allie live in seattle 3/1/2024

maggie . 27 . they/she . cursed with being funny on the internet . 18+ . header . i stand with the victims of neil gaiman

[anthonycrowley]

[stackofsnakes]

I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.

Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.

[anthonycrowley]

concept: show in the style of succession but it’s about the market basket corporate drama

[hylialeia]

easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.

[anthonycrowley]

captain beefheart sort of the 100 gecs of the 1960s. is this anything.

[anthonycrowley]

when the silica gel packet says do not eat

[anthonycrowley]

arguing with someone on a town subreddit is so funny it feels like the more lame version of brawling your neighbor in a walmart parking lot

[anthonycrowley]

i’m gonna be honest i am trolling them at this point

[anthonycrowley]

arguing with someone on a town subreddit is so funny it feels like the more lame version of brawling your neighbor in a walmart parking lot

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[anthonycrowley]

anyway like at least five years ago i changed all of the apps on my phone to like planets and stars and other space shit and i’ve never bothered to change them back because EYE know what all of them mean and that’s what’s important but as a result i have had no idea what y’all were on about because my spotify app looks like this

[anthonycrowley]

can i be mean. i really do think that the message and plot of good omens was sacrificed in favor of azcrow. and i think that’s bad actually.

[anthonycrowley]

like okay, even if you disagree with me on my point about free will, i do think that the book’s main message and point was rooted in humanism and the importance of the characters in the narrative mirrors that - crowley delivers adam to the convent but aside from that you really could remove not only crowley and aziraphale but virtually every non-human character but adam and the plot wouldn’t. really change all that much. like they’re kind of observers with a level of separation because the focus of the novel is humans and their choices, culminating in adam’s choice to live as fully human. the problem is the only characters that are interesting enough to actually extrapolate on, at least to the audience that latched onto the book, were aziraphale and crowley. so you lind of have to expand on that storyline. And honestly even in season two it felt like they were like, trying. they had a human love story that mirrored aziraphale and crowley as the main plot and the action climax of that season at least felt like it did somewhat attempt to center humans although i do think it failed somewhat. in contrast the…season? episode? genuinely who cares…feels more like it’s focused on the relations between heaven and hell than anything going on on earth. Like, it felt like ratio wise you were on earth way less, and when you were on earth there was literally always a non-human main character at the center of the scene. and i realize that the reason this happened is likely because there was a requirement to tighten the script on account of it being cut from six hours to an hour and a half, and frankly they backed themselves into a corner because literally the only thing anyone cared about by this point was how azcrow ended up. but the result is like, you cut the thing out that made good omens like, a unique and enjoyable novel with a message and kind of just turned it into a bad azcrow fanfic honestly. and at that point why does this even like. exist.

[anthonycrowley]

wait i actually talked myself into hating the human endgame just now accidentally but not how everyone else hates it. as i’ve said i am pro-human endgame and kind of assumed that’s what would end up happening, i thought the memory wipe was…a choice but like, it wasn’t enough to like. get me to really hate the entire ending for them overall. however i think that human endgame is important to aziraphale and crowley BECAUSE of how important humans are to the world and philosophy of the book, and in universe because it is the only way that they won’t be influenced by heaven or hell. i think this is actually something that they would celebrate happening. in contrast to like, how in my opinion human endgame would be presented aziraphale and crowley as humans had seemingly significantly less free will and decision making power in this supposedly totally free world not only of other humans in seasons one especially but also less than crowley and aziraphale had AS CELESTIAL BEINGS.

[anthonycrowley]

can i be mean. i really do think that the message and plot of good omens was sacrificed in favor of azcrow. and i think that’s bad actually.

[anthonycrowley]

like okay, even if you disagree with me on my point about free will, i do think that the book’s main message and point was rooted in humanism and the importance of the characters in the narrative mirrors that - crowley delivers adam to the convent but aside from that you really could remove not only crowley and aziraphale but virtually every non-human character but adam and the plot wouldn’t. really change all that much. like they’re kind of observers with a level of separation because the focus of the novel is humans and their choices, culminating in adam’s choice to live as fully human. the problem is the only characters that are interesting enough to actually extrapolate on, at least to the audience that latched onto the book, were aziraphale and crowley. so you lind of have to expand on that storyline. And honestly even in season two it felt like they were like, trying. they had a human love story that mirrored aziraphale and crowley as the main plot and the action climax of that season at least felt like it did somewhat attempt to center humans although i do think it failed somewhat. in contrast the…season? episode? genuinely who cares…feels more like it’s focused on the relations between heaven and hell than anything going on on earth. Like, it felt like ratio wise you were on earth way less, and when you were on earth there was literally always a non-human main character at the center of the scene. and i realize that the reason this happened is likely because there was a requirement to tighten the script on account of it being cut from six hours to an hour and a half, and frankly they backed themselves into a corner because literally the only thing anyone cared about by this point was how azcrow ended up. but the result is like, you cut the thing out that made good omens like, a unique and enjoyable novel with a message and kind of just turned it into a bad azcrow fanfic honestly. and at that point why does this even like. exist.

[anthonycrowley]

can i be mean. i really do think that the message and plot of good omens was sacrificed in favor of azcrow. and i think that’s bad actually.

[anthonycrowley]

it is nice because he’s like. normal level of fan. i’ll be like as you know the best adaption of crowley in media is the radio show and he’s like um i haven’t listened to the radio show? actually? like i have a metric for how much enjoyment of this book is normal.

[anthonycrowley]

the thing is i am actually watching it again but only because i need my fiancé to also watch it but he’ll only watch it with me because it’s bad and he has read the book and watched the show actually well before he met me but he’s not psychologically tethered to it like me. so you know who’s actually never getting out of the torture nexus? me

[anthonycrowley]

anyway i’ve been trying to construct my thoughts about gomens 3 since i watched but i’m kind of realizing i don’t actually care. it’s bad? like actually completely disrespects the source material in a way that doesn’t even make sense bad. imo. the entire point of the book, to me, is that humans have free will and can make their own choices and that’s what makes us great. and yeah, i guess you can argue the fact that agnes exists that free will isn’t really free or whatever, but i feel that narratively the argument is that like, human’s ability to not be completely predictable is like, what makes humans interesting? and i do feel that the first season does present that semi well which is one of the reasons i tend to give it grace. and the third act completely flips that on its head in a way that in my opinion doesn’t even make a lot of narrative sense. like oh cool last second plot twist all of this was predicted by god six thousand years ago and we need to make a NEW world where people are ACTUALLY free. you realize how that retroactively makes your entire plot worse yes?

[anthonycrowley]

i think what actually turned me off neil originally was like, back when season 1 first released, if you don’t know The Lore there was a leak like. a week or two before the official release date, and long story short a whole bunch of people who were book fans got a link passed around that was supposed to only be for emmy voters. Once Amazon figured it out it got shut down pretty quick but i would say most to all of the people in the know probably had the opportunity to see most or all of the show about a week early. and you can get into the morality of leaking shit or whatever, that’s not what this post is about. but anyway. one of my friends at the time made a lil joke. like hey neil can’t you give us the link back. wink wink nudge nudge. and mind you this wasn’t like. a big name fan, i think i was more well known in the community than he was. or maybe not idk. that’s also not the point this just wasn’t like a huge persona is my point. and instead of like. addressing the problems in an original post, neil took this post and reblogged it and basically used it to shame the people who watched it early as a whole. and like. if you have two braincells to rub together you have to know that that is going to result in dogpiling from your rabid fans. which did of course happen. and after that i’m like SURELY you have to know you are actually a famous guy on the internet and you can’t just paint a target on a random fan’s back and not expect them to be attacked you are not that stupid. and after that i admit is when the facade crumbled for me and i really started noticing his weirdass intrusive behavior and that all together. well. i didn’t really think the boomer persona of i don’t understand how this newfangled website works was 100% real. absolutely could not have predicted the assault! but literally unhinged behavior for a celebrity on the internet