#spreading more personal opinions

[forestshadow-wolf]

Ghost: do you think I can make rudy my platonic wife if I ask ale?

Gaz: 🤨 what happened to soap?

Ghost: soap isn't platonic. Answer the question.

Gaz: idk ask him

~~ on a video call with ale ~~

Ghost: can I make rudy my wife? Platonically.

Ale: idk let me ask.

Ale, yelling off screen: hey, rudy! Can ghost make you his platonic wife!

Rudy, off screen, yelling back: what happened to soap!

Ale: he asked what happend to soap?

Ghost: he's not platonic.

Ale, yelling off screen again: he saying it's not platonic!

Rudy: I thought we already knew that!

Ale, to rudy: we did!

Rudy: then tell him I said yes!

Ale, to ghost: he said yes.

Ghost: great.

Ghost: *hangs up*

Gaz: .. so?

Ghost: he said yes

#spreading more personal opinions #fr tho i have the biggest platonic crush or rudy #like I NEED him to be my best friend #el rambles #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #rodolfo rudy parra #alejandro vargas #alerudy #ghostsoap #soapghost #call of duty #cod #cod mw2 #incorrect cod quotes #incorrect quotes

[grimalkinmessor]

Light's end has always bothered me for multiple reasons (the biggest of which is it not actually being his fault that he lost therefore robbing me of a greater poetic justice but you can't win 'em all), but I think one nobody really talks about is that,,,Light wasn't afraid to die.

Well—he WAS, at the beginning, but part of the reason I'm so obsessed with his relationship with Ryuk is because Ryuk's existence was a constant threat to Light's life. And yet Light never once seemed afraid of him, or tried to cozy up to him, or even attempted manipulate Ryuk into doing things for him. Sure, he bribed him sometimes into going along with his plans, but he was friends with Ryuk. Or—as close to friends as I assume a Light Yagami and a Shinigami can get.

But before Light meets Ryuk, he 100% believes that he's going to die. His frenzy those first few days can be attributed not to any moral righteousness, but to a desperate sort of resignation. Light thinks that he's sold his soul after killing those first two men, so instead of destroying the Death Note, he immediately sets out to make as big of an impact as possible. He wants to go out with a bang! He wants to be remembered! Light is afraid of death in those first days—but he also comes to terms with it somewhere between killing Otoharada and Ryuk showing up. He was ready to go with Ryuk quietly if he was there to take his life or his soul.

But then—he learns that he's not going to die.

The face of a boy excited and relieved.

Light learns that there are no consequences to using the Death Note.

THIS is when he starts getting cocky, when he starts to actually convince himself of all that moral stuff he spouts.

But he's still not afraid of death.

Oh he's afraid of being caught, for sure, and after L humiliated him on live television, he might've even been afraid of execution. Because he'd seen firsthand just how quickly L could turn the tables on him, how he could make Kira look foolish. And Light definitely does not want to be remembered as foolish.

I don't think Light was afraid of actually DYING though, because when Ryuk says "You know I could just kill you", Light laughs. Literally laughing in the face of death. Light KNOWS that Ryuk will eventually kill him, but as long as he goes down the way he wants—on HIS terms—it's fine. Ryuk claiming that he'd be the one to finally end Light might've even been a relief, considering how Light's mind works. A god can only be killed by another god, etc. etc. 'Killed By A Real-life Shinigami' sounds metal as FUCK. Top-tier way to die if you're as much of a gloryhound as Light.

And one thing that irks me is that—the five year gap kind of,,,,takes that, from Light. Light spends so long on top of the world with no real challenge that by the time that Near and Mello show up, he's far more arrogant than he was when he was up against L. Light is, once more, afraid of death. He's lost that tolerance he built up in those pivotal first few days, and he goes out, not in a blaze of glory like he wanted, but clawing and pleading to live like a dog.

Light lost his recklessness, his impatience, his acceptance of the inevitable because he believed that he could now change the inevitable—all somewhere in that five year time skip.

This makes him less likely to get caught, yes, but it also takes away that—that teenage dauntlessness that he had at the beginning. Pre-skip Light feared L and L alone. Only the idea of being caught by someone who could truly tear him down frightened him. Not even death compared.

And I suppose that Light's spiralling at the end is a sort of poetic justice in this case?? But it's not the one I wanted.

I wanted Light's recklessness to blow up in his face. I wanted his carefully curated plans ruined by his own impatient hand. I wanted him to go down much as he probably first intended—in a blaze of glory. I wanted his fall to be explosive and terrifying to the audience. A moral of the story that shoots you right in the chest and really makes you think.

Instead he was reduced to just,,,,another criminal, begging for his life.

Which, yes, I suppose, is also a message in and of itself (all evil figures throughout history have only ever been human, have only ever been men that bleed red at the end of the day, and nothing they've ever done or said will change that), but I also find that....exceedingly boring.

#death note #grim rants #yagami light #light yagami #death note meta #i guess...? #im just venting my frustrations with the ending #again #i know the five year skip was supposed to show us how fast kira consumed the world and how quickly corruption spreads #but also yOU COULDVE BROUGHT NEAR AND MELLO IN WAY EARLIER #WHEN LIGHT WAS STILL THE DUMBASS THAT BUILDS FLASHBOMBS IN HIS DESKS #it wouldve so much funnier plzzzz #and more interesting in my opinion #23 yo light was kinda more of a bitch not gonna lie #like wheres the man that orchestrated a bus jacking to get one man's name?? #and then met that man in person again and made him kill his own comrades???? #WHERE'D MY ARROGANT/DESPERATE LITTLE HASTY BOY GO #he went from a zim to a mr burns and i disliked it greatly thank you

[moe-broey]

I think they're really cute as a platonic possibly even found family pairing, but. A Reminder

#fire emblem #feh #like i'm not starting discourse but like. i feel like people forget sharena's age a lot of the time. #w alfonse it's easy to see him as an adult and feel weird about pairing him w vero #but bc of sharena's playful cheerful personality like. it's easier to overlook her or even think she's younger than she is #also i may have been getting the sanaki line source wrong all this time. sorry for spreading misinfo for god knows how long 😭 #but the wiki says it's her resplendent that has the line about veronica. not her bridal #either way i think she's referring to young veronica. placing her around 13. #at the oldest #new vero kinda reads as 15 to me but. surely it hasn't only been two years LMFAOOO #but even if she was 18 i feel like i'd run into the same issue i have w thrasir and lif. he knew her when she was 13. #literally nothing is going to change that fact for me. i get super icked out by it LMFAOO #also it's not unprecedented to have platonic/familial bridal alt duos! we have eliwood/roy #and i can't remember if the pegasus sisters are literally sisters or like. same trope. they are all blue. #either way. i'm not done being annoying about it yet!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 #fe veronica #sharena #like to be more specific on lif again he (as alfonse) was already an adult when he met veronica (13ish) #just. to clarify. #and like. who gives a shit. i know. but this is how i feel. my personal opinion.

[enha-stars]

i just wanted to tell you that you’re not a good writer in case you thought you were. why r u bringing my mom into it wtf

oh thank you so much!! look at you, doing good work on earth by sharing your opinions because you think they’re needed

#i hear you #i do #and i’m bringing your mom into it because now i get to tell you how ill fuck her!!! #since you like to read so much. read this #i’ll spread her open on your kitchen table until she cries #how’s that? #if you have any more opinions #die with them!!! #i’m not a kind person i won’t pretend to be #you don’t like my writing? block me. #if you have more to say— consider shutting up #anon ask #enha!asks

[alicepao13]

Yeah, that isn't weird at all.

#eurovision #back to back on the eurovision tag #'rumor has it'... I think the anon is the one spreading the rumor #I think there's enough stuff to be upset about from the things we can verify so we don't need to come up with more #just personal opinion #no need to copy paste wild theories on asks #I redacted usernames and other post information because what the posters replied was not the point in this case

[lionblaze03-2]

idk about anyone else but for me /personally/ assigning any of the wof dragon tribes a single equivalent human culture or accent feels kind of weird or off. Unless you’re like. Specifically from that culture and know what you’re interpreting

like sure the ‘nightwings are British because they’re voiced that way in the audiobooks’ is funny at first but I once saw a post break down the accents by tribe and assign sandwings a Nigerian accent. Which IMMEDIATELY makes the fact that they’re commonly rogues and thieves in the story not a fun cowboy thing but a vaguely racist thing suggesting that all Nigerian people scam and steal, which. Given the ‘Nigerian prince’ thing is already a stereotype, well…-

and it definitely isn’t JUST that, I’m not trying to call a single person out. But these kind of 1-1 correlations lead to results like this 9/10 times and it just feels strange. Just mix stuff together. Mash ideas from different places into one. Don’t make the dragons a 1-1 parallel to a specific human culture because then any story you tell that may connect to a stereotype of that culture will come off really, really bad

#Instead of they have ___ accent #Say. Well their accent is closest to like this one with a hint of this one. And it varies throughout the regions of the kingdom #Because that is not saying something about a specific ‘kind’ of person. It’s just taking your favorite ideas and playing with them #This is specifically why everything in righteous pines has like 2 religions and then random other cultural factors thrown in #+ the source material and stuff I just made up for me that isn’t from ANY culture #Because I am NOT gonna get caught stereotyping a specific group and be seen as spreading hate #wings of fire #also I don’t mean like. If you’re specifically from a culture and paying informed homage to your heritage #I mean just. Like. White teenagers picking random races based on general regions for the tribes #Like I probably would’ve done when I was 12-14. Like a fool #anyway this isn’t really an angry post at all it’s just kind of a vague opinion #I’m not genuinely mad at anyone who does this I’m just like. Wary for them. Like #Look out girl you’re gonna get cancelled you need to be more CAREFUL #Because I’m 90% sure most people don’t MEAN it to be racist. It’s just. Internalized ideas or general assumptions or something. Uninformed. #But you cannot be uninformed or you will get got. Inform yourselves folks!!! Play safe!! With many mixed ideas! #lion’s lair #invalid white persons opinion by the way. I’m downright vampiric so you can entirely disregard this post if that affects its meaning #My icks literally do not matter in this situation. I know that. I’m just ATTEMPTING to read the room #And not hurt anybody #👍?

[realness-remade]

i think online discourse is genuinely one of the worst things to ever come out of social media

#i might touch on this more later but #for fucks sake im tired of being surrounded by people who say 'x person is good y person is bad' its so fucking stupid there is no point #and its always made so obvious that their Discourse Opinions are fueled by hate. they will try to hide it but they generalize every single+ #+person they speak to #and i know im doing the same right now its because i fucking hate them!!! All they do is spread hate and i cant stand it #and its not even people dedicated to discourse i more often see normal ass people hating other normal ass people. for the crime of notbeing+ #+like them. all im saying is the rest of the world needs to stoppp trying to put people in the Good Group and the Bad Group. shut the fuckup #i can only stand so much for the love of god. Have fun with your friends dont surround yourself with people you dont like

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

analyzing hermes, emet-selch, the ancients and ascians, how they're written, and the fandom's reaction to them be like hm. emet-selch's role in this fuckery is compounded by the fact that his backstory as a genocide survivor is incongruous with his ruling a huge genocidal colonialist world power in the present da [ANTISEMITISM BLAST]

#ffxiv #ffxiv hermes #emet-selch #i have Posts in Me to write up about the subject but like you can maybe immediately start connecting some dots here lmao #hermes and the ancients lie at the intersection of A Lot of Shit That is Very Important to Me #the vast majority of it having to do with gaslighting in various different forms #one of those posts is going into how his story reminds me eerily of what Questioning Things in an abusive evangelical environment is like #and how the fandom instantly jumping straight to OH SO YOU THINK THE ANCIENTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GENOCIDED IS THAT IT #YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE INFANTILIZED AND CIVILIZED BY THE SUPERIOR MORALS OF YOUR OWN CULTURE IS THAT IT #and start throwing around words like 'sympathizer'; if you say 'hermes was right about some shit actually' #'what we see of the ancients' society is full of inexcusably horrific shit which does not get a pass for ~different values~' #smacks strongly to me of evangelical crybullying in the name of Cultural Sensitivity #and how people use 'well it's not my business what other cultures think is right or wrong' as an excuse to throw up their hands and #disengage from actually learning about or supporting the people in those cultures who know and are working within it to fight bigotry #amazingly enough 'racism and misogyny and queerphobia are bad' is not an idea exclusive to western cultures lmfao #your job if you engage is to seek out those people--across the spectrum of opinions and relationships to their culture's issues! #they're not a monolith!--and spread that information; and listen to what they ask of you when they tell you what kind of help they need #but that's complicated; and takes time and care and thought and effort and connecting to marginalized people #talking over activists and victims of the societal issues they live with; and telling them they're the same as colonizers; is easy-peasy #like i cannot stress enough here that hermes Is an Ancient. He Lives Here. He Knows His Society and Thinks About It a Lot #He Wants to Salvage It and is Specifically Fucked Up About Feeling Like He Can't Trust People Around Him for Input #WoL doesn't barge in and start telling the ancients what's what; they find the person who Cares and back him up that he's not crazy or alon #anyway there's a lot here but it is uh. a Lot. the ways in which the game blends up christianity and judaism here. #including the fact that between the two; the default cultural values and dynamics align more with christian associations of Conformity #(the game is by japanese creators and i feel like that's A Factor too; but there are Eerily Accurate evangelical things going on here) #and people cape for the ones who are Most Evangelical about it + the one whose Compelling Aspects are all antisemitic as fuck tropes #whereas the brown guy who grapples with his faith and worldview; who questions and challenges and argues with others in his ethnoreligion #and tries to look for perspective and deeper meaning + Improve Society Somewhat; gets torn apart in the worst faith possible by the fandom #ffxivtag #warning: worm grass

[romanticatheartt]

Well f*cking done people. Keep this up and you'll chase away every single artist. Good job.

#I'm sorry for saying this #But sometimes I hate this fandom so much #The only reason I joined was to create a place without hate on any character or ship #I don't share my negative opinions (even tho they're not much) because I'm not here to spread hate #I'm here to enjoy my time and meet people who also want the same #Want to share the love we have for these characters #But I can't when I have to be cautious in following blogs #Or cautious with reading a post bc I don't want to read their unwanted and absolutely hate filled opinion #When nobody asked #It's all bc this fandom has grown way too big and way too comfortable with being nasty #And everyday more nasty people join the fandom #Specially the ones who took free speech way too seriously and talk without any reserve #And think it's their right to be rude and they call it opinion #They all hide behind their keyboard and think they did something #I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be this fkn bold and rude if the person was right in front of you #You're just a coward #The fact that it's not the artists fault #It's the commissioner who ask them to draw them the way they are #Take it up with the commissioner (fairyloot) #fandom fuckery #fandom bs #I'm actually happy that they won't share any sjm content #They deserve a better fandom who actually appreciate their art

[kafus]

also hi sorry before i am fully convinced into watching horizons is dot like....a pseudo main character? how often do you see that thing

dot shows up quite a lot, she is sort of a pseudo main character even though liko is the Main main character. there's a handful of episodes almost entirely dedicated to her and she shows up consistently as part of the main cast. that being said horizons is longform and there's a lot of characters so she isn't present in Every Episode, or sometimes her role in an episode is pretty small (like just showing up for a group meeting with a couple lines), so i wouldn't go in expecting to see her All The Time (it also takes a little bit for her to assimilate into the main cast proper because she's so reclusive she won't even show her face to liko or roy lol)

but imo it's still really worth watching, all of the characters in horizons are great and i'm obsessed with pretty much all of the rising volteccers, dot just gets me in the most severe brainworms JIOSOJIF and the episodes with dot focus hit me like a truck hope this helps

btw the way you worded "how often do you see that thing" is taking me out LMFAOOO

#kiki was here #asks #anonymous #in my personal opinion dot's arc being more spread out helps anyway #she doesn't grow unrealistically fast #horizons

[forestshadow-wolf]

Soap: I think centaurs are a terrible mythological creature. Anatomically... And that they're actually horror creatures

Gaz, squinting at him trying to process what he just heard: ...are you high?

Soap: I can only see two options for what a centar looks like. Option one- the typical half-man, half-horse. Remove the horse neck, replace with a human torso. That would mean you have a human head, a human neck, 2 human arms, 2 different torsos, and 4 horse legs. This gives me many questions.

Price: why am I here?

Soap: first of all, does that mean it has 2 sets of organs? If it does how does the horse-half get air to its lungs? If it doesn't where do all the organs go? Do the lungs have to be extra big to compensate for 2 torsos? Where would they go? In the human torso? Do the rest of the organs then go into the horse-half? Does that mean the rest of the organs are extra large? If it were to wear pants, how?

Price: I hate it here.

Gaz, horrified but intrigued: ..go on...

Soap, no longer paying attention: or option two- just a regular human body, but the butt is actually a horse torso. That means you have an entire human just with an extra horse body and 2 horse legs. I still have questions on the organs. And how does it pee or poop like this. Does this version need pants? How does it wear them?

Gaz: I see what you mean by horror creature, now...

Soap: oh this isn't what I meant by horror creature, though I suppose that could be part of it.

Gaz: wha-

Soap: I mean because they're always depicted to be muscular, but I can't see a way that the human half would have the ability and range of motion the build that muscle. So this leads me to believe that the fat is perhaps stored in the horse half of the centar. This would explain the defined musculature of the human half, but it also probably means that it is very lean and pale and knobly, and with too well defined musculature. If this is the case that centars would likely create a sort of uncanny valley feeling, therefore I have concluded that centaurs are horror creatures.

Gaz: 😨

Ghost, with heart eyes: ... I'm gonna marry you

#spreading more personal opinions #also I had this conversation irl #el rambles #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #soapghost #john price #ghostsoap #call of duty #cod #cod mw2 #incorrect cod quotes #incorrect quotes #ghost is unwell in the head #soap is also unwell in the head #soap is clinically insane #centaurs

[transbrucewayne]

ok I’ve been thinking and want to know the rest of you guy’s opinions

#Im making it a day so reblogs help to spread :) #In my personal opinion it was multiple hours. because the sun was not setting when they crashed and it was when the helicopter came #plus the pain….anything to make it more angsty. #goose #maverick #my post #top gun #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw #nick bradshaw #pete mitchell #top gun 1986 #tg86

[gothlovingoth]

not to swing a bat at a hornets nest but maybe the popularization of the gaslight gatekeep female manipulator unhinged crazy girlblogger who manipulates and pegs men because she hates men and is taking her sexuality into her own hands by playing guys and has no remorse has not been very #feminist and maybe hindered the metoo mouvement by giving many terminally online isolated people the impression that this manic pixie dream girl revenge wet dream is literally how mentally unstable women are and act

#I don’t mean mentally unstable as derogatory at all. it’s absolutely normal to be shaken when you’re fighting your abusive ex in court #and the entire world is judging you and rooting for him #this is about amber heard #it was WAY too easy to convince large groups on social media that a woman in distress must be literally crazy #and what a slap back to reality to see how people not only believed the psych who diagnosed her borderline and histronic in an hour #but used it as an argument agaisnt her. as if being mentally ill makes you abusive and takes away all your credibility #yall complain that mental illness is stigmatized and spread awareness but you’re only in it for the performance and it shows #its clear that you believe mental illness makes you an unhinged manic crazy person and you think thats sooo edgy and cool #you use it as an excuse to be a terrible person and calls everyone who has ever not enabled you a narcissistic abuser #its 2022 and people are a calling a domestic abuse victim the modern version of hysterical #and don’t say anyone manipulated you into this you are responsible for your own lack of critical thinking #no one on earth forced you to make memes about serious abuse allegations #there isn’t a single good reason to believe heard might not have been entirely truthful #it’s entirely about character assasination and projected parasocial relationships #and don’t tell me the taped call was ever a reason to not believe heard I’ve listened to that tape #it’s so fucking obvious depp is twisting words to construct a narrative #I don’t trust the armchair diagnosis but I also don’t care whether or not she suffers from mental illness its not my buisness #and it would not make her less credible or more likely to be abusive #which I can’t believe is a controversial opinion

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

#film ideas #plotbunny #murder mystery #detective stories #period dramas #middle ages #history #archaeology

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

for whom good omens is being written

Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:

The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.

And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:

'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."

'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'

He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'

(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'

And, finally, this paragraph:

"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"

I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.

Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")

Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)

#good omens #neil gaiman #sir terry pratchett #good omens show #good omens fandom #good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi

[raz-writes-the-thing]

Sweet Like Chocolate (Venom Drabble)

Eddie/Venom x GN!Reader / requests are open

Summary: Venom's enjoys it when you're his host.

CW: fluff, making fun of Eddie

Venom Tag List: (send an ask to be added to a tag list!)

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WE ARE NOT A BABY.

You tut and continue about making Venom’s tater tots. It hadn’t really been a genuine thought. It’s just that when you and Eddie trade Venom between you like parents trading a toddler for alone time, it kind of felt that way at times. Not that you were complaining, of course. Any time with Venom piggybacking in your head was time well spent in your own personal opinion. 

It was just a shame that you weren’t a better match. Then he could come around with you more often. But no, that was Eddie’s responsibility, it would seem. 

“I know, V- you know how human brains work. Thoughts just pop in unannounced.” 

I WILL ALLOW IT.

 

You chuckle and pour yourself a glass of wine. A tendril of Venom’s form spreads from your back to put the wine bottle away for you, and you thank him kindly. Checking the timer on the tots, you frown. They were going to be at least another fifteen minutes. 

“What do you want to do tonight, V?” You ask, plopping down on the lounge chair and taking a sip. 

WE WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH YOU. 

You smile softly, and Venom chuckles in your brain in response. That took some getting used to, actually, hearing someone laugh in your mind. But like all things, you acclimated. 

“We’re doing that, buddy,” you reply. 

YOU ARE FAR NICER THAN EDDIE. EDDIE IS MEAN. 

You take another swig of your wine and flick the TV on quietly, flipping through to get to Venom’s favourite channel. 

“How do you mean? Eddie’s a sweetie deep down,” you respond, finally finding the channel and putting the subtitles on for yourself. Eddie was always a sweetie. It was just that he was a bit gruff. Venom grunts. 

EDDIE’S AN ASSHOLE. 

You hear the bathroom door creak open and turn around, seeing Venom’s tendril rooting around in there for something. You don’t question it further than that, knowing that whatever he’s looking for will be found. 

You’re proven correct when the tendril returns with your hairbrush. You dutifully fluff your hair out from the neck of your cardigan for Venom, who hums appreciatively and begins to brush at your hair. 

It’s something he likes to do for you. You’re not sure whether it’s because he enjoys the sensation himself, or whether it’s something he does for you. It could be both, all things considered. Your eyes flutter shut, and you lose yourself in the motions for a few minutes. 

“He can be an ass,” you finally acquiesce. “But he means well.” 

Venom’s head materialises from over your shoulder and faces you. His tendril pauses its ministrations in your hair for a moment, and he appears thoughtful. 

“I suppose,” Venom replies. “We prefer you. Prettier host.” 

You flush pink and brush a hand over Venom’s cheek. Or what would be his cheek, you supposed? 

“You’re a sweet thing, V.” 

Venom nods, ripples of his skin flowing over his form. 

“Like chocolate, yes?” 

You laugh and make to get up when the timer for the tater tots goes off. 

“Like chocolate.”

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