#It's driving me insane

[ndcgalitzine]

#work of art

[meatballlady]

It's time for the fandom to start Looking Where the Furniture Isn't

For a bit of background, one of my irl professional responsibilities is to identify and avoid making undue assumptions. There are a LOT of things that we humans assume. We assume that terminology means the same to other people as it does to us. We assume everyone has the same context of a situation we do. We assume that we aren't missing any information.

We operate on the information we have.

There was an ask before season 2 aired asking whether many of the plot points had been revealed by the clips (which almost all took place during the first half of the first episode). Neil's response was something like "oh you sweet summer children you know nothing yet." And boy was he right.

Neil Gaiman is a master of controlling assumptions. Just look at his Tumblr askbox replies.

Here's a few s2 examples of assumptions we all made (as I'm starting a rewatch):

Why did Crowley do the (very fun and distracting) apology dance? You might say it was because he walked out on Jim, but he never specified, did he? And Aziraphale was surprised that he proposed they would hide him "together"

How did Shax get a rumor about something going down in the Up (presumably) before Gabriel even went downstairs?

Did Jim need to bring Aziraphale something other than the box? He never actually specifies; Aziraphale just assumes it's the box.

Why did Aziraphale assume Maggie could feel [Michael, Uriel, Saraquael] arriving?

Why does Aziraphale say Heaven would notice even a small miracle? Crowley is seen doing a miracle before their large miracle (traffic light), and later Aziraphale makes the guy leave the table at the pub

To go deeper:

Are we assuming that characters are telling the truth? Example: "Miracles don't work like that," "[Extreme sanctions] was just something we said to frighten the cherubs" etc.

Are we assuming that nothing of note happened between apocalypse v1 and s2? (ex. the claims that Crowley didn't tell Aziraphale about the trial in heaven despite him referencing it in s2s1) What if we the audience are just jumping in near the end of this story?

Are these assumptions correct? Or are we just working with the information that we have?

Now that I'm looking for it, there's also SO many corrections of assumptions (usually for the sake of a joke, but still) (these are just the ones that happen while I type them out while watching e2):

"Can I be a blue one?" "You haven't annoyed me yet" "But can I be?"

"You recognized [Michael, Uriel, Saraquael] those people who were in the shop just now?" "Of course, they were in the shop, just now!"

"oh my god!" "blasphemy, angel, that's not like you", "no, oh, my god"

Many of the themes were about hiding things in plain sight: the kids (and kids), Jim, "aim for my mouth but shoot past my ear." Clue (1985) was heavily referenced in the lead-up. The whole point of that film was looking at what was going on elsewhere. Looking where the furniture isn't, you might say.

The more I watch s2, the less certain I am that any of it makes sense on its own.

I'm currently combing through it to see if there are any discrepancies with where people are (easiest example is when Crowley just disappears from the bookshop while they're reviewing the Job story). It'll be a lot of data and might not lead anywhere, but I'll definitely share once I finish looking into it.

I will also honestly admit that these things are all circumstantial, and I could be going insane. But they just keep cropping up all over the place. I've got a lot of time before S3 comes up and I intend to investigate the furniture. And try to not make assumptions.

[wisefoxluminary]

If I had a nickel for everytime I shipped a stoic, emotionally cold warrior who makes beautiful vows and a redhead with a tragic past with treachery to her name I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[observer-of-the-world]

I drew the lesbian

"Would you give me the pleasure of joining me for a dance, Ms. Cowper?"

[lyralit]

the key to writing efficiently is pretending it's fanfiction 100% of the time.

[mothboypoison]

Hakuri remembered when Chihiro got back up, the scene which inspired him right back when he was first introduced, and he got back up as well. He's mimicking Chihiro's pose. I can't with these two.

[livstarlight]

[cxanthos]

The significance of Coryo throwing away his mother's rose powder at the end of tbosbas is not lost on me.

Throughout the whole novel we see Coryo have opportunities to choose to be good, to be selfless and to be more like his mother. And time and time again he chooses power, he chooses the option that will further him and just him in life. He chooses, slowly, to become more like his father.

Yes the powder was ruined after the water but keep in mind he couldn't even get rid of it when he was giving the compact to Lucy for the games. Coryo in the beginning of this journey never would have gotten rid of it- it brought him too much comfort. A mother's comfort.

The rose powder represented the last bit of good, of empathetic reason, that Coryo had- and he threw it in the trash. Hence the change of being referred to as Snow instead of Coriolanus in the epilogue.

He really had became a version of his father in the end.

Also, another conversation for another post, but Coryo believed all the choices he was making were good or at the very least necessary.

[asoulwithadream]

[din-skywalker]

i need everyone to stop saying miguel would kill jeff because he wouldn't ok thanks bye :)

[siarexkh]

Drawing Finan the way God intended: shirtless

[panevanbuckley]

it's been two years now and nobody has mentioned eddie's fucking will and i am going feral

[funeralprocessor]

I need to get back into tabletop or I'm going to lose it.

[plutorine]

when i said i wanted to experience ✨️ main character ✨️ vibes i didn't fucking mean rodion romanovich raskolnikov from crime and punishment

[daydadahlias]

Made in Magnolia

this is my favorite thing ive ever made. and i hope u enjoy it <3 special thank u to Ashley ( @diamondpuddles​​ ) for basically being my co-author

Summary: There’s that feeling again. The warmth and the electricity that travels between them which lacks nerves or pretenses or any semblance of who they have been in the past. Calum isn’t the same guy who usually gets fucked and kicked out when he gets invited to stay the night. Ashton isn’t the same guy who got married at twenty in Mississippi. They’re new when they’re together.

Word Count: 220,470

Pairing: Calum Hood/Ashton Irwin

Rating: E

Content Warning: religious trauma & homophobia

Read on AO3

[scrawnytreedemon]

People are headcanoning Sephiroth as illiterate now. As in. The fucking reason he took so long in that basement was because he had to finger-read every single fucking book.

I'm putting Sheltered Sephiroth on the top shelf until you goons stop veering into outright ableism. For fuck's sake.