#galaxy brain op

[hairupintheair]

Awwwwww YES I want to see them do sister stuff and want to see Viva do Poppy's makeup!

I love their sibling dynamic too muuuchh!!! TvT

[will-ruadh]

EVERYBODY LOOK AT THIS EDIT I FOUND RIGHT NOW

[knightofleo]

x

[winchesterish]

wow i wonder why he kept them so isolated. it's almost like he kne— no. no. i won't say.

[hairupintheair]

Eeeeeee the love! The love! Branch's immediate urge to hug! The way Poppy just stands there with little hearts all around her, waiting so eagerly for his reaction~ Oh this is wonderful!

Branch reacting to Poppy's hair down :}

[galaxyspeaking]

Peter b parker could drink the grimace shake and have 0 reaction

You are SO right for this and I would push it even further and say the disgust on both Miles and Miguel’s face would be the ONLY thing they share

[chemblrish]

Thesis lab again. My conclusions, having spent five hours doing nothing but electron spectra, are as follows:

in chemistry, doing something for the first time is scary, roughly around the fourth time it gets fun, double that and suddenly you're so bored you almost want something to explode so at least there's some variety

I'm pretty sure my voice goes a notch higher when I'm nervous (does it show I'm terrified to even be near something as ridiculously expensive as our spectrometers let alone use them myself?)

my thesis supervisor is positively the most patient person in the whole world. I'm being so dumb sometimes and he just explains everything to me over and over again like it's nbd I just. Adore him. Please may he never realize how stupid I can be :')

[rinbylin]

possibly my favourite lhl meta now is that extremely galaxy-brained half hour video essay on b站 exploring essentially one thing:

llh can be read as a "mother" and a symbol of femininity/maternity in its purest form

what if feminine and maternal qualities can be uncoupled from biology and patriarchy. what would it look like. it would look like lxy's rebirth as llh. it would look like llh's nurturing and guidance of fdb. it is essentially the spirit of freedom and life llh held. it transcends any notions of gender.

feeling more validated than ever. and this is also far more than i've ever asked for. my brain has been rewired. i'm kissing you on the mouth op

[autisticalastor]

hazbin characters + what sleep token song theyre blasting

song titles r links!

angel dust: sugar (self explanatory)

alastor: jaws (ok obv st isnt his type of music but LYRICALLY SPEAKING.)

vox: ascensionism (its such a vox song ok those verses FUCK to him)

husk: granite (also self explanatory)

sir pentious: chokehold (hed fw it ok i just know it in my soul)

lucifer: euclid (listen ok he cant physically handle this song. it sends him into fucking hysterics just. ugly sobbing & losing his shit. but he feels it so DEEPLY so.)

cherri bomb: the summoning (same reason angel fw sugar)

valentino: nazareth (this is my fav st song & im mad it cant go to my fav chara. but val would fw it in severely unethical ways)

charlie: jericho (chaggie vibes on her end)

vaggie: rain (chaggie vibes on her end)

niffty: give (she is def writing x reader fanfiction abt vessel)

velvette: aqua regia (idk i just think shed like it yk)

sera & emily: the way that you were (WILDLY different vibes coming from them both but theyre both blasting it)

adam: vore (if alastor was more sexual he could have this but alas hed see how horny it is & be like. gross)

lute: thread the needle (idk it just feels like shed bump it)

rosie: say that you will (love & murder for her r so deeply entwined & shes a girlboss for that <3)

lilith: missing limbs (id like to think she feels SOMETHING under that cold careless exterior we saw in her brief scene in the show. & its prob this.)

《유나》

[piraticoctopus]

Through a chain of events I discovered Joel’s Super Ghostbusters album the other day at work and I need to talk about it.

My initial impression was that it’s so fucking bad. One of the worst things I’ve ever heard. However, it also made me laugh so hard I legitimately had tears in my eyes, and the suddenly fast and loud part of Gheestobesto (the “nutbusters” one) is what tipped it over the edge, so idk what that says about me. (The MIDI trumpet pulls a lot of the weight for me in the “heehee funny noises” category, because I am a simple woman who will laugh without fail at an unexpected Fart With Reverb. The “lyrics” are already ridiculous, and then you’ve also got this thing honking in the back.)

Upon re-listen, I have looped around into the opinion that Super Ghostbusters is a legitimate piece of art. I’m not sure what category of art, but it transcends the bounds of just music. There’s no more than a second’s rest to process what you’ve just heard between tracks. It is 21 straight minutes of auditory assault. It simultaneously has very little effort and excessive effort put into it, even excluding the actual metal cover (which is clearly high-effort). There are a few places where he laughs before finishing the track and chose to leave it in, or where it was clearly bad improv, but there’s also a good amount of editing done to it, and shit like the sudden text-to-speech milk definition, so there was deliberate choice about what to leave shitty. I do not know how he managed to pull that balance off, and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything comparable.

And this is a man who knows how to make legitimate music, which I think is what was making me lose my mind the most. Like he absolutely knows how to use these tools, and this is how he’s choosing to use them. It’s incredible. I don’t really know how to put it into words. The album is an experience unlike any other, 10/10, highly recommended.

That fucking MIDI plays in my head when idle and seeing milk in my fridge now triggers Ghostbatista to start playing.

I personally really like the segment from 09:35 (track 12 - Ghostbatista) through 13:39 (track 15 - Gheistbest). I think it encompasses most of my points pretty well.

But anyways I have destroyed my youtube suggestions and the algorithm doesn’t know what to do for me anymore.

[cobaltfluff]

Me, watching the Bucchigiri OP: ah yes, Hiroko Utsumi strikes again

[hairupintheair]

Okay look I don't want to downplay the adorable Broppy-ness but I think the best part of the whole comic is when Poppy throws the cupcakes up in the air and Smidge catches them SEVEN PANELS LATER. Comedic. Genius. *chef's kiss*

Was gripped with this idea since 2am a few days ago. So here it is for the internet to peep! From my brain to your eyes! with love 83

[bittersweetdoq]

some of you need to read this and reread it again

[nanamis-bigtie]

......this kind of a sandwich tho

[bunnygibson]

regarding the terror x the favourite, have you considered hickey as abigail, jopson as sarah, and crozier as queen anne?

omfg. well not until NOW but that is so good and funny now i'm obsessed.... poor jopson 😭💔 ​if HICKEY of all people stole the love of my life from me i would jump out of a window and splat right in front of them

[aziraphalalala]

As far as I’m concerned, this is now canon.

well done op

Aziraphale’s Choice, the Job Connection, and Michael Sheen’s Morality

I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.

Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,

We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and “oh it’s nice.” And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose.

I was looking forward to BAMF!Aziraphale all season long, and I think that’s what we got in the end. Remember Neil said that the Job minisode was important for Aziraphale’s story. Remember how Aziraphale sat on that rock and reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, because he lied and thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier.

Aziraphale, a being of love with more goodness than all of Heaven combined, believed he needed to walk through the Gates of Hell because it was the Right Thing to do. (Like Job, he didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing.)

That’s why we saw Aziraphale as a soldier this season: the bookshop battle, the halo. But yes, the ending as well.

Because Aziraphale never wanted to go to Heaven, and he never wanted to go there without Crowley.

But it was Crowley who taught him that he could, even SHOULD, act when his moral heart told him something was wrong. While Crowley was willing to run away and let the world burn, it was Aziraphale (in that bandstand at the end of the world) who stood his ground and said No. We can make a difference. We can save everyone.

And Aziraphale knew he could not give up the ace up his sleeve (his position as an angel) to talk to God and make them see the truth in his heart.

I was messed up by Ineffable Bureaucracy (Boxfly) getting their happy ending when our Ineffable Husbands didn’t, but I see now that them running away served to prove something to Aziraphale. (And I am fully convinced that Gabriel and Beelzebub saw the example of the Ineffables at the Not-pocalypse and took inspiration from them for choosing to ditch their respective sides)

But my point is that Aziraphale saw them, and in some ways, they looked like him and Crowley. And he saw how Gabriel, the biggest bully in Heaven, was also like him in a way (a being capable of love) and also just a child when he wasn’t influenced by the poison of Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person. The Metatron also seemed to have grown more flexible with his morality (from Aziraphale's perspective). Like Earth, Heaven was shades of (light?) gray.

Aziraphale is too good an angel not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it).

Aziraphale has been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks he and Crowley helped create), Aziraphale is seeing something else. A chance to change them. They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, and because of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.

(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.)

At the cafe, the Metatron said something big was coming in the Great Plan. Aziraphale knows how trapped he had felt when he didn’t have God’s ear the first time something huge happened in the Big Plan. He can’t take a chance again to risk the world by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths (or the threat of death) so much more this season: Elspeth, Wee Morag, Job’s children, the 1940s magician. Aziraphale almost killed a child when he couldn’t get through to God, and he’s not going through that again.

“We could make a difference.” We could save everyone.

Remember what Michael Sheen said about courage and doing good––and having to “look the dark in the face to be truly good.” That’s what happened when Aziraphale was willing to go to Hell for his actions. That’s what happened when he decided he had to go to Heaven, where he had been abused and belittled and made to feel small. He decided to willingly go into the Lion’s Den, to face his abusers and his anxiety, to make them better so that they would not try to destroy the world again.

Him, just one angel. He needed Crowley to be there with him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions that Heaven needed to hear, to tell them God was wrong. Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage.

But then Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.

Aziraphale doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much they need him, or how much humanity needs him there, too. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?)

Terry Pratchett (in the Discworld book, Small Gods) is scathing of God, organized religion, and the corrupt people religion empowers, but he is sympathetic to the individual who has real, pure faith and a good heart. In fact, the everyman protagonist of Small Gods is a better person than the god he serves, and in the end, he ends up changing the church to be better, more open-minded, and more humanist than god could ever do alone.

Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, and Heaven is no exception. When Crowley says that Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he needs to go there. “You’re exactly is different from my exactly.”

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In the aftermath of Trump's election in the US, Brexit happened in 2018. Michael Sheen felt compelled to figure out what was going on in his country after this shock. But he was living in Los Angeles with Sarah Silverman at the time, and she also wanted to become more politically active in the US.

Sheen: “I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to Britain] – which was difficult for us, because we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do.” In the end, they split up and Michael moved back to the UK.

Sometimes doing the Right Thing means sacrificing your own happiness. Sometimes it means going to Hell. Sometimes it means going to Heaven. Sometimes it means losing a relationship.

And that’s why what happened in the end was so difficult for Aziraphale. Because he loves Crowley desperately. He wants to be together. He wanted that kiss for thousands of years. He knows that taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them. They could change the rules of the game.

And he’s still going to do that. But it hurts him that he has to do that alone.