#this is like the 90s version of them i think

[gypsi-kat01]

Is anyone else kind of dreading the release of the Good Omens Finale? Because it's not going to be the sequel that Terry and Neil imagined when they were wide awake with jet lag in the middle of the night in that shared hotel room. That story was part of the planned 3 part series that Neil wrote/was writing. That would have accounted for all of the loose ends that were still being woven together, but weren't actually a complete thing, yet. It would have given us all the bits (or most of them, barring budgetary constraints) that were foreshadowed in the first 2 parts of the series. That was planned to be 6 episodes, approximately 45 minutes each. It would have had multiple storylines interweaving with each other, much like the first season. It would have been complicated. In order to reduce all of that to 90 minutes, major parts of the plot development would have to be cut entirely, or at best, reduced to a short summary by one of the characters referring to something that happened off screen, that we don't actually see. Some of the characters that would have been in scenes in the 6 episode version of Season 3 may not actually appear on screen, but only be referenced obliquely. So not only will we not get to see those scenes, but since they weren't filmed the actors who would have been portraying those characters will not be paid, for a scene that was planned but not actually filmed. Amazon did not have to do this. Most (if not all) of the episodes were already written and paid for. Cutting those episodes did not hurt the writer (well, not financially, anyway, as they had already been paid), but did cut expenses for Amazon. The actors and crew had already planned for their time to be available to film all 6 episodes of Season 3, after it was officially greenlighted. After Rob and Rhianna talked Amazon into at least filming a final episode (after the show had been actually cancelled by Amazon), only some of the cast and crew were re-hired. A new writer was hired to create a new script, and we have no way of knowing if that script even includes any of the scenes that Neil had already written, and that David and Michael had read and given their approval of. I'm sure that David and Michael and everyone else have done their best with what they were given, but it's just not going to be what we had originally expected, or hoped for. At best, it will be a severely truncated summarized outline of what was supposed to take place over 6 episodes. At worst, the writer may have come up with ideas and situations out of whole cloth, that have little or nothing to do with the first 2 seasons of the show, just in order to get the main characters to an ending with some semblance of closure. David and Michael and the new director will have to work with the new script; they aren't really allowed to rewrite their own parts just to get the dialogue closer to what they think their characters would say in any given situation.

After Season 2 was released, I (along with many others) immersed myself in fanfiction, mostly on AO3, just to keep my brain from imploding with "what if's". By now I have read thousands of fanfics, bookmarked and downloaded most of them, as well as any accompanying art that I found. It's all saved in a rather complicated nest of folders on my computer. I really need to save it to a separate drive as well, just in case my computer unexpectedly decides to stop functioning correctly. (I bought a drive for this, I just need to copy all those files to it.) With everything that has happened (which I am not going into, as that info has been posted all over social media for months), I am so, SO grateful to all of the amazing wonderful writers of fanfiction who have imagined millions of different scenarios involving Crowley, Aziraphale, and other Good Omens characters, in storylines that are similar to canon; totally dissimilar to canon; depict Crowley & Aziraphale as angels, demons, humans, and all sorts of other creatures; and basically have been acting out that joke about the millions of monkeys with typewriters recreating the works of Shakespeare. Except that, rather than recreating what Neil might have written for Season 3, they are writing all of the possible versions of Season 3 that might have been written in all possible worlds, and in all possible situations. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Regardless of how the "official" Season 3 Finale turns out, we will have almost infinite versions of Crowley and Aziraphale (and their world) to read and re-read, for as long as AO3 shall exist. I don't know the specifics of how AO3 stores the data saved on their site, but I hope that they have multiple servers in multiple countries, so that if they get taken down in one location, they will still continue to exist elsewhere. Long live AO3, Good Omens fanfiction, and all of the amazing writers and artists out there who are contributing in any way to keeping our favorite characters alive in our collective imaginations. Sending virtual hugs out to everyone who is invested in Crowley & Aziraphale's story. Best wishes to all of you.

🌟💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍💖🌟

Good Omens 2 + Text Posts

[tv-opinion]

in a tv show, if the main character was just walking around alone, looting, and sporadically killing people to get to her destination, that would not make good television. having secondary characters mindlessly following our main character and agreeing with everything she does and having no gripes with her mission, while she does it all on her own with minimal help would not make good television either. they had to give these side characters more depth, skills + more screentime in this format. they fleshed out the side characters like jesse to give them clearer backstories, and make their motivations make sense. imo, in the game the entire purpose of jesse’s character is to give ellie a personal loss in seattle and for someone to briefly challenge her. in the show, he represents a clear moral stance opposing ellie, showing us her irrationality at this point. they expanded dina’s character to give ellie someone to play off of. if the game was copied onto the show, ellie would be doing 90% of the work, dina would just be following her maybe killing a couple infected along the way. it seems like this is how a lot of fans want it to be but its just not realistic. ellie and dina are supposed to be a team, and this is presented way better in the show imo. also ellie is allowed to be goofy in fleeting moments of happiness, my girl has suffered enough.

very that. do i think the show has a tendency to use characters like dina and jesse as a vehicle to guide the audience’s feelings a little too explicitly? yeah but i also don’t think them making jesse push back against ellie rather than the “my friends problems are my problems” from the game means that the hbo version of their friendship ruins the game version.

i’ve said this before but i love that ellie and jesse scene from the finale because they are both justified in their feelings. and dina and ellie’s different skill sets complementing each other and being equal participants in seattle is far more interesting to watch than whatever these people complaining about how bad the writing is all the time wanted to watch imo.

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Why I picture the big three kids with Jason instead of Thalia

Now I have seen at least two posts which I am 90% sure I have queued for reblog where the people claim that the concept of the male little three is due to sexism. That is should be:

Percy, Thalia, Nico or

Percy, Jason, Hazel

But honestly I reject this form of fandom policing. When I got into pjo fandom and I hardly knew who Nico even was, I preferred the male little three fanarts over the ones with Thalia, and after knowing a bit more canon, my preference is solidified.

Hazel is cool, but since I haven't spent time learning about HOO, I don't care much about her or the other HOO characters. Plus, I find Nico way cooler as a Hades kid than her. His powers are awesome!

Here are my simple, non-sexist reasons for preferring Percy, Jason and Nico as my big three kids, instead of Thalia:

Character preference:

TLDR - I dislike Thalia. Neutral on Jason. Next!

Fanart Aesthetic:

I just think the boys look better together than Thalia with her cousins. One of my favourite fanarts of them is the ones where they have Ancient Greek outfits with the laurels. They are so cute! There's something about Thalia that doesn't make her fit. Not a fan of punk characters and with her hunters' get-up, she doesn't belong in my opinion. Especially as the boys get older and she's stuck as a teenager. Not my vibe.

Jason has more canon potential to complete the cousin group:

Thalia and Percy have a great relationship. But Thalia and Nico hardly interact. Plus, Nico probably wouldn't be happy being around her much due to what happened with Bianca. Jason, on the other hand, had the potential to be a great bro for Percy AND he has a good relationship with Nico. PLUS, the three of them represent the unity of the camps.

Leadership:

I like those video edits that showcase the parallels of the boys' vulnerabilities. All the boys have earned huge leadership roles, which set them apart. Thalia is a lieutenant of the hunters...but let's be real. Jason defeated a titan. Thalia was a nepo baby and got power handed to her. There is no comparison.

Plot relevance:

One of the things I hate about Thalia is her total irrelevance after book 3. She had so much buildup, interesting backstory with Annie and Luke...then she becomes Artemis' lapdog and vanishes from the dealings of the plot. Her connection to Percy and Nico feels distant because of this. She's in a different world. The boys, on the other hand, have major roles in both series and are integral to the action. Honestly, Thalia could have stayed a tree, and nothing would have changed, really.

Standing up to their fathers:

Between the two of them, Jason is the true rebel to match Nico and Percy, especially Nico. Percy doesn't really stand up to Poseidon per se, but he has been shown to make his case to Poseidon, eg. petitioning to keep Bessie alive and convincing Poseidon to fight Typhoon. Jason spent his entire life loyal to the gods...yet when he meets Zeus for the first time, he stands up for Apollo to his father with little hesitation. Not even Percy did that, and he actually knows Apollo! What has airhead Apollo done for Jason? But, like Nico, he was willing to call out his father when he saw an injustice.

Zeus has helped Thalia more than Jupiter ever helped Jason. Zeus "saved" her life and provided a guide for her. Jupiter offered up Jason as a token to Juno/Hera. Thalia spent her life cursing the gods with Luke, but she was obviously a sellout because every time she met Zeus, she was like, "Thank you, Daddy 🥰". Not faulting her for wanting parental approval, but the point still stands. Thalia is a faker and it's probably the best that she and Luke never met again. If Thalia was that important, she would have been by Percy's side in TLO demanding better for demigods. But Rick literally took her out of the climax with a dumb statue. Wasted potential.

Anyway, these are my reasons why Jason is better than Thalia and deserves his spot in my version of the little three.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Five foot something and he's royalty.

[dontfindmeimscared]

i wasn't lying, these two are stuck in my damn head.

redraw of this from like a year ago

[cruelplatonic]

my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.

[bosqueinvisible]

currently reading the poto book and boy if it isnt very very different from the musical 💀... im loving it tho!

[jasontoddsno1simp]

It's infinitely humorous to me how, in 2025, we're still having conversations and discussions - discoursing, as the children say - about why Jason's on screen death matters more than any of the other on screen deaths within the Bat comics.

A Death in the Family was the end of the road for Jason. He was meant to die and stay dead. This is rare for comic book characters because the medium is serialization taken to its (il)logical extreme. Removing a character from the chess board is a waste. There's always something Deeper^TM.

Not with Jason.

That bitch was dead and he was supposed to stay dead.

The only other Robin who died and was meant to stay dead was Stephanie. And let's be fucking real here - most of you do not care about that girl. You're not thinking about her, you're thinking of your favorite Batboy. And that's fine!! But let's not kid ourselves here.

There's a million reasons why Jason's death is a cut above most other deaths in the Batfam that we can discourse endlessly about but the main one - the one that truly matters, imo - is that he died was supposed to stay that way.

A Death in the Family was supposed to be his curtain call. It is not cruel or callous to say that that was not the case for your Blorbo.

I can imagine that some JT stans are being cruel and callous when they say that, but then again, a lot of Batstans are being cruel and callous when they say Jason's death wasn't that big a deal and he needs to get over it. They're being cruel and callous when they compare their faves' on screen death to his, as if they werent gonna get their fave character back within six months to a year, tops. That their fave wasn't gonna slot their way back into their spot in the narrative, as if they never left.

And, if I may,.it's honestly fucked up to high heavens that some of y'all are okay with the writers killing off your fave for cheap character drama just so you can lord it over JT stans. I know most of y'all don't think of it that way, but how else am I supposed to see that?! You talk about a potentially traumatizing event as if it's just some kind of Gotcha you can use to shut up people you don't like.

Friend, that's fucked.

Anyway, I've said what I needed to say. I don't expect y'all to care for my Blorbo the way I do cause that's not how that works. But can we exercise the baring hints of critical thinking?!

I'm begging.

[robotsafari]

beast’s castle 2nd visit was insane

[happi-dreams]

My silly oc Toasty!!! a little redone and with some more info this time! (more drawings under the cut!)

Plus some little interactions for funsies!

[angelic-waffles]

Evil 1990s lotf movie Brick doodle

[mistermistyyy]

It's always weird to me seeing how people write Sonic 90% of the time. No disrespect to anybody, write however you like, it's just so jarring how different Sonic is viewed compared to how he used to be.

Like, you ever see a fan animation or a comic where Sonic has a house? Initial Sonic (what I'll call the general idea of Sonic in Sonic Team from 1991-2009), would literally never own a house, he was basically a nomad, just sleeping on beaches or napping in his plane.

Or like fanart where Sonic's married? When Initial Sonic was always described as being uninterested in romance (aro king). Or Sonic using a phone or whatever when he was never shown to be interested in technology? It's just weird to me seeing how the idea of Sonic is completely different from what he was supposed to be.

[kindaorangey]

as far as audio/visual digital stuff is concerned i think part of the reason people romanticise the past so much is a very genuine anxiety about perfection. a fuzzy camera lens or botched audio is cringe and offputting, but when you frame it as something retro, the imperfections come across as deliberate and become integral to the aesthetic

[instinctsxbad]

*scratching at the walls thinking about how no one has adapted Peter’s college arcs in a consistent and satisfying way.*

[margaritadaemonelix]

wip of my favourite flower sapphics

[storywestistrash]

Hi story!! J just said the Poland flag eagle looks like it has boobs. Just thought I’d share

-cab

i can see it having a killer waist but BOOBS???