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Finally starting Young Royals & all I have to say is that Kristina is allowed to feel her feeling as a grown ass woman but Wille is not as a sixteen year old boy makes me feel a rage I didn’t know existed.

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the most beautiful boy

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. Jon M. Chu

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Fantastic art created by Neil Jamieson for Variety's excellent article on Star Trek

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The art director & the Good Omens book cover tier list of doom, part 1

This is going to have to be a multi-part series because there are *checks notes* 64 different covers that I've found so far.

I am your resident Art Director/Good Omens enthusiast, and welcome to my completely meta-free book cover tier list. Listen, making a book cover is HARD. I should know. But while we salute these artists for their hard work and time, I think we can all admit that once in a while, the vision is just not on. And on very rare occasions, publishers seemed to have managed to commission the cover art directly from hell... 1. The original UK cover

Ahh, the standard by which all shall be judged. We're starting off with a nice & easy cover, with adorable woodcuts of Aziraphale and Crowley flanking a custom Good Omens font! While I have to take a few points off for the terrible kerning of the word "GoOD", the blockprint vibes and general bitchiness of Aziraphale's teeny weeny wittle face, along with the sick colour palette puts the orignial in my good graces. Tier: Great

2. The duelling US covers

Progress! Hail to the designer who figured out trying to make "GoOD" and "OMeNs" fit the same width was a fool's errand, and even managed to IMPROVE on the original handmade title by adding a little halo and devil's tale to the design. Aziraphale and Crowley are facing each other, while also managing to serve absolute cunt. Aziraphale is wearing EIGHTIES SNEAKERS. Crowley's little snake boots have HEELS. They've managed to keep the woodcut vibes and colour simplicity, while balancing out the full title of the book. Both authors get to trade off on who's name comes first! Dare I say, this is a work of genius. I could dock some points for Crowley's sad bat wings growing out of his right clavicle, but who am I to question greatness.

Tier: Blessed by God Herself

3. The Halo Master Chief(?) cover

How the mighty have fallen... As a Canadian child, I was subjected to maybe the most horrifying ad in existence by the War Amps warning children about machine safety. This cover is the paper embodiment of that ad. I am confused by the purple haze. I am frightened by the seeming ethereal flatness of Adam and Dog. I am strangely aroused by Aziraphale's eyebrows, and intensely saddened by the terrible outline/drop shadow they had to inflict on the type to fit "Pratchett" in that god awful space. Tier: WTF

4. Germany, Ein Gutes Omen covers

This cover inexplicably exists in two colour ways: red and teal. I put the audiobook cover here so you could experience the full illustration, and also how fucked up it is that they cropped the book version to include three horse-people of the apocalypse, but cut off DEATH on the regular cover. Points must be given for drawing a pretty slick Bentley, but I think we have to take even more points away for turning Crowley into a Ray Charles/Mike Wazowski hybrid. The ducks are nice. Tier: Not so Good (Omens)

5. Germany, Ein Gutes Omen covers continued

I don't know if the German designer of this cover *knew* that they were using western yeehaw cowboy woodblock letters when they made this cover, but judging by how they spaced the rest of the text at the bottom, THEY DID NOT CARE. And that seems to be a running theme for this one. We get kind of a duality thing going on with the black and pink background, but it just seems like somebody whispered the general themes of Good Omens into a jar, and threw it down a well, and this poor chap came along and picked it up. The baffling choice to align every piece of text on the cover *except* Neil Gaiman's name which is right aligned and rotated 90 degrees (not even real vertical type) will haunt my dreams, I think.

Tier: Bad

6. US, UK The Traffic Jam cover

For the love of Good Omens, WHY. I can think of so many more interesting symbols to put on the cover of this book than the ODEGRA SIGIL TRAFFIC JAM. Props for keeping the good colours and type, but like, I think this cover was secretly designed by @amtrak-official, or someone who just really, really likes public works. Tier: Does the Job

7. France, De bons présages cover

Leave it to France to make sure people know that Aziraphale and Crowley fuck severely. While I can't condone leaving out half the title of the book (and thinking a red carpenter's square counts as decoration), I can begrudgingly acknowledge that Ron Pearlman and Benedict Cumberbatch's love child is excellent Crowley casting. I think I give this a solid dark academia/10. Tier: Good (Omens)

8. France, De bons présages covers continued

Just imagine with me, if you will, the absolutely hilarious reality that this cover posits: Good Omens is exactly the same in every respect, but Crowley drives a pink 1950s convertible. Why do all of the colours on this cover look like they've been pre-digested? Why are the font choices and placement so bafflingly bad. My face is the demon's face holding that car. I feel his pain.

Tier: WTF

9. France, De bons présages covers continued

Minus points for not managing to write the full title of the book once again. I don't know what it is with the French. They seem pretty set on Good Omens being demonic. While I do appreciate a good Bosch-style demon party, the dude in the middle confounds me. All-caps Museo Sans that isn't even *centred* in the frame is just so lazy. I am le tired. Tier: Bad

10. France, De bons présages covers continued

Uhh. The font. The font is okay.... I think? Yeah. The font and kerning are. Okay. OHHH GOD I LOOKED DOWN BELOW THE TEXT WHYYYY. Tier: WTF

END of round one. I need a nap.

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If the principal won't let us celebrate Valborg now, then I don't get it. I mean, the thing is that you celebrate Valborg, and then you're off. Everyone knows that 1st May is a bank holiday for a reason.

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I've just realised that the first time we saw the show, on 1st July 2021, it was only about three weeks after this👇 happened in canon, and now I need to go and lie down.

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Salmon also “twitch” in the “stream” so maybe you should “follow” their example and get outside.

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Thinking about how Edvin once said that in S1 ending, every bone in Wilhelm's body wanted to just get out of the car and kiss Simon but he couldn't. Thinking about how in the S3 finale......he finally did.

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young royals duolingo, 16/?

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)

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having feelings about wille having what looks like a mini version of erik's car in his room at hillerska

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if you’re still taking the yr asks— what were your top three moments of s3? (doesn’t have to be related to wilmon!)

I am, yes!

I'd say my #1 fav moment is when Wille joined the choir. I felt that it shows his eagerness of getting to spend time with Simon while also getting the chance to understand his boyfriend better.

My #2 is probably when the choir sang Simon's version of the Hillerska anthem without him knowing. It was a bit unrealistic that they'd suddenly show their support to Simon by willingly singing a love song for Wille, but it was so lovely to see the students' acceptance and letting Simon's creation be part of the "closing chapter" for Hillerska.

#3 is a bit hard, it's not a specific scene but the parts where Felice basically spilled the tea on Hillerska to the inspectors and didn't tell her friends about it. She got to take control of the narrative and deciding that just because it was socially acceptable in her father's time, doesn't make it right at all. Plus, even though Felice basically lied to her friends, they did eventually realized how Felice was treated differently and tried to be more understanding (albeit in their limited, but still meaningful way), showing that things are changing and for the better.

Thanks for the ask! 💜

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I do have some issues with s3 overall but god damn Omar’s and Edvin’s acting (and everyone else’s) is outstanding and all the important scenes are so powerful and emotional I am still crying over them so at least there’s that :’)

It is a beautiful season, aesthetically and also emotionally and I do enjoy it for the most part. I just wished they hadn’t forgotten to tie up some of the plot points and other open questions between characters. But other people have put that into much better words. (and I can not stand the way Wille treats Simon in some scenes without it being addressed again later, but that is probably maybe just my overprotective heart - Simon my most beloved)

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finding out simon was written out of some of ep6 is so infuriating but also a bit like duh bc it did feel disjointed to the rest of s3 and its been one of my biggest qualms with ep6 from the first time i watched it. we were so desparate to get more of how this all affected simon in s3 and we got it but then he felt weirdly absent in ep6 and it felt like there was filler. and no he did not need to be mia to show distance we got that loud and clear it just feels sloppy. and its very noticeable i think in dms as soon as the ep finished i dmd my best friend and was like love but why did it feel so void of simon 😭

idk i know there will always be choices viewers dont agree with but this one really bugs me bc not only was it so tangible its not even for good reason and i feel it left more questions this way. like for a show that does suffer from how limited it is idk why you would make such a vital character arch even more limited esp considering how they continue to emphasize only for him to feel forgotten in ep6 - and not forgotten by wille we know his motives loud and clear this always felt like a misstep from production which totally takes you out of the show

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Matching energy

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