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It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Sometimes I just randomly think of a moment from 'A Companion to Owls' and then my brain hops to another, then another, and I love how rich and wonderful (and silly!) that single episode of television is. It's its own little story and often exists quite on its own in my mind but I'm going to start with the closing shot - this moment, the understanding, the weight and significance of it as Aziraphale and Crowley sit side by side, together yet quite alone, is one of the most beautiful and palpable to me and I adore it.

This moment. Everything about it. The expression on Aziraphale's face, the hands on the hips, the "well". I feel like I could pinpoint about a hundred moments just in this episode (and I probably will in the end lol) but whether I'm watching the whole scene or looking at a still of Aziraphale in this moment or, staring at this gif for far longer than I would probably ever admit, there is nothing I don't adore about it. For all their bluster, this moment right here once again shows us exactly what the dynamic really is between these two but also, reminds us, once again, of Crowley's true character (a little bit, a good person) and Aziraphale's too (just a enough of a bastard to be worth knowing).

Snake in the Grass

And that’s exactly his language of support, which we see later in the Job episode as well. He jokes first, uses harmless sarcasm, and so on. But in the end, he just... stays by his side, letting Aziraphale know that he’s not alone.

Since S3 did you disservice, I will do my utmost best to give you a story, a life, and a love you were originally meant for. You deserved better than what was done for you and I may not be as good as your original creator and not as humourous but I will give you the ending and the life you all rightfully deserved.

- Someone who has loved you all as you were originally

après avoir fait leur tenue de la saison deux j'ai eu envie de faire suis de la première saison

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

To anon who said: Consider this: Caduceus = Crowley and Azi