Astro Raspberry

@raspbel-art reblog page for beautiful aesthetic, fangirling and other stuff I like and enjoy and my own stuff lul

[curiouspupsicle]

Good Omens is a Transformative Work

It has been since the very beginning.

NG (fuck NG) thought of a book plot where a demon finds himself in The Omen movie. But he screws up the baby switch. And the Antichrist grew up as a character in a Richmal Crompton novel. He didn't know what to do with it next. TP offered to buy the story. He changed the demon into a demon and an angel defying their bosses on the earth they both loved. He added his smart whimsy and gave the story a moral core far beyond a silly spoof. When the story was written, queer kids saw themselves in the angel and demon based on the subtext. Because they lived in subtext. Gender fluid and trans readers created stories about an angel and demon for whom gender was a choice depending on how or whether they decided to make an effort. The strangeness of fitting into a planet dominated by beings the angel and demon differed from spoke to neurodivergent readers.

Religious readers found healing after years of struggling to make sense of doctrine divorced from morality. Some ace and aro readers saw the deep and meaningful relationship beyond romance between a pair together over 6000 years. And tons of horny people from all walks of life poured their hearts into smut that made the most of beings whose bodies allowed for a range of sexual practice that would never be realistic for humans.

People who felt rejected or unloved because they were "too much" or "too little", took solace from an angel who didn't mind the gruffness of the demon who couldn't bear to be cruel. And the demon who liked the angel being a little bit of a bastard. If an angel and demon could care for and accept each other for themselves, perhaps it could happen for them too? This is why the Good Omens fandom is so special. Transformation has been baked into his story from the very beginning. Biblical fan fiction, a collaborative story by two authors, a tv show/movie brought to life by a team of actors, designers, writers... And now also entire worlds of fan fiction and art. Good Omens continues to transform itself and the people who love it. And it will always be ours as we continue to transform it for generations to come.

[curiouspupsicle]

I wrote this 2 years ago. Maybe it's time to reblog?

[tawnyontumblr]

Def time to reblog.

[lackadaisycal-art]

‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

"What’s the point of supporting gay rights but nobody else’s rights. You know? Or - workers’ rights but not Women’s rights - it’s - I don’t know - illogical."

"There’s a lodge banner down in the welfare. We bring it out for special occasions. It’s a hundred years old. I’ll show it to you one day. It’s a symbol like this -

Two hands.

That’s what the labour movement means. Should mean. You support me and I support you. Whoever you are. Wherever you come from. Shoulder to shoulder. Hand to hand."

[iconomiccc]

[fellshish]

i hate that i’m not over the gomens finale yet. i want to be a much stronger person. i want to be like oh well it’s just a tv show and canon doesn’t mean anything and i am. i do. mostly. like 70% of the time. or so. idk. and then there’s a wave of grief just crashing over me again

[adverbian]

Right there with you. It’s not “just a TV show,” is the way I think about it. It’s all the real-life things this story connects with, all of the real-life hopes and fears and sorrows, all of the pieces of ourselves.

[masnadies]

I do love the book, but from the time I saw the show, I saw that These Characters As Portrayed were everything and must be allowed to be happy.

No matter how much projecting we are doing, the idea that these traumatised, lovely, clever, anxious beings that distanced themselves from their people because they couldn't go along with them, and who are exactly the kind that our society has less and less tolerance for-- that they could succeed and heal together happily? It was everything. I don't know if it hurt more that they-as-themselves failed, or how they did, or how they were first contorted into uncanny imitations of themselves first to rip apart the parts of our souls who love them so dearly by not being who we think know they are and taint not only their present (recent?) selves but also themselves through the entire canon? There's a post somewhere on Tumblr that through loving characters we identify with, we learn to love ourselves. What happens now?

[fellshish]

i don’t know where we go now. but i found this comment very comforting. let’s go there and hold hands

[the-lost-mage]

i hate pointless side plots and i hate wasted villains and i hate ignoring the emotional core of the story and i hate human au’s and i hate when characters we love are replaced with different people who we’re still supposed to care about and i hate fated soulmates and i hate they will find each other in every universe and i hate making decisions on behalf of everyone in the universe and i hate endings that reject the message of free will and carving your own path against the systems that seek to restrict you that was built up throughout the story while pretending to embrace it and i hate martyrdom and i hate self sacrifice for the greater good and i hate not being able to live to see the future you helped create when you deserve it and i hate the idea that you can’t live a happy or worthwhile life in a world with oppressive systems and you should just give up

[rikelister]

They're having a romantic and wet date night 🍷

(I'm an unknown artist, please help promote my drawings. Thank you all!)

[linguistwho]

Word of the Day - Day 2402: Data

[kymeira]

[jinjeriffic]

Lets hear it for Malicious Compliance

[elkian]

*filming literal mold* “There is a bit of a damp problem…” The signs saying “DON’T BUY THIS” are a beautiful touch.

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign(s)

[alwaystuesday]

Before the Fall

New art! New style? Just sort of happened. Gouache + watercolour pencil

[alwaystuesday]

Hello @madaims thank you for asking! Yes I’ve literally just put this artwork up in my print store - do take a look if interested ☺️❤️

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Always Tuesday.

[catchymemes]

[ruinedchildhood]

[sgt-cookie-2]

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

[a-wild-torterra]

The twelfth doctor posted this

[burntoutpopcorn]

"I asked chat gpt" well I asked rocky and he put on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain.

and you know what? i didn't mind it

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini cat!

[yetrop]

Good omens fic writers/fanartists after GO3:

[armageddidnt]

A mindset that is helping me get over GO3:

The only difference between canon and fanfiction is the budget

It is literally all made up anyway! Imagination is endless! No one can tell you how a made up story ends!!! if I want to rewrite the story and give them a happy ending, then happy is what they will be!!! God herself trying to tell us that story is over and I say:

Screw you God

Just wait and see the universes WE will create 😈😈😈😈

[skippysy]

This time its emotional support demon

[t-logical]

Cat cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

[t-logical]

I made a set of bookmarks🐈‍⬛🐈 if you want you can click here ⬅️