Reblog to unionize Crowley’s plants in season 3

Something about Matt being so absolutely brutal on the battlefield is strangely satisfying to me.

GOD RIGHT? The disconnect between who Matt is and what he's good at gives me such brain rot. He's not a good person! There's this disconnect between French and Anglo and between perception and reality that just drives me up a wall with fascination. How the culture that produced me went from the ghouls who haunted the northern border to uwu polite anglo's and sexy but weak French Canadians just ??? I've talked about this before so it might be annoying but it's incredible how it's even possible. And the way it was done largely by American media??? New Englanders were scared shitless by French Canadians even after British conquest and American independence. Why are the trees speaking French? A New England militiaman might have asked. And the answer is a French boarding axe through the back of the skull. Matt doesn't like to think about it, he wants to have that idealism and decency Alfred sticks to as a man if not as an entity but when hammer strikes anvil, he doesn't give a shit about what he has to do. He will live another day. When it comes down to the wire, MAtt doesn't give a shit if he's fighting for the French or the British or the Americans because La survivance is the best whetstone he could ask for. Francis didn't do shit for Matt his entire life and it was nothing but what Canada could give between Matt and the reaper's scythe for most of his life. Matt can be downright cruel, much less efficient!

wait, I'm confused, so sorry if I missed anything, but I don't get how you writing tender fics and feelings in general is harming others. I understand if it's something you don't like to write, but internet randoms?

Not randoms. People I know and respect informed me of certain aspects and trends that can be traced back to me and my writing certain genres, in those mostly tender baby fics, which regardless of what my intent was, did harm. The idea is to stem the flow on my end and in turn stop the harm down stream before it even gets into the wafer supply.

Ma'am I do hope you and your wrist are doing well!

Thank you. 💚 I gave it a decent fracture but it's not too bad. Concrete was a mistake.

That art piece with the sailor and his drowned son :( Made me think of that fic you wrote once upon a time ago with Matt falling overboard a ship while sailing with Arthur - the only difference is: the sailor's son lives - safe and sound and wet and cold but in his father's arms, alive. Will we be able to see that fic again someday?

Probably not. It's in that feelsy/unacceptable category.

I need to ask. Are you still keeping your baby fics to read. There are always messed up things in life and history, but people don't have to focus solely on the negatives in life. Not everyone thinks your baby fics are bad or imperial apologist. There are several parts of the fandom that like the lighter aspects of the exploration of the characters and not just the horrible things in history. I love how you flesh out the characters of a shitty uptight dickhead with tiny bubbly and grumpy tottes and going 'what the fuck am I supposed to do'. I even loves how the little ones all interact with each other even if lord father isn't directly in the story.

I won't be taking down the ones I have up, especially since most of them are on ao3. They're my favorite things to write but focusing on anything but empire and the destruction of it has been expressed as being harmful to those around me so what else do I do besides stop?

Why are you so harsh these days? Every ask is so realistic but the thing I like most about your writing is the tenderness :(

Dmejcjdkd because my choices these days are either asks like these or being responsible for actively harming others. So /shrug.

What was the thing that made Mattie realize that Arthur indeed loved him, even if not expressed in a conventional way?

He was permitted to exist after 1763. It felt cruel at the time, and confusing. The princes of France at the time were known as Fils de France. A shitty little failed fur colony he was, but he was once quite literally a son of France, and the usurped were sent into exile. But with what they are? What exile is possible when the soul is made of the earth below his feet? Acadia had been flayed from Matthew in the 1750s with the expulsions and if he was no longer a son of France, then he expected a quick, merciful death at either Alasdair's or Arthur's hands. Not something done if one is fond of the victim, but a a rational, expedited end to minimize cruelty in the age of enlightenment.

But he lived. Arthur bothered with the expense of keeping him alive. No cold and unsuffered death for Matthew but the messy, painful, confusing and terrifying gift of life. Matt understood, in at least a limited way, that it was not hatred that is the opposite of love, but apathy. And it might be fair to say Arthur was mostly apathetic of Matt until he grew to be useful but the quick death he denied Matt would have been kinder on the balance. And true, half the reason was lack of funds, but the easiest option was impossible for Arthur and his brothers, and that impossibility was the first indication of the possibility of affection.

Gilbert and Erzsé.... they're one word in two fonts. Soldier and warrior. Dragoon and hussar. Monk and priestess. He lashed himself to Ludwig, to make a nation where Prussia could not possibly be dominant on its own. She wed herself to Roderich, because exchanging her sword for the crown of an empress was better than losing everything. These parallel paths, only intersecting when there is a boy to teach to ride and to fight and to read and sing. Or when corsets finally unhook and a chemise can be pulled down and a mouth can lavish attention from her throat to her thighs....

Good Omens rated 16+ for Shax and violence

One thing that’s always puzzled me is Hell’s willingness to go along with the Great Plan. Sure, they get to battle the angels again and destroy the Earth in the process, but it’s all part of the Great Plan. The Great Plan is supposed to be what God wants, right? That’s why the angels are going along with it. Why would demons be cool with going along with what She wants? Isn’t their whole deal supposed to be rebelling against the Almighty? I mean, maybe not wholesale because what can you really do against a being powerful enough to create everything? But you’d think there’d be SOME resistance.

True, the whole End Times bit does align with what Hell is all about. They get to fight the angels again and trash the Earth, but why do they need God’s permission for that? Is anything really stopping them from duking it out with the angels, on Earth or elsewhere, just whenever? Heaven is expecting it at armaggedon, so why not get the jump on them on some random Tuesday? What’s been keeping the peace all this time? Do they actually need an antichrist to get the ball rolling?

Maybe, deep down, the demons are scared of losing again, as they did in the first war. They want to get even, sure, but the idea of somehow falling further, or being completely destroyed because there isn’t anywhere lower to fall, must be haunting. The idea of putting it off until they’ve had millennia to prepare doesn’t sound so bad in that light. Still, they’re nursing a lot of anger and resentment to counter that fear.

Then again, one of the themes of the story is that Hell is basically just Heaven in a different font. They talk the talk about being different, but they walk the walk in pretty much the same pattern as Heaven. They make decisions based on what Heaven is doing. Before the fall, it was all about doing what Heaven wanted. After, it’s all about doing the opposite of what Heaven is doing. Does that really count as change? What was all that rebellion even for? Shittier office space and less overt gaslighting?  I think Crowley resents Hell more for choosing an edgy remake of the same shit they just rebelled against instead of making an actually fresh start than he does Heaven for tossing them out. Some of the time, at least.

But back more strictly to the point, does Hell see following the Great Plan as getting to beat the angels at their own game, or is it something else? Why do they go along?

Hastur just before the Fall

"my child is FINE" your child steals apples, thinks Atlantis is real and is literally the antichrist