually don't mind the idea of MC/Zangr as a ship, but with the caveat that it has to be only under very specific circumstances. Otherwise they're like hilarious nuisances that keep running into each other. "Oh no, it's the protagonist debate lady :|" "OHO, it's ZANGR once again >:D"). My favorite serious moment is probably during the Blizzardous Threads of Red event when Zangr has crucial information, but only reveals it when MC goes along with his line of reasoning instead of her usual "because of truth and justice" answer. I think it goes to show that conceptually, MC and Zangr have opposing mindsets and as stubborn as they are, neither of them are willing to give up their point of view for another reason. Which is completely fair, of course, but also incredibly fascinating to me.
Thank you for the ask!! And thank you for the well wishes, the presentation went wonderfully <3
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bye I just have to talk about Good Omens for a sec since victoria and I watched S2 this weekend and I'm already rewatching it so I can pay more attention this time bc I know what happens now and am not like. desperate to find out. y'know like when you read a book the first time and you read it really fast and kinda skimmy bc you're just like WHAT HAPPENS NEXT so then the next time you read it you pick up on stuff you missed the first time simply bc you weren't reading carefully bc suspense.
okay anyway there will be spoilers so I'm gonna place a "read more" and also tag. so DO NOT keep reading if you don't want Good Omens S2 spoilers.
okay so I partly want to talk about this on a craft level? bc I was thinking the whole time about OFMD and how like. y'know, it's marketed predominantly as a ~comedy~ but it's a ROMANCE and if you know romantic beats then you recognize that bc you see the romantic beats? and GOS2 felt very much that way, where like I was seeing the romance beats and they made the brain go brrr. like obviously it's not the SAME bc Ed and Stede had never previously met whereas Crowley and Aziraphale have been running around together for millennia, but
Crowley saying to the nebula "you're gorgeous" and Aziraphale being like :D until he realizes Crowley wasn't looking at him
Aziraphale being DEVASTATED when he thinks Crowley has killed the goats and IS going to kill the kids but then being like !!!!!!!!!! when he realizes Crowley actually didn't kill the goats and isn't going to kill the kids
Crowley being the one to understand and offer Aziraphale comfort when Aziraphale thinks he's fallen
the moment you can see Aziraphale realize he's in love with Crowley in that church in 1941, there's the look on his face and ALSO the romantic music at that moment bc he has Realized
Aziraphale afterwards constantly stumbling over "my.......friend" when he has to introduce Crowley to people and isn't sure how to do it because yes they're friends but also it's something other than that to him
Crowley constantly being SO there for Aziraphale without even really realizing he's doing it (like yeah he gets >:[ about it sometimes, like when they argue about helping Jim and he initially says no and then goes back, but he always goes back anyway)
everyone—LITERALLY EVERYONE, heaven, hell, humanity—thinking they're legit a couple and just taking it as accepted fact, like it's not like it's played for a joke (I mean it is FUNNY but it's not the way it is on Supernatural when people assume Sam and Dean are a couple instead of brothers), it's just literally a thing everyone thinks. like Shax is like "I didn't used to believe it [but now I see it's true]" and Nina literally won't accept that they're NOT a thing even as Crowley is actively protesting
THE MOMENT CROWLEY REALIZES after Nina does that, where he's like. wait. WAIT. w a i t . and you can just see his whole universe turning on its axis bc he's never realized BUT NOW HE IS REALIZING AND—
there are more, obviously, but I was mostly focused on the ones BEFORE the romance became. well. I was gonna say explicit but this was all pretty explicit lmao, but I think the moment where Crowley realizes what's up is the moment it gets into territory that makes it much harder for the advertisers to say "besties :)" even though they totally still will.
BUT ALSO!! can I please just shout for a moment about how much I LOVED that like every major couple on the show mirrored Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship?? like from a craft perspective my brain was just going BRR BRR BRR BRR BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR bc I fucking loved the parallelism and especially seeing romantic couples that mirrored them where like, it's the kind of thing where if the network wouldn't LET neil make the queer romance explicit, you'd write that in intentionally to signal to queer viewers, "hey, the network is being a dick about this, but YOU will know that I DO mean for their relationship to be a romance"
but instead we got the signaling AND we got explicit queerness from the MCs (in more ways than just the romance btw which I feel is important to point out, bc while I am overjoyed that we DID get a queer romantic arc and a queer kiss onscreen, the show and these characters would not be any less queer in the absence of this romance) and I just !!!
Elspeth and Morag - you've got the one who does something bad and isn't particularly bothered about it and more importantly does it to keep food on the table (so to speak), and the one who's good and devout and can't stand by the bad thing even if it's to help them (but ultimately does in fact actually go out to help with the bad thing bc the "good" one loves the "bad" one)
Nina and Maggie - more explicit parallel that's MADE very explicit by Nina telling Crowley that he's like her, the kinda jaded cynical one and the one who believes in magic and goodness (and also the one who believes in magic is CLEARLY head over heels in love with the cynical one, while the cynical one hasn't realized how much they like the one who believes in magic lmao)
Beelzebub and Gabriel - okay I mean this one's a gimme bc it is QUITE LITERALLY Crowley and Aziraphale in that it's a demon and an angel that, as it turns out, have been working together and meeting secretly for ages and have gone from supposed enemies to reluctant allies to allies to friends to lovers, with the main difference being that it seems Beelzebub was more obviously in love first in their case lol. CAN I TELL YOU HOW I SCREAMED WHEN GABRIEL MADE THE JUKEBOX ALWAYS PLAY THAT SONG JUST BC BEELZEBUB LIKES IT
anyway 11/10 loved that no notes
okay I actually have more to say bc on the one hand YES the season ended in a DEVASTATING WAY (again a la OFMD—except that Crowley and Aziraphale got to have it out, which somehow is slightly less devastating than Crowley just waiting for an Aziraphale who never shows up—and in fact victoria sent me the below pic today lolsob)
...but I admit I'm a sucker for an angsty kiss, and there was SO MUCH explicit queerness ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE this season and I loved the romantic beats and the parallels between the other couples and Crowley/Aziraphale and the classic Good Omens humor and, well, everything else
like I'm a fan of the book and I loved S1, but S2 is like. like this season was MADE for me. like. that's the good stuff right there
but I'm gonna shut up for now and maybe my thoughts less about craft and more about devastation will be another post lmao
#good omens#good omens season two#good omens 2#good omens 2 spoilers#good omens spoilers#neil gaiman#ofmd
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Okay, I'm gonna do something funny.
Giving bands I've listened to a number rating
Here's my music playlist for reference:
I'll only be ranking bands or musicians that I have listened to 3 different songs from. So MF Doom will not be on the list, sorry
Queen
Rating: 9/10
Favorite song: Don't Stop Me Now
Notes: I'm pretty sure it's impossible to not have listened to at least 1 Queen song. They're one of the most popular bands out there for a reason.
Daft Punk
Rating: 10/10
Favorite song: Instant Crush or Make Love
Notes: Actually my favorite musical duo of all time. They haven't fumbled the bag with their albums once, and they went out on a perfect high note with Random Access Memories.
Scatman John
Rating: 7.5/10
Favorite song: Scatman's World or Scatman (Game Over Jazz)
Notes: Probably one of the most inspirational guys in media. He took his verbal problems and turned it into his career. I hope he rests in peace.
Pink Floyd
Rating: 7/10
Favorite song: Wish You Were Here or Comfortably Numb
Notes: Weird band, since they can range from high highs to aggressively middling. The good outweighs the bad, though, and The Wall movie slaps hard.
Tenacious D
Rating: 9/10
Favorite song: Wonderboy
Notes: Petition to let Jack Black make a song for any upcoming movie.
David Bowie
Rating: 9.5/10
Favorite song: Blackstar or Starman
Notes: The fact that you can see David's bulge in Labyrinth either convinces me I should watch it or keeps me away from it. Depends on the day.
John Williams
Rating: 8.5/10
Favorite song: Superman theme
Notes: I'm surprised he's still alive at this point.
Ween
Rating: 8/10
Favorite song: Ocean Man
Notes: They made a song called "Waving My Dick in the Wind." Haven't listened to it yet
Toby Fox
Rating: 10/10
Favorite song: Undertale
Notes: If I remember correctly, didn't Toby make some tracks for YIIK? What's he doing in there?
Lemon Demon
Rating: 9/10
Favorite song: Touch-Tone Telephone, Cabinet Man, or Two Trucks
Notes: My mom hates Lemon Demon because of Two Trucks.
C418
Rating: 10/10
Favorite song: Aviva
Notes: N/A
Neil Ciciereaga
Rating: 7/10
Favorite song: Mouth Pressure or Bustin
Notes: The Mouth Albums go extraordinary hard for what are essentially glorified All-Star memes.
Bill Wurtz
Rating: 9/10
Favorite song: the ending or here comes the sun
Notes: hi, you're on a rock, floating in space. pretty cool, huh?
Duster
Rating: 10/10
Favorite song: Inside Out or Me and the Birds
Notes: Just discovered them. Those stupid Sisyphus memes were good for something.
Austin Farwell
Rating: 8.5/10
Favorite song: New Home (Slowed)
Notes: Prepare to rethink everything you've done.
Will Wood
Rating: 9.5/10
Favorite song: "Mr. Capgras," "Love, Me Normally," or "Against the Kitchen Floor"
Notes: The difference between his first three albums and "in case I make it" is the funniest thing I've seen. Bro pulled a 180 (or a 90). Good for him.
Conclusion
Music is cool. Bye
#queen#daft punk#scatman john#pink floyd#tenacious d#david bowie#john williams#ween#toby fox#lemon demon#c418#neil cicierega#bill wurtz#austin farwell#duster#will wood#music#cool bands
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maybe maggie and/or nina are demons?
hiiii!
i've been rotating this in my mind for AGES and i need to talk about it, so welcome to my very unorganised ramblings :D
i've seen abit of stuff on this (there might be tons i just haven't noticed) but im rewatching good omens and it struck me as abit odd when aziraphale was reading the note from maggie about the rent and there was a specific bit where she spelt something wrong. i know that's very normal and i didn't think much of it until crowley said that demons can't spell; that just seems too specific to be a coincidence, especially as neil gaiman is an evil genius (lovingly).
another thing is how maggie reminds me abit of muriel's lack of knowledge about how humans talk, for example when she made the "stripperdeliveroogram" joke, (aswell as nina's "you must made that up" response). it just felt really forced, like maggie was testing the waters with making human-like jokes. however, i am autistic so these might actually be funny jokes im just not getting.
also, even though neil gaiman said the people who play maggie and nina being the same people who play the satantic nuns is just a coincidence, WRITERS LIE!!!! (at least i think it was him who said that, it might not be idk)
i am aware this is PAINFULLY surface level, i really wanna go on about how maggie and nina mirror aziraphale and crowley but im too tired to do that rn
thank you and well done if you got this far, i hope you have a lovely day :)
#good omens#maggie service#good omens meta#idk if this is classified as a meta bcs its very basic but i might as well tag it as one#im still not sure if i think they are demons#the spelling thing just makes too much sense i cant ignore it
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Screenshots rom the e-book edition of Pattie Boyd's Wonderful Tonight: George's letter to Pattie from New York City during the mixing of the Concert for Bangladesh live album. No copyright infringement intended in posting this on this fan site.
This was previously posted some years ago, but I'd removed the post since (copyright!), so this is another try, at the request of an anonymous ask. (An excerpt was posted during 2021's Concert for Bangladesh anniversary special.)
“This is a letter George wrote to me from the Plaza Hotel in New York where he was staying whilst editing the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. He seems very scattered as his mind races between thoughts, with so much going on and so much to do. […] In the letter he is concerned about the high price of a basin because we weren’t used to spending money. We had no idea about the price of things or even whether we were rich or poor. Money just wasn’t something we ever had to deal with. Everything was always taken care of for us.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight (e-book edition 2011)
The letter (mentioning niece Janet and nephew Paul, father Harold, and others) reads:
“Monday Evening
Dear Pattie,
Hello. Hope you are O.K. I tried to call you when I got here but there was no Greg in the Lodge — Can you call me through Apple at ABKCO or the Plaza —> Room 601 (212) PL9.300 to say hello to Hubby! Its a drag not being able to speak to you. You can call ABKCO and tell them a time, and I’ll call the Lodge.
The ‘France’ was not as good as QE2 more straights in Tuxedo’s and not as many things to do, so I read a lot in the cabin.
Started looking at the film and it should be O.K. for a T.V. show — but a lot of juggling to do — to get what I would like. The Camera men where not too hip on the Rock part — but Ravi’s part seems well covered. Ravi is going to be at the Plaza on Wednesday — so I am going to try to get a Rough cut together by then — so he can tell me where to edit the music — as it should be reduced for T.V., as 15 minutes should be enough for the Film. We have to get the film to about 54 minutes total, for an Hour show. Neil and I are going to work now (tonight) so as to get it started. Bob is coming in the Morning, so we will have to work on his part tomorrow day, and then Ravis again int the Evening, and it will save us time if Ravi has something to see before he leaves town, as his bit is too hard to edit without him (the soundtrack).
Saw a great wash basin in a window — full size white with blue flowers but just one Tap in the centre — haven’t been back when its open (the shop) but will get it, if its there, not too much, when I go back. Here are you’re shoes — hope they are O.K. Don’t I write crazy!!! Very fast before Ringo goes to the Airport — What have you been doing? Hope you’re O.K. I miss you — I’m starving — many grilled cheese sandwiches — Love you — Call me or tell me when I can call you at the Lodge.
Do you need anything from N.Y. cos I will go shopping for a day or 2. Still haven’t been to Lill Nassau’s yet but I passed her window one night and there is some great stuff — Hope I can get the Bed Piece without spending too much bread in there.
Saw a good shop with Indian fabric + cushions etc. which is what I want for my room 206. Are there shops in London with that stuff, as the cushions are so big it would be daft trying to carry them home — but I can. What do you think?
The Electric Yo-Yo’s are for Paul + Janet (after you finish playing with them.)
Eddie Veal was funny in N.Y. with his arm Bands and we took him to the Auto bar.
How’s the house? D. Tapp? Any Problems?
How’s DAD? — our Lou is coming Tomorrow so thats going to confuse me for a while. Shit!
Has Quinnell done the stairs and Rails in 203/4 109 yet?
The Bangla Desh Proof of the Box front with guitar, was awful — so I had to jump on that and change it and shout at them and Now it will be O.K. with the original idea of the kid — Its such a pain in the arse all that messing around — just because they didnt like the truth— anyway it will be O.K. in the end except we now have RAGA — B/Desh and Paul all coming in the same month — well I know which will win! (Ha-Ha)
Love you — love to Ted - Gred - and Kled
George”
#George Harrison#Pattie Boyd#quote#quotes by George#Harrison correspondence#George and Pattie#1971#1970s#Wonderful Tonight#fits queue like a glove
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🗡🏆 HUNGER GAMES SIMULATOR 🏆🗡
INTRO
Because of the posts by @maddgical-boy [link] & @nevermore-grimes [link], I will now be subjecting my paras to the Horrors. I have a lloottttt of paras, so to make this simply I used a random number generator to select the new victims tributes.
I will also be adding commentary on how accurate this would be to my paras. Because I can’t have fun without criticizing their every decision, despite forcing them to make those decisions in the first place. Bullying my paras is a full time job and brother, I just clocked in >:3
TRIBUTES
District 1: Edward Nixon [Mad as a Crow: Missing Piece of the Puzzle], Lucy Fisher [Phantasmagoria: DreamSet Circus]
District 2: Loyd Nixon [Mad as a Crow: Missing Piece of the Puzzle], Benjamin Graves [Mad as a Crow]
District 3: Marzipan Velveteen [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life], Neil O’Brian [Mad as a Crow: A Plague of Octopuses]
District 4: Beelzebub Honeyblood [Phantasmagoria: Crossfire], Reign Blanc [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life]
District 5: Phineas Glazier [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life], Luciana Potenza [Phantasmagoria]
District 6: Phoebe Sparks [Phantasmagoria: ElectroGear Software], Prism Raymond [Phantasmagoria: DreamSet Circus]
District 7: Thackery Velveteen [Phantasmagoria: Illusions of Life], Rosemary Velveteen [Fractured Fables: She Trusts me, He Loves Me Not]
District 8: Victor West [Mad as a Crow], CaterpillarOS [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life]
District 9: Mary Crowley [Mad as a Crow], Ketrill Hyde [Phantasmagoria: As the World Falls Down]
District 10: Khole Banner [Mad as a Crow: Assembled Monsters], Alex Grimm [Fractured Fables]
District 11: Stacy Collins [Mad as a Crow], Orion Guerrero [Mad as a Crow]
District 12: Vincent Hyde [Phantasmagoria], Lucien Jekyll [Phantasmagoria]
BLOODBATH
Yknow what i just realized. CaterpillarOS is, uh, a giant robot caterpillar. Khole is a weird mix of species but yeah there’s no way he’d win that fight.
Aint no fucking way Neil would loose to a blind girl. She has the power of accuracy but is smaller and younger than Neil. He’d rip her to shreds!!
HOW DID PHINEAS SET KETRILL ON FIRE LMAO
DAY 01
I like to think she read him, ironically, one of the brother’s grimms books. It’d be so funny for various reasons.
NNOOO MARY 😭 say goodbye to our only licensed nurse everyone…
uuuuhhh something something phineas in the wrong paracosm. insert joke about d//c or para!jervis here.
Interesting team up! No idea why Eddie would work with Loyd since that’s his father and they hate each other. Same with Stacy, she hates Eddie bc that’s her dad. I fully believe Prism and Lucy are being held captive here, folks.
Accurate !!! sorry rosemary BUT ALSO. WOW. I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW ACCURATE THIS IS OH MY GOD??? GIRL HOW DID YOU LIVE OUT YOUR TALE ALL THE WAY OUT HERE IM SCREAMING. also wow accurate for Neil too. Killing another innocent child, I see. At least this one’s intentional!
Our fallen tributes are: CaterpillarOS, Ketrill Hyde, Mary Crowley, Rosemary Glazier.
NIGHT 01
Bee! Don’t kill the bunny!! But fair lol
Debating on if Neil would keep a victim alive. I think for a little bit, for the psychological torment. He always liked to play with his food.
That is a VERY tense truce lmao, Stacy hates basically everyone Eddie is associated with, which includes the Crowley Family bc ooo boy, that family is a Certified Mess.
Luce 🤝 Phineas: ripped away from their home at a young age thanks to a random dimension portal. Not the same case here but wow I never noticed that.
DAY 02
Nothing interesting to note.
Our fallen tributes are: Marzipan Velveteen, Phineas Glazier
NIGHT 02
Khole winning is just…perfect. All 3 have to do with experimentation (Khole & Neil are from the same lab/facility/organization, actually!) but Khole was made first, both in a story context and meta context. So. yeah. Older Sibling Rights.
TWIN TEAM UP HELL YEAH!!!!
Either Orion or Eddie is winning those ghost stories bc Orion knew Aurelia, and she worshiped the god of fear, while Eddie knows Jonathan, Aurelia’s descendant and uses fear in his villain schemes. Then again, Bee is literally a demon, so….
YAY STACY!!! sorry loyd just…sucks lmao fuck outta here
DAY 03
Nothing interesting to note.
ARENA EVENT
Our fallen tributes are: Victor West, Neil O’Brian, Loyd Nixon, Reign Blanc, Orion Guerrero, Luciana Potenza, Khole Banner, Vincent Hyde, Thackery Velveteen. Only 9 people left!
Nothing of interest to note for NIGHT 03.
THE FEAST happens, aka The Cornucopia is refilled.
Nothing interesting to note for DAY 04 & NIGHT 04.
Our fallen tributes are: Benjamin Graves, Lucien Jekyll.
Nothing interesting to note for DAY 05 & NIGHT 05.
DAY 06: Eddie dies by accidentally drinking his own poison. Get wrecked, idiot.
NIGHT 06: Prism bashes Alex’s head in. Get his ass!!
Nothing interesting to note for DAY 07, NIGHT 07, & DAY 08.
NIGHT 08: Stacy poisons Prism. Lucy dies from thirst.
Stacy wins!! Wow. Fucking lame as shit I don’t even like her. Wish she stayed wherever the fuck she was before moving to Prism Pulse. Whatever! Realistically speaking she would’ve been killed way back at that random family reunion thing. Yes, by Eddie. he would’ve killed his own daughter. what of it.
#paraportal#luka.txt#dlc: hunger games#system: eternal labyrinth#console: phantasmagoria#console: mad as a crow#console: fractured fables#sorry i kinda lost steam / got bored lmaoaoo#it is funny to me that they only lasted 8 days. like yeah. that checks out.
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Top 5 vs Personal 5
List your top 5 fics ranked by kudos on AO3. are you surprised by what's most popular to your readers? then provide your ranking of your personal top 5 fics, and tag a few fellow writers!
ty for the tag @sillyunicorn :D this is cute and also interesting. i tag @starwarned @urban-sith @tea-brigade @fortheloveofexy @nanatsuyu @justadreamfox @jaydreams @halfpintpeach
im actually going to do my Personal 5 first because that's what i want above the read more cut 😂 no one is escaping looking at my babies.
Thorns (E), 18k, andreil // a post-canon fic where andrew and neil cope with doing a long distance relationship when u both have fatal levels of attachment issues lol. i spent a stupid long time on this fic for the word count, but there is love in every single word. i like this universe bc it's what i want for post-canon andreil. no one gave them the tools for this shit, but i love the idea that they will always figure out how to be together, even if its messy.
No Turning Back (E), 31k, andreil // this is perhaps recency bias, but i think this is the best thing ive ever written. i have a hard time summarizing it.. but it's an au where the conflict is almost entirely in andrew's head, which of course means he Causes Many Problems. i actually built this fic out from Andrew's fucked up internal journey, which was cool for me -- like, the main plot was developed to fit his character arc. i think that's probably not rocket science or unique but it was my first time doing it that way!
We Can Live Forever (T), 46k, andreil // i used to not like hs aus and then i wrote a huge one lol. its childhood best friends-lovers, and centered on this ridiculous lip sync serenade fundraiser ?? i made them all dance. a lot. sometimes its serious, but its mostly very silly. i wrote it w the intention of giving people that "read until 4am screaming into ur pillow bc cute aggression" feeling that so many fics have given me, and the feedback ive gotten implies ive succeeded, so im rly proud of that!!
Stoner AU (E), 21k, snowbaz // i'm cheating a bit because this is a series, but i almost consider this thing to be like a collection of sitcom episodes lol. it's a normal au, simon is a weed guy and baz buys from him and also falls in love w him. theres a lot of penny and shep and its all just very FUNNY imo. and they are all so fucking devoted to each other in kind of unhinged ways. i love rereading these fics.
I'll Come Back To You (T), 6.9k, andreil // ok, for 1: that's the exact word count. every time i fix typos on rereads i have to edit it to preserve the wc. but 2: this fic is Not Silly or Smutty LOL. it's probably my plottiest/most serious fic in some ways -- it deals w, like, multiple dimensions ?? and amnesia. and loneliness. i'm proud of the ambiguity, because i tend to be a writer that punches you in the face with The Theme. this one leaves a lot for the reader to figure out (to the dissatisfaction of some commenters lol), but i like that you have to think about it a bit.
ok, AO3 Top 5 under the cut!
all of these are andreil, because aftg fandom is a lot bigger than carry on </3.
boyfriend privileges (T), 4k // i should not have been surprised that this did the numbers, but i was kind of shook when my ao3 inbox blew up like never before. it's fanfic catnip -- a 5+1 post-canon with resolvable angst interspersed with soft moments. i wrote it in like 2 days and didn't edit, and aint that just the way of ao3 lol.
flashes of intimacy (T), 7k // this is a series of fifteen <500 word fics that i add to pretty often, so it also makes sense that it's got a lot of readers! ive always been proud of my ability to write short, so it makes me happy that it's up here. it wld probs be #6 on my personal rating.
Inside Thoughts (T), 1.5k // andrew gets his wisdom teeth out and is a goober about it. one of my first aftg fics -- i think it's up here bc it's almost a year old. i am not passionate abt it tbh, i wrote it kind of as a joke one night while i was high lmfao
Do Not Disturb (T), 2k // another of my first aftg fics that i kind of dont care much about hahaha. it's another catnip situation, a post-canon moment where neil panics & unconsciously calls andrew, similarly to how he does in canon. and then they r soft <3
Tequila Sunrise (M), 4k // i know people love this one -- it's also my most bookmarked. it's fun!! drunk neil!! but i almost can't read it anymore lol. there's some prose im proud of in there, but there's also some lazy characterization choices i made bc i had no idea it would get so many hits. its hard for me as the Characterization Guy to reconcile that hahaha.
ok as usual that was long-winded as hell. i love 2 talk abt writing :) also i feel bad 4 the lack of snowbaz representation here lol, but i think that i'm 1. better at writing andreil and 2. have gotten a lot better at writing while i was unemployed the last few months. i think a lot abt taking snowbaz for another whirl now, but consider: then i wouldn't get to write abt Andrew Minyard :(
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Light Shower. (Sal Fisher x Fem!Reader.)
part 13
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"I was surprised to see heaven in your eyes. I never once was treated right. You're what I'm missing in my life.
as bright as the sun, give me your vitamin d, let's run into another dimension. you make me feel like I'm on drugs."
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"sally face." I sniffled. "we need to talk."
he looked at me, concerned. "Yeah..?" we were on my bed. my room was nearly empty now, boxes piled in the closet. I wonder how he hadn't noticed or never even brought it up. I looked out my window, the same window I had looked out of every day for the past 13 years. the sunset stayed just as beautiful as the first.
"I'm moving."
sal felt his heart drop. "You're staying in town, right?" he pleaded. he gently grabbed my hand. my heart ached, I didn't want to leave my best friend. he was my rock, and I wasn't sure I could live laugh love without him.
"No." I croaked.
sal giggled. "you're funny, you really know how to give me a fucking heart attack." he pushed my hand away from him.
"I'm not shitting you. look around my room, sal." I was being harsh but I was so very scared.
he hesitated before looking around, knowing he was about to be proven wrong. "oh." he replied.
"yeah."
sal rubbed his eye and wiped his hand on his pants. "are we going to be okay?" sal asked cautiously.
I laughed quietly. "if you think you can get rid of me that easily, you're crazy."
he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and rested his head. he let out a shaky sigh. "we can be pen pals?"
"duh." I exclaimed.
"Where are you moving to?"
"nockfell."
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I hugged my knees to my chest as I zoned out. ever since that night, I've felt too guilty to even look sal in the eye: guilty because I let him touch me again. I knew I should've talked to sal about it. part of me screamed that if I told him, sal would hurt me. but I knew that wasn't sal, sal wasn't Shawn. he was gentle, maybe too gentle at times. so much more gentle than shawn could've ever been. the though of him made me sick, even saying his name felt like vomit. I never realized how much I missed sal until he was back in my arms. now, I can't live without him.
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Yet another day at the lake with Sal, Larry, Ash, Todd, and Neil. I mean, was there anything better to do in this boring ass town? I sat at the edge of the water, contemplating wether or not I should tell Sal. Anxiety resonated in me as I decided I should talk to Sal about it. He's been unconditionally loving, but I still feel like he's angry. I sat on the trunk of Ash's car watching as Ash and Larry fought, trying to drown each other. Although my head was pounding, a smile still managed to creep up on my face. The sun wasn't blazing, surprisingly, so I knew the water was probably freezing.
Staying clean was like holding my breath, and every relapse was choking me like chains wrapped around my neck. With every hit, snort, temptation; they got tighter.
I watched as Sal flipped his soaking hair over his shoulder. "So sassy!" I called to him.
He looked over at me and put his hand on his waist, popping out his hip. "I know, right?" He said in a girly voice.
I rolled my eyes and giggled.
"I love you."
"I love you more!" He replied, still using his feminine voice.
Ash made a gagging noise. "That's you and Larry," Sal teased.
"Me gagging?!" She exclaimed. Sal nodded. "Ew! Stooop! That's Y/n on you, don't even."
"Yeah, for sure later tonight!" I called.
Sal's ears turned bright red. "Oh my God, it was supposed to be a comeback! You guys are impossible!"
Sal came up on the shore shivering. He leaned against the car next to me. "Hey, babe."
"Hi, Sally Face, you done in the water?"
"I thought I'd go back in with you if you wanted to come." He turned away from the lake and took off his mask to wipe his face.
"Okay, I'll come with you." I paused. "I'm sorry."
"For what? You didn't do anything." His voice muffled as he strapped his mask back on.
"Relapsing. I don't remember what happened after I did but I know you were there. Me overdosing was a sign. I'm really done this time."
"You don't need to apologize. Relapse is part of recovery. I know you're strong, Y/n, but I also can't lose someone else to addiction. Just seeing my dad drink is hard." He put his wet hair in a ponytail.
"Thank you so much, Sal." Was all I could mutter out. "I just don't want you to be mad at me."
"I could never be mad, especially over something like this." His eyes squinted, signalling that he was smiling. I smiled back.
Sal gave me a piggy back ride as we made our way into the water. I yelped when the freezing water hit my body. I wrapped my legs around Sal tighter, making him chuckle.
"Don't be such a pussy, Y/n!" Larry teased, splashing me with water.
"You're such a cunt!" I said, pushing myself off Sal's shoulders and on to Larry, shoving him back into the lake.
Larry came up screaming and sputtering, "You killed me!" He squeezed his eyes shut, moving his arms around like a zombie before gripping my shoulders and violently shaking me.
"Ew, get off me!" I laughed hysterically.
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I laid in Sal's bed on my stomach, close to crying about the sunburn I earned today. My legs wereshed across Sal's lap as he consoled me.
"Why didn't you put on sunscreen, love?" He questioned me while trying to hold back a chuckle.
"'Cause I wasn't planning on getting in!" I grumbled.
"Okay." He moved my legs off his lap. He walked out of the room and came back with after sun lotion.
"Awe, Sally." I cooed as I sat up. "Here, let me put some o-"
"No, let me do it."
"Okay, why?" I asked him.
"Because I love you," he said quietly.
I smirked and kissed his prosthetic lips. "Okay." I smiled sweetly. He helped me gently lift up my shirt and and started to apply the lotion.
"Remember when you did this for me in, like, 2nd grade, or something close to that." I could hear the small smile in his voice.
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"Dad, my sunburn hurts!" Baby Sal cried out. It was so hot in New Jersey that his moist thighs stuck to the hot leather seat, nearly melting and fusing himself with the seat.
"I know, son. We're almost home. I told you to reapply!" Henry scolded.
"I did!" Sal sassily drug out the I. I was in the seat next to him, giggling at his attitude.
Sal dramatically crawled on his hands and knees. I tapped his ass with my foot. "What are you doing, silly!"
"Heyyy!" He groaned.
"You're so weird!"
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"Y/n, sweetie, I have to head to work, it's an emergency. Would you mind putting medicine on Sal's burn?" He begged, tossing his bag over his shoulder. What a main character.
"Yeah, of course Mr. Fisher!" I grinned happily and took the lotion into the living room where Sal was sulking.
His bare back was up towards the ceiling but his head was turned towards the TV which was playing a cartoon with a fat yellow man eating a pink donut. I sighed and sat down next to him. "I gotta put this lotion on your back, Sally."
He groaned. "Y/n!" He whined.
"Don't be a baby! It won't hurt."
"But your hands are going to be so cold!"
"Oh, hush!" I silenced him, gently rubbing the lotion on his scorching red skin.
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'ghost hunting with me n lar pls? :)' Sal texted me at 6 in the afternoon as I was falling asleep watching the news.
'zzzzzz im asleep I didnt read your text.'
'y/nnnnnn pls pls come w/ us' I smiled at the text.
'you begging is adorable, ofc ill come I was joking w/ u Sally Face :)'
'yayyy ty Ml'
'so many abbreviations lol'
'yki'
'???'
'you know it'
'oml'
'<3'
i met sal and larry in the basement. their matching sanity's fall shirts made me giggle. Larry looked like the big green giant next to my 5"6' sal.
"Larry, how many green beans have you eaten recently?" I questioned, giving him a once over.
"oh, don't even trip. I've been eating more than just green beans. ive been eating hella pussy, too." he fought back with a sly smirk.
"ew, lar, too much information." I rolled my eyes.
"hashtag tmi!" sal exclaimed in a girly voice.
"that was random." Larry snorted as we made out way up to the 5th floor. "so, y/n. there's this girl named Megan, she lives in the bathroom up here. she's a ghost." Larry rambled.
"did you seriously just spoil that surprise?" sal mumbled, staring down at his gear boy.
Larry's eyebrows raised, almost touching hid receding hairline. "shit, sorry, dude! there's not a ghost girl named Megan who's 7 and has purple hair." Larry dismissed me by waving his hand.
"uh, okay..?"
"Larry, shut the fuck up! she can learn about Megan herself. I don't want y/n to get bored." sal scolded Larry.
we walked into the last apartment on the 5th floor. the heavy smell of aged wallpaper and musk filled my nose. I scrunched my nose. I looked around the dimly lit room. the window was boarded up as well as another door at the very end of the room.
sal took a beautifully designed key out of his pocket and unlocked the bathroom door. I followed the duo cautiously. sal stood confidently in the middle of the room, seemingly waiting for something to happen. soon enough, his gearboy began to glow green as it vibrated in his hands.
a mass of translucent flesh and bone began to form from the floor. I watched horrified as the squelches of organs reincarnating filled my ears. the girl that nke stood in front of me held a goofy smile om her face. her expression softened as her cloudy eyes landed on sal.
"Hi, Sally Face! hi larry!"
"what's up, little lady." larry smiled, giving her a fist bump.
"Hey, Megan. you said you wanted to meet y/n, right?" she nodded eagerly at sals words.
I smiled at her and waved. "Hi, angel."
"Hi, y/n! sal told me so much about you. you're even prettier than he described!" she exclaimed.
sals ears glowed light pink. "is that so? well, thank you, but that's all you. I love your hair, it's a beautiful shade of purple."
"thank you so much, Y/n! mommy's calling me, already! promise you'll come see me? these boys are smelly!" she giggled quietly, pinching her nose. "goodbye!"
"of course, goodbye!"
"did she just call me smelly?" they exclaimed in unison.
#ash campbell#larry johnson#sal fisher#fanfic#sally face#friends to lovers#fanfiction#melanie martinez#light shower#sal fisher x y/n
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so i've seen multiple people discussing (or asking neil gaiman) about a jewish reading/retelling of good omens etc, and i saw neil answer that it would be really difficult and you'd have to change the story pretty much completely
and i just want to say: please, please check out the (complete, free) web novel Unsong, by Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex / astralcodexten / @slatestarscratchpad and @aaronsmithtumbler on tumblr (the latter is an RP blog for an Unsong character))
(There is a (complete, free) audiobook version here.)
it's a jewish-punk story that is, well, not like good omens (because nothing is really like good omens, and nothing is really like unsong), but it's a jewish-punk apocalypse story in the same way good omens is a christian-punk apocalypse story
(i've heard it more specifically called 'kabbalah-punk'; it's set in a universe where the torah and the talmud and the spirit of the kabbalah are all literally true)
but also it's so good. it's written by a jewish psychiatrist and therapist with an amazing way with words; he's an atheist jew (i think?) but the book is full of a lot of love for jewish culture
Some features:
-- a lot of neurodiversity, very kindly written (the author is a psychiatrist whom i initially followed largely because of how empathetic his writing is; this is definitely a doctor who listens to his patients)
-- i am neurotypical and not jewish, but most followers of the slatestarcodex blog (and many of my irl friends) were neurodivergent and jewish, and everyone loved this book (also, i have always low-key wished i were jewish, and this book certainly contributed to that)
-- some damn good humour. the jokes range from silly puns that make you groan but eventually admire the sheer sincerity of it, to fish-out-of-water antics (lots of fish out-of-water during the apocalypse) that are laugh-out-loud funny, to some incredibly clever and insightful moments; it's delightful
-- there's a huge cast with many, many different viewpoints on everything, whose stories are brilliantly, intricately interwoven
-- beautiful philosophy about stories, the purpose of stories, who tells them, etc
minor spoilers below cut (don't read beyond here if i've already convinced you to read the book, possibly read this if you're on the fence):
-- at a pivotal moment, the world is saved by a very autistic angel, in a way that was related to his autism (but NOT in the savant syndrome sense). it is incredibly badass
-- has the most satisfying answer to the theodicy question (why is there so much suffering if G-d is omnipotent and good) that i've ever seen
-- some of the characters have views that seem abhorrent. one of them is clearly a peter thiel stand-in who's trying to invent a way for the ultra-wealthy to buy their way into heaven during the apocalypse (in the same way real-life peter thiel is trying to invent ways for the ultra-wealthy to live forever)
and yet, and yet, by the end of it, i was empathizing with every single one of their viewpoints, even fictionalized peter thiel
(and not because of some tragic backstory/events! this is a story that has you empathizing with villains, not by tugging at the heartstrings with overwrought angst, but by letting you actually understand them)
(also if the characters feel a little hard-to-like at first, please stick it out for a few chapters, i promise they get more loveable; for me this is part of the appeal--initially being like 'wow, i hate this character' and then eventually liking them, not because they've changed, but because you've gotten to know them)
-- also, for those who are into polyamory: basically all the main characters end up in a polycule and literally save the world with the power of polyamory, so there is that
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HELLO!
I'm here with a random ask to get to know you better!
Do you have a favorite artist (and you get to define artist however you see fit)?
Hello!! Thank you for the ask! I had to think about this for a while to come up with a satisfactory answer. :D
One of my top favorite artists is Neil Gaiman. I love Sandman, it's my absolute favorite Comic and among the best things I ever read. It's dense, full of secrets to explore - it has great characters and wonderfully plotted storylines. Sandman also introduced me to and made me dive into the world of comics, which I am very thankful for.
I also love American Gods and Coraline, and generally enjoyed everything I read by Mr. Gaiman immensely.
Besides, I find it charming that he is on tumblr. He seems to be such a genuinely kind and funny person, not to mention smart. :D
And last but not least, Neil Gaiman gave what I consider to be the best writing advice and it has helped me a lot through tough times:
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." (X)
And that's enough of me fangirling for one day. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. XD
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hihihi 24,57 and 78 for the fanfic asks!!! <333
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24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?
i think it usually depends on the story i want to tell!!! for instance, (wit)jitp is written from Andrew's POV because i wanted it to be a story from the perspective of someone who wasn't the protagonist. he's the POV character but the story is about Nathaniel. when it comes to the Parallels AU, Dare(d) was the first story planned and from Wilhelm's POV because Dare(d) is meant to be a sort of coming-of-age love story. meanwhile NSTK, the other half of Parallels, is told from Simon's POV and is more of a drama.
that said, most of my Young Royals fics are from Wilhelm's POV because i relate to him a lot more than i do Simon, and most of my AFTG fics are from Andrew's POV because i find his thoughts easier to write than Neil's. so ease of writing definitely plays a part too.
57. How conscious are you about including symbolism or foreshadowing in your fics?
i answered this here but i am not known for being willing to shut up :)
i think i WANT to include more symbolism in my fics than i do, and i think that may be a big driving force for "the scars are poems". i want that story to be drowning in symbolism and meaning. but even just in general i think i want to try to pay more attention to opportunities and chances to play with symbolism more often!
78. What motivates you during the writing process?
often it's just the anticipation of what reactions my writing might get! one of the things that goes through my mind most often when i'm writing something is "will people see this? will this line hit them as hard as it hit me? will they understand the double meaning here? will they think about why they said that? will they wonder what that meant?" and i may never get answers to those questions but sometimes i do!! and it makes me so happy!!
i love finding out that my writing made people feel things, too. i write a lot of sappy shit, and i've been writing a lot of more sad and emotional fics recently, and it makes me so excited when people say that my writing touched them in some way.
so. yeah. it's so funny because i do write things for myself but such a big motivation for me is other people's thoughts lmao
[ fanfic writing asks ]
#someday i will actually WRITE the parallels au fics and then it'll all be over#also i love that tsap is more of VIBES than PLOT right now#but it's ok we'll get there#i thought for a minute that figurative ghosts was also from neil's pov but it isn't kskdshgs it's also from andrew's pov#idk what it is#askers#ask game#iworshipsappho#shh ac
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