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Hi?? I have heard of good omens and an artist I like is into it, but can you gimme the run down on what it’s about? (Also- where would I watch it?)

Amazon Prime Video.

It's about stopping the apocalypse (first season) and running a bookshop (second season).

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I named my bard character Total Snack

#bg3 #bg3 bard #bg3 tav #bg3 screenshots

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the vampire lestat #somehow I’m reading it since last year haha #I’m surprised but it’s quite soothing

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silence

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oh he's the finest of them all i'll say that

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So uhh is The Doctor gonna ever put on pants or is this his new thing 🤣🤣

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Consider: Isaac Newton also thought the Doctor was hot and that's why he was so flustered he couldn't recall the word "gravity" ten seconds after hearing it, thereby changing the entire course of history and physics. In this essay I will -

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I'll probably have to rewatch the The Star Beast to fully settle into my feelings regarding the first special, but my initial thoughts...

It had A LOT of heart, I know RTD has his flaws, but he has this uncanny ability to inject an insane amount of emotion and...I guess humanity is the word I'm looking for, into his writing

Lots of funny moments especially Shaun walking in to the absolutely chaotic mess the Doctor and the Meep unleashed on the Noble household lol

Catherine Tate will forever have my respect she's an unbelievable actress she hits every. single. mark. funny or emotional she can deliver just as well as DT does

The Wilf references 🥺

I did, however, have a problem with the pacing of the first episode I'm sorry to say. It took quite a while to get to the DoctorDonna portion and it was resolved very quickly, too quickly for my liking but that's just my opinion. I liked the idea of the metacrisis passing down to Donna's child, but I do feel a little ??? about how they were able to just let it go

It was campy at parts but also very emotional in the way I enjoy from RTD's first era, it had a few things I wasn't crazy about, but I also think all three specials are linking together so I'm looking forward to rewatching it after they have all aired to reassess my feelings...I'm guessing the man Donna was talking about in the beginning with the boxes is the Toymaker?

#same thoughts

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The TARDIS was like yeah this hyperactive bitch needs space for the zoomies. AND SHE WAS RIGHT!!!!

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Crowley vs. The Tenth Doctor - Parallels Good Omens Season 2 - Part 3

Season Two’s [ Part One ] [ Part Two ] Season One’s [ Part One ] [ Part Two ]

Happy 60th Anniversary Doctor Who!

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Things that can defeat the tardis, apparently

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Rating: NOT Cute!

This is NOT an appropriate environment for a Sea Witch! Staying on solid land for too long causes Sea Witches severe stress. Experts say that Sea Witches need to spend at least 12 hours a day at sea, although in my experience they start showing signs of distress at anything less than 16 hours a day. This Sea Witch has clearly spent weeks at a time in an environment that is fundamentally hostile to him. I can appreciate that his captain is providing him some enrichment in the form of musical performance, but Sea Witches belong in their natural environment and there's no amount of substitution that will make solid land a safe and comfortable environment for any Sea Witch.

#ofmd buttons #our flag means death #ofmd

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+ also this from @the-moon-loves-the-sea’s tags:

I’m increasingly worried by all the people on my dash calling themselves insane for loving stories in the way humans have loved stories our whole history. “The brain rot is spreading” — you mean you were changed by art? “I’m not normal about this” — you were moved by it? You felt human emotions about it? “I’m about to be so annoying” — you’re going to talk about art? You’re going to be passionate? You’re going to think deeply about it? You’re going to feel love for the work of someone’s soul? You are not a consumer and art is not a product to be casually used! You are a human and stories are the beating heart of our humanity! You must feel everything and you must know that it is normal!

#multifandom #fandom

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Izzy Hands and broken promises

Now that I've had a day to digest the ending, I'm still in the "Izzy should have lived" camp but can better understand why it soured an otherwise great season finale for me.

Keep reading if you like rants about storytelling and queer catharsis from people with a Bachelor degree's worth of overconfidence and strong opinions.

Bar a handful of icks (Zheng Yi Sao getting outsmarted by Ricky, etc), I loved this season and don't see a wealth of problems that would not have been solved by two additional episodes. That said, Izzy's death is one of the things I can't see making any more sense if they had more time to explore his journey because his journey is what problematizes djenk's stated reasoning for his death.

In that one interview (and to be fair, we only have a brief window into his intentions as of right now), djenks positions Izzy as two things, specifically to Ed: a mentor and a father figure. And yeah, mentor figures often die. Their student surpasses them, or acquires a new narrative drive from their mentor's death to continue a quest.

Neither of these things feel like a fit for Izzy and Ed's dynamic nor their respective arcs. Neither does "father figure". Izzy was a love interest. He was described as a love interest. He confessed love to Edward. His mentor relationship was more established with Stede, if anything, who is an unreliable narrator and may well have been lying about Edward claiming that Izzy taught him everything he knows.

The journey that Izzy went on this season was parallel to Ed and Stede but it was with the crew. It's one big queerplatonic love story essentially, of him finding himself as an individual through the support they give and the space they hold for him. Season 2 Izzy Hands is, among other things, a love letter and showcase of the queer community's power to revive hope and purpose.

Izzy has the world's messiest breakup with Ed when they're both at their worst, and his healing begins with the crew of the Revenge. He only interacts with Ed again after bonding with, and growing through, the crew. So yes, it absolutely makes sense that his journey would proceed towards making peace with/saying goodbye to "Blackbeard". But it does not make sense that it would end there, with his death.

Djenks says that they're pirates, and people die. And yeah they do. But in the hand-wavy logic universe of OFMD it feels dismissive to say that about the death of a major character. And odds are, David "Izzy is my favourite character" Jenkins is not dismissive of Izzy, so that leaves tragedy.

My issue with that is, season 2 Izzy is no longer an innately tragic character. If you told me at the end of season 1 that season 2 would end with Izzy dying in Edward's arms telling him to go forth and change and accept love, I would've gone "that's sad but it makes sense." Because it would have, at the time. Season 2 Izzy departed from the trappings (so I thought) of the doomed fate of the bitter old repressed grimdark pirate when he put on the gold-painted wooden hoof and embraced his new role as First Mate of Stede Bonnet's gay floating kindergarten.

His death feels like a betrayal because, in a show that does queer characters Really Well, Izzy's arc feels like a broken promise. To say nothing of the politics of having a character attempt suicide, begin to heal, then say "I want to go" before dying, I wanted Izzy to want to live. It really felt like that was where his character was going, where his character was supposed to go.

Death for a character who is showing all this potential is only a natural ending in a tragedy. It isn't presented as peaceful or to punctuate another character's growth. Season 2 Izzy Hands had ceased to be reliant on and subject to Blackbeard. If anything, he was tied to the crew, who all stood back and felt much more removed from his death than they probably would have been if the show had more time to show their emotional responses. Having him die in Ed's arms, apologising for fueling Ed's destructive tendencies and encouraging him to be himself and accept love, feels like he got shunted off his new arc and back onto the old one. It feels like he went through all of that just to take a last-minute huge step back and re-subjugate himself to this character who does not reciprocate his devotion.

It makes me wonder if his death scene was one of the first ones written, before all that energy was spent giving him a new life and new connections and new, you know, new reason to live.

Anyway, that's how I feel about it. TL;DR Izzy's growth should have included LIVING HIS HARD-WON NEW LIFE and if I ever see djenks i'm going to cross the road and avoid eye contact.

#this this this #ofmd #ofmd s2 finale spoilers #ofmd izzy #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death

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— Jenkins in an interview with Vanity Fair

Dude, what?

You kill one guy for the sake of the other’s daddy issues?

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