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Oooh, thanks for the tag 🥰

Lets see, 3 songs that have been stuck to my head lately?

Well those 3 even haunt me in my dreams 😄

1. Movement - Hozier

2. Good Old Fashioned Loverboy - Queen

3. Keep your friends close - Epic: The Ocean Saga/Jorge Rivera-Herrans

Last one is a concept album but the music is addictive as Hamilton.

No pressure-tags: @belligerentmistletoe @dianaprincewonderwoman and everyone who has a real bad earworm and wants to join in ^^

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3 songs that have been in you head in the past 3 days like an EARWORM... I'll go first!!

1) too sweet by hozier (this is laced with smth idk)

2) get him back olivia rodrigo

3) beautiful things by benson boone

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Ah ty for ask alims! <3

3 songs that have been in my head:

Home - Edward sharp & the magnetic zeros

Say you won't let go - James Arthur

Ocean eyes - Billie Eilish

Tagging w no pressure loves x (+ anyone who just wants to join in)

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I am soft.

For this angel’s smile. It pours sunshine into your heart and if you lucky it might last a while. 🖤

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Also, don’t they ever consider, how much time and work goes into stories? It takes years to learn how to write a good story. You won’t wake up at 16 and be a proper writer, who knows all the tricks.

People seem to not know how old writers are when they make their stories.

Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight in 2003, at age 29

Cassandra Clare started writing Mortal Instruments in 2004, at age 31

Rick Riordan published Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the book about 12yrolds, at age 41

George R. R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, at age 48

You can't even use the "but fanfiction isn't real writing" argument because of how many fanfiction turn movies there is. They are clearly enough of a story to be made into published books.

Anna Renee Todd's After series was a Harry Styles fanfiction, which was published in 2014, when she was 25

E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey series was a Twilight fanfiction, which was published in 2011, when she was 48

Mortal Instruments was a Harry Potter fanfiction.

Why must they act like After someone turns 20 their life ends, like people can't have hobbies???

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Don’t know how much truth is in this, but I would rather trust people on here than anyone else.

Plus I really got fed up with all this AI stuff stealing people’s works. And it doesn’t matter, if you are a painter or a writer. We need regulations for this shit, asap! Oh and fuck capitalism, this system is doomed anyway. There is no infinite growth. The world works in circles.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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“All murder’d: for within the hollow crown. That rounds the mortal temples of a king. Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.” ~Richard ll Act 3 Scene 2

Interesting how an actor can make such a difference! I never liked Richard ll in the Hollow Crown. But with David Tennant playing him, there was such a different quality to the play, that I fell in love. Also long red hair really suits him, just saying.

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This is too good, not to do it. I‘m sorry.

Hi Neil! If you were a vegetable, what would you be?

A writer who photosynthesises.

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Why is nobody talking about the fact, that the octopus is Vermeer?

Art-octopus by Kim-KD

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Oh wow, 7 years already. How did that happen? 🖤 I’m so grateful for each and everyone of you.

#7 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

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Happy birthday to my favourite detective.

It’s a day to get dressed in your best sheet and look as stoic as a bust, so they won’t notice.

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“Please, don't see

Just a girl caught up in dreams and fantasies

Please, see me

Reaching out for someone I can't see

Take my hand

Let's see where we wake up tomorrow…”

~Lost Stars

Last drawing of 2023 finished this morning. Take care in the new year everyone. New adventures await us, so be brave and reach out. 🖤

#art #digital drawing #nemobookaholic #fanart #kira knightly #lost stars #can a song save your life? #adam levine

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„It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.“ ~John Steinbeck

Because Stede is Ed‘s lighthouse 🖤

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Do not go gentle into that good night ~Dylan Thomas

Just a quick piece of work. I love doing the angry writing with a touch of despair.

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Trust the creator of the whale

I‘ve been reading a lot of theories about Good Omens lately. And mostly I can relate, even though most of them are a bit sad or depressing. Today I decided I’m done with that. I want something uplifting.

So there are some things I need to say. Probably more for myself than for anyone else. Yet, I have a feeling it might be important to share it on here. Even though I don’t think people will read it anyway, but who knows, it’s all about hope.

Hope is the main point to it, really. When you are serious about writing, you‘ll learn not to break the promise between the reader and the writer. And I know Mr. Gaiman knows this, because he’s the one I‘ve learned it from. So can we please agree to trust the creator of the whale with his ineffable plan? Because it’s not up to us to decide, nor is it our burden either. In fact we are really lucky not to. I can imagine it’s a lot of pressure to make it right and resolve the story. Trust him, he knows his craft and has the best people possible helping to succeed on this task.

Another thing you’ll learn in writing is, (and I’m sharing this, because it’s important to understand for everyone) that what you want is not always what you need.

I know how deeply we feel for those characters. And how much fun, or kind of a therapy it can be to theorise about them. But remember, it’s not for us to decide, not our whale. We might know what they want, but do we actually know what they need?

The thing is, that I‘ve read a lot of posts that have been guided by deep emotions, and there’s nothing wrong about it.

However, as a Sherlockian, I simply want to remind us to not theorise without data. Put the emotions aside for a moment and think logically.

Trust me, I know how tempting it is, when your inner Holmes is buzzing with excitement about all the clues. But does it help to poke on the whale? If it’s only for your own pleasure or sake. I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it’s, well, a selfish act. And if we look at it from the perspective of respect, we might should think about our words and the information we share very carefully. None of us wants to do harm to the things we love, of course not. See it from the perspective of the writer for a moment. If we run wild on it, we might do harm, even if we didn’t intend to. I’m not saying that everyone should stop. I’m very aware that it’s what a fandom is living from. But think about your actions.

I guess the reason why I had to write this article is, that I read a post about Crowley and that there’s no point in being. A heavy topic and I can relate in a way. Yet I must disagree, there is a point.

Actually I‘ve been rewatching Good Omens 2 and been laughing about all the silly stuff still. So I thought how it could be, that all this gets overshadowed by 15 minutes at the end. Sure, it’s a punch into the gut, but it shows, how much we focus on the negative stuff. Even though the overall picture is lovingly splendid most of the time.

We easily forget, that it is our choice, what we want to get out of life. The answer usually is as simple as that. Which doesn’t mean that it’s comfortable to achieve. Might be even the hardest thing you’ll ever do.

The responsibility is what makes it so hard. Once you accept, that your life is within your own responsibility, as your actions are, there aren’t any excuses. There’s nobody else to blame.

It is your choice, that’s the whole point.

The positive side, however, you get a whole life to shape to your liking. With all the glorious mistakes to learn from and a million, exciting adventures. And that is, what hope is made of in my opinion. We can all use a little bit of hope.

So, create your own goddamn whale, or if you’re like me, weave a carpet, it is up to you, really.

#good omens #good omens 2 #sorry for the long post #moving on #hopefully

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Foreshadowing at its best

So there’s this coffee shop in Good Omens with the strange name of ‚Give me coffee, or give me death‘. Ever since I was wondering about that name.

History is the solution. A bit of research and luck, I must confess, lead me to a famous speech of Patrick Henry, an American politician around 1775 and the revolutionary war. The guy made a flaming speech, that ended with the words: “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

“If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” (Source Wikipedia)

The bloody metatron even asks about the name. And gets the coffee, handing it to Aziraphale, who declared war on hell earlier in S2.

We are going to have to prepare for a war in S3. I mean it was already obvious from the metatron manipulating the angle to follow him, mentioning the second apocalypse, but this is prove to me.

I really love how they hide the truth in the most obvious things throughout the series. It’s like with magic, the closer you look, the less you’ll see. Brilliantly written.

Inner Sherlock is gearing up now. This will be fun, there’s a lot more … but maybe not yet the time to write about it. I’ll give this to you: stop to analyse the tiniest details, they are lovely distractions and concentrate on the obvious facts.

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The thin, dark Duke 🖤

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“You idiot, we could have been us!”

“I forgive you.”

And now the two of you look at each other, until it’s time for S3! You deserve it for causing trauma to the whole fandom.

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And let’s not forget that red is also the colour of temptation. And Crowley represents temptation itself, as the serpent.

Poor Aziraphale had to resist it for 6000 years. But the funny thing about it is, that they occasionally forget and change roles. Like the Angel said stuff like, let me tempt you to… until he realises his mistake and corrects himself, no, that’s actually your job.

But Crowley, definitely having the power to tempt everyone to everything (see the apple - which also is red by the way, and works as a way of revenge for sticking to curiosity), never pushes Aziraphale to do anything. A proof of his love.

Another thing (honestly I‘m not entirely sure about it, so please correct me, if I’m mistaken) is that I think Crowley has changed the colour of his collar from red to white/yellowish? Does that mean he has changed and is now openly proposing? Just a tiny side note.

Anyway, if you think it further, what happens if you start mixing yellow and red? You’ll get orange. Of course it has many meanings, but one stands for happiness. Also, but that’s just a personal comparison, it could stand for autumn, which equals getting old together.

Damn it, this masterpiece of a show works brilliantly on so many levels. My tiny writer brain is delighted by all the ways this could work out.

The Colors of Crowley

Black is the color Crowley uses to cover himself, red is the color that represents Crowley to himself, and yellow is the color that represents Crowley to Aziraphale. What each color symbolizes and how it's used give us important information about Crowley (and to some degree Aziraphale) and about the ineffable relationship.

I feel kind of dumb writing this post because I'm sure it's glaringly obvious to everyone else, but there's this Metro UK article of all things (the Metro is owned by the hardcore rightwing Daily Mail, btw, so please don't link to it) that mentions the red stitching on Crowley's gloves in 1867, and it made conscious some details I had only subconsciously noted, so fwiw to anybody else, here are my notes on the colors associated with Crowley in Good Omens and their significance in the context of the way each one is used.

I don't think we need to cover black-as-evil in Western color symbology. [And yet here's a long-ass paragraph about it anyway! --Ed.] Light:dark::good:evil has been a thing with Christianity since before Christianity was even Judaism. The Israelites picked it up from the Zoroastrians way back before YHWH had subsumed El as 'God,' which may have been before they were Israelites as well; I mean it was a LONG time ago. Good Omens has been using black and white to represent Hell and Heaven, respectively, long before the show. In the UK, the book was published in paperback with a choice of black or white cover with an illustration of the contrasting character in the contrasting color: Crowley illustrated in black, Aziraphale in white. The current hardcover is grey.

Crowley wears black, and the Bentley is black. At the metanarrative or authorial level this is obviously for the purposes of the black/white demon/angel contrast, but on the intra-narrative level, the Watsonian level, it's interesting to note that Crowley doesn't have to wear black. He's obviously not free to choose from the full color palette, but Furfur's shirt and sash are is dark emerald green, Dagon is in ultramarine (as befits a marine Elder God), and Shax has only been on Earth for four years before she's wearing head-to-toe oxblood. When she shows up later in battle dress she's got a lot of oxblood there, too. And yet Crowley wears black.

Authorial reasons aside, black suits Crowley for a couple intra-narrative reasons. For much of history, black was the most expensive color to dye and maintain in clothing, and as a result it has always been fashionable. And for several centuries in Christendom, wearing black was also a sign that you were in mourning, which was a social and religious obligation when someone close to you died. Whether you could wear other colors with it depended on how long ago that death had occurred.

Again: black is what Crowley chooses to cover himself, and as there is a sharp distinction between how Crowley presents himself to fulfill his obligations and who he thinks of himself as being, there is likewise a distinction between the colors that represent those two quantities as well.

Red is the color the show uses to represent Crowley to Crowley. The most obvious reason is his hair. This is another change from Book Omens, where Crowley is described as having hair that is "dark." A lot of fans in the UK hated the change when S1 came out because fans hate change and the British have a thing against gingers, but Crowley's red hair suits him better than dark imo because the Mother of Demons in Jewish religious literature, Lilith, is traditionally depicted with red hair. Red hair has been associated for more than a millenium in the Middle East and England and Wales with sorcery, witchcraft, demonic influence/possession, and satan-worship.

Crowley wishes his mom was this cool with snakes.

A good case can be made that Crowley genuinely likes the color red in addition to considering it demonically appropriate. I say this for three reasons. Firstly, because when he has a (limited) choice of (again, demonically appropriate) colors, he always chooses red. The marble of the desk in his apartment is not green or grey. He can have any color stitching on his gloves or lining of his jacket collar he wants, but it's always red. Secondly, it's not only red he chooses, it's almost always bright red.

We know Crowley's red isn't supposed to represent blood or violence, because we have another demon character whose use of red represents just that, and it's not the same red:

Compare Shax' oxblood and burgundy to

and

and

and

Crowley's red isn't just red, it's lipstick, cherry, crimson red. And in case we weren't sure that we should read this red as symbolizing passionate, romantic love:

Romantic symbolism aside, bright red is also the color of passion (romantic or otherwise), optimism, heat, vitality, life, (hell)fire, and warning.

Red and black says don't fuck with Jack.

The third reason I think we can safely say that Crowley actually likes the color red is that he hides it. It's always tiny little touches, some of which you have to look for to see. (I still don't know where they snuck in the red on his Elizabethan habit, e.g.) And we know this color is a risk for him, and that he is right to hide it, because Ligur, who doesn't approve of any of Crowley's less-than-fully-demonic embellishments and may share Hastur's opinion that Crowley has gone native, comments on one of Crowley's more noticeably colorful items.

And I think the red tells us one more thing about Crowley, too.

Bright red is the colorest of colors, you know? When we can choose only one color to represent all colors, to represent colorfulness itself, we choose bright red (even in cultures where red symbolizes other meanings than it does in Western art).

Remember how Aziraphale gives Crowley's jacket a tartan collar when he swaps bodies with Crowley and impersonates him in Hell because Aziraphale feels the need to maintain some small secret token of his identity, some tiny unremarked sign of something he loves and thinks is beautiful, when he is down there alone in the gloom among enemies?

Crowley is down there alone among enemies every second of every day and night, whether he's in Hell or on Earth. And he's already had his identity stripped from him once. If you were someone who said

about this

and then you got recruited by the fash downstairs bc the fash upstairs threw you out for not being fashy enough and you had to start wearing nothing but dark colors and more importantly had to hide everything that made you feel warmth or softness or joy, and that was it, that was the deal for eternity, but you could add one (1) little touch to everything you wore to remind yourself that there is some beautiful part of you left, something you loved once, that no one has yet been able to steal or brutalize out of you...what color would the stitching on your gloves be?

Lastly, Yellow represents Crowley to Aziraphale. I'm going to skip the chain of evidence for this bc I think it's obvious, but the way it's used also lends itself to some inferences supported in other areas in the show.

Here's where I think changing Crowley's hair to red from Book Omens' dark is a good decision in another way. Crowley always has red hair, and if he has any color in his clothes it's going to be red. Red is eye-catching; it always stands out, but it doesn't stand out as demonic. And yet the color Aziraphale associates with Crowley and calls "pretty" isn't red.

I suspect that when Aziraphale says he can make Crowley an angel again, Crowley hears "You're not good enough for me to accept you as you are, let me fix you" because these are words Aziraphale has said to him many times, and has meant some of those times. But

tells the audience differently. The color Aziraphale associates with Crowley, the color he calls "pretty," is the color of Crowley's only overtly demonic feature. Aziraphale doesn't love the angel he knew who isn't Crowley, he loves Crowley, the demon, the person he is now, his yellow demon irises.

Yellow appears in three other places in S2, and they're all symbolically significant, and in fact serve to establish another symbolic significance to the color yellow in addition to that of Yellow Is the Color of My True Love's Eyes.

One of them is a feather duster:

Crowley reacts to a feather duster like a cat confronted by an unfamiliar object

The other three are private conversations between Aziraphale and Crowley:

The walls that surround Crowley and Aziraphale when they speak openly about their situation and how they will handle it are drenched in yellow, and that is super interesting, because in Western color symbolism yellow is the color of fear. The archangel of whom Crowley and Aziraphale are both (rightly) terrified wields a tool the color of fear. The color of fear saturates the backdrop of conversations between Aziraphale and Crowley when they have to discuss their situation and their actions openly.

Remember how Aziraphale's voice shakes here?

Crowley realizes the crows have just handed an angel evidence the angel can take to Hell and use to have Crowley killed

Even the Bentley, that clear sign of Aziraphale's love for Crowley, is also a yellow coffin enclosing him. For Aziraphale, thoughts of Crowley are always entangled with fear, because Crowley is not just Crowley, he is also Crowley's Fall.

And I think fear is what Crowley's eyes themselves represent. For Crowley, fear is now a fundamental part of his perception, his nature, his identity.

The angel Aziraphale once knew is not Crowley, and yet from what we've seen, the chiefest difference in character between this sweetheart and this mischief-maker--

--is that the Starmaker does not know yet that he should be afraid, and the Serpent does. That knowledge and its fear has, shall we say, colored his view of the world.

Aziraphale learns that fear early by observing others rather than Falling himself, and knows enough that by the first time we meet him in the Before, he is already afraid.

Pink was once symbolically equivalent to red; in modern Western color symbology it is a color of innocence, youth, beauty, and first love. Hashtag just sayin'.

The cruellest thing this suggests to me is that, rather than rebellion or his propensity to ask questions, rather than the knowledge of good and evil, the Starmaker's Fall was caused by his innocence. it wasn't the questions that were the problem: it was that he didn't know any better than to speak them out loud.

Y'all, Crowley and Aziraphale do not suffer from communication problems. Despite both being male-coded and British, they don't even seem to lack emotional intelligence. What they do have is a universe of silence and fear they have to communicate within and around. What they lack is the safety to speak and love freely. The true color of Crowley is crimson, but someone gave him those eyes, and Aziraphale either watched that happen or knew about it, and now Crowley covers himself in black--which btw is also the symbolic color for mystery and secrets--and only lets Aziraphale see him as he really is now, because Aziraphale won't judge him for his yellow eyes (or punish and forsake him for his questions). Because Aziraphale carries that fear with him too.

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