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tv omens but like,,,,,,,,with good costume design
I love Keanu Reeves and the recent surge of love and appreciation for him warms my heart but I dread to think what’ll happen the moment you demons have had enough of him and start digging up/making up “problematic” shit he did or said when he was like 20 or something
Yes but it’d be hard to go all the way back to the 14th century just to dig up dirt on one guy
Keanu Reeves sold bad copper and was rude to messengers and sent them back empty-handed through foreign territory and I for one am sick of everybody just giving him a pass for the whole thing when we have over a dozen cuneiform tablets documenting his bad behaviour.
The single worst experience we went through was, I think, the film. (…) We were going up for the first meeting and Terry says, “Here Neil, come over here.” I say, “Ok.” He says, “Look. I’m not sure about these people, and you’re not sure about these people. If they’re just completely barking, we shall have a code word. And then whoever says the code word, we both get up in unison and we leave.” I say, “Ok. So we need a code word that neither of us could conceivably say in normal conversation.” And Terry says, “Yes.” I say, “What about Biggles?” (…) And Terry says, “Ok. Biggles it is.” So we head up for the meeting. And we’re sitting around the table talking to what seem to be terribly nice, sensible people… And then the executive walks in (…) and says, “Hi Neil, hi Terry, it’s lovely to meet you both, now- I’m sure the guys have been talking to you about your book Good Omens and what we’re thinking about. Now, let me just run some stuff past you. We figure, the dynamics of this are, the kid um, Adam, whatever his name is; Newt, the witchfinder, we see him as like, maybe being Tom Cruise, young, good looking, hunky, but he’s looking for witches and the witch, er… Athaneema? I think her name was, so there’s Newt, and Athaneema-” And I look at Terry; I need to actually mime this…
Biggles was a airplane pilot just fyi.
Send me your sappy, heartbreaking, and/or silly Good Omens head canons. Any character, I don’t care. Keep me company please while I get thru this UGH….day.
Crowley doesn’t actually know what the word ‘thwart’ means. Except that it’s what you do (or what Aziraphale does, anyway, being an angel) to ‘wiles’, and he’s not sure what they are either.
He’s heard the words tossed around a lot, but Hell doesn’t exactly encourage asking questions and dictionaries weren’t invented for most of human history, so he’s basically never had the chance to find out what they mean.
I mean, come on— “you see a wile, you thwart”? And in the deleted scene he talks about Aziraphale “thwarting [him] thwartingly"— are these the words of a man-shaped being who could define either of those words if his life depended on it?
He also can’t ask anyone around him, because he’s a demon they all just assume that he must know.
Priest: “Do not tempt me, foul fiend! I will resist your demonic wiles!”
Crowley (coming out of character): “Alright, but this is a wile then, is it? This is an example of what a wile is?”
Priest: “Don’t play games with me, fiend!”
Crowley: “Whatever, could you just clarify that for me please? And tell me if you’re going to start thwarting it.”
***
Beelzebub: “How goes your mission on Earth, Demon Crowley?”
Crowley: “Great! I have been spreading temptation and darkness across the world.”
Beelzebub: “And what about the angel, Aziraphale— has he succeeded in thwarting any of your infernal wiles?”
Crowley: “Er… no? No thwarting of wiles. None whatsoever. Even the… um, wiliest of my wiley wiles have remained unthwartable.”
Beelzebub: “Demon Crowley, you do know what wiles are?”
Crowley: “…Of course! Bit of a damning indictment of Ligur’s excellent employee training if I’ve been up there on Earth all this time and still don’t know what wiles are or how they might be thwarted.”
Beelzebub: “…”
Crowley: “Why, sometimes it feels like I never stop wiling!”
***
Crowley: “Hey, Aziraphale, how do you actually thwart wiles?”
Aziraphale (aghast): “Crowley! I can’t believe you’re asking me that!”
Crowley: “What? Oh shit, it’s not rude, is it?”
Aziraphale: “Just because I’ve agreed to your Arrangement, doesn’t mean I’m just going to start explaining my own strategies for fighting evil!”
Crowley: “Wait, no— I didn’t mean how you specifically thwart wiles, just, in general…”
Aziraphale: “I’m leaving.”
Crowley (calling after him): “Could you at least tell me if you happen to see any wiles lying around?”
Good Lord, I can’t believe we all stan one (1) dumbass demon. This is hilarious!
the appropriate response to “these baby boomers are taking university courses for $10 per credit” is “everyone deserves that,” not “they do not deserve that”
also just because your parents are rich baby boomers doesn’t mean all baby boomers are wealthy and they were your age at a time when it was much less common to get an education past high school, so yeah its actually good that they have access to this opportunity if they want it! y’all are deliberately obtuse sometimes!
Oh, good. Thank you for this. I keep seeing Those Posts, and as a person who works in academia and works with non-trad students and the like, it was really grinding my gears.
A lot of folks who come back to school later in life are doing it for enrichment. As costs of higher ed have skyrocketed, folks who used to take the odd college class for self-improvement and out of pure interest could no longer do so.
My music courses as an undergrad (at a community college, so it was cheaper to start with) were full of senior citizens who just…had gone their whole lives always wanting to learn to sing or play an instrument and never could because they, you know, had a 40+/week job and kids to raise and stuff. They weren’t capitalizing on anyone else’s educational experience. They weren’t even degree-seeking, most of the time. They just needed to get out of the house and wanted to make some of their neglected dreams come true in their twilight years.
Even if a baby boomer student IS degree-seeking (that is, plans to attend an entire compliment of classes following a degree-program’s curricula), please consider what that MEANS. Why is a senior citizen actively seeking a college education at this time in their life? If not for enrichment (as explained above), it’s likely so they can go back to work in a time when college degrees have become (distressingly!) mandatory to earn a living wage. I AM sorry that students feel that this is unfair–frankly, it is!–but I’m definitely of the opinion that “I, too, deserve affordable college!” is a better response to this then “fucking baby boomers don’t deserve this!”. You have no IDEA what individual folks taking advantage of this boon are doing or HOW they are doing.
Old people aren’t the natural enemy, guys. I know a lot of them are fucking us over on the daily, but generational generalizations and blind hatred and anger continue to help literally no one, ever.
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