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Today I’m feeling like this seal

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So because of my Triangle Brain I’ve made another blog for my Billford fanfiction and other works lol I’ll still post stuff here obviously because it’ll never go away but I’ll share the second blog anyway: https://www.tumblr.com/a-one-eyed-menace-official-blog

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So I have this thing, it’s call triangle brain meaning all I can think of is Bill Cipher. This may consume my tumblr I fear.

Anyways! I’ve read The Book of Bill, literally the moment it came in the mail I read the entire thing, and there’s something so beautiful about the missing journal pages containing Bill and Ford singing along to Disco Girl with words in the background saying, if I remember correctly, “Tonight we’ll finally-“ then it cuts off.

Tonight we’ll what Ford?? You two impossibly weird fruits have my whole heart.

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erm, waiter!!! there's a bill on my screen!

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My cat has decided to judge you today

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Ya’ll we need to stop spreading the narrative that Ariel gave up everything for a man, because she didn’t. The whole first sequence of the movie after the beginning credits is dedicated to her forgetting about an event she was supposed to go to because she wanted to swim around in a sunken ship and find human things. Part of your world was a song about her dream to be human, and to learn more about their culture.

She’s a headstrong teenager who dreams of going to the human world because she’s fascinated by it! She initially swims to Eric’s ship because she sees fireworks and she’s never seen fireworks before. When she gets there she spots Eric who just so happens to be human and she saves him, longing now to be part of the human world so she could be with him. Longing being the key word here because I think seeing Eric and interacting with him made up her mind about she wanted to do.

She didn’t even know that becoming human was an option until the eels told her about Ursula, then she made the impulsive decision to go see her. In her mind her dad had wrecked the only things she had to represent the human world and kissing Eric was how she got to fulfill her dream. Sure, she falls in love with him along the way but her whole thing was wanting to be human, which she got in the end.

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Shout out to this random picture I have no context for that features melons with accessories.

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Bloodborne is currently the bane of my existence, JUST LET ME GET PAST THE BIG BURNING FIRE

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Slide to the left, slide to the right, take it back now y’all, ONE HOP THIS TIME

TWO HOPS THIS TIME

Cha cha real smooth

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It’s like April hit and Mother Nature decided to send Jack Frost on a silly quest to make sure I freeze my ass off in Spring.

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Give me shelter.

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My cat is now a King

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Found this Papyrus print of Hastor and Iris at the thrift store and I’m feeling very blessed.

Here’s the print next to the Hieroglyphs it’s based on.

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Holy Palmers Kiss

Throughout their history together, the romance between Aziraphale and Crowley has mostly been expressed through incredibly subtle ways. It's been centuries (if not millennia) of nothing more obvious than a surreptitious brushing of hands or yearning looks when they think no one is watching. And of course, when they have plenty of deniability.

Good work, Aziraphale... hand on the chest of the Thin Dark Duke, and if anyone asked, you were just making sure that young lady didn't get bumped.

And this is for a very good reason. It quite literally isn't safe for them to be openly romantic with one another, even now. Demons like Hastur and Shax are constantly popping up... Michael and Uriel are always watching... eyes are everywhere.

They have certainly gotten closer to being open in the years that separate the two seasons. Crawley sprawls all over that bookshop like he has a personal vendetta against chairs - removes his glasses as soon as he steps foot inside (which is an incredibly coded action that I would love to take a more in depth look at in the future) - gives up the keys to the Bently... And Aziraphale himself has those longing looks - calls him up to talk enough that Crowley knows his "tones of voice" - and then, we get The Ball.

Technically, The Ball is for Nina and Maggie... or at least that's what Aziraphale says. We get the lovely little moment in the pub where he and Crowley try to come up with the best ways to get humans to fall in love with each other. But the moment Aziraphale mentions Jane Austen having characters dancing with each other and realizing how in love they were, I think at least for him the focus changes to this... THE BALL IS FOR CROWLEY. And once he starts giving away books to make sure the ball will be perfect, there can be no question. The entire idea is a way for him to be able to dance with Crowley.

That's why, for me, the most romantic moment in all of Good Omens, at least from Aziraphale's point of view, is this moment right here.

Vavoom! Sorted! Look at the way Crowley even curls his fingers around Aziraphale's hand! This is peak Aziraphale romance as a fan of Jane Austen.

But he's also a fan of Shakespeare. Even the gloomy ones. And every time I watch this scene, I'm reminded of a different ball from one of the gloomy plays that Crowley would hate and Aziraphale would swoon over. Romeo and Juliet. A fitting parallel to an angel and a demon being in love.

In Romeo and Juliet, at the end of the first act, is another ball. Romeo tries to get Juliet to kiss him, and she turns him down with this...

"For saints have hands that pilgrim's hands do touch/ And palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss"

There's quite the back and forth here between Juliet and her Romeo about hands and lips and such, (and eventually Romeo gets his way) but the parallel for Aziraphale in this exchange is unmistakable. He, as the angel, is the saint (and stand in for Juliet), Crowley his pilgrim. Snogging in public would be absolutely out of the question for our dear prim and proper Aziraphale... but this is a chaste kiss, and one that he is showing the world. A public declaration of his love for Crowley. A Holy Palmer's Kiss.

It's certainly debatable if Crowley would have picked up on it. Like a lot of their coded language there are times when one of them misses what the other is trying to say. But in my opinion, this was not only a public declaration, but his confession to Crowley. This is his "I love you" as much as "I forgive you" is.

Just for fun, here's how Romeo finally gets his kisses (but let's have Crowley stand in for Romeo and Aziraphale for Juliet, shall we?)

Cro. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. (They kiss)

Azi. Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Cro. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again. (They kiss again)

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I’ve been reading Phantom of the Opera, I’m on Chapter 10, and I love the description of Erik’s Red Death costume from the Masquerade?? The perfect deaths head mask and the red and gold cape? The sign that says “I am Red Death please don’t touch me,” The fact that he grabbed someone who tried?? I love this dramatic not so Opera Ghost.

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I wasn’t prepared for you

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Items that I have carried in my purse ranging from normal to slightly odd.

1. Wallet

2. Tic Tacs/Ice breakers

3. Salt and or sugar packets

4. Tozo headphones case with headphones

5. Backup SD card

6. Various rings/other jewelry I forgot about

7. A pin with an octopus on it

8. An opossum sticker

9. The broken pieces of a pen

10. A small figurine of Anubis I carried for good luck (that purse was stolen)

11. A rock cat figurine I carry for good luck

12. An uncut Garnet

13. A raspberry shopkin

14. Purse brownie