You know the thing I like best about time, is that every day it takes us further away from the 13th of May 2026. I really didn't like the 13th of May 2026.
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240, please ask your MP to sign this.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
random rec list: ineffable fics i’ve been reading lately
do you feel it now? (E, 10k): crowley visits a ‘mysterious healer’. top tier, body positive, trans uplifting, mistaken identity trope, emotional healing idk EVERYTHING ok
it’s the light (it’s the obstacle that casts it) (T, 5k): 1950s london, crowley is visiting the bookshop when two young scared queer people ring the bell. poetic and beautiful and devastating and my heart is still recovering honestly
we only said goodbye with words, i died a hundred times (E, 9k): cursed amulet fuck or die s2 fix-it that somehow hits all the buttons 10/10
don’t look back (T, 2k): opheus mything aziracrow post s2 fic that hurts so good
getting a wiggle on (G, 7k): crowley leaves aziraphale some eggs as a prank. so many sweet elements here
please turn me on (E, 4k): first time turbo virgins fic that nails their voices and characterisations
putting the ‘bet’ in betrothed (T, 22k): aziraphale and crowley bet on who can live as a human the longest. so funny and charming
trajectory (G, 9k): post s2 fic. after aziraphale leaves, crowley reads one of aziraphale’s favourite books. yes it made me read the book. one of those fics whose atmosphere sticks with you
truth is like blood underneath your fingernails (E, 35k): cottagecore sickfic where crowley falls ill but tries to hide it. cosy writing
anatomy 101 (E, 102k): currently reading. in which these two virgins teach each other all about what the humans are doing (sex)
(ps: reblogging rec lists gets you karma points. so does commenting and leaving kudos <3 )
anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
Thinking about how joy is resistance. That happy endings are not boring, less-than, or overly simple, but radical— especially queer happy endings. Queer joy is a radical act of resistance and rebellion and love. We deserve queer happy endings. We need queer happy endings. We shouldn’t have to fight for queer happy endings, but they’re worth fighting for; we are worth fighting for. We deserve stories where we find love and happiness and acceptance and community and hope regardless of the broken world we live in. We’ve always been here, we will continue to be here, and it is not impossible to find joy in this life. We are not broken beyond repair and we are not inherently doomed.
No one can convince me that the Crowley and Aziraphale we all know— the real ones, not the strangers of the finale— would ever choose our destruction (or their own, for the matter). They would understand on a personal, molecular level how vital it is to keep going and how important it is to be yourself in spite of the oppressive systems that do their damndest to shape us. They wouldn’t give up— not ever.
So fuck this finale, fuck the idea that it’s too late and fuck anyone who says otherwise, frankly.
I see so many people feeling ridiculous for being crushed by the finale (me, that is me!). Terrified that they should not feel such deep pain and such a strong sense of loss because of a TV show. But is that really so surprising?
It is never truly about a TV show, is it?
If you have had a rough time in your real life for quite a while, and you were waiting for the finale to give you a bit of joy, of course this would hit hard. We are left thinking that even in fiction, a happy and peaceful existence is not an option. Love does not conquer all. The universe is rigged beyond saving. And if this is impossible in fiction, what does it mean for us, for our very real lives?
So if this is you, please do not feel that you are being ridiculous. Or at least know that it is me too :)
I mean, I already said that I think referencing so many Book Quotes in Crowley’s ‘confrontation’ with God was a really counterproductive move because a lot of these quotes do not actually support the point Crowley is trying to make and, because, like, it’s hard to create an impression you’re making a poignant statement both deconstructing and building on the themes of the previous seasons… if you also apparently can’t think of anything cleverer to say than what was written at the start of the 1990 book.
But I do want to give more focus on this line he stole from Adam…
Which, like, first thing first, this feels very ironic. A reminder of how much TV Omens has previously downplayed the Humanist themes of the Novel for the sake of focusing on the Ineffable Husbands (by, for example, cutting down Adam’s debate with Heaven and Hell significantly just to give Crowley and Aziraphale more focus) and is now turning around and trying to pretend it has totally being about Humanity all along.... While still only having Supernatural Non-Humans do all the talking.
It’s also a line that works much better for a child like Adam than for Crowley. Like the whole point of the gag about ‘the Problem of Evil’ is supposed to be “Oooh, Crowley isn’t asking the Most Trite Theological Question Ever, he’s got something actually insightful to say!” But then his question is just, like, the second most trite theological question ever!
It works with Adam cause he’s a child using his child’s wisdom and simple common sense to disrupt the Cosmic Grown Ups around him. He is asking Obvious Questions, but just because they might be Obvious, that doesn’t mean the adult authority figures around him have remotely good answers for them. Bringing in a fresh and direct perspective, without the bullshit and hypocrisy... That’s the power of a child asking questions.
Meanwhile, Crowley is over 6000 Years old and has ‘Theological Bullshitting’ as one of his main hobbies, so this does not work nearly as well for him.
And, because the line has taken out of context of both what came before and after it, it’s also way weaker. Within Adam’s dialogue, it is very clear he’s critiquing the concepts of Good and Evil specifically a bad way of judging Human morality. Crowley takes that line and only that one line and like you can argue that with the other misapplied quotes he is still applying Binary Good and Evil to Human behavior even as he’s saying Humans are capable of both, so it kinda feels like he’s just saying that Consequences in general are antithetical to Real Free Will??
Which is very ironic considering Adam’s line the original context immediately segways to him wishing people would be more aware of the consequences of their actions on Earth. And… like, as with many things about this ending, I can see what they were trying to do here. Adam says the Human way to judge people is based on the effects of their actions on the world, but he lives in a Biblically Literalist world where people are judged based on abstract scales of Good and Evil that have little to do with the Human viewpoint. Now Crowley is actually arguing for removing that system, Heaven and Hell, so that the only thing that does matter are Human actions on Earth if you discount the fact that Humans still invented these abstract scales of Good and Evil without celestial and divine interface and kept judging other Humans by that, I guess that’s still an improvement over it being an Objective Fact of the Universe.
I get what they were trying to do, even if I feel like Crowley’s dialogue, and the Finale as a whole, really fails to deliver on its intentions. Mostly it’s because Adam’s argument is reduced to a single catchy quote in a sea of out-of-context catchy book quotes that do not inherently support it. But also… it feels so ironic to have this specific argument from Adam here, in this story, when Adam literally words as such…
Trying to sort it out while you're still alive used to be the Human way of doing things too...
To anyone worried about their emotional investment (and consequent grief/devastation/ongoing coping issues) with fictional material: Please consider sports fans and fannishness before you judge yourself too harshly. It is normal human behavior to have large emotional reactions to things you care about and even more so when it's bigger than your own life (in the way sports and tv shows can be.)
We all know sports fan activities tend to be masculine-coded and therefore socially acceptable while story fan activities are coded feminine/queer and therefore looked down on.
So don't worry about it. It would be nice if we could all meet around the water cooler and chat openly about our feelings without censoring ourselves or fearing judgement from those who don't necessarily understand. But that's why we have cons and tumblr etc.
Take care of yourselves. Be gentle with yourself. Who you are is okay. You don't need to be different. Know that time will pass and you will feel better.
in order for a 'noble sacrifice' narrative to work, the story needs to establish three things:
What the problem was
Why it could only be solved with a self-sacrifice
What the positive results are now
A great example of this is Spock's death in the Wrath of Khan. There is something wrong with the engine and it's going to explode, it can only be fixed by someone going into this one room and getting a lethal dose of radiation, and after Spock does it we get to see that the crew are all alive.
the GO finale fails utterly because:
the problem is that the free will we have seen everyone using all along is in some definable way 'not free enough' because God and angels and demons exist.
There is really no practical reason why total destruction is the only option. Why not just let everybody live and then take miracle power away from all supernatural entities so that they had to live as humans? This is a fantasy universe and the characters are being given a choice, what practical mechanism is preventing them from simply choosing that?
the end result we get is that, well, all the pain and horror that ever happened on the old earth still happened, people still kill each other in religious wars, people still commit genocide, but now they are less free. Anthony, for example, is a human with no free will. How can we know for sure that he and Asa are the only ones? Crowley liked the stars because he made them, but Anthony likes them because God has created him as a reincarnation of Crowley, meaning that his whole career is dictated to him by things that happened in a past life he can't remember. How is this materially better?
This is not fourth-dimensional story telling I'm too stupid to understand. This is incompetence.
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