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The way some fully grown adults talk about Connor Bedard…bomBASTIC side eye

#connor bedard #nhl #biosteel camp #hrpf

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what if yall took my silly little good omens season 2 uquiz and got psychoanalyzed

#this quiz could’ve just said ‘Aziraphale’ and called it a day #instead of reading me to ABSOLUTE FUCKING FILTH #good omens

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Me when I have a routine: someone kill me, I’m bored out of my mind, if something new doesn’t happen in the next sixty seconds I’m gonna rip my own eyeballs out

Me when the routine changes slightly: oh god oh fuck why is this happening to me I don’t serve this somebody help

#and that’s on audhd BAY-BEE! #autism #adhd #neurodivergent

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I am once again reminding everyone that the voice actor for Hux (Ben Prendergast) very much so knew how fruity this scene was…when he read the script he straight up said, “Oh, we’re doing Kylux now?”

Kylo Ren & Armitage Hux in The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020)

#Kylux #Lego

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Domnhall Gleeson dancing and covered blood in an official Hozier music video….2015 me is shaking out of her fucking skin rn

#hozier #domnhall gleeson #de selby part 2 #kylux #armitage hux #general hux #bill weasley

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#I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought this #good omens #planet of the bass

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Crowley and his angel?...

#the way I instantly heard that voice #good omens #analogue horror #mandela catalogue

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I’m gonna SCREAM-

We’ve already established as a fandom that Metatron could teach a masterclass on gas lighting, but I wanna talk about how he specifically validates the things Aziraphale cares for while simultaneously devaluing them under the surface.

First off, this moment?

Tells us everything we need to know. It sets the scene for exactly the games Metatron is playing. He makes Muriel feel important while openly insulting them (flat out calling them stupid), aka seamlessly reinforcing the idea that they’re less than to both them and anyone else in the room. He knows he can get away with this easily, he knows that Muriel, lonely, overlooked little Muriel, will be completely distracted by the fact that someone so important is taking an interest in them.

This is already horribly clever, but then later on you realize it’s doing even MORE heavy lifting when he appoints Muriel to run the bookshop. “See? What’s important to you is what’s important to me! I’ve graciously taken the time to ensure your beloved shop is looked after by Muriel. You know, the dim one!” …let’s suffice it to say he’s ensnared too birds with one net for this one, and that a pattern is already starting to arise.

So when Metatron says Gabriel came to Aziraphale because he’s a “natural leader” and “doesn’t just tell people what they wanna hear”? Yah he’s full of shit. Aziraphale struggles with his sense of purpose when he doesn’t have someone or something guiding him, and for thousands of years he’s been terrified of sharing his true feelings and opinions to 90% of people he’s known. Completely just trying to butter him up. Wanna know the real reason Gabriel seeks asylum with Aziraphale?

Exactly this. Gabriel just says so point blank. It’s not because Aziraphale is this person for him, it’s because despite knowing nothing, he has this instinct that Aziraphale is the only one who can possibly understand why Gabriel did what he did. He is, I mean as far as we know, the only other angel who has fallen in love. (In general, let alone with a demon.)

But nope, can’t have that. We can throw the promise of restoring Crowley in the mix to sweeten the pot, but we can’t acknowledge why he’d want that so badly in the first place. So now it’s cause they work so well together. We can praise the angel for the fallen archangel Gabriel himself coming to him protection and guidance, give him a gold star. But we couldn’t DARE imply that it was by virtue of Aziraphale’s courage to choose earthly love over heavenly. How Gabriel didn’t need a leader, but a friend who’s truly known the joys of adoring that “particular person” and the pain of needing to hide it.

Cause then Aziraphale would start getting crazy ideas, like that his silly little human feelings have a great deal of worth. That they have the power to inspire, form cracks in the institution, fundamentally weaken what has controlled and harmed him. We wouldn’t want him to know the true value of the cards he holds when he has the ace in a match against you, now would we? After all…

Metatron uses this ingeniously sinister tactic of taking away Aziraphale’s choice while giving the illusion that he’s actually opening up doors. Notice how he tells Aziraphale he would have the authority to do something as extraordinary as turn a demon into an angel, yet he never once puts the much simpler alternative of just working with a demon on the table? The sleight of hand here is that he’s being offered the opportunity to freely be with Crowley… but he’s already freely with him as is, no bargain to be made. In fact he fought to be. Metatron disappears this accomplishment right before our eyes, while seamlessly maintaining the illusion to Aziraphale that he (Zira) is in control.

He sets Aziraphale up for failure by only providing the option he knows Crowley will not only decline but be deeply hurt by. It’s all so cleverly planned. Once this plays out exactly how he wants, he delivers the finishing blow by diminishing Crowley and his “damned fool questions”. Suddenly doing a complete 180 and emphasizing how foolish and troublesome he is. Metatron was offering Crowley by Aziraphale’s side as The Carrot. Now he’s telling Aziraphale it was stupid of him to want The Carrot, un-heavenly.

Aziraphale’s life, love, happiness, it’s all not only a massive inconvenience for Metatron but a liability. He has successfully taken a weapon from Aziraphale’s hands he didn’t even know he had. Metatron sees the writing on the wall, and he wants it contained.

#good soup #a+ analysis #good omens

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It's about Crowley bearing witness to Aziraphale's desire, about the way that desire is animal and visceral and enormous and terrifying*. And about how Crowley sees that and wants it. Crowley offers the ox rib and watches Aziraphale eat because eating provides them no sustenance, it's purely for pleasure, sensual, selfish. And Crowley introduces Aziraphale to this, and thousands of years later still takes obvious pleasure in feeding Aziraphale, in watching him eat. In watching Aziraphale's pleasure.

And I think it's significant the things we see Crowley put into his body in s2, and why: six shots of espresso, as something bracing before seeing what it is that made Aziraphale call him in his "something's wrong" tone; whiskey, because he has to give Aziraphale some bad news; wine, because they "might as well get comfortable" during the storm coming down on Job, after Aziraphale learns that Crowley is actually pretty unhappy with Job's suffering; and poison, to dispose of it so Elspeth (or Wee Morag, I've fogotten which is which) doesn't die. Crowley doesn't take Aziraphale's "something that calms you down", only consumes things that not only don't bring him pleasure but are an attempt to prevent pain. Crowley, who introduced Aziraphale to this important physical, sensual, selfish pleasure, denies it to himself. He denies himself the eccles cakes, he denies himself partaking in food, and he denies himself Aziraphale.

And we see throughout the rest of the season other things he's denying himself: the comfort and safety of a home in the bookshop in favor of the mobility and ready-made escape of living in the Bentley, the surety of saying what he really means during the confession. He cannot bring himself to admit what he wants, that he wants. Gabriel and Beelzebub "going off together" is not what he wants. He wants Aziraphale, but he doesn't say that, because he's never, in the years and years and years we've seen this season, let himself want or be seen wanting. "Going off together" is as close as he can get to speaking it. "A group of the two of us" is as close as he can get. So he has to watch as Aziraphale leaves and takes his pleasure in the world with him.

#hey op you better start stretching for the apology dance you now owe me #my heart….ow #a+ analysis #good omens

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i CAN'T with the 'they kissed like straight men' allegations please do your research 😭 you can go straight to youtube and watch david tennant snog a man onstage!! you can watch the clip of michael sheen stick his tongue directly down stephen fry's throat!! they are not the American gay angel and car guy!! the kiss was a deliberate acting choice!!!

#media is too saturated with eloquent confessions and picture perfect kisses #this scene is perfect exactly the way it is #look at how it’s haunting all of us #good omens

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Let’s go lesbians let’s gooooo

#obsessed #good omens #maggie/nina #other people’s art

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For one moment, Aziraphale let himself want Crowley

It's just an instant, not even half of a heartbeat, but he lets himself want all of it. Crowley. The kiss. An "us." He puts his hands on Crowley's back and feels him.

It's nothing like the grip Crowley has on his lapels. This is gentle, reverent. A caress. The way we would expect Aziraphale to hold Crowley.

The kiss is long, something like 10-12 seconds. It's sudden, intense. For most of it, Aziraphale's hands are held out in shock, in a stubborn refusal to admit what's happening and why and that he wants it too. Until, for one instant, he gives in.

And in almost the very same instant, he realizes what he's done and his hands spring away.

But in that one moment, he kisses back. And it's why Crowley holds on a little longer. You go too fast for me, Crowley. So he gives him a little more time.

And when Crowley does pull away, Aziraphale starts to say, "I can't."

The words are not even sound, just air. Maybe they even would've been better than his chosen alternative. "I can't" isn't "I don't want to." It isn't "You're wrong" or "We shouldn't" or "No."

But "I forgive you"? For Crowley, that cuts deeper and Aziraphale has to know it.

He has to reign himself in to say it and I think he regrets it immediately after. Because when Crowley leaves, Aziraphale's real feelings almost slip out.

He starts to say, "No."

No, don't leave. No, I've failed. No, this can't be it.

But, yet again, he stops himself. Takes all of that hurt and anguish and devastation and, yes, heartbreak (even if he did the breaking) and pushes it down. Puts on the angelic front just like he's done over and over for six thousand years.

We are an angel and a demon. We have nothing whatsoever in common. I don't even like you.

#Michael sheen- king of micro expressions #good omens

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as both a good omens and red dead enthusiast i feel robbed

#slurping this up with a spoon #good omens #other people’s art

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bright young things (2003) / good omens parallels

#….i want him #trying to stay respectful rn #it’s VERY HARD #michael sheen #good omens #bright young things

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He drove back to the bookshop a few hours later hoping by some miracle Aziraphale would still be there,

(and to also just be near to something/ somewhere he finds comforting, aka the bookshop)

(part 1 and 2 of ? ? ?)

its been a bit since ive done a comic like this- this is how you know the fixations got a real grip on me at this point cause oooohh boy does it,

#foaming at the mouth #i love this art style #good omens #gos2 spoilers

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they consume my every waking thought

#turtleneck Crowley gotta be one of my favorite genders #I want to eat this art #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow

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Looking back to when we first met. I cannot escape and I cannot forget. Maybe you're the one. You still turn me on. You can make me whole again.

#manifesting this for season 3 #goodomens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands