[reputayswift]

[toonelemental]

reblog this to fuckin BITE all your mutuals

[i-am-l-ananas]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Micheal Sheen was originally cast as Crowley

(I will never tire of hearing this 🥰)

Neil Gaiman: The truth is that Michael was meant to have played Crowley. That was where it all began: was me going, ‘Who do I know who could be Crowley? Micheal Sheen loves the book, Michael would do it.’, called Michael, do you want to do it, and he’s like, ‘Yes!’, I thought, 'Great, I have a Crowley.’. So when I started writing the scripts, I was writing them going I know I have - at least I have my Crowley, I have Michael Sheen. And around the middle of Episode 3, I was going, 'This Crowley doesn’t really feel a lot like Michael Sheen.’, and I wrote this sceen when Crowley comes down the center aisle of a church hopping like a man on a beach on a hot day 'cause it’s walking on holy ground and I thought, 'David Tennant would be really good at that, I could get David Tennant.’, and then when it was all done I figured I had to break it to Michael, that he wasn’t going to be Crowley, that I wanted him to be Aziraphale, and he read the scripts, and we had this really really awkward dinner, that because I was trying to pluck the courage to break it to Michael that I wanted him to play Aziraphale, and Michael was trying to find the way to break it to me that he did not want to play Crowley that he wanted to play Aziraphale having read the scripts. So it was an awful dinner until the end where we just like, 'Oh, you too?! Oh! Oh, good! Well I’m thinking of David Tennant, oh good you like him. Okay.’ So it became a lot easier at that moment.

[neil-gaiman]

Tumblr was so grumpy when we announced the casting. Most people who expressed their opinions thought that, if these two actors who weren’t anything like their headcanon had to play Crowley and Aziraphale then we’d got them the wrong way around. Ah, good times.

[cryptotheism]

I like that kids just have trans classmates now and don't give a shit. It's like having a classmate with red hair to them. Like "Mildly notable, anyway back to Fortnite"

[bees-with-swords]

In high school (3 years ago), I used they/them pronouns. The popular girls all used my pronouns. I was objectively weird and uncool, too, but they told me I was a good listener. They invited me to hang out or study with them. They offered me weed. We sat outside at prom and talked about the nature of high school and the future. I never felt unwelcome. I was never a joke.

The popular girls who invited me to hang out had boyfriends who had never used a pronoun in their lives. And suddenly there was peer pressure to be their best self and understand others. So these guys with big trucks and a spot on a sports team, they'd be offering me a ride to the bus stop and asking me questions about gender.

High school is getting better because high schoolers are getting better. Young people are awkward and stupid but many of them are still more empathetic and understanding than their parents.

[catchymemes]

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

''closed for cleaning on mondays'' comes from a sign, right? where it had been like written in English first and then a translation request sent to some office for the Welsh part and the autoreply came back saying the closed for cleaning bit but it's in Welsh so the people sending the request think it's the text they wanted translated, so then the road sign reads like:

''[Closed for cleaning on Mondays, but in Welsh] // Llanfainpwllgwyngyll Regional Airport 5 km"

i thought I remembered some kind of story like that......

...this is a highly surreal ask to receive and I lowkey cannot work out if you Know and are baiting me or if the stars have just aligned weirdly that I am being asked this.

Okay so no, "Closed for cleaning on Mondays" is just an isolated joke by itself, thrown out because it's funny to think of a country being closed for cleaning. HOWEVER. I do know exactly what you're vaguely remembering (or possibly fully remembering and gleefully pretending otherwise *sus*).

A new road was built near a supermarket in Swansea into a residential area in 2008, so they needed a road sign to tell delivery lorries not to enter the road. Someone in the roads section of Swansea Council duly sent the sign text ("No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only") to be translated to their internal translation department.

What they got back was an email that said:

Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw iaith i'w gyfieithu i EMAIL ADDRESS os gwelwch yn dda.

I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated to EMAIL ADDRESS.

At which point, the galaxy-brained individual who received that response went "Ah, excellent, my translation - WAIT. Something is Wrong with this translation."

And he looked at it, and examined it, and pondered it, and then went: "Hang on. My text didn't have an email address in it."

And he looked at it again, and examined it again, and pondered it again, and then went: "Hang on. I remember from school that 'Os gwelwch yn dda" means 'please'. My text didn't have the word please in it."

And he looked at it a final time, and examined it a final time, and pondered it a final time, and then went: "I have solved the mystery here. The translator is Wrong. I just need to remove that email address and 'please' and then it'll say what I want."

And thus this happened:

And that got picked up by Welsh media, and then UK media, and then international media, and even the New York Times or some shit reported it, and then MASSIVE FUCKING SCRUTINY descended upon, not the roads department of Swansea council who were actually responsible, but the translation department of Swansea Council, because this was considered Proof that we shouldn't have to put Welsh on road signs and we should all just let Welsh die.

And THAT meant the translators working for Swansea Council suddenly had to go through their out-of-office emails to prove that they're nice and clear and easy to understand and this wasn't their fault.

And one of those poor hapless translators, whose out-of-office email was suddenly being scrutinised by the New York Times as potential evidence that his job shouldn't exist and his language should be wiped out...

WAS MY HUSBAND.

DID YOU KNOW, TUMBLR USER GIRLWARLOCK

DID YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS PERSONAL

ARE YOU TOYING WITH ME

WHAT SORT OF POWER PLAY I'M

[justpastryvideos]

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[cannibalspicnic]

[kleefkruid]

My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."

and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"

[gracieabramss-deactivated202305]

look what you made me do is wasted on this fandom. it’s a goddamn perfect song. it’s satirical! it’s biting! it’s camp! it’s vicious! its lyrics go from a fantastic ear worm of a chorus to insanely poetic verses. it’s got the vocals from innocent on the bridge! which btw is the perfect bridge. “i’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams” is so brilliant - i’m the nightmare you fear, but it’s also an act, because this is all camp and in real life i’m haunted by what you did to me. which is why “oh, ‘cause she’s dead!” is so genius. yes, she’s viciously adopting the role they’ve given her, but it also relates to how she felt like everyone wanted her to commit suicide. “you want me dead? fine. but my ghost is scarier than anything you could’ve ever dreamt.” like it’s genuinely so so smart and even a lil bit vulnerable!

so when i see y’all just brush it off as a shake it off esque mindless bop, i lose my fucking mind! you do not deserve look what you made me do! do not listen to her until you are ready to admit u were very very wrong!

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

[velvetys]

When you see your pet and start petting their head and it’s randomly wet and you ask them “what happened why are you wet!!!!!!” And the pet doesn’t answer

[alchemisoul]

[nandomando]

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

there a baby fox living under our deck and he literally looks like that "full of milk" drawing except somehow rounder

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

ROTUND

[toonfinch-deactivated20231219]

artistic rendition

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

im actually crying rn thank you so much 

[icantdealwiththis-fuckyou-deact]

Welcome back to its really hot and I’m going to murder someone

[freedominthedarkmp3]

When you preheat the pan and then put something cold on it and it goes schhhshhshshssssssffsssxxfffff. Reblog if you agree!!!