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Intro Post!
Hello all, I'm Viridis. I do fanart and fanfic, mostly of Good Omens. I've collected my fanart below to make it a little easier to find in Tumblr's searchless depths. You can find my fanfic on Ao3 as Rattatatosk. I also comment there as Lady_Viridis.
I also did transcripts of Good Omens S2!
(Yes, I have several different usernames. It's confusing, sorry. I'd change my tumblr but it's 14 years old and I don't want to break all the links. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
This is the funniest thing I've ever read. I would have LOVED to see that
three types of people
Maybe quantum physics is different in a universe where a mob boss built a working supercollider that could create portals to other worlds in 2018
@abominablesnowdude's tags are too good to let vanish
Like, GO1/Book Omens opinion on the idea of Free Will at the face of God’s Ineffability was a lot more…jovially ambivalent, I guess is the best way I’d put it. The idea of ‘actually, what if trying to go against the Great Plan is actually still part of God’s bigger Ineffable Plan?’ was originally a triumphant, positive moment. Crowley and Aziraphale’s biggest actual contribution to saving the world…
Although the final note on it is still ambiguous between that viewpoint and Adam’s more straightforward ‘Yeah, I don’t care it was written, I am defying the plan, fuck you.”
And then again when Crowley has his big revelation at the end of the book, in that context, the Universe being God’s ‘giant game of Solitaire’ was maybe not an inherently positive thing, but it was not inherently negative either.
God wanted Adam and Eve to eat the Fruit of Knowledge, for Humanity to have their own sense of right and wrong, to have humans disobey Their commands, to have Free Will… but is it all kinda nullified by the fact that it was just God’s plan all along? The whole Chess-vs-Solitaire thing demonstrates that God isn’t really on Heaven’s side, and that seems like a good thing considering Heaven is full of assholes, but is that the same thing as God being on the side of Humanity? The ‘real Ineffable Plan’ Crowley speculates about here is the concept of a Humanist Revolution against Heaven and Hell, but will it actually be an empowering moment for Human agency if it was planned by God all along? If all the heroic actions taken by our cast to try and save the world, Adam defying his destiny and all that, if they were essentially just part of God’s Rube-Goldberg machine to see if They built the world properly enough to save it from destruction, does it make them lesser and not as ‘Free’ on some level?
There’s no real definitive answer for these questions either way. Part of the point is that these are ideas are truly hard to grasp and are actually kinda Ineffable. (The Joke, especially in the original book, is Aziraphale tossing out the word ‘ineffable’ when he just doesn’t to argue with Heaven’s doctrine, then culminating his character arc by turning this around on Heaven at the airfield… and then the final punchline is that Crowley ended up stumbling on a revelation that is legitimately Ineffable). And it’s also paralleled with the Paradox at the end of Newt and Anathema’s storyline. Anathema decides to stop living her life following Agnes’ prophecies… but it’s pretty clear that Agnes predicted that as well, and is happy with it.
Does this weaken the Free Will of Anathema’s decision? Well, that depends how you look at it, but it’s hard to deny that this scene is framed in a very positive way.
All of this plus, just, generally the ending of the Book having all the characters living Happily Ever After, and insinuating that Humanity’s future is going to be defined by Adam’s ordinary mischievous hopefulness ‘for ever’, just sort of incentivizes the readers to see the more optimistic sides of these Ineffable Paradoxes. To believe that even with this Biblically Literalist Universe’s many downsides and self-contradictory Ineffability, there is room for Free Will and there is room for human agency and there is room for hope that Humanity will make things better eventually…
But it’s just when GO3 turns around and goes ‘no, God is an unambiguously sinister figure, She does want the world to end eventually, Her plans do unambiguously negate everyone else’s agency, believing you have Free Will under God’s existence is like believing you can win a rigged game, the world could only be ‘free’ and ‘real’ if it was Godless, and this is so important that it not only requires our two main leads to sacrifice themselves and their relationship after 6000 years of longing and doubts, it also justifies not bringing back the old world and the old supporting cast back, because the ‘Real Free Will’ of the new humanity is so important that the lives of the humans that came before will just pale in comparison apparently…’
It’s when you pull out all of this bullshit, that questions like ‘hey, if everything that happened in the old universe was part of God’s will, how do we know Crowley and Aziraphale’s sacrifice and the Universe Reset wasn’t just the next step of the Ineffable Plan?’ or ‘is this New Universe really Godless? Couldn’t God go back on Her promise?’ or ‘does the New Universe have Real Free Will, actually?’ do actually feel like they require a more definitive answer, or at least a heavy implication in their favor. Paradoxical ambiguity isn’t going to cut it anymore. Trusting God to have anyone's best interests at heart feels like it should be out of the question and the price paid for the creation of this new universe was immeasurably high, and it was supposed to be worth it because it was ‘’’better’’’. At this point, when someone asks ‘wait, how do we know it’s better?’, the answer can’t just be ‘*shrug* Well, who can really say for certain……”
Welcome to Eden Cottage in the South Downs
Hello! This is my little cottage built as a retirement present for my beloved Ineffable Husbands. It is a customized version of a kit bought online, with lots of little nods and Easter eggs to ensure both occupants are duly represented. Technically, this is designed for Crowley & Aziraphale, but I absolutely can see this working for two retired Professors as well. I welcome all adorable husbands/partners/spouses here!
The living room is a place of compromise in design, comfort, and style. They were sure to bring the bookshop with them, of course, just in miniature.
Who says you can't have a picnic in your own front garden? A little wine, some cheese and crackers, maybe some fruit, and a nice chocolate cake for dessert.
A kitchen should be as warm and inviting as a good meal. Don't forget to restock the bird feeders so the feathered visitors get nice snack, too!
It's important for couples to have their individual spaces. To pull a completely random example, cozy reading library for one and a stargazing garden for another. Harry the Rabbit likes burrowing among the stacks of books, but careful not to tip over that mysterious snowglobe!
Bedrooms are cozy little sanctuaries, perfect for spending long, lazy mornings together, or even longer, less lazy days together.
Over time, the cottage spent enough time with its occupants that it learned a song or two. It was bound to happen...
I am very proud of this build. It is my most involved project to date and I have spent untold hours customizing kit items and building things out of random objects just because I wanted them to exist. The itty bitty wine glasses alone! I almost didn't want to finish building it because it was so fun, but also bittersweet to complete (that's a familiar feeling, eh?) I hope that I can share this with the GO fandom because it was a labor of love. I don't know what I'll do next, but maybe a nice little bookshop in Soho?
a thing that was so interesting about the vampires in Sinners is genuinely what huge losers they are. get bit and immediately start talking like the most annoying youth pastor you know.
which is a really cool choice because it emphasizes how deeply Off they are. there are obviously the big tells in their behavior, like Bo not reacting to a man getting mauled five feet away or Cornbread getting weird at the door, but the way they speak is also really off with the cadence of the movie the audience has gotten accustomed to. the characters are friends, family, they know each other enough to make jokes, trade barbs, argue, swear. they talk in an informal, natural way with each other. one bite later and it's "excuse me my brothers and sisters in the one race, the human race, won't you pretty please let me come inside to rejoice in your company 🥺"
the kkkouple that remmick turns first are a really effective storytelling shorthand. we know basically nothing about them pre-vampening except that they're trigger happy racists, so when you see them turn up all smiles at a Black juke joint parroting everything remmick says you immediately get a pretty solid grasp of what getting bit does to a motherfucker
obviously I'm arriving to this party really late and I've already seen almost every bit of this movie dissected down to the minutia, but I've not seen anyone talk about klanwife's line about how the vampires are "starting a new klan, built on love." crazy good line, made me figuratively need to take a seat. really cuts right to the heart of the dissonance between what mr. o'vampire says he believes and the nightmare bullshit that he's actually doing.
I keep thinking about the big vampire group song because it's like. god this scene is good. it circles back to my point about remmick being a loser, because getting a couple dozen new vampire thralls and using them to do an elaborately choreographed song and dance is peak loser shit.
but it's also horrifying, absolutely horrifying, for the living characters who are looking on because a.) they're watching their dead family and friends and neighbors, most of whom are covered in blood and visibly injured, get danced around like puppets and b.) it's the first time the characters are really getting a taste of the hivemind bullshit the audience has already been clued in on and c.) sure, they're just dancing for now, but they're realizing just how many hungry vampires are waiting outside to kill them at the first opportunity and take Sammie. so that's a nightmare for them.
so you could read that as a deliberate intimidation tactic on remmick's part, trying to overwhelm the survivors into giving up, but then you're like, okay, maybe in his mind this is a display of how good it is to be a vampire. isn't it good? doesn't it look fun? look how much fun we're having! you could come have fun too if you want! just let me in :3 I don't think that's impossible, that he'd be totally oblivious to how he comes across. the newly-turned vampires seem pretty bad at faking their interpersonal skills; all memory of how to act human beyond the most superficial level seems to really go out the window pretty immediately. remmick seems a little cannier than that, since we see him try to play on people's emotions more than once--appealing to the kkkouple's fear of the Choctaw to gain their shelter when he realizes they're klan, trying to lower Mary's guard by sympathizing with her over her dead mother, pressuring Grace by threatening her daughter. obviously some of those efforts are more successful than others, but he at least seems to have an ability to read the room that other vampires lack.
but it's also not a stretch at all to think he might sincerely be that clueless, because that whole song and dance number is remmick's whole thesis statement, which is that when he says he believes in "equality" he means that he'll kill anyone and turn them into one of his tools regardless of who they are. like sure, whatever, I'm willing to believe that he does sincerely find the klan objectionable, but he's also just packed full of shit. his version of equality is one where everyone's equal under him, acting out his own culture and history for his pleasure. thinks he's not racist because he doesn't care that Sammie's Black but still wants to take away everything that makes Sammie an individual and just keep the musical talent to perform a crude facsimile of being Irish.
and this is getting so long but that scene of all the vampires dancing in step in the dark, cold and washed out, is contrasted so well with the earlier scene inside the juke where everyone is warmly lit, revolving around Sammie but not beholden to him, dancing in their own styles side by side with spirits of the past and future blending different styles and cultures. that scene is such a gorgeous visualization of musical traditions persisting through time and place, connecting people across generations, growing and changing fluidly as people take inspiration from the past, while all of remmick's songs show people being very forcibly trapped in the past, unable to grow or move on. when he encounters something beautiful in the present all he can think to do is own it, destroy it, bend it into the shape of history. pathetic!
It's not a question of whether men and women are different but why those differences, real or perceived, always seem to be handled in a way that favors men. Take for instance the idea that men can't control themselves when women dress or act a certain way, usually the proposed solution is to regulate women's behavior and women's clothing choices. Or the notion of men being "bad" at childcare or housework. The solution is to have women do it for free. It's not treated as a failure on men's part, it's just beneath them! That's what wives and moms and sisters are for! Keep in mind these stereotypes aren't true, they're just instructive as to how we react when men are believed to have some kind of shortcoming. You don't often see people questioning whether a guy should be holding political office if he loses all sense at the sight of a woman in a bikini and he can't or won't figure out how to work a dishwasher. Meanwhile, women's perceived shortcomings are hammered endlessly as justification for excluding and subjugating us. Women's under-representation "real" jobs like welding, plumbing, etc. (I suspect these would cease to be considered "real" work if mostly women did them), women's relative performance in tasks requiring physical strength, these are all purportedly evidence that women just aren't as good as men, that patriarchy is justified and necessary. Ok rant done.
Season 1: “You don’t have to obey the roles assigned to you.”
Season 2: “Love and free will can exist despite oppressive institutions.”
Season 3: “Actually, those institutions are so inescapable that reality itself has to be replaced. Also suicide is good.”
Excuse me good omens HQ but Aziraphale absolutely knows what pride is he isn't fucking stupid he lives in SOHO. he gets called a fag MULTIPLE TIMES.
He blesses London pride every year personally and he lives next door to two lesbians and a madam who you know services the community and a queer married couple and you you you....you can just fuck off.
fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you.
Love to step outside and see my native plants literally buzzing with how many pollinators are on them
I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as I queer Native also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.
I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you
I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products
Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive
Inspired by some fandom conversations 😅
fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.
Why is everything in fantasy worlds like ten thousand years old why can’t you write a story about something new
Werewolves were invented like five years ago. Nobody knows what that howling is.
Screw ancient orders. We’re founding an order of knights right now. You’ve gotta keep your knights busy or else they’ll raid and pillage the countryside.
I’m opening a magic library. We’re accepting donations of lightly used scrolls and magical textbooks.
“What ancient crypt is this?”
“This is my grandpa’s tomb. He’s not even dead yet. It’s got holes because we haven’t finished it. Please don’t break the sarcophagus. We paid a lot for it.”
🌿 Earthly Delights 🍣
Dancing on the head of a pin
“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:
It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.
You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.
Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.
Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%
During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.
When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.
You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.
You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.
If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.
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And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.
And no, ivermectin will not help this at all.”
If you're allergic to sulpha, don't take bactrim though! I had a bad reaction to it, and was told that's why.
WaPo and other news orgs are now reporting that indeed, the outbreak is linked to Taylor Farms
