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The sooner you reblog this, the funnier it is

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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he's very excited about his first night as a jack o lantern

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We were talking about the implication in the book where Crowley does not wear shoes and his snakeskin shoes are his feet…and then I said, what if his scales are like those reversible sequin pillows and one side is a shoe and the other side is feet

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It was my dream

To draw Aziracrow like Fujimoto and Granmamare ✨

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A new transport in Heaven?

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bake botato.........

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Aziraphale has been repressing his emotions for millennia. He’s clearly anxious, but he’s always very obediently (for his own safety) refused to show it.

Some might think that no longer having a boss, no longer being constantly on guard, having the freedom to be himself, will mean he is less anxious.

In my experience with such things, what is likely to happen post-canon is that Aziraphale finally lets out several thousand years’ worth of panic attacks, meltdowns and breakdowns. It’s going to be ugly.

(He goes to Anathema a few months into this to ask her how he should handle his upcoming death. He thinks that the Almighty is preparing to smite him, based on how his body keeps trying to shake itself to pieces on a regular basis.

She listens to his heart wrenching account of how he is definitely dying, She won’t forgive him and is exacting her revenge, how will he tell Crowley, the terror of these episodes.

She googles “recommended therapists in SoHo” and prints out a list of names and numbers.)

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The pencils breaking into smaller pencils

And why they treating word pencil like a slur. Reblog to scare ai losers away 🤭

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It has been found

I'm looking for a piece of fanart I saw a while ago

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This came to me in a dream

(based on this image)

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I'm looking for a piece of fanart I saw a while ago

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☀️📒⚠️🏵💛Dandelion💛🏵⚠️📒☀️

yellow is generally the population’s least favourite colour which is interesting to me. i have a theory that yellow is generally more appealing to people the Less saturated and deep it is, the more warm and less cool it is, and that faded pale yellow is more pleasing to the eye than mustard. can you all participate in a casual experiment and tag or reply with which shade you like best from this yellow shade chart. i’m hypothesising daffodil will be popular as an answer

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The meaning of Aziraphale’s name

Angel names in Judeo-Christian angelology all mean something in Hebrew. Gabriel means “God is my might”; Michael means “who is like God?”; Uriel means “God is my light”; Raphael could mean either “God healed” or (as an imperative) “God, heal!” I’m not completely sure that Gaiman and Pratchett intended for the name Aziraphale to mean anything in particular in Hebrew, but because I’m obsessive, I wanted to figure something out. People who know more Hebrew than I do are welcome to make corrections or suggestions.

I think Neil Gaiman said in an interview at some point that the original spelling was Aziraphael, in keeping with the typical -el ending of angel names. If that’s the correct spelling, then the name might be a strange way of saying “God, my strength, healed” or “God, my strength, heal!” Or it might contain the name Raphael as a part, meaning “Raphael is my strength.” I don’t really buy the recent fanon proposal that Crowley was Raphael before his fall, because all the angel lore, including the Book of Tobit, has Raphael as an angel long after Lucifer’s rebellion would have taken place (in Paradise Lost, Raphael is the one who tells the story to Adam). But if we do go in for that bit of fanon, then we can imagine a scenario like the one at the beginning of this fic, in which our two heroes were in love in Heaven before the Fall and Aziraphael (who we assume ranked lower) had a different name to start with but took the name “Raphael is my strength.”

But there are other interesting translation possibilities if we take the current spelling to indicate that the name has 4 syllables rather than 5 (i.e., there’s no extra aleph between the pheh and the lamed). I’m not aware of a Hebrew root rap[h]al, so that means we’d need to break the name up into Azir - aphel or Azir(a) - phel. As noted in this wonderful post, in which someone wrote a letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil in Akkadian cuneiform (!!), the “Azir” part can be derived from a Hebrew root and mean “helper, one who helps.” That speculative translation continues:

The second element appears to be āpilu, literally “the one who answers,” but also used to mean “the one who dissents, the one who talks back.”  Thus, together, the name would mean “the one who helps the dissenter.”

Which is very cool, but I wasn’t sure whether there was any Hebrew equivalent, so I went looking for the meaning of a Hebrew root ‘ap[h]al. The first thing I found was this article called “The Sin and Danger of Presumption,” which I immediately knew was a Christian thing because Christians get way more worked up about presumption than Jews do. Anyway, here’s the relevant bit:

apal - presume. (So ASV, RSV; NASB, “to be heedless.”) - This root, to which we may compare Arabic gafala “to be heedless, neglectful, inadvertent,” is found in only one OT passage, Num 14:44 (Hiphil), of Israel’s rash and reckless attack on the Amalekites and Canaanites, following her lack of faith and great rebellion. There are some authorities who suggest that the Pual of apal in Hab 2:4 may be from the same root, “to presume, be proud.”

Whoa this is getting super long. The rest is under a cut.

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.