Setting aside the obvious massacre of the villagers and the guilt Maria would have felt over that alone, I think it’s brilliant that what probably pushed her over the edge to the point where she actually felt the need to completely bury her past was the violation of a mother and child.
Maria’s life as a hunter was, likely in her mind, dedicated to protecting innocent people, especially those as vulnerable as mothers with their infants.
But to oversee the dissection and brutalization of a god-mother with such an obviously humanoid face and child….to watch the infant itself be ripped from the womb and its umbilical cord severed….yeah, of course she didn’t want anyone to see that. I can’t even blame her for fighting to hide it, because that is just horrendous.
But at the same time, the concept that what forms Maria’s nightmare is a loop where she fights to conceal the truth is fascinating to me. She was only free when her sins were revealed and she could stop fighting to hide them.
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I do gotta say tho, even tho I’m mad at aziraphale because he’s being a terrible boyfriend like what you said about the “I forgive you like” because WHAT. But also I really like the way the show really demonstrates the underlying cruelty of heaven and it’s angels. Really shows the hypocrisy of a group of beings who are supposed to do good, especially aziraphale who really buys into the heaven propaganda, who hurts people, particularly the person who means the most to him. Because like you said he fully just takes advantage of that devotion Crowley has for him. Insane, this shwo makes me INSANE
I missed this anon and yeah! The angels were one of my favourite parts of the season, and I think the strongest element aside from Neil Gaiman deciding he's just a simple man who wants to put his otp in situations. They are deeply awful and I kind of love them. They are the exact kind of moralizing hypocrites who are callous and cruel precisely because they think being on team good means everything they do is justified and it's actually impossible for them to be in the wrong (they're angels! is it even possible for them to do the wrong thing?).
but!! To me, they also seem like they're basically kids? Obviously they're not literally children, but there is this very consistent reoccurring joke about how childish/sheltered/immature they are. Muriel is the most obvious example, but the archangels come off like bratty twelve year olds to her sweet little kid.
Gabriel is basically teenager in love flipping off his family as he runs away with his backstreet guy. Uriel is constantly picking at Michael, Michael is playing at being in charge like it's a game, and it's ridiculously easy for both Aziraphale and Crowely to trick them obvious half assed lies. They're not allowed to ask questions! The Metatron treats them like badly behaved kids out past their curfew. At any point an old man with a beard may pop up to scold them and send them home, and they're all scared of doing something wrong by his standards and getting in trouble with this guy who is pointedly not God but who lines up exactly with the pop-culture idea of god the father, and who offers Aziraphale, among other things, a respite from the hard work of figuring out what the right thing to do is for himself. It's fine! You don't have to question the belief system you were born into or make a painful break with everything you've ever known! Aziraphale has had six thousand years on earth to grow up, but the other angels have been sitting in a sterile white box playing "i'm not touching you" games with each other and filing paperwork.
And I think that's extra interesting because this season also really emphasizes:
Heaven has Institutional Problems
Aziraphale isn't the only angel who's unhappy in heaven. Gabriel and Muriel were both completely miserable. They just didn't understand that they were unhappy because they'd never experienced anything else.
Angels who aren't Aziraphale can change and grow! There's very explicitly Gabriel being changed by love and Muriel growing up a bit on earth, and from a more fan-theory angle there's also Jimbriel, who I think is probably basically Gabriel minus the war and six thousand years of playing referee for Michael and Uriel while unleashing an assortment of plague and calamities on earth because that's God's will! Buck up champ.
We also get Gabriel and Beezelebub talking about how their underlings basically live for Armageddon, "if you can call that living." This is so bleak. They've all been on a six thousand year time out just dreaming of the day they get to beat the shit out of each other until they feel better, but it won't work because eternity is just more of the box.
Anyway I think it's going in a distinctly eden adjacent direction. Aziraphale is going to tempt those angels with knowledge and the capacity for change. I have veered so far from your ask anon i'm sorry you're right heaven really went all out on sucking this season & while Crowley and Aziraphale are both fucking it up Crowley refrains from being spectacularly cruel to Aziraphale about it and Aziraphale should learn to return the favour. I forgive you!! I forGIVE you. I forgive YOU. "you can be an angel again" is actually a worse thing to say than "you're a demon. i don't even like you." when he finally picks crowley over heaven i'm going to lose my mind.
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Baby Laura is so cute that I sometimes forget she’s the reincarnation of an old man
LOOK AT HER?.???
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brooklyn najera for @latteaki's too hot to handle! 🍒
oh man - i originally had so many ideas for this challenge, i'm not gonna lie. but i thought about it and i thought it would be fun as hell to throw my personal gameplay sim, brooklyn, into the mix! she is as mid-2000s yt girl sim as she could possibly be, obnoxious tats and all, and i love her to death!
and yes she's the gp sim that's marrying jacques for inheritance money but shhh shh he doesn't need to know
full name: brooklyn najera
age: 27
aspiration: master mixologist
hood: san myshuno
traits: party animal, outgoing, hot-headed
favorite drink: long island iced tea (basic ass bitch the game chose this for her and i love it so i'm includin it)
this girl has no ulterior motives going into this show, that's for sure. brooklyn najera's life up until now could fit nice and snugly into the "going with it" category. no decision she's made has been one she can confidently say she's made herself - from her career to her apartment to her little pomeranian boomer, everything in her life has either fallen into her lap or just sort of... worked out.
while her ultimate goal in life is to make great drinks that open people's minds and palates, brooklyn doesn't have much of anything else in regards to the whole "life" thing figured out. she has friends, sure, and she loves going out on the weekends, who doesn't? she's had her share of hook-ups, of failed connections and heart breaks, and has ridden through them all with a shrug and a tip of the glass.
but what better chance at feeling like she's actually done something for herself than signing up for a... dating... show? is it a dating show? is it a competition? is it even fair if the host is so hot? whatever the case, brooklyn wants to find out for herself if a show like this could actually be legit -- there are only so many failed meet-n-mingle dates a girl can go on.
(oh, and did we mention, this girl fell for mortimer goth and was surprised when he didn't leave his wife for her? she's Gone Through It.)
this girl literally finished the "mix 10 drinks" aspiration by herself, her number one autonomous action is making drinks (and then consuming them)
knows all the words to the opening of "where's my juul"
don't ask her about her stint as a minor crimelord, it was only for like four weeks and she didn't even go half the time okay
will genuinely be your best friend behind the bar, and believe me if you're nice you will get the best drinks ever
will go live on simsta when she's crossfaded and mix custom drink requests
for some reason has a level 10 fitness skill and will kickbox absolutely anything. if there's a punching bag she will beeline for that thing.
i just want to say that i am so excited to read this challenge regardless of whether or not brooklyn is chosen! the rules are fantastic and i can tell you've put so much time into planning this! i can't wait to see what happens!!
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