Here’s a Dalek who just wants to exterminate anything that’s causing you stress.
Crowley: swaggering, reclining, lip twitch, peacocking, revolving around Aziraphale like he’s the Goddamn sun, peacocking but in leather, making faces
Aziraphale: little smirk, smaller smirk, delighted expression, eyebrow quirk, little shimmy, pursed lips, smile again but with a little bounce in place
Crowley: peacock-swaggers harder
Good Omens, but the voice of God narrates it like a nature doc:
“And here we see a rare pair-bonding ritual of a demon and an angel, each trying to attract the other as a mate in radically different ways. It is too bad their species indicators of interest are so divergent- and that they are both incredibly thick.
Oh! Look, there he goes. He’s handing him a book.”
Y'all and that gay Omen show: Aziraphale
My meds-taking brain, undoubtably and without fail, everytime I try to read that name:
I too relate to Crowley because I also identify a stage in my life with an specific haircut
as if i’ve never said the words, i want - i want you first
only thing that can quench my thirst: i want you first, i want you first
“Please, angel. Please.”
He was kneeling, sunglasses off, hands open: he was on his knees in front of Aziraphale, who was wringing his hands together, seated at his desk, completely uncertain.
“I’m not at all sure it’s a good idea—”
“We’ve done it before.”
“By accident. And it left its mark on you.”
Hell, yes, it had: his ears had rung for a week, he’d seen spots and flashes before his eyes for longer still, he’d felt sunburnt right through to the heart of him, and it really didn’t matter at all, because:
“It was fucking incredible.”
Aziraphale puffed an exasperated breath and stood up, nearly knocking Crowley sprawling; he moved as if preoccupied, not entirely aware that he had a body or that Crowley did. That was a good sign. Perhaps his attention was Elsewhere. Crowley could work with that.
He nudged: “And you liked it too.”
Aziraphale turned to him, face anguished: “That doesn’t mean we should do it again!”
moonsun2010
ignitingthesky
can we talk about the sheer accuracy of some of the in-game dialogue in Disco Elysium?
i’m talking specifically about the Giant Seraise Hornet, where Encyclopedia says this:
i work with honeybees in an apiary on my college campus, and i’ve taken so many yellow jackets, wasps, and hornets out of the hives. i’ve seen hives completely destroyed by wax beetles and hornets. but the thing that gets me about Disco Elysium’s off-handed analogy about the assassins is that this is literally true.
the Giant Seraise Hornet is a direct reference to the Asian Giant Hornet (which you might know better as the “murder hornet”).
from Penn State University:
and according to Wikipedia, the Asian giant hornet can kill 40 honeybees a minute because of their mandible size.
but it isn’t only the hornet-murdering-honeybee relationship that they got correct! they also got it right that sometimes the honeybees win:
I know that the developers must have put an incredible amount of research into this game, but as someone with a huge interest in the environment and beekeeping, it’s so cool to me that they got a real-life parallel so specifically correct.
it’s such a direct parallel between the mercenaries and the dockworkers and the hornets and the bees. sure, the dockworkers could win, but only if they’ve coevolved. Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, didn’t coevolve with the Asian giant hornet… and those hives tend to be completely decimated.
just like the Hardie boys if Harry makes the wrong move. the mass slaughter in Martinaise depends on whether or not you as the player can learn to adapt quickly enough in seven days to save your colony. and i think it’s genius.
