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You know what my profile pic is? It's a cardboard rhinoceros that I painted orange. I bought it in 2016, sometime in November.

If you've never read or seen Rhinoceros, by Ionesco, I recommend doing so. It's useful to know what you're in for, when the rhinoceroses show up.

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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

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I won't live a life of pretty despair.

Set your sights to survive, and so will I.

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word on the street is that you have to keep living

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I've had a post breach containment. First time this has happened to me.

I wasn't prepared.

The horrors.

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I know a lot of people who follow me like Good Omens, and I really wish I knew how best to entice you Omens folk into playing Disco Elysium.

Best I've come up with: man in glasses, who loves car? Disco Elysium has man in glasses who loves car. You will love man in glasses who loves car, I promise.

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I'd love to read your novel! (Responding to the post about it, you said to send a direct message.)

This community is so wonderful that I decided to write my own GO fanfic. The plot is total fluff, but I am really enjoying the process. I used to love writing, but this is the first I've written fiction in 20 years.

It's a reminder that when we do what we love, we inspire others to be a more authentic version of themselves. I never thought I'd like fanfiction, much less write it until I read your stories. So thank you!

Yes! Thank you! I am so glad you are writing! And, also, I am very fortunate that I received your ask right when I did.

My first GO fic was the first piece of fiction I had written in about 15 years. And writing it was so good, so fun. That little story was just some silly fluff, but I put effort and care into it. I was letting myself be creative and share it with people who I thought might also like it.

You know, I made my AO3 account to post that little fic. I didn't even know how the site worked (actually, I had to Google "AO3" to learn what the acronym meant, so I could actually find the site). I knew that kudos existed, but I didn't know that there were comments. That came as a surprise. I was hoping that maybe a handful of people would read my little piece and find some enjoyment in it.

And now here is where I am: I just posted the first chapter of my very first non-GO piece of fanfic.

I was editing it up, when you sent your ask, and I was feeling a lot of anxiety about posting it. It's in a much smaller fandom (for an indie video game from 5 years ago), and outsider POVs are always a hard sell, and I just don't know if this thing I'm writing will appeal to anyone other than me at all. But then I got your ask, and you reminded me how little of those anxieties are what matter. I'm writing something because it's fun to write, and I'm sharing it with the hopes that at least a couple of people out there might have some fun with it, along with me.

So, thank you for the reminder! And thank you for writing your fanfic, too!

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Read enough stories featuring characters who very notably wear glasses, and you start to notice certain trends in romantic scenes.

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I really don't feel like Boops would work on any other social media site. It works so well here, though. Why? Why is this a boop-conducive site?

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ALT

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do you ever see something and just. get hit with the most visceral and distilled emotions over the nature of humanity

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Oh, this world that has been made for us relies on the mistreatment of the less powerful and a terrifying disregard for consent? Fuck you, we'll carve out space for those who suffer to heal.

Oh, this world is yours and all beauty and peace that it contains is in your image and stamped with your name? Fuck you, we will grow a beauty and peace that is our own.

Oh, there is a great plan that has been underway all along, and if only we stay sidled beside you, if only we sing praises to your name and pretend they are deserved, then all those beautiful machinations will unspool and the righteous will be rewarded? Fuck you, we want a 90 minute movie.

What would Aubrey Thyme say to us all right now?

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What does Aubrey Thyme generally say about creators who prove they don't deserve our love?

What would Aubrey Thyme say to us all right now?

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*coughs gently and nudges some fanfic*

Remember: you don’t have to choose.

You can be grateful that we are getting an on-screen, canon completion to Good Omens, AND devastated that the time we had anticipated getting to spend with our favorite idiots has been slashed by 75%.

You can acknowledge how close the series obviously came to being canned entirely and give a sigh of relief, AND weep for the storylines and flashbacks that will be chiseled away or cut entirely.

You can logically accept that a good movie can accomplish a hell of a lot in ninety minutes, and Good Omens will have a massive leg-up because all of the establishing elements are already there and they can basically jump right into the action, AND feel disappointment and sorrow — grief, honestly — for the loss of what we have been anticipating for so long.

Good and bad, light and shadow, joy and pain — they aren’t mutually exclusive. One does not cancel out the other. They can coexist…and sometimes they must. Don’t try to stamp out one side or the other, either in your own heart or in someone else.

Feel your big feelings. Give them space to breathe. Feelings are neutral; it’s what you do with them that counts.

So hang in there. We’re all in this together 💛