Wow Such Tumbls

If you know me, it's probably because I read and review on AO3 under the same name. Multi-fandom blog. OLDEST FANDOM: Digimon. DEEPEST FANDOM: Yu-Gi-Oh!. CURRENT WIP FANDOM: Spider-Man. CURRENT OBSESSION: Good Omens. AGE: Adult. PRONOUNS: Ze/They/She. NICKNAME: Quoth.

[edgycarr0t]

Do you think I made Adrian too small

[curiouspupsicle]

Good Omens is a Transformative Work

It has been since the very beginning.

NG (fuck NG) thought of a book plot where a demon finds himself in The Omen movie. But he screws up the baby switch. And the Antichrist grew up as a character in a Richmal Crompton novel. He didn't know what to do with it next. TP offered to buy the story. He changed the demon into a demon and an angel defying their bosses on the earth they both loved. He added his smart whimsy and gave the story a moral core far beyond a silly spoof. When the story was written, queer kids saw themselves in the angel and demon based on the subtext. Because they lived in subtext. Gender fluid and trans readers created stories about an angel and demon for whom gender was a choice depending on how or whether they decided to make an effort. The strangeness of fitting into a planet dominated by beings the angel and demon differed from spoke to neurodivergent readers.

Religious readers found healing after years of struggling to make sense of doctrine divorced from morality. Some ace and aro readers saw the deep and meaningful relationship beyond romance between a pair together over 6000 years. And tons of horny people from all walks of life poured their hearts into smut that made the most of beings whose bodies allowed for a range of sexual practice that would never be realistic for humans.

People who felt rejected or unloved because they were "too much" or "too little", took solace from an angel who didn't mind the gruffness of the demon who couldn't bear to be cruel. And the demon who liked the angel being a little bit of a bastard. If an angel and demon could care for and accept each other for themselves, perhaps it could happen for them too? This is why the Good Omens fandom is so special. Transformation has been baked into his story from the very beginning. Biblical fan fiction, a collaborative story by two authors, a tv show/movie brought to life by a team of actors, designers, writers... And now also entire worlds of fan fiction and art. Good Omens continues to transform itself and the people who love it. And it will always be ours as we continue to transform it for generations to come.

[curiouspupsicle]

I wrote this 2 years ago. Maybe it's time to reblog?

[tawnyontumblr]

Def time to reblog.

[ryoubandwagon]

I've found my new love and it is stock photo collages using pexels stock photos

For @bakubangspeedrun prompts 11, 132, and 134:

11. tabletop rpgs 132. ryou and yami bakura working together on ttrpgs 134. gemshipping/tendershipping

[rocketbirdie]

Oddly specific yugi headcanon I think you might appreciate as a feathershipper: Yugi has, for years, brought two lunches to school. One in a proper lunchbox and one hidden in his bookbag, because it's easier to handwave his lunch going missing and being found destroyed outside if he has a spare, because then it's not bullying, it's just the people around him being interesting. Jonouchi and Yugi, once friends, develop such a sense of sharing their food with each other that Jonouchi forgets to ask before taking. Yugi, upon finishing the puzzle, develops memory loss. He also develops a startling lack of bullies who destroy his visible lunch, leaving Yami to become convinced his worryingly generous partner was bringing it to ensure his classmates ate something.

Enter a comedy of sorts where Jonouchi is constantly helping Yugi finish off two lunches, Yugi has no idea he's doing this and becomes convinced the puzzle spirit must be eating it, and Yami has no clue Yugi thinks this and is knowingly leaving the food where Jonouchi won't realize it's a kind of handout.

Anzu and Honda, out of this madness loop, are entirely aware of about 80% of what is going on there and refuse to interrupt it on principle of Jonouchi eating but also because it's hilarious. Ryou finds out and begins using the knowledge to pinch Yugi's desserts.

The Yugang goes to have a picnic one day and in the span of ten minutes "Yugi" manages to hide two sandwiches and a bag of chips well enough for Jonouchi to find without the birds getting it, Yugi becomes convinced he must have inhaled them without looking and is now freshly worried his other self must have been starving, and Ryou(?) has calmly walked over to the hidden food he saw put away to grab the contained little fruit jelly pouch it had been packed with to add to his own lunch. Bonus points if Ryou is then confused where it came from.

They figure it out eventually but it's so comically late when they do. I can see them figuring it out after Yami has better communication with Yugi. Post Duelist kingdom on their second week back kind of late.

WAIT yami bakura getting in on this would be hysterical. he's the one with the zorc sized appetite in canon. what if ryou starts getting paranoid that he himself is the one making yugi's lunches disappear and he can't remember doing it, but then HE starts packing extra lunches in order to try and make up for it because he's sweet like that. only to blink back into consciousness two classes later with 4 sandwiches 2 sodas and a whole sleeve of oreos crammed down his gullet

[rocketbirdie]

thoughts on post-dsod rivalshipping worklife romance?

i wouldn't call it a romance. i'd call it a death spiral. yugi lets work consume his life and exhaust him physically and emotionally so he can't think about how quiet it is in his own head. he thinks atem was this close to fixing kaiba and that all he needs to do is show kaiba what love is supposed to feel like.

yugi grinds himself down to dust and gets nothing in return because yugi will never be atem. yugi forces himself to be more like atem; kaiba sees him as a poor imitation at best. kaiba sees him as useful— a good game designer, a good distraction, a good lay even, but that's not romance, that's just taking advantage. what he lacks in reciprocation he makes up for with a generous salary.

the money is useless because yugi has no time to spend it. he gives it to grandpa so he doesn't have to stress about the shop. he gives it to jounouchi so he can support his parents and sister. he gives it to anzu so she can continue to chase her dreams in america.

kaiba leaves for aaru one day and doesn't return. mokuba takes over kaibacorp, he's in his 20s now. the company doesn't quite burn as bright as it once did before. yugi clocks in and sits down at his desk.

[thesedarkcafedays]

After over the years

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

"what are you a cop" is bookaziraphale's entire mindset btw. "is it very angelic to hoard books and be mean to customers" what are you a cop? "should you really be married to your adversary" what are you a cop? "should your husband be parking his car there" ah you ARE a cop. explodes your ticket notebook with his mind. like in his mind if the lord herself doesn't come down to tell him off he's doing just fine. because he's doing it. and if she DOES come down (where is the flaming sword I gave to thee) well then. what is she a cop

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

no so true. in fact I think this was a key experience in his conviction that he is correct about everything ever. after all she did not ask him again

[hollow-head]

book Crowley: you’re an angel, you can’t do the wrong thing book Aziraphale: you are absolutely right. everything i do *is* the right thing book aziraphale really took ‘do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ and ran with it

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: The first add-on shows tags from pronouncingitwang reading "#it is soo fucking important that not only did he lie to god #he thought it was so important that he wrote it in as a correction to the bilton and scaggs bible he wanted that shit printed+distributed" and the last add-on shows tags from indieninja92 reading "#MY BOY #as i like to say 'aziraphale did nothibg wrong... but not through lack of trying' #the greatest angel ever to sincerely attempt to shoot an eleven year old in the face" /end ID]

[forensiccountermeasures]

And when he knows he’ll HAVE to help the cops, he’s desperate to leave so that he WON’T have to help the cops!

[ID: A snippet from the Good Omens book. It reads “There was the sound of a siren outside, abruptly broken off as a bullet hit it. Aziraphale nudged Crowley.” The next part is highlighted, and reads “‘Get a move on,’ he said. ‘We're going to be knee-deep in police at any moment and I will of course be morally obliged to assist them in their enquiries.’” /end ID]

[quoththemaiden]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dedicated to my dear friend @contritecactite, for Yell “Fudge” at the Cobras in North America Day — something that does not happen in this fic, but which one must imagine does happen occasionally while on holiday.

“Fast-Breaking”

Words: 1,300 Rating: General Audiences Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley Setting: South Downs Cottage; NOT Good Omens Season 3 Compliant The world is safe. The universe is safe. There is no next “big one” to be preparing for. Eventually, however, one has to stop just recovering and resume living. In other words: Crowley and Aziraphale go on a dessert date.

[rocketbirdie]

puzzlejune is so sos os so so so so important and I'm glad you're bringing the boys that we so desperately need but can I humbly ask. for 1 rival. 1 rival just one.theydont even need to love each other just 1 . 1 in the same frame please i'm begging you

i like what's wrong with them in dsod

[agottamndelight]

Hah, I wonder when Death came for the Satanic Nuns, Sister Mary asked for Coffee instead.

Thus, Nina woke up one day with a shop and some of the most Obnoxious White People doing White People Bullshit she keeps getting pulled into.

[child-of-ineffable-divorce]

Alright yeah I’ll add this into my personal canon

[the-oxrib-and-oyster]

My longstanding theory about Nina and Maggie is that somehow, when Crowley and Aziraphale both performed miracles upon Nina in Tadfield, the conversation they had influenced reality later. Nina mentions, when handing infant Adam over, that she wonders if he will remember her, later. What if he does? What if, when making up the world as he believes it should be, he remembers her-- and Maggie?

Aziraphale says "you must have had records" and Nina, hypnotized, responds "yes, we were very good at keeping records". Keeping. What does Maggie's record shop notoriously not do? Sell records. She is the record-keeper.

The nuns' records at Tadfield were destroyed in a (hell-made) fire. When the world is remade to Adam's preference at the end of S1, he restores the records and puts them back. He just puts them back .. slightly differently. It's an 11 yo child's understanding of records, tucked back into reality safely, placed right back into a space that had been destroyed by a fire.

Aziraphale's bookshop.

Nina not having a job at the nunnery except to provide refreshments-- carries over too.

Anyway.

There's so much detail and love in those damned seasons. I'm genuinely so furious that now I'll never know.

[fairycosmos]

you have GOT to get over god abandoning you when you were 2 like its not even uncommon

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[isuckattechnology]

Audio:

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!

[jadeazora]

Pokemon GO's new log-in screen for Forever Forward is a throwback to one of its oldest ones!

[storyweavingspider]

I’m not sure which one came first but I’m happy for their transition!

[storyweavingspider]

Good for her and for the family and for pedestrian safety :)

[thelensart]

Make my day

[d-e-w-p]

incredibly cool pose, I thought.

Is Archeops gping to land on her arm like a hawk? If so, how heavy is it. Can't be too-

oh

[thelensart]

Divas don't care about numbers

[thelensart]

Had to

[alwaystuesday]

Before the Fall

New art! New style? Just sort of happened. Gouache + watercolour pencil

[cowardsexual]

the thing about "eridian worldbuilding" is that you need to make 3 in-depth, separate cultures MINIMUM. then you need to give them all separate reasons to think the other is ridiculous. this is necessary so you can triangulate how most people on erid felt about first contact being established by someone like rocky, the same way i look at grace's white americanisms and want to bash my head against a wall

[cowardsexual]

#do the eridians even know the rest of planet earth is not That into burgers... #actually tags cancelled i just made myself cough-laugh imagining myself in grace's position #trying to get the eridians to use my cloned lab meat to recreate the humble bunnings sausage sizzle. #okay more seriously how much interplanetary diplomatic awkwardness was caused #by grace and rocky both confidently going 'humans are like this' and 'eridians are like this' #and they both just mean their respective cultures. theres nuance.

(tags via @grimark)

first of all lmfao, second of all YEAH!!! Hang on I need to yap about this, I have so many opinions.

To make an example: one of the details in the book I keep returning to is Rocky's attitude around eating. Weir mentioned in various interviews that the idea came to him as a subversion of how aggressively social the act of eating is for humans compared to other biological needs. Which is a fair enough place to start with, but this kind of social taboo is usually tied to reasons like sanitation and avoiding risk of infection. Which fits, since as monostomes the process of nutrition and waste disposal are inextricably tied for an Eridian (not to mention the whole Making An Open Wound Per Meal deal).

Thing is, that wouldn't necessarily extend to the preparation of food, but Rocky is still uncomfortable and asks Grace not to comment while preparing his meal. Meat on Erid requires butchering to separate the viable parts from the nonviable. The Eridians doc describes the act of manually tearing food to pieces as pleasurable, "similar to chewing good food for humans"... except butchering larger prey is something that would require collaboration, and (shared) pleasure is just as much of a biological incentive towards social behaviour as fear.

I think it would be interesting if this was a peculiarity of Rocky's specific culture! Or if there was another Eridian clan who, due to climatic or migratory reasons, had to deal with recurring food scarcity and was used to curing and preserving large quantities of food to stock up as a consequence. This would decouple food preparation from the (gross) act of eating itself, making it more positive and commensal.

Imagine Grace striking up conversation with the nutrition technician that organises his taste tests like, "hey thank you for all you're doing, I know dealing with food is super gross for Eridians. just want you to know i appreciate it a lot" and the technician is like "??? huh? oh—OH. saviour grace misunderstands. preserving food and making it edible very fun where I'm from."

"Seriously? Rocky always said it was embarrassing"

"Not surprising, Saviour Rocky ♩♪♫ Eridian. ♩♪♫ Eridians ridiculous about food."

In the end Grace gets invited to join the seasonal butchering (ie spectate from his xenonite enclosure and try to pay back the cultural exchange by badly recounting how to prepare a thanksgiving turkey). Rocky also insists on being there (he's jealous) except he just lurks near the periphery while visibly uncomfortable and not talking to anyone LMAOO