[puddleofchaos]

[millenniumfulcrum]

Tumblr:  We want complex villains! 
Tumblr:  But they can’t do anything villainous or complex ever. 

[scaliefox]

My favorite quote on this is Lemony Snickett when a school district banned his book due to the marriage plot by the villain.

He merely responded

“I’m sorry, but I’m at a loss on how to write a villain that doesn’t do villainous things.”

[puddleofchaos]

[boldlyro]

i wish. odo was more comfortable shifting in public so we could see like. a parrot sitting at his desk. or someone goes to visit him in his quarters and theyre just filled with smoke.

[boldlyro]

you know everyone would just take it in stride. sisko would be introducing his senior staff to some starfleet ambassador and when he says “this is my chief of security” he just points to a frog sitting on the floor

[boldlyro]

dax: hey what do you have there

quark: (opens his hands to reveal a small shiny rock)

dax: oh cool

quark: we’re on a date. its our anniversary.

[puddleofchaos]

[veryveryuncomfortable]

hello these gifs were made to help during panic/anxiety attacks. some are just basic breathing exercises and others use emdr (a technique that reduces or controls panic attacks or feelings of anxiety). bon appetite

[puddleofchaos]

[harmless-hobbit]

That is a VERY Pippin thing to do. 😂

[puddleofchaos]

we have often referred to crowley and aziraphale as our “ultimate otp” on here in the past, although by now chirrut/baze has kind of taken over that spot. basically, it was THE pairing - the one that mattered most even if we were not actively seeking out fic at the moment.

part of it was just the obvious perfection of an angel and a demon being good enough friends in canon that it could be seen as a friends-to-lovers rather than enemies-to-lovers situation.

but i think what we love most about good omens is that it’s essentially the story of two neurodivergent supernatural beings - as in, falling outside of the norm for their respective … species? groups? genders?????

crowley isn’t like the other demons. aziraphale isn’t like the other angels. and you can draw a parallel to queerness as well here, but having experience with both, i think neurodivergency fits better. it was, however, also a very satisfying story to read as a nonbinary teen thanks to the angel/demon binary that is clearly too restrictive for crowley and aziraphale.

and then there is the asexual/aromantic reading. my personal favourite interpretation is that all angels (and therefore demons) are assumed to be asexual and aromantic, but crowley and aziraphale find themselves in the unexpected situation of being demiromantic and optionally also demisexual. which fits very, very well with the whole theme of them slowly falling in love with humanity itself.

i like to think they don’t realise they’re in love because they don’t understand this foreign sensation. also, it’s hard enough for aziraphale to come to terms with the fact that he actually wants to prevent the apocalypse because he likes earth and its inhabitants - i don’t think he’d be able to admit to himself that he might be in love with crowley until after the ending! so i’m more into post-canon fanfic, although stories where crowley initiates something earlier and aziraphale is all “?????” can be fun.

personally i’d prefer to see them in a nonsexual romantic relationship, but of course i also have headmates who … like … sex. so. we’re flexible, it’s just … can’t we ace people have this one thing? please? (at least demisexual is still a-spec. we have one of those, too. but he’s not very much into romance lol)

good omens is inherently romantic. the main romance is, of course, between the protagonists and humanity. i like that because we’ve always struggled with feeling inhuman, so the perspective of these two outsiders was ideal for us, and perhaps we learned to appreciate humanity a little along with them.

on the whole, it’s a great book for neurodivergent people AND nonbinary people AND a-spec people, and i happen to be all of those things. (the mocking of christianity is a nice bonus.) thus far, the show seems to not be straying from that too far (i’m only on the 3rd episode). fingers crossed it won’t, later…

what was even the point of this post? (dolphins??)

i guess i simply wrote a love letter to good omens. as one does.

[puddleofchaos]

[cottagelore]

it’s…fine to feel sexually attracted to women. i really dig a lot of cottagecore/farmer lesbian stuff, but it makes relationships with women sound like these fluffy, blushy, chaste, cutesy handholding affairs…you can want to have a garden AND rail your wife at the same time. i promise

[zeldaspellmans]

i absolutely hate commenting on posts but i just wanted to say thank you! my whole life i’ve been so shy about other women short of saying “omg i’m gay” or “wow she’s beautiful” because i’m always worried about how others will perceive me and other lesbians. men very often are very candid and sometimes just downright obscene with their opinions of girls i have never ever used a word like “rail” or “fuck” or even something stupid like “bang” fjfjf i’m scandalized by it!! and why? because i’m so so worried to offend literally anybody or have sapphism in general seen as something indecent? i don’t know if this made any sense at all because i’m a bit… bad at talking but really thank you! i am allowed to want to have sex with women its not all just cheesy uwu flowers soft gf stuff! that’s really great to have someone put it in such simple terms 💖

[cottagelore]

💕 glad you’re able to start coming around to this! i think it’s very common to feel anxious or predatory when it comes to sexual attraction to women. a lot of lesbophobia comes in the form of pretending that romantic attraction to women is simply a very strong (and female-exclusive) friendship, whereas sexual attraction and acts of intimacy are demonized. even when we know that they aren’t, it can be a hard thing to overcome. but you’re allowed to want to have sex with women, and it’s a good and natural thing and we’re especially allowed to celebrate it!

[not-soft-anymore]

There‘s room for cutesy fluffy stuff for sure and it‘s important too esp with how lesbians are externally sexualized and non-het sexualities being portrayed as purely sexual

But like, we don‘t have to desexualize ourselves in response to that

I say that as someone who doesn‘t do the sex thing; I still find women hot, and want women to find me hot

Sexual attraction between women is just as good and amazing and great and worthy of celebration as romantic attraction is, it‘s nothing to be ashamed of & it doesn‘t make lesbians weird or creepy or predatory

Lesbians is good

[puddleofchaos]

[everythingstarstuff]

[puddleofchaos]

[afrocentricheavymetalgoddess]

The end where they’re two people fucked me up the most

[puddleofchaos]

[queers-candles-and-cuddles]

So I had a friend who also has ADHD explain to me what happens to his brain when he puts something down and then immediately forgets where it is and it was a total realization for me:

Once someone with ADHD puts an object down, it becomes a facet of the room rather than an actual object that can be interacted with. It isn’t its own object anymore. That’s why we can scan over an object over and over again without seeing it because it doesn’t stand out. 

I thought this was a fascinating way of explaining this situation and it helped me a lot in understanding my experience as a newly diagnosed person with ADHD. 

[puddleofchaos]

[shingeki-no-reason-to-live]

my parents just told my nine year old brother that he should call me by my chosen name instead of my birth name. my father said “so ‘[birth name]’ won’t be said anymore” and his first response was “so like Darth Vader isn’t called Anakin Skywalker anymore”

our chosen names are just our sith names, welcome to the dark side