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a-zira-fellAnonymous asked:
Crowley, in the Bentley: Ugh, roadwork ahead. Aziraphale, without missing a beat: Uh, I sure hope it does? Crowley: what the fuck
electrictype
montereybayaquarium
Nobody:
No one:
Not even a soul:
The universal alignment of all Consciousness in requesting Nothing, which is to say, that any statement whatever henceforth will be considered an offering to the altar of Precisely The Absence Of Prompting From All Existence:
Us: This took a tern
moki-dokie
maxer-blaster asked:
So I have an angsty fanfic idea. Basically post non-pocalpyse, Aziraphale has a bit of an identity crisis. He's no longer bound to the strict rules of heaven but they're all he's ever known. So he feels directionless and afraid. He wonders who he is without having that. Any input? I'm so used to reading Crowley angst in fic that I wanna delve into what Aziraphale might be going through.
why are you exposing my love for angst like this alsdjg;lskhg
i’ve thought about this a lot myself, actually. i think he and crowley, as celestial beings, definitely process things like this much different than we do. or, at least, on a different time scale. humans losing their fundamental core beliefs very suddenly tends to send us into breakdowns and rapid downward spirals. like a rug being pulled out from beneath the feet.
for aziraphale, this would be much more gradual on our scale while still pretty fast for him.
which opens up so much room for angst. because you could explore his descent into a breakdown in great detail. each phase would last for years.
and crowley? he went through all of this already. one might argue he is still in the bargaining stage during the events of gomens and finally gets to the last stage by the end. but the fact is he knows this. he might not notice it immediately for what it is, but it would click at some point. thing is, would he know how to help aziraphale through it without turning him bitter and jaded?
anyway it’s really interesting and theres a lot you can do with it!!
thegoodomensdumpster
After a post I made asking help to find one specific fic that answered the basic plotline of “Crowley and Aziraphale get turned into humans so what should they do now”, my nice followers have offered their help and the fic was found very fast. But they also recommended two other fics, so I’m gathering them in a neat post for anyone to keep, would they want to read them !
The specific fic that started it all is called Small Inifinities and all that, by JustStandingThere, 13208 words.
Heaven’s Fury, StarkRogers, 628 words.
A Halo Effect,
Tv_Saved_The_Teenage_Girl, 4175 words.
morifinwiel
vaspider
Perfect is the Enemy of Good
I wasn’t going to say anything else about this, but it’s going to bug me if I don’t.
So, Neil Gaiman has had his writing published for more than 30 years, and he’s had a blog since 2001.
That’s a LONG-ass time for all of your mistakes and stray thoughts and other shit that your younger, less-enlightened self believed to be there for anyone to look up.
And all of the callouts I see are like “Bad Take from a blog post ten years ago”, “something written 30 years ago”, “Adaptation of an older work is Problematic”
We’ve gotten to a point where people acknowledge that if everyone is white/straight/cis/etc, it looks really weird and isn’t reflective of reality. And a lot of people are acknowledging that and trying to do better.
Adding diverse characters to a work that didn’t have them before, or didn’t have as many, because it was written DECADES AGO is tricky. There are cases where you can go “Huh, in retrospect, with what I know now, this part was not awesome“ and change it, and there are cases where that doesn’t work so well. It’s also kind of difficult when most of the characters are assholes and do really shitty things, or a lot of them die - and both of those tend to be true for a lot of Neil’s writing.
(It’s been a long-ass time since I read the book, but Shadow is one of the only characters I can think of in American Gods who isn’t a complete raging selfish asshole, because Neil’s deities are Like That, and I saw a complaint that he’s too passive. Which. He’s the normal dude who gets drawn into this world of gods and visions and Belief.)
If Neil didn’t care, he would have, for example, greenlit that Anansi Boys adaptation that they wanted to do where everyone’s white, and gotten a bunch of money for it.
Is he wrong about some stuff? Probably! He’s a 58-year-old British guy. There’s some shit about race in America that I daresay he doesn’t get, even having lived here for as long as he has. (The UK has racism, but some of it looks different than it does here.)
There’s other shit he doesn’t get because it was viewed differently when he was younger. There’s probably shit you won’t understand when you’re 58, because things were looked at differently when you were younger, but that’s okay as long as you don’t stop trying.
But I think his heart’s in the right place, and I think he tends to apologize when he says shitty things.
I guarantee that you are doing SOMETHING or hold SOME belief right now, this minute, that people in 15 or 20 or 30 years would point at and tell you is Problematic and Bad. Since you, the person reading this, are statistically unlikely to get stupid-levels-of-famous, it’s unlikely that people at that point will be digging up your old blog posts because you had a Bad Take a decade previously. (Or maybe by then we’ll just have moved past this purity culture shit. That would be nice, though I’m not banking on it.)
Guess what? Nobody is perfect, and you’re not perfect either. Trying to set yourself up as “Obviously *I* would never do a Problematic thing”? That’s how you prevent yourself from growing, because it means that when you inevitably do make a mistake, you either won’t acknowledge it and therefore learn from it OR you’ll break yourself with the realization that you did Something Bad.
Repeated attempts to Cancel him just feel very … look, I didn’t see nearly this level of Discourse about, like, George RR Martin during the 8 fucking years that people wouldn’t shut up about Game of Thrones. (And, from what I know of him, GRRM doesn’t really give a fuck about representation and stuff.) Or various other older white dudes who had a work get popular.
It seems odd and counter-productive for there to be so much more of this shit for someone who has historically been an ally and is at least TRYING, even if some of those have been missteps.
A lot of the recent “Neil Gaiman is a racist” and “Neil Gaiman is a transphobe” and “Neil Gaiman is Problematic, Actually” stuff seems to, curiously, stem from and being spread by the exact same people who are pissy about queer rep in Good Omens not being “gay enough” and … look I’ve written stuff on why that’s bullshit, and so have a lot of other people.
I understand why people have issues with some of his work. And if
those issues are enough that you can’t read/watch/consume his work,
that’s fine! That is understandable! You are allowed to not read or
watch or whatever anything that you’re not comfortable with. You don’t have to like it!
But “This thing that this person created years or decades ago means that this person is Bad and Problematic and you shouldn’t like them either, and if you like them - even acknowledging their flaws - you are also a Bad Person” is a thought process that just needs to fucking die.
ineffableplan
azfellandco
Who woulda thunk local thirst blog @iwouldfuckajcrowley would have the best take on DiscourseTM that I’ve seen in literal months. I’m making it my new blog header.
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