[jbk405]

You never think about these things, but apparently Miles O’Brien is the only character in the entire history of Star Trek to appear in both the premier episodes and final episodes of two different Trek TV shows.  From a bit character – not even granted a name – in “Encounter at Farpoint” in TNG all the way to “What You Leave Behind” in DS9.  Catching “All Good Things…” and “Emissary” in the middle as well.

Not so bad for the Joe Everyman.

[thatsbelievable]

Update

The weird goo that was flowing relentlessly in our direction is now flowing relentlessly in the opposite direction, so.

[good-omens-fanart]

[sydsir]

I’ve been to so many old bookstores in the past month. It smells gr8.

heres a good omens print

process gif here

[good-omens-fanart]

[grrrenadine]

SPN has made me think of angels as soldiers so I always try to make Aziraphale at least marginally tough-looking, but I think I overdid it here. Also, freckles.

[script-a-world]

Anonymous asked:

For the jungle anon: I am currently living in a tropical rainforest and I can tell you: you really don't want too much clothes. Just imagine going into a steambath with your clothes. In a relatively short amount of time you will have sweated through them. Concerning the mosquito problem: at least mayans (don't know about other cultures) use termites as a repellent. And it's more effective than any industrially fabricated I've ever seen!

[ladyyatexel]

Sometimes I feel like Tumblr is limiting my ability to enjoy things. Communities feel closed off, following tags of things you like just results in endless discourse or hate posts about the thing. I unfollowed several people a few months ago because I felt like they were just constant sources of judgement and negativity, and that was a good call, but even now I feel like I’ll occasionally just run into a post that’s someone screaming that every source of joy in your life is wrong where everything that has once brought you comfort makes you a terrible human being. And now it’s just scary to do anything because someone’s going to come at you for it. I had like half a week of some strong gender business a little while ago and the same was true of sexuality business several years ago and I just don’t talk about those things anymore, because around every corner is someone shrieking No.

It feels a lot now like the only thing I can do is just like everything that I like and do everything that I do totally in isolation to preserve it for myself, even though I’d long for people who want to share it. Everything is just fear and eggshells.

[good-omens-fanart]

[sonialiao]

Aziraphale and Crowley from “Good Omens”. Though Aziraphale being a klutz and Crowley catching the books as they fell turned more into Crowley being like “WTF WHY AM I CARRYING YOUR BOOKS LOOK AT THIS ONE IN MY HAND LOOK” and Aziraphale being like “You are such a dear” OTL

[defconprime]

Check out mirror Spot.

[trans-flint]

[trans-aziraphale]

Forster knew What Was (and still Is) Up

[terminal note to Maurice, 1960]

[trans-aziraphale]

Man I’m still thinking about the importance of happy endings and how much this all plays out with the past say, 5-10 years of mainstream media.

I was talking to @irisbleufic about this topic recently and how it’s sort of a running joke that I’m so behind on watching new tv and movies and a huge part of that is the amount of entropy, trauma, and (shock-value) death there is in all of these and how much worse it’s gotten recently. And considering the state of the world and how much energy it takes to just exist as who I am, I can’t take in all that pain on a regular basis and not have it destroy me. 

We all know the Le Guin’s line from The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas: “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.” But really, think about how much the general arc of stories has changed with the swivel point being around 2013/2014. Compare the first and second Pacific Rim. Compare the first season of Gotham (There will be light) with the current season of Gotham. Compare DC before the nu52 reboot and after (most obvious in the Riddler characterization imo). Compare hopeful 90s/early 2000s scifi to the gritty, human-nature-is-greed-and-harming-other apocalypse scifi of today. Compare the original finale of The X Files (Maybe there’s hope) and even IWTB (Don’t give up, M/S living together) with the revival consciously breaking them up. 

And I’m just very Tired of it all. I want happy endings dammit. I want people to fight to stay together. I want people to make it. I want the world to get better.

Happy endings aren’t boring, and tearing characters apart is not necessarily good story telling. Death and suffering is not the only way for a character grow. Love is not foolish and hope is not naive.

To quote Zinn: “An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.”

And the stories of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness are just as compelling and should be told again and again.

[irisbleufic]

*slow clap*

To quote Goldman: “Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don’t give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”

Narrative terrorism in perpetuity. Long live the stories we take back: the stories we relive, the stories we remake, the stories we repair.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Them vs. Four Horsemen (the former win mainly because they have Dog with them :))