#is this what its supposed to be like???? is this how other people live?????????

[youryurigoddess]

Aziraphale’s cottage

Sorry for not replying to all of you, real life has been a bit of a whirlwind recently. I will try my best to catch up and get back to the S3 crumbs as soon as possible, but there’s another precious, peaceful, fragile piece of information I have found and want to share in the meantime.

You might remember this photograph of Aziraphale’s desk as one of S1 BTS shots shared with us back in 2019. As it always happens with bonus material for this particular series, it almost instantly prompted multiple comments and ideas, mostly pertaining to the splash of contrasting blue in the top left corner. A coloured photograph — or maybe a postcard? — depicting a timber-framed, thatch-roofed house in the Tudor style, a touristy yet typical enough view in some parts of the British countryside.

A certain South Downs cottage became a fandom-wide institution ever since its first mention in 2005, and, most recently, a symbol of optimism and hope for a happy ending in a rather unhappy world.

Twenty-year-long history doesn’t seem to be enough to pinpoint any details though: what we know is that according to Terry Pratchett and other sources, Aziraphale and Crowley will live there together after the events of the unpublished Good Omens sequel, which became Good Omens 3: Finale (or however Prime and BBC agreed for the official name to be spelled out). We also know that Rob Wilkins shared a hope for filming there in spring on location. What we don’t know is where it actually is (yet).

But I do happen to know the exact location of the house from Aziraphale’s photograph.

Spoiler alert: it’s not actually on the South Downs, but a bit up north, in the village of Wilmcote in Warwickshire, about three miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, and preserved as Mary Arden’s Farm — today known under her married name, Mary Shakespeare, as the mother of William Shakespeare (also represented on Aziraphale’s S2 desk in the form of a small engraving).

Why “preserved as”? In a very Good Omens way, the farmhouse turned out to be an object of an unfortunate mid-sixteenth century house swap. In 2000 it was confirmed to had belonged not to the Ardens family, as previously believed, but their friend and neighbour Adam Palmer, making it Palmer’s Farm. The old name, however, stuck — people can be rather weird about names.

The whole complex belongs to Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and is kept as a working farm offering an authentic Tudor experience with multiple live animals. Until recently open to general public, due to financial constraints it now operates only as an education centre.

Is this how the real South Downs cottage is supposed to look like? Will the Good Omens crew actually film there some time soon?

Or does Aziraphale feel for some reason much more sentimental about William and his family than the Globe flashback might have originally suggested?

I guess that we will have to wait and see!

[anarchy-and-piglins]

I had an EXCELLENT dream last night so of course I should turn it into an AU.

Vampires are not allowed to take their fledglings home. The law is very strict about this. Instead, vampire fledglings must stay in a Vampiric facility that is carefully controlled. This is done with the purpose of keeping the newly turned safe and unabused.

They are kept in locked rooms and only the sire and coven can enter. These rooms are NICE. There is anything a fledgling could ever want. But also, everything in there is on the coven's dime. The facility doesn't do anything except house the fledglings. All care is still left up to the sire and coven. It just provides some oversight.

Techno was supposed to be a meal, not a fledgling. Unlucky when he walked home from his job at a library, grabbed and chomped and left for dead. Except he didn't completely die. He was turned.

He hid this fact. Vampires and Humans lived very separate lives and he was comfortable where he was. He didn't want to live as a vampire he wanted to read books on the clock sometimes. As stubborn as he is, he can't exactly change his biology.

He had a pretty quiet job, so the sensitivity of his ears isn't a problem. What really starts being an issue is every other sense. His sense of smeel becomes stronger and he finds people wearing strong perfumes give him a headache. He is much more bothered by the way his clothes fit, the cheap fabric being more uncomfortable. And his vision! Its awful, sitting under florescent lights all day at his job. Luckily, his boss is chill and lets him wear sunglasses inside. He gets weird looks, but he can deal.

Phil is his favorite regular. The guy is always checking out a different hobby book. One week, its cook books. The next, its woodworking. Then, it macrame. The guy loves learning different skills.

Phil is also a vampire. Technoblade has known that for years, it's not a secret. But after the bite, Techno avoids Phil like the plague. He does not want to be found out.

Phil notices and is hurt that his friend is avoiding him. He tries to pin Techno down and ask him if there is something wrong. Techno is constantly running. Phil asks, a little disbelieving, if Techno was treating him like this because Phil is a vamp. Techno says yes and Phil opens his mouth to absolutely chew Techno out on that kind of thinking only to kind of stop and freeze. Maybe a fan blew Techno's scent toward him a la Twilight movie or something, but Phil finally smells that Techno is no longer human and should NOT be at his very human job.

Phil turns around and leaves without another word. Techno feels guilty that he had been so rude to Phil, but it's what he had to do. He finishes his shift, ignoring how uncomfortable he is.

He leaves the library while the sun is still up, but he never makes it home.

He wakes up and he can't quite remember what happened. He was walking, he thought he saw a car following him? He had brushed it off as paranoia, but then heard someone say his name from an alley and then-? It was blank.

Now he was in a room he had never seen before. Low lights, what looks like sound proofing on the walls. The large bed he was laying on was incredibly soft, some part of him feelinf RELIEVED by the comfort of it.

But most of him feeling absolutely thrown by being kidnapped.

There aren't any windows in the room and the one door that doesn't lead to a bathroom looks like something out of prison. Thick heavy metal. Knocking something against it just has this deep thud sound. No possibility of breaking.

Later, some official looking vampire comes in and talks to him. They ask Techno about his turn. What he remembers of the vamp that bit him. He doesn't remember much. He didn't see the vamp's face. They didn't speak. He couldn't even tell you how tall or what color hair they had. He tells them the when and where, but they just frown.

Official vamp leaves and ignores Techno's questions about when he can leave. Techno is left alone again.

More hours pass and Techno is torn between dozing and pacing the room. Finally, the door opens again and in walks Phil.

Phil tells Techno that the Facility would most likely not be able to find Techno's sire and that they had approved for Phil's coven to adopt him. Techno tells Phil that he doesn't have to do that, Techno is fine going back to his life. Phil tells him that that isn't possible. Fledglings HAVE to stay in the Facility. If Phil didn't adopt him, then he would just be assigned to someone else anyway. Vamp society never intentionally abandons fledglings. Honestly, if they ever did find the vamp that bit Techno, there would be some SERIOUS consequences.

Techno just wants to go back to his old life. Phil says it's not possible, which Techno KNOWS, but if he's stubborn enough, maybe he can WILL IT into being possible.

Phil is sympathetic and tries to comfort Techno on the change. Telling him some of the benefits of vampirism, once he fully develops. Tells him about his coven, Tommy and Wilbur, and how he would be seeing them soon. Techno is getting mopier and mopier.

Techno's stomach growls and he is embarrassed. Phil just laughs and says that they needed to establish a bond, which meant Techno needed to drink Phil's blood anyway.

Phil offers Techno his bleeding wrist and Technoblade just grimaces at it. Phil laughs and tells Techno he will get used to it.

Techno drinks and his mind completely jumps ship. Blood is delicious and his baby vampire mind is completely focused on that. He doesn't even notice when Phil bites Techno's wrist as well, sealing the bond.

The rest of the fic would be Techno going stir-crazy, unable to leave that single room. Wilbur and Tommy visiting, but they aren't allowed to stay as long as a sire would. Phil appearing as often as possible, offering Techno food, company, entertainment.

In the dream I had, there was some other force that wanted to steal Techno for their own fledgling, but the dream logic didn't make as much sense. However, there are a lot of vamps in this facility. If there was an enemy of Phil that wanted to try to hurt him, there is literally a little vamp behind a locked door to cause problems.

Anyway, that was my dream. Not dark SBI for once, just vamps!

Day two of clearing my inbox of these excellent Lenn AUs /j

This one is really good. I'm not going to lie, you had me going at the start thinking it'd be dark sbi anyway if Phil was a bit more uh, forceful about getting Techno into his coven. But then I very much like that it's not. Good old hurt/comfort hits excellently. And given a free choice, I bet Techno would still prefer Phil over anybody else.

And you just know that a double kidnapping is one of my favorite tropes lol.

[whywhywhymoney]

What everyone ALWAYS gets wrong about Maggie Kyle

For a character with very few appearances (and only 3 of them as the incredibly mischaracterised Sister Zero), the amount of bad faith takes and practical vitriol that gets thrown Maggie's way is really surprising. She's a very interesting character and foil for Selina which is why competent writers for Catwoman keep coming back to her! I feel like I want to clear up some of the major misconceptions that I've seen by doing a bit of a deep dive using mostly her debut appearance:

She's sanctimonious/holier-than-thou.

This couldn't be further from the truth! It makes me think that people don't actually read her appearances, just look at the nun habit and come up with an idea of what they think a foil to Selina should be like (pious, virtuous, dependent, frumpy).

Catwoman (1989)

She's actually very much an idealist, and doesn't give up on the people she loves. In her first lines of dialogue she's shown here cutting an elder nun down to size because Maggie won't take any criticism of/for her prayers for Selina.

Catwoman (1989)

You see her directly telling a cop that she doesn't care if she gets arrested, and the language she uses clearly emphasises that she doesn't have anything against sex workers (we even see her talking to some later when she's trying to find Selina; everyone's very respectful to each other).

Maggie crucially does not think she's above anyone, and she doesn't think she's above behaviour that others feel is beneath her ("Or you'd arrest me for soliciting... Book me, Danno").

If you can accuse Maggie of anything here it's naivety - that by virtue of being a nun she's protected from violence - but she's also literally a teenager here too.

Throughout these panels she's constantly being patronised and slightly belittled by authority figures - and absolutely refuses to give into them and pushes back every time. This is just ONE of the MANY traits Maggie and Selina share, but like so many of their similarities, it becomes a difference because of how those traits present themselves in both girls (and they're both literally just girls here, no more than 17-19).

I assume this misconception can come about from the way Selina talks about Maggie very early on -

Catwoman (1993) #5

She's abrupt and distant and wants nothing to do with her - not because of anything Maggie did but because Selina feels it's the best way to keep her safe. Selina pushing people away/leaving them for their sakes is nothing new, and she's done it to Maggie first/ the longest, its sort of a default setting for their early relationship.

Part of it may also be some sort of resentment regarding how both of their lives turned out, but that's probably buried so deep that by the time it does crop up in Catwoman (2002), both of them acknowledge that they're way beyond that.

She's timid/weak.

Again, a lot of these misconceptions stem purely from 2 things:

Thinking Maggie is the total antithesis of Selina

The stereotypical image of a nun/religious person

While obviously not as physically capable as Selina and Holly, that doesn't stop her from being a badass in her own right. There's plenty of panels that show how much of a backbone Maggie has, and you can even see it above. The girl is not timid!

Catwoman (1989)

But in a literal life or death situation, when even Selina thinks Maggie's dead (Stan has thrown her off a platform), she actually managed to grab onto a railing and is later saved by Batman. The near death experience doesn't stop her from standing up to Selina's actions too.

If this exchange reads as "sanctimonious" to readers, well fine. Selina feels that way. What it really is supposed to highlight is that neither sister is wrong, just how their different worldview's affect their dealings with the world - in fact, we watch all this from Selina's POV, so we naturally favour her perspective. That same stubbornness and desperation to survive persists in Maggie just the same as it does in her sister. Again, it just expresses itself differently.

In fact, out of all characters, it's STAN who correctly assesses just how similar Maggie and Selina are, in his own twisted way. Maggie's been holed up alone with Stan - a known abuser and rapist - for at least a couple days by this point, and the way she refuses to engage with him is a parellel of how Selina refused to engage with the police right at the start of this story.

Catwoman (1989)

She's not timid and she's CERTAINLY not weak. Just as Selina won't give up any information about Maggie, Maggie spends the latter half of the comic doing the same thing.

Over and over again we see Maggie as the one who's not afraid to stand up to the one's she loves, and the one who feels more secure in their relationship, and in general the one who is actually the LESS likely to give into her emotions the way Selina can do on occasions.

Catwoman (1989)

You can see it right here, in the aftermath of Maggie's kidnapping. Selina expects her to be a mess, and Maggie's just quipping through the whole time. She doesn't hold back at all from letting Selina know exactly what she went through, and she can be JUST as bitter (and has a right to be) about what hand life dealt her as Selina is. It's Selina who's wracked with emotion, and it's Maggie who lets her know in no uncertain way that she's not a killer.

It's fairly interesting to note - Maggie and Selina both have the same tendency towards self-destruction when they hit rock bottom. But I think Maria's suicide has taken that "conventional" option away from both of them.

And now for some general observations on Maggie and her relationship with Selina:

They both possess the same capacity for empathy and caring - whereas Selina cares SO much about a select circle of people and empathises endlessly with people in difficult situations, Maggie doesn't put a limit on who to care about. Neither of them are wrong, they're just different. This trait in Maggie might have changed as we haven't seen a whole lot of her as a functional person post-Relentless though (and I think from the snippet we see in One Bad Day, she has).

They do look very similar, and this is highlighted more in Catwoman (1989), but their colouring is different, especially later on when Maggie has more lighter brown/reddish-brown hair. Once again, the eerie similarities just make the contrasts strike that little bit harder.

Maggie canonically did get her Psychology degree - and it's something that completely works with her already established character! I can completely see her in a role that strives to make life better for others, in the same way Selina strives to make life better for the East End.

There's always varying levels of friction between her and Selina, and there probably always will be. That does NOT mean they cannot stand each other. It just means they have a very complex and layered relationship, and clashes often happen between people who are pretty similar in certain ways. They still love each other fiercely and never stop caring about each other.

When it comes to religion, I'm going to let these panels speak for themselves. What I will say is I think both must have had a healthy grounding about it in their childhood, as Selina never sounds particularly resentful against the Church.

Catwoman (1993) #5

Gotham City Sirens (2009) #22

The undercurrent between both of their attitudes is towards religion, life and each other is empathy, a lack of judgement, and a fierce determination to love and live IN SPITE of constantly hitting drawbacks. Those core traits are inherent to both of them, I really do believe it.

And that's that on Magdalene Kyle!

[hhawkeye]

took my first dose of adhd meds today and played baldurs gate 3 for 16 hours straight

[mohntilyet]

continued rook-lucanis sketches from the last week or so <3

[mai-hatsume]

BNHA manga spoilers btw

I have smtn to say ab bkdk like ok

I don't understand how ppl can't see it but ok each person has their own views and I get it but let's be so fucking serious here.

if I was ochaco or whoever you shipped w izuku and I was dating him I'd be so fucking jealous of katsuki coz????? what the actual fuck are you talking ab???? and like the opposite too like Kiri and Kats?????? my boyfriend died for his 'best friend' twice like???????? what have you done for me?

he saved up for 8 YEARS to get a suit for izuku??? do you think that's normal behaviour????

[pageofheartdj]

You know it's annoying how people accept gender being a complex thing. How the way you identify and the way you present are not the same. How complicated and fluid your gender can be.

And then turn around and deny ALL of it for sexuality. That sexuality is binary and strict.

[puppppppppy]

I made a lmk oc

[vaniliens]

Blocking the main system tags cuz I keep getting discourse on my dash whenever i post about being plural 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[syrupbitee]

their dinamic is messy but caring but idfa about you all at same time it makes me want to explode i want to see more of them siu pls

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[arachnerd-8-legs]

im getting real sick of 'intelligence'

who decided reading books and writing counted as intelligence? who decided that getting high scores on a strict, unfeeling system meant you were better than everybody? who decided that people should be turned into numbers, tie their worth in society into numbers, to compare people on a scale that ultimately does not matter, so that the people who didn't dump everything to perform for it are berated and the people who did end up with nothing?

who decided not reading or writing was a lack of intelligence? who decided that living differently to them was a sign of lower 'societal worth' than those who conformed?

[sheepgirlmaidtummy]

i think i have this fear of being seen as a liar i think. like. everyone does it. and as a kid i stole stuff all the time and the way that was dealt with kinda just fucked with my head. do people see my kindness and my compassion as manipulation? am i read as someone trying to tear down the walls so i can get something while ur guard is down?. idk why someone thinking that of me makes me feel so miserable like. what if they were right? ive made mistakes before.. whos to say they arent right about this time? i dont want to stop being kind but it scares me to think about that.

[princessmyriad]

Alright. Okay. As an aussie who is firmly against guns and even visting america ever because of the guns im about to fucking fly over there, yank a weapon out of a toddlers hands, and start making some shots myself.

And im a much better headshot than your previous attempts have proved 🙃

[emlos]

im so fucking conflicted man, like this is making me cry

[fruiteggsaladit]

ID: YHH manga excerpt: Yusuke, facing away and contemplative, speaking to Botan (not visible): "I'm alive, and they're actually glad. But I can't even say when I'll revive entirely. Y'know, it might be funny to break the egg... on purpose, so I fail and my soul never returns." /END ID.

YYH manga, volume 1, chapter 2, page 73.

ID: Botan and Yusuke in the "Kids, could you lighten up a little?" Simpsons Meme (Botan says the line). /END ID.

Her canon thoughts "Yeah, real funny..."