#they’re just hangin out it fucking rules. and i can Feel this forest there in. man

[unknownarmageddon]

a rumble in the earth and he knew he was there. wearing that expression he was fond of, with some kind of gift, judging from the eager pace of his scrambling steps.

he rolled over, the moss tugging free from the ground, from his joints, and the ground and the air and the world took a breath when he moved, parting from the ground to sit on his rear.

he was offering antlers to him again, and he accepted them, snorting softly.

there were new growths, from the ring of moss on his shoulder. perhaps it was time to pick them out again.

he skimmed his fingers over the surface of the lake, disturbing the pond life, sending the fish and tadpoles and frogs and waterbeetles darting away from what was, to them, drift wood dipping under the water.

get in.

water flew across the ground, rising higher, one foot, then another, then his body, and the short plants, the loose weeds were swept away in a shallow flood of lake water.

he doubted it would reach the forest line, and would just swamp up a good mile radius or so.

he flicked the drippy, fat blops of goo out of his way, the big mushroom cap nestling against the side of his spine, thin arms around his hips, and he got to work, picking lightly at the blanket of moss branching outwards from the source he'd planted in the other's grain.

the forest calmed around them. water sank into the earth. the birds sang again, fish nosing around the submerged limbs, nibbling at whatever was edible for them. he squirmed a few times, ticklish, and was scolded for it when water splashed too high again and drenched his precious cape of moss.

the evening sun was lovely that day.

-storytime anon

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[consultthemuses]

Sentence Meme: 69 Good Omens (Book) Quotes

Some will be more easily applicable than others. SOME WILL CONTAIN TRIGGERS (death mentions/supernatural references)!! SPOILER WARNING FOR GOOD OMENS AS WELL!! Feel free to change pronouns/genders at will.

❛ God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising. ❜

❛ You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right. ❜

❛ They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination. And electricity, of course. ❜

❛ -then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music. ❜

❛ Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ❜

❛ don't think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush. ❜

❛ You start thinking: it can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire. ❜

❛ It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. ❜

❛ Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about, ❜

❛ All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. ❜

❛ Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. ❜

❛ Many people, meeting [Name] for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. ❜ 

❛ It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. ❜

❛ He rather liked people. It was major failing in a demon. ❜

❛ Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. ❜

❛ Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. ❜

❛ Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. ❜

❛ The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. ❜

"My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears. ❜

❛ Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. ❜

❛ And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. ❜

❛ Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. ❜

❛ It's like you said the other day, you grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion. ❜

❛ I'm sorry, I just got carried away! ❜

❛ Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent. ❜

❛ That would do it every time. ❜

❛ He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people. ❜

❛ Why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying 'THIS IS IT!'? ❜

❛ Anyway, being brought up as a Satanist tended to take the edge off it. It was something you did on Saturday nights. ❜

❛ But that's how it goes; you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. ❜

❛ You see, it’s not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means. ❜

❛ I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true. ❜

❛ Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. ❜

❛ Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. ❜

❛ Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. ❜

❛ There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train. ❜

❛ You get used to it after a while. ❜

❛ It’s Tchaikovsky’s ‘Another One Bites the Dust,’ ❜

❛ Never fuck with the ineffable. ❜

❛ Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir. ❜

❛ You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? ❜

❛ The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it. ❜

❛ Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism. ❜

❛ the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. ❜

❛ So computers are tools of the devil? ❜

❛ as well balanced as an upturned pyramid. ❜

❛ But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. ❜

❛ They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork. ❜

❛ Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me! ❜

❛ Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they’re often better groomed. ❜

❛ If we beat them, we'd have to be our own deadly enemies. ❜

❛ The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. ❜

❛ Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. ❜

❛ I’m dying for a cup of tea. ❜

❛ You see, evil alwys contains the seeds of its own destruction. ❜

❛ Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. ❜

❛ Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. ❜

❛ Occasionally he would very nearly swear. ❜

❛ The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. ❜

❛ I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time. ❜

❛ he’d experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done. ❜

❛ Books were safer than other people anyway. ❜

❛ Heaven has no taste, and not one single sushi restaurant. ❜

❛ People couldn't become truly holy unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. ❜ 

❛ She smiled like a knife. ❜

❛ Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

❛ She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. ❜

❛ If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. ❜ 

❛ You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say. ❜