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I just realized I haven't done an introduction post so here we go!
what role will you play Mr. Hagen?
No txt version:
“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”
Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.
“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”
Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.
“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”
You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?
One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.
The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.
And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.
And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.
Flowey may be the only character ever to beat suicidal ideation by killing himself and coming back and realizing it wasn’t all that
Counterpoint, Phil Connors
Literally will never recover from the character Jon Sims. Cursed by spiders from age 8. Acted skeptical of horrific entities while fighting said entities. Tried to cut off his own finger repeatedly. Partook in an enemies-to-lovers romance in which only he believed them to be enemies. Short. Kidnapped at least 3 times. Surrounded by queer women who are constantly threatening to kick his ass. No understanding of pop culture. Possessed by a purveyor of apocalyptic beat poetry. Said the first “I love you” in the show, directed at a cat that was biting him. Called a merry-go-round “thrilling.” Metaphysically disassembled anyone who was mean to his boyfriend. Said “good lord” unironically. Asked a murderous Russian clown why she didn’t sound Russian. He was even bi
Today's vent:
this house can fit so many fucking hallways in it you dont even KNOW
I know a lot of people are focused on the ending of Good Omens and I don't blame them but can we talk about how horrifying the deaths of the other archangels were?
Their existence, gone. Erased from this world with nothing but their likeness charred into the walls behind them. And Micheal being haunted by these deaths was just absolutely phenomenal to watch.
I desperately wish we could've gotten more time to watch Micheal and how they processed everything. How they ended up there. Their line of thought makes sense given the incredible amount of pressure they had been under but God I needed more time with them.
the problem isn't “they didn’t get the ship moment I wanted.” the problem is thematic incoherence.
season 1 and 2 kept hammering the idea that individual lives matter. not replaceable copies. not "close enough." actual people, with continuity and memory and history. Crowley and Aziraphale repeatedly chose imperfect, messy existence over grand cosmic plans. so ending with "the universe gets reset and everyone is replaced by alternate versions" isn't just horribly depressing. it's philosophically backwards. like the story literally abandoned its own argument in the final act.
the Job parallel especially points that out pretty cleanly. The whole emotional weight there was: replacement children are not the same children. new children (even if they had, by some chance, looked and acted Exactly The Same) doesn't fix the tragedy of losing the original children. that mattered to them. so yea, this ending feels less like "hopeful transcendence to tear down The System" and more like “congrats on your happy ending! everyone is dead, but the cottage is cute!" bold creative choice ig. like serving tea with eccles cakes after detonating reality.
my frustration is basically: the story spent years arguing that personhood matters — memory matters, continuity matters, these exact souls matter. and then solved the finale with a cosmic reset that wipes out the very identities the narrative taught us to care about. very much like the nuclear apocalypse they were trying so hard to prevent. it goes against the very thing Crowley was staunchly opposed to during The Flood. against everything they did in the Job minisode. against literally the entire Jim/Gabriel narrative, about Jim not really being Gabriel without his memories. and also, to quote Crowley, "the angel you knew is NOT me."
"but they found each other again! we got them back at the end!" no we didn't. that is NOT them. and to say that they are is kind of insulting tbh. they LOOK similar and maybe have some of the same interests, but just bc a blonde and a red head are into books and astrophysics doesn't make them THEM. their memories, their history, everything they went through together and fought for, the experiences that shaped their characters, those 6000+ years — that's all GONE.
Also. people keep saying stuff like "it was the only right choice" as if there were only two horrible choices? if the story introduces negotiation and moral choice, we'll naturally start imagining alternatives. once “God offers options” enters the chat, people will obviously ask, “wait. why was this the chosen solution?” when they could've gone for idk, literally anything else. God literally offered to put things back as they were. they could've chosen to have THAT universe, THAT world —THEIR world— put back into place and then added their own conditions to tear down Heaven and Hell. they could've chosen to keep their memories. they could've chosen to make everyone human from then on if that's what the writers were so hellbent on. they could've chosen to make God erase her own memory for all i care idfk. but this ending feels like a bad consolation prize.
after EVERYTHING they did, and everything they went through, they deserved SO much better than this. THE WHOLE WORLD did.
New Earth isn't Earth. a Michael Jackson impersonator isn't actually Michael Jackson. The Other Mother isn't the real mother. those new people aren't their original selves. and whoever those guys are at the end are not Aziraphale and Crowley.
A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys
ok just to recap they lost the antichrist in S1 they lost the archangel gabriel in S2 and now they lost jesus??? omg these guys can't do anything
Do I dare post my DC oc or do I actually lock in for school?
Do it do it! Don't leave Mirage alone, where would she be without her paranoid character foil bestie?
We should slowly reveal the Paradoxes tbh
My favorite superbat fics are the ones where they should get gold medals for their Olympic level mental gymnastics.
Specifically where they don't know each other's identities but they interact as civilians and see the other as a liability. Like Clark Kent sitting with a pleasant smile on his face but secretly thinking "oh my god this guy is an idiot and he's going to get me into something that is going to get him killed and me exposed" and Bruce returning the smile and thinking "what is this reporter's deal? He must know something, he's acting suspiciously. What if he knows I'm Batman and intends to blackmail me?"
Peak dynamic, they're both really smart but absolutely morons when it comes to each other
Actually posting my art for the first time in forever! This is Mirage, she's one of my extraordinarily self indulgent DC OCs
january was five months, february was normal, march was about three weeks, and april so far has been about twenty minutes.
Groundhog Day (1993) - Impressions, praise, and what fanfics writers can learn about writing time-loops from the OG time-loop film
Last night, I rewatched the "original" time-loop film, Groundhog Day (1993), and I couldn't help but admire the writing.
Though time loops have become a stock trope, especially in fanfic, there's a reason "Groundhog Day" is widely credited with launching the popularity of the trope in the first place because it is fun, fresh, and (at the time) original.
Yet while Groundhog Day is often credited as the inspiration for time-loop stories both silly and serious (like Supernatural's "Mystery Spot" episode, or Tom Cruise's "Edge of Tomorrow") when going back to the original, I noticed a few of its best beats are very rarely replicated in subsequent inspired works, and that's a bit of a shame, because a lot of those beats are what made the time loop story so fresh in the first place.
Things like:
The "Fuck Around" Stage
After discovering he's stuck in a time loop, Bill Murray's character Phil does something I have rarely seen any other subsequent time loop story doing - he fucks around and has fun with it.
I wish people didn't reduce Clearsight and Darkstalker's relationship to "they loved each other desperately until he turned evil, but there's a future out there where they could've worked," because I don't really believe that to be true, and acknowledging the nuance in the tragedy that is their relationship makes it so much more interesting.
Darkstalker was always incredibly manipulative, and no healthy functioning relationship can be born from that. From the moment he hatches, he knows that his mother loves him more because he's her perfect dragonet. He lets his sister's egg remain unhatched because he knows that he won't have to share his mother's love with her, at least not to the same extent, if she doesn't have the same powers.
Darkstalker also routinely lies to Clearsight about not reading her mind throughout the book, well before Fathom arrives. He thinks about how he could be king and even if he has to kill dragons to get there, it'll end up okay, and if he just nudges Clearsight in the right direction she'll understand. He thinks about this under the guise of "it'll make it easier and she'll understand one day," but it's blatantly deceitful.
Clearsight isn't innocent either. She remains so focused on the future and everything that could go wrong and trying to micromanage that, that she misses it actively happening. It isn't her fault, Darkstalker is solely responsible for his actions, but she even manipulates how they meet so it happens the way she wants.
In an effort to be on equal footing, they lie to each other and bend the truth or try to catch each other off guard. Some lies are innocuous but they build and build until there's nothing left. Their relationship is also built off of the expectation of a relationship. They do spend quality time together to get to know each other, but they immediately accept that the other is the only one for them despite being dragonets.
I think this toxicity is fascinating, and should be talked about more within the fandom! Both parties are deeply flawed and that's what makes them such good characters, but it's also why I don't believe they would've ever worked out. We know Clearsight saw futures where they were happy, but I don't believe those futures were likely at all. Darkstalker was power hungry from the moment he hatched, and Clearsight was far too detached from the present to have any chance at stopping him early on.
TLDR: Clearsight and Darkstalker were just as doomed as Arctic and Foeslayer from the beginning.