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thatsbelievable · 10 months
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wiirocku · 1 year
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Proverbs 11:3 (NLT) - Honesty guides good people;    dishonesty destroys treacherous people.
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mysterycommand · 2 years
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Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
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kingmark1st · 9 months
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gameit23 · 1 year
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SMG4 DESTROYS THE MUGENS - ALL - STARS
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anaisbahadi · 2 years
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" Lying destroys us because it takes us into a vicious cycle that is difficult to get free from. Once you tell a lie, you usually have to lie again to cover up the first lie, and you feel even worse. Lies grow, they never stand alone, they need more lies to support the first lie. "
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philomelia · 2 years
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(   *   @destorys​ raised a finger to hush cassie    ).
(interior:     a room that looks like life had been scraped from its thin walls,   a wasteland that slips towards bareness     ...     she nudges empty take - out boxes with her foot,  trying not to gag when a rat runs out from beneath the ruins).     she tugs her jacket a little tighter around her body.    something like dread rises in her throat,   something that cleo might gasp and call a sign.     but she had never been one for pretending:    the world was so fucking ordinary for her.     but the abandoned house at the edge of town,  with its frail structure and its dying grass that stuck like grasping fingers from beneath the earth,   had promised an adventure.
‘‘     i thought there would be more     ...     stuff.   i guess.    like a weird little haunted doll for us to take home.    you could get possessed by it,   and i’d have to save you,   and then    --     well,  then,  the credits roll.    but it’d make a cool story to tell people.     if you survived.     ’’        her rant is cut off when xe lifts a hand to cut her off.   the single finger makes her pause (dread comes back like an old friend,   choking her into silence).    had ? heard something?      her eyes swirl around the derelict bedroom,   hackles raised.
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We did it!
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honeyglazedbabe · 4 months
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there’s this tweet that was like “y’all fought for marriage equality just to be in open relationships” and i know it’s kinda a joke or whatever but it makes me so sick. young queers are so busy respectability politicking and hating open relationships and polyamory that they’re willing to minimize the real reasons for the marriage equality fight. Like hello??? Think about all the husbands during the aids crisis who couldn’t see their man because the family took over as next of kin or bury him because he had no legal rights as his partner? Think about all the partners who can’t share health benefits, or adopt or file taxes together. Who cares if they fuck other people on the weekend. Legal protections matter despite whatever your feelings on marriage as an institution or the sanctity of monogamy. it still matters. I hateee seeing young people joke about and take for granted things our elders needed.
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peblezq · 8 months
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Good Omens 2 was like reading a 100k fanfic in the middle of the night that you realize was left unfinished and last updated 5 years ago, and you are left alone with this earth-shattering cliffhanger
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cozylittleartblog · 11 months
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not that we didn't already Know belos was full of shit, but it's even funnier knowing the titan was still alive the whole time and probably judging him
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joycrispy · 7 months
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Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:
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This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...
It. It kind of fucks. Severely.
And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.
I'll explain:
As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.
Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.
(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)
Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:
"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." --Genesis 3:24, KJV
Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.
(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.
...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)
So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.
But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:
The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.
Do you understand?
The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.
The flaming sword was given to be used against them.
So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.
That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.
...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.
They're Crowley and Aziraphale.
(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)
In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.
It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.
...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.
And the Serpent--
(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)
--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.
As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:
"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization." --Robert G. Ingersoll
The first to ask questions.
Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).
And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.
And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--
(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)
--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.
To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.
Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.
It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.
And then you keep writing.
And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.
(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).
It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)
...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:
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I love this shot so much.
Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.
You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.
"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.
But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.
Godfathers. Sort of.
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realdonsteve1 · 1 month
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THE OVERWHELMING PRIDE THAT DESTROYS THE TRAGIC HERO IS CALLED
A. nemesis B. catharsis C. hubris ✓ D. tragedy   The answer to the question is: C. hubris In the context of tragic heroes, the overwhelming pride that ultimately leads to their downfall is known as hubris. This term originates from Greek literature and refers to excessive pride or self-confidence, often leading the tragic hero to defy the gods, ignore warnings, or overstep moral boundaries.…
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ronnette-my-dear-0 · 7 months
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the poll is over why are you still reblogging this
enjoy my social experiment! also wow i did expect you guys to be so entertained with this thank you 😭♥️ the synesthesia is strong with this one ALSO OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE
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rambroplays · 2 months
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Ezio Destroys The Army of Borgia | Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
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