#1) fatphobic about one of the boss characters
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Amelie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to being work as a translator for the giant Yumimoto Corporation. For Amelie, who spent her childhood in Japan, this is a dream come true. It is her chance to become a "real Japanese." Eager to please her bosses and co-workers, she diligently accomplishes her daily tasks with invention and enthusiasm. But unfamiliar with the customs of the Japanese workplace, Amelie commits a series of cultural missteps and is singled out as a deviant within the company hierarchy, suffering a string of demotions. The harder she tries, the more wrathful her superiors seem to become, the more unreasonable and humiliating their demands. Unable to stop her downfall, Amelie suddenly stumbles upon her own extraordinary means of liberation.
happy femslash february, here’s a 2003 french-japanese movie about miserable office workers.
so. the thing is. this movie makes me insane. it’s deranged normal office drama. it’s mundane absurdism. it’s psychological warfare and power harrassment. it’s not romantic. it’s extremely homoerotic. and it is very french. I’m putting it in my femslash feb recs because. well.
these women are Not Normal about each other. with amélie it’s much more obvious since it’s from her perspective, but there’s a lot about miss mori you pick up from context and extrapolation and she is also extremely Not Normal about amélie.
since it’s about culture clash, I’m sure it’ll be very hit or miss with some folks in terms of how much it leans into stereotypical(/satirical) depictions of japanese office culture, but I felt like 1) there was a wide enough variety of characters to offset completely flattening the conflict, 2) it’s clear to me that amélie is supposed to be shown as having A Very Biased (and sometimes cringe) Perspective.
if you have any interest in toxic office yuri. I Highly Recommend This Movie. it’s available to buy/rent on some streaming services, there are some dvds floating around, and there are other ways to find it if you really want to
#IN FACT YOU CAN SEND ME A DM. FOR THE PLACE. YOU CAN FIND IT.#WATCH IT WATCH KT WATCH IT#ff recs#recs#femslash feb recs#oh also as a warning#1) fatphobic about one of the boss characters#2) at one point for metaphor the main character describes one character as r@ping another#3) people are forcibly dragged sometimes#4) blood? gun? kind of?#that’s all the warnings that stick out to me#oh also 5) nonsexual nudity during a scene after the midway point#toxic office yuri hunt
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Chase from House is so interesting to me, because like, reddit people did the math and even before he gets set up as House’s heir apparent starting in like season 6-7ish he was the underling with the most amount of independent and diagnoses in his original season 1-3 run. Like all this talk of Foreman being “just like House” and Chase was just…there? his character really hits on a rewatch because of how originally he’s kind of an after thought compared to Foreman and Cameron and you don’t really like him right away but by season 3 he’s starting to stand out as the best of the 3 until mama bird House shoved him out the nest. And so he’s so out of focus from the start he was clearly not supposed to be the next in line but he was (maybe accidentally?) always the most talented??
And like, how hilarious (and sad????) it is that he’s been unaware of how hot and desirable he is until after his divorce from a woman he had to (hah) chase for years. And even once she leaves him he’s all, actually it better that you never loved me therefore I didn’t do anything wrong like???? and he discovers his pretty privilege and tests it out by asking for people’s cars and they just give the keys to him??
And the mortician doctor being like, I hate you and Chase is like??? Because it turns out he’s jealous of Chase, who seems to have seen himself as a Ken but turns out to have been a Barbie the whole time: he’s the 2nd best diagnostician in like the world at this point, beautiful, and became the hospital’s best surgeon in only a few years (as stated by both House AND the mortician who hates him), he’s a triple specialist who always seems to have a skill they need because he keeps collecting them like hobbies (remember how he was trained as a neurosurgeon but just didn’t take the test? Remember how they were like, yeah Chase know how to do hypnosis whatever). And it all came so seeming easily to Chase and it made the mortician like, SO mad because Chase has no ambition and squanders like ALL of this for years
He’s all these random assortments of traits they kept throwing at him that make no sense but also all the sense? fuck he’s a mess. He’s the child of privilege! And his father abandoned him and his mom drank herself to death! He was parentified as a teen and tried to escape to seminary school! He got kicked out for sleeping with the grounds keeper’s wife! He only became a doctor because his mom locked him in his dad’s study and he’d read the medical texts once he got tired of crying! He surfed for 7 months until his boss got out of jail because 🤷 He killed a genocidal dictator! He’s weirdly fatphobic! He was in a BDSM relationship and was NOT a dom. He’s a genius but also very gullible and easily manipulated (the cancer patient that got a kiss) , but also very cany and can read people really well (he figured out House canceled Foreman’s interview) except when they have to do with him I guess? He’s a cringefail manwhore with no swag and so many bitches! He’s just some guy! Sometimes the way he reacts to something makes it clear he’s kind of a broken mess! But mostly he’s just some beautiful, beautiful guy!
And he’s just like, hangs around people long enough where they start to care about him wayyy more then they mean to. Cameron is an obvious example but by the end House is like, idk I guess your my son? after years of Chase being like, you are my new dad now and getting bullied for it (and he gets a sibling in 13 because she is also House’s kid). And Foreman was all, I don’t like or respect you as a person, and then becomes the Cuddy to Chase’s House by the end. He just orbits them until they are like fuck I guess you’re here to stay?
chase is SO funny because he's such a boring person when by all rights he should be one of the most interesting character of the show. like truly chase is a litmus test for how insane every character in house is because chase is boring but if you transplanted him to any other media he'd be one of the most complex characters just by virtue of existing.
anyways im. not really reading all this because its late and im tired and have spent Too Long staring at some brutal markdown formatting but. he truly is just some guy. he's just Here. fuckin vibing i guess.
he's the best when he actually grows a pair and starts standing up to authority figures. he's very good because you get both "clown on chase" moments, which are great, and also cheering when he like. punches out house. or murders the afformentioned dictator. fuckin incredible
#also if anything. chase isn't the house to foreman's cuddy#chase is the house to foreman's wilson#and im SPECIFICALLY connecting them by the whole. destroying evidence of a felony for the other person
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PORNPO, Chapter 1: Naples' finest on your plate
Characters: Polpo, Camilla Carota, Pauletta Pera, Anna Anguria, Maria Mora Pairing: none Content: SFW (but every other part of the fic isn't) Words: 2335 Taglist: @roofgeese @poisonedtruth @theelderhazelnut
The introduction.
Info about the girls
Link to AO3
I post chapters as I write them, not chronologically.
This is not a crack fic. Any fatphobic comments and negativity are banned here.
Sample under cut.
Ah, finally, the work day’s hardships were over. Granted, most of these hardships were simply moved to become Buccellati’s hardships… Still, Polpo felt like he deserved a treat. Maybe even a snack. Or perhaps, an entire second lunch.
The personal chef that had tried to poison him was dealt with last week, poor fellow shrinked and fed to his own cat, so now the only thing Polpo had while looking for a replacement were delivery services. Thank god there were still couriers and restaurants he could trust. Still, losing the cook was a pity. The capo had only hoped that his new job advertisement could fill this hole in his heart.
Said advertisement was made just a day after Risotto, god bless his striped clown soul, dealt with the cook’s hirer and spent a good hour going back and forth about the payment he deemed inadequate. Polpo, on the other hand, had always considered himself exceptionally generous, and still, the lack of people desiring to be his house servants was as apparent as Risotto’s rage as he left the villa cursing under his breath. The former, however, could be explained by the rumors that have filled every corner of Naples the second the job ad was given.
Polpo liked art. Truth be told, he liked all things aesthetically pleasing. He liked his painting collection, his many blooming houseplants, and he liked to be surrounded by people that would fit his impeccable interior design just as well as his vases and statuettes did. The common filthy lot, however, didn’t understand his motives, and so the people of Naples were convinced that he wanted…
“A harem!” Polpo thought, somberly chewing on his second pizza. “What nonsense. I am a gentleman!”
Alas, the rumors were unstoppable. Everybody was convinced that the reason Polpo wanted only young pretty women as his house servants was because this “gluttonous freak” now thought himself some kind of a sultan. It wasn’t the worst thing people ever said about him, and Polpo was glad the Boss couldn’t care less about public opinion.
Suddenly, Polpo heard a knock on the door. He swallowed the remaining pizza, wiped his mouth with a gigantic napkin and, moving the plates to the side table, allowed the person to come in. Naturally, it was Raphael, his bodyguard and, lately, sort of a butler.
“The applicants, capo,” he said, barely holding back a laugh. “Four of them. The fifth changed her mind midway through the corridor.”
“Four? How very lucky…” Polpo sighed. Well, the afternoon nap will have to wait.
Raphael came closer, handing his boss the application dossiers and taking away the plates.
“Let’s see.” Polpo hummed, scanning the pages. “Uh-huh… Well, I see no reason to make them wait. Call in one Camilla Carota, would you?”
Raphael nodded, disappearing behind the thick wooden door, and Polpo heard his cackling, shared with Angelo, from the waiting room behind it. Polpo sighed. Raphael was extremely lucky that his stand abilities were more valuable to Polpo than his own pride.
“Just wait until I cut your salary down,” Polpo thought, marking it in his tiny notebook.
#jjba#original character#oc#polpo brain rot#jjba polpo#vento aureo#vento aureo fanfiction#my writing#takii writes#polpo x oc#polpo
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I’m finding nothing about this via my 3 minute google digging and I’m still salty and frustrated so.
In season 3 episode 6 of Frankie Drake Mysteries, Life on the Line, Flo and Mary both end up working undercover at a telephone exchange. Over the course of the episode they both have their own little subplot - Mary listens in on a star-crossed lovers’ romance while Flo is stuck overhearing fatphobic comments. When we listen in with Mary we see silhouettes of the couple talking with Mary in the middle staring off into the distance wistfully. When we listen in with Flo we see nothing of the women on the phone just Flo’s reactions to the comments. At the end of the episode they wrap these little plot points up. Mary gets the couple to meet her at the courthouse so she can orchestrate their wedding and pulls Trudy and her boyfriend Bill in to be witnesses. Flo puts a hamburger and fries down in front of the woman who was on the receiving end of the fatphobic comments and delivers a witty quip about a diet plan called divorce where you can drop 200lbs overnight.
Flo is the only recurring character to interact with her subplot. The woman gives her husband a Look as she ate 1 (one) french fry and that’s about all the interaction it gets.
Mary pulls other recurring characters into her subplot, we get to see the couple interact and look eager and excited as Mary pulls others into the excitement.
Flo really was out there with no support from any thin person on the show. Like the writers said "okay, we can throw the fat character under the bus but we won't risk any of the thin characters.” The only other fat character was the boss of the telephone exchange who was a jerk and sexist and generally sucked. (Fat men also deserve positive representation.) We love to see a fat queen fighting fatphobia! But it was JUST Flo. Mary got to drag Trudy and Bill into her romance subplot. We got to SEE her romantic subplot through the episode. But Flo was out here fighting fatphobia all on her own, no backup, no support, nothing. Frankie and Trudy and Mary are all so supportive of Flo in other endeavors in other episodes. Even earlier this episode Mary was helping Flo study for a medical ethics test! It would have made so much sense to have them support her in this. But the writers didn’t give her any backup. Both Mary and Flo got a subplot but they were so vastly different. Mary got intrigue and romance. Flo, the one fat actor, the one fat character was given all the work and all the risk and all the discomfort of addressing what is still in this modern day and age a controversial topic. I don’t care if the actor who plays Flo was fine with it (I don’t know if she was). She should have had support. I should have been able to see a thin person support their fat friend, support someone who looks like me, being insistent that her body is not a problem to be fixed, not undesirable, not bad.
#frankie drake mysteries#fatphobia#fat men deserve better than to be slime ball jerks in power#I'm so frustrated and tired
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get to know me more!
I was tagged by @funyasm
✨ what do you prefer to be called name wise?
My best friends call me Chichi because we met on a role playing game and I was playing Chilton, the nickname stuck. Other people call me Liam (some Miam). I really hate when people use my deadname but alas some people still do.
✨ when is your birthday?
9th may
✨ where do you live?
paris, france.
✨ three things you are doing right now?
listening to music, doing this tag game, thinking about what to do after that.
✨ four fandoms that have piqued your interest right now?
I’ve been rewatching desperate housewives on Amazon Prime.
I reading Harry Potter fanfic and watching fanvideo because that fandom was really important for me and I’m trying to erase the bad feelings I have about it because of JK Rowling and her transphobia. So I’ve been reading and watching how the fandom took the source material and rearrange it, how they pratically erase the author, it helps me deal with everything else right now.
I’m thinking about rewatching the TV show Hannibal, because It’s been a while. I still love Chilton, I still love the crew, I still love the story.
Last fandom I joigned was Progidal son, I’m waiting for season 2.
✨ how is the pandemic treating you?
Pretty well considering. No one I know had health complication because of it. I like to stay home, I had my best friend in the same building so we saw each other once a week when we couldn’t get out.
I’m a person at risk so I was two month on paid leave, since may I work from home. Which is great for someone who get really tired about interacting with people. I work somewhere when you have to answer questions from the public and I do not miss that. But I miss my colleagues and I don’t have all the tools I should have to be able to work properly.
Still the french governement has been... able to make all of that possible for people at risk, I know not all countries did, I know some at risk people are force to work, put themselves in danger or can’t have paid leaves etc. So considering all of that, I’m doing pretty well.
✨ song you can’t stop listening right now?
Time in a bottle by Jim croce
✨ recommend a movie.
You should watch man up (none of my friends are surprise by that choice). It’s my confort movie (with disney’s Hercule). It’s a romcom with lake bell and simon pegg. It’s a funny, heartwarming romcom with socially awkward people (nerds too). People who are not perfect, who make a lots of mistakes and I don’t know I really love that movie ? One of the scene make me cry every time I watch it. I can relate to the characters which is really rare for that kind of movie.
✨ how old are you?
twenty six
✨ school, university, occupation, other?
I’m a public worker.
✨ do you prefer hot or cold?
Cold. I hate hot weather. Summer is a nightmare, there are bugs, spiders everywhere, it’s so hot you’re sweating and unconfortable. It’s very hard to stay in the sun. I’d rather be cold.
✨ name one fact others may not know about you.
Hum, It may not be a surprise but I’m transgender. I’ve been out for two years. I’m now living my life as Liam. My family and my friends all know about it and except for my mother they have no problem with it. They can all see I’m much happier now than I’ve never been in my life. My family was actually very worried about me because they didn’t know what was wrong with me all those years, they could only saw that I was depressed. I have great friends and I never doubt that all of them (except for one maybe) would have no problem with it.
I have a very good “passing” which means that none of my colleagues are aware that I was not born Liam, people in the street don’t know either. Sometimes I find it hard not to be able to be honest with people, living kind of a double life in which I’m afraid people are going to find out. But well.
✨ are you shy?
I have social anxiety ? So I guess you could say that ? I really can’t go talk to someone first, I need to be introduce or I need the person to come first. I’m anxious when I speak on the phone. If a waitress for example gave me the wrong order or forget something I will not tell her, I will eat what I’ve been given. I don’t like stranger speaking to me on the bus, subway, streets, I feel very awkward really fast. I tend to be tired when I have long social interaction with people. I rehearse anything I have to say to strangers before I say it, etc.
BUT, I’m very good at hiding it ? A lot of people think I’m good a communication because I use humour to get throught. My boss think I’m good with the public and that I like it, I really don’t. People who know me just on the surface are very surprise when they learn that I’m anxious.
✨ do you have any preferred pronouns?
I go with he/him and nothing else.
✨ any pet peeves?
I hate when strangers engage conversation with me in the public space. I hate how people listen to me more now because they perceive me as a man. I hate people cruel to animals, don’t take a cat, a dog, a rabbit, whatever if it’s to be cruel to them or not treat them right.
I hate having to justify myself when I want to leave because I’m been socialising to much. I hate having people trying to set me up with someone because they don’t understand that I like being single. In general, I hate stranger not minding their own business.
✨ what’s your favorite “dere” type?
I don’t have any knowledge on “dere” I heard of yandere and tsundere but I don’t really want to know more about it.
✨ rate your life 1-10. 1 being really crappy and 10 being the best you could ever be.
Right now I would go with 8. I have a job, an appartement, a cat, great friends. I can’t really complain and I didn’t think I would ever been here. I’m happy right now even if not everything is great (my health for example). But I never expected to be still alive and to be happy. I never expected to be where I am today so it’s great. maybe in a few years I’d like to make so change, to go live elsewhere or something but right now I’m good with what I have.
✨ what’s your main blog?
I only have one blog.
✨ is there anything you think people need to know about you before becoming friends with you?
I really don’t like bigotry, if you are sexist, transphobe, homophobe, racist (or validist or fatphobic) or in general not empathic about other people feelings, I don’t want to be friends with you.
I’m an introvert, a lot of people assume that I’m an extrovert because I can pretend really well but I’m an awkward anxious mess. You need to give me space when I need it, and you need to be very direct when something is wrong because I won’t know or I will make every possible scenarios in my head and think you hate me.
I can get angry really fast, i will not to be mean, I will never be violent but you just need to leave me alone to calm down or I will get mean to be left alone.
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Before I go into this, I'm going to preface this with: your headcanons are valid, your interpretations of the show are valid, and I'm not trying to harsh anyone's fun times. Gabriel is a convenient villain, I get it. Hell, I've used him as a villain before.
Now that all of that is out of the way, I'm going to get my rant on. Put it under a cut, because whoo boy, it got real long, real fast.
A lot of people seem to hate Gabriel. As a big fan of him, it is honestly discouraging sometimes how much people want to hate him, to the point of making him waaaaay worse than he actually is in canon. There does seem to be a disproportionate amount of hatred on Gabriel over the other Archangels (with the exception of Sandalphon who seems to be universally hated) and over the demons, Beelzebub included.
So, why do people hate on Gabriel? Well, there’s a couple of base/underlying reasons I figure: 1. He’s the one we’ve seen the most of. Michael, Uriel, and Sandalphon we haven’t seen as much screentime or as many lines from, so of them, Gabriel is the most developed (followed by Sandalphon, Michael, and Uriel at last).
2. We’re expected to latch onto Aziraphale and Crowley, as they’re the ‘main’ characters. So we’re already predisposed to empathizing with Aziraphale everytime he has to deal with his boss.
3. Gabriel is a manager. That’s really all he is. He is a manager that loves his company and expects all of his employees to be just as gung-ho about the company as he is. A lot of people have had a manager like this, and they can be irritating at best, so it’s easy to project any old hate/grudges onto Gabriel.
4. Religious trauma. This one should probably be at the top, but since there’s nothing in canon to support this, it is at the bottom. The Archangel Gabriel is, obviously, an angel. He’s got that ‘holier than thou’ attitude, he’s an angel, it’s in the job description. But that rubs people the wrong way, more so if they’ve got religious trauma.
Now that we’ve gone into why people are predisposed to hate Gabriel, let’s get into the canon of the matter.
I think I can sum up why people hate Gabriel in two canon lines: “Lose the gut.” and, “Shut your stupid mouth, and die already.” The first, is widely considered to be fatphobic. And the second is just rude.
But before we get into this, I’m going to ask you a question: “Does intent matter?” Hold onto that question, it’s going to come up again later.
1. One of the most common things I have seen is that ‘Gabriel is mean to Aziraphale’ and sometimes I wonder if we’ve watched the same show. Gabriel has on multiple occasions praised and commended Aziraphale. He is shown trying to relate to Aziraphale, even if he doesn’t quite get it. examples: The sushi scene. Gabriel doesn’t understand Aziraphale’s love of sushi (and eating in general). I’d like to take a moment to remind everyone that Gabriel is an angel. He does not have to eat. I think it’s pretty understandable for a being that does not have to eat, to find eating gross. And even still, he tries to relate to Aziraphale’s apparent interest in humanity by sharing a like he has (he likes the clothes). Gabriel has praised Aziraphale’s initiative regarding the antichrist, even if it didn’t matter, because of course there was going to be a war. He has mentioned that Aziraphale has been on the Earth the longest and his duty and devotion to work should be commended. And in the deleted scene, he was praising Aziraphale, attempting to give him a medal, commendation, and a promotion.
2. Now back to the ‘Lose the Gut’ line. Once again, Gabriel is an angel, and Neil Gaiman himself has said that Aziraphale could ‘miracle away excess pounds, he just wouldn’t because it would feel like cheating,’ and they are on the verge of war. So while yes, the statement itself can come across as fatphobic, I do not think the intent was. (Before anyone gets onto me, I know strongmen are big guys, I know fat =/= weak or out of shape or unfit, I know, I do. I just don’t think it is something Gabriel would know. I do genuinely believe the intent was good, the execution was bad.) 3. “Shut your stupid mouth, and die already.” I honestly do not even understand why people are mad about this. Is it rude? Yes. But there’s also an execution going on in the background, so like, priorities? XD And onto the Execution. A lot of people say that Hell is better because at least it gave Crowley a trial, even a mocking one. I do not understand how it is better to have a long, drawn out, humiliation prior to being killed, but go off I guess. The Trial in Heaven speaks to how Heaven has always dealt with traitors. Swiftly and without mercy (just look at The Fall, The Flood, Soddom and Gomorrah, and so many others you can easily pull up). And you can see how upset Gabriel is. He is visibly angry, which we have not seen on him before. His office persona (because yes, that is what his whole ‘personality�� is, a persona) has slipped, and we can see how angry he is about the Apocalypse. But why is he so mad? The other Archangels are not mad at all, so why is Gabriel? Well, Aziraphale worked directly under Gabriel (which is interesting, as Gabriel is the Chief of Cherubim, not Principalities). This is borderline headcanon territory here, but I do 100% believe that Gabriel was so angry because he was masking hurt. Aziraphale betrayed him, and he reacted as angels have done in the past when faced with betrayal, by burning Aziraphale.
I think that a lot of people put human morals on a creature that isn’t human. Gabriel is not human. He is an angel. His morals are not grey like a human’s, they are black and white. Now, yes, that isn’t a good thing, but you have to keep in mind that they’ve never had a chance to grey. He has not been on Earth as long as Aziraphale has, therefore, he has not been stained by humanity and irrevocably changed by us.
So back onto the question of “Does intent matter?”
Gabriel has his entire existence post-Fall, been expecting and preparing for the Apocalypse. He has always known that it was going to end with both sides coming together once more for a final victor to emerge. It is no wonder he has kept his distance from humanity (they were just temporary, the war would wipe them all out eventually, no need to get attached.) He has always strived towards following the Great Plan (just not the Ineffable Plan, as it is beyond knowing). This has always been inevitable to him. So when Aziraphale brings up making the Antichrist good, of course he scoffs (and he still says Aziraphale’s dedication to duty should be commended) but he still lets him do it. It was inconceivable that anything could derail the Great Plan.
So yes, he was by human definition, rude and dismissive (even as he still made sure to praise him). But I think his intents were fairly clear. This entire plan was for ‘The Greater Good’, meaning Heaven. Gabriel honestly believed he was doing the right thing, it is likely that’s always what he believed.
Does that make what he did/said okay? I think that’s for you to decide. I personally think that him having good intentions, doesn’t justify his actions, but does make it clear that he’s not a bad guy, he’s just misguided.
As for why Beelzebub isn’t demonized (pun intended) as much as Gabriel, that I think is much more simple. People love a bad guy. Especially those with trauma, religious or otherwise, as it is easy to identify with someone who has been hurt (The Fall.) There’s also the trope of subverting expectations by making the demons better than the angels. And I think there is likely some aesthetic bias there too. Gabriel looks like a big, scary, cis white man (I’ve heard him described as ‘if Toxic Masculinity was a person’ which, while funny, is also rude to Jon Hamm XD) and Beelzebub is small, cute, and more androgynous.
Why do people hates Gabriel but forget that Beelzebub tried to kill "Crowley"?
Hiya :), I don't know how many people actually hate him, but Beelzebub tried to kill Crowley because he conspired with an angel tried to stop the Armageddon and all that, Gabriel's been a dick to Aziraphale even before all of that. :)
#Good Omens#long post#Archangel Gabriel meta#archangel gabriel good omens#I am admittedly biased#Gabriel is my favourite character
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And also Jake Peralta. He is number 5 out of 9
1: sexuality headcanon bi baby!2: otp naturally Jake x Amy3: brotp Boyle and the rest of the squad, love the parental Holt and Terry4: notp Jake x sad stuff (although! he makes a fantastic whumpee)5: first headcanon that pops into my head has adhd!6: favorite line from this character he has so many great lines, and I don’t mean oneliners but the long proper speeches, when he tells Amy he’s always known she’d be his boss one day, how he encourages her and is proud of her, not even a bit resentful, also every line that relates to Holt as a father figure, also! anything relating to him being Jewish, which is…. you know, few and far between? sad7: one way in which I relate to this character I suspect I could maybe possibly also have adhd? also, pining from a distance is pretty much a summary of my love life, we’re both totally messy to the point of being disgusting xD8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character uh, some cheap jokes aren’t exactly my style but *shrugs* the fatphobic jokes were/are bad but that’s more of a writers problem than character problem9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? cinnamon roll in need of a hug!
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