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[neil-gaiman]

Crowley & Aziraphale’s New Year’s Wishes

From http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=essay&authorID=3417

Crowley: 

Resolution #1: I must accept that Super-Gluing valuable coins to the sidewalk and then watching events from a nearby café is not proper demonic activity.

Resolution #2: The same applies to rearranging the letters on wayside pulpits.

Resolution #3: Try to come up with something as good as cell phone ringtones, following one last stab at convincing Downstairs that cell phone ringtones are right up there in the whole Human Misery stakes. And iPods. Has anybody Down There even said thank you for iPods? Or “Googling yourself?” Frankly, I deserve some kind of award for “Googling yourself.”

Resolution #4: I must encourage greedy people to use the term, “Low-hanging fruit,” because that’s just like old times.

Resolution #5: This year, I will get a desk near the window.

Resolution #6: I will try to understand why Hell is a no-smoking area. I just think it’s ridiculous having to stand around outside the gates, that’s all.

Resolution #7: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design, because it upsets everyone.

Resolution #8: Stop Googling myself.

Aziraphale:

Resolution #1: Spread peace and love and glad tidings of great joy throughout the world. Also try to get out more.

Resolution #2: I will be charitable to people who use the term “core values,” however difficult this may be.

Resolution #3: Notwithstanding Resolution #2 (above), I will redouble my efforts to have the utterance of the phrase “core values” classified as a deadly sin. I believe Himself is with me on this one.

Resolution #4: I will try to be nicer to the customers. They want to buy books; I want to sell them. It can’t be that hard. (Memo to self: Regular opening hours? Mark prices on books?)

Resolution #5: I will try to be polite to Gabriel, no matter what the provocation.

Resolution #6: Find out exactly what an “Internet” is.

Resolution #7: Really must resume dancing lessons. Learn the “Galloping Major,” the “Gay Gordons,” the “Mashed Potatoes.” Possibly even the “Twist”?

Resolution #8: Thwart Infernal Wiles (ongoing).

Resolution #9: I will try to understand why Heaven is a non-smoking area.

Resolution #10: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design – despite the fact that the human airway crosses the digestive tract. Who thought that was intelligent?

Resolution #11: Feed the ducks.

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PS: If you are a person who wrote Good Omens, do not EVER look at the Tumblr Aziraphale tag to find a nice picture of Crowley and Aziraphale to put into a New Year’s blog. There are things you can never unsee.

[luthientinuvielss]

We are gathered here today because SOMEBODY couldn’t stay alive

[fuck-me-barnes]

Shadow from American Gods is white though... lolllllllll

[deep sighing]

Okay, repeat after me.

Shadow. Moon. Is not. A white guy. Shadow Moon. Is. A person of colour.

His skin is described, several times, throughout the book as being “coffee-and-cream coloured”.

He is asked by several characters (most notably the prison guard near the beginning of the book) if he has “n***er, s**c or g*psy” blood in him. That clearly does not indicate that he is someone who is racially ambiguous but still “white-passing”.

In the book, Shadow’s mother suffered from sickle-cell anemia - a disease that is exceptionally rare amongst white people (1 in 500 people of sub-Saharan descent, 1 in 36,000 people of Hispanic descent). She would have had to be at least partially from either/both of those ethnic backgrounds in order to suffer from that disease.

Shadow’s mother also was described as having darker skin than Wednesday in the flashback scene.

Neil Gaiman himself has indicated that he’s “ambiguously” mixed-race.

Bryan Fuller, who is running the upcoming American Gods TV show, is absolutely not interested in whitewashing him.

I don’t know what book it was that you were reading, but it was pretty clear to me, even back in 2001 when I read American Gods for the first of many times, that Shadow Moon was not and has never been “a white guy”.

Please go back and reread the book, and maybe allow that the protagonist of a story is not a white dude for a change.

[abelcoz-blog]

read American Gods last month. holy shit, it was awesome.

[raevnclaw-deactivated20201021]

a tv show either gets cancelled as a cinnamon roll or lives long enough to be a problematic fave

[dahiska]

Mass Effect

Commander Shepard: Shit is about to hit the fan.

The Counsel: Pics or it didn't happen.

[haleseggroll]

get to know me meme : favorite actors [2/5] max irons

“I play the guitar. I used to perform at school – and, once, I played in front of 650 people. I thought I did quite well – but, two years ago, a close friend of mine said to me, “Remember when you sang at school? You were shit!””

[c-est-comme-ca]

You never lived anywhere. You only think you lived in New York ‘cause I implanted your memories.

[diegoandor-deactivated20171220]

Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There’s no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.

[teachagainstfascism]

mainstream tumblr feminism may have many glaring faults but it has bred an army of teenage girls who understand the common ways that misogyny is reinforced in society and who know that they’re better off loving their fellow woman than fighting with her and that’s actually pretty damn revolutionary

[lizzyinthestars-deactivated2020]

take me out to the black tell ‘em i ain’t comin’ back burn the land and boil the sea you can’t take the sky from me

[rubee-deactivated20190117]

“why dont you just give him a chance”

idk because im not physically or mentally attracted to him and ‘but he likes you’ or ‘but hes really nice’ isnt going to change the fact that im not interested

[tenpointsforgriffindor69-deacti]

Damn, I don’t think women know how much that really hurts

[coveredinsnow-]

[gaarrus]

[lordsnow]

 A GAME OF QUEENS:

↳ Queen Visenya Targaryen was the older of King Aegon I Targaryen’s sisters. She was also one of his two wives, the other being her sister Rhaenys. Aegon’s eldest sister was a passionate, temperamental woman. She was both stern and sensual, more voluptuous than her sister, more passionate, but with a dark and unforgiving side. Even those who loved her best found her stern, serious and unforgiving.  She wielded the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister.

[dahiska]

bae: tell me your wildest fantasy

me: i'm financially stable in a job that i love with great opportunities for career advancement. i live in a modest home with a good sized yard and a fence for my dogs, there are hardly any problems with the home, but sometimes the garbage disposal clogs. the fridge and pantry are never empty and when they're getting low, i can go to the grocery store at my leisure. my pre-owned car never makes funny noises and when it does, i have the money to take it to the mechanic. i am in good health and most days, i have the energy to carry out my daily tasks and do some things i enjoy as well.

[marazhai]

“That’s – All right. Maybe you have a point. Maybe. But I’m okay. You don’t have to worry about me. Fully functional human being. I won’t be a burden on you. On the crew.”

[veganinspo]

when people are like “stop the killing and eating of dogs in china!!!” whilst eating double bacon cheeseburgers tho