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John Berkey, for Return of the Jedi, 1983
Art by Jo Rioux
Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.
People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"
Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.
I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.
#Good omens #Crowley
Hello Mr. Gaiman,
First of all, HUGE fan of Good Omens (both the book and show). I don’t remember the last time I’ve been so enthralled by characters and a story. I absolutely adored Season 2 and have been recommending the show to all my peers. It’s also inspired me to get back into my art, so I thank you for that.
Okay, on to the question: I’ve been on my n’th rewatch of the show and am a little confused with something regarding how Crowley talks about his fall. Throughout the whole first season he’s going on about how he didn’t mean to become a demon and only ever asked questions, hung out with the wrong people, etc. But then in season 2 he talks about remembering fighting in the Great War (regardless of whether he recalls poor Furfur being there). I feel like knowingly fighting in a war against the forces of Heaven must come with the expectation or at least consideration of being cast out or punished in some way. So why say “I only ever asked questions” when he evidently did much more?
I'm not sure that Crowley is the most reliable of narrators when talking about his Fall.
Be safe, people.
Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?
Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death!
Why does Heaven hold everything to ransom?
In the Job intervention we see that Heaven actively allows Hell to commit evil acts against a loyal man of God. The cruelty of these acts are obvious to Crowley and Aziraphale and presumably Hell too. Yet the institution of Heaven is completely out of touch with why destroying a person's children might be wrong, even if you give them new children afterwards. Still worse, Heaven only sees fit to reward Job with new children if he continues to love God after seeing his own children crushed under a building. We know that this does not track with the idea of the side that's supposed to represent goodness, truth and light.
It is the same with Armageddon, Heaven promises everlasting peace but at the cost of all creation. Hell certainly has its part to play, of course , but you'd generally chalk the destruction of all creation up to being an evil thing, so Hell's really just doing their job. Heaven on the other hand holds the world ransom for the sake of testing it.
With Heaven operating in this way surely Hell becomes a default state with anything that Heaven offers as an alternative qualifying as the greatest good despite just being a bit better than eternal torment. As Metatron points out to Maggie, given the choice between coffee and death, people will choose coffee every time. It seems that Heaven uses good as a means to control humans (and Angels) rather than as ends to itself which many humans understand it to be.
Of course it's all ineffable, but I don't think that Aziraphale was wrong to want to go and make things better in Heaven (and presumably down here too), rather than abandon creation to its whims. But that doesn't make his euphoria about being invited back any less spooky. I hope he's okay up there, he is my fave.
Just playing about with the Gif thingy.
Finding a silver lining in Aziraphale getting sweet petty revenge on on those smug angels in heaven now that he's back as queen bee.
2023 does not have to end being the year of overpriced tuberculosis tests. DanaherCorp can make it the time for five dollar tests for all.
Hey, I don't know if you could help, but my class is getting shut down in school for Literature and the Arts, which is storytelling and mythology and fairy tales, if you could please sign our petition, my friends and I all love your stories and want to write too. Even if you can't sign or show anyone, thank you.
https://chng.it/CbNdWCvtw9
Happy to share.
I think this gif and its headline deserve their own post
“What you are basically deep deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself” - Alan Watts Love this poetic take by the philosopher Alan Watts on our inseparable connection to the Universe.Â
Do YOU Know What These Human Hand Gestures Mean?
Rick and Morty Book One has a recording that plays when you open the front cover
Christmas presents I made for everyone :)
Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil
Milky Way over ShipwreckÂ
What happened to this ship? It was carried aground by a giant storm that struck the coast of Argentina in 2002. The pictured abandoned boat, dubbed Naufragio del Chubasco, wrecked near the nearly abandoned town of Cabo Raso (population: 1). The rusting ship provides a picturesque but perhaps creepy foreground for the beautiful sky above. This sky is crowned by the grand arch of our Milky Way and features galaxies including the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, stars including Canopus and Altair, planets including Mars and Neptune, and nebulas including the Lagoon, Carina, and the Coal Sack. The mosaic was composed from over 80 images taken in early September. The adventurous astrophotographer reports that the creepiest part of taking this picture was not the abandoned ship, but the unusual prevalence of black and hairy caterpillars.
Credit: Sergio MontĂşfar
honestly…the best part of 2016