#into thinking they’re back in the void

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Color experiencing sensory overload and having a panic attack during one of his first ventures out into the omega timeline’s public during the day

[ovaryacted]

I just got home from the club and I really can’t believe TikTok is just banned like that. In all honesty, I think tiktok was sold to Meta and Trump will act like he’s a savior for keeping that app when really it’ll just get used to spew hateful right wing bullshit.

It’s also disheartening that a lot of people are only looking at this at the surface level and thinking that TikTok getting banned is a good thing to finally get rid of the brainrot that so many people complain about. Yet people don’t understand that this “ban” sets a precedent that the government will not hesitate to enforce technological blackouts and bans across different apps, websites, and forms of media to uphold censorship and surveillance across the masses. If they can do this to TikTok in the name of “national security”, which is a lie may I add, trust me they’re planning on doing the same to any other platform that grants people the opportunity to gain access to information that is unbiased from American propaganda.

[siriusly-the-best-bi]

Ya know what’s curious to me? In Episode 2 when Crowley asks Aziraphale in the cellar whose side he’s on, Aziraphale responds “God’s, of course!”

Ya know why this is curious?

Well, for one, they’re talking about sides. Heaven and Hell. Their respective bosses. Crowley’s response of going along with Hell as far as he can makes sense, it’s what we expect to hear, but when he turns the question on Aziraphale, he doesn’t exclaim ‘heaven’s obviously!’ He immediately associates himself and his values with God directly.

Second of all, In episode 6, when talking about accepting the Metatron’s job offer as the new supreme archangel with Crowley, Aziraphale says “but heaven! Well, it’s the side of truth, of light, of good.”

For the entirety of Good Omens season 1, Aziraphale had always talked about following God’s ineffable plan, which was a noticeably different turn of phrase than those such as Gabriel used in heaven, always referring to it as the Great Plan. This is even the very thing that lead them to wiggling their way around Armageddon in the first place when confronted by Gabriel and Beelzebub.

Aziraphale has always made the distinction that he is an angel and does good because he believes that God is good and he trusts in their design.

Now I might just be loosing it, it is nearly 3am, but this sudden distinction and the choice of Aziraphale to not only discuss heaven in such a manner, but to refer to it as an entire Side, and use the adjectives he uses to describe heaven when we’ve only ever seen or heard him talk about God this way… it just all plays very intentional to me. It feel’s weird.

Especially once you take into consideration the flashbacks we’re shown of Beelzebub and Gabriel discussing the failed Armageddon in their little pub rendezvous. They never once mention their respect ‘boss’. Gabriel says “we are ready for round two.” And Beelzebub’s response is “as are we.” This we that they’re referring to isn’t God. It’s not Satan. They’re talking about the beings who reside in these respective places. The Angels and the Demons. And the conversation then continues with Gabriel admitting, “everyone in Heaven is all like, ‘Well, you’re the commander-in-chief, can’t you just make the war happen anyway?’ Like, I make the rules.” And whats Beelzebub’s response? “That’s exactly what my lot said.”

The pressure isn’t coming from God anymore. In the past, like seen in the Job episode, when there were divine tasks at hand they were dealt with by the angels for God, and God was directly involved in finding the outcome. There was no going through management or filing paperwork or monitoring miracles. And hey, I get it. As time evolves along with the humans, so does everything else.

My question is, is it possible that with these evolutions in the human world, that Heaven and Hell have perhaps learned a thing or two from humanity as well? Already they’ve mimicked the clothing, the office spaces, the entire design of heaven and hell down to the management hierarchy. Is it possible that these wars and these fights aren’t being started by God anymore, but an act of civil war amongst the Angels and Demons? We already see Michaels urge for power and control paralleled and almost foiled by Shax’s drive for control and power and both were the driving factors between any of the Major problems this season that lead to major conflicts between Heaven and Hell.

That brings us of course, to the Metatron. Who is he and where exactly did he come from? When did his position become necessary and why wasn’t he present as the ‘voice of god’ in the job minisode? Why suddenly are all of God’s plans, only being carried out by him?

Do you want to know why I think Gabriel was being demoted and not sent to Hell as a fallen angel? Because I don’t think they can. I think that’s something only God can do, but what kind of fear and control would that hold over all the busy bee’s? No, no, instead, let’s frame it as a Kindness. Heaven won’t cast you out because it will make them look bad! because it’s happened before, so they have no choice but to play a game of politics to keep everyone in check.

But here’s my question. Has there been a fallen angel since the great war? Why is it that after all this time, Aziraphale hasn’t fallen time and time again? Why is it that instead of an Angel falling from grace to join the armies of hell, the response to an act of rebellion is absolute destruction. The same could be said for hell. If you have demons walking around that are doing good, wouldn’t that simply just re-spark their halo’s? Why is it that they’d be destroyed by Holy Water instead of simply returning to Heaven?

It’s because God plays an ineffable game of their own design. They’re not playing with earth, or humanity. They’re toying with the Angels and the Demons. It’s why they’re placing bets with Satan.

When Crowley’s attempting to convince Aziraphale to run away for the last time, he doesn’t say Fuck God and Fuck whatever game this is, we don’t need to be a part of it. He says Heaven and Hell are toxic we need to get away from them.

It’s just so curious to me how this season has carefully and slowly taken us away from the idea of God and God’s Ineffable Plan and instead led us into this drama between Heaven and Hell, no mention of God whatsoever. No narrator.

[lionblaze03-2]

mousefur and longtail are both asexual aromantic in some sort of qpr relationship with one another. Do you get it do you see my vision

[peaches2217]

“You’ve barred us both from the Kingdom of Heaven” is officially the most ominous thing I’ve ever been told at work, and given I’ve been in customer service for nine years, that’s saying something. It was so poetic and unexpected, absolute flawless delivery, too. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[hobbithoes]

Gonna start posting again soon fr , it’s just hard to manage my time , venting in the tags incomingggg ✈️

[akkivee]

ichiro threw gales of wind and kuukou had all this water falling imagery attached to him in the rap mv, oh they know they were cooking

[killuaisaprincess]

I SOMETIMES THINK ABOUT THIS PERSON

[kizzington]

🚨 ATTENTION ALL CATB FANS 🚨

Just when we thought they were dust forevermore, they have risen from the dead (or at least Van & probably Benji have) !!!

I’m so excited, I’m presuming this means new music 🤞🏻

[wibble-wobbegong]

urge to make a big post about how mike doesn’t fit anywhere vs bigger urge to include it in the jtr timeline thing im working on

[lilypucks]

why is it that the only slavic characters in media are always “big scary russian guy that can kill you” and that’s it nothing else

[krystaldeath]

Me when I have an almost complete animated mv for Set It Off’s Creating Monsters but I’ve never animated anything in my life, much less made an animatic. Hell I haven’t drawn a comic in ages either lmao

[elluminis]

I’ve graduated to the receptionist at my surgeon’s suite recognizing me by my face 💀

[fancy-rock-dove]

I am so sorry, I find this post hilarious and love the joke but please excuse me while I am a massive nerd about this for a moment.

This is actually really funny, because the octopus example highlights that the entire underlying argument of the bone-debate, is really just whether or not life on land is underrated. Allow me to summarize this choice:

Keep your rock-puzzle body structure

Take your refund (the life aquatic)

Become much smaller/simpler (who needs a large central nervous system anyway)

TLDR: Octopus is actually always in a sling. It's the ocean. The ocean is the octopus sling. The grass is always greener but you must choose your support somewhere or collapse under the weight of your own complexity.

Because, see, bones are wild, is the thing. Sure they're Shaped and Breakable, but they actually have about half a dozen jobs, some of which are Probably Really Necessary for living the way we do.

Mollusks do plenty of the bone-tasks without any bones, like growing immune cells in other places besides bone marrow, and we're not even entirely sure we know all the places it happens. And crustaceans and insects get their structure from external skeletons, but for breathing and size reasons, those get pretty impractical if you want to get anywhere near the size of an octopus or human, at least if you want to live on land. But mineralized bone tissue is specifically important for maintaining large, complex life on land.

One of the things that's significantly different about bones from, say, insect carapace, is that they're full of cells. Like, really, they're a living tissue, a community of cells that just happens to build really strong mineralized walls around themselves and each other, and then reshape it constantly as they need to. Some of those cells are with you your whole entire life, and have insane half lives of like 25 years. Your bones are alive and they are constantly moving around in there (just a tiny bit).

But the important thing about this is that, because there are cells in there, they can use your bones for more than just structural support. Some cool materials science research actually supports a longstanding theory that from their earliest evolution, one of the important roles of bones was as a storage area or "battery" for the minerals that make muscles and nerves work. If you run out of those things in your blood, the cells could pull more out of your bones for you. Basically, mineralized bones let vertebrates travel long distances from mineral-rich food/sources without losing the ability to think or move, and even help provide materials for important processes like laying eggs. It's entirely possible that they're one of the things that made it possible for larger, more complex animals to travel away from the oceans.

On top of that, bones are also really important for our ability to be as big as we are and still move around on land. Octopuses are squishy, adaptable, powerful, and definitely mobile by means of a hydrostatic skeleton, which basically means that because water doesn't compress very much, it can provide solid-like support when it's trapped in a certain area. Say, inside an octopus arm. The problem with this system on land is that it has its limitations outside a fluid environment. Imagine your muscles had to constantly maintain the shape of your bones (because they will become formless otherwise) and then also use them to move around at the same time. Without the support of water around you, this becomes deeply impractical really fast. One example of an animal that makes it work anyway is an earthworm. That's about as complicated as these get on land without also including some other kind of skeletal structure in there somewhere.

And the thing is, despite the fact that we only have a vague idea how or why complex nervous systems or intelligence develops, and it's hard to measure by any consistent metric (birds can be crazy smart, but have relatively low brain-to-body size), it seems to be at least partially linked to the need to navigate more complexity in everyday life, whether that's wrangling eight limbs or navigating more complex social structures. Which is why I uphold that unless you want to go for options 1 or 2 above, you're probably not going to attain the size and complexity required for much outside of option 3. Hydrostatic skeletons or exoskeletons without some bones just aren't going to cut it.

So, long story short, you could definitely be out there, living the boneless life, but if you do demand a refund, be prepared for the genie to stick you in the ocean. It's slings or surf, I'm afraid.

people love extolling the virtues of ball-and-socket joints and how it makes us more advanced and all that but I don't see any fucking octopuses in slings now do I. Bones are overrated and I want a refund.

[something-of-a-hermit]

Why is O Superman (Laurie Anderson) so incredibly comforting but also I’m sobbing my eyes out at 12am over the line “and when force is gone, there’s always Mom (hi, mom!)”?

[ancientpersacom]

“They made them a conveniently attractive twink omg ruined design yap yap”

FOOLS. ABSOLUTE DINGBATS YOU ALL ARE. CAN YOU NOT SEE ALL THE SYMBOLISM????

I will defend this design to the ends of the earth. Yes they’re hot, that’s merely a bonus.

1) that’s not a shirt that’s a fucking Galaxy under that suit. Mf has no body, just a vaguely body shaped void. Meaning floating head and hands that aren’t attached to anything. You take those clothes off and it’s the fucking void. They’re non binary AND sexless. Beyond any physical body, just shaped like it for fun.

2) the old bodies head dead in their hands and simultaneously birthing a foetus. That’s the circle of life, a rebirth, a metamorphosis. Chaos is above a god, they’re primordial. They don’t have a permanent appearance or identity. They’re ever changing. They look like this now, but if there were another game, they’d change again. They’re always changing, killing their old self and reshaping it. The wings have also moved and grown from the head to the back. Chaos expands indefinitely, bigger and unable to be contained in any way. They don’t even need wings, they can float. But they decided to have them anyway, just because. Because they can.

3) this is Ancient Greece. Suits don’t exist yet. Chaos took clothing from thousands of years in the future. They’re beyond time itself, they’re not effected by Chronos in any way. They’re in their own realm outside of time an space, they know things from the past, present and future.

4) the hair being the same colour as and long like many of their grandchildren, family resemblance there. Almost like they’re,,, missing them. Despite being this omnipresent being beyond human emotion, they still care in their own way. Copying them to feel some form of deeper connection.

5) the earth is an earring now. That’s how inconsequential it is to a being like chaos. It’s just there, an accessory, nothing special.

I could go on. Maybe I’m reading too deep into it but given the fact all the designs in the first and second games tend to have symbolism in them based on the myths the gods come from and what they represent, I don’t think I’m too insane for seeing symbolism here.