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#yes

normalize reading a book without caring if the spine breaks, folded cover, misspelled annotations and just ruining the book completely as a form of art

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finished reading 'we were liars' and I called it from Chapter 14 but I was still so surprised with what truly went down!!

#we were liars #e lockhart

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Had the most delicious watermelon pineapple rose lemonade today

#lemonade #moodboard #aesthetic #summer

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Haven't been obsessing over my two favorite shows recently coz life got quite busy what about you?

#good omens #our flag means death

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sometimes I wanna reply “bitch me too” to my mutuals posts but I’ve never talked 2 them so they might not see it as friendly joking so i just dont

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Well, there really is no need for that kind of language.

#he looks so bitchy i love it

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things show only fans might not know and that upsets me

crowley:

in the book, when aziraphale suffocates the dove at warlock’s party, it’s CROWLEY who takes it from him and resurrects it (i’m forever bitter they changed it bc it’s so understated but such a lovely character moment)

there’s not a lot of physical description of the characters but we know that crowley is young, has dark hair and good cheekbones, wears snakeskin boots that may or may not be his feet, and can “do really weird things with his tongue” 👀👀

also when he gets annoyed/stressed, he starts to hiss

when he’s in his flat freaking out about the impending apocalypse, he tries to calm himself down by alphabetising his collection of soul music. yes really

he didn’t take credit for the spanish inquisition. in fact, he’d never even heard of the spanish inquisition until the commendation arrived, at which point he went to check it out and was so horrified by what he saw that he fucked off to the nearest cantina and got drunk for a week

is an absolute little bitch of epic proportions. like in the show a lot of his lines are delivered all cool and sassy but in the book he’s literally just bitching about everything all the time. with the paintball bit, when aziraphale says he knew crowley was always secretly nice, he doesn’t flip out and push aziraphale against a wall, he just bitches some more, because he bitches all!!! the!!! time!!! “oh lord heal this bike”? bitching. the only times he’s not bitching is when he’s throwing a temper tantrum or gleefully pranking people

“nothing but dust and fundamentalists”

he slept through almost the entire 19th century because it was so boring, except for 1832 when he got up to go to the toilet

‘… Bee-elzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me… “For me,” murmured Crowley. His expression went blank for a moment. Then he gave a strangled scream and wrenched the on-off knob.’ ;a; my poor son i just wanna protect him

back in the day, the most popular fancast for him was benedict cumberbatch. this was exactly as awful as it sounds

the reason there were so many queen songs in the show is bc there’s this whole bit in the book about how any cassette that gets left in a car for longer than two weeks morphs into a best of queen album. crowley had a bunch of eclectic tapes (he likes velvet underground, joy division, and handel) in his car but they turned into queen. and at the end of the book?  ‘Crowley inserted a cassette labled “Handel’s Water Music”, and it stayed “Handel’s Water Music” all the way home.’ MY HEART

his CANONICAL NUMBER ONE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION AS WRITTEN BY PTERRY AND GAIMAN is to accept that superglueing valuable coins to the sidewalk then watching events unfold from a nearby cafe is not proper demonic activity

aziraphale:

his hands are apparently plump and very well manicured

wears a camelhair coat. fandom has also collectively decided he wears argyle sweaters even though this is never once mentioned in canon

upon meeting aziraphale, most people get three impressions: 1) that he is british 2) that he is intelligent 3) that he is gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. he’s not british and angels are technically sexless unless they really want to make an effort… but he is intelligent

at the start of the book, he hasn’t sworn for six thousand years. the first time he swears in six thousand years is “bugger”. the second time is “oh fuck” when he gets shadwell’d

after he gets shadwell’d he doesn’t immediately possess madame tracy. instead he bodyhops across the world and at one point possesses an american televangelist on live tv and proceeds to deliver an amazing smackdown of the commercialisation of religion then ends with “gosh. am i on television?” i love him

HE’S the one to suggest killing adam. mr stuffy angel’s NUMBER ONE IDEA for dealing with the problem is to MURDER AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY

his bookshop is actually just a place for him to store his collection of rare books (including a collection of bibles that have misprints like the wicked bible and the standing fishes bible). he doesn’t actually want anyone to buy them. so he opens at weird hours, makes his shop constantly smell bad, and gives people death stares whenever they step inside to make them leave as quickly as possible.

also mobsters keep threatening his shop to try to make him leave. he thanks them politely, shows them out the door, and they are never seen again.

he does his taxes on an ancient mac, which is the only technology he’s ever adopted, and they’re so scrupulously accurate he’s been investigated five times because the government’s sure he’s getting away with murder somewhere

along with benedict cumberbatch as crowley people used to fancast him as martin freeman. 2013 was a dark time.

absolute asshole. complete stinky bastard man. he’s SO CRUEL to crowley it’s unreal, and he doesn’t even realise half the time. when he admits at the end before the showdown with satan that “i’ll have always known, deep down inside, that there was some good in you”. not there was some good deep down inside crowley. that DEEP DOWN INSIDE AZIRAPHALE was the knowledge that crowley had some good in him. my heart!!!!!!!!!

miscellany:

back in my day we didn’t have any of this fancy ineffable husbands shit. we called it air conditioning and we liked it

read @irisbleufic‘s crown of thorns verse. its the ultimate go fic

IT’S CANON ACTUAL CANON that after the book crowley and aziraphale moved into a cottage in the south downs together so uhhh yeah They’re Gay Karen

i love them so much. im begging you please read the book it’s so good

#wow #reading the book just went top on my priority list

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Coffee cake

#coffee #moodboard #aesthetic #cafe #dark academia #tea

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#see this is the kind of detail i love

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Ed brushing away his hair hours. Are there any more instances? I want to collect them all.

#why do i think this is less ed more taika

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I checked on Twitter. No-one else seemed to have heard of “Gaimanite” either.

Most people said they called themselves “Person who reads Neil Gaiman’s stuff” or variants thereof.

Gaimanite is (it was suggested by lots of people who are not me) apparently the glowing alien mineral that temporarily removes my writing powers and tames my hair.

#it sounds like a fancy version of marble

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are you really a steddyhands fan if you don’t like edstede less than the other two pairings

#wait is ed×izzy lowkey canon? #i didn't think so #but im lowkey confused

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#this made me sad

Going insane over Ed painting the cake topper again.

Because, like...we know Ed hates himself. This is the night before his suicide attempt, where a primary motivating factor is his belief that he's fundamentally unlovable.

But...so much care went into painting it. The original cake topper is nicely painted but kind of plain in comparison.

Ed carefully changed the skin and hair color, added a beard, and even gave himself a little bit of red lipstick. He added black accents to the dress - which I keep going back and forth on if he wanted that to look nice specifically or if he was going for something with how drippy and asymmetrical some of it looks, especially near the bottom of the skirt. But he added little swirling/flower designs on the skirt, too, presumably just because he thinks that looks pretty.

It's so much a fantasy of what Ed wants. He's painting himself into a dress he likes and can imagine himself wearing for the wedding he's longing for.

And even though Ed is so convinced he's unlovable and this is something he can never have...there's a part of him, I think, that is able to see himself as someone beautiful. And I think this one little self-indulgent gesture is one of the few times we see that part of him shine through.

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Blackbeard

#ofmd #ofmd ed teach #edward teach #our flag means death #blackbeard #ed x stede #quick sketch

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Crowley in a chair

#good omens #crowley #crowley x aziraphale #good omens brainrot #aziraphale x crowley #fanart #good omens fanart #quick sketch

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Happy Tuesday

#coffee #moodboard #aesthetic #cafe #dark academia #tea