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I'm seeing some confusion out and about over the title A Companion to Owls (generally along the lines of 'what have owls got to do with it???'), so I'd like to offer my interpretation (with a general disclaimer that the Bible and particularly the Old Testament are damn complicated and I'm not able to address every nuance in a fandom tumblr post, okay? Okay):
It's a phrase taken from the Book of Job. Here's the quote in full (King James version):
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
--(Job 30:29)
Job is describing the depths of his grief, but also, with that last line, his position in the web of providence.
Throughout the Old Testament, owls are a recurring symbol of spiritual devastation. Deuteronomy 4:17 - Isaiah 34:11 - Psalm 102: 3 - Jeremiah 50: 39...just to name a few (there's more). The general shape of the metaphor is this: owls are solitary, night-stalking creatures, that let out either mournful cries or terrible shrieks, that inhabit the desolate places of the world...and (this is important) they are unclean.
They represent a despair that is to be shunned, not pitied, because their condition is self-inflicted. You defied God (so the owl signifies), and your punishment is...separation. From God, from others, from the world itself. To call and call and never, ever receive an answer.
Your punishment is terrible, tormenting loneliness.
(and that exact phrase, "tormenting loneliness," doesn't come from me...I'm pulling it from actual debate/academia on this exact topic. The owls, and what they are an omen for. Oof.)
To call yourself a 'companion to owls,' then, is to count yourself alongside perhaps the most tragic of the damned --not the ones who defy God out of wickedness or ignorance, and in exile take up diabolical ends readily enough...but the ones who know enough to mourn what they have lost.
So, that's how the title relates to Job: directly. Of course, all that is just context. The titular "companion to owls," in this case, isn't Job at all.
Because this story is about Aziraphale.
The thing is that Job never actually defied God at all, but Aziraphale does, and he does so fully believing that he will fall.
He does so fully believing that he's giving in to a temptation.
He's wrong about that, but still...he's realized something terrifying. Which is that doing God's will and doing what's right are sometimes mutually exclusive. Even more terrifying: it turns out that, given the choice between the two...he chooses what's right.
And he's seemingly the only angel who does. He's seemingly the only angel who can even see what's wrong.
Fallen or not, that's the kind of knowledge that...separates you.
(Whoooo-eeeeee, tormenting loneliness!!!)
Aziraphale is the companion.
...I don't think I need to wax poetic about Aziraphale's loneliness and grappling with devotion --I think we all, like, get it, and other people have likely said it better anyway. So, one last thing before I stop rambling:
Check out Crowley's glasses.
(screenshots from @seedsofwinter)
Crowley is the owl.
Crowley is the goddamn owl.
#good omens#good omens 2#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#aziraphale#crowley#there's probably a few thousand words more I could say about this but. I think I'll just hang the implications deliciously aloft for now.#something something tfw the embodiment of all your worst fears and self-doubts shows you the only real kindness you've known for centuries#you can't help but love him and you can't help but fear him but above all you TRUST him the way you're supposed to trust God but don't#brrrrrrr#do you think Crowley would vibe with being an omen of spiritual devastation or do you think he would get drunk about it#good omens meta
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Smut Dialogue Prompts That Make Me Feral
1. “Let me see those eyes.”
2. "Open your mouth for me.”
3. “Please kiss me.”
4. “Use your words.”
5. “Tell me what you want.”
6. “You look so good beneath me.”
7. “You can take it.”
8. “I can take it.”
9. “You take me so well.”
10. “Spread your legs wider.”
11. “Louder. Let me hear you.”
12. “Keep your eyes on me.”
13. “Touch yourself.”
14. “Do you want my fingers?”
15. “I can’t get enough of you.”
16. “You taste so good.”
17. “Hands behind your back.”
18. “Swallow.”
19. “You are doing so well.”
20. “Breathe through your nose.”
21. “Don’t hold back.”
22. “Show me how much you need me.”
23. “Say my name.”
24. “You can do better than that.”
25. “Does that feel good?”
26. “I want you to ruin me.”
27. “Do you think you deserve this?”
28. “I want to have my way with you.”
29. “Touch me there. Right there.”
30. “I will never get enough of you.”
#feel free to send me these!!!#i am smut writing rn#you may recognise these from my fic lol i am a self indulgent little lady#can you tell i have a praise kink#smut prompts#writing prompts#prompts#writing#fic#fanfic#fanfiction#my prompts#brrrrrrr
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#70s#1970s#led zeppelin#jimmy page#robert plant#john bohnam#john paul jones#peter grant#idk why but I always feel like jonesy needs a blanket#he just seems like gets cold a lot#brrrrrrr
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she's signing at Cinder, don't mind her 🤟
anyway, it's the day of mimicking artstyles apparently, so have a Neo in Helltaker's style
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G.U.Y.exe actuallized
#sampo#sampo koski#shampoo costco#honkai star rail#hsr#mihoyo#hoyoverse#BLENDER BOY PUT HIM INSIDE A BLENDER#BRRRRRRR
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high and braindead thinking about cock <333
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It's very frightening that most deserts are just seas that you missed.
#brrrrrrr#geological time is terrifying#'hi this used to be a beach'#'this was an island'#'this was just a rock with'
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This is one of the cutest pictures of Paul I’ve ever seen I swear to god. This man is adorable 💕🥹
Now time to send it to my family group chat without context
#paul stanley#kissfan#kissblr#kiss band#the starchild#Paul Stanley is too fucking cute#cutest man competition 2024#who is running for cutest man who will win#brrrrrrr
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Doodles from the plane sjsjdkj
#yugioh#dark side of dimensions#yugioh dsod#yugi mutou#yami yuugi#pharaoh atem#seto kaiba#atem x kaiba#they live rent free in my head#brrrrrrr#the 3000 year pining
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emo lesbians in their 20s how are we feeling tonight????
#DAN AND PHIL DAN AND PHIL DAN AND PHIL DAN AND PHIL DAN AND PHIL#THEYRE BACKKKK#MY LOVES#BRRRRRRR#dan and phil#dan and phil games
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since temps have been consistently dipping above and below zero degrees celsius for the past fortnight here, i gotta put down some frost/cold themed stuff for the wishlist ! ;
scenario where frost affects miguel's climbing ability -- makes sense, but perhaps doubly so in his case, compared to other spiders. can't climb worth a damn if you can't feel your own hands / claws 🙃
scenario w/ foggy conditions -- been thinking of this for a while! what good is accelerated sight if visibility is zilch!!! maybe could be used as a way to train his reflexes?
scenario w/ snow -- don't have anything for this, just let him have a snow day experience!
#wishlist#literally just checked forecast on my phone#and more freezing fog forecasted#brrrrrrr#hey tho... miguel with a scarf? 🥺
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I imagine Mike Wheelers inner monologue is the kind of chaotic that’s the voices of the song “voices in my heads” from Be More Chill
#stranger things#will byers#byler#mike wheeler#thinking abt a bmc au again#Mike as Jeremy and Will as Micheal#BRRRRRRR#relistening to musicals was not a good idea#I can relate anything and everything to stranger things
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I don’t know if anybody wants it but here
There’s a ten picture limit so this is pt.1
Linked Universe(but not really) Hunger Games
#linked universe#team time#tloz link#oot link#loz link#linkeduniverse#linked universe hunger games#BRRRRRRR#MALON WAS BURNING BITCHES#I WAS SO PROUD OF HER#Time died in such a canon way#except that it was Navi who killed him#but he would never kill Twilight or Warriors#he’d rather die#i know that much#lu time#linked universe time#lu malon#linked universe malon#screams from the shade
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He's cold :(
#70s#1970s#60s#1960s#led zeppelin#jimmy page#give him a jacket#hes gonna get sick#brrrrrrr#makes him go brrrr
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Tess Servopoulos | Outside
#TESS WITH GUN TESS WITH GUN#TESS#WITH#GUN#BRRRRRRR#miss Ellie Williams maam you are so lucky#the last of us captures#tess servopoulos#the last of us#tlou#tlou photomode#the last of us icons#Tess tlou#Joel x Tess#x reader#tlou icons#annie wersching#naughty dog#PlayStation
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This is one of the most frightening passages in recent days. Mina, having taken a sleeping draught, suddenly regrets it and begins to feel sleep taking her as she tries in vain to stay awake. Brrrr.
#dracula daily#mina harker#desperately fighting sleep to avoid the horrors#the horrors overtaking you and stealing your consciousness#brrrrrrr
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