#unexpected blessings

[pleasespellchimerical]

holy shit tommy wiseau is releasing a new movie

AND IT’S CALLED BIG SHARK AND HAS A BIG SHARK

#unexpected blessings

[defeatdespair]

Earth's immeasurable surprise

Ewe with two lambs in the snow by Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons “Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but a sunless glare. Newly stumbling to and fro All they find, outside the fold, Is a wretched width of cold. As they wait beside the ewe, Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies Hidden round them, waiting too, Earth’s…

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#baby animals #ewe #growth #hope #joy #lambs #nature #Philip Larkin #poetry #renewal #seasons #snow #springtime #unexpected blessings #winter

[whompingwillowsworld]

Been experiencing some bizarre enegery the last week since the passing of an important & influential woman in my life.

Today I went to the Goodwill in the town where my friend who just passed lived... I found a brand new in-box Teavana "Perfect tea maker." I had one previously, but my ex-husband broke it. The original was purchased with my ex fiance (in an actual Tevanna store in a mall before they went out of business 5+ years ago.) It was the exact same color and everything.

I was stunned. It was even still wrapped in the plastic inside the box. The second I put it in the cart, the song my ex wanted us to dance to at the wedding that never happened (because we broke up and I married someone else) came on in the store.

I WAS SHOOK. My brain shorted out momentarily.I laughed out loud and probably looked absolutely insane.

First, both light bulbs in my fan strobe and blow out right after getting the funeral details Wednesday, then a huge black cat shows up on the ring camera last night and vanishes, and now this weird ass experience at Goodwill at 10am this morning.

Everything could just be a random weird coincidence but I feel like spirits are fucking with me. I don't even think it's in a bad way either. When I've been in tough spots with money it's shown up randomly and I've always thanked my deceased mom for that.

I wish I had answers as to why this stuff has always happened and even more so, I wish I knew it was really them. For now, I'm just choosing to be smitten with my found treasure. I hope I never stop being connected to unexpected and unexplained "blessings."

#what is my life? #spirits #death #afterlife #weird energies #unexpected blessings #about me

[indigovigilance]

The Final Fifteen is about Terry Pratchett's Death

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The final fifteen is obviously a major plot point, and serves a role in a story that was written long before Terry Pratchett was ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But the scene itself wasn’t written until just a few years ago, during the writing of Season 2. In fact, the scene came about during a park bench conversation between Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.

Others have noted that the non-romantic kiss that signals the story moving into the third act is a Neil Gaiman staple. The function of such a kiss, from Gaiman’s perspective, is to communicate.

In 2023 we are seeing a lot of stories written by men, for men, about men who are best friends and discover that their friendship can go deeper than the norms of society would usually allow; that platonic and romantic love are not so far apart, and perhaps the better word for a relationship that can be described this way is intimacy.

Neil Gaiman has made it clear in interviews that his friendship with Terry Pratchett was deeply intimate. They began collaborating on what would become Good Omens in the 1980’s, endured a tumultuous experience together through the first publication, wherein Neil offered to martyr himself on behalf of Terry if the book failed, and then spent the better part of two decades touring the world, meeting the people who loved their work. Neil would even off-handedly remark that Terry’s fans were so cheerful, and Neil’s seemed like they were ready to kill themselves; wouldn’t it be nice if they got married? From the outside, it looks very much as if Terry was Aziraphale-coded, and Neil was Crowley-coded, working together in an unexpected partnership to make the world a little bit more tolerable for the humans inhabiting it. I am not conjecturing that Neil and Terry had romantic inclinations the way their fictional characters do, but I think it is fair to say that their opposites-attract intimacy became an important part of who each of them were.

In 2007 Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s. As the disease progressed, he began to lose himself, and knew that the person he used to be was slipping away. He wanted to end his life on his own terms, and die as himself, but England did not and still does not allow for voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide. He advocated for the right to die but never achieved it, and ultimately succumbed to the disease in 2015. Neil Gaiman has spoken a lot on the topic of death, and one answer of his that resonated with me reads:

Mostly it feels terrible. It even feels terrible when it’s someone who has been in a lot of pain for a long time or has not really been there for a long time and you know that Death has in some ways been a blessing: suddenly you are mourning the whole person. 

It doesn’t get easier as you age. It gets stranger. The point where you realise how many people you used to know and like who aren’t there any longer, and you cannot talk to them or see them or laugh with them is painful in a way that I had never expected. The first time that someone you had a romantic relationship with dies and you realise that there had been moments both of you shared and now you are the sole custodian of those moments and one day you will be gone and they will be lost forever is peculiarly strange and hard. 

~~~

The entire show is seeded with references to Terry Pratchett, but the most important one is the one that’s missing. Neil Gaiman cameoed as a sleeping moviegoer in S1E4, but a long time ago, he and Terry had discussed cameoing as sushi restaurant-goers, because sushi was weirdly prominent in the book. That cameo would have been in S1E1. But when it came time to do it, Neil couldn’t. Not without Terry. 

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.

Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.

~~~

In the Final Fifteen, it is clear that Crowley and Aziraphale want to stay together. They love each other. They each know that the other loves them. There’s nothing that needs to be said, no convincing that their bond is true and real and precious.

But Aziraphale has to go to Heaven, and Crowley cannot follow him there.

I cannot speculate what it must have been like for Neil to endure losing a friend who, though I’m sure he desperately wanted to still be in his life, he also knew that life had become a burden to him, and grieved that Terry was not able to choose the time and manner of his departure from this Earth. This sort of complex grief, we fan-ficcers know, is the kind that is often best processed through story-telling. 

I think that what we see Crowley going through in the Final Fifteen, alongside its importance to the story arc of Good Omens overall, is Neil processing his grief at losing his friend Terry Pratchett, and even the kiss, that violent, terrible, awful kiss, was the symbolic representation of Neil saying goodbye.

#neil gaiman #terry pratchett #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ivoc #this meta ended up being only about 2/3 the length of my usual metas and somehow that feels appropriate because Terry's life ended too soon #and the jarring brevity of this piece parallels that feeling of sudden unexpected loss #for me anyways I don't know about you guys #if this made your eyes even slightly moist you are obligated to reblog to help someone else feel their feels #I don’t make the rules #but them is the rules #blessed by Beelzebub

[jamesunderwater]

do the people who leave comments on my fics when they aren't even newly updated know they are making my day?? cause I need them to know

#its not just a hit of dopamine or something its also like #it's such a blessed unexpected interruption to my day to day reality #this random reminder that fandom and these other worlds i write in exist and are waiting for me😭 #like!!!! yall MAKE AUTHOR'S DAYS #truly the work of a hero #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic authors

[freyadragonlord]

I could write a fairly long list of reasons why Pei Ming SucksTM, but still I cannot help but feel a little bad for the guy.

Despite all of his bullshit, he has always managed to preserve some semblance of a moral code, and he never really crossed the line... Meanwhile, all the people he is close with? Out there committing the Most Atrocities Ever!

Like...

Rong Guang: Bro what if we, ahah, what if we usurped the throne and put you in charge?? Pei Ming: ... Bro what the fuck??? Xuan Ji: Beloved, I will betray my country for you!! Here's all of our secret strategies and plans!! Pei Ming: ??? No thanks! Pei Xiu: I may have been killing random humans for centuries to save my ghost lover... Pei Ming: Junior!! I believed in you!!! Shi Wudu: That's just humans. I actually stole the Fate of a future god and exchanged it with my brother's, ashtag #NoRegrets Pei Ming: ....... What the fuck is wrong with everybody??? Is it just me and Ling Wen now????? Ling Wen: ... Pei Ming: ....... please don't tell me Ling Wen: So remember that Very Cursed object we have in storage? Pei Ming: For Fuck's Sake

#also i cannot lie i find the fact that he's one of the least homophobic characters in the story kinda funny #unexpected ally #pei ming #general pei ming #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #rong guang #xuan ji #pei xiu #general pei junior #shi wudu #lord water master #ling wen

[cpt-indigo]

mr john…. just finished the unexpected heiress & it’s for sure one of my faves!! the plot and mystery + mc’s relationship w her sister had me hooked and all the side characters were interesting :)

#playchoices #myart #the unexpected heiress #john somerset #indian john is the only option i’m sorry. his backstory makes so much sense that way 😭 #also a smart mc after all the newer books i’ve been diamond mining is a blessing 😭 #currently making my way through some old books i never finished so i can make my personal choices book tier list.. #also messing w some diff brushes! #enough rambling: i will be thinking of mr. john for the next week…

[mariocki]

Chaim Topol (9.9.1935 - 9.3.2023)

"What kind of advice can I give [young performers]? Someone sent me a quote that persistence wins. I have to disagree with this. It is an important ingredient. I don't think that there are any rules. Be persistent, be talented, work hard, but ninety-five percent is luck - so be lucky!"

#topol #chaim topol #haym topol #may his memory be a blessing #death ment tw #icons #fiddler on the roof #tevye #flash gordon #follow me #for your eyes only #galileo #american film theater #the house on garibaldi street #the winds of war #tales of the unexpected #war and remembrance #cast a giant shadow #is there a musical theatre lead more closely identified with a single performer than Tevye? i don't think so #whilst his screen career was comparatively modest‚ there's no doubt of the influence Topol had nor the impact of his version of Fiddler #his later work as a character actor on tv and film is full of small but superbly realised parts‚ but he was always and remained primarily a #stage actor. Fiddler was the first musical I ever loved and Topol's the first performance I ever heard (I still have the ost in fairly #heavy rotation). the sheer range of emotion and performance he goes through not just in the play but sometimes in one song #i mean If I were a Rich Man is a sort of pop culture behemoth that has a life beyond the play‚ but if you listen to it it's a man #expressing his wants and desires and then redefining them further and further to the realisation that his faith is most important to him #and that really he knows his faith is not predicated on any kind of wealth; and Topol sells every moment‚ the gradual adjustment from #flights of fancy and wild dreams of riches‚ to more modest comforts for his family and loved ones‚ to finally a simple wish to spend less #time working and more in devotion to g-d. it's a beautiful performance by a beautiful performer and one of the true greats of the stage

[designernishiki]

I feel like I liked yakuza 5 a lot more than most people for some reason

#like a lot of people seem to not like it or think it’s mid #idk man but it was one of the games I enjoyed most and I really liked the range of characters you get to play #love me a murder mystery too #idk I think people seem to not like how disjointed the plot is at first and trying to keep up with everyone’s seperate plot and characters #and etc. but I personally really liked how it was all disjointed and the further you get into the game / the more characters you play the #more shit starts coming together and forming a full picture #like don’t get me wrong it’s not perfect and I do have qualms with some. choices. (mostly having to do with majima and #mirei) but overall it’s one of the games I’ve enjoyed the most and that’s kept me interested in the plot the most #fantastic to get a more in-depth look at haruka and to get to really know her by playing her and seeing how she interacts with people and #choices she makes and etc. I don’t think she was a fully fleshed out character prior to that #loved her with all my heart already don’t get me wrong but she just didn’t have much time on screen especially as a teenager to fully get #her personality across and some of the issues she deals with (mommy issues. abandonment issues #etc). #and her and uncle akiyama are a very nice unexpected duo!!! #the different settings were fun too. overall I think the whole thing just felt like more of a streamlined story in a way with drastically #different viewpoints depending on the character #also shinada’s a gift. bless him #daigo feels three dimensional and emotionally present in a way I didn’t see much in other games- even when he’s literally a boss in 4. tbh #the only other time I think he feels really solid as a character is in fuckin dead souls. I think it’s cause it’s SO rare to see daigo in #non-serious situations or vulnerable with people on purpose. dead souls has the first thing and y5 has a bit of both #and I could complain more about how y6 SHOULD have made daigo more present instead of sending him to fuckin jail the whole time but. I do #get that that was kind of important to the plot. I mean to have that power vacuum. don’t think all three of them should’ve been put in jail #but I digress. anyway I got off topic point is I enjoyed yakuza 5 it is very unique in my opinion #y5 #rambling #ALL THESE TAGS AND I FORGOT TO MENTION KIRYU BEING ANGSTY AND GAY AS HELL. THE BEST PART OF YAKUZA 5

[muppetsnoopy]

bro I went to my grandparents for easter and my grandpa told me he had just donated to my uni (he's an alumni) to "help the poor starving students" and I was like "next time you should just donate directly to you FAVOURITE poor starving student haha lol!" and then when I left he slipped me a $500 check???? Hello?????

#BLESSED DAY OF THE BOOP #i was just jokin but THANKS GRAMPS 😭🫶 #hope u all had a lovely day too #may you all receive an unexpected $500 check <3 #molly speaks

[destinationtoast]

When it's feeding time and I bring her bowl upstairs, Bennet is always far more interested in snuggling than eating. She's come a long way from the little feral who wouldn't let us touch her for years!!

#cats #little kitty bennet #my little indoor wildcat #she still doesn't like anyone until they've slept in my bed #which is hilarious #but she's definitely a fan of being pet now #(she attempts to wake me multiple times a night to let me know this) #(sleeping in my bed is both a blessing and a curse when it comes to winning bennet's affections) #i adore her #toasty's adventures in unexpected feral kittens #op

[fictionally-attached]

Quite disappointed about the turn of events today. But it is what it is. You learn from it.

#Some moots are a blessing #Some moots are unexpected #But in the end of the day atleast I am not making shit up to save my ass

[fangswbenefits]

GUYS! I know I have been terrible with replying to the asks you send, but it’ll be better cause I’m officially on holidays 👹

Thank you so much for the support as always and here’s to more Miguel content

#ruby rambles ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ #also… received my first ko-fi donation and it was so unexpected but I am so thankful 🥺 #bless you angel!

[lastmurianwarrior]

STOP BOOPING ME MR SOLO PLEASE 🥺

“Coward. This is war. And I may have no recollection of how or why it started, but no one tells me what to do!”

#answered asks #I have no idea what is happening but I am amused by the fact that all of a sudden I have like 44 boops oh man that was so unexpected #bless you all XD

[re-alku]

I didn't have any V-Day art prepared so here's them as like. aminals..

#room of swords #strawbarrow #happy vday #bunny #gyrus axelei #kodya karevic #god bless i hate tagging #honestly the koduck situation was silly #unexpected n silly #go boy go lets ignore everything else ducks represent

[whatwouldmickeydo]

ive written more than 500 words, almost made myself cry thinking about mickey’s mom, and am finally feeling like i might actually produce something worth reading can i get an amen up in here

#the Pedro pascal hot ones ep was the unexpected muse I needed tonight apparently #Pedro please bless me with good words