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If you booped me please know that I got the boop and I'm grateful but this is a sideblog so unfortunately you will be Revenge Booped by my main blog.

BOOPS UPON YE, OLD FRIENDS <3

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A picnic she wants, a picnic she gets! 🩷

hngdn i just love putting her in blue T___T<3 ily aziraphale ilysm OTL

happy femme aziraphale friday !! again, anyone is free to join whenever they want and any kind/interpretation of a female aziraphale is welcome — we all love any and every version of aziraphale :3

question: what food would you bring in a picnic with her? :3c

If you'd like to support me, please consider checking out my commission sheet for this month's batch or tipping me through ko-fi! Any kind of support can help us pay for my Dad's funeral. Thank you so much!

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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oh btw it turns out I have OCD. 👍 Discuss ALL your symptoms with your doctor, kids! Prevent the next subtype before it chews you up for multiple years!

Minor panic attack over someone saying that Michael Sheen is gross because of the age gap between him and his partner and therefore Good Omens is gross.

Like, I get it. Hollywood has a problem with older men dating younger women. It should be addressed and stopped. But just because one piece is dirty doesn’t mean the machine is broken. Right? Or am I bending over backwards because I genuinely like Michael Sheen (and obviously Good Omens)? He’s more than who he dates, just like everyone in a relationship, but does that cancel out the problem or highlight it? I don’t know. I know it’s bad when society says men over forty can date women in their twenties because women older than that are Bad, but it seems like he genuinely at least likes her (I cannot believe I’m blanking on her name, I KNOW I’ve seen it multiple times but it hasn’t stuck yet and I’m guilty over that too) and that’s important right? That he loves her? Or is it all null because of their ages? I don’t know.

This is the shit that scares me because there’s so much MORE to it, there’s society and expectations and philosophies and morals and ethics and What Should Be and What Should Not Be, and I know some people like the bigger picture and like talking about it but the bigger picture terrifies me because it IS so big. Every node in the web of What Is is integral to the web itself. We have to be careful which ones are too problematic to be allowed unthinking adoration.

Anyway yeah. Someone says Michael Sheen is gross and I jump into a tangent about how there’s too many shades of grey for me to handle. And thus, anxiety.

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as a disabled person, I find it very lovely that the disabled angel is defined by how much gd loves them. not because I'm religious, but because it amuses me to know that there are a bunch of Protestants being mad that their whole "God only loves you if you're useful" shtick is so thoroughly rejected in such a popular show revolving around angels and demons.

Liz Carr as Saraqael is very very powerful and I am grateful for her <3

neil, is there any particular reason why most angels' names end with -ael or -iel? with the exceptions of metatron, sandalphon, and aziraphale of course.

Angelic names tend to discuss the relationship of the angel to god, or be a description of an aspect of god. The "El" at the end of angelic names means "God" (or more precisely "god" because it can refer to lots of different gods).

Iirc Michael means "who is like God?", Gabriel means "my strength comes from God", Uriel means "light of God", Saraqael means "beloved by God" and Muriel means "smells like God".

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In case people weren’t aware, there seems to have been a massive issue throughout Patreon. People have had their subscriptions cancelled and many had their payments flagged as fraud with their bank. 150$ of my patronage disappeared, that’s 150$ a month as a disabled artist that took months to build that I’m unsure I’ll ever get back..Gone. It won’t allow me to message anyone whose payments were declined.I also had around 10 people’s payments flagged as fraud, some have had to re-patron. If you’re supporting Patreon creators I advise you look to see if at least the people you remember supporting are still there / that your payments aren’t marked as fraud, especially if you’re supporting for physical rewards you’re expecting. 

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In case people weren’t aware, there seems to have been a massive issue throughout Patreon. People have had their subscriptions cancelled and many had their payments flagged as fraud with their bank. 150$ of my patronage disappeared, that’s 150$ a month as a disabled artist that took months to build that I’m unsure I’ll ever get back..Gone. It won’t allow me to message anyone whose payments were declined.I also had around 10 people’s payments flagged as fraud, some have had to re-patron. If you’re supporting Patreon creators I advise you look to see if at least the people you remember supporting are still there / that your payments aren’t marked as fraud, especially if you’re supporting for physical rewards you’re expecting. 

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to quote Julia Drawfee: Honestly, feels pretty bad, man. But also it’s kinda fun.

Can I get some more art acknowledging Aziraphale’s trauma because like yes Crowley’s should be acknowledged but Aziraphale is suffering from anxiety and the abuse of the other angels and the Rules and I just

please!!!!! show!!!!! Aziraphale recovering!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Good Evening! Here is my interpretation of Gabriel's arrival in Soho. I customised the minifigure by painting his eyes violet, and the blanket was only stripey when I started. Thin strips of tape and more violet paint hopefully make it look like tartan. I was lucky to find lots of different skin tones for the crowd in Lego pick-a-brick, (from the table football set, but I didn't have to buy the whole set!)

It was fun to find all the best unhappy faces I had

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I am a dumb lil dumpling and I just want to love u

✨Froggy Piccrew time 🐸✨

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I was tagged by the sweet @vintagelacerosette to partake in this froggy picrew Piccrew here I love it so thank you!

my exact reaction to seeing that it was a frog picrew was *gasp* “I wanna be a frog! Oh! I get to be a frog!”

I’m gonna tag

@aziraphaleisagender  @5ftjewishcactus  @gallavichthings  @klara-v-klyare @flamingbluepanda @xninetiestrendx @oneguardian15 @ineffablefool @iansfreckles  @sickness-health-all-that-shit @witchboywitchboywitchboy​

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give a neurodivergent diabetic some money, feel good knowing that it will be used for the sole purpose of getting food that isn’t rice crackers: paypal.me/EricDaphne

(the only food in this house that feels Safe is the rice crackers and that ain’t healthy when I need a well-rounded meal so I don’t collapse)

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Oh I had a most splendid idea

Since I have finished the first chapter of my book, and edited as best I can, I am prepared to share the first ~7k words with whoever would like to see what, exactly, I’m working on.

The first chapter in full will be posted on my patreon for the $15 and $20 tiers next month, but that’s too long a wait for me. So! If anyone wishes to get a sneak peek of the Very Beginning, please Paypal me $10 and leave a note for how you would like the receive the link to the google doc!

I also realized I should explain it. This will be a three-part novel (aiming for 15k+ per part/chapter) about two women: a weather-witch who was raised on an airbase and is legally a courier, but is also trained as a smuggler, a spy, and a warrior; and a wanderer Star, who decided to visit earth and was subsequently captured by greedy, frightened humans. The novel is from the pov of the Star, as she searches for personal revenge, and slowly begins to realize that she cares deeply for, and wants to protect, most of humanity–and especially a certain gun-slinging smuggler…

Oh, did I mention this is a sci-fi story set in a world with floating cities, questionable science, Tender Lesbian Yearning, a pacifist old man committing cold-blooded murder in the name of his daughters, a happy gay ending, and a talking pigeon?

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Oh I had a most splendid idea

Since I have finished the first chapter of my book, and edited as best I can, I am prepared to share the first ~7k words with whoever would like to see what, exactly, I’m working on.

The first chapter in full will be posted on my patreon for the $15 and $20 tiers next month, but that’s too long a wait for me. So! If anyone wishes to get a sneak peek of the Very Beginning, please Paypal me $10 and leave a note for how you would like the receive the link to the google doc!

I also realized I should explain it. This will be a three-part novel (aiming for 15k+ per part/chapter) about two women: a weather-witch who was raised on an airbase and is legally a courier, but is also trained as a smuggler, a spy, and a warrior; and a wanderer Star, who decided to visit earth and was subsequently captured by greedy, frightened humans. The novel is from the pov of the Star, as she searches for personal revenge, and slowly begins to realize that she cares deeply for, and wants to protect, most of humanity–and especially a certain gun-slinging smuggler…

Oh, did I mention this is a sci-fi story set in a world with floating cities, questionable science, Tender Lesbian Yearning, a pacifist old man committing cold-blooded murder in the name of his daughters, a happy gay ending, and a talking pigeon?

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I have been having a Very Awful Month as you may have gathered, so I am sharing the link to my gofundme.

My goal is $425, in order to purchase myself a trike. So far, I’ve received $182. I’m trying to get a trike specifically, because it will be better for my health, both mentally and physically, than a bicycle. I would like to finish this up before the end of August, so that I can get said trike in time for autumn, and prime biking weather.

(Also I have discovered that I really, really miss walking/riding through the woods. The idea of riding a trike on the bike paths through the various woodlands around here makes me so excited and happy.)

If you could reblog this post or share this link, I’d be grateful. <3 Have a good day, y’all.

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Michael Sheen: We need to support the working class and those in need, and destroy class divides. It’s imperative that everyone in this nation is equal, in rights, resources, and the law.

Twitter users: heehoo tiny Welshman funni

Michael Sheen: Also can’t wait until everyone in the royal family is kicked out lol

Twitter users: WE STAN!!!!!!!!

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Okay so I was talked out of my guilt spiral so I’m rewriting this.

The ko-fi goal wasn’t doing well, so I removed it and instead I’ve made a GoFundMe. If you could share this post/link, I’d be grateful. Thank you.

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@ouidamforeman as OP I am claiming the right to reblog with your tags because I Love Them

LISTEN LISTEN I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT INTERESTS ME SO MUCH so like.....Good Omens is very interesting because as an actual work of fiction it straddles a weird line between like fandom-y and not as conducive to fandom and something that pisses me off sometimes is that some of the really good bits of canon are glossed over or not discussed by fandom because they’re not really things that are easy to Fandom about and weirdly significant chunks of Aziraphale and Crowley’s characters are one of those things especially this Aziraphale’s Issues thing and the torturing Crowley thing fandom at large tends to latch onto characters who can be shipped together and whumped on and not as much on aspects of characters that are negative or complicated to write about and for better or worse A&C are all of those things lmao and like ppl were saying above one of Crowley’s issues is that he’s hurt physically and that’s easier to write about and conceptualize plus ppl seem to interpret him as ‘the sexy one’ or something and physically torturing the pretty character is a Thing whereas Aziraphale’s character issues aren’t physical and a huge part of his struggle is ideological which is just more complicated to understand and less conventionally sexy to write about I guess but what makes me sad is that their arcs about physical and mental trauma mirror each other and go together and they’re really well suited to help each other with their issues so when there’s this one-sided thing going on in the majority of content it makes me sad also everyone read the book. neither of them is the sexy one in that they’re just stupid and sad lmao it’s more obvious in the book that Crowley is actually the more well-adjusted one like he has the fear and his weird fake performance to deal with the external threat he’s under and he’s obviously terrified of hell bc they hurt him but he’s pretty ok with who he is and how the world works? meanwhile in the course of the story Aziraphale has his worldview torn down and his cognitive dissonance ripped through one of his Things is just that he seems really chill when he isn’t like yeah Aziraphale makes Crowley feel safe and can protect him that’s v v good but I also care very much about Crowley being a mental safe space for Aziraphale Aziraphale is safe to come out of his shitty ideas and emotional trauma with Crowley! I want to read about THAT go meta

Can I get some more art acknowledging Aziraphale’s trauma because like yes Crowley’s should be acknowledged but Aziraphale is suffering from anxiety and the abuse of the other angels and the Rules and I just

please!!!!! show!!!!! Aziraphale recovering!!!!!!!!!!!!!