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[philaet0s]

Six Sentence Sunday

But you know, it's more than six sentences

From a texting fic I've been working on :))

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Simon: My mind wasn’t really on her which is just so rude, and I tried to make jokes that all landed flat. She didn’t even order dessert, that’s how much she was looking forward to leaving

Simon: So now I’m home alone. On a sunday night, after a first date that definitely won’t lead to a second one

Simon: Maybe I’m unlovable

Baz: Are you trying to be funny or are you genuinely bummed by this? I need to know in order to match your mood with my answer

Simon: Lol only you would ask that, I love it

Simon: I am in fact being a little silly

Baz: I'm sure you're cute enough for the right person to get past your terrible jokes. All the unfunny men I’ve met had good looks as devastating as their sense of humour

Simon: Haha, haha, haha

Simon: That’s rich coming from you. You don’t even try to make jokes

Baz: I don’t need to. I’m naturally funny

Simon: Sure you are, babes. Whatever you say

Baz: I can scroll back and screenshot all the times you said I was funny, you know?

[goatedgreen]

i hate that when you try and look up shit for writing purposes it starts linking suicide hotlines and addiction advice articles like bro i just wanna know the information im not killing myself i promise. now tell me what i wanna know

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[woodwool]

severely deficient in whatever vitamin makes u a person

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[philaet0s]

Six Sentence Sunday

It's not at all what I should be writing at the moment, but this scene from my 80s fic just wouldn't get out of my head. So here's a bit of that

(and it's going to be much more than six sentences because I hate that rule and also the scene I wrote is an argument and arguments are just too fun for me to cut too much of this one)

The scene is between Baz and my OC Thomas

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Baz

“I have a job," he says, as though that answered anything." A good job, that I like and that I want to keep doing.”

“So…?”

“So the answer is no. I can give you legal advice in private all you want but I’m not… That’s the most I can do,” Thomas says, and I have a sinking feeling that he’s got that same look in his eyes at his good job when he’s facing another attorney. 

But I won’t play that game with him. That’s what he wants, because he knows he’ll win a negotiation. He has years and years of practice finding turns and phrases to make himself sound undeniably right and twisting people’s words until he gets the last one. 

I push myself away from the counter and walk to the table. I lean on it, my eyes now on the same level as his. We’re close enough that I can see the ring of brown in them. “You’re not… what? Finish that thought.”

“Baz,” he answers, rolling his head back with a sigh. “Don’t be difficult. I said no. Conversation’s over.”

The bastard reaches inside his jacket for his pack of cigarettes. I snatch it from his hand. He tries to take it back, but I slam my hand against the table, crushing the small box and its content.

He glares at me. I glare right back. What right has he got to be pissed right now?

“No it’s not. I want you to be honest and say what you fucking mean.”

“I’m not publicly defending a bunch of hysteric gays. Is that what you want to hear?”

I walk a few steps back, slowly, as I scoff. I rub my hand over my mouth, staring at the crushed cigarettes on the table. At the straight grain of the wood and at the tiled floor of the kitchen.

“You’re a coward, Thomas. A coward, and a goddamn traitor" I murmur. The shock in my voice sounds like another, familiar voice telling me I told you so. "I can’t fucking look at you.” 

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I hate to make these characters fight... but at the same time I really don't :)

[philaet0s]

From what I have observed your enjoyment of the Good Omens finale depends entirely on if you see Asa Fell and Anthony Crowley as Aziraphale and Crowley. Unfortunately for me I do not. Those are random middle-aged human men who happen to look a bit like them. My darlings are gone and vanished and never got a happy ending

[philaet0s]

Good Omens: Crowley loves humans and humanity

Good Omens: God killing people and replacing them with shiny new people is wrong, those people should instead be saved no matter what (the Job story from season 2)

Good Omens, in the same breath: Crowley does not give a fuck that all of humanity is wiped out and is perfectly happy to let God create a shiny new world for shiny new humans instead of saving what was already there

[whatgrungephase22]

Okay, but (And I'm not trying to hate, I understand your point) when Crowley gets to that point, the Universe is already destroyed and it's not a shiny new universe. I mean, yes. It is a new universe. But it isn't shiny or perfect in any way. It just no longer has a Heaven and Hell trying to control it, which is exactly what Crowley wanted. He was wanted Humanity to have a choice and that's exactly what they gave them with their new universe.

Now, I think the way they went about it was a little rushed, but you can only fit so much into 90 minutes, you know?

[philaet0s]

It was definitely super rushed — which is a whole other issue, I think that the way the writers went about choosing what to spend time on and what to skip past was not done well either

Of course I can see that at the point where they’re at asking for a new universe where humans have actual free will seems like the “best” option to do something for humanity, but I think it didn’t *need* to get to that point, that’s what I find so frustrating (especially with how it is in conflict with the moral of the Job thing in season 2)

They did only have 90 minutes, destroying the whole universe and creating it again seems very ambitious a plot for that time span… It could have been written so that Michael was stopped before they tore every page in the book of life or something. Better even, they could have gone in a completely different direction! Jesus was very under-exploited as a character, and the Second Coming didn’t feel like such a big thing because of the Book of Life plotline

To me it’s such a disappointing end because well… everything is gone from existence. Nothing that happened in the whole show is of any importance. This sweet married couple at the end is not Crowley and Aziraphale, Crowley and Aziraphale were wiped out billions of years prior

[philaet0s]

Technically since Michael erased everything from existence, then they erased the finale from existence. Everybody say thank you Archangel Michael

[philaet0s]

Good Omens: Crowley loves humans and humanity

Good Omens: God killing people and replacing them with shiny new people is wrong, those people should instead be saved no matter what (the Job story from season 2)

Good Omens, in the same breath: Crowley does not give a fuck that all of humanity is wiped out and is perfectly happy to let God create a shiny new world for shiny new humans instead of saving what was already there

[philaet0s]

Good Omens writers took all the tropes I hate, combined them and made them the finale

[philaet0s]

“your ship will not become canon” is boring. it’s expected. “your ship will become canon but only after getting erased from existence so it’s not exactly your ship. also they don’t kiss” is scary. it’s possible. it happened to me

[philaet0s]

WIP Wednesday

From a texting fic I’ve started working on :)

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Simon: Ok so I have to come clean and admit to you that I was completely stoned when I answered your texts

Simon: But my offer still stands, stranger in my phone

Baz: What was the purpose of picking a fake name if you are going to refer to me as the stranger in your phone?

Simon: Eh, the name could come in handy later

Simon: You replied, I take it you’re still okay to text?

Baz: Sure

Baz: Friendly piece of advice: you should not admit to doing drugs to a stranger in your phone

Baz: I might be a cop

Simon: Ooh, we’re getting friendly already? ;)

Simon: Are you a cop?

Baz: I might be!

Simon: Right, so you’re not

[philaet0s]

Six Sentence Sunday

I started writing a new little something because I need a project on the side when I'm procrastinating writing my dissertation, but I need that project not to be too big that I do not get any uni writing done. So. I thought a texting fic would be perfect! And if you're read some of my work, you know I love those aha

This is from the beginning of the story. The person texting is Baz:

*Call sent to voicemail. ‘Hello, this is Harry. I’ll call you back as soon as I can. Please leave a message!’*

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Harry

Thu 21 Aug at 11:22 PM

I’ve been looking at flats. I don’t even really want to move but people seem to think it’d be better for me. What would I do in a place that doesn’t have your fairies on the walls?

I’m never getting the deposit back with your bullshit. Good job, Henry

Mon 25 Aug at 1:05 PM

Mordelia’s boyfriend is taking her on a little trip before uni starts. It’s so sweet. My father looked like he was going to be sick when they drove away

I wish I could drive away

‘It’s not driving, it’s running’. I know. Shut up

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[castaras]

prev tags correct

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]