A good video that accurately explains why stud is a term used for black lesbians only, not white, not poc, BLACK

I’m not even going to say please. Respect black identities and labels, they are ours for a reason.

Imma need this reblogged by white queer tumblr users since it’s mostly yall who wanna use it or want to know why you or other white people shouldn’t/can’t use the term “stud”

I definitely didn't know that, so it's worth sharing.

For as hurt and angry and frustrated as Crowley and Aziraphale are at the end of S2, I don't believe either choice came as a surprise to the other, nor do I believe they would necessarily want the other to have chosen differently, in the end.

They might not understand the other's point of view. They might ask "how?" or "why?"

But, and this might be a hot take, I think if either had actually done it, gone along with the other's suggestion, said "yes.

It would have come as a huge shock and, although they might not have admitted it, even to themselves, I think they'd have been a little disappointed.

Like, all I can imagine is Crowley saying: "Let's go off together."

And Aziraphale saying: "Alright, Crowley. Let's leave this old world behind, forget everything, and go off to the stars."

And Crowley just sort of gaping at him like... "Who are you and what have you done with my angel?"

Or, the reverse:

Aziraphale: "You can come back to heaven, be an angel again."

"Oh, fantastic! Sign me up."

And Aziraphale's whole face crumpling up like: "Did I hear that right? Surely not."

Aziraphale and Crowley are simultaneously infuriated by and endeared to the very things that set them apart.

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

When I was in Mongolia recently I met a Russian traveler there and some people passed by us speaking Mongolian and she said "wow, it's so crazy. I can't understand a single thing they are saying." And I was like "oh you speak Mongolian?" thinking she meant she didn't know this dialect or something. She goes "No." I'm like, "Oh then how would understand it?" We went back and forth for a while where she kept insisting that it was weird she couldn't understand it, and she had been planning this trip to Mongolia for months on the assumption that she would be able to understand Mongolian, and it turned out she had just assumed that because they were both written with Cyrillic?

And I just.... like yeah, because Russia forced that on them. Writing systems are not natural occurrences, they are political tools. And frankly I don't get why people have such a hard time wrapping their head around how a language totally unrelated to Russian could use Cyrillic when we see different languages written in the Latin alphabet all the time.

I am firmly of the opinion that the Irish language should never have been slapped with the same alphabet as English, so I get it.

UNRULY DEMON? Try Dr. MacFells LAUDANUM tincture! Guaranteed to knock his ass out. Detail shots after the jumppppppppp ⬇️

reblog for bigger sample size i guess

Re-blogging just because the last option had me pissing myself.

I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.

The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.

Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.

No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

Worth adding to this post, Banting and Best sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for one dollar. They wanted their discovery be available to every single person who needed. it.

not to be boring but i don't think aziraphale fell in love with crowley before the beginning and crowley in eden.

i think they fell in love in a very human way. slowly over the years, spending time together, sharing their experiences and realizing how alike they are in their differences. i think theirs is the "i cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. it's too long ago. i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun" kind of love. (yes, quoting my beloved jane austen because i can).

"oh but the way aziraphale looked at him when they created the stars" 1. angel crowley would make god look twice. 2. presumably heaven has always been the same. a bunch of angels silently following orders. crowley was different, he was passionate about the creation. he loved it, cared about it and was willing to protect it. aziraphale saw that in him and found it beautiful in the same way that we do.

"but the way crowley looked at him when he told her he had given up his sword" crowley had just met an angel who dared to think for himself instead of following direct orders. of course he is impressed, of course he is deeply attracted to him. he sees in him someone who might be able to understand.

these two moments are crucial, yes, but (in my opinion) not because they instantly fell in love, but rather because they mark the beginning of something absolutely beautiful. something so great and unique that it defies definition. something ineffable, you may say.

The War Ahead

There's no our side... not anymore.

I really worked a month on this just for the gimmick and then forgot to post it uh.

A companion piece to my Crowley comic, in which Book and TV Aziraphale have their own little heart-to-heart over sushi. Angelic bedside manner isn't really all it's cracked up to be.

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Never forget Aziraphale's reaction when he finally understood how dangerous the evidence Furfur had was and that they were going to take Crowley away from him forever

Excellent point.

Because that expression doesn't read to me as fear, never mind panic. Concern, perhaps worry, sure. But not fear.

It's more of an "I am going to feed this Furfur fellow his own arse feet-first; I just need to work out exactly how" expression.

It is dangerous to underestimate this angel, METATRON.

everyone underestimates Aziraphale. Everyone expects him to be just soft and fluffy. But he invented the archetype of looks like a cinnamon roll can actually kill you. He has a highly analytical mind (remember who figured out where the Antichrist was after crowleys lot botched everything?). He’s not afraid to do things the hard (re:human) way (learning French). And he is an absolute bastard. Heaven has no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.

This. I’ve said it again and again. Crowley is clever, yes. Absolutely your gal Friday for thinking on your feet. But Az is SMART. His intellect is canonical. It isn’t near as flashy and it’s more…deliberate. Az has the sort of mind that pulls all the context and bits together first and then makes a plan. That kind of brain that can make fantastic leaps with even the barest of clues. As soon as he had a modicum of info he figured out where Adam was. He made the logical leap from “if Demons can posses humans, Angels can too. We’re of the same stock” in less than 60 seconds. The man basically rebuilt the library of Alexandria and calls it home. And he IS a bit of a bastard. More than a bit if he gets his teeth into something. He’s twice again as stubborn as the day is long when he’s set his mind. And he was a soldier first. Our man was supposed to command a whole ass platoon for the Notapocalypse. Damn near blew Adam away with the thundergun even though he didn’t actually want to. Looks like cinnamon roll, is 100% a cinnamon roll, and will absolutely kill you if need be. He won’t be happy about it, but he’ll do it.

Drugs containing Methylene Blue (like Uro-MP - used to treat some bladder infections) can turn it blue!

Phenazopyridine used to turn it orange, when we could get it. Good times…

Drinking a lot, and I mean a LOT of blue curacao can turn it a green colour that will startle the hell of your hungover ass the next morning.

For people struggling to understand Aziraphrale's decision in the final 15, maybe this will help:

When I'm not being an online Good Omens obsessive I am a frontline healthcare worker in the NHS. Every day I try to help people & every day I'm severely constrained in this by bullshit government policy & severe under-resourcing.

In the extremely unlikely event I was offered the chance to become the UK Health Secretary, you bet your bottom fucking dollar I would be straight off to parliament & sat behind that damn desk without bothering to pack. Would I be walking into a nest of vipers? Yep. Would I be surrounded by people who despised me and all I stand for? definitely. Would I be miserable as fuck & trapped in a system designed to prevent me implementing any positive changes whatsoever? For sure.

But I would have to accept that job. It wouldn't even be a choice in any meaningful way. Because at the very least I could get my hands on some meaningful insider knowledge, view the system from the inside, find its weaknesses. And no, I wouldn't want to leave my current life and the people in it who I love behind either, but tough shit, because it wouldn't be about me, it would be about doing my duty to my patients.

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

I am An Olde and my gay awakening was Emma Peel from the original Avengers TV show and my gay I-am-so-fucked was Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days.

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I love this so much. Every time.

I lost it at the bagel.

Oh man I need this

Listen I could totally be wrong, but I feel like there’s a possibility that the area in Soho where Aziraphale lives isn’t… technically real. I’m not saying it isn’t on Earth, or in London, or even in Soho itself but it feels like a very idealised version of Soho (and not in a Hollywood movie set kind of a way, I mean like a deliberate way) which would kind of track with Aziraphale’s character. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s created a personalised Soho just for himself.

I suppose my main evidence for this is that it just doesn’t feel like Soho. I was talking about this with @ineffabildaddy and with both of us being Londoners, we know what Soho is like. There’s no way it would ever be that harmonious and village-esque when it is literally one of the busiest towns in central London. Not to mention the fact that there isn’t a chance in Hell that a record shop in Soho wouldn’t be teeming with people at all hours of the day and night, I mean it’s one of the main music capitals in the whole country. Maggie wouldn’t be struggling for customers at all, and yet Aziraphale seems to be her only regular. ineffabildaddy suggested that the record shop was empty so that Aziraphale could guarantee that he would always have his records when he wanted them.

Season 2 especially sheds light on this rose-tinted idea of Soho, where everything seems just a bit too perfect for Aziraphale specifically, and everyone there feels like a side character in Aziraphale (and Crowley’s) story. Everything about that place feels deliberate, and it’s the only setting in the whole show that doesn’t really hide the fact that it’s a set.

I don’t say this as a bad thing, either. I love where the bookshop is set because it just has such pleasant and romantic vibes, but that’s exactly what I’m talking about. It’s too perfect. Everything is catered towards Crowley and Aziraphale, and it matches Aziraphale’s personality down to a T. It may not have started out that way, but after a century of living there, it seems as if that part of Soho has moulded itself around its resident angel.

I just think where the bookshop is set may be significant in itself, especially given that one concept image we all saw of the bookshop standing on its own around a completely destroyed scenery

and that one post I read (please do link it if anyone knows what I’m talking about because I forgot who made it) outlining how all the extras in the background seem to just be the same people over and over again.

At the end of the day, it may not have anything to do with the plot at all, but at the very least… there’s probably some miracles going on to make Aziraphale’s home as comfortable (and romantic) as possible for him and Crowley.

yes! all of this!

i just find it so, so funny that maggie runs an empty record shop because some of the most iconic and well-known record shops in the continent are in soho (e.g. sister ray). neil’s also gotta know that vinyl’s had a bit of a resurgence (and for a lot of people, it never went out of style).

the fact that whickber street is practically empty at night (e.g. when nina and maggie are trapped in the coffee shop) is also just ridiculous because the real soho is busier at night than it is during the day! it’s the (albeit moderately gentrified) seedy underbelly of central london nightlife, not to mention the gay district lol

i could make an educated guess that neil knows soho based on the history of his own life, but i don’t even have to make such a guess to know that he knows soho because even my fucking dad’s like, seen him round in that area long before good omens existed as a tv show. so this shit is not by accident!!!

Big big agree. At minimum something about it is Weird As Hell in season two, from all of the above to the conspicuously repeating very unique looking cars and extras, to Maggie and Nina's shops not having been there last season but them acting like they've been there forever, but the fact that neither of them seem to really know Crowley even though he's around ALL THE TIME now, to the entire street FULLY STOPPING DEAD to check out John Hamm's ass... something is very wrong FAKE about Whickber Street.

Yes that’s very true!! Nina and Maggie really feel as if they just showed up for season 2 with no previous hints to their existence at all. Knowing Neil, that doesn’t tend to be his style, unless something else is going on…

Something is definitely wrong with Whickber Street.

Whickber feels like a Disney version of a street. Bright, cheery, colorful, and so clean you could eat off the sidewalk. There's no flaking paint or faded vinyl or trash blown in a corner. All the people are cheerful and purposeful and content. No one is arguing or lost or crying. No one is drunk or high. No one is wearing dirty clothes or has unwashed hair. No one is struggling with carrying too many bags. No one is struggling with anything at all. It probably even smells nice.

The flashbacks all feel like various styles of old movies. Which, fine. They are presented as memories (they are generally presumed to be Aziraphale's memories, but which one of them is the film buff?), and the opening credits set the whole thing up as having an old-movie feel.

But Whickber should feel like real life, or at least as real as present day in S1, and it doesn't. It feels like someone might yell "Cut" at any time in a way that the explicitly cinematic flashbacks don't. Like, instead of feeling like we're watching a movie, Whickber feels like we're on a movie set...

I am not awake enough to pull those threads more, but maybe someone else can?

There's something also about how tropey S2 is and how much it's aware of genre. It's stuffed with fanfic/romance tropes (when we first met Nina I was thinking "Neil, did you write a literal coffeeshop romance/AU?"), the genre-style title cards for the flashbacks and "Before the Beginning," and of course the one million acknowledged references to Powell & Pressburger films. Plus there's all the Regency romance tropes Aziraphale is living out and all the spy thriller tropes Crowley is. (Side note: I love how the show establishes that these are the two different ways they think about Jane Austen. Both of them are trying to do an Austen thing; it's just that one of the thinks that means formal dancing and the other one thinks that means brandy smuggling and diamond robbery.) I'm also thinking about @ariaste's "The Magic Trick You Didn't See," which points out a whole bunch of places Maggie's dialogue feels clunky. They interpret those as places the Metatron is doing the writing; I don't know if I agree with that, but I do agree that those bits are (hopefully) clunky on purpose. My read is that it's one more way to make the season more trope-y. What all that means for the show and S3, heck if I know. Maybe something about writing your own story and your own ending, and how you can't do that if you're stuck in tropelandia. Even if the tropes are "quiet" and "gentle" and "romantic." /walks off humming Queen's "I Want to Break Free."

Amongst all of David's awards, you were recently named on the DILF list. Here's the top five: 1. Pedro Pascal, 2. Oscar Isaac. 3. David Tennant. 4. Mads Mikkelsen. 5. Cillian Murphy. Oh, and Michael Sheen came in-

#Micheal Sheen silence on this is deafening

Can we just notice that David gives zero shits about #1 and #2 this is purely a competition between two candidates and he is winning.

The funniest thing about this gif set is when I watch the way his lips move when he says "number 6" I can hear the Scottish accent

Felt compelled to post all the gomens art i've made so far in one long self-indulgent post. It's nice to see them all in one place. :')

I honestly don't think anything EVER has inspired me as much as Good Omens has, the impact this show has had on my creative output is absolutely insane. I'm so grateful for it. <3