dykes 4 rabid scientists 2026

in my chronically offline arc

[crokojam3s]

happy pride month to my two favourite ridiculously gay scientists

[feriowind]

down in the dumps

[feriowind]

newt chewing on his pens and pencils

[highlyincorrect]

Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.

[feriowind]

page of newts

[josh-lanceero]

shape study but they are too cute

[slashysox]

aww well isn’t that just beautiful

[brighhton]

wanted to try drawing newt's torso tattoos! its too bad we never got to see them in the movies...

[vault-of-amber]

so i watched the movie of all time

[ladybender]

dear god look how many instrument this MENACE has

[josh-lanceero]

Prof I mean Dr. Geiszler teeheee

Man muss werden was man studiert (One must become what one studies)

[ladybender]

dear god look how many instrument this MENACE has

[hermannsthumb]

I was curious about the two red songbooks on the piano so I did some sleuthing!!! It looks like they are (left to right):

the soundtrack to a 1964 film called Dear Heart. (pull quote from this Medium article that also had the photo: it's a 'movie about sex that isn’t trying to be sexy: its ambition is to be a romance bereft of sentimentality' lol.)

Found the main theme for it on YouTube for it if anyone wants to give a listen!

a 'Hit Song Music Folio' with music for piano, guitar, banjo, ukulele, so I imagine it's versatile for all of Newt's other 100 instruments in the lab! please don't ask me how long I spent looking for this one; my eureka moment was finally making out that it says Music Folio after going frame by frame through the special features.

I can pretty much only find this one on eBay listings which place its printing somewhere in the early to mid 1940s (I'm seeing both 1943 and 1946). The fact that it's all love songs........................

Anyway I thought these were both fun characterization choices to have with Newt's stuff, because it's not the kind of music I would think he would be playing! And it's kind of sweet to imagine him playing romantic old songs in the lab after hours :')

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

Who would win

Miss Piggy

Lestat de Lioncourt

Voting ended onMar 7

[jujubamp4]

that fuckin nerd that i hate

[demetera-kaziaik]

i've become a bit obsessed w Hermann these past weeks he's adorable I miss you Hermann Gottlieb come back to me

[hermannsthumb]

keep thinking about that sunny s18 behind the scenes pic of charlie day in newt geiszler mode with his little glasses and jacket

if you squint it’s almost him

i miss you so bad newt. come back to me……

[foolscapper]

I was super salty that the Hermann and Newt post-drift picture is only available in like blurry 500x200 or whatever on the internet, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and scanned it myself. And a few other rare clean scans, too! Y’all deserve the best! 😩😩😩😩