Dandelion

*Good Omens fanart*

*impassioned ramble about hope and positivity*

*criticism of current social welfare system*

*Good Omens drabble*

*Torah commentary and musings*

*ask game*

*response to an ask from a totally different game I reblogged months ago*

*highly depressing reflection on historical and contemporary antisemitism*

*horrible pun*

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

…would be so, SO upset about the TARDIS constantly depositing her crew right smack in the middle of the most dangerous situation conceivable, every single dang time.

Doctor (realizing for once he can’t get away with just running around dramatically flicking random levers to seem impressive): Er. Usually I push a few buttons, and then she goes where I want her to go. Sometimes. Except when she doesn’t.

Theo: …

Theo, screaming in her head to Bechimo: he’s a pilot, I can tell he’s a pilot, he’s bonded with his ship and everything about him practically screams pilot talent, but Chaos he is the worst pilot I’ve ever met.

Doctor: Sorry, these things just kind of happen around me.

Theo: Oh yes, me too.

Doctor: No really, you don’t understand. I think the Tardis puts me down where there’s a problem to solve or an enemy to defeat.

Theo: No no, I think I do get it, though it’s me, not Bechimo. He’d prefer to stay out of trouble. I seem to attract it. Did I ever tell you the story of the time I was expelled from school for being a Nexus of Violence?

…would be so, SO upset about the TARDIS constantly depositing her crew right smack in the middle of the most dangerous situation conceivable, every single dang time.

Doctor (realizing for once he can’t get away with just running around dramatically flicking random levers to seem impressive): Er. Usually I push a few buttons, and then she goes where I want her to go. Sometimes. Except when she doesn’t.

Theo: …

Theo, screaming in her head to Bechimo: he’s a pilot, I can tell he’s a pilot, he’s bonded with his ship and everything about him practically screams pilot talent, but Chaos he is the worst pilot I’ve ever met.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

Would you like to go back to the roots of your love for Good Omens? Are you tired of the fandom spaces being dominated by the S3 discussion?

Nightingale Still Singing server is planning a book club-experience for everyone who wants to shout and debate about the original novel. We are planning to discuss the book in parts to be able to focus on all the small details that might have faded from the collective memory over the years. Come read and discuss Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch, with us.

We try to avoid the company of bots, so please ask for a server invitation by commenting on this post, or by sending DM to me (ngk) or @luinlothana.

there's so much potential to integrate it with the fantasy elements too.

you could do exposure therapy, for example, with the help of illusions. imagine someone is deathly afraid of dragons because of a childhood incident, but they really want to overcome this phobia.

the therapist could conjure up illusions, working from a small abstract dragon to a big realistic one, and help the client progressively become more relaxed around the illusion dragon before they meet a real one.

or imagine a character is grieving a dead loved one, and they never got closure from this person. maybe they wanted to tell this person something and never got the chance to. or maybe the person is not dead, but it's best to sever that tie instead of trying to talk to them again.

in this scenario, the therapist could shapeshift into the person the client wants to talk to, and give the client a bit of closure.

mind reading could be practiced with the client's consent, so that the therapist could tap into blocked memories or an incident that the client is too traumatized to talk about.

Tamora Pierce books, at least the Emelan ones, have the concept of a "mind healer" which does exactly that, though it's unclear if it's something like talk therapy or if it's reaching in your brain and moving stuff around with magic. Her books are aimed at teens, so it's not really delved into that deeply, it's just acknowledged as an option (some of her characters have PTSD and need to be told to go to therapy, basically)