#this is in my head

[industrations]

YOU CAN KISS A HUNDRED BOYS IN BARS

SHOOT ANOTHER SHOT, TRY TO STOP THE FEELING

YOU CAN SAY IT’S JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

MAKE A NEW EXCUSE, FOR A STUPID REASON

GOOD LUCK, BABE! (Well, good luck)

[butchtwelfthdoctor]

Ok so um. I have a theory. About the Beginning and the Fall.

I was thinking about the dynamic between Crowley and Aziraphale in the season one / book beginning, on the wall of the garden of Eden could be a lead on from their Before the Beginning first meeting and um. it spiralled.

Obviously when book (at least) & s1 were written, their meeting on the garden wall was their first proper meeting (I think), but I reckon that with the developments of s2, you could say it was their first proper interaction after the Fall.

Aziraphale is nervous/awkward because the last time he saw Crowley was as angel just before the fall - either Aziraphale didn’t see Crowley’s actual Fall, or he heard about it happening and was too late and never forgave himself (but I'm sure he'll try and find out when he's archangel),  or he *did* see the fall and his memory of it was wiped. Because he had too many feelings for Crowley. And  AND IT'S PART OF THE PLAN THE FRICKEN INEFFABLE PLAN CROWLEY HAS TO BE A DEMON AND AZIRAPHALE HAS TO STAY AN ANGEL FOR THIS WHOLE THING TO WORK GODS BEEN PLANNING THIS THE WHILE TIME SHE NEEDED HIM TO BE AN ANGEL AND CROWLEY TO BE A DEMON WHAT IF.

WHAT IF AZIRAPHALE WAS GOING TO FALL WITH CROWLEY.

SEEING CROWLEY FALL WAS AWFUL FOR AZIRAPHALE AS WELL BECAUSE AZIRAPHALE KNEW CROWLEY WAS RIGHT. HE WAS A DEMON BECAUSE OF IT BUT HE WAS RIGHT - Heaven aren't always the good guys. Crowley was cast down for asking questions, never gets the answers, and Aziraphale has always doubted heaven, and he was beginning to wonder too, to, ASK QUESTIONS, HE WAS PREPARED TO FALL

WHAT IF HE WAS PREPARED TO FALL WITH CROWLEY BECAUSE HE KNEW HEAVEN WAS WRONG. And what if heaven either prevented him from witnessing Crowley’s actual Fall, or erased his memory of it because he needed to stay an angel for this whole plan to work. Ineffable. Neither of them had any say.

And that’s why their meeting on the wall has very first-meeting vibes - Crowley is still working through *remembering* what happened Before the Beginning, and the Fall and the whole Asking Questions thing - AZIRAPHALE HAD A QUESTION. ON THE WALL. IT HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM IF GIVING AWAY THE SWORD WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO OR NOT. CROWLEY WAS NOW FREE TO OPENly question, being a demon, and hearing him say it was a little reassuring that it wasn’t just him wondering if what he’d done was right or wrong. And Aziraphale had to ask who Crowley was because he was sure he knew him from somewhere but maybe couldn’t remember yet (he probably hadn’t quite worked out the whole looking where the furniture isn’t stuff yet). but also they act familiarly because they ARE familiar, even if they can only half remember why. And of COURSE OF COURSE THE NAME WAS BECAUSE HE ONLY KNEW HIS ANGEL NAME, NOT CRAWLY. Even though he bangs on about ‘you were an angel once’ HE KNEW THAT HE WASN'T TALKING TO THE ANGEL ANYMORE. SOMETHING HAD CHANGED AND IT HURT HIM TOO BECAUSE HE HATES CHANGE. In a way it was their first meeting - they were both different people to who they had been Before the Fall. Aziraphale loved Crowley right from the very first moments, FROM WHEN HE HELPED HIM - DOING A NICE THING FOR HIM BY HOLDING THE SCROLL - from right when ‘look at you you’re gorgeous’ and seeing angel!Crowley’s love for what he had created and wanting to protect it . Just as he was now trying to protect the first of the humans they would both come to love.

[bo-bichette]

i can’t stop thinking about this so listen to me okay… varsho, kiermaier, and springer are outfield boyfriends. chapman, bichette, and vladdy are infield girlfriends.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

For those who needed to hear it today

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[noodles-and-tea]

Haha… yeah… that’d be crazy…

[messier51]

my observation from 2 months of kittens

[44boora]

why the long face Sixer? 🏹

[hansoeii]

butch wolverine, anyone?

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Something something, living rent free in my mind and such, anyway I love them.

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[temporalteardrop]

bass makes a dollar. i make a dime. that's why i think about lesbian sex on company time

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[valtsv]

when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. and when you have a favourite character everything looks like . The Character

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

multilingual batkids. they learn each others languages so they can mix and match. for example:

tim in french: have you figured out how we’re gonna tell b we’re not going to that gala yet?

damian in arabic: no i thought that was thomas’ job?

duke french: me? no jason said he’d do something

jason in arabic: hey don’t drag me into this!

dick in romani: i’m gonna kill him i really i am

steph in russian: who are we killing?

dick in english: ah! nobody! wait i didn’t know you spoke romani

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason in english: wait my greek is rusty say it again slowly

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason: …. you motherfucker

cass signing: nice drawing

damian in chinese: thank you

dick yelling at bruce about something he did

jason in spanish: what language is he speaking right now?

tim also in spanish: uh all of them i think

jason: does bruce even know-

tim: no he doesn’t