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Good Omens S2 Transcripts

Been working on these for a few weeks now, and they're finally done!

I really missed having the Script Book to refer to, especially when writing fic, so I made the next best thing, which is some transcripts (+minor descriptions)

PDFs:

EPISODE ONE

EPISODE TWO

EPISODE THREE

EPISODE FOUR

EPISODE FIVE

EPISODE SIX

UPDATE: Google docs links below:

Episode One

Episode Two

Episode Three

Episode Four

Episode Five

Episode Six

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This is nothing new. The Pinkertons were early cops/private security and used extensively against labor action in the 1800s and early 1900s:

I hope we don't see violence break out against the striking workers, but if we do it will be nothing new. Regulations are written in blood, and that includes labor regulations.

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seasons greetings 

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Since it's the winter solstice... does it bother anyone else that modern society considers this the FIRST day of winter when for centuries it was much more sensibly considered Midwinter? I think about this every year and it always bugs me.

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I love these stories. Two years ago, our best guess of how many renewables the world woutld install next year was only 2/3 of how much we currently guess that we'll install next year. Our predictions of how much we're going to do to fight climate change keep being wrong, and they're wrong because we keep doing WAY MORE than we thought we were going to do.

Click through to see story links

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Come in, babe Across these purple fields The sun has sunk behind you Across these purple fields Winter Solstice Sunrise - Android Jones, 2015

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seanan mcguire writing Feed in 2010: there was a presidential election, and a perfectly normal and reasonable human was running against the personification of evil

me in 2010: i dunno that seems like a caricature, surely that would never happen

me in 2024: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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I really should get around to reading Feed but in the meantime... is there a link to that interview?

Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early '20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must've been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet

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it always sucks in romances when characters aren't active participants in their own relationship or attraction. when it's always "why do i feel this way" and they can't name a single reason they like the love interest i'm like idk man i think you should get out of there maybe.

at some point if you're going too hard on the Genuine Confusion and the character having no clue why they're doing anything they're doing or why they even like the other party it's like. I think you were cursed by a wizard. or an author, which is something similar. it becomes something akin to The Narrative Has Mandated That This is A Love Story and Therefore I Must Be In Love rather than like. a convincing romance between parties who care about each other

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it always sucks in romances when characters aren't active participants in their own relationship or attraction. when it's always "why do i feel this way" and they can't name a single reason they like the love interest i'm like idk man i think you should get out of there maybe.

at some point if you're going too hard on the Genuine Confusion and the character having no clue why they're doing anything they're doing or why they even like the other party it's like. I think you were cursed by a wizard. or an author, which is something similar. it becomes something akin to The Narrative Has Mandated That This is A Love Story and Therefore I Must Be In Love rather than like. a convincing romance between parties who care about each other

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I think we can acknowledge that European healthcare systems have flaws while still recognizing that that the state of things is still significantly better than it is in the US, and that improved access to healthcare IS a factor that should be considered when we're talking about things like food and health. The fact that in the US people often won't even take an ambulance after serious injury/illness because they're afraid of the cost, or don't go in for preventive care/checkups on minor issues because they can't afford it or can't get off work-- these are things that have a significant impact on the population's health. And it does not get brought up in discussions of things like food. If someone is going off about "omg Americans are so unhealthy because we're being poisoned by junk food, we all need to eat healthy and clean like European diets," it IS good to push back on the idea that European food is significantly different. But the disparity in access to healthcare is also a major factor in how healthy people are and that is much less likely to be mentioned. The TL;DR is that if we want to improve people's health, we would do a lot better to look at systemic issues like access to healthcare and reducing poverty rather than getting into a moral panic about how processed foods are poisoning us.

people who for very silly reasons want to market prepared food products without preservatives in them who then discover why we started putting preservatives in prepared food products in the first place (because without a preservation method food quickly grows stale, and frequently also moldy or downright toxic) is a consistently good bit. like people really seem to think we put Evil Chemicals in food on purpose for no reason.

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Another major factor that never gets brought up in these discussions about European folks being healthier-- they have universal healthcare!

So like, maybe they are healthier-- but is it the food or is it because they can go to the doctor when they are sick and actually get the care they need without having to jump through fifty hoops and risk bankruptcy if it's serious?

people who for very silly reasons want to market prepared food products without preservatives in them who then discover why we started putting preservatives in prepared food products in the first place (because without a preservation method food quickly grows stale, and frequently also moldy or downright toxic) is a consistently good bit. like people really seem to think we put Evil Chemicals in food on purpose for no reason.

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Erin Hanson (American, b.1981)

"Radiant Light," 2019

Oil on canvas

36 x 36 in

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Even once fabric was able to be machine made and a little cheaper than it was historically, rags and scraps were still valuable! You made them into rag rugs or, if the fabric was a little nicer, quilts! They exist to turn a bunch of tiny bits of fabric into something pretty and useful. And because sewing them all together took a long ass time, they also served a useful social function as it was an excuse to get together and chat.

In a world where making everything takes far more labor than we are used to, everything that can be reused was, and there was value in that use.

i think one of the reasons i get mildly annoyed about worldbuilding threads that are 200 tweets of why you should care about where blue dye comes from in your world before saying someone is wearing blue is that so few of them go up to the second level of "and that should impact your characters somehow" - i don't care that blue dye comes from pressing berries that only grow in one kingdom a thousand miles away if people are casually wearing blue

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"Figured it out based on evidence" would include things like finding presents in your home before Christmas, catching your parents in the act of placing presents, staying awake to try to catch Santa and him never appearing, etc.

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“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin