#Gnashing teeth

[runawaymarbles]

Ok I hate the "the narrative needs to explicitly condemn problematic behavior" line of thought as much as the next. but actually when people write fic where Buck and/or Eddie treat Chris like he's way more emotionally mature than he should have to be in ways that he's DEFINITELY going to be unpacking with his therapist in his 20s and 30s I am gonna start needing you to acknowledge that either in text or notes bc fandom seems to be treating this like good parenting

[hockeymarriage]

a/a feral rut Sid

Sid is a regular, consistent guy. what he eats, what he does, hell the guys have even chirped him about his regular bowl movements (no one needs to know, Sid!!!!) so of course his ruts are the same. he has a full one in the summer shortly after the season ends, taking some suppressants to push back his body's natural spring cycle. occasionally he needs to do some dynamic play to keep himself level, which just involves wrestling Geno.

(all of which, again, the team does not need to know about but Sid has zero boundaries around body stuff. gross, Sid!!!)

so it's really weird when Sid starts going into rut suddenly on the plane flight back from the West coast.

[kallasilya22]

Aziraphale character meta and thoughts on the end of S2.

Here I am, writing one of these posts.

There are two fundamental Tenets of Aziraphale, equally weighted, and they are:

God is good.

Crowley is good (or at the very least 'not evil')

You will notice that these two facets to Aziraphale's existence are, of course, mutually exclusive; a benevolent God would never have caused Crowley to Fall, a 'Good' Crowley would never have disobeyed a benevolent God and Fallen.

But it is absolutely integral to Aziraphale's very self that he believes equally strongly in both of these things. A kind of double-think is required to achieve this: the tenuous idea that a perfect, omnipotent God made a mistake in allowing Crowley to Fall. Or, in the passive voice as Aziraphale would no doubt phrase it (when he doesn't avoid thinking too hard about the matter altogether): A Mistake Was Made.

A mistake was made, somehow, by a God that is simultaneously incapable of error. Obviously, Crowley never should have Fallen. There was some sort of oversight or administerial miscalculation. This is how his two fundamental beliefs remain in delicate balance, neither disproving the other (mostly because he does a whole lot of Not Thinking About It Too Hard).

To doubt either side would be to absolutely shatter him.

This is my explanation for the final fifteen (and a prediction for S3).

He asks Crowley to come with him to Heaven and become an angel again because he thinks it's perfectly obvious that he never should have Fallen in the first place; reinstatement as an angel (from Aziraphale's point of view) is not a fundamental change in Crowley's nature, but merely the righting of a cosmic wrong, a return to what should be the status quo. He doesn't even see that he's asking Crowley to change anything at all other than perhaps the colour of his robe, because to him, Crowley is already an essentially Good creature ("at heart, just a little bit, a good person").

When he says "We can be together. Angels! Doing good!" - it's because he understands this is basically what they've been openly doing together this whole time, at least since the birth of the Antichrist. To his perspective, nothing changes at all except for the label on the tin.

... The tragedy is that he's wrong, of course. Not about Crowley being Good, but about God.

And Crowley knows this - it's why the line "I understand. I think I understand a whole lot better than you do" is so gentle but so devastating. The audience, not being a victim of Aziraphale's desperately white-knuckled grip on his own double-think, understands just as Crowley does.

(The only thing I think that Crowley doesn't understand - and fair enough - is where his Angel is really coming from here. Hence the heartbreak.)

My season 3 prediction: The delicate balance of The Two Tenets Of Aziraphale will finally be broken beyond any hope of recovery. Aziraphale's self will shatter. He will have to choose.

And I think when it comes down to it, we all know where his faith truly lies.

Watching him realise that is going to be just delicious.

[butchtwelfthdoctor]

ok but do yaz and thirteen just sleep in the tardis on a matress covered in blankets and stuff because. oh my god. they are teenage lesbians havong a sleepover in the living room

[fancyfade]

Uggg dc characters give aquafam a coherent status quo there are so many people who would be willing to help you with this like at least 3

[symmetricalscar]

Gnashing Teeth - Repent

[gayspock]

im this close 🤏

[possuminnit]

OK I've accepted awakeness now hello

[loneliii-aura]

Oh fucking GREAT.

In essance: Federal Judge says that it is unconstitutional that insurance nationwide be forced to cover preventative care including cancer screenings, heart screenings, std screenings, HIV-prevention measures, and so on. So they'd "leave it to states" to decide. What this means in actuality is that if this is sustained in higher courts, conservative states will continue to fuck over their people even more than they already have been.

[necromancer-mango]

burnout is real I have been sitting with my notes and trying to write a 150 word blurb about a movie + readings since this morning and i don’t have anything yet.

[cloudcastor]

some dungeon meshis 💥

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[yujateaandpi]

Hey you guys ever think about how rough and tumble little Stanley Pines tried his hardest to absorb all the ugly meanness of the world to protect his brother— how he became blustery and loud because it was the only way he received attention but also because it shielded his abnormal twin from scrutiny— how he stood in front of Ford with his gap tooth bared and scrawny arms outstretched taking in all the gawking and hurt by being the slip up, the rascal, the troublemaker— and how this ultimately led to Stanford Pines, the dreamy-eyed idealist who couldn’t tell the difference between friend and enemy, and Stanley Pines, the man who became so desensitized to pain that his life became one big bruise. Anyone ever think about that?

[beesinmymoth]

Drew widgets for my phone

[movelikeyoustoleit]

I can’t

[snappingthewalls]

[userarmand]

I'll stay. I'll never leave you ever again. I promise. I'll be happy, for you, for her. Please.