Rae+Rants+Randomly

final dreams are made of fantasy

[crowley-anthony]

[fourseasonsblossoms]

[queeranarchism]

One of my pet peeves is when people describe cave-dwelling homo sapiens or even late hunter-gatherers with only names like 'grug' and 'ogg'. They're homo sapiens! They have the same brains and mouth and vocal cords that we do.

The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.

Why does this matter? Because the idea that we as a species are constantly becoming superior is bullshit and is tied up closely with a lot of very harmful ideologies (capitalism, eugenics and fascism, to name a few). We're not becoming a superior species. We're passing on information and inventing more stuff and figuring out how to live longer, but those are social processes, they come from humans taking care of each other and valuing the preservation and free exchange of knowledge. They don't come from being fundamentally better than our ancestors, we're not.

[thatfiend-blog1]

I really feel like a lot of people don't really understand the metaphors around the coffee shop in S2

"Give Me Coffee, Or Give Me Death" Is not a literal description of the Metatron's offer. It's a play on Patrick Henry's words;

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

Coffee is a stand-in word for Liberty. The name of the shop is to hearken back to Patrick Henry's words that to him it would be better to die fighting for freedom than accept servitude to have peace.

When the Metatron brings Aziraphale the "oat milk latte with a hefty jigger of almond syrup" he's being manipulative in creating a false sense of trust, and he's giving a tainted symbolic offering of false liberty.

When Aziraphale accepts the Metatron's proposal of becoming Supreme Archangel, he is giving up his freedom, he has chosen safety and peace, and unintentionally accepted the cost of slavery - which he realises as the Metatron tells him they are planning the Second Coming.

The sign we see Crowley next to when Aziraphale looks back- Life begins after Coffee - if we replace Coffee with Liberty like the shop's name, then it's clear we are being told that Aziraphale's life will truly begin once he frees himself of Heaven.

Crowley is the coffee drinker. Crowley is the one who did not take Beelzebub up on the offer to become a Duke of Hell, not even when it would be easier and safer. Crowley is the character who has accepted that liberty is neither easy nor safe, but he'd rather die than lose it again - as we see in his refusal to regain his angelic status and serve as Aziraphale's second-in-command.

None of this is a dig at Aziraphale's choice btw, he did the best he could with his knowledge at the time - I just wanted to talk about what Nina's coffee shop name draws from and how it shapes the metaphor around coffee in S2, and what it hints at for S3 - and why I think Aziraphale accepting a what he thought was liberty and discovering it to be a falsehood adds a lot more interesting nuance than the end of S2 just being Metatron barely-covertly saying "work for me or die".

[segamascott]

[bennizone]

💜💜💜HORSESHOECRAB GIRL !!!! :-)💜💜💜

(blog-post about her creation)

[maarigolds]

[schtinkybeanz]

ℂ𝕝𝕠𝕦𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕗𝕖 + ℤ𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕣

(mod 1) + (mod 2)

𝔽𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 𝕍𝕀𝕀 ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙

[sleepy-authorzzz]

Happy Pride Month. Rogue is still in SuperHell, btw.

[squeegeeweegerton]

surprise melshian text post <333

also shoutout to @laneboyheathens for giving me this text post & scene idea 🫶

[squeegeeweegerton]

surprise melshian text post <333

also shoutout to @laneboyheathens for giving me this text post & scene idea 🫶

[theweirdwideweb]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

[madamadragon]

Guardian (2018) : a summery

That's it that's the show

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[swirling-orbs-of-disorder]

From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.

Japanese one made no sense to me until I finally saw the “sale sale/sasa lele” version. セール　セール。 But then it’s a meme so it has to be misspelled?  🤷‍♂️

[out-in-the-open]

That tiniest smile on his face when he realises that it’s Wei Ying on his roof ♥

[empireofthesin]

Metatron: Aziraphale! Where is the report! The plans for the Second Coming! Why is the Archive still a mess!

Aziraphale *looking up from his Pinterest board of cottages, interior design, gardens, Bentley things, his drawings of Crowley, and the folder of all the secret pictures Heaven took of them over the years so he can frame them later, as well as food pictures, map of where Crowley has been, and updates from the Ritz*: Oh! I’ve been very, very busy. You will love the result of my hard work! ☺️

[whenmyeyesareclosed]