tate is let out of the murder house tonight

finished the new acswy chapter and i have so!! many!! thoughts!!

Why an oat milk latte with a hefty jigger of almond syrup?

One theory is that the coffee was poisoned and the almond was to cover the poison, but if it wasn’t (or even if it was) — what’s the symbolism? Why that particular drink?

The Metatron uses the coffee to gain Aziraphale’s trust and to manipulate him. Here’s that thing you love and yes I’ve ingested too it is all fine.

But why coffee? It isn’t the first drink we’d associate with Aziraphale. It is unlikely to be one of his favourites. So why bring a coffee and not say a tea or a cocoa or a bottle of wine all of which we do see Aziraphale consume and know he loves? Is it to show that the Metatron knows Aziraphale well enough to manipulate him with food/drink but still doesn’t know him well enough to offer the food/drink he really wants (only Crowley does that)?

But then, why not just an ordinary latte? What’s with the oats and the almonds?

In Judaism almond trees are symbolic for the watchfulness of God and the Hebrew word for watching sounds like the word for almond tree. In fact the Menorah is shaped like an almond blossom.

This is referenced in:

Jeremiah 1:11-12 NIV

The word of the LORD came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied. The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.”

So perhaps the symbolism of the almonds is that God and the Metatron are still watching. Aziraphale has been given a hefty jigger of “God and I are watching you”.

The oats is less clear to me. Is it a reference to life and death? To harvesting as in harvesting human souls and Armageddon?

girls and boys, i think the metatron ordering specifically a “dash of almond” and then telling aziraphale it has a “hefty jigger of almond” thing exists mostly and almost exclusively just to tell us he is fucking Lying about the things he is saying. i don’t think it’s any much more than that.

I was helping a family friend out with barista work since he has a nice little cafe, i was doing the fancy little swirl thing in the coffee right.

I instinctively drew a penis.

OF COURSE YOU WOULD HELL ME

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the coffee was fucked with. and i am pissed off about it.

saturday afternoon w bae

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I'm turning 30 this month, and for some reason have become suddenly interested in material possessions. like what if,,,,,,,,my couch was nice. what if my sheets were nice. is this what happens to you??

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."