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cultpastorkevin · 2 months

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jean is 6’2” of cunt and ptsd he is not uWu softboy

#just bc he knows who he can’t bite doesn’t mean he doesn’t bite at all #can we please stop uwuing this man #yall act like jean doesn’t actively antagonize and ridicule people #he made usc legally bind him to follow their rules in court #even Neil didn’t do that #he is angry bitch in canon #jean will bite anyone who isn’t on his list of no biting #he doesn’t lose victim status just bc he displays negative reactions #he is not baby boy he will slam u into plexiglass like a ragdoll #the sunshine court #tsc #jean moreau

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losthalfelf · 10 months

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“it’s not sure if we’ll get a season 3!”

don’t worry guys, i got this. i will be playing good omens 2 on every device i own, constantly, until the entire season 2 script is burned so deeply into the very depths of my soul, that the only thing my poor, restless brain will be able to to think, say, or even comprehend will be: “Excuse me. Oi! Yes? Was that you? Oh, hi, yeah. Err, look, if you don’t mind, could you hold this, while i crank it all up?-“

#and i won’t stop then!!#so don’t worry!!#btw i am lying saying that this isn’t already all i think about #good omens 2 has quite literally bewitched me body and soul #and i wouldn’t change a thing about that!!!#if this is what we need to do for a third season i’m not even joking i will do this #good omens season 2 #good omens #neil gaiman #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #gos2ep1 #i didn’t tag this as spoiler since these are the first lines of the new season i hope that’s okay

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gynecologistmsfrizzle · 8 months

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okay listen neil newbon would absolutely deserve to win best performance for astarion at the game awards and I’m going to applaud if and when he does. however. if devora wilde isn’t at least NOMINATED alongside him you can all expect me to make some angry posts about it.

#sorry if you didn’t like lae’zel (wrong opinion) but devora fucking KILLED that role. went into the woods and wrestled it into submission.#she sawed off its head and put it on a pike next to her tent.#they both gave incredible performances but i think lae’zel was a tougher role than astarion #because nobody pries at lae’zel. you have to tell a story with her to people who aren’t really interested in working for it #and so all those little mannerisms that make her feel really alive become much more important #the actual text of the dialogue can’t do as much heavy lifting because there just isn’t as much of it #so SO much of her character really comes from devora #while astarion’s chattiness means our impression of him comes much more evenly split from his writer and actor #who both did fantastic jobs!! again bg3 is an abundance of riches when it comes to exceptional performances #and I’m not even TOUCHING wyll or gale yet. OR AMELIA TYLER who honestly will probably be neil’s biggest competition before devora is #but anyways. expect Posts. You’ll get them.#although on second though. seeing what the internet did to laura bailey … maybe we Should let a guy take this one.#Rhi talks #ok to rb

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toddtakefive · 3 days

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btw todd’s reluctance to join the dps because he doesn’t want to read (which is then accommodated for) and is scared to put himself out there (which is also worked through) being read as todd not wanting to go AT ALL, and thus neil making the proper accommodations (“todd anderson, who prefers not to read, will keep the minutes of the meetings”) and encouraging him to step out of the box that stifles him being seen as ‘forceful’ or like he can’t take no for an answer makes me insane with rage

#and him trying to stop neil from asking if todd not reading at the meetings is okay isn’t him wanting not to go #its him not wanting neil to ask because (as someone with social anxiety) it’s EMBARRASSING ASF for someone to ask for things on your behalf #literally just think about it as the meme of ‘when i tell my friend im hungry and he tells his mom that *i* want food instead of both of us’#and the whole ‘neil not knowing how to take no for an answer’ thing…… dont get me fucking started #the kid who’s had to take no for an answer his whole life? the kid whose first proper scene IS him taking no for an answer? are you serious?#being encouraging and accommodating and (admittedly) a little pushy when he’s got his mind set on something—#—is NAWT the same as not being able to take no for an answer or bulldozing through conversations with people #he and todd DO listen to each other in those conversations theyre just on opposing sides—#—because their understandings of the world don’t fully align at that point in time/the movie #which is totally fucking normal?????? because later on they DO properly align?????????#i feel so crazy about this every time i see someone say todd didn’t want to go the dead poets meetings because it’s so obvious he DID #he was just scared #and you know what maybe it IS a little forceful #but given how dedicated todd is to shutting off and hating and isolating himself he NEEDS a little forceful to be broken through to #if no one ever pushed me to do things when i was scared (as irritated as it can make me) i’d never do SHIT dude #and obviously todd is the same way because he ALL BUT OUTRIGHT SAYS AS MUCH #‘i appreciate this concern but i’m not like you’ IS about neil’s voice and opinions mattering to people but it’s ALSO about—#—him being outgoing and trying new things and putting himself out there #WHICH TODD WANTS TO BE ABLE TO DO!!!!!!!!#the moral you take away from todds growth is NOT that he has to change to be accepted because he DOESNT #its that he has to gain the confidence and belief in himself to grow and become the version of himself he WANTS to be #he NEVER changes on a fundamental level to make others happy (although his growth does make others happy) he just opens up more #and i dont know WHY some people think his arc is becoming a completely different person #like yall PLEASE #this isnt even an anderperry thing this is an issue even if you read them completely platonic #i blame the FUCKASS novelization…. dps book you will always be hated by ME #dps #dead poets society #neil perry #todd anderson

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ickypuppi3 · 2 years

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Speaking of nasty Steve... him believing "men don't cry" and the first time Billy cries around him he doesn't respond all too well?

um yes ??!!

“jesus.” billy sniffs. glares at him. “you’re such a fucking asshole.”

“yeah.” steve looks at him. watches a tear fall. can feel the words on the tip of his tongue. can’t do anything to stop them. his mouth curls up into a sneer. “and you’re such a fucking girl sometimes, billy.”

and billy just. freezes. his eyes snap down. avoiding steve’s.

“get out.”

steve feels his own chest pull tight.

“c’mon bill. we were having fun before all this-” steve holds a hand up to gesture. he watches billy’s shoulders tense with the movement.

“get the fuck out, harrington.” billy tries to sound threatening. it fails when his voice wobbles on steve’s name.

and steve. well steve doesn’t need this right now. doesn’t need to sit around babysitting his fucking… he doesn’t know. hell, they’re not even friends.

steve doesn’t need this right now.

just because steve said something. just because billy can’t take a fucking joke.

whatever.

“yeah, yeah.” steve looks at billy one last time. doesn’t know why the sight of him pointedly staring down leaves sour taste in steve’s mouth. “i’m going.”

he slams the car door behind him. hears a small noise as he does. he doesn’t look back.

billy will be fine.

steve walks fast. feels the cold air stings his face. feels his lungs burn with it. he tries to clear his head.

billy will be fine.

because billy’s a man.

fuck.

steve stops for a moment. leans back against a wall. thinks about the last hour. wonders how the day went so fucking sideways.

he feels his own eyes burn. slams a fist into the wall.

men. don’t. cry.

“fuck you, billy hargrove.”

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dyketennant · 3 months

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huh.

#i didn’t even realize he reblogged this until someone else mentioned him in the tags #what the fuck #neil gaiman? what are you doing in my final fifteen shitpost?

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kneel-gayman · 8 months

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made a good omens playlist, if you even care

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rowanthestrange · 2 years

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Friends with new baby and 1.5 Days left before moving if we’re including moving day itself: “We think it’s basically fine, but as an outsider, do you reckon we’re more or less done packing?”

Me looking around at their very not-packed house: “I’m sure we’ll be able to get it done in time if we all pull together.”

(internally: 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬)

#and is their new house ready??#hahaha no #the kitchen isn’t even in #they had to get an emergency carpenter #didn’t know that was a thing #to make new skirting boards #cus the old were falling apart #before the carpet gets laid #and this guy neil #who was supposed to be doing it #saw he was running out of time #his idea wasn’t going to work #and just took his tools and fucking booked it #won’t answer his phone #apparently friends’ new neighbour #has offered to go round and fight him #cus he thinks he knows #where the fucker lives #that’s welsh hospitality #neil is genuinely and not ironically racist against the welsh #(they’re not welsh just moving there so didn’t come up)#which was a surprise #also racist against the polish #which is bad when you’re working with eight other builders #who aren’t racist #and have been saying they reckoned #neil would do a bunk and also probably nicked the #massive tin of paint that went missing #all my friends hate neil the racist carpenter

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geekyanglophile · 10 months

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God dammit… I’m gonna have to start reading Good Omens fanfiction again

#don’t read the tags if you don’t want to be spoiled #I mean it #turn away #leave now or be cursed with the font of knowledge #ok… they’re gone #wtf #I did not have Gabriel and Beelzebub canon on my list of likely events for season 2 #I didn’t even think Crowley and aziraphale were actually going to make any progress #queerbaiting has really ruined my faith in television lol #but seriously… wtf #I love this show #I got three queer storylines in one show #(I do consider gabriel x beelzebub queer bc they seriously enby coded beelzebub)#what even is their ship name…#because I cannot keep spelling out Beelzebub #I’m not even sure I’m spelling it right lmao #and what in the angst hurt/comfort was that ending!!#where’s the comfort Neil??? WHERE’S THE COMFORT #they really left it on a cliffhanger on the precipice of the streaming apocalypse #when is the second coming coming Neil…. WHEN #good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #is that it? is that the ship name lmao #that’s hilarious

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raisingbrain · 10 months

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i just know im crashing my prius into the hornets nest with this one but i just watched good omens and im going through the tag and im thinking of like that one thing where it’s like “some ppl just want hours of a gay version of logs burning in a fire place looped for several hours” like goddamn it’s not. actually that serious

#like was it out of character for aziraphale to choose heaven after the events of even just season 1? probably yeah #but he only went when heaven promised him a place for crowley too #imagine you can have everything you’ve ever craved #large amounts of praise and respect from your abusive family AND they welcome your lover with open arms #like man idk. the promise of that would probably get to me too at least a little bit #also not to be a neil gaiman dickrider because it annoys the fuck out of me when people treat him like a living god instead of #ya know #a human man who is just as complicated and riddled with flaws as the rest of us #but don’t??? say fuck you to him bc you didn’t like the ending who raised you #it’s so not that serious #or do i can’t stop you and i don’t especially care #anyway.#good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers

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thesamestarlight · 1 year

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HELLO???

#this reblog has nothing to do with me #i didn’t even add anything i just happened to be the person he reblogged from after lynda carter jumped in #probably because i tagged their names?#but still it was a trip to open my notifs and see NEIL GAIMAN #hi sir it’s an honor #neil gaiman

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virgo-dream · 2 years

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Unsure if anyone is waiting for updates on things I write but I like feeling like I have an audience I’m speaking to so, be ready for a lil venting from here on:

I reeeeeeally really really want to write but Covid has wrecked my brain and I have like… maybe 50% of the focus and energy to do any sort of creative work (or any work at all, which sucks because I do work in a creative field lol) I have many ideas sitting around in my brain and I do want to try them out but… the idea machine and the do work machine are not working compatibly rn.

Fanfic has given me space to reeeeeally experiment with writing in a way I never felt I was allowed to before, and I know that if I spend too long without writing my brain will just go “oh so you gave up right? We’re never doing that again. Okay!” And I’ll feel guilty for cultivating something only to let it die so quickly and… well, I think y’all can see how this thought process works.

This is just to say I want to write, and hopefully I’ll be able to do it again soon. But Covid brain has really made everything so difficult that I’m just constantly disappointing myself with things I wish I’d done and didn’t.

#virgo dream talks #I didn’t even film my sandman audition tape lol #which I know is also fucking stupid but Neil said I could so I should give it a try right?? Right????#but nah my brain gave up on it and even though I have all the resources to just… DO IT #I won’t because I’m frozen in place #sad venting time with Virgo

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kuroken-lovechild · 2 years

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dead poets society spoilers and oversharing in the tags

#i relate to neil perry (mf who smiles and laughs through everything even when asking for help from his teacher/someone he trusts #yet is unable to muster up any of that at the mere mention of a parent)#forgot to add + (so full of life at school when with friends or doing something he loves like breaking rules to do art and poetry #but nobody truly understands the depth of his trauma with his family)#it was funny bc when neil was standing in front of the window before That part i went like #“haha if I were neil wouldn’t it be funny if I’d kms to prove a point and make them feel learn their lesson’#AND THEN HE ACTUALLY #someone tell me what neil perry was supposed to do please .#i thought mr keating was gonna give him the answer or even a hint but it didn’t work and I desperately needed that too cmon please

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ickypuppi3 · 2 years

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crazy how the duffers hate billy so much yet he’s literally the only one of their characters who’s actually fleshed out and has a whole backstory

like we saw him as a child, we saw his parents dynamic

they did all that and for what?

just to reduce him down to a two dimensional villain again?

what’s that about

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maaikeatthefullmoon · 4 months

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Think I might be spending a bit too much time on tumblr. 😳

Dream last night: was on the bus. With my daughter. Lost. Because that’s a common theme in my dreams when I’m stressed/MH is a bit wobbly.

Chatting with daughter about @neil-gaiman on tumblr (because he answered her Unfortunately, the Cheese question?!? fuck knows, I certainly don’t. Answers on a postcard.). Man passes us & gets off bus. I think ‘hmm, that looks just like him.’

Then I get notifications of being tagged by Neil on tumblr, but of course I’m in the middle of nowhere and my phone won’t work (isn’t there something about text not working properly in dreams…or maybe that was just my brain being extra angsty to stress me out some more. Again, fuck knows.).

So I’ll never know if Neil said something nice about us, or if he was annoyed by what we said. I mean, my kid is 8, so it would’ve been about me, surely. 😂 “Oh, it was THEM again.”

But, then again, we all know he doesn’t have social media. And I doubt he’d be riding a bus in my stressy dream with my daughter & me. 🤔

#think I need to meditate or something #neil gaiman #neil gaiman what are you doing in my falafel #neil gaiman what are you doing in my dream #i didn’t even eat cheese or anything fun

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inhonoredglory · 10 months

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Aziraphale’s Choice, the Job Connection, and Michael Sheen’s Morality

Update: Michael Sheen liked this post on Twitter, so I'm fairly certain there is a lot of validity to it.

I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.

Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,

We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and “oh it’s nice.” And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose.

I was looking forward to BAMF!Aziraphale all season long, and I think that’s what we got in the end. Remember Neil said that the Job minisode was important for Aziraphale’s story. Remember how Aziraphale sat on that rock and reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, because he lied and thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier.

Aziraphale, a being of love with more goodness than all of Heaven combined, believed he needed to walk through the Gates of Hell because it was the Right Thing to do. (Like Job, he didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing.)

That’s why we saw Aziraphale as a soldier this season: the bookshop battle, the halo. But yes, the ending as well.

Because Aziraphale never wanted to go to Heaven, and he never wanted to go there without Crowley.

But it was Crowley who taught him that he could, even SHOULD, act when his moral heart told him something was wrong. While Crowley was willing to run away and let the world burn, it was Aziraphale (in that bandstand at the end of the world) who stood his ground and said No. We can make a difference. We can save everyone.

And Aziraphale knew he could not give up the ace up his sleeve (his position as an angel) to talk to God and make them see the truth in his heart.

I was messed up by Ineffable Bureaucracy (Boxfly) getting their happy ending when our Ineffable Husbands didn’t, but I see now that them running away served to prove something to Aziraphale. (And I am fully convinced that Gabriel and Beelzebub saw the example of the Ineffables at the Not-pocalypse and took inspiration from them for choosing to ditch their respective sides)

But my point is that Aziraphale saw them, and in some ways, they looked like him and Crowley. And he saw how Gabriel, the biggest bully in Heaven, was also like him in a way (a being capable of love) and also just a child when he wasn’t influenced by the poison of Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person. The Metatron also seemed to have grown more flexible with his morality (from Aziraphale's perspective). Like Earth, Heaven was shades of (light?) gray.

Aziraphale is too good an angel not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it).

Aziraphale has been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks he and Crowley helped create), Aziraphale is seeing something else. A chance to change them. They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, and because of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.

(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.)

At the cafe, the Metatron said something big was coming in the Great Plan. Aziraphale knows how trapped he had felt when he didn’t have God’s ear the first time something huge happened in the Big Plan. He can’t take a chance again to risk the world by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths (or the threat of death) so much more this season: Elspeth, Wee Morag, Job’s children, the 1940s magician. Aziraphale almost killed a child when he couldn’t get through to God, and he’s not going through that again.

“We could make a difference.” We could save everyone.

Remember what Michael Sheen said about courage and doing good––and having to “look the dark in the face to be truly good.” That’s what happened when Aziraphale was willing to go to Hell for his actions. That’s what happened when he decided he had to go to Heaven, where he had been abused and belittled and made to feel small. He decided to willingly go into the Lion’s Den, to face his abusers and his anxiety, to make them better so that they would not try to destroy the world again.

Him, just one angel. He needed Crowley to be there with him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions that Heaven needed to hear, to tell them God was wrong. Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage.

But then Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.

Aziraphale doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much they need him, or how much humanity needs him there, too. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?)

Terry Pratchett (in the Discworld book, Small Gods) is scathing of God, organized religion, and the corrupt people religion empowers, but he is sympathetic to the individual who has real, pure faith and a good heart. In fact, the everyman protagonist of Small Gods is a better person than the god he serves, and in the end, he ends up changing the church to be better, more open-minded, and more humanist than god could ever do alone.

Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, and Heaven is no exception. When Crowley says that Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he needs to go there. “You’re exactly is different from my exactly.”

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In the aftermath of Trump's election in the US, Brexit happened in 2018. Michael Sheen felt compelled to figure out what was going on in his country after this shock. But he was living in Los Angeles with Sarah Silverman at the time, and she also wanted to become more politically active in the US.

Sheen: “I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to Britain] – which was difficult for us, because we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do.” In the end, they split up and Michael moved back to the UK.

Sometimes doing the Right Thing means sacrificing your own happiness. Sometimes it means going to Hell. Sometimes it means going to Heaven. Sometimes it means losing a relationship.

And that’s why what happened in the end was so difficult for Aziraphale. Because he loves Crowley desperately. He wants to be together. He wanted that kiss for thousands of years. He knows that taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them. They could change the rules of the game.

And he’s still going to do that. But it hurts him that he has to do that alone.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #it's kinda like capt america: civil war #with Azi as Tony Stark: traumatized and trying to do the right thing #and Crowley being Steve Rogers: fuck the establishment let's go rogue #gos2spoilers #good omens meta #good omens 2 meta #go s2 #michael sheen #go s2 meta #go meta #*mine #*mymeta #ineffables husbands #ineffable soulmates #*mybest

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