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"People wouldn't invent anything if there was no profit motive."

Well, that's clearly a lie.

#innovation #public safety #Jonas Salk did the same thing with the polio vaccine #The Queue Continuum

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I have had a lot of thoughts on the original story after listening to the Sherlock&Co "Gloria Scott" and a new headcanon just dropped.

if you're curious:

As far as gay Victor Trevor absolutely got me, I don't think there was anything serious between him and Holmes. This all comes down to my reading of Holmes, who is (to me) too aroace-spec to get involved in a regular relationship (althouuuughh about Holmes, his sexual and romantic orientation and him discovering it I have had so many thoughts I could write a whole essay). He likes to have a default person though, someone who will take him as he is, and maybe even admire a little - now that's Watson, earlier it was Trevor.

And yea I think Victor got a crush straight away after their first meeting, maybe they even talked about this at some point. Maybe Holmes said that he won't be able to reciprocate this affection but if Victor is fine with keeping things as they are, then he is too. I like to think they stayed pen friends even after Trevor's leave.

I feel like I should emphasize this? My intention in the comic was to make Trevor visibly flustered because he didn't expect a young attractive boy (he's hopeless in my head), while Holmes simply didn't expect to see someone his age and so sincerely sorry.

#Sherlock Holmes #The Adventure of the Gloria Scott #art #The Queue Continuum

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The Night before the Exam by Leonid Pasternak, 1895

#art #peoples is peoples #The Queue Continuum

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Charles Winchester. The life you save.

#M*A*S*H #Charles Emerson Winchester #The Life You Save #The Queue Continuum

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david ogden stiers line deliveries i think about daily

#M*A*S*H #Charles Emerson Winchester #video #The Queue Continuum

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The fervency Trapper jumps up with!! The concern and alarm in his voice! YES these men only appear on screen together in meaningful ways maybe five times over the course of three seasons, YES I think they're in love, in this essay I will—

#M*A*S*H #Alcoholics Unanimous #Father Mulcahy #Trapper John McIntyre #I will NEVER forgive this show #for interrupting Trapper's very legitimate concern #with Hawkeye butting in about how Trapper's stepped on his foot #HAWKEYE I KNOW YOU'RE GROUCHY BUT YOUR FOOT WILL KEEP #Trapper doesn't know that the Father's just had a few too many and for that matter NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE #(except Klinger who is a Bad Influence in the preceding scene but we still love him) #I just wanted to see that concern reach its natural conclusion. is that too much to ask? #see in any other episode Hawkeye would have been just as concerned #The Queue Continuum

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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

#poll #yeah we've got one #it's old enough that the tag says 'made in West Germany'

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I broke down the hilarious amount of "Aziraphale tartans" so you don't have to.

I've been slowly going bonkers collecting the amount of times members of the cast/creators and fans of Good Omens over the years have referred to various things as "Aziraphale's tartan". Even on merchandise, I've seen wildly varying opinons about what pattern Aziraphale's tartan actually is. Your resident graphic designer has decided to sit down and just do the damned thing*. Exhibit A) Tartan Origin

Sarah Arnett posted this image to her instagram in 2019, having created "Heaven's dress tartan for the character Aziraphale". However, the only time I've actually seen this pattern used in good omens is in the season 2 announcement poster made by Mickey, and maybe on a pair of socks Aziraphale wears in season 1, (but I'm not convinced).

So here's what that looks like. Note I've rotated the original pattern 90 degrees clockwise in my final pattern (far right) for reasons that will become clear shortly.

Exhibit B) Aziraphale's Bowtie, Thermos, Notebook etc.

This is the tartan that Aziraphale actually wears for most of seasons 1 & 2.** It's a recoloured version of the Exhibit A), and has been rotated 90 degrees on it's bowtie application so that the darker bars run vertical, and not horizontal. The problem is, while the direction of the pattern on his accessories doesn't change, it does on the bowtie. You can see examples of the tartan going right OR left in both season 1 and 2.

Exhibit C) Aziraphale's Brown Bowtie...

This Tartan isn't just a trick of the light. For the first park bench scene in season 1, Aziraphale is wearing a version of his regular bowtie, recoloured in brown and rotated 90 degrees, so that it fits with the direction of the original Exhibit A) Tartan, but not with the direction of the tartan on his Exhibit B) regular bowties. This bowtie was made special, from cloth cut in the opposite direction.

Exhibit D) Aziraphale's Magical Cravat!

Now this is where it starts to get interesting! I haven't seen many people discuss Aziraphale's magician disguise from season 1, but his cravat actually has both Exhibit B) and Exhibit C) tartans to create a contrasting double sided tartan: the outward facing brown, and the hidden, inward facing blue.

Exhibit E) Saraqael's and Muriel's Tartan

Don't be fooled, Saraqael's and Muriel's tartan may look similar in colour to Aziraphale's, but when you pick it apart, it's got inverse colours, and mildly squished horizontal striping. If you note the orange boxes in each picture, you can see the ratio of the blue stripe to the vertical stripes in each tartan is different, while keeping the overall pattern and ratio in each direction the same. Exhibit E) has a square intersection. It's also usually woven much larger. This tartan also introduces a small sliver of hunter green into the beige/blue/purple palette that's been seen so far.

Exhibit F) Gabriel's Tartan Blanket

Like the others, Gabriel's S2E1 blanket is a variation on the original Heaven's Dress Tartan. It's got very squished horizontal striping though, and is woven even larger than the Saraqael Tartan. Most noticeably though, while it has the same grey vertical striping as Exhibit E) it's now got even more green in it, and the purple is gone entirely.

Exhibit F) Have a bonus Crowlee Tartan from the Season 1 body swap miracle that matches none of these.

It's silver silk though. Can I get a wahoo....?

__________________________________________ *Disclaimer: I am not Scottish, and definitely not an expert in tartan, just a tired graphic designer. If you want tartan expertise, you can go here (although I don't really agree with what they say about the main colour pattern) https://livebloggingmydescentintomadness.tumblr.com/post/189300035060/a-discourse-on-tartan

**In order to deduce colours, I've used high quality BTS footage or photography in neutral lighting whenever possible. Especially in season 2, colour grading and post processing of the final show make colour matching between scenes and/or seasons impossible.

#Good Omens #Good Omens 2 #tartan #The Queue Continuum

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#tie dye #WOW #video #The Queue Continuum

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season 2 episode 21: crisis

#M*A*S*H #Crisis #Radar's teddy bear #The Queue Continuum

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#ABBA #The Queue Continuum

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#*superbowl voice* I’m going to Disneyland! #poll

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You guys I just realized that what I’ve always wanted out of werewolf fiction is a story where lycanthropy isn’t a purely human condition

Like this dude wakes up from his wolfbender and his room is full of all these fucking chickens from local farms that he initiated into his pack. They all start clucking and crowing at the moon and when it’s full they all transform into these tiny little weird bipedal wolves with wings.

#werewolves #The Queue Continuum

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The M*A*S*H cast with photos from their childhoods, from Pinterest.

#M*A*S*H #awww #The Queue Continuum

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Actually, the still didn’t do this. Hunnicutt did.

#M*A*S*H #Charles Emerson Winchester #Hawkeye Pierce #Period of Adjustment #The Queue Continuum

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I kinda wish they had done at least one episode with Frank AND Charles to see Winchester pisstake Burns so hard Hawkeye and B.J. start to really bond with Charles.

charles would have accomplished in one episode what hawkeye and trapper didn’t in three seasons and that is crumple frank for the next ten years . and one of mash’s greatest crimes was robbing us of it 😭😭

#M*A*S*H #Charles would MURDER Frank in cold blood with nothing but his words #Frank wouldn't be able to set foot back in that tent ever again #Charles Emerson Winchester #Frank Burns #The Queue Continuum

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I think Hawkeye is the type to annotate the hell out of his books and write a bunch of notes and underline favourite lines and such and I think Charles thinks he's an absolute animal for doing so

#M*A*S*H #Hawkeye Pierce #Charles Emerson Winchester #The Queue Continuum