What exactly is happiness according to a person held captive by the wretchedness of life? It's the feeling of running in a field of sunflowers with sunlight falling on your frail arms and self, making you fall in love with your own brown eyes and hair. You find a sense of belonging within yourself. During the day and night, you're caring for yourself as you would for someone you love the most. Being your own soulmate and finding solace in the way life turned out to be. You find yourself in a state of acatalepsy and yet it doesn't bother or scares you anymore because you've found your own home within you. And you give this kindness and happiness to others and your loved ones. This, thus, grows day by day because of the people nurturing their love for you. And most importantly it is the feeling that you know yourself that you're enough.
Something I just realized about Good Omens. One of the (MANY) reasons I love the story.
In the southern US, it's fairly common to hear things in double speak. We're moving away from this with younger generations, but it's still relatively common. Think about the phrase "bless your heart." On the surface, it's a positive statement. But it can be used in so many ways, many negatively.
My aunt once sent me a card which read :
"I had such a great time taking your kids to the ballgame the other day." Which meant "you're welcome even though you didn't send me a thank you note."
I replied with:
"yes, kids are wonderful and should be cherished and protected." Which meant "I have not forgotten the abuse of my childhood and I will never let you treat my kids that way. You should be grateful I let you take them to the game."
Now, how this pertains to Good Omens. The two main characters have been using double speak for literal millennia. BUT, they use it to show love. By Aziraphale's carefully worded phrases and Crowley's little actions. By Crowley's halting conversation because he can't face his feelings. They aren't really able to even acknowledge it themselves, and YET we can read between every line some integral inner meaning of "I love you", "I care about you", "you matter to me".
We, as a fandom, have done that in many many posts.
It's healing to see double entendre used for a positive light. It's absolutely beautiful and heartwarming. It makes me think perhaps there's hope.
As many have said, there's little difference between positive reinforcement and censure depending on context.
Words, as we have seen especially in this fandom, have power. Be careful how you use them.
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I absolutely ADORE it. You write for all my favorite fandoms, even some that most people aren't in. Thank you so much for the work you put out.
Thank you 1nsommia for taking the time to leave me such a kind and sweet message! It really brightened my day! 😊
As a writer for fandoms not widely popular (like The Mummy, Inkheart and Tim Burton movies) it means the world to me when people show love on these posts.
If a person sincerely asks you to forgive him for his sinning against you - kindly forgive him every time he sins and love him staying close to him. When a wicked person pretends to be asking you for forgiveness so that he can then do what he wants, constantly entangling you in his affairs that harm other people spiritually - forgive him seventy-seven times and after that love him from afar and pray.