Confused Gay Screeching

No hate to miya cech!! She's a wonderful actress and I'm sure she will do great with what she has to work with!! But making toph "more feminine" kinda goes against her character of rejecting traditional roles that were forced onto her.

if this sort of content is too triggering for you to read about (and of course that’s okay) just know that it was beyond bad. just some really really vile, horrific stuff. neil gaiman continues to deny these extensive and detailed claims and is seeking revenge via lawsuits, because he doesn’t know when to quit.

it seems that a lot people aren’t aware of this, but false allegations are EXTREMELY rare. it takes massive amounts of strength and courage to come forward about this kind of thing, not to mention endure the backlash that occurs afterwards. nobody wants to go through that, especially when there’s a rich and powerful man involved. it’s brutal and it’s terrifying.

the best thing you can do is accept allegations as truth. yes, every time. yes, even when the perpetrator is your best friend or a celebrity you love. that’s what believing survivors means.

the incredibly brave women who came forward (and there were nine of them. nine. think for a minute about nine different people you know. that’s how many) are valuable, and their stories have meaning and importance. believe them. you can make such a difference.

i know MANY of you that have already made generous donations to charities that support survivors, but if you haven’t yet, i recommend our voice! our voice is a fantastic organization that i can vouch for personally, and it’s also the organization that neil gaiman himself said he would donate a large a large sum of money to and then never did. seems like a great way to help patch the hole he left in so many people’s lives, don’t you think?

Man, remember the Holy Water subplot in the S01E03 Cold Open? How it was such a compelling interpersonal conflict because you could totally see where both Crowley and Aziraphale were coming from? How Crowley was just so afraid of Hell and so frustrated Aziraphale didn’t trust him while Aziraphale was also very understandably worried about giving his associate (best friend, love of his life) with known trauma and depression issues the Instant Kill You Juice but he was channeling this concern into something that just wounded Crowley more and then Crowley lashed out and it was such a good emotionally complex moment.

Yeah, no, turns out the REAL lesson of this moment is that it’s not complex, and Aziraphale was just 100% in the wrong! The true moral of Good Omens is that if someone you love is showing red flags of suicidal tendencies, you have to show them that you love them by going along with whatever they ask you to, even if it means their death, even if means your own death, because they’re just so much wiser and more reasonable than you and you have to sacrifice sometimes in relationships and sometimes that means your own life! (: (: (:

The logical flaws aside -- why assume the God we're shown in s3 would keep her bargain? How was humanity any freer to choose than in the 6000 year old Good Omens universe, given that choices still have consequences in our world, whether or not a capricious God imposes them? -- I could go on -- none of this Byronic defiance of/bargaining with God fits the narrative we fell in love with.

One of the conspicuous things about Good Omens, the book, and the screenplay thereof, is the absence of God in the proceedings. Her presence as an omniscient narrator obfuscates this, but God's voice-overs actually stand in for a neutral narrator voice in the book (mostly Terry's, from the tone of those passages). After the Flood, when Aziraphale states the Almighty is a bit "tetchy," God doesn't take any direct action. In fact, it's a critical element of the plot that Aziraphale is certain God will listen to reason if only he can speak to Her, but his attempt to reach Her is blocked by the Metatron; we get no assurance that God is even paying attention at this point. Heaven and Hell, certainly, are gung-ho for their cosmic footie match, winner take all. And Heaven seems to have lost its grip on any concept of what "good" actually stands for. That is one of the things the book was satirizing -- the definition of goodness as blind compliance with received authority, with rigid, arbitrary rules and black/white concepts of virtue. Aziraphale and Crowley, the observers who've been embedded with Humans for centuries, have learned that existence is more complex.

Aziraphale brings that home with his rules-lawyering at the airfield. Yes, the War is the Great Plan, but is it the Ineffable plan? The one that is apparently only known to God? Neither Heaven's nor Hell's representative can answer. The whole operation comes to a screeching halt, Gabriel (or the Metatron) and Beelzebub retreat, Adam stands firm when his father appears to thunder at him. Armageddon aborted, it would seem -- and still God, in the phrase of Porphyria's Lover, has not said a word.

Is God even bothered at this point? Has S/He buggered off somewhere to be Ineffable, leaving everything to representatives who may have drifted further and further off course? Does the Metatron even talk to Her as billed, or has he usurped God's authority, Wormtongue-style? (That would fit with putative manipulations of the Book Of Life.) Is God still set on that six thousand year drop-dead date? Or does She even remember where She put her toys? I think it would be a very Pratchetty thing to find -- perhaps after another Aziraphalean throat-clearing, or perhaps Crowley taking point this time -- that God got distracted, or learned from Her creation, and was receptive to skipping the whole seas turning to blood, last judgment business.

crowley’s pacing around an art museum, caught in a mild anxiety spiral rambling about how the boy’s too normal and the hell hound and warlock’s birthday party etc etc, meanwhile aziraphale is just sitting there sipping wine.

“Are you going to be there?” asked the angel, nonchalantly.

nonchalantly???? absolutely ridiculous adverb. i love it. because either he’s trying to act like he’s barely interested in crowley being at the party when he very much is—that’s all he’s been thinking about actually, he can’t stop thinking about it, wondering what dashing little outfit crowley’s going to wear—or he’s being genuinely nonchalant about the actual topic of discussion, which happens to be armageddon. because in that moment, he cares more about going to an event with crowley than the end of the world. both options are incredibly gay.

not to mention that literally two pages later a kid calls him a faggot. surely that means nothing. and the paragraph that follows is “Aziraphale stared desperately at Crowley. As far as he was concerned, young Warlock was obviously infernally tainted, and the sooner the Black Dog turned up and they could get away from this place, the better.”

So you're telling me that Mai saved all of them, Zuko saw this happen, definitely knew what the consequences would be, and indeed Azula was going to straight up KILL Mai before Ty Lee paralyzed her, we know this because she got into the pose for summoning lightning, but he seems to not even think about her again until that one part of the final episode where she shows up to the palace for his coronation (how did she get in there?).

"Mai! You're okay! They let you out of prison?" BITCH WHO IS "THEY"???? HE IS THE FUCKING FIRE LORD!!!! HE IS THEY!!!!!!! WHO WROTE THIS??????

I'm supposed to buy that he is in love with her when he didn't seem worried about her a single time after she sacrificed herself for them all and then apparently also didn't think of her when they won the war? Didn't think to say "Hey! My girlfriend Mai, someone needs to find out what happened to her and where she is and report back to me immediately! I need to know if she's okay!" and then immediately have her released? Her uncle had to pull some strings???? Not Zuko, who is the Fire Lord, but her uncle the warden?????? And yeah I know he wasn't crowned yet but that's more of a ceremonial thing, he still had the authority.

And yeah I know Zuko had a lot on his plate but this is the girl he's supposed to be IN LOVE WITH, she should be one of his first concerns if you want people to believe he's in love with her.

I'm supposed to think the girl he literally tried to DIE for is just a friend and he feels nothing for her but the girl he is allegedly IN LOVE WITH he basically just left behind to die. He was willing to die for Katara, but was willing to put his concern for Mai's life and wellbeing aside for the sake of the mission.

Obviously, from a doylist perspective I don't think this is what the writers intended, but from a watsonian one, this is the conclusion we are led to.

He chose Katara's life over the mission, over his own life, but he chose the mission and his own life over Mai's life.

And I'm supposed to think he was in love with Mai and felt nothing for Katara.

For one, Zuko and Katara JUST made up and started being friends, best friends even, and Zuko could be trying to be nonchalant about wanting to sit next to her (cute). For two, it seems like Zuko could be oblivious to Aang's crush on Katara because he's still new to the group and legitimately doesn't know what the big deal is.

And on a deeper level, he doesn't just not see that Aang has a one-sided crush, he doesn't see any kind of chemistry or tension between them because it literally doesn't exist. He's oblivious to it because it is not there, textually. He has grown closer to Katara and understands the real her on a deeper level than any other character in the gaang and he has no inclination that she's interested in Aang because she never shows any.

Hell you could even interpret this as Zuko being a girl's boy and intentionally shielding his friend from the obsessed pushy kid she's trying to avoid the advances of, supported by the fact that later on she tries rejecting his pushy entitled bullshit and he assaults her.

More of the Heartful AU as I've been dubbing it, pretty much an entire potential character and redemption arc for Caine where he's brought back from being deleted and he's no longer in charge of, well, anything really except for his own actions.

And it begins with Pomni sucker punching a heart she conjured into his chest. (Though no one except for really Kinger knows that it's nothing more than a placebo)