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[stealingpotatoes]

im not in denial about anything YOU'RE in denial

[romanconcrete]

[suspiciously glass-house shaped voice]: hey isnt it late in your timezone

[floororchid]

(GO3 critical) Personally, pre-GO3 I was sure whatever solution they were gearing up to present to the whole situation with heaven and hell in the Good Omens universe, it wouldn't involve the complete annihilation of angels and demons.

Because there's this bit in the book where Adam and his friends are discussing angels and demons/heaven and hell through the lens of the Them and the Johnsonites, which I personally interpreted to be in support of this line of thought:

" Seems to me, " said Wensleydale, " that if you asked people in lower Tadfield, they'd say they'd be better off without the Johnsonites or the Them. " ( ... ) " but I bet they'd think it'd be a jolly sight less interestin' if we all weren't here. "

And it was, in my opinion, " a jolly sight less interestin' " for them to have simply removed angels and demons entirely. To have removed that bit of fantasy that made the Good Omens universe what it was. Its entire premise.

I would've thought the conclusion would be more along the lines of what's being said here. Re-emphasising agency to choose to make one's "own side" despite the influences of heaven and hell in their universe. (Which, were arguably not as big and overwhelming as they'd hoped for anyway.) (And wasn't that the joke? That no matter what Crowley and Aziraphale did to influence humanity, it didn't matter all that much, because humanity's capable of both great good and evil all on their own?) (I see arguments that they meddled in Maggie and Nina's relationship in S2 but Maggie and Nina didn't end up immediately together like Crowley and Aziraphale had hoped either. Doesn't that then also prove the lack of real influence angels and demons have on humanity?)

Here I'm talking about the agency of humanity, of course, but also of the other beings in that universe. Many of which were already breaking away from the pure black-and-white thinking expected of them (other than our main leads, there was Gabriel and Beezlebub, Muriel and Eric, etc.).

To quote another part of the book I think many have already pointed out:

Being a demon, of course, was supposed to mean you had no free will. But you couldn't hang around humans for very long without learning a thing or two.

This was in reference to Crowley. Why not applied to other angels and demons as well? I would've personally loved to see more supernatural beings hang around humans and learn a thing or two. The shenanigans that would've ensued.

In my opinion, there was a way for everyone to be happy in their original universe.

[pacificsaury]

Ds9 shitposting

[edennill]

...I already laughed about Faramir's "I would hazard that Isildur's Bane lay between you and was a cause of contention in your company. Clearly it is a mighty heirloom of some sort and such things do not breed peace among confederates, not if aught may be learned from ancient tales."

What I did not realise is that Frodo's reply is "Ancient tales teach us also the peril of rash words concerning such things as — heirlooms." ASDHFJGJJKL

[wingsofantiva]

have some more of these

[miklep]

i have to read and annotate a lot of reddit comments for a linguistics paper at the moment. and after days and days of my brain being marinated in reddit culture i had this mystical experience today of suddenly feeling with every cell in my body just how many truly strange and specific features of western post-industrial society had to come together for nsfw to become one of our most commonly used terms for erotica

[queerloquial]

always surprising when you see people talking for months/years about how good a thing is and then you finally check it out and it's actually good. like wow. breaking news sometimes things are popular because they're good??? who knew this was possible