Ramblings of a Weirdo

Entomology enthusiast, writer, and lucid dreamer. Big geek - good omens, LOTR, anime, etc. No bullying. This is a safe space. Pan/agender

[thetursithan]

A painstaking work !!

[galaxa-13]

This went from “He’s making a truck!” to “He’s MAKING a TRUCK!!”

[great-and-small]

I know not everyone grows up near a coast or shoreline but when I was little I feel like it was such a formative activity to walk alongside the ocean and return stranded sea creatures into the water. A kid can learn so much from finding something like a horseshoe crab, this indescribably ancient creation that is so vastly different from them (a curious little primate), and realizing that this bizarre creeping thing upturned in the sand is in need of their help. It’s an incredible exercise in showing immediate compassion to those that need help, even if they are strange or unsettling. Building those empathy and curiosity muscles at the same time. I legitimately think my mom showing four year old me how to carry a horseshoe crab back to the water helped shape who I am as a person.

[great-and-small]

You get it

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

GOOD OMENS in 35,000 dominoes

One of my favorite books is "Good Omens" by authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. On May 31st Amazon Prime Video will release a series based on this best-...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?! O_O :)))

[neil-gaiman]

Holy fucknuggets.

This is glorious.

[embracing-the-ineffable]

What the WHAT??! This is really spectacular, thanks @kimberleyjean for making sure I’d seen it 😍

[neil-gaiman]

On the list of things ABSOLUTELY NOBODY HAS EVER ASKED ME FOR. Here’s the dialogue from the TV show that the Young family are watching in Episode 3, before Adam heads off for an early night.

[neil-gaiman]

From 2019. I just ran across this on the hard drive looking for something else, and wondered if it had ever been posted anywhere…

[nightingalecottage-deactivated2]

Have you all already noticed that Aziraphale is shot in the back (backstabbed?) and Crowley is shot in the heart?

And that here, once again, three swords appear to stab Aziraphale in the back but, if Aziraphale moves, they hit Crowley and two of them hit him straight in the heart?

I can't help but think of some foreshadowing here. Someone might betray Aziraphale and try to backstab him, but it will be Crowley who gets hit.

And imagine if Crowley was on the verge of death (not discorporation, but death) and Aziraphale waited until then to confess his feelings to him and realized it might be too late by now and that he himself had already broken Crowley's heart?

What if Aziraphale told him that he's in love with him, that he's been in love with him for so long that he can't even remember a time when he wasn't, and asked him for forgiveness for not telling him sooner?

What if Crowley said “I forgive you” in a barely audible voice and Aziraphale broke into a million pieces before getting completely unhinged against whoever (the Metatron) was causing all of this?

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[kwehrkychocobo]

Finished the live action Yu Yu Hakusho - I gotta say, I was thoroughly pleased with it. Quite a few things were changed and it was a bit more serious toned than the anime, but it wrapped up nicely and was a fun run from start to finish. The casting was brilliant, especially with Yusuke. ❤️

I will say, I'm a big fan, but not a die hard and I'm sure some die hards were expecting more from this and are upset that a lot of beloved villains and arcs were overlooked, and I can respect that (as should everyone) - but I definitely enjoyed it and found it worth a watch. And probably a few rewatches because wow that was quite a delightful nostalgia trip.

[docdust]

Love is ...

Holding your copy of the Good Omens book upside down, so that your beloved one is on top.

[turquoisedata]

And he knows that we saw 💙💙💙

[kwehrkychocobo]

I'm just gonna say it. To the DW fans flinging around hate like monkeys fling poo:

The Doctor can be anyone. ANYONE. woman, man, nonbinary, agender, trans, alien, etc. They can be whatever colour or sexuality or lack thereof that they want to be. That's the beauty in the character....their ability to ever evolve with the changes of our own concepts of existence. They are the dream. They are acceptance.

If you feel called to anger or hate because of the sex/gender or race of the Doctor....then you haven't been paying attention to the series at all. That is your own racism and prejudice at work, "friend", and I suggest you either grow from it, or keep it to yourself because the Doctor represents acceptance of all living things, regardless of their race, sex, gender, or species. Any true fan understands this.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Edge of Darkness by Ben J

This artist on Instagram

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil Gaiman and Rob Wilkins at the British Library event The Worlds of Terry Pratchett: Neil Gaiman and Rob Wilkins 21.11.2023

Neil about Good Omens Season 3: I need to clarify something, because the word has gone out that it's been greenlit. And what has actually been greenlit at this point is me writing the scripts. I have been commissioned to write the scripts. We are still waiting on tenterhooky tenterhooks for... I've been told we are only a couple of virtual clicks away, but those clicks have not yet been clicked. So when they are, the world will know.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[huffylemon]

damn ok lake superior

[songsofwaterandnight]

Ok yeah that lake is superior

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Can we just admire, for a moment, how absolutely gorgeous this shot from Good Omens season 1 is?

That's all. That's the post. ❤️

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[sighed-the-snake]

The way this scene was done has always caught my eye because of how intentional it is. I'm going to be talking about the actors rather than the characters since these were intentional choices made for the show.

They are standing on the wrong side of the screen (Sheen on left, Tennant on right), which generally signifies that something is wrong.

Tennant held his hand carefully under the sword so that is where they shake hands. The way he's doing it honestly looks awkward and unnatural, with his elbow out like that to keep his hand in the right place. The Sword of Damocles comes to mind.

And then Sheen leans into it in a way that reveals three swords sticking out of his back, suggesting Aziraphale will be backstabbed or betrayed by three people, or three times.

I've seen both those points made before.

But there's a quick beat that happens right after this moment. Gaiman likes to sneak significant clues into quick little moments like this.

Sheen briskly walks past Tennant. Tennant turns to watch him go.

And Tennant now has three swords sticking out of his chest, with the handles of the other swords significantly blurred so they don't draw your eye.

Not a good sign, right? I feel like that's not a good sign.

[smellslikebot]

how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.

[dduane]

This!

RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again.

[alondrayp]

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

HOLY CRAP THERE IS A FUCKING BREAD TURTLE ON YOUR DASH RIGHT NOW.

YOU BETTER REBLOG THIS SHIT.

[fantasticcollectorkitten]

Everyone who sees this has to reblog this, it’s the rules

[danvstheworld-deactivated202507]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT ITS THE BREAD TURTLE OH MY GOD