Just enough of a Bastard

01x12 - Legacy

I could watch this scene over and over—the way John describes Harold, knowing full well that he can hear everything, and how absolutely delighted Harold is.

It's estimated that around 8% of rams exhibit exclusively homosexual behavior.

To ensure that the sheep that are being taken in are actually homosexual, they'll place the rams that are assumed to be gay in an enclosure with ewes during the breed's “horny season.” If the ram refuses to mate, he says, “there is a clear indication that he's not interested.”

“So then we put him into our herd, and then a lot of action happens, if you know what I mean,” he says. “It's happening really within minutes.”

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Hereditary Enemies by Another_Freak1258 (E)

Aziraphale is a rat bought as a meal for Crowley. Frustratingly, Anathema can’t get the stubborn snake to eat the damn thing!

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prove me I’m wrong (only in carmic couple Crowley is finally top)

~ the prettiest star 💫~

inspired by this beautiful frame from the good omens s2 opening title sequence

Then we learnt for Aziraphale it’s 0.00

And now this

How many things are there we’re still missing?!

AND THE WONDERFUL INSANE AMAZING FANDOM THAT SEARCHES OUT DETAILS LIKE THESE!!!

I've been in a bit of a state after the finale and am still processing. Somehow, my brain has decided to do that through writing. So I wrote. First Tumblr posts, but then somehow this happened.

So here's chapter 1 of the post-finale Good Omens fic I'm writing. I promise no one dies in this one.

Thank you to the lovely @literatemisfit for the encouragement, enthusiasm and beta-ing. Typos are still my own.

Please find attached copious amount of sappiness, mentions of Shakespeare, Newton and Discworld.

I have written on here many times how much I LOVE that Pride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Much Ado in a kind of stretchy, fanfic-AU sort of way. Austen definitely used the same characters and their dynamics with one another, but she actively adapted the story by giving them all interesting, English Regency versions of their Renaissance Tuscany/London challenges.

My favorite thing is that you see similarities in a) the scandal of an affair with the heroine’s unwed family member, and b) the willingness of the heroine’s “bitter rival” (Benedick/Darcy) to go far beyond what’s expected of him to save her family’s reputation, even when it might hurt his own

In her adaptation, Austen proposes that even if Beatrice/Elizabeth’s family member DID have an extramarital affair, Benedick/Darcy would still be morally obliged to help the family. This differs from Shakespeare, where Benedick believes that Hero is innocent. Sex scandals are therefore key elements in both plots, but Austen really pushes the original narrative to explore what the characters would do if the family member wasn’t innocent and the sex scandal was real. Would Benedick still have the same sense of duty to remedy the situation at great inconvenience/loss to himself? Would that duty be based in his love for Beatrice, or in his sense of ethics? Would Beatrice and Benedick have even fallen in love without their family’s interference?

So like, not only is P&P a wonderful (and very funny) adaptation of Much Ado, it’s also a refreshing, explicit exploration of the themes and issues Shakespeare clearly wanted to introduce to his 16th century audience. P&P doesn’t get to the violent, verbal extremes of “eat his heart in a marketplace” and “kill Claudio,” but it does push the character of Benedick to much more agency and responsibility as a privileged person in relation to Beatrice’s own (lack of) power. And to me, that makes it an exceptionally challenging and effective Regency adaptation of Much Ado.

Jane and Bingley represent the Hero/Claudio "love at first sight" and "separated by machinations" sections, but come to a much more satisfying conclusion because Bingley's folly is based on modesty. He never turns on Jane, as Claudio does, instead he leaves her, but out of a belief that she doesn't love him and therefore wouldn't be harmed by it. Their happy ending is happy to (most) of the audience.

The defence of honour plot, Claudio doing wrong by Hero leading to her social doom and her being defended by Benedick, is all transferred to the trickster, Wickham (Don John?) and his victim Lydia (the other half of Hero). The solution still is marriage, but we are not left with this ambiguous nagging wonder if it's ever possible for Hero/Claudio to be happy, we know Wickham/Lydia is a bad marriage, but that Elizabeth & Jane will help their sister and she'll be okay.

It's Agender Pride Day, here's some personal art from me

don't present androgynously

use "binary" pronouns in any capacity

identify partially with a binary gender

have a "gendered" name

don't experience body dysmorphia

don't experience gender dysphoria

DO experience gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia but aren't sure what gender or body would suit them

just experience body/gender apathy instead

can't be open about their gender identity yet

you're all absolutely valid.