cee/saturn | 9teen | she/they/he | aroace | late for everything | yes even fandoms | obsessions: good omens, stranger things, loki, dead boy detectives | cw: doctor who (2005); 9-1-1; pluribus
my name is cee/saturn!! • she/they/he • nonbinary aroace • infp • capricorn • mexican • writer who fantasizes about attempts to write their first novel • folkwhore • purple enthusiast • space <3 • need music to function • cartoon enjoyer • bookworm • this blog is half a fandom blog half a collection of internet oversharing
currently obsessed with: good omens • stranger things • loki tv show • dead boy detectives • arcane • ms marvel (and some other marvel comics)
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(irls if you find this blog: i love you. i absolutely do not want you here. leave and please don't bring this up.)
currently:
ᯓ★ listening: nothing's about to happen to me - mitski; kiss all the time. disco occassionally - harry styles
ᯓ★ watching: doctor who (10th); 9-1-1; pluribus; jentry chau vs. the underworld; heartstopper s3; nadie nos va a extrañar
ᯓ★ reading: linguistics papers for school. because i don't get to read for fun anymore
Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.
okay? have you considered that mike wheeler has stared directly at the sun but never in the mirror? that it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero?
Can I offer some fluffy fic recs in this trying time? I went through my bookmarks looking for a few of the fluffiest and funniest I could find. No angst or even pining allowed, only fluff and humor ❤️❤️❤️
(Please just let me know if I should remove or add any of the tags/mentions)
Getting a wiggle on by kedeera (rated G, 7.3k)
O... M... G... Adorable fluff. "Crowley's prank to leave Aziraphale with fake eggs to babysit does not go remotely as planned."
Our homeward steps were just as light (rated T, 7k) by @on1occasionfork
Retirement home AU that is literally the sweetest thing ever.
The bookseller and the garden by genieoftheships (rated T, 13k)
They start dating... But they both think the other one is human and so they are trying to pretend to be human... This is very sweet and very funny.
Naked in Malibu by @cemeteryangel725 (rated E, 7.6k, part 1 of 2)
A-list actor Crowley and interior decorator Aziraphale. Fabulous, funny, Aziraphale in lingerie, I love it so much.
A nice and accurate teen magazine quiz by @fellshish (rated T, 2.8k)
"Crowley takes one of those teen magazine quizzes about love. What harm could it do? It only ever asked questions." Sooooooo cute and funny!
The taste that your lips allow by @sunrisesinthesuburbs (rated M, 90k)
Vampire AU! In which they are absolute sweethearts. Funny and delightful.
Putting the "bet" in "betrothed" by @rogue-bard (rated T, 22.7k)
Charming, very funny. They make a bet to see who can live "like humans" the best... They date on a dating app and ridiculous shenanigans ensure
Dream of me by @gaiaseyes451 (rated T, 2.2k)
Beautiful and sweet and romantic. Crowley picks out a song to convey their love... And sweetness ensues. Set after season one.
Post-professional endeavors by @darcylindbergh (rated T, 8.9k)
Brilliant, hilarious, and so sweet. POV of the realtor, contractor, and interior designer who help with their south downs cottage.
A Carol conversation by @gaiaseyes451 (rated M, 5k)
After season two, a Hallmark-Christmas-movie-level fluffy love confession will melt your heart.
Untitled stardew omens fic by atalan ( @brightwanderer ) (rated E, 43k)
The sweetest cotton-candiest fluff! "Crowley has decided to give up on life in the city and move to the countryside. Aziraphale is intrigued by the new arrival in Pelican Town."
It's difficult to love in a bookshop by @kanna-ophelia (rated T, 3.7k)
"Aziraphale leaves Crowley in charge of his precious bookshop for a few days, despite his better judgement." Just one sweet and funny installment in a series of 31 first kisses, all of which are heart-meltingly lovely.
Too hot for heavenly handling by @hollybennett123 (rated E, 2.4k)
Crowley goes to heaven with Aziraphale, and they proceed to be ridiculously sappy and horny for each other until they get kicked right out.
It's funny because nobody ever says "Burkina faso" by @indieninja92 (rated G, 4.9k)
Sooooooo sweet and funny... Aziraphale is stuck in a time loop.
Soft down on by @snae-b and tawnyowl95 (rated E, 7.6k)
Old West AU with outlaw Crowley and trader Aziraphale. The cutest dang ending you'll ever see.
version of good omens 3 where aziraphale & crowley actually interact with jesus, and jesus tells them all about how he learned to find the lady. he’d be excited to show crowley, like “look! i did it!” and aziraphale (famously a magic & tricks lover) would love witnessing it and ask to learn how he did it. then when it’s time to face god and the end of everything, aziraphale challenges her to a game: whoever wins gets what they want (in their case, restoring the world and ensuring that heaven and hell can no longer interfere and try to end humanity, maybe even being sent to live among humans themselves just like aziraphale & crowley). and hey, what’s this? the game he has to win is finding the lady? crowley couldn’t win before to get his bentley back, but aziraphale can win now because jesus followed crowley’s “advice” and learned, teaching aziraphale the trick to success after. same way he won crowley’s car back, he’ll challenge the boss and win
This is perfect, especially as it ties in with the very beginning of Good Omens (the book, and I am fairly sure it was in the voiceover for s1 too):
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
There's a folkloric power to it too - usually in folklore, you play a game against the Devil. But in the Good Omens universe, it's God you have to worry about.
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:
Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.
Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.
It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.
Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.
So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.
Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman
I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and
It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen
It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage
It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own
Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”
I’m having some emotions about it!
“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”
Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!
We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!
