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Send me an emoji!

💌: I’d love to send you more messages and asks but you make me nervous!

😊: You’re sweet. You’ve made me smile before.

🙏: I’m a little afraid that you’ll unfollow me.

🔪: I’d hate to get on your bad side.

😶: I’m honored that you’re even following me tbH.

👾: Your theme is awesome!

🌄: GO TO BED.

💉: Talking to you or seeing you on my dash makes me feel better.

😐: I don’t understand half the things you reblog but I support you anyway.

🌑: You come off as cold, impersonal.

👒: You come off as very friendly!

🌃: I’d like to spend more time talking to you.

🎭: You sure do get into a lot of drama…

😄: I can always count on you to like/reply to my personal posts.

🍥: Your aesthetic is very streamlined. It’s clear you’re picky about the stuff you reblog.

🍬: You’re sweet, but I feel like I know very little about you as a person.

🐟: Your blog isn’t quite my “type.”

😅: I often worry about upsetting you or scaring you off.

😇: Every single interaction we’ve had so far has been positive.

🐱: You’re cute‼︎

🌱: I’d love to get to know you better.

☔️: You seem unhappy.

😃: I love seeing you in my notifications!

🐸: You act goofy.

💻: Are you ever not online?

❄️: Your BYF struck me as kind of harsh, but I followed you anyway.

😆: You’ve made me laugh out loud before.

💔: You’ve disappointed me before.

📺: We have similar interests!

🔈: We have similar tastes in music.

🌊: You have a lot of personality.

😀: I would consider us friends.

🎀: We have similar aesthetics!

🍳: This is an egg in a frying pan!

🎉: I get really happy when I see positive personal posts from you, even when I don’t fully understand the context!

😈: I know your secret~

🌴: I’m jealous of you.

✨: Could you, like, chill a little bit maybe? Like in general? Please?

🎶: I associate you with a specific song or musician.

👟: I feel as though you’re out of my league.

🐚: I find your blog very calming.

👀: I’ve vagued about you before.

🍰: I might recognize you if I ran into you on the street.

😂: I’m comfortable around you.

🌈: Sometimes I see your selfies and think to myself: “I’m gay.”

🌹: I wouldn’t mind going on a date with you.

😓: I’ve talked to you before and it made me a nervous!

👑: You’re vain.

📝: I know a lot about you just from following you on Tumblr.

🌙: You’re beautiful.

🍓: You remind me of someone…

😒: I honestly don’t know why I’m even still following you at this point.

😳: I’ve learned things about you that have surprised me a lot!

🐭: Please be kinder to yourself.

😑: -__-

👔: I think you’re someone who takes themself very seriously.

🍉: I wish we lived closer to each other.

🍭: You confuse me.

😮: I wish I could give you some advice.

💐: I have a crush on you.

😁: You’re a little awkward, but I find it endearing.

💕: I love you‼︎

👍: I like you. Just, in general. I think you’re a genuinely good person.

#yeah it can be more than one #i wouldn't choose only one either #though of course there might only be one thing #just fyi i'm going to bed now #tumblr #tumblr games #tumblr ask games #ask games #emojis

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 1 hour

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In 2015 I got 2 opportunities:

Yes. Same TARDIS, only two years later. 😂

But that same year I also got the chance to get to see Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet in London (and he was not out sick 🤪), and I did find the London TARDIS:

I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

#tardis #fedcon #fedcon 24 #fedcon 2015 #doctor who #whovians #benedict cumberbatch #hamlet #london tardis #shakespeare plays #shakespeare #william shakespeare #london #theater #theatre #london theatre #nikku #nikku's face

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 hours

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*young ones talking among themselves about how a man has to be a "real" man and a woman a "real" woman*

Suddenly:

"Nikku, what do you look for in your dream man..." *insecure pause* "... dream woman ... partner?"

I almost congratulated her, I think that was huge for her. [I had never given her any sign of my inclinations other than wearing some pride pins (progressive pride, genderfluid, you are safe with me rainbow & trans), and I kept my answer to her questions deliberately ambiguous.]

Then:

"Don't you think our trainer is kind of cute, WHAT DO YOU SAY, NIKKU?"

No way to evade, so I answered honestly, "yeah he kinda is". (He really is. I suspect he's also pretty conservative, so there's a good chance that I might rather want to beat him up not fuck him if I got to know him better.)

She, not even trying to disguise it: "Yesss!"

I do not think that meant she was happy to be right about everyone liking our trainer, I think she thought she tricked me into telling her I was straight.

I spent the rest of the bus ride debating with myself whether or not I should explain to her that liking men doesn't exclude liking women.

It seems like there is hope, though.

(Btw, we also learned that there is a trans woman in the existing team. And while the language used in the conversation was kind of ... questionable ... the general understanding was that that was cool. So the good intent is there, and no malice. 🤷🏻 They might actually do more harm to cishet people than ones who are gay or trans, because they seem to think that there are different rules to apply.)

In my job training there are a lot of very young people, but also a few my age (and those are all single parents), I am the only one with an academic education, though, and / or any inclination towards geek/nerd culture, and so far none of them seem to be any kind of queer.

They quite often talk about relationships, raising children, and love, dashing out the most conservative takes imaginable in the process.

And I am just sitting there, staring into my phone and going 'ohdearlord make it stop I AM NEITHER CISHET NOR BINARY ENOUGH FOR THIS CONVERSATION'.

#nikku #irl #queer #nikku@work #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 17 hours

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In my job training there are a lot of very young people, but also a few my age (and those are all single parents), I am the only one with an academic education, though, and / or any inclination towards geek/nerd culture, and so far none of them seem to be any kind of queer.

They quite often talk about relationships, raising children, and love, dashing out the most conservative takes imaginable in the process.

And I am just sitting there, staring into my phone and going 'ohdearlord make it stop I AM NEITHER CISHET NOR BINARY ENOUGH FOR THIS CONVERSATION'.

#nikku #nikku@work #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 1 day

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(via @screwtheprinceimtakingthehorse & @stormy-seasons)

Yes! Thank you.

Dear Good Omens fandom friends,

can we please agree to keep our sand in our sandbox?

We have a great sandbox. It's big and full of people building castles and villages and roads and stuff. Some of that is big and complicated and detail-oriented, some of it is strange and weird and funny, some if it is off-the-rails in any and all senses of the word. All of it is lovely. Some of it tries to rebuild Neil Gaiman's sandcastle as faithful as possible, either to build onto it or to try and find out where the secret rooms might be hidden. Some of it looks a lot like his but has its own little turrets and courtyards and gardens added everywhere. Some of it looks completely different and doesn't try to hide it. Some of it isn't even meant to be taken seriously and just exists to make people laugh. But there is so much of it that everybody can find something for themselves; and if we don't we just find a free space and start shifting sand ourselves.

Neil Gaiman has his own sandbox. He has built something brilliant and beautiful in it, and he is currently busy building another storey onto it. He doesn't want anybody to see the new part before it is finished, and I know that sometimes the excitement of finally wanting to see it is hard to bear.

But that is why we have our sandbox. To make our own stuff until he reveals the rest of that sandcastle we all love so much. To pass the time, to have fun with it, to meet new people and find more brilliant little sandcastles. Never again will there be as much creativity, as much activity, as many people around in this sandbox than there is now, in the time before the last bit of his castle is revealed. I am sure most of us will be delighted and surprised at what he will have created. Some will be disappointed because they were expecting his sandcastle to look different, some will be disappointed because they saw a castle in our sandbox they liked much more, but most will be delighted because after all we came up with he will still have managed to surprise us.

Our sandbox. His sandbox.

The two are separated for a reason.

Because if you keep throwing sand into his box to get his attention, or keep trying to get a good look at what he is doing over there, or keep yelling at him to look over to ours and tell you which one looks like the one he is trying to make, or which one is the best, or how stupid one of the others looks (last one would also make you a dick), you are quite simply risking the new part of his sandcastle to collapse. Or for him to have to remake it in a way he didn't plan to, or simply dislikes, or that we will all dislike.

And just because he is glad we are enjoying ourselves and proud that his work inspired us to create all these things, doesn't mean he wants to see (all of) it. Some things he definitely wouldn't want to see; other things the creators definitely don't want him to see.

I'm proud of our sandbox. It's huge. It's brilliant. It's creative. It's collaborative. And it's ours.

Have fun in it. But keep it apart from his. Keep out of his. And keep him out of ours. Stop trying to drag him over. He has stuff to do. Important stuff. Stuff I, for one, am waiting very impatiently for.

And he will never show us the parts of the castle that aren't finished yet, no matter how often you ask. And just because he is making an effort to be funny about it doesn't mean we aren't annoying him when we keep asking.

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 1 day

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After this one I kept digging for all my other TARDIS pictures. Here are the next ones from 2013:

I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

#tardis #fedcon #fedcon 22 #fedcon 2013 #doctor who #whovians #nikku #nikku's face

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 1 day

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Hi,

2,6,10,11,14,19 for the ask game!

Hello, thank you for the ask! 😊💙

(2) do you have any merch?

Yesss, I do. 😁 Apart from the 2006 paperback, the 2019 kindle edition, and the illustrated version of the original novel, the audio book, the full cast production audiobook, the 2015 BBC 4 Radio dramatisation, also the kindle versions of the script book and the tv companion, and the first season on bluray, I have Aziraphale's mug and some pins I found on Amazon for my bag and my jacket. Though I would really like the official pins from discworld.com, and I would also love to have a poster of the show for my new flat, but I haven't found a good one yet.

(6) who is your favorite side character?

In the book and season 1 it would have to be Agnes Nutter herself, that crazy old bastard. 😏 But now that we have season 2, I would have to add Muriel. She's like the angelic version of Arthur Shappey from Cabin Pressure. 😁

(10) have you ever imagined or created a crossover with another fandom for good omens? which one, and what was it about?

No, I'm not a big fan of crossovers. I feel they only really work if it is already a shared universe.

(11) what is (if you read) your favorite type of human au for good omens? (ex. coffee shop au, surgeons au, plant store au)

I have to admit I do not like AUs, at all. But if I had to choose a setting I would probably stick as close as possible to the original, like Soho bookseller/unsuccessful rockstar or something like that.

(14) what is your favorite good omens-coded song?

If we put aside all Queen songs that are mentioned in the book or played in the show, as well as "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", then "Love of my Life" by Queen is very appropriate for the Final Fifteen™️ (who knows, maybe we'll get it in season 3, but I personally think the moment's over). For season 1 I like "Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle, and also Hozier kinda hit it out of the park with "From Eden". I recently discovered "As The World Caves In" by Matt Maltese, which is totally Aziraphale & Crowley during the Apocalypse, and "Drink with a Friend" by Mustard Service, which has Azi & Crowley drinking in the back of the bookshop / going to the Ritz vibes.

(19) have you ever read the crowley therapy fic (the most-read fic in the fandom)?

No.

The Good Omens ask game - give me a number

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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What does it say about me and my life that the mere fact that yesterday two really good things happened (I bought the Macbeth ticket and Neil Gaiman liked another one of my posts), which made me really happy actually, also makes me really, really anxious that something bad is waiting in the wings to catch me unprepared. 😰

#nikku #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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I am glad you all (including Neil Gaiman) like my sandbox post, but I am afraid that like all the other posts with similar content it is a case of "speeches that convince the people already on your side and bore the ones that aren't". 😅

#good omens #neil gaiman #good omens fandom #good omens fans #fandom #fanworks #creators #fandom sandbox #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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Ticket bought

Flights booked

Hotelroom booked

Train (to the airport) - reservations not yet open

Requesting paid leave for that time not yet possible (for me)

😁

#david tennant #macbeth #the scottish play #harold pinter theatre #shakespeare plays #shakespeare #william shakespeare #theatre #theater #london #london theatre #west end #nikku

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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Also, as airline/airport staff I approve of ticket prices going up because you have no idea how many overworked and underpaid people are working on one flight alone and on top of that having to deal with passengers who think their super-duper low discount price somehow included the right to claim them as their own personal assistant as a "service".

But as someone who has to get to London in November on a budget but with at least one change of clothes and a pair of pyjamas, I'm going 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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Ok,

who else has a ticket for November 7th?

I will be on my own and it's more fun when you can meet up with people before and after.

(And I swear to God if David Tennant gets sick again that day... I'm blaming Georgia. And I will set up an Instagram account just to yell at her for not taking better care of her husband. That option didn't exist last time 🤪 But I actually think him having a caring wife - not to mention the loving husband 🤣 - now will improve my chances of actually getting to see him this time. 💙)

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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Dear website-designers, if you offer credit card payment on your site but design the order process in a way that it kicks you out the moment you minimize the browser, like, for example, to AUTHORISE PAYMENT in the credit card app, that IS NOT A GOOD DESIGN CHOICE. (Looking at you, ATG Tickets. 👀)

Thankgod for PayPal.

(Yes, I got one.)

(Not the seat I would have preferred, though, because of exactly that stupid shit. But at least I got high blood pressure on top of it for free. 🥵)