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Randomly slept an extra five hours today. Glad to know I’m being possessed by Kafka.

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

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God, I don’t know if a single act of generosity I’ve ever committed hasn’t been scolded by other people. It’s a wild phenomenon.

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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Curious on others opinions on this one.

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Guys that is literally one of his SPECIAL INTERESTS. Pls respect him.

Hi Mr Gaiman,

how are you doing?

I was reading the Good Omens book when I found this:

"Like eggs without salt, you said. Which reminds me. No salt, no eggs. No gravlax with dill sauce. No fascinating little restaurants where they know you. No Daily Telegraph crossword. No small antique shops. No bookshops, either. No interesting old editions. No"-Crowley scraped the bottom of Aziraphale's barrel of interests-"Regency silver snuffboxes . . ."

So what does Aziraphale need a snuffbox for?

I do not see him 'snuff' tobacco so I thought he might use it to keep his travel sweets. I'm imagining it honey-flavoured with a tinge of lemon and ginger and in winter time he switches them for minty ones and on Christman they're butterscotch and candy-cane-flavoured.

Since it's 'Regency', is it a bookshop opening gift from Crowley?

You don't have to answer. I just like to ask questions and probably have my own story in mind of how things went anyway. I should write but I still don't let me do it.

Anyhoo I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane and boy oh boy I cried. Now I know why people cried. It's the feeling of missing something that you did not have experience and still accepting the aftermath of something that needed to happen, I guess? I loved it.

Have a nice day :) Bye

He collects them.

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Coming back to this meta with more thoughts. Crowley is testing him in more ways than one, isn’t he? That little clap and nod when Aziraphale lies to the angels, when he does the right thing despite orders. He wants to know if Aziraphale is like him like he thinks he is, if he cares enough about doing the right thing to ‘thwart the will of God’. That makes the Job parallel even clearer.

They mirrored the Job story

I don’t know if this has been said yet, but during the Job episode I was extremely preoccupied with the “sounds lonely” arc, preoccupied with Aziraphale changing, but I noticed something else.

There is something about that scene in the villa, where Aziraphale asks Crowley not to destroy Job’s children. Now, we know Crowley never had any plans to do this, so why would he lie to Aziraphale instead of just admitting it? Does he actually want to seem that demonic to him, does he want him to think he’s evil?

I don’t think so. At least, that isn’t the way I interpreted it.

I think Crowley was testing Aziraphale’s faith in him. He looks him in the eyes, he tells him he’s going to go through with it, and he watches his reaction. Aziraphale is on the verge of tears when he walks away, and when Crowley goes the opposite direction, you can see he looks a little disappointed.

Then Aziraphale finds out he didn’t kill the goats. And like that, his faith in him is restored.

So what does Crowley do? Just like God with Job, he escalates. He raises the stakes.

Next time, it’s the fire. The “are you sure, angel?” gets me every single time. He is looking Aziraphale in the eyes and asking for his faith, and Aziraphale looks back at him and this time, he gives it resolutely, firmly. Quite sure. And after that, Crowley doesn’t test him again.

It’s just so interesting to think about the state of their relationship at this point—the fact that Crowley is, relative to the rest of their existence, newly fallen. They’re treading this new ground, and Crowley doesn’t know where he stands in Aziraphale’s eyes. So in his own weird, definitely-not-trauma-fueled way, he decided to find out.

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Great Gatsby

‘unreliable narrator’ but it’s ’narrator is deeply in love with the person they are narrating’

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I will say it again and again. Ao3 has a million tools so that you can self censor what you don’t want to read. The big difference is that you aren’t taking it away from anyone else when you do that.

you know i have never heard a convincing arguement as to why AO3 should not moderate the content that is posted to their website and i think a lot of the arguement against moderation on AO3 boils down to, terminally online people thinks community moderation is the same as government censorship and personally sending the cops to someone’s house to arrest them irl/

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A lot of my fics have linked translations because of this feature! Absolutely go use it!

btw this isn't a vague/subtweet (post?) or anything but just so y'all know, there's a way to mark things as "inspired by" on ao3

you don't have to just put it in the notes!! very cool under-utilized feature

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Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry

There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe

If you're European please sigh it

If you're not please reblog

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I think a massively underrated part of canon is the Arrangement. Like. Really think about it for a second. Not only was Crowley out here doing good—Aziraphale was out there doing bad. I NEED more fics of Aziraphale’s temptations. Someone feed me lest I feed myself.

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Seeing the “if you care about (fiction) enough to feel a real emotions over it you’re mentally ill” take a lot on my dash lately so here’s a lil reminder.

“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

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My little Evangelical raised brain wondered who had gotten this joke. It made me crack a smile.

Why didn't anyone tell me this is a play on a bible quote? First time I regret being raised by atheists.

Can't believe some gay ass show got me reading the bible.

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I was hoping someone would do this

how was the eclipse : (

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Do you know what happens to ducks when you feed them bread?

They develop a syndrome called angel wing. Their feathers stick out, and they’re unable to fly away from predators.

In other news—

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If anyone super special and nice wanted to reblog this post with that one clip of musical Crowley on his knees pouring Aziraphale a drink. It literally lives rent free in my mind every day.

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This omg I’m so flabbergasted when I see people saying Aziraphale doesn’t respect his boundaries and shit—

This is how I am with the people I’m closest to. I whine and bitch and I don’t expect anything to actually change because we, people who are close, know when one is being serious and when they’re just being a hater for the fun of it. I might grumble about a song my best friend puts on in the car, but that doesn’t mean I’m mad when she doesn’t change it (or even that I actually want her to). Sometimes, complaining is just a social behavior, and it really isn’t that deep.

Thinking about that video of David and Michael describing Crowley and Aziraphale's date night. Aziraphale doing all the things he loves and Crowley complaining the whole night and the two of them "having just the best time". And also thinking about how folks feel uncomfortable with how Aziraphale pushed to take the Bentley even when Crowley complained and then made changes to her and Crowley insisted on changing it back.

Crowley complains not because anything is really wrong but because he feels comfortable enough to do so. (When something's really wrong, he takes action.)

You know what "asking too many damn fool questions" is really? Complaining that things aren't being done properly.

Aziraphale creates a safe space for Crowley to whinge and whine and grumble and growl and roll his eyes and sigh heavily and demand his own way and have someone hear his complaints and not throw him out. And Crowley understands that when Aziraphale does something over the top, he is allowed to complain. And in the end they will find a compromise place where Crowley is comfortable with what's happening but he can still whine and Aziraphale can do the things he loves with Crowley's support (even when it sounds grudging). That's their whole, 6000+ year relationship.

Aziraphale did change the Bentley, but not back. Not all the way. She's a new Bentley from then on. She's their car now, and we don't hear a peep from Crowley about it.