#pub offerings

[littlepawz]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but just open that bottle of beer you’ve been saving for a special occasion. You deserve it.

#beer #bubbly milk #ale #effervescent #bubbly drinks #beverage #drinks #gif #animated gif #fizzy #pub offerings

[drconstellation]

The Ineffable Ducks

What's with all the ducks in Good Omens that Crowley seems to be inordinately fond of? Turns out, they do have a narrative purpose, they're not just in there as a running joke about Crowley's fondness for the animals of Earth.

They appear in both S1 and S2, and get mentioned in several seemingly random places. Like, really random. There are quite a few in St James Park, where the ducks live, where the international spies also clandestinely meet, where Aziraphale and Crowley meet on several occasions, and where Crowley and Shax have a meeting, exchanging information in S2E1.

Ducks also get referred to here, when Aziraphale suggests they use humans to search and spy out the missing Antichrist, but Crowley insists it will be near impossible because suspicion slides off the boy like water off, what ever water slides off, because he has an automatic defense system.

The he remembers the ducks(!) later in the Bentley when they discuss using their respective networks of highly trained human operatives (Shadwell and the Witchfinder army), and Aziraphale asks if Crowley has a better idea than his. "Ducks!" Crowley suddenly utters.

The ducks that are always there, that you see but don't see, gathering bread crumbs, when any kind of surveillance or secret spy work is being discussed.

Nah, I thought, it couldn't be a sly ref to this famous cartoon by Larson, could it?

Aziraphale and Crowley are always afraid that someone is watching, or listening to everything they do, from both sides. I mean isn't that partly why we got the ending we did in S2, because they have had to be so covert with their communication to each over the centuries they've forgotten how to speak plainly to each other?

Heaven has definitely been watching...

And Hell certainly noticed Crowley's act of kindness in the Edinburgh cemetery, swiftly summoning him to Hell for punishment after his kind deed on behalf of Elspeth.

Then when the duo meet in again 1867 Crowley wonders if "ducks have ears" before declaring they must do - that's how they hear other ducks. So its no surprise that when Crowley asks Aziraphale for holy water that he writes the request on a piece of paper to hide it from those invisible ever-present watchers they know are never far away.

When we come to the start of S2, where Crowley is slouched in St James Park once more, reading the Tadfield Advertiser, and yelling at the Azerbaijani secret agents for feeding the ducks bread. Crumbs, it was alright to do this in the book, and S1, why is wrong now? Has Crowley suddenly become woke and caring for the ducks? Nah.

There's a lot more to it than that. I realized this is the missing Grain offering from my post about altar offerings (see The Altar of Eccles Cakes) in S2. A Grain offering represents a voluntary expression of devotion to God - or the other side you're supposed to be aligned with, in this case.

Shax is part of this scene, discussing the latest news from below, and she mentions some special intel that Hell has received, from their own secret squirrel network. Of course they would meet in St James Park to discuss this, along with all the other spies. While Shax tries to get some intel out of Crowley about what might be going on in Heaven, because she knows he has contact with a certain angel who owns a book shop, Crowley responds by refusing to show any devotion to his former side at this point, and isn't going to give any information away that could be useful. He also doesn't have any intel at this point, anyway, but he's not going to give that away either! Heaven and Hell are toxic, and no one should be going anywhere near them, in his opinion. So stop feeding them that devotional bread!

After Shax asks what they should be feeding the ducks, he eventually says "Frozen Peas. It's good for them, they like it."

The short period of "peas" since they stopped the impending Apocalypse has been enjoyable, and good for Crowley and Aziraphale, but the forced meeting with Beelzebub later that day soon jolts Crowley out of any complacency when they indicate that the "generalized understanding" Crowley thought they had with Heaven and Hell after the body swap to leave them alone, the one Aziraphale-as-Crowley negotiated, while asking for a rubber duck, no less, was looking very shaky and fragile indeed.

And one more random duck ref to discuss.

I was inspired to write this section by lalalunamoth's post calling Muriel a duckling imprinted on Crowley, and of course I did not save it, did I, and a search does not bring it back up again (found it!), so if you're reading this, or know that post, please let me know! I read it, and thought, cute, but nah, then realized that Muriel was sent on a surveillance mission to Whickber St to ascertain the truth of Aziraphale's 25 lazurii miracle. And she did act as the eyes of Heaven, writing up some reports, called Crowley "grice," then followed him around during his escapade in Heaven just like a duckling following a grumpy gander drake while he did his own surveillance measures in a Tactical Turtle neck, channeling his best imitation Sean Connery voice (have you noticed that as well, people?)

No, no, the op wasn't wrong - those big cross ducks, er grice geese, they make good guard dogs, no?

With special mention to Crowley acting as a surveillance duck just prior to this, and Mr Brown doing his own "spying out" of Aziraphale.

To finish this meta, there is one other figure who notably offered the ducks bread, in the book. This passage, which is surely relevant to S3, but didn't appear in S1, shows another character still devoted to God in a way. Lets give Death the final word:

Crowley: "Maybe it's it's all part of a great ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything. Some great big test to see if what you've built all works properly, eh? You start thinking: it can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire. And don't bother to answer. if we could understand, we wouldn't be us. Because it's all - all - "

INEFFABLE, said the figure feeding the ducks.

"Yeah. Right. Thanks."

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #shax #ducks! #ineffable bureaucracy #the fear that somewhere somehow a duck is watching you #Larson #always watching #frozen peas #grain offering #altar offerings #muriel #big cross ducks #witchfinder army #shadwell #tactical turtleneck #guard dog geese #grice #the pub #mr brown

[pauls1967moustache]

#where’s those longass tags I wrote about him being my plumber/dj mate in the smoking area of a nightclub #same logic #looks like he puts seven pints away on a Saturday night #looks like he’ll offer you a smoke and when you tell him you don’t smoke he’ll say ‘good on you lass. and don’t you start!’ #looks like he listens to niche techno but will go absolutely nuts if he hears come on eileen at the pub #looks like when you go home with him his toilet only has one roll of toilet paper sitting on the ground and no hand towels #the way I know at least 8 of him personally

[haharuspex]

phew, okay, pathologic oc time!!

“I don’t gather. I don’t sing. I don’t dance. That’s for others, but for me - it's to hunt, to pretend, to scavenge. Cattle is content, it knows its purpose, herbs don’t resist when I pluck them, but the rest... Oh, odonghs hate me. Herb brides, too. They tore off my tail once and I haven’t bothered them since."

"Hunter", a steppe creature, is rumored to have crawled out of rivers so deep that their bottom originates in Suok's guts. He (it, she, they, whatever, it doesn't care) took on a more or less humanoid appearance when it first met people, because he hunts best when it imitates its favorite prey. That’s why Hunter resembles herb brides in some ways - he loves to feed on them, because he secretly envies their talent to communicate with Earth. He "steals" this talent after consumption, but it doesn't stay for long.

He does not enter the Town just yet because he's lowkey afraid lmao, but engages in barter on the outskirts. He can exchange twyre of any rarity and the organs of odonghs/herb brides for lemons. He fucking loves lemons. He doesn’t even eat them, he collects them as a kind of treasure, and in his underground lair they somehow, magically ig, don’t rot - they just chill there like a hoard of citrus gold.

His true form is a long black half-snake, and his poison, at worst, can paralyze and kill, and at best (when processed properly) can become an anesthetic or a medicine to boost immune system.

his hair is snakes and twyre and certain daredevils are eager to use it as an ingredient for a homemade snake wine lol

#pathologic #мор утопия #pathologic oc #my oc #my art #how else do i tag it lmao #i've had this idea for a loooong while and finally sketched smth #basically a different version of my already existing oc but make it PATHOLOGIC #also the daredevil in question is andrey #ofc #he traded brown twyre with him but also Wondered how much else this creature can offer #might or might not sketch smth about it later #there was also an idea where hunter kinda... ends up working in andrey's pub #as a herb bride of sort but not really whatever #he attempts to eat clients at his first day anyway lmao #andrey shoves his jaws on a bucket lets the venom spill down and maybe keeps a couple of snakes from his head as a trophy #or for snake wine #whatever whatever whatever a lot of thoughts not enough time to record and sketch all of them

[sojutrait]

just reread the series and this comes on my recommended… we are in a panopticon

#dl #soju shut up #don’t read this series it’s so bad (i love it to death) #let me make this relevant to this blog somehow uhhhh sims sims sims #today i offer niche self-pub book content… tomorrow who knows…

[amarriageoftrueminds]

The thing about Peggy is, she doesn’t even like Steve? 

She patronises him. She sexually assaults him. She stalks him. She shows him compassion only for as long as it looks like her efforts to attach him will be successful, but the instant it looks like her efforts have failed she violently attacks him and sneers at his dreams.

(How could she be so vicious and so dismissive so easily, if she actually liked him? Shouldn’t she be heartbroken? It’s not the wounded relationship that matters to her; it’s the wounded pride. Steve could’ve dropped down dead, at that moment, and she wouldn’t miss a wink of sleep.) 

She dines out off having slightly known Steve, despite never dating him, and yet is enraged when people point it out. 

(Why is the ass-covering patronage of every other powerful man in her life acceptable, except his?)

She refuses to acknowledge any of his loved ones (shouldn’t they be beloved by her, too?) because she is so desperate to establish herself as the only legitimate connection to him. And yet she colludes with his sworn enemies, across multiple universes, and even lies about it (omits to tell him) to his face, when his life is in danger because of it. 

(How could someone do this, if they actually liked him?) 

Peggy thinks she is ‘not like the other girls’ who throw themselves at Steve, just because while she is throwing herself at him she also talks to him like he is a child (because that’s how she talks to all men.) 

She thinks she is actually better than Steve, since he is a man, and she thinks all men are essentially terrible and that this is feminism. She must be better, even though she acts just like the worst of men, because a thing only counts as bad if a man is doing it (eg. sexual assault) and only counts as good if Peggy is doing it (eg. if actual-feminist Daniel Souza dares to speak up for women in the workplace, she will tell him to shut up. Likewise, her turning a gun on Steve is #Girlbossing but Red Skull and Alexander Pierce doing it is Evil.)  

This is why, despite Steve being an internationally famous decorated war hero, a film-star and a heartthrob and the world’s only supersoldier, while Peggy is an unfulfilled unimportant desk jockey... she still turns up to announce that she will one day allow Steve to dance with her, as if she is doing him a favour. 

It’s because she sees Steve as essentially the same as before serum -- that is, pathetic (in need of help to get female attention.) Still pathetic, in her eyes. 

But since to everyone else Steve has become a prize, she has to take Steve down a peg by reminding him of their little secret -- that despite how great he may seem, she is superior to him -- and she really believes it’s true! 

(This belief is baseless. What If accidentally confirmed that she can only match Steve’s accomplishments if she is given serum... so she is not his equal without serum, let alone his superior, despite being born with considerable advantages over him.) 

And this treatment of Steve as pathetic, before and after serum, we’re supposed to see as her ‘appreciating him’ for who he really is inside. 

But her treatment of Steve is only un-starry-eyed (or so she likes to think) and businesslike because Steve is a man, and she thinks all men are inferior to her. He isn’t special. 

(Just as, she is the only woman in the First Avenger, and their big connection is supposed to be over the allegedly-similar discrimination levelled against women as against disabled men... but this is experienced by all women, so saying she’s ‘The’ woman for Steve amounts to saying that she only qualifies for the job because she’s female, and for no other reason.) 

The fact is, while Steve pays lip service to the idea of wanting a woman, he never actually acts like he wants a woman. 

And does Peggy even want a man? 

She comes across as someone who has remained single because her view of herself is so inflated and her view of men is so dim that they can never match up. 

It’s like she’s got a reluctant mental shopping list of ‘insanely lofty traits a man would need to have to finally be worthy of Her Majesty,’ and she only awkwardly goes about trying to get Steve at all because she has realised that this famous neatly-pressed hunk Captain America has managed to tick all of the boxes, somehow. He’s a trophy she feels she ought to have, but isn’t really bothered about having.

(But then she gets repeatedly annoyed whenever that pesky little ‘Steve Rogers’ twerp keeps getting in the way of her fantasy, wanting to do the right thing instead of just doing what she tells him, and has to be violently attacked to keep him in line.) 

She doesn’t actually like Steve.

#long post #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #CAN YOU IMAGINE if bucky came up to pre-serum steve... #acting like he was DOING STEVE A FAVOUR by being friends with him?? #the absolute ARROGANCE that would connote? the immediate revulsion steve would feel towards any such person? #picture me in a hospital bed imagining steve monologuing all this to bucky in the pub to explain why he doesn't need to worry ^ #and funfact: this only comes across as arrogant and conceited because HA chose to play it that way #she COULD have had peggy offering a dance in a sweet hopeful way... #with an awareness that she is not special for wanting steve to like her #she CHOSE to do it with the air of a governess revealing a treat ('aren't you a lucky boy that I'm showing you attention!') #and nb: she is not exempt from the tedious 'strong female character = punching' just because she wears high heels and lipstick #put her in a modern environment when she can't mine the 40s Aesthetic for points any more #and her only defining characteristic is being a patronising upper class snob #to kevin feige steve is only allowed the dignity of his choice if that choice is a woman #also: look at who she befriends #not the fellow female agents; servants #she doesn't see anyone as her equal and therefore doesn't want any superior people around to burst that bubble

[coachbeards]

everyday i try to be normal but the i remember when beard was taken care of and it makes me go WAHHHHHHHHH

#what really gets me about beard after hours #is that whenever beard ASKS for help it's rejected #but people OFFER their help anyways!!! #he wants to talk about jane = mae yells at him #but the pub trio offer their company so he's not alone #mary offers her help when he rips his pants #beard asks for help from the lady on the bus but she rejects him #he asks for help from the concierge but he rejects him #he even starts to ask for help from james before he realizes who he is and he gets his ass BEAT #AND THE BUFF BOYFRIEND HELPS HIM #the pub trio pick him up and take care of him #''you don't accept the love and support from the people around you'' but when he asks he gets rejected #yet people offer their help anyways #even when beard asked if ted wanted to come with him ted said no (OBVIOUSLY the audience knows the context. beard doesn't)

[inspector-montoya-fox]

What are your thoughts about it not being brought up through Thieves in Time that Carmelita lied about Sly being her partner when he pretended to have amnesia? I don't mean this as slander or hate towards Carmelita, I love her a lot, but I think it would have been interesting to see her and Sly discuss how she didn't tell him the truth about who he was when he was acting amnesiac. Though from Carmelita's perspective, I could imagine that having to explain to an amnesiac that they are a master thief in their family's vault would be dificult, so just telling him he was her partner was the easiest story to tell him.

you know what, i've neglected my asks for a hot minute but i'll answer this one just for you silly anon.

the way SP left things off between Sly and Carmelita at the end of Sly 3 is really interesting because you have a romantic relationship being built on a foundation of lies: Carmelita lied to Sly about him being her partner, and Sly lied to Carmelita about having amnesia. going into the next game, it'd be really cool to see if the two would be able to overcome this situation once the truth came out or if it'd break them. other interesting questions: Sly chooses to ignore that Carmelita lied about him being her partner so why wouldn't Carmelita do the same? the last thing that occurs before the lies start is that Sly sacrifices himself to save Carmelita, so doesn't that action show her how much he actually loves her despite the lie? how would the other characters react? would they take sides?

now, keeping all of this in mind, what did we actually get in TiT? well, none of this actually. instead or receiving a really great B-storyline for the game, where Carmelita and Sly are forced to deal with the reality of their lies, we get... Carmelita getting shoehorned into (a) the angry ex girlfriend stereotype; and (b) the loud latina stereotype, both played for laughs while Sly does the bare minimum to fix things and just casually hangs out with his buddies while things calm down on their own. it's so infuriating to see this storyline get neglected but also fully handled through the male gaze, because if the fact that Carmelita also lied was brought up it could make for fascinating dialogue and character development. perhaps it could speak on Carmelita always wanting to be right, or how Sly chooses to let shit slide for the sake of getting what he wants which is very toxic? but no, let's just have Sly's literal ancestors have furry boners for her in the miniskirt and completely remove her for several levels because she's the damsel in distress and needs some time to cool off. because y'know she's a girl and she's way too emotional.

imagine if S*nzaru were capable of telling multifaceted stories, like what a treat that would be. instead of Sly abandoning Carmelita within 3 seconds of the opening cutscene, what if we got a look into their relationship and how they co-existed in a reality they created through lies? instead of having Carmelita fully join the gang in the game's fourth episode and having the entire story presented through Sly (except for those shitty flashbacks with Carmelita voiceover), what if we got to play through Carmelita's version of the story? what happened when Sly told the gang that Carmelita lied about him being her partner? what if Bentley fully took his side because he was always a bit skeptic about her but Murray was all-out Team Carmelita, causing a rift in the gang? what if Murray stormed off with her in Clan of the Cave Raccoon and we got Carmelita & Murray missions?

interesting thing about S*nzaru's take on Carmelita is that it reflects more on them than anything else. because, despite the misogyny and really harmful clichés they attached to her character, i think they never intended to hurt her the way they did. instead, they're just a bunch of horny guys who didn't really have a clue. in their eyes, they were given a character who is overpowered and they chose to trophy her because they don't see the miniskirt, the damsel in distress, the 1cm waist, the angry poc stereotypes or the bellydancing thing as bad or distasteful. in their eyes, Carmelita was a "Mary Sue" (i hate that term) and that's how they chose to handle her even though SP never actually treated her as such. i think Carmelita's scarce appearances in the original series made her flaws a bit more subtle, like her inability to acknowledge Sly as a grey instead of black or white. and S*nzaru never picked up on that or chose to fully ignore it, so they wanted to preserve her as a perfect character who can jump extra high, has a gun, possesses solely positive traits and can get whatever she wants because all the guys go cartoon eyes bonkers over her. and for them, allure = womanhood or femininity, and that is so deeply shallow. everything about their treatment of Carmelita is deeply shallow to the point where their intentions backfired and we got a prime example of misogyny.

so, to answer the question: i think Carmelita's lie isn't brought up in TiT because it would present her as a flawed character. a woman who lies doesn't align with the S*nzaru guys' perception of an ideal woman, and that's what they set out to make Carmelita: the ideal female. it would also over-complicate their shit for brains plot but whatever

#my answer is like 70% about wasted potential and 30% about answering the question. 100% anti-S*nzaru rhetoric though so we all win #so anyway i served Anya Taylor Joy lunch this week (!!!) #she like casually strolled in for lunch at 3pm the entire pub was empty and i was GAGGED #she was SO nice like she hugged me and everything and offered to take selfies with me like a literal angel #we stan #sly cooper #ask

[homoeroticgrappling]

This is the closest I'll ever get to feeling patriotic tbh

#strongbow dark fruit > literally any beer or cider America has to offer #glad he's having a little treat he deserves it <3 #MJF #swear there was a video of him a couple years ago in a pub in England drinking strongbow dark fruit as well??

[xamaxenta]

Very cute that Luffy has never been able to beat Ace in a fight

We were robbed

Of how high that ceiling could’ve been set with these two racing each other to the top

#sabo doesnt involve himself he’s not looking for insane strength just enough to fuck with literally everyone in the grandline lmao #sabo does petty scamming in which he volunteers to arm wrestle the big macho guys in puns and offers his sweet delicate wrists for it #promptly breaks that persons arm #arm wrestle bug macho guys in PUBS #not puns

[wittywallflower]

So the Endless are enduring, but the gods rely on belief and will fade away when no one believes in them anymore, right?

Now imagine all those with divinity deciding they have to go meet the Dream King’s immortal human, and make themselves memorable to Hob.

#hob gadling #the sandman #he obviously will believe they are what they say they are #one man propping up entire crumbling pantheons #dozens of unemployed gods and goddesses #with a lot of free time to drink at his pub which is fine is they stop trying to tip with drachmas #some of them show up to pick fights because they figure at least a feud will ensure hob never forgets about them #a truly disconcerting number of them offer to fuck him #(fewer offer to let him fuck them. does he really give off so much bottom energy or do gods just prefer to top?)

[literaryhistories]

ah those sleep deprived last day of a conference vibes

#went for dinner that changed into a pub crawl #at some point an italian guy fom our group got into a fight #they called the police #someone tried to rob other 3 guys #random ppl came offering us cocaine while we were trying to get a very drunk girl to her hotel room #i stayed with her until 5am bc her alcohol poisoning showed up as a rly bad trip and i was terrified #she was yelling at the top of her lungs in italian idk if anyone at our paper wall hotel got any sleep #she finally got ok and i got whole 3 h of sleep and now we're all learning how to plot data in python as if nothing happened #just another day of academic life

[branmer]

also the veneration of clubs as some kind of peak social activity is very funny to me as like, someone who has clubbed a bit because one of my takeaways from that was that even if you go with a group of friends it's essentially a very isolating experience because the music is so fucking loud you can't hear anyone even if they're shouting in your ear and even the dancing is kinda like ...everyone is in their own world even if you're dancing together. I liked it because I like drinking and dancing but it was not a good way to socialise and it is really not hard to fathom why someone would absolutely not enjoy it. in fact I think a lot more people don't like clubbing than do. like in the uk at least if you asked me to pick a "universal" adult social experience it would be going to a pub, not a club, probably because you can actually hear people talk in those

#and fyi increasingly pubs and bars offer non-alcoholic options like mocktails and alcohol free beer #because like ... less and less people are drinking #anyway i cant imagine going to a club if you have sensory issues #like jesus what a nightmare

[thesaintelectric]

incredible bit of guernsey lore: theres exactly 2 ISPs and one has ads with people saying 'oh before i switched to [ISP] i had such bad internet' which is a great bit with this knowledge in mind

#also a guy who part times at the pub works for one and has an offer from the other. its like a succession in here or whatever #me_irl

[inthewild-flowers]

bored out of my MIND what if i made a stupidly sappy playlist

#dan talks tag #maybe i shoudlve gone on the pub crawl after all HAKDKC #there’s one offered at the hostel but i’ve booked ferry tickets first thing in the morning to go see some islands for the day #so being tired tomorrow isn’t a Great idea #but now i’m sooooooooooooooooooo bored guys #so bored i’m thinking about making the embarrassingly sappy playlist that pops into my head sometimes

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

its like if there were 6 random guys in your 2fort server like trying to cap an invisible mid control point and screaming in voice chat about who has uber advantage

#that ullllllllllllltra hardcore ruthless competitive style seems totally pointless in a pub match in dbd #like bully squads make sense theyre obviously quite toxic but like. in a way that makes sense #doing comp strats in pubs is insane esp if you dont even use a map offering like okay lets do a comp plague match on um. rpd i guess ???