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riverofempathy · 8 months

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I rewatched Good Omens S1 and S2, and I am in AGONY.

For obvious reasons.

And for some deeper, more personal reasons.

Spoilers ahead. And a little dive into deconstructing religion.

I’ve been doing some more processing recently of my own religious trauma and faith transition out of Mormonism, as well as figuring out certain non-religious but still extremely foundational beliefs that formed my development, in terms of who I am as a person and how I interact with people and how much confidence or anxiety I have about various things.

And I realized something about Aziraphale.

He doesn’t choose to go back to Heaven.

In the last few minutes of S2 E6, the Metatron comes back and asks how Crowley took the news. “Not well,” Aziraphale replies, holding back all of the huge emotions he’s dealing with because of course he doesn’t want the literal voice and representative of God to see his pain. He puts on a jolly-good, humorous, happy mask. And what does the Metatron do?

He asks Aziraphale if there’s anything else he needs to take with him. To Heaven.

In other words, he assumes and expects that Aziraphale has said yes. The Metatron asks about Crowley’s answer but never asks for Aziraphale’s.

It’s full-blown, sinister but covered up by a smile, purposeful manipulation.

And Aziraphale, at his very core, is good and kind and he just wants to see people fall in love and do joyful, silly, wonderful, brilliant things, and of course he still sees Heaven as Good, and he tries so hard to be Good Enough for Heaven while constantly feeling like he’s not, so when the literal voice and authority of God stands in front of him and says, “Alright, come along, to Heaven we go, do you need to bring anything else?” … of course Aziraphale goes with him.

He’s expected to.

He’s lived for thousands (or technically millions) of years trying to meet Heaven’s expectations and just barely, barely missing it. But maybe this time, this time, this time…

Aziraphale doesn’t want to go to Heaven.

He’s being pushed into it. By seemingly polite and friendly words that are given a very specific tone that can shut down someone like Aziraphale so easily.

And I know that because he’s me. I hate confrontation, I hate disappointing people, I especially hate disappointing people I admire and/or view as an authority over me and what my opinions and actions in life should be… I have been pushed into doing things that made me uncomfortable or even hurt me… but I pretended I was fine because I couldn’t let anybody know I wasn’t. I had to be good enough. I wanted to be good enough. I believed so strongly that I just wasn’t quite good enough, but maybe this time, I’d finally prove myself to the people who mattered. To the people who expected certain things from me. To the people who phrased things a certain way that made me feel like I couldn’t say no.

Because no wasn’t really an option.

So Aziraphale didn’t say no.

He didn’t say yes, either, but the Metatron wasn’t asking anymore. He never truly cared what Aziraphale wanted. He told off the archangels for threatening Aziraphale with removing his name from the Book of Life because they didn’t have the authority—not because he thought it was wrong. Because the Metatron is the one—the ONLY one—with the authority. And his authority, or rather HE, can clearly never, ever be questioned.

Hence Crowley’s Fall.

And hence Aziraphale’s fear. Look at him. Look at how he acts with the Metatron, just like how he acted with the archangels in S1 and in the Job episode of S2. He is afraid of them. As he should be!

So no. He doesn’t choose Heaven.

He didn’t have a choice at all.

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omen spoilers #religious trauma #exmormon #healing #aziraphale and crowley #I am Aziraphale #I’m also Crowley because I see other people stay in the church even though it’s harmful #and there’s only so much you can say #because if they’re in too deep they can’t be forced out #their brain literally won’t let them #they will cling to their beliefs harder than ever and probably say things to you that are uncharacteristically hurtful #sound familiar #you have to let people deconstruct on their own #and then when or if they’re ready for help they’ll come to you

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bellamygate · 1 month

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idk if anyone has had the balls to say it yet and im def not the one to put it eloquently as it deserves but im seeing some uneasy & alarming trends surfacing in the manifestation & self-help community that look like cult indoctrination

#like these people are vulnerable they hate their lives theyre depressed then some random guy comes in and claims to have all the answers #he says u can change things with the power of ur mind u think he's a genius u start to live ur life according to his teachings #sound familiar #meanwhile he's literally just some guy #not even academically qualified in the subject he claims to be an expert in and giving advice about #like i believe in it. but im not an idiot. i fact check these claims. i am healthily sometimes annoyingly skeptical #seeing ppl be like 'well nevill says u should do this and this' girl who tf is nevill #'dr joe says this can cure my anxiety' dr joe is a chairopractor my love hes not a psychiatrist or a professional neuroscientist #or mental health expert or even a medical doctor #he's some guy with a bachelors in biochem #there r so many guys with bachelors in biochem

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spinjitsuburst · 1 year

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hi I’m so sorry for being dead I slept for like three days and then played the Stanley Parable which has proceeded to invade my brain space I’ll make cabinet man content soon I prommy

#gee Leo you started fixating on the video game centered around a guy stuck in a never ending game loop how did that happen #sound familiar #anyways #spinjitsu screams

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vincentblackbearmediallc · 10 months

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Travel preparations are often accompanied by headaches and stress caused by packing concerns.When selecting things, it seems that we need to fit a whole closet in one suitcase or bag, because one never knows what one might need. In the end, we do not use most of the items we’ve packed. Sound familiar?

#Travel preparations #suitcase #Sound familiar #packed #suitcase bag

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critterbitter · 3 months

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A trip down memory lane! Though the tower seems to have changed…

Celestial tower! Built during the direct aftermath of the Founding Unovan Civil War, it remains a cultural landmark in memory of those lost in the fire and storm.

Time has dulled the scars left behind by the twin dragons. Today, the tower is primarily used as a mausoleum (the preferred method of burial are urns) and, well, a tourism site. Legend says if you climb to the top of the tower and ring the bell, you can lay your ghosts to rest. But mostly? You can ring a GIANT bell.

Course, you gotta GET to that bell first.

Masterpost for more pokemon shenanigans here!

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batcavescolony · 4 months

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New Camper #1: hi, we're new.

New Camper #2: yeah, we were told to-

Mr D: MY SONS! HOW ARE YOU? Do you have wine?

Chiron: he's not actually your father, he just wants wine.

Castor(new camper #2):oh

Pollux(new camper #1):so who is our-

Mr D: ...so funny story *waves hand*

Purple grapes symbol🍇: *appears over Castor and Pollux's heads*

Mr D: so about that wine?

#dionysus #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo series #castor and pollux #castor #pollux pjo #castor pjo #pollux #percy jackson show #percy jackson series #do those names sound familiar? no no they dont. do not look them up. they mean nothing. absolutely nothing.#pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches

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janesauric · 1 year

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From Reddit

r/JUSTNOMIL

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Don't rock the boat.

I've been thinking about this phrase a lot lately, about how unfair it is. Because we aren't the ones rocking the boat. It's the crazy lady jumping up and down and running side to side. Not the one sitting in the corner quietly not giving a fuck.

At some point in her youth, Mum/MIL gave the boat a little nudge. And look how everyone jumped to steady the boat! So she does it again, and again. Soon her family is in the habit of swaying to counteract the crazy. She moves left, they move right, balance is restored (temporarily). Life goes on. People move on to boats of their own.

The boat-rocker can't survive in a boat by herself. She's never had to face the consequences of her rocking. She'll tip over. So she finds an enabler: someone so proud of his boat-steadying skills that he secretly (or not so secretly) lives for the rocking.

The boat-rocker escalates. The boat-steadier can't manage alone, but can't let the boat tip. After all, he's the best boat-steadier ever, and that can't be true if his boat capsizes, so therefore his boat can't capsize. How can they fix the situation?

Ballast!

And the next generation of boat-steadiers is born.

A born boat-steadier doesn't know what solid ground feels like. He's so used to the constant swaying that anything else feels wrong and he'll fall over. There's a good chance the boat-rocker never taught him to swim either. He'll jump at the slightest twitch like his life depends on it, because it did .

When you're in their boat, you're expected to help steady it. When you decline, the other boat-steadiers get resentful. Look at you, just sitting there while they do all the work! They don't see that you aren't the one making the boat rock. They might not even see the life rafts available for them to get out. All they know is that the boat can't be allowed to tip, and you're not helping.

Now you and your DH(dear husband) get a boat of your own. With him not there, the balance of the boat changes. The remaining boat-steadiers have to work even harder.

While a rocking boat is most concerning to those inside, it does cause ripples. The nearby boats start to worry. They're getting splashed! Somebody do something!

So the flying monkeys are dispatched. Can't you and DH see how much better it is for everyone (else) if you just get back on the boat and keep it steady? It would make their lives so much easier.

You know what would be easier? If they all just chucked the bitch overboard.

Thank you for letting me ramble. Thanks for the support, and advice, and humour. Thanks for just being here :)

#Sound familiar

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sadisthetic · 2 months

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goop

#i keep on gooping him for some fucking reason #my art #danny fenton #danny phantom #guy who has repeatedly procrastinated hw with fanart for the past week #also this was supposed to be a colored piece but then i remembered. i hate coloring. i dont have a painting method. i dont know colors #at least not digitally #this sounds fucked up but im actually decent at gouache and oils #but i cant apply those skills digitally tho for some freaking reason #if this angle looks familiar dont look at me this is my 3/4s view crutch.

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chthonic-kids · 7 days

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BG3 narrator? in my hades supergiant?

#hades #hades game #hades supergiant #hades 2 #i knew she sounded familiar in the livestream #i would recognize narrator anywhere #amelia tyler #hecate supergiant

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kissatoru · 3 months

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ughh i wanna put a bratty sub in his place so bad!! :((

i wanna make him think he’s got the upper hand until the last minute, to watch the look on his face when he realises that he’s been playing right into your hand the entire time; that every moment leading up to this was just a carefully calculated step in your plan. i want to see how he struggles to fight back once he does, how hard he tries to prove himself, not realising that if he was really the one in control, he wouldn’t need to prove it, would he? he’d just do it. yet here he is, scrambling for his place back in the driver’s seat that he was never truly in.

your giggles would interrupt him amidst his little speech, cutting off the empty bluffs and dirty promises that he could never even dream of keeping anyway; the way you’d chuckle behind a coy hand like you’ve got some little inside joke with yourself? it would make that fragile ego of his fucking quiver; make him feel confused and embarrassed and he would try to twist the situation back in his favour, of course he would, to try pretend he’s in on the inside joke... but the truth is he feels helpless. for the first time ever, it feels like he’s the one in the dark; he’s the clueless and defenseless one, the one who’s been caught in a trap he never saw coming.

but then again, how could he when you play the part of prey so well? when your innocent performance is so convincing — with your big glossy eyes and shyly averted gazes, your voice so sweet and unsuspecting, stumbling over filthy words like you’ve never even thought them before? what reason would someone like him have to fear a precious thing like you? he’s all chiselled muscle and tenacity, with the eyes of a wolf; you’re small compared to him, cute and soft and easy to overpower — and yet he still ends up beneath you because your presence alone harbours more power than he does in all those muscles he’s so proud of, and his resolve is weak as long as you know where he’s most sensitive and what words make him blush, and with enough patience and punishments, those wolf’s eyes will melt into a puppy’s every time.

and getting a man like him to submit — or better yet break — is no easy feat. he thought himself a dom before he met you and god, if there isn’t anything more rewarding, more wonderful than that; teaching him to bend to your will and seeing his inevitable downfall each and every time. no matter how many times or how far he goes to defy and provoke you, you both know that he will always return to his rightful place: beneath you and completely at your mercy.

EREN JAEGER, TOJI FUSHIGURO, TOUYA TODOROKI, MUZAN KIBUTSUJI, SANEMI SHINAZUGAWA

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underaverage-overachiver · 2 months

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People saying that they hate Janet Cage because she seems obnoxious and annoying, like okay.

#like dude just say you don’t like women and leave idk #those traits sound…familiar #mortal kombat 1 #mk1 johnny cage #mk1 #janet cage #mortal kombat #johnny cage

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robinwithay · 3 months

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i think a lot of people in the fandom have a bad habit of acting as if aziraphale should know everything we, the audience, know about crowley, and that he should therefore be more sympathetic to feelings that aziraphale literally doesn't even know crowley has, because crowley hasn't told him.

#good omens #not to mention how aziraphale is autistic coded and as an autistic person i have been made to feel bad for not reading others' feelings #and acting accordingly when i literally could not and did not read them.#people expect you to “read between the lines” when you literally CAN'T #and put the onus on you to do that because they don't want to make the effort to communicate effectively with an autistic person #so you teach yourself to walk on eggshells around everyone and take notice of every little emotion they may or may not be showing #just to minimize the chances of upsetting anyone #sound familiar? congrats you may be autistic ❤️

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stewyhosseini-bf · 1 year

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