#ALL the humans would have been safe

[goatbeard-goatbeard]

so Aziraphale says “I know, but I have a suggestion” right before Crowley escorts the humans out of the ball. then seems a bit disappointed when Crowley says “I’ve got this”

ever since the season came out, I’ve been wondering what his idea was, but couldn’t think of what it could be. was he thinking of the ritual circle? was he thinking of his halo? but then why was he trying to interrupt Crowley?

just saw the scene again

he was thinking of hiding the bookshop

#ALL the humans would have been safe #he wouldn’t have had to use his halo #but Crowley left with the humans then went to heaven #and Aziraphale had to fall back on some much worse plan Bs #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens 2x05 #good omens meta #good omens analysis #good omens speculation #good omens theories #good omens theory #Aziraphale looks like he’s flailing because he is #if Crowley had actually come back right after escorting the humans #they could have done a joint miracle and had everything sorted out #25 lazarii #also slightly losing it over Aziraphale having a Suggestion and Crowley missing it #of all people who you would think would check the Suggestion Box #they had to have written it as ‘suggestion’ rather than ‘idea’ on purpose #it’s such a deliciously painful irony

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on? #what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'? #what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world? #Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman? #enquiring minds (mine) want to know

[apple-grass-and-smiles]

Very cool and not heartbreaking at all for the PJO show to emphasize that Percy is an outsider not only because he's new to the whole demigod thing, but also because he doesn't know the rules of being a traumatized kid with all the daddy/mommy issues possible

#Percy all the time: wait I treated them with kindness and didn't do anything bad #why am I not being treated kindly in return #absolutely everyone else: why on earth would you be entitled to basic human decency? #(and for the kids it's 1000% down to trauma and how they've been raised #so many of the foster kiddos I work with do the same thing #they either have to be so good and perfect (Clarisse and annabeth) that they can't be ignored which works until the parent moves #the goalpost and they're left in the dust with a perfect report card that doesn't get them a second glance #or they have to be so bad that their parents have to intervene (Luke) because #and say it with me folks #bad attention is the same as good attention if it's the only kind you ever get!! #watching this and revisiting TLT specifically has been crazy because they're kids who have been removed from home at their core #that's what our main cast of demigods are #all the year-round kids are removed from home and Percy's ability to go back home and love it just as much as he loves camp is something #that separates him throughout the series #he has a safe place to land during the TLO summer and he's using it and no one else seems to have that #Percy has a stupidly hard life but he has a home base to go to and most of those kids can't even comprehend that as an option #Percy's home is his greatest strength and it'll also forever be something that sets him apart from his peers #I just have thoughts on pjo and foster kids guys #silence emily #percy jackson #pjo tv #I'm arguing this isn't even a spoiler because it's been a running theme. fight me

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I feel like I'm missing the crux of the man vs. bear debate because it's so silly. of course I would pick the man, because neither my Sig nor jiu jitsu is going to take down a bear

#- HK #NOT because I in any way feel safe running into a man alone in the woods #I would not be alone in the woods #my mom and I were just talking about how so many people go missing in Natl Parks #because if you were a human trafficker looking for victims where would you go? #surely not a vast expanse of unpopulated and densely covered wilderness to which lonely people routinely vacation whaaaat #like I'm sorry- I love men -but the girls picking the man solely bc they want to defend men in this sitch are out of their minds #if you're going up to a strange man alone in the woods to say hi then you have a death wish #x #and yes there is something to be said for the fact that men can have evil intentions that bears can't have #which is true of women too but men have the physical capacity to carry it out #and bears can Only maul and kill you; they can't rape you or kidnap you or sell you overseas #i hate to break it to both the feminists and the anti-feminists but #this world has never been safe for women to move freely and it never will be; all we can do is take precautions both civil and individual

[resident-gay-bitch]

little rich boy sirius who gets disowned and can barely survive without his expensive brands and the basic human need to eat at least once a day meeting the entirely too generous james potter who just falls for the vanity and sincerity of the reformed rich boy and decides that once sirius stops caring about brands and status and rich boy things and just cares about what matters in life he decides to spoil his boyfriend to pieces because he’s secretly sitting on a fucking fortune

#idk i just think it’s funny #like james would find sirius when he’s struggling with money because he’s so bad at saving and prioritising his spendings because he’s never #had too before and so james would teach him how to do all that stuff and emotionally support sirius through it all and sirius just falls in #love with this beautiful guy who’s just so generous and who teaches him so many things and finds value in kindness and sincerity and #compassion and all that jazz and james falls in love with sirius helplessly because he might be stuck up and vein and kind of selfish and #is stuck up and cares all too much about status but he’s trying so hard to be better and he finds empathy because sirius got kicked out for #the worst reasons because he’s always been the black sheep of his highly cultist christian family or whatver and he’s also outwardly queer #and james decides that he wants to give sirius everything and loves the way he looks in expensive makeup and designer faux fur coats and #heels and divine jewellery and all that jazz but makes sirius sell it all and learn what it means to be human and not rely on money and #status and brands and stuff and sirius learns what it’s like to be decent and in touch with humanity and only then does james take sirius on #a surprise luxury holiday for his birthday or something and then just buys him thousands of dollars worth of all these glamorous looking #things and sirius is like omg what the fuck jamie and then he just becomes sirius’ sugar daddy because he can’t help himself but they’re #also in love and much better people because of it and when sirius buys things now it’s not because of brands or because they have big price #tags like he used too. he now buys things with james’ credit card he keeps in his own wallet because he thinks he’ll feel pretty in them or #because he thinks james will loose it if he sees sirius walking around in it or if he sees a really cute toaster that sends him into a #frenzy that has him spending all way too much on an impromptu kitchen renovation but james doesn’t care because as long as his boyfriend is #happy and actually paying attention to the price of things and calculating the best value and taking james’ opinion as well and just being #happy and safe and accepted in his new home and family here with his jamie #please i think they’d be so cute ugh!!! #prongsfoot #bambibelle #drabble #fic idea #marauders #james potter #sirius black #jay talks

[flowercrowngods]

always so funky to be reminded that your parents might love you but they don’t actually like you very much

#wasn’t i supposed to leave that feeling behind with puberty? #anyway mama decided i have no christmas wish #the sad little guy who can’t get nice things for themself also doesn’t get to ask for them now during the ‘ask for things’ time of the year #it’s not about christmas it’s not about material things it’s about looking me in the glassy eyes and asserting ‘you have no wish’ #when wishing is all i ever do you just never create a space safe enough for me to voice them #blah #not st #i’m so so sorry that whining is all i ever do anymore and i shouldn’t be so sad about this over and over again #i’m just. so small. tiny. and insignificant. i might not have been there all day and 99% of the conversations would have happened the same #i wanna stop feeling this way but i think in order to stop feeling this way i need to stop wanting to be loved and seen and listened to #by my mom. and i don’t think it’s entirely human or possible to stop wanting that. so oh well #i don’t know if i give them reason to like me. maybe i don’t. this might all be on me actually. #if she knew i’m crying about this she’d roll her eyes and say ‘you know how i am. sorry you misunderstood me’ #why do the blows keep coming? when’s it my turn to rest?

[jesterguy]

I have so many posts in drafts about Palestine and I still just don't even know what to say or where to start

#how do i talk about my extremely zionist early education #how do i talk about my birthright trip at age 13 and the impact it had on me as a jew and as a human on this planet #how do i talk about my childhood rabbi reaching out the kids i grew up with offering support for those mourning the loss of history #and also those mourning the lives of colonizers (who ultimately are jews seeking a safe space after hardship at the great expense of others #my fucking guts have been clenched for days i feel like a shell #my mom is more worried about sending my transfem sister to college on her own in the inner city now not bc she's trans but bc she's jewish. #not to mention i always say im 'raised jewish' not actually jewish bc im not! im not jewish ive bever had a conversion. #what fucking right do i have #all i know is my upbringing and my ability as an adult to unpack it. #and how many things that i was taught are WRONG #i didnt get a christian brainwashing a got a zionist brainwashing #anyways all this to say theres always a lot of regard for Palestinian suffering on here as there should be in these situations #but young jews have a fucking weight on them right now like you just would not believe #not that its equal to or greater than the trauma of being palestinian. but just that its not mentioned right now #thats all ive got to say. idk yall are welcome to ask me more about this i just had to spew some of it #might delete #cam talks #if it isnt clear im fully pro palestine and my goal isnt to be any sort of devils advocate here. im just in a very complicated sort of pain #if i posted that email from my middle school rabbi here he would be doxxed and hate crimed. #and you know. i dont like the guy. but the fact that i know thats what would happen tells you a lot.

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

I just really keep going back to the intimacy of songwriting (and performing). And how twisted that could get as a diaristic child songwriter who also was participating in the pop culture industry.

#And a lot of the experiences that Taylor was exploring and growing as a human #were tied to songwriting (and songwriters) over the years. #Songwriting #Something something vulnerability #Also am thinking a lot about the phrase “declassified” in smwel #And how horrific it would be for her to have been unable to write/release music about Something #For legal reasons (which TTPD safely avoids) or for personal agreement reasons #Like being muzzled #And the ways that the re-recording project has been so empowering in that way. Which all seems connected idk #C #Smwel #intimacy

[carrotpiss]

🐰🧡🐻

#in stark contrast to most of my personal posts this is about me being happy and gay #because i need to just get it out my system bc otherwise i am just going to grab a friend by the shoulders and scream (in joy) in their face #i am dating someone and its really really nice and sweet and cute and like nothing ive ever experienced before #and instead its like every tiny little dream about this kind of thing ive managed to hold onto despite every experience otherwise and ahhhh #the lack of focus on just sex or sex appeal is so nice its like there but as a side thing so its nice and i dont feel like an object #i feel like a human person with thoughts and feelings and interests outside if that and feel safe in that and feel safe that everything wont #just be discarded if i dont want to do that like i feel like boundaries and stuff are an option! without jeopardising everything #and el likes me as much as i like them and wants and sees and communicates that they want something long term and ahhhhhhhh #i just want to cry like holy shit this is everything ive ever wondered about like i have spent so long wondering what this feeling would #actually feel like and its so good and so indescribable and ahhhhhhh #waking up on monday night and seeing them in my bed and cuddling me was just so nice i felt wanted i felt... loved #this all seems so out of left field still i still feel like i just never saw it coming but its so welxome and nice and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #my pessimism is still there but its less loud now its more learning to accept this may not be perfect forever but letting me enjoy the now #crouch speaks #it feels so nice to not be scared and to feel secure and ahhh #also it made me laugh El remembered me hitting on then at the Dgoals release show making them blush lol #i only remember the time i hit on them later at the groles show so its funny i pretty much used the same line twice and it still worked #i cant wait to see them again i cant wait to hold hands in public again i cant wait to be idiots who keep blushing too hard and accidentally #kissing eachother on the nose instead of the mouth because we are stupid and gay and pathetic about it hahaha #just ahhhh i could gush forever how perfect the 2!!! dates weve been on were and the fact they want more and more and ahhhhh #this is so lame i know i just haven't experienced anything remotely like this before and its just... wild #like wow holy shit what on earth i have been so increasingly miserablely depressed and insecure from the shea stuff last year and then this #just absolutely removed all of that i actually feel like a human person again with value

[caffeinatedopossum]

I think I'm glad I survived but I don't know if that's true, all I know is that if I had to relive those years a second time, I wouldn't be able to make it. At least the first time, I never knew what was coming next, I never knew how much worse it would get.

Knowing all that would happen, I don't think I could have reasoned with myself that it was worth it. All I can do is thank my past selves for giving me the opportunity to have the wonderful life I have now.

#trauma posting sorry #just been having a lot of these kinds of thoughts lately #kinda sinking in how bad it was #god just thinking about is terrifying #i dont know how to tell myself im safe and it wont happen again when i could never prevent it in the first place #what strength do i have that i didnt have then? its not fair #its not fair that i can protect this wreck of human now but i couldnt protect that vulnerable child #i wish i had known but i also wonder if that wouldve just made it worse #like if i had known my humanity was being stripped from me by everyone i loved and who said they loved me #if i had known that it was wrong and deserved better #i wouldve only fought back more #but i dont know if i couldve won #i like to think if that were possible i would have done it. i like to think that i did everything in my power #but i honestly dont know #all i remember is feeling too tired to keep trying. too tired to care. and too confused to make sense of anything

[curiosity-killed]

This is the last grumbling I’m going to do about my birthday I swear BUT I’m still just mildly flummoxed by my call with my parents last night where like. It’s my birthday. And I have COVID. And they insist on FaceTiming and then just….vent about our extended family and how hard their life is, never once asking a question about *my* life to the point that I finally gave up and while my mom was doing her “and well now what other family news is there…” hmming and hawing, interrupted her to be like “I got offered a trainee position with this dance company” and then they just were like “😶😐 oh. Well. Are you going to take it? You do work full time too and need to have balance in your life…” instead of saying a single positive thing

#after that they did finally ask a LITTLE about my life but like #basically just if I’d been drawing recently 💀 #I just would love one (1) person in my family to a) be at all interested in MY life instead of just talking at me all the time #and b) to be like. dude congrats. I know that’s not what you wanted/were hoping for #but it’s still a big achievement and we’re proud of/happy for you #I do not understand why it’s so hard for my family to just like. be normal fucking humans #when someone tells you they were offered a position in a dance company you say congrats 😭😭😭 Jesus Christ #also like I do a lot of shit!! I have so many passions that would be very easy to ask about #even in a super cursory way #like shit dude ask how writings going instead of what weather I’m having #it’s always a safe question #and like then my mom was saying how she felt bad that I had just #ordered delivery cheesecake #because she’d thought about seeing if that was an option #and I was like ??? literally idgaf. when was the last time I actually expected someone else to do something for me for my birthday #or even like #take care of me? #I don’t get sick often but there have been a lot of times where I really could’ve used some fucking help #and just #had to handle it #I have been handling it since I was 12 yr old at most #personal #anyway it was a fine call just like #exacerbated existing frustrations #and I am a little prickly rn about friends and family being. not great. #I don’t need flattery and shit #but I could use like. one person in my corner #that’s not fair I do have a friend who consistently cares about my shit and everything #I just also wish my family ever did that

[roboticutie]

You cannot resist the whole of the military industrial complex, especially the US American sector, without holding compassion and sympathy for veterans.

#sentences that would explode too many young left leaning but deeply conservative pilled people on the spot #ignoring and silencing the 'undesirable leftovers' of war is 100% in alignment with the military's recruitment goals #the majority of vets are anti war and are the ones who warn us of the dangers and militant tactics best #and those who are pro war still deserve to be heard and kept safe for themselves and others JUST AS MUCH as the anti war vets #bc honestly there's pieces of how military propaganda works that you will not learn from those who it didn't work on (drafted or family #pressures made them enlist moreso than the actual messaging) and those who broke free of it #why does it take hold of folks? how does it keep them entrenched and loyal to the military cause? you can only really #learn those intricacies by respectfully observing and listening. not silencing. #it's hard to help people you disagree with on such a serious issue live safely and in peace but you have to. and you have to understand #that they were made to suffer by someone given inordinate amounts of authority and the goal to train to kill. the training alone has been #enough to send more recruits home with PTSD than you think. they're all sick and have been taken advantage of. yes even the assholes. #it does not require forgiveness nor agreement to learn from and to respect veterans #they've gone through something horrific and that's just what the complex wants. to throw them away. do Not help make throwing human #life away any easier for them. #my text posts

[merrilark]

hm.

// world news for ts

#man ppl are really. irritating. about the sub situation. #i haven't really been following it but it makes me raise my brows that people are so quick to meme a tragedy #and cheer for the suffering and likely deaths of strangers. #idc if they knew the risks; there's a kid on there and he undoubtedly believed he would be safe. and tbh? even if there wasn't? #its... disturbing to me that people would be so gleeful about people potentially dying because they hate them. #how quickly we stoop toward the levels of people we hate bc we feel that we're somehow justified. it makes me sad. #people can be angry. they can feel however they want. but idk. the casual sadism isn't great. #whether you like them or not those are living human beings and human beings deserve to be treated like humans. #will probably delete this i just feel sad about how people are acting about people dying. i'm allowed to feel that. #actually no im not going to delete this. some of the stuff i've seen is downright ghoulish. #feeling disturbed over such behavior isn't virtue signalling; it's genuine concern and a belief we all deserve a modicum of respect #when tragedies happen. when people die. they should have been guaranteed the bare minimum of safety by oceangate and they weren't. #it's a stupid and senseless death of people who believed they would be safe and weren't. not a freaking celebration. #anyway.

[kidfur]

i have so so many stress dreams about kittens.. if my mom picks up another street kitten next year too im gonna LOSE MY MIND!!!!!!

#wishy speaks #i love cats and kittens but im like WAY too worried and concerned for their health at all times #and we do Not have the money to take more kittens to the vet #my mom is also hyperemphatic to cats but she worries less once theyre actually safe in our house #i do Not #i worry MORE when theyre our responsibility #im very happy to see tiny growing up and getting bigger bc that means i dont have to worry abt her as much #i Begged mom to take her to the humane society she would have been adopted in a heartbeat #but mom just Wouldnt #and i love tiny i love her so much. but im tired of being worried about kittens

[sunshinemarauder]

so... I opened twitter today (which was a mistake) because unfortunately, I happen to follow many taylor swift-related accounts, so I got to see lots of awfully homophobic things and just wretched behavior! wonderful way to end the day. all thanks to that freaking RS article because apparently, even a hint that queerness exists and is okay is too much for people. i honestly wonder if people realize how homophobic they are being or if they think they're doing the right thing. either way, it makes my stomach turn

#i don't know about you but i highly doubt an incredibly famous celebrity who has expressed her support and allyship to the lgbt community #(SEVERAL TIMES) #is bothered at all by some people connecting queer themes with her music #imagine thinking that taylor 'gay pride makes me me!' swift would be ok with or support the doxxing and slur-calling of her queer fans #it honestly breaks my heart to see it. sometimes I think that the world is a safe place to be gay and then I remember - #that I've been tucked away in a bubble and the real world is really fucking homophobic and if swifties will be up in arms defending- #taylor swift's straightness then what sort of things do they think about me? (someone they have no personal affection/ admiration for) #i also wish she would say something because this is NOT the first time queer fans have been doxxed (kissgate! bettygate!) by swifties #and she's an AMAZING ally isn't she #it isn't about whether she's queer or not at the end of the day. it's about human decency #idk. sorry for ranting but i just had to put this here. i hope that taylor hasn't been seeing this backlash. #not hp

[dan-crimes]

I don't personally enjoy death in my stories for one because I have no experience with it personally and for two because you can't torture a character anymore once they've died 😇

#and I mean like perma death not talking abt any afterlifes and the afterlife in my story is based on DnD type deals #but even harder to get to like people can't just die and come back like nothing it is a PROCESS and NOT an easy one and also #not commonly practiced because it is rare to get it right (to be more direct it HASN'T been gotten right yet it's just a theory atm) #I never talk about my story or character OCs BUT I guess here's a taste of it #anyway I don't really kill off my characters but if I do experience a death of some sort then I probably will start writing abt it #but for now my characters are relatively safe also this isn't to say I'm unwilling to write abt death I just don't feel equip to handle it #in terms of a story revolving or somewhat revolving around a grieving process of some sort of dealing with all the different feelings #I dunno that stuff so I wouldn't write it as of right now #torture on the other hand #OH a good example for how I view the whole death thing in my story is kinda like Adventure Time #like that episode with Ghost Princess like ghosts and other paranormal stuff exist and are prominent #and they do go and meet with death thru a portal but that's like the surface level afterlife you can't really hit the deeper levels #unless you are dead and no one can see that stuff unless they are dead like when Finn dies we finally see what it's all like #as for like the levels and stuff I dunno abt all that I have like a very vague concept of how that would work but it's kinda like #beyond human comprehension y'know? that's how I view it and like death is PERMANENT and it's not suppose to be messed with #or bad things happen 👻👻👻 #there are even more things abt it like little exceptions to the rules but the rules still apply even still it's just like #living on borrowed time or being forced to like #well I don't wanna get too much into that tho that's like super spoilers #but man I enjoy thinking abt it