#putting a plan into action

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Nothing like putting a plan into action,

only to discover a big, messy problem that needs fixing before everything goes to hell in a handcart.

[izzymalec]

pushing daisies season 1 episode 1 – pie-lette

i guess dying is as good as any excuse to start living

[bumblebeeappletree]

So a while ago I commissioned @thefruitloop-chan to make a Solarpunk poster for anyone to use! And this beautiful piece was made!

This is a blank for people to put text on, and here’s the two text ones that I put over

Anyone can print them and put them up and around town! Especially since it’s Solarpunk Action Week! Thank you again Squid for making this beautiful artwork! Let’s make a better future together!

[nothingbizzare]

Thanks uuu for the request @spacepajamas956 !

[good-soupmens]

Ik the good omens fandom has different takes on God as a character, but I like the idea that she DOES have an ineffable plan, and Heaven is doing their absolute worst job carrying it out.

Most angels never talk to God, and they're usually selfish, they don't do the right thing (only what they're told), and it's even possible they're working under a corrupt power (like the Metatron). I like that theory because Metatron IS the barrier between God and the angels. He could easily lie to them and change plans, and we the audience know that "friendly old man metatron" swindling Aziraphale is not what he seems.

But from the beginning, we see inconsistency. Crowley falls from heaven after asking questions/hanging out with the wrong group while Aziraphale is allowed to lie about the flaming sword and change Heaven's plans. God can see how much he cares about humans and the earth by his actions (Crowley being the same), which makes me think that him getting away with it is intentional, not inconsistent or neglectful. ESPECIALLY if Aziraphale and Crowley run heaven and hell respectively in season 3. They have the power to change things, just like they stopped the world from ending the first time. I think Crowley and Aziraphale ARE the ineffable plan.

Their love could bridge the gap between opposing forces in a way that it couldn't if they were both angels. After all, both heaven and hell think they're doing the better thing while they're both not. Crowley and Aziraphale are the best of both sides.

If bringing them together was God's plan, it'd be a powerful story for queer Christians!! A lot of us have been hurt by the church, but we hold on to God's love, which doesn't fail us. We stay in a religion with a history of fighting queerness not because we're all brainwashed, but because we wholeheartedly believe in a God that loves us. Sometimes I see good omens' heaven as an analogy for toxic churches, and I'd love nothing more than for Aziraphale to realize heaven is working against God. Not to mention God using a gay couple to save the world/save heaven from corruption?? I'd kill for that storyline

Secondly, Aziraphale's devotion wouldn't have been for nothing. If God was awful the whole time, it defeats the times he and Crowley reached out, and the moment in the GOs1 finale where Crowley says, "what if you're going AGAINST God's ineffable plan?" to Gabriel and Beelzebub. (It'd almost defeat the purpose of her being the quirky narrator following their story, too.)

Even Crowley, never fooled by "heaven is all good" calls for God in his time of need ("God listening? Show me an ineffable plan.") (Possibly when he reaches to the sky in order to stop time) (Calling for God before Satan in the burning bookshop) (Looking up and muttering "God" after realizing Aziraphale is going to leave him in s2)

Lastly, after the trauma that both Crowley and Aziraphale went through, with Crowley falling and Aziraphale coming to terms with heaven's corruption (and both being mistreated by their side) it'd be nice to have been for a reason. They have every right to grieve and be angry for all that they went through, and the centuries that they weren't supposed to love each other, but I believe the series will end on a positive, sweet note, like the rainbow after a storm.

Like Job, they're losing almost everything (their relationship as it was, the bookshop, and the life they carved out), but they have each other. I think they'll lose everything to save EVERYONE, and in the end, the reward will top the pain. No holding back, no forces hunting them down, just them together after a PAINFULLY long time with everything they'd wanted.

We know that God doesn't get around to answering many questions, but her speech to Job was in part to say "trust me"

She laid the foundations of the earth. She made every living thing. Job couldn't see past the destruction of his life, but she has a plan. Job is a valuable human being, but he doesn't have the power and knowledge of God. God will share her plan when he can make a whale. Otherwise, he can trust that "Most things are fine in the end"

*Aziraphale voice* That's ineffable!

[wazzappp]

Lisa you’re going to rush into the Urias boss fight. Lisa slow down. LISA!

Anyway, Lycan stronghold finished! And Robbie finally gets to finish the move he started on that random BSAA agent in the boathouse so good for him lol.

Robbie out here with a perfectly proportional and reasonable reaction to Lisa getting mildly injured. Nothing more to look into that from an infection based standpoint totally normal here (<- me when i lie). Congratulations Lisa your officially integrated as Important Person in Robbies moldy brain. This is alright news for you and bad news for basically everyone else.

Good thing Lisa is.... chill with that. Lisas mostly used to fending for herself so Oh Boy. Killing Mother for her and then mauling some guy to death for getting the jump on her? Swoon worthy lol. Thank you @moosemonstrous for pointing out that whole scene was just this meme because its so fucking accurate:

Gabe gets to fulfill his contractual obligation as a little brother to tease Robbie about his girlfrienddddddd oooOOooohhhhhhh lmao

Also sorry about the case of the disappearing gun I'm trying to figure out something rn that will allow Robbie to carry his ridiculous amount of weapons around i just. fucking forgor sorry.

[littlespoonevan]

Tidbit Tuesday

Because I actually got to write properly today for the first time in almost 2 weeks 🎉🎉

Buck shrugs and hopes it seems nonchalant as he pushes himself off the wall and steps into the room. “They’re for you. I saw them and they reminded me of you.” Not like Buck spent a solid forty-five minutes painstakingly choosing each one individually. “You got me flowers?” Eddie’s face is doing something complicated but Buck doesn’t think it’s bad complicated so he tries not to panic. “Yeah. I thought they’d look nice in the dining room.” He extends his arm to Eddie, offering the bouquet and it feels a lot like somebody leaving you hanging when you try for a high five until Eddie blinks and takes them from his hand. He stares down at them, like he’s cataloguing each one and committing it to memory and Buck considers tossing his whole plan in the trash right then and there because the words I’m in love with you are on the tip of his tongue but then Eddie is raising his head again. “Thanks, Buck.” He says it softly, privately, with a smile tucked into the corner of his mouth that Buck desperately wants to kiss. And that’s certainly a new sensation.

tagging @mellaithwen @doeeyeseddie @homerforsure @sibylsleaves @fraddit 💐

[stackslip]

actually i do have something to say about this chapter and it's quite critical of it but also i'm tired tonight and i've been talking about it long and hard on discord already and putting it all together in a coherent post feels like too much of a task tonight. all i'm gonna say is that part 2 was very obviously going in a certain direction from the start, and i loved that direction, and to an extent it is still going in that direction but now very obviously missing a huge chunk of what stirred it in that direction. and i'm hesitant to simply say it's fujimoto that's dropped the ball on this (though it might the idealization, who's to say) because from the actual shape of the writing + slump in paneling/art + recent bitter interview by fujimoto + japanese audience is apparently vocally not a fan of asa + my own cursed knowledge of shounen jump and shueisha editors and how they react to a fall in sales = i think the lack of focus on asa has really hurt the themes of part 2 when she was an integral part of it + i think this wasn't entirely fujimoto's doing and it's very likely because she is apparently strongly disliked in japan and there's good reason to believe that fujimoto was told to not focus on her nearly as much bc sales slump and people complain as soon as she shows up. which sucks. becaue what made part 2 work as well as it did was the synergy and parallel between the two protagonists' paths, and the absence of asa's path in the past few months (both in universe and by real time in the comic) feels like a genuine writing and thematic and emotional hole in the comic that to me shows that she WAS supposed to be there. fujimoto had fully intended to write her in there bc there's a hole in the shape of her where she is very obviously supposed to fit. it isn't simply a question of "author forgets his female character" it's a question of "this crucial part of the manga is missing and the author is painfully aware of it and bitter about it too"

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Avatar Love talk 3: Game vs Action

Follow up from (and also defending Kyo in this vid)

Yangchen: I plead the fifth on what Kuruk said. No idea why you two think you got your horny ass desires from me. Kyoshi: I'm not the one who sensually listened to the sound of Kavik writing with a pencil, but go off? Yangchen: Again, pleading the fifth! Anyway I still think Kyoshi has the least amount of game. Kyoshi: Really? We're still on this? Can't we talk about something else? Wan: Like your mommy issues? Kyoshi, pushing his face away and knocking him down: Ok, defending my "game" it is. Yangchen: Kyoshi, really, just accept it. You can't flirt for shit. Kyoshi: Again, I don't need to. Yangchen: You keep saying that! How do you expect to get anyone if you can't or don't flirt? Kyoshi: I walk into the room and look at them. Maybe smile, if I'm feeling feisty. Yangchen: That's not going to work- Wan: It worked for you, Yangchen. Yangchen: *deflated* Kyoshi: Oh so it's "flirting" and "super game" if Yangchen does it, but if Kyoshi does it then I'm just lucky? Wow. Hmmm. So fair. Yangchen: Kyoshi, you had two years with Rangi and Yun and I had five minutes with Kavik. We are not the same. Kyoshi: Listen, Yangchen, I think we've got it all wrong. It isn't about game or flirting. It's about action. I know how to get my girl going- Wan: Yangchen knows how to get Kavik going too! Yangchen: SHut UP, Wan! .......Yeah I know how to get Kavik going too, blow steam in his ear, fling him off a bison, what's your point????? Korra: Wait, fling him off a-? Kyoshi: Oh no no, Yangchen. That's not what I mean. You see, I'm probably going to go down in history as "World's best daughter-in-law." Whenever I sincerely talk about how I'm going to take care of Rangi or Hei-Ran, and Rangi melts into a literal puddle at my feet. Korra: So, like, you're amazing moral character is how you flirt? Kyoshi: No, it's not flirting. It's doing. Actions. Like I said before, they like me for who I am. And maybe because I have a good smile too. Kuruk: Being good looking does help. Yangchen: Ugh, where are you going with this? Kyoshi: I'm getting to it. What I want to say is, 'What's so great about having game, when the real measure should be the results?' Yangchen: *rolls eyes* 'Results.' Please, Kyoshi. We all know I had Kavik wrapped around my finger. Kyoshi: So you got with him? Yangchen: I-well uh- Kyoshi: Tell me, Yangchen. Which one of us actually GOT their boo in the end? Hm? Yangchen: .......... Kyoshi: Only actions and outcomes matter, Yangchen. What's so great about your "game" if you can't even "win"? Wan: I haven't seen a burn this severe since that volcano took out Roku. O-O Voice on the phone: 911, what's you're emergency? Korra, on the phone: I just witnessed a murder! I mean both parties are already dead-can the dead die twice?????

[teathattast]

i'm falling in love with you girl

and i can't stop thinking about the summer light

i'm falling in love and i can't stop thinking of you

i'm falling in love

[crimeronan]

i'm feeling a pathological need for attention right now but it probably won't make me feel better so i'm about to get out a coloring book and listen to a narrative podcast whilst i color. to do something concrete with my hands. i am so mentally healthy. everyone clap <-this is technically giving me attention but that's fine.

[prolibytherium]

The extent of possessiveness some people have on art that they post on the internet is crazy to me like, I'm seeing someone on art fight all caps serious business warning not to save image files of their characters UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Like Oh no your character ref png is on another computer!!!!!! Who cares

[fangirloverlode]

IT’S ALIVE!

The subject wakes in a chair, their hands free but their feet bound. There are two bolts in their neck, a locked door in front of them, and two electrical cords connected to clamps on either side of them. If they want to open the door in front of them, they must close the circuit its lock is attached to— using themself. If they don’t attach both clamps to the bolts in their neck, electrocuting themselves in the process, they will be left to rot.

I imagine the victim of this trap would be an unethical scientist, one who doesn’t value human life.

[lavenoon]

So intent on pulling all the strings, he doesn't notice them running through his fingers like blood.

@naffeclipse I hate him. But I also love him. But I hate him. I want to study him under a microscope. I want him far far away from me. You crafted a fascinating character doomed by the narrative, and I'm still coming for his kneecaps <3

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

[mallevsmaleficarum]

alright, since all important faculty members are evil, maybe augefort is the bbeg for senior year

[rubberduckyrye]

I feel like people give Shuichi a lot of shit for not noticing Kaede's behavior since he's a detective and like

Bro she wasn't being as obvious about her intentions as you guys think