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[irispurpurea]

Iris's Writing Masterpost

Playlists: IrisPurpurea on Spotify

Ineffable Divorce Era Crowley

Fanfiction: IrisPurpurea on AO3

Fandoms: Merlin, Abbott Elementary, 911 Lone Star, Good Omens, Star Trek Discovery

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And the first time that you kissed me, I drank dry the River Lethe

Fictober 2023

Meta/Analysis/Essays

Abbott Elementary:

How Abbot Elementary Makes Use of Time

Good Omens:

Angels, Demons, and Self-Actualization (going off of goodoldfashionednightingale, eviebane, and actual-changeling)

Aziraphale's Dark Side (going off the Ball analysis by books-and-omens)

Aziraphale's Diary and the Show's Timeline (going off azfellandco)

Aziraphale's Perspective in the final 15 (going off baggvinshield)

Aziraphale’s Motivation (it wasn’t Crowley)

Beginnings and Endings

Books shelved in reverse order

Crowley thoughts (going off guardian-of-soho)

Do they know why the other loves them?

"I forgive you" (S1)

"I forgive you" (S2)

Ineffable Bureaucracy

Meeting in the Middle: how will this story end?

Mirror Characters: Aziraphale and Shax vs. Crowley and Muriel

Opposite Sides: How Aziraphale and Crowley begin season 3

Post S2 Thoughts

This is not Gabriel's redemption arc

Thoughts on the Ball (going off Aziraphale and Trauma by highseas-swede)

Thoughts on story structure (going off structural weirdness analysis by sitzfleischh)

The Good Place:

Chidi or Tahani: Intentions or Consequences?

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Kirk is always happy to penetrate Vulcan indifference.

[funny-tik-toks]

[cliopadra]

Ok, now that we’ve had a week to think about it, here’s another, more S1-ish fix it (as the last one was desperate and had issues…but let’s be honest, so did the “season”.)

[cliopadra]

A little addition to the Jehoshua’s card game alternate ending

[sanguine-stigmata]

when looking at the ways dracula as an original text differ with the experience of dracula daily, these letters between mina and lucy is where the differences first arise. if you read the book as published by bram stoker, you finish the johnathan in the castle arc before flashing a bit backwards into the letters to set up the whitby arc. with the dracula daily format, we leave johnathan right as he realizes that he is trapped and actively in danger to see his loved ones completely unaware of the danger he's in. the contrast here, while less straightforward from a plot standpoint, heightens the horror of the castle. there is no one coming to his rescue, and those who know of his absence suspect nothing yet.

[hollow-head]

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys

[support]

One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

[monopoison3r]

nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs

[hunter-rodrigez]

It still blows my mind how anyone could think a social media that lets you edit other people’s posts, without any indication they have been edited, would be a good idea…

[pancakeke]

you’re right, they shoulda thought it was a GREAT idea

[fictionadventurer]

The very best thing about The Phantom of the Opera is that it shows us a possibly supernatural occurrence, then gives us a natural explanation that is infinitely crazier than the supernatural one would have been.

What if there was a ghost in the opera house that was killing people?

Requires you to accept the existence of ghosts, but otherwise is a straightforward story.

What if the chief contractor who built the opera house was a deformed circus freak who used his experience building palaces and torture chambers for sultans to keep building secret passageways and torture chambers in the basement when construction halted during the Franco-Prussian War, and then kept living down there working on an opera and killing and blackmailing people who crossed him and also training a pretty opera singer that he wants to marry?

There is nothing in the world that could have prepared me to expect even half of that.

[cat-dragoness]

@o-lei-o-lai-o-lord you are so right about this

[musicalhell]

Honestly, this explains so much about Christine's perspective too when you think about it.

My father sent me a guardian angel from Heaven to guide and comfort me in his absence: "Okay, not something that happens every day, but that is what guardian angels are supposed to do and Dad did indicate something like this would happen."

A hideously disfigured renaissance man, having all the natural skills and education to build himself a secret villain lair in a public building, extort enormous amounts of money from its management, and convince everyone he's a ghost, has developed a massive crush on me and has decided to express that through manipulation, kidnapping, and murder: "I cannot even begin to tell you how much this was not on my Bingo card."

[depsidase]

[midnights-dragon]

imagine you go through something so horribly traumatic that it permanently alters you physically, mentally, and emotionally to the extent that you fundamentally change as a person in every way possible. now imagine that despite the odds, you pull yourself up and become a new version of yourself. a version that's different, but still good, because you're finally the real you. you endured all of that hardship, went through all of that pain, but you're you. and the best part of this new world is that you have a best friend who you love with every part of yourself, ever since you figured out how to love again. and this best friend, you've been through good and bad times together, and your love is a work-in-progress, but when you're together, you feel the most like yourself.

now imagine that that best friend who you love with every part of yourself looks you in the face and waxes poetic about how much he loves that older version of you (about how you were such an artist, you were so special, you were so perfect), but says not a single word about you. despite everything you and this friend have been through in the six thousand years that you've known him and that he's known you, and it turns out that it was not you that he cherished, but someone else entirely.

now imagine you're a writer of good omens 3, and you watched the first two seasons with your eyes closed, ears plugged, and high on fucking crack.

[theelastword]

the count talking to the gang in bram stoker’s dracula

[alphacentaurinebula]

The destruction of the entire universe and every soul in it is a truly depressing ending. Just because God replaced it with another universe that looked similar doesn't change anything - this is Job and his children all over again. Job doesn't want new children, and neither do I.

[alphacentaurinebula]

YES @untouchedsoap exactly.

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[afrenchwriter]

Because the current state of the Good Omens fandom makes me really sad, I promised myself I would try to refrain from posting my negative thoughts about the finale...

But you know what? I just saw pictures of angelCrowley and 'Anthony' back to back, and maybe this is me being stupid and in denial, but I’m only realizing now that this 'Anthony' is, in fact, a "reincarnation" or whatever of angelCrowley and NOT demonCrowley, the being we spent the story with, the being he became after millennia of experience on Earth - I mean THE Crowley, our Crowley, Aziraphale’s Crowley, and I just...

It makes me even more furious than I already am. They erased nearly everything that was making this character interesting. After showing us time and again how terrible Heaven was, how free will is important, and why labels shouldn’t matter as long as you stay true to who you are deep down ("just a little bit a good person", "just enough of a bastard", "just an angel/a demon who goes along with Heaven/Hell as far as he can"), they told us that a fallen angel was a bad thing, that it shouldn’t exist after all. They ended with two 'angels' falling for each other.

I wonder, what happened to shades of grey?

I fell in love with those two because they were are far more complex than what it says on the tin. I don’t give a damn about the purest of angels. I care about characters who ask questions, who doubt, who evolve, who fight for what they believe in, who love unconditionally, despite the odds.

And to think about all the other narrative decisions made in that finale...

What a shame that ending was. What a terrible, terrible shame.

[snogfairy]

good bad job that's the worst anyone's ever done it

[afrenchwriter]

I don’t think Aziraphale’s love for Crowley was is the most predictable thing in the universe.

I think it's the opposite, actually.

Yes, Aziraphale is an angel, he loves, that’s what he does. But he’s not supposed to love a demon. Because of what he is, of who he is, he struggled with his feelings for Crowley for millennia. And yet, each time they met, he made the choice to speak with him, to protect him, to stay, to bond - to love.

In a universe in which angels and demons are supposed to be hereditary enemies, an angel chose a demon, over and over again (with a few notable exceptions, but we all know why - and he still loved him).

Messy? Oh, yes.

Silly? How can such a relationship, built on trust and affection, be silly?

Predictable? More like ineffable.