[mangobeast]

some babylonian lads commissioned by @deathwords334!

[mistysblueboxstuff]

You don’t like it?

Just a small sketch to start 2020 with. Hope everyone has a great year 💞

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[gayforgoodomens]

my friend @thegoodomensdumpster demanded i post that one dramatic aziraphale in the rain fanart she likes and yknow what im gonna surprise her and post all the good omens fanarts i ever drew instead SIKE DUDE

[e-rated-beardo]

Holy FUCK. I LOVE Dramatic Aziraphale In The Rain. Dramatic Aziraphale In The Rain is one of my new favourite things. Why have I never seen Dramatic Aziraphale In The Rain before.

[upsidedownapple]

"Children should be able to have the same respect as adults" and "children shouldn't be expected to have the same emotional intelligence as adults" are two sentences that should coexist by the way.

[lilacprimadonna]

[molly-ren]

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx <3

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

[molly-ren]

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

[stevita]

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

[molly-ren]

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

[michaelblume]

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

[hosekisama]

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

[nentuaby]

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

[raincityruckus]

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

[sassafrassarah]

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

[taraljc]

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.

[realmarysue]

I am very glad this has been going around so folks learn the Lore, but also let’s encourage it because then we get to say “bang paths” more often.

[jvkogls]

Aziraphale is so excited that he can’t help but reach his angelic state

based on Octave Tassaert's The Cursed Woman (1859)

[tchoupiraterie]

Cooking together

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

i’m losing my mind

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

STOP REBLOGGING THIS my phone is glitching an astronomical amount and I immediately knew the culprit was one of my tumblr posts gaining traction

[avatardoggo]

oh

GROOVE WITH ME BABY

[lizluvscupcakes]

Ya gotta have

✨⭐️ SOUL ⭐️✨

[voidgremlinguege]

DONT STOP ME NOW!

[no-one-offical]

‎

[totally-cis-offical]

That sounds like someone banging their head against a metal surface

[cute-nerdy-metalhead]

@mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026 I’m claiming this video is Bert propaganda and you can’t stop me

[pidgeling]

i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

[life-of-a-latin-student]

present active boō, present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum

[interretialia]

Recte!

[flightcub]

if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter

[grizzlyhills]

do they speak latin because it’s a dead language

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

get out

[monticellomarshmallow]

This is exactly the kind of content I come here for like I want to print this out, frame it and put it on my wall.

[hoursago]

i’m gonna lead you down the path that rocks

[good-omens-heritage-posts]

good omens heritage post

[muirin007]

Sometimes, I remember that I am an adult with free will. When I do, I use it to commission acclaimed thunder-and-woodsmoke voiced British actor Ralph Ineson to read one of my favorite mini-monologues from the Creature in Frankenstein. And it worked. And he did it so brilliantly in like 40 seconds. And now this exists, and his voice is almost exactly how I’ve imagined the Creature’s sounding for years. And I just think a) we need a full audio drama now and b) Ralph Ineson is one of the greatest acting talents of our generation and I cannot BELIEVE he did this.

[cerleansky]

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

[speaklavenderthoughts-deactivat]

absolutely obsessed with these tags

[oibibg]

[omens-for-ophelia]

though this be madness, yet there is method in't...

part 11 of my ineffable kisses series - this time, sneaking a little moment of plausible deniability before aziraphale braves the horseback ride to scotland...

inspired by the GORGEOUS short fanfic 'Hamlet & Horatio', by my beloved @ineffabildaddy , as featured in the IneffableCon 6 Zine!

in honour of the lovely @quitequaintrelle , 1601's biggest fan 😉 view full size for higher quality, & closeup below the cut!

<< start || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 || part 5 || part 6 || part 7 || part 8 || part 9 || part 10 || part 11 - the globe, 1601 || part 12 ???

[legolambi]

i hope it’s not too late to participate in @petimetrek ‘s book omens week! 

my yesterday upload didn’t show tags at all lmao