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I can imagine that people have pointed this out before, but I just realized something. Can we call Spock’s reaction Kirk saying that he makes Jim believe in miracles a slow blink? I think he might also do something similar (to a lesser degree) in The Enemy Within when Kirk says “Thank yo. From both of us.”

Is this another piece of canon that points to Vulcans being cats?

This is true!!! @herenya-writes and a couple other authors have described Spock as using "slow-blinks" in their fics, and it makes me smile every time, because he is, indeed, a cat.

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forget about chris pine i think matt daemon and chris pratt look so similar i've confused them while watching movies with them in it. i'll be like wow can't believe chris pratt played mr ripley or w/e like all of these men r literally just clones of each other n therefore endlessly replaceable

Oh god, The Talented Mr Ripley is a special case, because Matt Damon is supposed to look similar enough to the guy he's impersonating to pull it off (Jude Law), and then Philip Seymour Hoffman shows up and you're like. Thats the same guy :|

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I just had a thought, which I just know you would appreciate. What if Amanda is the one that keeps wanting to adopt kids? (It can be sad because she feels like she keeps messing up as a mother and wants more chances. It can show how kind she is because she continues opening her heart and her home to all these people after they - seemingly - do not appreciate her hard work time and time again. It can be funny because Sarek agreed every - or did he - time. How did those arguments go?

Diversity win! Your terrible parents acted as a unit!

I think Amanda would gesture around their massive home (at least going by the Disco canon) & say "it is logical to fill every empty room, yes?" And Sarek can't back down, even though he fully intended to use this house for ambassador duties and conferences.

He can still do his hosting duties; they're just going to be a little more crowded.

The other Federation ambassadors are amused every time another one of them has to share a room, because the S'chn T'Gai household is gradually running out.

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In the format of the handshake meme:

One hand is the British the other is Americans. Clasped together is “hating themselves more than anyone else can hate them”

I have a friend who used to love hating on America as a kid but now expresses sympathy for Americans everytime she reads the news, so... Character development.

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MARLIN ILY

I am Vulcan-kissing you through the computer screen

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You’re one of my favorite blogs so here’s a gentle kiss on the forehead for you

Shaking and crying rn. Thank you anon :')

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Different anon but I have to say, GOmens is so good! It can be found for free online if Amazon is a problem (which it is) and the book is also fantastic. If you have already started the TV show I'd recommend you finish that first before reading the book, but I seriously have to recommend it. It is very good, quite better than the show in some aspects (although, Sheen and Tennant add their own spin to the characters that also elevates the whole product in a completely different way that is also bloody amazing).

Also, a suggestion on reading the book after watching the show, I really do recommend thinking of the characters as separate from the TV!Omens ones. Especially Aziraphale and Crowley, since they're what most of us focus on, to be honest. Their characterisations are pretty different in the book and show and thinking of them as one when reading/watching the other may... taint things a bit, maybe. My advice would be to look for some Book!Omens fanart specifically (the #book omens tag on Tumblr should have many examples) before reading the book to form some new pictures in your head while reading the book and have these be separate from Sheen and Tennant's Aziraphale and Crowley. This is what I did, anyways, and it worked really well for me, and hopefully it will help you as well.

Thank you for your time, and sorry for the long rambling. Have a nice evening.

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Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm! I wanted to listen to a radio play adaptation of good omens way back in 2012 because Colin Morgan was in it, but I couldn't find it online at the time. I'll add both to my watchlist.

When I read books I tend to outright ignore the characters I've seen in films & overwrite the with my imagination, but I'm terrible at imagining new locations from scratch & the movie locations will usually take over entirely, which is bizarre.

I have the opposite problem when I'm drawing art- I'm usually pretty good at drawing buildings from scratch without a drawing reference, but I have to collect a lot of different pictures to remind me what a human looks like before I start sketching one.

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you haven't watched good omens? you should!! it's literally so good I promise you'll like it

I think I've seen the first three episodes way back in 2018 (or 19, whenever it came out!), because my friend showed it to me when I was round at her house. I would have happily watched the whole series then and there, but 3 hours is overkill 😭😂

I might finish it one day; I haven't read the book yet either. I did enjoy it & I love how Tennant and Sheen play off each other in "Staged", too! I'm just very clueless about Good Omens as a whole which is why I tagged that post as #not my fandom, because I always see amazing Good Omens fanart on my dash 😂❤