#neil bell

[spockvarietyhour]

Don't fuck with the drummer.

[olympain]

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

[littlemisswolfiesims]

I also gave Neil a little bit of a makeover.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: London's Rapidly Rising Fat Dog Shares Anthemic Club Banger "All The Same"

New Audio: London's Rapidly Rising Fat Dog Shares Anthemic Club Banger "All The Same" @fatdog_fatdog @Dominorecordco @pitchperfectpr

Last year, rapidly rising, London-based outfit Fat Dog exploded into the British scene with the band being named “2023’s wildest live band,” by NME for a live show described as “manically riotous and joyous” by BBC 6 Music, which included opening sets for Viagra Boys, Shame, and Yard Act, as well as their own headlining sets. Their debut single “King of the Slugs” was released by Domino Records…

[gunk404]

New wallpaper check

Who/What things should I add to this image?

[CLOSED]

HERES ALL THE CHARACTERS ADDED:

Scout from tf2

That one yellow creature someone gave me

Randy from dialtown

Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance

Betty White from reality

Chonny Jash from reality

Markiplier from reality

Jerma985 from hell

Papyrus from Undertale

Sans from Undertale

The Spot from Into the Spiderverse

A bird in the sky from... the sky

Nagito from Danganrompa

Sundrop from FNAF: Security Breach

Rivers Cuomo from Weezer

Patrick Wilson from Weezer

Brian Bell from Weezer

Matt Sharp from Weezer

Danny Devito from reality

Matpat from GameTheory

Stanley from The Stanley Parable

Omgkawaiiangel from needy streamer overload/needy girl overdose

Cabinet Man from Lemon Demon

William Afton from FNAF

Metaton from Undertale

PHIL SWIFT HERE WITH FLEX TAPE!

Shrek from Shrek

Will Wood from Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Karkat from Homestuck

Cattie from the-cat-doctor

Carl wheezer from Jimmy Neutron

Image of dog with soda from orangmarkr

Remi from Ratatouille

Gorrilazgang's dog from reality

Jonathan sims forehead from Jonathan sims head

Neil cicierega aka lemon demon

Snom from pokemon who is no longer visible because theres a lot of shit in front of it

Jay from the-arcade-doctor

Jota from the-arcade-doctor

Spongebob Squarepants from Spongebob Squarepants

Bowl of salsa

Fax machine

Low baller from Toontown: Corprate Clash

I know what you are dog from the

[belltari]

Just a couple doodles based off that one video that's been going around

[glorious-destruction]

[dms-a-jem]

🏳️‍🌈’80s Pride🏳️‍🌈

[shopblacksalt]

Dreamy, creamy vanilla cord flares 🍦 shopblacksalt.com

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brain bell attack

[bazzybelle]

Good Omens 2 and Wayward Son - A Fan's Commentary on Fandom Reactions

I’m going to start off by saying apologies for any obvious grammatical errors. I am writing purely from the heart here. 

Also, apologies to my Sandman friends. If you haven’t read The Simon Snow Trilogy, this will go over your heads. However, I have been going back and forth on writing this meta since the release of Good Omens 2, and I just finished reading a spectacular meta on queer ships becoming canon by @avelera, which you can find here (read it, it’s brilliant). Anyway, I feel now’s a good time to let out all of my feelings when it comes to Good Omens 2 and how similar it was to reading Wayward Son. 

Simon Snow friends, you all know that Wayward Son is my favourite book out of the trilogy. You also know that this can be considered a controversial take within the fandom. And I don’t mean that in a toxic way, this fandom is one of the more wholesome fandoms I’ve seen; But in the way of like… Wayward Son is itself a polarizing book. 

I say this, knowing full well what went down when Wayward Son was released. Perhaps I had the advantage of not being completely embroiled within the Simon Snow  fandom until after I’d finished reading the book, but I lived on the periphery. I followed Rainbow on Twitter (fuck you, I am not calling it X), I had saved some artwork on Pinterest (before I found out those were stolen, wherein I immediately unpinned them and deleted my fandom folders), and I was excited to get Wayward Son as soon as it came out. So much so that I asked my husband to go to the Indigo near his office and buy it because I wanted to read it right away. 

Friends, I demolished that book within a DAY. 

Then I read it again. And again. And again. 

Then I wrote my first fanfiction in eight years. 

This book changed me. But you all know that. I’ve talked about it often, and that’s not what this meta (Editorial? Opinion piece? Shouting into the void?) is about. 

What I am going to talk about is the amount of pure vitriol this book got once it was released. There was SO MUCH complaining about the book. It was too short! There was no point to it! Why aren’t Simon and Baz having sexy vampire sex? Why aren’t they living together (never mind that this was briefly discussed at the end of Carry On, but go off I guess)? 

And you know what’s even funnier? Within a couple of weeks (it might have even been days, I’m a little fuzzy on timelines) Rainbow announced the third book. We knew, right away, that Wayward Son was meant to be an in-between book! Rainbow, being a fandom person herself, has said time and time again that she had always considered Wayward Son as an in-between book, structured like The Empire Strikes Back within the Star Wars original trilogy. Like think of the in-between books of any series, they are ALWAYS the darkest ones. In order to fully appreciate the win in the end, you need to go through the tough shit. 

What I loved about Wayward Son was it took that idea and spun it. It went all “ok, yeah we dealt with the win, now let’s deal with the aftermath. Only then can we have the makeouts and sexy times these guys deserved.”  (and damn, did Any Way The Wind Blows deliver on that promise).

But I am getting away from myself again. Point is, it was always meant to be an in-between book. There was always meant to be a resolution at the end of the trilogy. But that sure as hell didn’t stop people from outright demanding Rainbow give them the happy ending NOW. Pestering her on Twitter, (not so much on Tumblr) demanding she do this, or do that, or “you better not kill Baz” (even though she has ALWAYS SAID SHE NEVER WOULD) or “they better not break up” (even though, narratively, it was heading in that direction). The closer the book got to release date, the more people complained about how awful Wayward Son was. 

It was really disheartening to see. 

Which is why I got really upset when the SAME THING happened after the release of Good Omens 2. 

(For clarification purposes, because several of my friends have spoken to me about their own personal issues with Good Omens 2. And you are all super fucking valid. I am strictly referring to the amount of anger I saw online because although Aziraphale and Crowley kissed, they didn’t have an immediate happily ever after. I am also speaking of the anger expressed because the season wasn’t wrapped up in a neat little bow.)

Like with the release of Wayward Son, people seemed to have forgotten that season 2 of Good Omens was meant to be an inbetween season. Neil Gaiman has not been shy to talk about that. He has said over and over again that Season 2 was always meant to be a bridge between the Good Omens he and Terry Pratchett wrote together, and the sequel they had been planning. 

What… did you all just forget about that? Do you not know how narrative writing works? 

It’s like people refused to take a step back and breathe for a second and appreciate the season for what it was. A beautiful romantic story (because, IT WAS! Just like Neil said it would be), as well as a lead up into what will be the epic, dramatic conclusion. No, instead people started demanding the happy ending NOW, and getting angry when Neil wouldn’t budge and offer more information (even though he never has before) (funny how people just… forgot that).

It was Wayward Son all over again.

Yeah, I’m not going to lie, I was crushed with the way Good Omens 2 left off. Just like I was so confused when Wayward Son ended out of the blue. You know what I did about that? I wrote fic, I read the book again, and I happily anticipated the upcoming final part that would tie up all the loose ends.

Know what I’m doing to heal after Good Omens 2? I’m looking at gifs, rewatching episodes, laughing at memes and crack, and hoping to all the gods of story writing that Amazon approves of a third season, so that Neil Gaiman can be allowed to finish the story he and Terry Pratchett built together.

It’s become sad to watch this feral hunger from fans demanding immediate gratification, and getting upset when it isn’t the ending or gratification they were expecting. Wayward Son came out after years of Carry On fans having nothing else but the one book. Like I said, I wasn’t part of the fandom then, so I don’t know how fans from 2015 felt upon learning they’d get more Simon and Baz. Same with Good Omens. I only really got into the fandom a few months before season 2 came out. So I don’t know how OG fans felt waiting and waiting and waiting. So maybe I have that going for me as an advantage, that my hunger wasn’t growing more and more feral. 

Then again, I’m now a part of The Sandman fandom, and we’re essentially waiting on Season 2 to start development. And while I’m hoping a few things are tweaked (like Dream and Hob’s relationship), I’d be more than fine if it stays the same as in the comics. And if they decide to go about that in an entirely different way, I’d be fine with that too. You know why? Because I’ve learned to trust the writers of the stories I love not to lead me astray. 

And if I’m unhappy with something –because nothing is ever 100% perfect, and even my favourite stories end up coming short– there are always fanfictions to write, gifs to laugh at, and fandom friends to discuss plots and meta with. 

I may have lost the point of this meta. I tend to do that, following a train of thought that doesn’t always make sense in the end. 

Fandom friends, can we all just agree to take a breath and be thankful of the stories given to us? Can we learn to appreciate the entire picture, and not just a tiny section of it? And for the love of all that is holy, can we learn to be patient and to listen when our story tellers remind us to wait and see? To trust them when they assure us that our characters will have a happy ending, even if they need to traverse a little in the dark to get there?

I sure as hell am, and I hope you will too. 

Gonna tag @carryonsimoncarryonbaz because she was instrumental in encouraging me to write this.

[littlemisswolfiesims]

Time for the Orange Gen to start!

[elliesbelle]

there’s something a little funny but also very poetic to me about how abby is deathly afraid of heights but ellie has always wanted to go up to space and be an astronaut

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Salim/The Jinn - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Silas Bell/Daphne Luckenbill - The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Charlie Braxton/Reid Giordano - Fire Season by KD Casey

Lewis/Jason Lu - Proficiency Bonus by Charlie Novak

[eff-plays]

STOP putting Astarion in DOG COLLARS.

START putting Astarion in CAT EAR HEADBANDS.