Good Omens S2 good ending: a random pedestrian trips and breaks their leg right as the Metatron is leading Aziraphale out of the bookshop for their little talk. Aziraphale immediately switches into Good Citizen mode and is like "I'm so sorry, I'll just be a moment, you know I was heaven's representative on earth for 6000 years and I still feel it's my duty to do good wherever I see the chance-"
Between healing the leg with a miracle, helping the person into the coffeeshop to recover, calling a friend to come pick them up, ordering them a restorative warm beverage... he's gone a while. The Metatron gets impatient and is finally like "fuck this. Hey Muriel, I need an archangel, you're getting promoted," and they take off for heaven long before Aziraphale's done being a goodie-two-shoes.
He wanders back into the bookshop, confused, and gets hit with the full force of Crowley’s "I want to spend eternity with you let's run away together," speech. He counters with "I want to spend eternity with you too but can't we do that here on earth?" and then no one sees them for a week because they're too busy making out on every piece of furniture in the shop.
(Meanwhile, Muriel is so worried about Doing The Job Properly that they inadvertently drown heaven in an avalanche of red tape and regulations. They never manage to start the second coming because no one can find form B7, which apparently needs to be signed off on before a resurrection can be performed on any savior, prophet, or Son of God.)
380 notes
·
View notes
One thing I've found important but also sometimes difficult to learn is that the difference between a 'butterfly garden' and a 'biodiverse habitat' is that you gotta accept that sometimes things are gonna die.
This isn't to say that you shouldn't try to tend to things. If I find a bunch of oleander aphids harassing some of my young milkweed plants, I'll get the hose and spray them off no problem--hard to tend a garden and save milkweed seeds if they're getting the life sucked out of them before they can even go to seed. If I see a lot of snails starting to devour some of my flowers and turn them into brown mush, I'll pick them off and toss them to the neighborhood ducks.
But with that being said, creating a biodiverse environment for wildlife means there's gonna be prey animals and predator animals, and some insects may fill several niches. I plant milkweed and other flowers so monarchs and other insects can enjoy them as a host plant and a nectar source. Some years, I can barely even find large caterpillars because the wasps just go ham and pig out. That doesn't mean I'm gonna hunt down any and every wasp nest and spray it to death for being oh-so-mean to my precious baby caterpillars! They're just trying to survive, just like everything else in my garden!
And in the grand scheme, everything is part of a cycle that feeds everything else. The caterpillars feed the wasps, which then feed the cardinals and chickadees and mocking birds. Later in the summer, I always see some ladybugs, and my aphid problems drop even without me bringing out the hose. Sure, the snails are a major problem for me, right now. But they might be feeding things I'm not even seeing, late at night--like blindworms, or possums, or frogs, and maybe even the birds are going at them when I'm not outside.
The literal basis of my pollinator garden is so things can eat other things--the caterpillars feed on the milkweed, after all. I can't deny that they're part of an ecosystem, and the effort in trying to just sprays poisons everywhere for no real reason.
If I really wanted to, I could try and collect every single tiny little baby caterpillar and keep them in a little container, so I can rear them by hand, if it hurts too much to think of them getting eaten by wasps. My next door neighbor did that. Brought in 26 caterpillars to protect them from outside enemies, and promptly ran out of milkweed. Out of all that, only maybe 10 tops made it. And the instant she set out her stripped-bare plants again, there were already more monarchs coming in and laying seeds on the stems of plants that just barely were starting to leaf back out.
Nature's a balancing act. Monarchs have been dealing with pests like wasps through all this time. Every time I wonder where the caterpillars are, I sure can still find a few dozen eggs on my plants. Butterflies are still dropping by, still laying tons of eggs on my plants. And it's not like I go out there five times a day to count caterpillars--for all I know, there could still be dozens of those little guys growing up where I don't even see them.
I feel like I'm losing my point. Long story short, if wasps are eating some caterpillars in my backyard, I'm not gonna lose my mind. I want my garden to be part of a wider ecosystem, not a members-only club.
42 notes
·
View notes
in the dransion dream can sit at his computer and george can stand silently in the doorway until dream looks up and says what and george is like what are you doing and dream will say nothing and george will be like will you go feed ducks with me at the lake and they will put on their shoes and go walk to the water and feed ducks food that is appropriate and safe for ducks to consume so not bread but dream will have looked into this already by then.
79 notes
·
View notes
Hey uhhhh I lost track of tumblr for a bit, but I remember you were really excited about your special birthday dinner and I missed that day so I don't know how it went and now I'm sad
I hope it was wonderful and you had a great time!!! Here is cake 🎂 love u smunker 💙
my special dinner was delicious ^_^ i was gonna post a pic but it does/did not look as delicious as it tasted LOL.... thank u!
9 notes
·
View notes
@oddlies inquires: regress
(BABY) BOY REPORTER. always accepting.
"C'est d'accord," the little boy reassures, "I'm not lost. I'm exploring!"
He swings his legs off the bench, his attention returning to the people coming and going on their journeys around the park.
"Do you think they're all having adventures?" he asks Irene after a moment, blue eyes bright. "It's probably someone's birthday today, and maybe quelqu'un d'autre is going to go feed the ducks."
2 notes
·
View notes