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um, why haven’t I seen this quoted or gif’d yet?

soundtrack: *does an uh-oh ‘demonic miracle’ sting* Crowley: *sniffs* Crowley: Something’s changed... Aziraphale: oh it’s a new cologne, my barber suggested it-- Crowley: *exasperated* no no! I know what you smell like...

um...is it just me, or is knowing someone’s smell about as intimate as it gets??

#Good Omens #I KNOW WHAT YOU SMELL LIKE #MMM-HMMM #AND HOW LONG HAS CROWLEY BEEN PAYING ATTENTION HMMM?#yes my dash is 100% Good Omens #block as needed :)

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#our flag means death #ofmd #photos #bts photos #bts #con o'neill #izzy hands #nekked izzy #izzy's chest #mmm-hmmm #2ep5

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#mmm-hmmm #see this is what I keep saying about TPTB #They don't have the plan or the guts to act on one #and whether the hints are a big ruse or the denials are a big ruse I am so damn sick of it #sick of being the joke #sick of being looked down upon #sick of my identity being a huge burden that the show shouldn't have to bear #they could have left out the other 20 gay jokes then if it was just a quick reference to TPLOSH #you bring in that much money and viewership then yeah you do have some responsibility #That responsibility might be don't keep up an offensive running gag with no point but to laugh at marginalized groups #ugh.

2015x15: Mmm-hmmm by Verity Standen

Exactly a week before I took my seat at BAC to see Mmm-hmmm, the building burned.

I’d been at my desk at the office when the news came in on twitter. All work went out the window, obviously. There was disbelief, and tears, and a physical yearning for it to JUST STOP. For a while it really didn’t look good. When the roof went we were all “well that’s that then”, little pieces of us like ash on the wind.

Mmm-hmmm is in my list this year as much for its timing and location as its (unequivocal) brilliance. Watching it, hearing it, feeling it; all were tightly woven into my experience of the BAC fire, of the public support that followed, and of the building’s swift reopening. We can romanticise the ‘Blitz spirit’ that copes with a crisis in the same way we can romanticise the ‘genius’ that somehow magically conjures great art. But there’s nothing romantic about hard fucking graft.

Everything I’ve seen by Verity Standen so far (this, and Hug, and a one-one-one thing under a bridge in the Olympic Park), it all makes the labour of performance very clear. The singing may sound beautiful, rewriting the everyday mediocrity of life into these huge, heart-swelling symphonies, but it is also a physical endeavour, a human effort. It is toil and struggle and hardship, muscle and breath and sweat. It is self-belief. Female self-belief at that. Those voices could stop a train. Do not fuck with them.

My 2015 has been more apathetic than angry, if I’m honest. I’ve hidden my laziness behind relentless activity. Risk-averse, safety first, that’s me. If nothing else, I want to spend 2016 getting more pissed off. More awkward and more antagonistic. More open about the emotional cost of living. I might get violent, start punching stuff, stealing stuff maybe, but I probably won’t. There isn’t always a lot we can do about the choices available to us (our work, our homes, our families, our credit cards) but we can always stand up and shout (sing).

Happy New Year xxx

2015x15 was a series of short, daily posts on the best things that happened/existed in 2015. They were presented in no particular order.

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