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CAPTAIN AMERICA (2005) #36

If Gaiman himself knocked on my front door and told me he would add Crowley and Aziraphale saying “I love you” to Good Omens but I had to give up “You go too fast for me, Crowley” to get it, I would turn him down in a heartbeat. I know damn well which one of those lines is more romantic. I know which one of those lines is going to haunt me for y e a r s down the road. I know which line I’m going to be crying about for the next century, and it isn’t some common i love you. You can put those words in any character’s mouth, but you’ll have to pry you go too fast for me from my cold dead fingers before I give it to anyone else.

“You go too fast for me, Crowley,” is beautiful and fucking perfect and there isn’t a goddamn “I love you” in existence that can match it for feeling

That’s because I love you is a cut out!! Those are three very good words, but they are a stencil you can use on anyone!!

you go too fast for me, Crowley are you fucking kidding me, not to be dramatic but those 7 words hold 6 millennia of unrequited love and still have room left over to hold the look on Aziraphale’s face when Crowley hands him those books and the devastation of two words scribbled on a piece of paper in a park, and an entire matching-tartan thermos full of Aziraphale’s worst fear for Crowley because he won’t lose Crowley to the getting of it and he knows Crowley won’t use it on himself if Aziraphale is the one who gave it to him, because that would make it Aziraphale’s fault and Crowley wouldn’t do that to him because Crowley loves him and they both know it.

There’s only 7 words and they say I’m sorry, and I can’t yet, and I want to, and I’m not ready, this is too much for me, there are too many things I have to sort through on my end still, and you don’t have to wait for me but I hope that you can because I meant what I said about picnics and dining at the Ritz but I also meant it when I said one day. And somewhere, tucked safely into the curve of one of the e’s where Crowley will have to find it later after unpacking the rest, are the words I love you, too.

I love how we think of the same things. Look, I wrote this yesterday as an original reply to this post and then went, “no, we’ll talk about this later” and dumped in a draft:

as someone who is both asexual and who lives with severe anxiety, “you go too fast for me, Crowley,” is the best and worst line in existence. It speaks to my very soul.

You can hear the resignation in his voice when he says it. The quiet acceptance of what he thinks is going to happen.

He’s saying, “I know what you’re asking of me, what you’re offering, but I can’t yet.” He’s saying, “Yes, I want it. Yes, I have feelings for you, but they’re still new and frightening for me. I have to get used to them first, before I can do anything about them.” He’s saying, “I know I take too long. I know I’m processing too slowly for you. You want more, but I can’t give it. It’s okay if you don’t want to wait.”

Not a single person in existence asked us, but we’re both out here like, “AZIRAPHALE DOESN’T EXPECT CROWLEY TO WAIT FOR HIM 😭😭😭”

I would also like to point out that the FOLLOW UP to this conversation is that not ONLY does Crowley fucking wait for him because of course he will wait as long as Aziraphale needs, he makes sure “one day” comes true for Aziraphale. Not once, but TWICE they are seen dining at the Ritz.

Look me in my fucking eyes and tell me that Aziraphale saying “Perhaps one day we could, I don’t know, go for a picnic. Dine at the Ritz” followed by “you go too fast for me, Crowley” isn’t an EXPRESS timeline laid out for them as a couple because it fucking is. It’s 100% absolutely Aziraphale saying “I’m not ready right now, but someday when I am ready, I would like to do these things with you, if you’ll just wait for me.”

and that’s exactly what we see happen.

That is what KILLS ME.

Aziraphale tells him, in not so many words: “When I’m ready, I would like to dine at the Ritz with you.”

and then we later see them dining repeatedly at the Ritz together.

I just?? How??? does anyone?? It’s the most obvious narrative decision ever made!! And IMPORTANTLY, it’s made BEFORE the end. It’s made BEFORE they have experienced the stresses of the nonpocalypse and it’s shown to us in the first place casually, and they are both comfortable there, which implies that not only have they have done this before, they have done this often. Which means at some point we haven’t been privilege to seeing, there was a first time.

There had to have been, at some point in time between you go too fast for me and well I’ll be damned, a moment where one of them looked at the other and asked if they would like to dine at the Ritz. And either Crowley offered in a moment of bravery and Aziraphale decided that it was no longer too fast, or Aziraphale sorted out his shit and told Crowley he was ready for this by asking if he’d like to dine at the Ritz today, and honestly?? Thanks be, because I’m tired of just being TOLD people are in love, fucking show me it or get out of here, and Good Omens fucking delivered.

So yeah. You can have that exchange over my dead body.

(2023.06.14)

7 Reasons to Drink with Timothy Olyphant

Some Mavnix art for @mavnix <3 (feat. Jake being an accomplice to Bradley's suffering)

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tell you what though it’s really really enjoyable when you feel your brain slipping towards increasingly detached fanonbrain interpretations of a character (because as much as i bitch about it i think we’re all susceptible to forgetting from time to time that the version of our blorbo who lives in our heads is filtered through layers of personal analysis and projection and sanding over certain fragments of personality for the sake of a gag or a good old fashioned whump rp) and you go back to the source material and you’re like ah!! THAT’S what my precious little guy is actually like!! it’s such a ludicrously satisfying and reinvigorating feeling. it’s like getting new glasses. replacing the broken screen protector on your phone. waking up after a cold and your nose is unblocked for the first time in a week. when you’ve done laundry and you put on your a list outfit for the first time in a hot minute. refamiliarising yourself with source material is a PLEASURE it’s like doing a factory reset on your blorbo thoughts and if you commit yourself to permanent and remorseless fanon brain you are missing out on a supreme brain-itching joy

EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) dir. Doug Liman

— Tom Cruise on social media, June 14, 2023

CHRIS EVANS as STEVE ROGERS Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise

thinking that mr. brightside, a usamerican song by a usamerican band which is one of the most popular songs of the last 30 years, is something that is only popular among brits is funny enough on its own but to say sweet caroline, a song by usamerican icon neil diamond about *caroline kennedy* which is a mainstay of boston sports specifically and usamerican events across the country generally, is also a song only brits know is just hysterical you’ll have to drag me off the internet by my fucking toenails i love it here

Do they even like Led Zepplin over in the UK? I always thought of them as the band that made baseball walk-up songs

“there are no videos of anyone singing sweet caroline at a sports function”

The middle of the 8th inning at Fenway Park would like SO many words, just for a start 🤣🤣

(2023.06.13)

okay but have yall seen the trailer for the 2006 criterion reissue??? ( music by @dungeonmastersconsortium )

obligatory welcome guide for redditors

A lot of the guides I've seen don't actually seem to understand how reddit works in comparison to tumblr so

finally, from the bottom of my heart, fuck u/spez

Author: Brenda Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pete “Maverick” Mitchell/Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw/Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw/Pete “Maverick” Mitchell/Jake “Hangman” Seresin Characters: Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, Javy “Coyote” Machado, Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, Robert “Bob” Floyd, Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia, Reuben “Payback” Fitch Additional Tags: POV Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Bets & Wagers, Dagger Flight Group (Top Gun: Maverick), Jake Thinks He Has All The Cards, Getting to Know Each Other, Established Relationship, eventual polyamorous relationship, Flirting, Banter, Everyone Desires Maverick Carnally, Eventual Smut, You Come At The King, You Best Not Miss, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Established Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw/Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Angst and Feels, Introspection, Javy “Coyote” Machado is a Good Friend, Polyamory Negotiations, Emotionally Mature Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, (Trust Me I’m Just As Shocked As You Guys Are About It) Series: Part 2 of All Bets Are Off Summary:

“Let’s make it simple. I bet Mav won’t even need to touch you to get you into our bed.”

In which Jake makes another bet with Maverick and Rooster - and gets way more than he bargained for (and way more than he dared dream).

these are so fun to make

i made two of this one because I couldn’t decide

alex newell and j. harrison ghee make history as the first out nonbinary acting winners at the tony awards

why is every phil dunster interview i read always exactly like this