#i am interrupting my good omens blogging for this very important message: I LOVE JAMES HATHAWAY SO MUCH

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James Hathaway for the ask meme please!

aaah, thank you so much for asking, you know how much i love talking about my favourite disaster 💕

favorite thing about them:

to make a rather long story short: his existential flu and his passion—and by “passion” i mean both his intense dedication and enthusiasm for the people/things that he loves (robbie, his music, theology, poetry, etc.) and his emotional suffering. like …. all that guilt and self-loathing, and his emotional reserve and restraint, in combination with his intellect is just… i just really love the combination of his brilliant mind and his frightened heart and his tortured soul.

least favorite thing about them:

his sportswear😃

favorite line:

g o d, he has so many good ones. i love how he’s both funny and grave at times, facetious and contemplative. he has some great words of wisdom (“just because something makes me uncomfortable, doesn’t make it wrong”, “don’t grow up angry; it takes so much effort to find your place in the world when you’re angry”), but also a lot of little sentences that (accidentally) reveal so much about him (“i’m not a joiner of things”, “well, you said something wasn’t right”, “who else would understand me?”, “i’ve heard worse plans”, “you have to get there first”) i don’t think i can pick a favourite, do i really have to?

random headcanon:

okay, so this is a headcanon that is basically set in the universe of @greenapricot​’sfic after the fire: after the events of life born of fire, james finally allows himself to cryand rage against the unfairness of it all and spends many nights mourning what had happened and what could’ve been between will and him. he mourns for will and his lost life, but he is also just so angry, with his cruel and ignorant past self, and with will for giving up. he also allows himself to grieve for his younger self, and how utterly lost and wrong he’s felt for most of life. but he doesn’t have to go through it on his own, robbie is there for the whole way, and when james starts to forgive himself, will, and finally god, he starts carrying around a rosary again for the first time in years. it has saint sebastian as its centre medal.

unpopular opinion:

uhm, i never know what qualifies as an unpopular opinion, especially not if it concerns such a low-drama show (and fandom) like lewis. maybe this: i know a lot of people love the ot3 content that the show gives us, but i can’t help but think that james probably feels a lot of resentment towards laura (and robbie) after they get together. before that, they had this weird work-threesome going on and everyone was playing according to the rules—robbie and laura were doing their awkward and lacklustre dancing around each other thing, and robbie and james were doing their it-surely-can’t-be-called-flirting-if-we-both-pretend-that-we’re-just-taking-the-piss thing, and james and laura were doing their bantering and commiserating about robbie thing, and sometimes they’d all meet at crime scenes to make jokes about corpses, and everything was fine, maybe not perfect, but it was GOOD and james felt like he was in the right place with the right people for the first time in his life. and then they’d had to go and mess it up. i mean… he’s visibly distressed in that scene with the kiss, and it definitely broke something in him. him being james, he’s obviously very good at covering it up.

song i associate with them:

there are so many songs i associate with him, my whole music collection can basically be divided into the catetories “songs that remind me of my disaster boy”, “songs that remind me of robbie and james”, and “others”, haha. (shameless plug: i’ve even managed to fill two angsty playlists with those songs, you can find them here and here, and there’s more in the making!) current james faves include “not in kansas” by the national and “the world at large” by modest mouse.

favorite picture of them:

i won’t even try and pick a favourite pic of him but this is literally the first picture that comes up on google image search and it’s a great look 👌 i generally adore the dark suits (and of course the coat™)and longer hair (though i also love his depression buzzcut, sigh).

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