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Gorgeous!

Textile fragment

Coptic Egypt, 3rd–4th century

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (89.18.5)

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One of my fondest memories is of participating in an archaeological dig as part of an international team. I was one of two Americans in a group of assorted Europeans and Egyptians. We all just spent the entire time cheerfully mocking each other’s accents.

#the human urge to bond over trash talking each other’s accents #I got treated to an incredible rendition of how I pronounce numbers every time I read measurements off to my Basque field partner #none of us could pronounce each other’s names correctly and we just started intentionally butchering them

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I searched for “Frog in a hat:”

This may seem silly, but are there any photos out there of frogs in costumes? Of times people have put real actual frogs into hats or capes or suchlike? My Google-fu is failing me and just giving me endless images of people in frog costumes interrupted occasionally by dogs, cats, parrots and babies in frog costumes.

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Important context: Bertie is terrified of Uncle Charlie.

"Jeeves," I said. "Sir?" he responded. "Sorry to interrupt you again. Were you reading Spinoza?" "No, sir, I was writing a letter to my Uncle Charlie." "Charlie Silversmith," I explained in an aside to the ancestor. "Butler at Deverill Hall. One of the best." "Thank you, sir." "I know few men whom I esteem more highly than your Uncle Charlie." ... "Then you may leave us, Jeeves. Much obliged for your Daniel come to judgmenting." "A pleasure, sir." "Give Uncle Charlie my love." "I will indeed, sir."

-- Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, chapter 15

#he met him in The Mating Season #one of my favorite jeeves books #if not my absolute favorite #Uncle Charlie is built like a brick shithouse #and he has a daughter named Queenie of whom he is fiercely protective

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I had a dream last night that someone was trash-talking the Bentley from Good Omens on the internet, and in my dream the Bentley was named “Justine” (rather than Mary I guess).

Anyway, Michael Sheen was fucking LIVID and posted a video about it where he was like “You can have a go at me or David anytime, say whatever you like about any of us human actors, but NOBODY insults Justine!!!” He was in full feral angry Sheen from Staged mode and everything.

Brains are weird.

#good omens #dreams #the bentley #michael sheen #I will always think of the Bentley as Justine now #not sure why Michael in particular was so mad about this

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Honestly my favorite type of Good Omens discussion. 😆 (See also: “Does Crowley smell like farts?” and “What happens to Crowley’s miracled-on clothes if he gets distracted?”)

You said Crowley and Aziraphale don't use the bathroom, what happens to the food when they eat? Does it just vanish?

Did I say that? The Crowley in the book definitely uses a bathroom once in the 19th century.

#angelic/demonic biology #good omens

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On Aziraphale and “bebop:”

I’ve seen GO fans expressing confusion about Aziraphale’s animosity towards bebop, so I wanted to chime in about what I think is going on.

Bebop represented a sharp break from the more melodic big band/swing/dance orchestra styles of jazz that preceded it. It is a much more purely improvisational form of music, and it sounded jarring and discordant to people who were used to more traditional styles of jazz and pop. It was considered “musician’s music,” more designed to show off virtuosity than to be accessible to the listener.

Some of the older generation of jazz musicians were pretty hostile to bebop when it began to emerge in the early-mid 1940s. See, for example, the notorious clashes between Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie when young Dizzy was cutting his teeth on the super edgy modern style during his time in Cab’s band. A lot of listeners must have reacted the same way at the time.

Aziraphale objects to bebop because it is jarring and new and bizarre to his ear. When your favorite “modern” music is stuff like the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, bebop is going to sound weird as fuck. And because he is so slow to adapt to the way the world changes around him, any type of music from the last century or so that sounds jarring and new and weird to him (i.e., most of it) gets lumped into the category of “bebop.” It’s the eldritch immortal being equivalent of “Darn kids and their loud rock and roll music!”

#good omens #aziraphale #bebop #jazz history

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Guys.

Y’all.

I…

I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.

Look. Okay.

There are two things you need to know, here.

First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).

Like this one, currently in the Met:

Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:

They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.

The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.

Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?

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#good omens #aziraphale #my art #fun with procreate #good omens fanart

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Hey! So do you have any idea about this destiel/ supernatural fanfiction? So no one can find this one and I fear that it mav have been deleted. It was lowkey kinda like Tarzan? Cas has no control over his wings If I remember correctly. I remember one part where Cas has backed against a wall because he can't control his wings and they want dean. She he's against this was saying dean im sorry I can't control them they want to touch you. It's completed, they do have sex lol. It's not under the midnight sun, Angels wild, molting expectations. Hopefully you guys have some luck!

Hi there! Sorry, I keep meaning to answer this and then forgetting. I’m not really in SPN fandom so I’m afraid I can’t be very helpful, but some of my followers/mutuals might know!

#spn fanfic #lost fic #asks #supernatural

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S2 features a literal Chekhov’s gun (Aziraphale’s pistol in a hollowed-out book somewhere???!!!), and I’m sure that’s no accident.

Okay but I'm real nervous about the whole "book of Life" plot point being established, and how it can erase someone from ever existing, and having that plot point never being used and going into season 3

#good omens spoilers #good omens 2

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I love Michael Sheen because he is an incredible actor, but he also doesn’t shy away from being a complete unadulterated shameless ham. He’s literally chewing the scenery as Aziraphale and you can tell he’s relishing every minute of it. I swear there were moments in S2 where he was channeling Jonathan Harris of the old Lost in Space TV show, and I am here for it.

#good omens #Michael sheen #Jonathan Harris #Lost in Space

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Ooooh, iiiinteresting!

Was anyone else intrigued by the odd little crossed-hands thing that Jim did when Aziraphale and Crowley performed their split miracle? Was it just a funny bit, or did it have some greater significance?

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I’m torn between it being something like that, a simple right vs. left confusion gag like @catloverkid00 said in the tags, or some kind of callback to the crossed hands gesture A and C did in S1 when they switched bodies (or, knowing Neil Gaiman, all of the above somehow).

Was anyone else intrigued by the odd little crossed-hands thing that Jim did when Aziraphale and Crowley performed their split miracle? Was it just a funny bit, or did it have some greater significance?

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Was anyone else intrigued by the odd little crossed-hands thing that Jim did when Aziraphale and Crowley performed their split miracle? Was it just a funny bit, or did it have some greater significance?

#good omens 2 spoilers #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #Gabriel #good omens s2

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Good Omens S2 ep. 1, 2023

#calvin and hobbes #it’s a crime we didn’t get to see Aziraphale’s apology dance #what was he apologizing for in 1793 and 1941 #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #Crowley #what really got me is how genuinely mad they both looked during the apology dance sequence