Hours of searching for the right yarn colours and planning the pattern, 4300 stitches that took me god knows how long because i took a 4 month break in the middle of them and 2 lost needles but finally it's done. Based on this artwork of the talented @tofupixel

I'm about to kinda make this about me because it fucked up my day for a few Reasons.

I never interacted with this person. But saw on multiple occasions the way they interacted with people on tumblr, on reddit. Just absolutely vile, their interpretation of canon is the only correct way, anyone who disagrees with them was immediately met with vitriol, they encouraged and enabled their .... whatever ... fanbase... followers... cult members.... to jump on their hot take garbage person train.

During Pride Month anyone who was enjoying making Pride fanart or fics with Crowley and Aziraphale they were openly shredding them on tumblr. Not just in their shit server. "Crowley and Aziraphale would never. They don't care."

Writing au's was like...'not respecting the craft' or 'not respecting the canon' or some bullshit.

They called Crowley and Aziraphale selfish sociopaths who didn't care about anyone but themselves and were willing to kill a kid so they could keep hanging out eating and drinking. Someone responded something like "yeah okay maybe but that kid was the literal antichrist" and they were just bullied hard for, you know, 'respecting the canon' 🙄

I know I wasn't alone in seeing this, but it often felt really lonely to somehow see this behavior that other people were either not seeing or just overlooked or just adored.

So I just blocked them.

I'm glad it finally hit. But more than vindicated I just feel exhausted. Idk. Maybe I would have tried to bring larger attention to it if I had a bigger voice in the fandom. Or if I trusted myself more. But whenever I did bring it up with folks.. I was afraid people would think I was overreacting, being petty, misinterpreting. And that was largely (not exclusively) the reaction I was sensing from most people. I had full on crying hyperventilating meltdowns over this shit for My Own Damn Reasons.

'I told you so' sucks because it's not just hollow garbage, but it means no one listened to you.

I had a pretty productive talk about it with one person though...I explained that I didn't think I could finish reading this writer's fic...it wasn't a decision, I just dreaded giving the time to something saturated in that negativity. I was trying to figure out why it was so much easier for me to separate the art from the artist with some people....but not THIS person. And it took them no time to respond "because it's a peer." That really stuck with me.

Because fandom is a community and we're meant to share in joy and encourage each other and just HAVE FUN. Not....*waves hand in the direction of the assholes* all that.

So fuck this person and fuck their server and fuck anyone who tries to take your joy out of your fandom experience.

How you interpret the canon and the characters and how you choose to view them, how you write them or draw them, what you need from them, how and when you engage with the fandom, that is all yours, and it is all valid.

I don't know Moonyinpisces particularly well. We've exchanged a few bits of casual small talk in a mutual discord server, but that's the literal extent of our relationship. I've never read their fic.

Is it entirely possible that Moonyinpisces is a rude asshole? Sure, idfk. I don't know this person like that.

But it boils my goddamn blood to see so many people be like "this person is a secret terf engaging in performative allyship" about someone who is openly a nonbinary lesbian. I cannot stomach the idea that the fandom is just revoking this person's queer card because she had some opinions that are controversial to our tiny fandom spaces and nowhere else, and maybe was shitty about how they've expressed those opinions.

Again, I don't know this person especially well. It's entirely possible they're a raging dickhead outside of the four-or-so conversations I've had with her, and like, fair play if people want to say "hey Moonyinpisces is an asshole who hurt my feelings over stupid characterization interpretation bullshit"! It happens!

But what we're not gonna do (or at least I hope we're going to stop doing) is say that this person is a terf and a "fake ally" (read: not queer) because they don't agree with a popular headcanon. Miss me with that shit.

It's not fucking transphobia for a trans person to say "I don't read this Fictional Character Whomst Isn't Real as trans, and it kind of annoys me that it's treated as canon by the fandom that he is." It just isn't.

You know what does feel a little goddamn transphobic to me? Deciding someone isn't really trans/queer based on an extremely bad-faith reading of some bitchy fandom posts in a small fandom discord/one contextless vague post on Tumblr.com. As a fandom that prides itself on being pro-LGBT to the point of kind of being up our own asses about it sometimes, we have to do better.

We found it to be disgusting how they would go onto other servers, take people's personal messages and use them in a mean girls group chat to make fun of personal matters of all kinds. Ironically when we messaged them with our decisions many of them seemed more concerned about their own privacy and being doxed than the fact that they had been giving no shit about other people's privacy until that point. (No actual private information of the bullies was leaked, just screen and usernames)

Some winter coziness

Warlock is tucked in, the gardens are quiet except for the grasshoppers, and nanny Ashtoreth comes by with a good bottle of vintage

BUT IM PRACTICALLY FINISHED THIS GOOD OMENS PAINTING!!

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Oscar Wilde

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