Foothold of hopeless Tumblr maladroit. Good Omens fanfic writer (CopperBeech on AO3), Whovian, Trekkie, cat fanatic, workout addict, classical music geek. Can't see for sh*t.
"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.
It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.
It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.
What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.
If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."
when you write fanfic you touch as many lives as traditionally published authors btw. sometimes many many more and in much more meaningful ways. in case you need to hear it today
when i forget to log into ao3 and i have to click proceed to see an adult fic, i actually get a kick out of it. like i am an old timey queen and my bard is apologetic: “gentle lady, dicks doth touch in this next ballad. would you prefer another?” and i give him a gesture of command like, “nay, you may proceed, minstrel. bring forth the tale of dicks”
med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times
"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you
I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.
This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.
I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.
i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.
every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.
not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.
"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!
I’m a bit slow on the uptake, I know, but I just realized what pisses me off so much about asanthony. I’ve been trying hard not to hate them because they are just fanfic human AU and I love human AUs. I fall in love with all those characters immediately and find the similarities and differences with the true Aziraphale and Crowley very interesting and warming. But the difference between all those other human AUs and asanthony is that all those other characters are not trying to replace the true Aziraphale and Crowley. They live their parallel love stories without anything to do with our boys. But these new usurpers came here and stole their happy ending and that breaks my heart (and angers the crap out of me). It’s not their fault, they were just written this way, but I can't help but resent them for it. Maybe I’m being petty, but everytime I see them it makes me feel sick. And sad. And so pissed.
(And I hate their hair so much! Aren't there hairstylists in that crappy new universe? Don't they have hair products? Mirrors at least?)
I'll spare all of us a picture of them, but here, take a happy aziracrow instead.
I want to ask what they were thinking using a team of allocishet white men who specialize in dark fantasy and horror to write a queer comedy in 2026, but I suspect the reason is no one respectable would touch Neil Gaiman's work after we found out about his rapist history.
And it'd be nice if they gave a fuck, but they don't even care enough to watch it.
And now we know what was wrong with Good Omens 3, and I am so sorry for all of us it let down. Both the fans and creative team who loved it and did their best.
"The finale of Amazon Prime’s fantasy series Good Omens was supposed to be a gift to its fans, bringing closure and peace to the love story between the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley. How did it end up leaving so many furious and brokenhearted instead?"
From the article "Good Omens Finale Revels in Heartbreak: Whose Happy Ending Is It, Anyway?" by Sarah Nathan - read below
Like the pirate that I am at heart, I stole this idea from @curiouspupsicle who got it from @copperplatebeech. Let's all share our old Good Omens fanworks and what the story behind it was from our perspective. I'm starting with my first fic in this fandom:
Scare me goodnight, my love
🛏️ 22k words 🐍 Romance & Comedy 🪽Aziraphale/Crowley📺
Beelzebub assigns a sleep paralysis job to Crowley. Unfortunately, the victim they have chosen does not sleep, is an angel, and could not be less scared of a demon he's known for 6000 years.
Even more unfortunately, the Lord of Hell does not care for excuses. Crowley has five nights to fulfill the assignment... or else.
Or: Five times Crowley failed as Aziraphale's sleep paralysis demon and one time he didn't.
My (a little too) personal story behind this fic:
Hooh, boy... I swear, the other fics won't be this heavy.
The publication date on this fic is July of 2023. That's a whole thing.
If you read it, you will notice a very weird... break in writing style, somewhere in the second chapter. No, I haven't inherited this story from someone else who wrote the beginning. (Or maybe yes, I have.)
(I started writing this in 2019, glad to get back into fandom after I couldn't do much but put on a random show on my tiny, shitty phone screen, because I had brought home a stomach bug from Ireland and - just to be save - spent entire days in the bathroom after I was discharged from hospital. Funnily enough, that's how I found my favourite show.)
I had just abandoned writing an original fantasy series in the third volume and was glad to have found something easier to write. I needed some sense of achievement for once. And someone had commented on a fanart on tumblr (it's linked in the fic) that they would love to read a fic about Crowley as Aziraphale's sleep paralysis demon. Just something small to prove that I could finish a thing.
Welp, I hit a writing block. There were other bad things happening in my life, but this was pretty significant for me. For the first time since I learnt how to do it, I stopped writing. For years. (And had a complete mental breakdown; it was a whole thing.)
Fast forward to 2023 where I, very very timidly, opened the document again. Just. To. Prove. That I could finish a thing (electric boogaloo).
And this time, I did. It's just a fanfic. It's just twenty-thousand words. But it's there. You can read it. I can't because noticing that break somewhere around chapter 1 and 2 is still a bit too much for me lol but every time I get a comment on it, I think "yeah, okay. Maybe it's not all lost."
The positives:
There is a cool fanart by mayomkun that this story was (very loosely) based on. (I dare not tag them because we don't actually know each other and it feels invasive asdfghjkl If you know them, tell them thank you from me!)
There is an amazing comic that Sightkeeper drew for me and I'm still overwhelmed with how good it is!! (I dare not tag them because I feel a bit like a stalker, just because I follow them on socials and tagging feels like I'm saying "oh look at me, I'm friends with this cool person" or something. idk I'm weird. And now I'm overexplaining because I also feel like not tagging can be construed as rude, idk.)
I have this printed and bound in leather (see pictures on this post) because I wanted to try binding a text as a book. It was a lot of fun!
There are currently 82 comment threads on this fic, which makes it the worst-performing multichapter fic I have, even though it's been online for the longest time and has the second most hits of all my fics.
That might sound like a negative, but it also means that I got better. I actually picked myself off the writing-ground after it felt like I had completely forgotten how to prose.
And to those 82 commenters: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You saved my life.
Obligatory link to the fic, even though I probably just anti-advertised it lol
All next Throwback Thursdays will be a lot sillier, I promise lol
Do you remember back in the S1 Good Omens days where we kept finding more and more little tidbits to love? More things that were layered in care and meaning and hidden subtext? S3 is like the opposite of that.
I'm sorry but the longer I look at Good Omens 3 the sloppier the writing becomes. Like it's not even "do you like it" it's just me being turned off by completely sloppy work. The cast and crew clearly put love into what they made, but you can only do so much with a horrid script.
Terry Pratchett is a master writer. When reading his books, there are so many times I have to pause and go back and reread because "did I just read that?" when it comes to wit and story telling and how "oh no that does actually work!"
Not to mention, his books know what genre they are (hint: it's a comedy, after all Crowley likes those better).
Michael and David embody Aziraphale and Crowley on screen so well it's almost possible to overlook all of the problems with the script.
There have been better posts than mine covering the narrative arcs of season one and how they're completely thrown away for season three (looking at you, Adam saying the humans need to fix their own world concept as well as embodying we don't want something NEW we want OUR world).
But it's not just the over reaching story that is ignored in season three. It's one thing to have a Chehkov's gun not fire but...how many of them are we up to? Aziraphale and Crowley's miracle power, all of us versus all of them, Crowley's missing memories, what was Crowley's angel rank and how did he know passwords, and that's ignoring the literal one of there being a derringer in the bookshop.
Leaving some of these unanswered is hasty writing. A cemetery of Chehkov's is messier than Hell's filing systems.
As much as I adored the Great War set up, it felt like introducing an Eternal Flame and having Crowley there for...no reason. Really, why does this scene exist? All the others have some level of importance, even if it's just introducing us to a new facet of the characters.
Tossing the cinnamon roll that was Jesus and his new buddy Harry the Fish and then promptly erasing them. Again, why? Aziraphale could have gone to Earth to find Crowley because the Book of Life was missing. He even could have told him then that he went to Heaven to stop Crowley being erased from the Book of Life and now it's missing. You know, an answer to the largest cliff hanger we had from Season Two that never was fully resolved, at least sadly more than this excuse for a season did.
Which was the largest problem the season had. I think the fandom could have forgiven every other problem this season had with a proper resolution of their love story. Instead we received what almost felt like early 2000 eras queer baiting for OUR ineffables and then a wedding with...zero contact.
I mean, if me and one of my friends knew we were about to disappear forever, I'd absolutely have held them for at least a moment. Told them I loved them. And that's not even close to what I would do were it my spouse whom I adore. I guess they showed pleasantries for the strangers that they lied about being for all these centuries.
That's oddly only part of the out of character behaviors. I'm sorry the same Crowley who stopped time and created a pocket universe to try to save Aziraphale and repeatedly tried to get him to run off with him is suddenly like let's sacrifice ourselves for...another group of humans even when he could save ALL OF THEM? I'm sorry, what?
And using the excuse of he's just been super extra traumatized and can now no longer be happy when... we saw him happy at the end of season one. We saw him happy during moments in season two, including that classic glimmer of his angelic smile. You can't tell me he underwent too many millennia of trauma to find joy again when we've repeatedly seen it.
While we're touching on the out of character behavior, can we mention how mean the characters are this season? The last thing Muriel ever hears is she's the dim one, Aziraphale is told he's a myriad of failures, and Crowley is repeatedly called a loser. I'm sorry, where is my gentle comedy? These don't feel like jokes between friends (season one bickering), healthy addressing of pain (season two resolution), nor like a hopeful comedy show (what it's supposed to be).
Also, you're going to let me believe that Crowley let God mock Aziraphale? The same demon who has challenged her every step of the way? The same one who we have all known for many, many years would have told Gabriel off for that lose the gut comment? Yeah, no I'm not buying it.
Finally, we get to the queer aspect. Every canon queer ship is destroyed. I mean, so is the whole world but stay with me for a minute. Nina and Maggie are sent off to fuck knows where. Mutt dies by what's perceived as a suicide from what Jesus said and leaves his Beloved Spouse, and Aziraphale and Crowley are never given true resolution. What in the Bury Our Gays media is this?
I've seen the takes saying that this is an ace phobic take because we do see Asa and Anthony married and I will tell you right now: as an elderly ace you can get off my blog. Ace representation doesn't mean zero body contact (I say as my leg is nudged up against my partners and I frustratedly type). It doesn't mean they can't hug or kiss. Hell, it doesn't even mean they can't have sex. Aziraphale and Crowley were already ace rep, they didn't need to have them act like there was a literal barrier between them.
It's not just the ending. It's the entire messy creation that feels not thought through nor executed at all. I would challenge anyone who says this is Terry's ending to find anything written by Terry Pratchett that is anywhere near this level of cringingly badly written.
On the other hand, I can see how it echoes with the Sandman story. You know, the one written by the author that should fire himself to the sun to save the rest of us the trouble.
I want to love this season. I want to be happy about it. I can't be. And the closer I look, desperately trying to find something to love about it the more I see wrong.
Starting off GO Fan Fiction Writers Throwback Thursday by taking a look at the first fan fic (or really, any piece of fiction) I ever wrote: Will You Ever Stop Surprising Me? (M).
Good Omens became a celebration of my new life, in which I was free to love something wildly and extravagantly without being ridiculed. I began reading an extraordinary amount of fan fiction, and the more I read, the more written storytelling (I have worked as an oral storyteller) intrigued me. Could I write something amusing of my own?
Of course not. But still, I couldn't stop considering it. After watching season 2, I imagined a peaceful future for our ineffable pair after averting the Second Coming (sorry for mentioning a sore subject).
My mind went to Crowley wondering when boredom would set in. After all, they had been dodging their own sides for centuries, faced down Satan and the heavenly host, and (speculatively, at the time) prevented the destruction of the Second Coming. In a peaceful future, would they tire of each other?
I crafted a one-shot in which a quick visit to a new, neighborhood sex shop reveals that the angel is able to surprise and amuse the (former) demon as much as ever.
Writing the story made me think deeply about the characters of Aziraphale and Crowley. I believe that our ineffable pair are recognizable in each of my fics, whether canon universe or human AUs.
Writing my own story helped me enjoy reading other stories even more.
It was, however, very scary. I knew that as an absolute beginner, there was no way I'd be able to write as good a story as many of the ones I have read. I have thought about (and am considering) rewriting some of my fics--to incorporate what I've learned about storytelling. But this first story? I'm going to let it stand.
Perhaps I could write it better today--with snappier dialogue and better descriptions. But I don't believe in perfectionism. And I want other fans who might be thinking about writing for the first time to see that a story can be amusing without being flawless.
Is that you? If so, take this as encouragement. Give it a try. Writing is hard. But it's so rewarding. And it will allow you to appreciate the amazing Good Omens characters so much more.
If you're curious, check out my summary and tags below. Thank you to @copperplatebeech whose Throwback Thursday post made me want to do something similar. I'd encourage other writers to share their thoughts on their works. If you'd like me to create a matching banner with your name, message me.
Will You Ever Stop Surprising Me? (1077 words) by CuriousPupsicle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - All Media Types, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Aziraphale Loves Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley Loves Aziraphale (Good Omens), Post-Good Omens (TV) Season 2, Fluff, Established Relationship
Summary:
Settling into life with Aziraphale after again averting the end of the world, Crowley wonders if he could become bored. Are there any surprises left between them after 6000 years?
Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.
This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.
This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.
Good luck out there. American workplace culture is mostly designed to work you to death. Moving against that tide can be challenging, so having a healthy mindset is important to living a life not consumed by your paid labor.
posting a snip of the ancient rome voyeurism fic that i'm finally writing after sitting on the idea for literally over 2 years cause why not. any encouragement is extra appreciated rn as my writing journey has been tumultuous these past few months<3
The "Text and image generation" seems to be only Windows 11, but I just found "Improve inking and typing" on Windows 10 which seems to be doing something similar.
I think a lot of people would benefit from unlearning the idea that casual sex is inherently disgusting, harmful, or immoral just because they personally don’t want to partake in it. You can stand up for sexual safety and consent without acting like people who enjoy fucking strangers are degenerates. I take no issue with anyone asserting boundaries or stating that they’re not interested in certain kinds of sex or even sex as a whole. But when you condemn or express disgust at others for engaging in consensual sex, that’s when you start to sound like a puritan.
Btw, this includes self-proclaimed “feminists” who shame and lecture women for giving men “access” to their bodies. Bodies are not commodities and sex is not inherently transactional. You don’t lose anything by having sex on purpose with a person you find attractive. Sex is not some metaphysically transformative thing that bonds you to the other person forever. It is literally not that deep.
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