My partner mentioned to me that he just learned Zooey Deschanel is dating one of the Property brothers. Cool.
Horrified to learn he previously thought the Property Brothers were MARRIED. TO EACH OTHER.
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my english profesor just told us a story about how he basically joined a religion to give himself some extra protection in his physical life because he was trying to be a vampire slayer.
he was not a young child at the time.
he was a grown man.
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So since we're all freaking out about this
And @inhonoredglory wrote this excellent meta on how it relates to Aziraphale steeling himself for war maybe.
I thought I'd share my initial reaction to The Thing, which was to promptly get THIS SONG stuck in my head for the last week:
Private Perks is a funny little codger
With a smile—a funny smile.
Five feet none, he's an artful little dodger
With a smile—a funny smile.
Flush or broke he'll have his little joke,
He can't be suppressed.
All the other fellows have to grin
When he gets this off his chest.
Refrain
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,—so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
Private Perks went a marching into Flanders
With his smile—his funny smile.
He was loved by the privates and commanders
For his smile—his funny smile.
When a throng of Bosches came along
With a mighty swing,
Perks yelled out, 'This little bunch is mine!
Keep your hands down, boys and sing.'
Refrain
Private Perks he came back from Bosch-e shooting
With his smile—his funny smile.
Round his home he then set about recruiting
With his smile—his funny smile.
He told all his pals, the short, the tall
What a time he'd had;
And as each enlisted like a man
Private Perks said now my lad,
Refrain
Although when I say that song, I mean just the Refrain, cos that was all I knew before looking it up. It being a super famous (at the very least here in Britain anyway) WARTIME ditty.
I always knew it as a British 'stiff upper lip' type thing - hiding your pain/anger/despair in the face of trouble behind a smile. But looking up the whole thing, it reads more like a war PROPAGANDA song? Encouraging young men to be like this 'Private Perks' and enlist?
But in any case - if we take the grimace-smile to be that of Aziraphale prepping for war, I think the song fits nicely! And we can always think of the recruitment stuff as Aziraphale trying to recruit others AGAINST Heaven maybe...?
The line about 'a Lucifer' also tickles me ofc. Probably it was partly the matchbox with the bible quote (like the match brand Lucifer used to use on their boxes) that got me thinking of this song as well.
Perhaps Aziraphale is now 'a Lucifer' - ie. a high ranking angel opposed to Heaven - and he is going to metaphorically light cigarettes for the fellow angels he recruits to work undercover, in the sense of helping/encouraging them to hide their true feelings behind a smile??
(oh damn I'm getting very invested in this now - come on Zira, if Jane can be a master spy so can you! build up an espionage network and tear the system down!)
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So, I don't watch many movies, but I do see the gif sets that pass my way here on www.tumblr.com, and that's basically the same thing. Which is why I can go YEARS seeing gifs about, say, Twilight, then when I, for reasons known only to the algorithm gods, watch an interview with Robert Pattinson, I get hit in the fuckin face with an English accent. How long has he been English for?
I watched American Hustle the other night. Great movie. Went digging for more Christian Bale content. GUESS WHAT. THAT FUCKER IS FROM WALES.
Other wtb (what the british) moments:
Idris Elba??? I saw one episode of The Wire eons ago, then thought I was having a stroke when I watched an interview with him and he had the most accent.
Henry Cavill??? Don't think I've watched a single thing that he's been in but I thought I knew who he was but apparently I do not.
Tom Holland?? Saw one Spider-Man movie. Hated it. That's not his fault. Prefer the other Tom Holland. The historian one.
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