pretend we don't have standards

~30, not interested in The Discourse, mostly here for GO

[redfacesmiley]

So, I'm coming out of my shock about go s2 and want to make a more detailed post about it, but there have been a lot of people who have said what I feel about it better than I think I could. Including some links and thoughts underneath. Putting these links under a cut for your perusal and if you'd like to pass this by, go for it.

The Yassification of Good Omens

"Ball of Fury"

"cultural shift towards rehashing old stories"

"the good place was always earth"

***Asterisk: None of these quite get at the specific thing which I despised most of all, which was the "come be an angel" / "I forgive you" bit - cutting a demon, aka, the "unworthy," and presumably a demon that you love (yes I'm addressing you directly, tv!Aziraphale) with that same implication of unworthiness, except, oh joy! in the most vulnerable moment of Crowley's life. (After minisodes theoretically meant to illustrate the character's moral education??? I did not understand it.) I just Do Not Believe He Would Do That. I just fundamentally do not believe in that version of the character. Aziraphale is not a foil, he's an equal. To arm him with a blade again in that moment, only to have him cut instead of protect, feels like a character assassination.

I'm not quite at the level of anger as the linked posts (any more). There certainly was stuff to love in s2 (for me, "stuff" pretty much means the Job episode lol). I'm willing to watch season 3 (if it happens at all.... that in itself is another wound) and see if the heart of the story remains anywhere. But unfortunately for me season 2 feels like a fundamentally incompatible rift with a canon I've loved for almost 20 years and yes fine, I'm willing to acknowledge my relationship with it is unhealthy. Even so, that relationship has changed. I just don't know. I'm not really interested in celebrating whatever this version of the story has turned out to be.

That's not me having a sulk (....again.... any more. It's been a long two weeks). Like Crowley, that might just be me turning off the music. I'm happy for everyone who's drunk at the Ritz, but I'm just not there. The arc went somewhere I can't follow.

[jess-the-reckless]

THAT ending? Know how I know Terry Steamroll-my-hard-drives-after-my-death Pratchett didn't sign off on it?

A) he's dead

B) he could write

[halles-comet]

pride of wales right here

[halles-comet]

i actually can't stop laughing at this. imagine you're watching tiktoks on the F train and phillip jennings comes up to you to go "you wanna stop being an asshole"

[halles-comet]

(@geekysprinkler)

[t4tgempearl]

Monty textposts because he has charmed me

[redfacesmiley]

anyway it's good i'm not in charge of the universe bc i, selfishly, would have happily traded one of those two seasons for a GO musical bootleg and the other for an ending to the fic Loosely Ballroom and multiple people wouldn't have gotten paid. so i guess in a way it's a good thing lmaoooo

[archibaldtuttle]

I want to show you an actual training slide from my customer service job that I had to see yesterday.

[targetdotcom-deactivated2026011]

Fińàncial Harm

[tittyinfinity]

[fellshish]

them googling what’s the worst possible ending for good omens

[redfacesmiley]

help the funniest possible outcome

[troutmemo]

"[charles] is literally saying, 'i'm a man, i'm scared', during war. when everyone is like, 'don't be fucking scared. we can't be cowardly. we can't think about that, we certainly can't talk about it, because if we did, none of us would do anything.'"

[...]

"it's why i feel the need to get [his] face, and to be like, 'we can't go there. i'm going to share something with you, to say i understand, but we can't go there.'"

alex young on the milky pig scene [x]

(@mozartlikestheatre's master)

[elekanahmennahmen]

[montlie]

Fuck it post old OM production images

Photos by Andrew AB

More can be found here and here

[proto-language]

Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

Over the course of summer 2023—giving myself a hard deadline of Labor Day—I set out to read my way through Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin

"Throughout the series, neither Jack nor Stephen makes any measurable progress on their deficiencies—such being the nature of the running gag. Instead, O’Brian has the two men fit themselves to one other’s blind spots. Eventually Jack automatically stands by to catch Stephen as he inevitably falls between the jolly-boat and the ship’s ladder; Stephen, in turn, can sense from miles away that Jack has given his power of attorney to a landshark."

[redfacesmiley]

congratulating myself that I do in fact mostly feel apathy

however,

I admit I am mildly vexed that go s3 hasn't followed the grand tradition of an absolutely catastrophic leak prior to launch. truly you can't go out on a sane note after what happened with 1 and 2. break something so the internet can have its fun

[antikate]

There’s no easy way to break up with a fandom. Oh I’m just not doing that anymore, you say, but you get tagged and comments and people send you links and things and you don’t know how to say due to the personal reasons of [redacted] I can no longer enjoy this content. Good luck to you all though

Like if you make a big deal out of it people are like oh why are you like this

But if you don’t then people keep including you and that is also very awkward especially when the [redacted] make you feel sad and bad and gross

Anyway

Good luck guys have fun! I won’t be coming to the metaphorical fandom Christmas this year or any other! Byyyyyyeeeee

[offarawaysnfuturedays-inmydreams]

OPERATION MINCEMEAT TRACKS Natasha Hodgson as Ewen Montagu & Others 📹: @theriddletrades

[dearest-darlingest]

I’ll tell the story of our perfect body Now I’m going down in history

📹: @theriddletrades

[isuggestlandback]

I have a baby cousin who's Two Spirit.

Their parents are leftists, open minded, pro LGBTQ+, learned to use the right pronouns (to their face at least) all that jazz.

Their Auntie grew up in a remote area, little old fashioned, doesn't really "get" the non binary thing, and hasn't quite got the hang of the singular 'they' yet. But she tries.

When my cousin got injured and couldn't drive their parents shrugged and told them to quit their job.

Their Auntie drove them to and from work every day until they got their cast off.

Which family member do you think they'll ask next time they need help?

Do you want to be ideologically perfect, or do you want to help?

[probablyapinecone]

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