sheepfilms
roma★
izzy's playlists!
Love Begins
No title available
Keni
will byers stan first human second
JVL
we're not kids anymore.
tannertan36
noise dept.
One Nice Bug Per Day
Claire Keane
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Kaledo Art
d e v o n
Cosimo Galluzzi
Game of Thrones Daily
oozey mess
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Hungary
seen from Australia
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Switzerland
seen from Portugal
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
@willow296
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
World Heritage Post
like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.
A couple of perspective notes I talked about during my webinar. I always have more notes on Patreon.
the rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming colour
forget your zodiac, tell me how the gävle goat was damaged in the year you were born
Burned halfway into December.
2002- survived
Burned down on Christmas Day
1997- Survived but was damaged
Here’s a fun tale from your local Target employee:
I was pushing truck for OTC today which is the pharmacy area. I was pushing cases of hand sanitizer because we got the “good stuff” in today (purell) and it goes quick even with the the product limit put in place. People were literally taking it from my hand before I could put it on the shelf, but that’s not the point.
As I was putting the goods on the shelf, this woman comes up to the stand and she’s very excited. “Yes! You guys have it! How many can I take, is there a limit?” I say yes, 3 per person per transaction per day. She nods, accepting, and grabs her three. “Sorry, that was weird. I’m a teacher, I’m trying to stock up. I promise I’m not a hoarder.” I smile and nod and say it’s fine. She starts to walk away but stops and turns back.
“Do you have any Clorox wipes in stock by any chance?”
Heart sinking, I shake my head and say no, sorry, and we don’t know for sure when we’ll get more. (We get them maybe once every two weeks, but the product limit for those is one per person per transaction per day and they usually sell out within hours of going on the shelf.)
Her face dropped and she kinda looked down at her hand sanitizer and said “that’s okay, with the product limit I wouldn’t be able to get enough before school starts anyway. It’s only 4 weeks away.” She laughed a little but I could hear the frustration in her voice and see the tension in her face. She sounded defeated. The most I could offer her was one of the small bottles of pure bleach. I honestly wanted to cry. For a second there I thought she would. I had no clue what to say as she turned and walked away.
This is what teachers are dealing with. Even in years when there’s not a pandemic they have to rely on donations from parents or their own money to be able to buy hand sanitizer, wipes, tissues, etc. for their classrooms. Now they’re being forced to return to school with no extra funding, no extra supplies, no support from the government; they’re STILL expected to provide for and protect these kids *on their own.* All while, now, risking their own lives and their own health because the government doesn’t want to admit that they fucked up handling this pandemic.
Every time I hear someone say “kids don’t die from it, it’ll be fine,” I realize that person does not give a flying fuck about teachers. Sure, *maybe* the kids will be fine. But the teachers are not children. They are adults with underlying conditions, adults living with elderly family, adults who are over 50 and are at more risk. Adults with at risk family at home. Adults who are at risk themselves. But they are STILL trying their hardest to protect your children in the classroom.
It’s honestly fucked up that we live in a country where police departments get millions or even billions of dollars in state funding, yet teachers have to buy their own cleaning supplies and doctors have to reuse PPE in hospitals. Police get tens of thousands of dollars worth of riot armor to wear and terrorize peaceful protesters, while the Navajo Nation get sent body bags instead of medical supplies.
Honestly I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I’m tired y’all. I’m tired and frustrated because leadership in this country doesn’t care enough to prioritize human life. Idk, it was a small moment in the grand scheme of things but it really was a slap in the face reminder of how this country treats it’s own people. I feel like we’ve all been getting those lately.
Kids don't die from it except when they DO, and teachers CARE and when they can't prevent it and they know that their kids are dying and hospitalized and irreparably harmed and they couldn't stop it, you're setting a lot of people up for a LOT of trauma, on top of everything else too.
Reblogging because I just can’t even any more. I can’t work during this pandemic and every day I read about a need for lifesaving supplies that I’d help pay for if I could. What ARE the people who measure their quarterly profits in billions even DOING?
teachers here in texas (several of whom are good friends of mine) are writing their wills because of school reopening. finding that out just...completely broke me.
If I was remaking the Princess Bride I’d have Buttercup hire Vizzini, Inigo and Fezzik herself to help her fake her death and take her away so she could go and seek out the Dread Pirate Roberts and get revenge for Westley’s death, and also get out of the marriage to Humperdinck, so she rocks up on the ship in disguise and this time Westley doesn’t recognise *her*, but she realises it’s Westley and she’s just making loads of snide remarks trying to figure out why he’s been merrily fucking about on a boat this whole time, meanwhile Westley’s having a little bit of a bi moment about Buttercup-in-disguise but because he’s loyal as fuck he’s not going to do anything about it but they get into a fight and Buttercup is like ‘Why the hell did you just fucking leave your girlfriend to fuck around being a pirate you could at least have written a letter’ and he’s like ‘Oh I’m sorry???? What on earth would you know about it, this is none of your concern, I should’ve killed you when you came on board’ and of course during this scene they’re also having a very tense sword fight with Inigo making quips from the sidelines like a sports commentator, and Buttercup’s like ‘WELL WHY DON’T YOU JUST KILL ME THEN, FARM BOY???’ But then the ship lurches to the side and she gets thrown overboard and Westley is like 'Oh my God I’m so stupid!!!!’ So then he has to dive in after and pull her out.
David Tennant reads the bookshop scene from Good Omens during Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Posting here to memorialise this even after the BBC takes it down from their website. Originally performed 12th Nov 2019 at the Barbican, London.
…his Aziraphale voice is so delicate oh my word, I’m ready to offer my life savings and possibly a kidney in exchange for a full-length audiobook
Why did “be critical of your media” turn into “find all its flaws and hate it” why did people become allergic to FUN
Because people confuse “critical as in critical thinking” with “critical as in criticizing something,” so they think that “look for something bad, no matter how far-fetched” is what “being critical” means.
and they were co-generals!
oh my god they were co-generals
i mean…. i guess imagine dragons is as good as everyone says…..
Dan Reynolds really woke up that day and thought “I’m gonna give the gays everything they want”
Bit of background to this, Dan Reynolds (lead singer for Imangine Dragons) holds the LoveLoud concert (the concert these pictures were taken at) in Utah where the LDS or Mormon church is predominantly the culture and religion of the state.
Reynolds was raised Mormon (I don’t know if he is still practicing) but has created this concert to give hope and understanding to the LGBT+ community there, especially the youth.
Utah has an extreme problem with youth suicide, especially Mormon LGBT+ kids who feel especially stressed due to the Mormon religious regulations and beliefs against being LGBT, but also the cultural biases and attitudes of the people that ostracize even non-Mormon LGBT+
Reynolds has advocated for attention to these issues from the Church and State Government, and also uses the LoveLoud concert to gain attention to these issues (and if I’m not mistaken, donates any proceeds to charity for LGBT youth in the state)
As far as I know, he is not LGBT, just a great fucking ally who saw a need in his state/culture and has done his best help.
So yeah, not only do Imagine Dragon songs fucking slap, but they all screamed “GAY RIGHTS!” at a heavily conservative and anti-LGBT state to help create a safe space for gay kids.
Not only that but he’s also a huge advocate for chronic illness as someone who suffers from Ankylosing spondylitis! He didn’t know he had it for years and suffered from it, it’s a pretty uncommon form of arthritis that causes the spine to have extra bone growths and then EVENTUALLY the spine hardens and becomes solid. He’s talked some about his issues and paired up with Spotify to help listeners take test to see if they should look into diagnosis/added easily accessible resources to playlist so that people with chronic illness can learn how to get better treatments. This dude is AMAZING and does so much to help those who need it
The Skywalker Saga - Trailer
SOB. I cried. Several times. It’s gorgeous. A fan-made trailer by Alec Siegel. Other Credits at the YouTube link
Someone pointed out that Crowley’s listed in the book’s personae as “an angel” (who didn’t fall, so much as sauntered vaguely downwards...). But there’s another, similar reference to his nature in the song at the end—“There were angels dining at the Ritz.” What I mean to say is that if Heaven’s angels were bad angels, maybe Crowley wasn’t. Maybe he was exactly as good as he was meant to be—a match for Aziraphale, anyway. Crowley asks Aziraphale at the bus stop if everything might have happened as God had ineffably planned it after all. And Aziraphale said he wouldn’t put it past Her. Maybe they were both God’s honest angels in the most ineffable sense, by being honestly themselves.
Also this bit! They’re the same kind of thing. Crowley knows it, when he’s not thinking too hard about it. And Aziraphale knows it:
He expected Crowley to be able to sense love, too, just like he can. That’s his real, instinctive opinion of Crowley. It’s only when he’s theorizing instead of feeling that he says Crowley wouldn’t understand love.
Which means the central conflict of their relationship is summed up beautifully in Crowley’s “You’re an angel—I don’t think you can do the wrong thing” and Aziraphale’s eager acceptance being followed immediately by “it’d be funny if you did the wrong thing and I did the right one,” and Aziraphale’s horror.
Crowley can believe in his angel’s goodness long before he can begin to trust in his own again; but he still knows in his core that his misalignment with Heaven isn’t a moral failure. And Aziraphale wants to be comforted and reassured in his rightness; but he won’t ever be able to believe in his heart that Crowley is wholly wrong.
Yes absolutely, this is exactly the point. I once saw a shitpost that described Crowley's relationship to angelhood as "right species, wrong political party" and that's a perfect summary of the situation tbh. Ultimately demons are not all that much different from their Heavenly counterparts.
The difference with Crowley, though, is that he hasn't embraced bitterness like the other demons we're introduced to. He's still hurt, he's still angry with God and a dedicated up-fucker of shit, but he ultimately refuses to be soured by hatred. The other demons we see hate Heaven, hate humans, hate each other, hate themselves, and are subsumed by that. They are not evil by any inherent nature, but because they're in pain and making that everyone else's problem.
Crowley, though, has made a radical choice to love, instead. Love the world, love Aziraphale... still working on loving himself, but he's getting there.
And I use the word "choice" deliberately, because the whole point of both Aziraphale and Crowley is to prove that however much Heaven and Hell preach to the contrary, angels (fallen or otherwise) absolutely have free will. Heaven and Hell are both terrible. If Hell is loveless out of pain, Heaven is loveless out of fear (and the reason for that can be laid squarely at God's feet for failing to handle Their rebellious little shit of a firstborn with grace... but the trauma all the angels on both sides are suffering from is a whole meta in and of itself). Point is, neither of the sides have any real, substantive love for anything, but Aziraphale and Crowley choose to love anyway, and choose to act in defense of what they love. It's not so much that Crowley is closer to being a "good person" or that Aziraphale is closer to being a "bad person" than others of their kind, and more that they're both closer to being real people.
They are, ultimately, the same kind of being. Despite the propaganda of Heaven and Hell preaching that they're diametrically opposed and different from each other in every way, it's clear that neither of them has been able to look at each other and truly believe that in their heart of hearts since almost the beginning. It's the old "we're all only human" concept, but in this case the refrain is "we're all only angels." Their differences are superficial at best, and deep down, when they're not thinking too hard about it, both of them recognize that. They look at each other, and when they're not trying to cling to the lies they've been fed about "the opposition," they instinctively feel it.
"Oh," their hearts say, "he's just like me."
BUT WAIT I'M NOT DONE!!!!
It's also worth examining that, while Crowley has nothing in common, politically speaking, with Heaven, he is much closer to a human concept of what an angel should be than he is to the modern concept of a demon.
He owes something, certainly, to pre-Reformation and/or non-Christian depictions of demons as scholars and bringers of wisdom, and even perhaps a little something to trickster gods in non-Abrahamic religious traditions. But the more modern concept of a demon as a malignant entity gleefully bent on possession, death, and destruction? We wrestle with Crowley's role as a demon because that's not recognizable in him at all (and for that matter, so does Crowley, I think. "I'm just doing my job," he says, so that he doesn't have to emotionally deal with what Hell asks him to do).
But when the chips are down, we can recognize in Crowley and Aziraphale a pair of guardian angels for the whole world. Their role in Nopemageddon begins with Crowley's intercession on behalf of humanity, his pleading with God's representative on Earth to take action, to do something, anything, to save this beautiful planet that he loves so dearly. And it ends with Aziraphale convincing Crowley to put his own skin on the line, to back those words up with action and defend humanity not just intellectually but physically as well.
And that full-circle balance is worthy of a whole essay in and of itself but the point is that both Crowley and Aziraphale are more like what modern humans expect angels to be than they are like the reality of what the other angels and demons in their universe actually are.
This is such an interesting meta, especially when you consider Crowley's reaction to... What was it, the Spanish Inquisition?
But, and I'm just gonna put this out there...
Hell's Angel.
The above touches on “non-christian aspects” of demons but I think fails to recognize that Neil Gaiman is Jewish so a throwaway line doesn’t do justice to *how much* the non-christian concept of demons may have influenced this story. Jews pick up story concepts from the common/normalized culture (aka christian culture) just like everyone else, but we have our own stories and myths that impact how we see angels and demons that can’t be lumped in with Christianity. Our stories are more closely related to what is mentioned above as “non-abrahamic” religious traditions - because Christianity and Judaism view things VERY DIFFERENTLY from one another.
In Judaism, demons that simply “do evil” are incredibly, extremely rare, and actually pretty modern. Collections of historic Jewish folktales (Elijah’s Violin and Other Jewish Fairytales is a great starting place) mostly show demons exactly like trickster gods. They’re more powerful than humans but sometimes they act just like humans - but with the ability to get their comeuppance if someone wrongs them (see The Demon Princess) - and sometimes they act like trickster gods who teach you lessons about yourself (see King Solomon and Asmodeus).
Judaism doesn’t have a Satan. The angel (yes, angel) who is called “the satan” in Jewish literature is often labeled The Prosecuter, as in, the lawyer during a trial.
And these roles are ones that we see Crowley filling perfectly.
Neil has actually stated explicitly that Good Omens is how it is because he is Jewish and has read the Mishnah.
I would suggest the following of the show, actually:
GOmens!G-d, “the almighty”: Catholic perception of G-d
GOmens!Satan: Catholic perception of Satan
Aziraphale and Crowley: Jewish perception of G-d and Satan.
Think about it. Aziraphale is deeply loving and welcomes questions, even when they make him uncomfortable. He doesn’t recognize Jesus as divine; when Crowley asks why Jesus has been crucified you’d expect something about the biblical prophesies being fulfilled, but instead it’s “he said to be kind to each other,” which is the whole sum of Torah, as expressed by Hillel. He delights in Earth and its people; he is a constant seeker of knowledge, and while all that can be known is known by G-d, his attitude toward books is reminiscent of the good Jewish scholar. Indeed, in his complete shunning of modern technology, we can also draw a parallel to the Jewish concept of tradition and ritual among the Orthodox, which is a pretty rare thing to see in media. We even see him acknowledge his own fallibility in debate, which is something shown time and time again in the midrash.
Crowley, meanwhile, fits this on two fronts. First, two actions the Christian canon attributes to Satan are attributed to Crowley: the temptation in Eden, and showing Jesus all the nations of the world. (Jewish tradition does not hold that the snake was Satan.) To a Christian unfamiliar with Judaism, this is a way to, for lack of a better word, Satan-code him; he’s now a stand-in for Satan in the Christian eye. Thing is, Judaism doesn’t conceive of Satan the same way; he’s a judge and trickster, basically ‘tempting’ humans because, as Aziraphale points out, you can’t truly choose good if there’s no choice to be made. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. And Crowley does—you could even argue that it shows subtextually in his Hamlet miracle, given that Hamlet is about the struggle between impulses. None of the truly evil stuff can be laid at his door—he’s disgusted by Nazis, depressed by Caligula and baffled by the aftermath of the French Revolution. Perhaps most central to this concept is his prayer as he seeks to leave Earth to escape Armageddon: pleading with G-d always in the form of a question, such that this is even his own description of his crimes: “all I ever did was ask questions.” Is there ANYTHING more Jewish? Indeed, the prayer itself is reminiscent of Abraham’s, pleading for the lives of Sodom and Gomorrah: “I know you’re testing them, but must you test them to destruction?” He tempts, he tricks, but he’s not by any means “evil.”
Played out on a grand scale, one could then argue the show is no less than a struggle of ideologies, as written by a Jewish man.
Careful step and Yeet™
Lost Hat (A short comic)
This was the scene that inspired me to draw the comic. The idea has been in my head since June, after the release of the Good Omens episodes. It went lying in my folders for a while, but I’m glad to finally have it finished! Thank you for reading :)
no way fucking way....
NO fuckifn way
#fandom has written off Gabriel as dumb but like #you don’t show up unannounced with a violent enforcer your employee is clearly uncomfortable around and trap him in a room by accident #this is deliberate mob level intimidation #“politely” reminding him exactly what theyre capable of if he steps out of line #and its terrifying #he cant even look at them
@ileolai hitting the nail on the head as usual!
In addition, Sandalphon is blocking the exit. And he and Gabriel are standing at complete 180 degree points with Aziraphale in the centre. This is a thing I have known sadistic interviewers to do: to deliberately sit (or stand) at such angles to the victim/interviewee that they can never have both interviewers in their eyeline at the same time. To make eye contact with one, you have to lose sight of the other. Normally I’ve seen it done with the two interviewers at 90 degrees, so the interviewee has to keep turning their head. This is even more cruel: Aziraphale has to turn his back on whomever is not speaking. It’s a deliberate tactic to make a victim more awkward and wrong-footed, and in this case, even physically vulnerable.
Yep. You’ve articulated what I was trying to get at with ‘’trap’’. You don’t block off the exits like that to have a polite conversation. You do it to threaten somebody.
It’s like they took the mob intimidation bit from the original book and turned it into something far more horrifying and with more weight for his character arc, because this is what gangsters do to scare people. imo Gabriel is fairly well aware of whats going on long before the surveillance photos come into it and he just likes watching Aziraphale squirm with anxiety over how much he knows, because he’s not stupid, he’s a sadistic bully.
And Aziraphale is playing the game so well. He tells himself he trusts them but he absolutely doesn’t. He smiles, he nods, he tells them nothing. He has a quick answer for the jibe about the evil smell. He shows zero reaction to their loud comments about pornography (react, and prove you’re more used to humans than to angels? That you find angels embarrassing now? That you know more about earth than the guy who stationed you there?). He’s covering his ass expertly—he knows how to defend himself. He’s watched angels fall.
@kedreeva oh NO you’re right.
Like don’t get me wrong, I like a good clueless boss as much as the next person. But that’s not Gabriel. Michael asks if Gabriel minds Michael following up through back channels and Gabriel plainly says “there are no back channels, Michael” and it’s not because Gabriel thinks there are no back channels, of course there fucking are, he’s been using them too. But how dare Michael bring them up so baldly. How dare Michael betray the ruse, and to his face like that. They’re the good guys, you know.
ANTHONY “TONY” EDWARD STARK (May 29th, 1970 - October 17th, 2023)
