Maybe I should watch Good Omens so I can experience an onscreen gay love story where I am not gaslit to believe that it’s not real and doesn’t end with one immediately descending into superhell and never spoke of by his counterpart again 😗
"Let me prophesy in my old age: the Sleeper is getting up the strength to wake completely, and colonize what it finds. I fear! God! How I fear!” Abigail said, “Teacher, please come and take up residence with us. We have beds—we keep watches,” but he cried out: “And miss out on the chance to die? I’ve been wandering these halls at three o’clock in the morning, saying at the top of my voice, ‘It would be terrible to be shot,’ and the Sleeper still does not come … It is dreadful to be shown a monster’s pity.” He pivoted abruptly and took another long suck at the bottle. “Your swords will not rend its armour,” he said, with his back turned to them. “Its weapons will ruin your flesh. It will not stop until it has subsumed its quarry. And it would only acknowledge the blade without … all we have are the blades within. It has seen them and made them dull. There is no hero left among us … and I say, hooray!”"
The Sleeper...Guess who else is sleeping but also getting up the strength to wake completely (Alecto)...Guess who else is a monster (Alecto) (allegedly)...Guess who else is dedicated to relentless pursuit of their quarry (Alecto the Fury)...The Sleepers
The blades within are the souls of the cavs inside the lyctors
And who or what might the blade without be? (John)