#yes it is that time

[caslutz]

i don’t talk about jamie and ted enough and that’s like a crime. so here’s what i’m thinking. jamie is dyslexic, we all know that, but i’m not sure that jamie actually knew that, which makes sense. i imagine he had minimal schooling, getting recruited to the academy so young and it’s not like anyone there cared, so jamie just grew up thinking he was stupid for not being able to read and write as well as others. that’s why, when ted gives him the book he gets almost offended and throws it in the trash, acting like it’s stupid, but really is just scared someone might find out he struggles with books, so he plays it off. ted of course, notices this but doesn’t have time to address it before jamie is sent back to man city. when jamie comes back, ted does finally talk to jamie about it and because jamie feels more comfortable around ted at this point, he tells him about his struggles and the real reason he tossed that book. ted assures him that is not his fault, and does not make him stupid, which honestly is news to jamie. so instead of putting jamie down like every other adult authority figure has, ted offers to help jamie instead. jamie is a bit hesitant but accepts, so ted holds sessions in his office with his whiteboard and eventually gets beard in on it too so that they can help jamie read and comprehend what he’s reading!! eventually i feel like this could even turn into a team thing, isaac joining in and anyone else who wants to help/learn. oh my gosh they’re such a family <3

(maybe some royjamie with this hc later idk)

[tododeku-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[loathsome-sickness]

"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

[smokiedokie]

I opened my copy of The Tale of the Body Thief & immediately had to close it again because of this silly little annotation

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

[greelin]

[AFTER REVEALING VERY TELLING PERSONAL INFO] But don’t read into that. let’s move along

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[o0kawaii0o]

ROMANCE DAWN TRIO

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[yourangle-yuordevil]

That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

[levil0vesyou]

[yoggybloggy]

[prideprejudce]

this whole oceangate submarine fiasco has actually led to a lot of interesting talks and debates about the grey area of human empathy vs the inclination to recoil at the bizarre behaviors of the ultra wealthy and how people struggle with both ideas and is actually very interesting to watch play out in different types of people

[adyophene]

I couldn't get the idea of Alastor holding Husk like that one ferret gif during his lament in the finale out of my head.

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[the-zenith-calls]

sorry about your boyfriend. yeah he’s trapped in windows 95. you are also trapped in windows 95