Chaos

black ballerinas have my heart

The American Ballet Theatre is debuting its first same-sex pas de deux tonight, performed by Calvin Royal III and João Menegussi. A snippet of the performance has been circulating on TikTok (above), and it’s so beautiful, I was moved to tears. I tried to capture the tenderness of these thirty seconds in charcoal and pencil as best as I could. (Below.)

The scary world of Richard busy

Credit to: @sodiumfreak @breha @stepdaddean @sundryvillains @autisticandroids @omniscientoranges

Metanatural part eight of ?

[image description: a printed out flyer with the picture of a sleeping grey tabby cat on it. It has text on it that reads:

Muffin disclaimer

So you’ve ordered a muffin! We hope you’re up for a challenge.

Our wobbly tabby cat Bea REALLY likes muffins so there are a few things to be aware of if you have a muffin in the cat area.

- She WILL climb you to try and get your muffin - She is not very good at climbing so she will claw her way up your body - It WILL hurt - She WILL NOT give up - She may try to eat the muffin right out of your mouth - She is not allowed to eat muffins

You may pick her up / move her away if needed and if you’re really struggling, come and talk to us and we will help. No matter how much she wants to, it is still very important that you don’t let her eat any muffin as it will make her sick.

Good luck and we hope you enjoy your muffin experience!

She may look sweet and innocent but we promise you she’s not

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Bea the muffin thief has come upon my timeline again and I am obliged to reblog.

HE’S OK but my heart isn’t

#The best shoemaker and midwife

I've not come across this yet and I really want to put it out there.

Listen. Hear that?

I don't hear anything.

That's the point.

No Nightingales.

Now. We all assumed it's a call back to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. And I do think it still is (and why that song plays later).

However. I think there's more to the use of Nightingales than that.

There is a certain bit of literature out there, a very RELEVANT bit of literature actually, that uses Nightingales or, more specifically, the lack thereof, as a warning.

A bit of literature that both of them are probably quite familiar with as they canonically have attended this particular bard's performances.

The tale of the most well known literary star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.

Act 3, scene 5. Dawn is approaching after our lovers have spent the night together.

Romeo must leave Juliet's room and get out of dodge before daybreak or risk being killed. Juliet, tries to convince him it is not yet morning and he should stay with her a bit longer.

Here is the scene:

Juliet tries to convince him the birdsong is that of the nightingale, a night-bird, and that they still have time to be together. Romeo replies that it is "no nightingale", but a lark, a bird of the morning, and that he must "be gone and live, or stay and die".

They tarry a bit longer as the scene continues until Juliet realizes the actual danger of him staying with her, and urges him to go. He does, but first

"Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll descend!"

A bit on the nose, that.

Now, i am a die hard believer that there was more going on in that last 15 than meets the eye, and I eventually plan to post about that, as well. The possibility that there was some non verbal communication going on between the lines. I am also very solidly of the belief that the Metatron story we heard from Aziraphale was that of an Unreliable Narrator. Something was said or implied in that conversation that we don't know about.

But, the No Nightingales line, which at first seemed like a heavy hitting angst-hammer and call back to the end of s1, on rewatches seems...odd. A bit 4th wall, even.

Unless...there was a different intent with the use of the phrase. Specifically 'Listen. No Nightingales.'

And then we get the Nightingale song playing in the Bentley right after Aziraphale gets in that lift.

We know that Satan, other demons, and Crowley himself can speak through the radio.

And we know from s1 (Aziraphale's escape back to Earth when discorporated and his possession of Mdm. Tracy) that if demons can do something...angels can, too.

The song playing right then, I believe, was Aziraphale's attempt at comfort.

I drew this back in 2020 and then never posted it. Idk either. Bonus:

(Don't ask why I made this a gif, I DON'T KNOW)

Fluff for our weary, broken hearts🥺

Aziraphale, you scandalous slut

The legacy must be kept alive, hashtag give Aziraphale the Fuck Shit Up Jacket 2023!!!!

Crowleys so cool crowleys so mysterious this and so hot that - Crowley is a hot fucking Mess.

He did not realize he felt romantic attraction towards Aziraphale for 6000 years ‼️ Crowley thanks cars when he crosses the road, his favorite tv shows are Golden Girls and The Good Place, he makes silly faces at his Angel, he doesn’t want to hurt people, he talks to his car and his plants, he’s down so bad for Aziraphale that he runs his their bookshop for a day, lets him drive his their car and follows Aziraphale around as he Does Shit and Crowley simply watches, smitten. Crowleys idea of evil is glueing coins to the ground and making a Big Road look like a sigil - how fun! He went to a Gas Station only once because he wanted James Bond Bullet Hole Stickers for the Bentley. His name and phone number are in a Call Center Database. He jumps at every opportunity to save Aziraphale. The Bastille in France? No problem let me just stop time for a few moments, Angel. A Church during WW2 because Angel wanted to do some Good but fell into the evil hands of Nazis? Sure yes let me just do a chicken dance down the the aisle because my feet burn because this is literally consecrated ground - what did you say? You don’t like my new name, Angel?☹️

Crowley is so silly and goofy, he’s a mess and most of the time definitely not suave. That Kiss with Aziraphale was most probably his first kiss ever. He’s not the sexyman seducing people throughout history you think he is

David Bowie posing for Terry O’Neill with American novelist William Burroughs for an interview published at Rolling Stone magazine in February 28, 1974.