*laughs nervously* Izzy? Dead and gone for good? Naaaah, of course not, he’s just in the gravy basket…or on his way to get sea witch necromancied back by seagull Buttons. He’s ok, he’ll be back…he’ll totally be back 🥲.
I know that skinny jeans are supposed to be for old ladies now, but like… I’m six foot one, I have small hips and long legs, I just look better in them???
I’m half convinced Trends in jeans are a psy-op to make sure women hate themselves. You’ll have about two years out of twenty where the style that looks great on you is actually in season. I’m six feet tall, pear-shaped and have a pronounced tummy, so naturally as a teen in the late-90’s/early-oughts I just thought I was hideous because my choice of jeans was low rise or ultra low rise. One time we were visiting my grandparents who were depression babies and never threw anything out so I discovered my mom’s high waist flares from the seventies and was just like “holy shit, do I actually look cute…. In jeans?????? Is that allowed” she’d even got them from the Navy surplus store and hemmed them just by turning up the hem, not cutting any of the length so I could even let out the hem and they were long enough
It’s a scam, a scam I tell you. Everyone should just wear whatever jeans look nice on them (I will say things have gotten better since in early oughts in that you can now usually find multiple styles of jeans in the store, it’s not just “do you want to expose just your belly button, or would you also like to expose some of your public bone”)
Okay I may be an idiot but I spent ages trying to figure out which bone you meant by “public bone” before I realized you mistyped pubic bone.
I mean to be fair to you, in 2003 it was very much a public bone
Thinking about how Iroh was probably right in not taking the throne himself…. I mean, I don’t think it was a good thing that he made a 16 year old in charge of a country, but at the same time it makes sense.
Iroh is a war criminal. He knew that the Firenation would be vulnerable to literally every other nation after the defeat of Ozai, and the only thing stopping a full-on invasion was the fact that the Earth Kingdom was too devastated by war to launch an invasion immediately.
Iroh knew that peace would be very shaky, but it would be more likely if the face of the firenation was a burned prince that no one has seen in years rather than the man who laid siege to Ba Sing Se.
I dont know why I didnt think of this earlier… but I havent seen this Take™️ on tumblr so here ya go.
I agree entirely. I think he’s also afraid of backsliding himself. He spent so many years commanding in battle, spending his soldiers’ lives and those of his enemies in pursuit of the next field, the next town, the next port or bridge or wall or mountain pass. So many years driving fear into his enemies, so many years doing what was expedient, driving through opposition with violence.
And he realises now that he was on the wrong side of the balance, and he has spent his most recent years learning how to be gentle, how to build up and not to tear down. But it’s still not his first inclination, and he knows that when faced with intransigent foreign officials, local resistance, and threats of war, his first instinct is going to be to crush his opponents, to find a quick solution rather than a right and lasting solution, to meet violence with violence.
But Zuko. Who in his darkest times, when he was trying his hardest to imitate his father, could still never quite lose his spark of compassion. Who, for all that he yelled that ‘the safety of the crew doesn’t matter!’ was nevertheless the first to risk his life to save one of them, without a second thought. Whose instincts are gentle and generous for all Ozai’s attempts to pervert them.
Zuko would not lose sight of what he was aiming for: peace and balance and the good of all. Zuko would not forget, now that he has seen it, that the people of the other nations are people too.
‘DON’T [TRY] THE GUY WITH THE BLACK GLASSES HE DOESN’T WORK HERE!’
Local Soho lurker, known associate of Mr. Fell, inspiring so much lust around him people flock to the brothel to see if they can spend some quality time with him. And it happens so frequently Mrs. Sandwich had to put a sign up.
Alternatively, as @cassieoh (thank you for brightening the image!!) suggested: ‘DON’T [PAY] THE GUY WITH THE BLACK GLASSES HE DOESN’T WORK HERE!’
Poor Mrs. Sandwich. ‘Yes I know he looks like he works as a seamstress, but he does NOT, so if you could kindly pay me, thank you very much.’
I can’t decide which is funnier, Crowley accepting money from Mrs. Sandwich’s patrons (does he cackle as he does this? Is he confused? Does he walk the money over to her afterwards or do something else with it?) or Mrs. Sandwich having to march over to him and sternly asking him to stop letting patrons pay him instead (does she cock her hip and stick out her hand? Does she laugh along with him? Do they bond over it?? Are Crowley and Mrs. Sandwich buds???)
Friend A: “I just realized that this is about attention economy and the new prevalence of attention overwhelm and my mind is blown a little bit.”
Friend E: “I saw another meme that compared texting to leaving a card with a request or other message on it with the butler, so the person you wanted to talk to can get back to you later once they’re done with whatever they are doing. It makes sense. And isn’t that why answering machines and voice-mail were invented? So you could leave your message with a virtual butler?”
Once answering machines became widespread, certain people would call when they knew you weren’t home because they wanted to leave a message on a non-urgent matter and let you take your time to respond. Other people would only call when they knew you were home because they felt entitled to demand your time on any little thing
There were plenty of articles and talk show segments in the 90s with people complaining about people using their answering machines to screen calls while they were home. The complainers didn’t care if they were calling in the middle of dinner, they claimed you were the rude one for not answering the phone
The complaint is basically the same, they’ve just updated it for newer technology
Re-sharing this to add: I have figured out which of my friends don’t put their phones on silent when they’re asleep/whatever, and I will literally stockpile things I plan to send them and wait for them to wake up rather than risk it chiming then, or I will send things in a group discord or via Twitter DM or something else where I know they won’t see it right away, if I know they shouldn’t be answering for whatever reason.
And I absolutely liken it to leaving sticky notes on their screens for when they wake up.
Most of my friendships are international, and formed through phone apps etc because of fandom, and i love waking up to someone’s stream of thought, or a cute birb they took a photo of, and i love leaving them little things as well.
it’s like sending postcards without having to trek to the mailbox – but it’s no less meaningful just because i didn’t expend physical effort to do it.
Honestly - if I didn’t have my little pocket community, I would be isolated and alone.
I have been trying to explain exactly this feeling to some of my fifty-plus friends who make every excuse to not go online. I certainly wouldn’t recommend social media to them, but I really try to impart that whole idea of postcards and love letters and communication literally at my disabled fingertips.
I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like “By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!” And then just getting into his car and driving off
so there’s basically two reasons he would need to do this and they’re both funny
his magical honda unsummoned while he was in Walmart; this means it’s not even a real car and could look like anything and he picked or was forced somehow to pick a Honda Accord
his normal honda was left someplace while he came to Walmart by other means, and he can teleport the car to him more easily than he can teleport himself places
there’s also the idea that he drove to walmart in his honda accord, and then when he got out he either forgot where he parked or wanted to skip like 20 seconds of walking so he just summons it right in front of the door
To not have to find a parking space, most wizards keep their Honda Accords in a extradimensional oubliette when not driving. This also saves on garage space.
Clearly the wizard had to summon his Honda Accord because someone stole it while he was shopping. The carjacker is now tumbling violently down the freeway like a source engine ragdoll
If we DO ever get a Good Omens season 3 (and fingers crossed we will) then using the Second Coming as the narrative device to facilitate the final culmination of Good Omens’ ideology and message is brilliant, actually.
Because the Second Coming IS NOT another Adam situation. And, contrary to the misconceptions I’ve seen, It IS NOT about Jesus being born again as a baby, etc, etc.
THE SECOND COMING. QUITE LITERALLY refers to THE LAST JUDGMENT.
As in. The SAME Last Judgment Michelangelo painted on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. As in - THE JUDGMENT of the Living and the Dead. THE LAST, FINAL, ETERNAL JUDGMENT.
It’s the WHOLE thing Armageddon was leading towards. Book of Revelation speedrun: the world ends, everyone dies, and then they get resurrected again to be judged by JESUS himself. He will flick through the Book of Life (WINK WINK WINK DO YOU SEE HOW LOUDLY I’M WINKING AT YOU???), and if your name is there he will go “oh nice you deserve eternal paradise! :D” and if your name is ERASED from the Book of Life he will go “oh no, sorry, you go to the lake of fire for eternity now D:” (except apparently in Good Omens lore it’d just DOOM YOU TO NON-EXISTENCE FOREVER???)
And if you THINK about it, The Last Judgment is the ultimate manifestation of moral absolutism. No shades of gray, no chances. Just BLACK, and WHITE. Never mind that you’re like Wee Morag and Elspeth, who are forced to do “bad” things because of circumstances. It’s either you pass Judgment Day, or you burn (or disappear forever.)
And the way THINGS are going in the Good Omens universe? I don’t think there’s ANYONE “good” enough to be “saved.” Not Crowley, not Aziraphale. Hell, not even the Archangels themselves.
So it provides a PERFECT opportunity for Aziraphale and Crowley to UPEND that SYSTEM entirely.
I think that’s what Crowley and Aziraphale would do in s3: establish a new kind of system in which angels and demons have free will to determine the right (or wrong) choice.
Giving them the APPLE, so to speak.
And then they’ll go off to retire in a cottage, together at last.
“…the sight of Elon Musk charging towards Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. He saw a collective resource that people prized and he wanted to hurt it.”
Thoth knows Wikipedia’s not perfect, but I’d sooner have it handy than not have it.
Hey, you know how we spent 7.99 at Tumblr for useless blue checkmarks mainly to spite Musk? Maybe we should go donate the same amount to Wikipedia out of spite. And also because Wikipedia is far more useful than the accurately-named useless blue checks.
I mean, same spite, but actually getting something in return? Sounds like a deal to me…
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