gayglitterqueen
I still think this is my favorite author’s note.
moki-dokie
I know Aziraphale isn’t into electronics and what not, BUT this is solely based on that Clip of the Norton Graham show where Tennant talks about not knowing what the amojis mean.
trusthimhesadoctor
s3dgy
Aziraphale: There is nothing worse than hearing people attempt to sound intelligent by using lengthy words and misUSING THEM!
Crowley: I completely photosynthesize with this.
rafaelafranzen
simply-brightly-zee
Anonymous asked:
10 and/or 12 for the kiss meme? your writing is always incredible 💙
lineffability answered:
10. staring at the other’s lips, trying not to kiss them, before giving in
Kissing seems to us as human as compassion, kindness, clothes. But just like fabric, it is something that—while having been around a very long time, with a number of possible origins—has been invented. Has been a long time in the making.
Kissing, in Europe, was largely unheard of until the Ancient Greeks decided to invade India and brought back a number of new customs. In India, it might date back much longer. Maybe some cultures rose and fell without ever touching lips.
Aziraphale could have told you a lot about the practice of kissing.
But the point is this: humans don’t have to kiss. Angels, certainly not either.
Then why, why, could he not stop staring at his lips?
When did that happen?
“Angel?”
“Oh, yes. As I was saying, the ancient Sumerians certainly did know how to—certainly, the wheel was a great invention, and the cuneiform and all that—but checkers! They did humanity a great service. What a game.”
Crowley’s forehead was a valley of wrinkles. His nose was scrunched. But Aziraphale didn’t much notice that, because his eyes were trained—
Oh, bugger.
“I prefer Mario Kart.”
“What kind of vehicle is that? Crowley, I was talking about games!”
Aziraphale tore his eyes away and upwards, hoping he had not given himself away, and grateful for Crowley’s demonic intervention, though he did not get it at all.
Obviously. And to Crowley’s infinite amusement.
His lips curled, until they formed a smile that turned grin and then his tongue touched his teeth and he looked awfully amused and even more he looked happy and at ease and Aziraphale, Aziraphale could feel himself lean closer, closer towards those lips, and he swallowed and shivered and—froze. Oh, they were close.
When did that happen?
His intention was very clear, unmistakeably clear, and there was no way around it. No way out.
Any thoughts of vehicles and games dropped straight out of both their minds.
“Angel?” The word was as thin as silk (a fabric, while being as old as the Sumerian culture, first produced in China).
(Had the Sumerians kissed? Had the Chinese? Aziraphale could have told you that, too, had he not been very preoccupied.)
A fact is this: In Sumerian myth, the god Enki, who brought apples (and cucumbers, and grapes) and is let into the garden by Uttu, kisses Uttu.
Another fact: In this world, which is no myth at all, the fallen angel Crowley, who brought apples into a garden a long time ago, finally kisses Aziraphale.
Is kissed by him.
When did that happen?
Regardless—it has been a long time in the making.
freegameplanet
alpha-beta-gamer
Theropods is a wonderful wordless pixel art point and click adventure where brains beat brawn as you attempt to save your people from bloodthirsty barbarians.
uselesseurovisionfacts
naryrising
star-anise
star-anise asked:
Do you... actually want an explanation of why "retard" isn't acceptable the way "queer" is?
I’d rather be called slow than a freak. But do tell me why calling LGBT people freaks is okay, while calling people slow to the point is wrong.
It’s about the expressed wishes of the group in question.
People who used to be medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” are now generally called “developmentally disabled” or “intellectually disabled”. (Those are two groups that overlap frequently, but not all the time.)
Developmentally and intellectually disabled people have been VERY LOUD about not wanting to be called the R-word. Like, as a group they’re still having to fight to get their federal minimum wage raised from $1 an hour and to be able to live in homes they choose that don’t lock them in at night, and they are STILL committing time, money, and political capital to saying the R-word is never acceptable.
On the other hand, since 1990, LGBT+ people have been labelling themselves “queer”, as a deliberate effort to fight their erasure from the respectability politics that meant only the nicest, whitest, most monogamous cis gays and lesbians got any political power or airtime. When I say “queer people” and “queer identity”, there are hundreds of thousands of people who will go, “Yep! That’s us!”
The queer community, and the LGBT+ community, do not entirely overlap. “Queer” is about “anyone who deviates from society’s expected norms around sex and gender”, especially anyone who does so deliberately, visibly, or in the face of societal pushback. Therefore these days in many countries, a lot of cis gays, cis lesbians, and binary trans people do not consider themselves “queer”, because they’ve carved out a big enough social niche that they’re not going against societal pressure. “Queer” also includes a lot of groups and identities that get left behind by the LGBT movement, like asexual, aromantic, nonbinary, third gender, multisexual, polyamorous, and kinky people whose oppressions don’t get recognized by groups that have gained wider societal acceptance.
So you can be LGBT without being queer. Feel free to peel the word off if it ever gets stuck on you. “Yeah, I don’t consider myself queer.” But when someone says “queer people” or “the queer community”, we do exist, and will not go away just because you don’t like us.
There are some words the disability community has reclaimed and held up with pride, but it’s mostly in areas like physical disability and mental illness, not intellectual or developmental disability.
I recommend that anyone who doesn’t like the word “queer” quite simply add it to their Tumblr filters, or get Blacklist on New XKit and filter it out.
Well, while I dont entirely agree, thank you for at least bothering to tell me the difference between the queer community and the LGBT community.
Once people stop saying I’m in the queer community, I’ll stop using the r-slur.
Lmao bruh, you’re NOT queer.
Like, not only do you not identify that way—which would be enough to disqualify you—but if you TRIED to claim queerness, you’d get raked over the coals for treating your fellow disabled people like shit.
Queer isn’t an identity, it’s a political coalition for mutual defense, and it’s deeply intertwined with disabled people, people of colour, and poor people. And here you are saying, “I’ll keep promoting discrimination against other disabled people until a totally unrelated group changes something disabled people have no control over!”
So please, get over yourself. Anyone calling you queer obviously either doesn’t know what queerness is, or doesn’t know what a dipshit you are. You couldn’t be queer if you tried for a month.
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