Crowley tempted Eve into eating the apple, giving us free will but mortal life.

Aziraphale gave Adam the flaming sword, introducing us to a way to fend for ourselves but also a way to attack each other.

Hence their whole conversation on the wall where they worry whether or not they “did the wrong or the right thing”

(and also why Aziraphale later tries to make an argument for guns, because he’s trying to make himself feel less guilty, which Crowley finds very funny)

Which is one of the reasons why it is SO IMPORTANT that HUMANITY are the ones to fix the world - using the tools that Crowley and Aziraphale gave them!!!

Free will

Ability to attack threats and defend each other (which is why each of the Them have to use the sword and not just any other random weapon)

And this point was already made in the original story in season 1, when Adam the Antichrist chose humanity above good and evil.

Season 3 is really just a reiteration of the same point.

Which I suspect is the reason why they made Aziraphale and Crowley way more influencial characters this time ‘round. Otherwise, it would just have been the same story, really, but with a Christ instead of an Antichrist.

This is also the entire reason for why season 2 was a thing.

Like, by the end of season 1, EVERYTHING was resolved.

By the end of season 2, Aziraphale and Crowley suddenly had a NEW conflict that needed to be resolved, except it was the same conflict, good vs. evil, fate vs. free will, yadda yadda

Crowley had to realise that humanity was worth fighting for (in season 2, he was suddenly ready to abandon everything to be together with Aziraphale)

Aziraphale had to realise the same, sort of (in season 2, he only chose to stay and fight for us because he somehow had regained his fear of “doing the wrong thing”.)

Season 2 basically erased what they had learned in season 1

So they just went and did the whole thing and made the same point again. But worse.

(The tragic part is, fan-service doesn’t have to be this misguided and flat and ham-fisted.

I wish instead of remaking season 1, they had realised “oh wow this Aziraphale and Crowley character are really popular, let’s do something creative with them, like make an animated series about them and their many escapades throughout history” or something else that would have had the potential for new, original and insightful stories.

Perhaps they couldn’t do any overarching themes as big as “good vs. evil”, but they could have done stories about all manner of things in between. Really explored humanity and all its grey areas, with a bunch of history and biblical mythology and magic mixed in between!

Okay, here it is: I think John and Paul may have recorded themselves being intimate in India (not really something crazy to think about, as we do know they were seen swimming together naked there). In Get Back, when Paul is talking about the India footage, he says that there's a scene where John looked like a philosophy student with his tape recorder. John immediately adds, ‘Yeah, I’ve got all the soundtracks too,’ without elaborating, and then they both share this knowing, mischievous smile. I think this may tie in with the rehersal tape Yoko found (which by now I'm pretty sure it may have happened in 1968 in the studio) of John moaning Paul's name over and over. My theory is that John probably had all kinds of reels mixed together — demos, rehearsals, experimental stuff — and maybe one of those personal recordings, of him and Paul being intimate, slipped into the batch. Yoko stumbled onto it, and it became this awkwardly revealing discovery (even though she believed it was just John because he was the only one saying something) . To me, it even ties into that bizarre moment in ’69 when John played a tape of him and Yoko having sex for people in the studio — almost like he was reenacting or one-upping what had been overheard before, and maybe throwing it in Paul’s face. I know it sounds like a stretch, of course, but I have always thought their smiles in Get Back after talking about having "some soundtracks" and a "tape recorder" must mean something, as well as John saying "yes, what were we doing?" And "in your room" to Paul a bit earlier in a suggestive tone, and of course, John blowing the mic while staring directly at Paul.

IN THIS ANALYSIS, I will compare the original 1969 footage of the Beatles discussing India with the edited footage of the same moment in the 2021 “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary.

The original footage has significant historical relevance, where Lennon makes explicit references to the Bob Wooler incident and the holiday with Epstein in Spain. What’s more is, he does this after Epstein’s death. It’s a risky thing to hint at in casual conversation, and that’s knowing that they’re being filmed.

In mentioning these two incidents, Lennon simultaneously alludes to an, ahem, moment between him and McCartney in India.

But you know what? I’m going to add my own two cents on what I think about John’s behaviour because I want to hear if you guys think I’m reading too much into it.

So, when Paul first says what they were doing on the film was incredible, John chimes in with:

“Yes, what were we doing?”

And goes on to say, as if he’s reminding Paul of something:

“Who was writing all them songs then? In your room…”

The tone here feels very deliberately provocative. It sounds like John thinks Paul is trying to downplay or neutralize something emotionally significant that happened there by brushing it off as “we weren’t ourselves.”

Paul tries to steer the conversation back toward the broader point he was making. But John is still in a provoking and confrontational mood, so he runs with it and says:

“I don’t regret anything ever, not even Bob Wooler.”

Which is, frankly, insane.

First of all, Lennon beat Wooler badly enough that he went to the hospital (and Epstein had to drive him there, btw, poor man). It was serious.

Second, this is barely a year and a half after Epstein’s death. John is making light of this serious past incident which threatened to harm all of their reputations, including Epstein’s, and he’s doing it in front of the three other people apart from himself who were closest to and most hurt by Epstein’s passing. A passing that stemmed largely from Epstein having to hide his homosexuality away.

And he does this while AWARE that he’s being recorded.

And then, as if to underline the sexual implication even further, he literally starts fellating the microphone while staring directly at Paul.

Paul still keeps trying to move the conversation along normally, though, so John escalates even further, saying:

“You want to call it, ‘What We Did On Our Holidays’?”

On one level, he’s obviously referring to the India footage they’re discussing — you know, literally “what we did on our holiday.”

But at the same time, there’s a double meaning there, given the context of the Epstein Spain trip and the sexual innuendo he’s been leaning into.

Even outside a McLennon reading, to me this is historically significant in itself as a source on John’s feelings about the Bob Wooler incident (especially paired with the 1971 quote).

But inside a McLennon reading? It’s fascinating just how hard John seems to resist Paul trying to frame the India period as simply them being “not ourselves.” It’s like he keeps insisting: no, whatever happened there was real.

Now personally, I don’t subscribe to the theory that John and Paul had some kind of dramatic fallout in India. There are accounts that suggest they actually left on good terms. But that still doesn’t mean nothing emotionally significant happened there…

Anyway. I feel insane every time I revisit this exchange because I genuinely think it’s one of the most revealing interactions between them ever caught on tape, and I’m surprised more people don’t talk about it.

you should also never ever unplug the air conditioner and stick a flashlight in the vent that blows air to see if we're in there. it's very bad, that place should not be checked

and whatever you do, if you've already made the mistake of unplugging it, don't remove it from the window for cleaning if possible. and whether it's possible to remove the unit or not, don't carefully disassemble the front panel, document where the screws go and plastic bits go, and open up the vent more to be able to get into it easily

as black mold, i'm an expert on this. you should heed my warnings: now, if you've somehow made the mistake of doing all of the above, you should not use warm water and dish soap to CLEAN the inside of the vent thoroughly. DON'T ever use a bottle brush to get into the hard to reach places. and certainly don't rinse and dry the cleaned area before carefully putting it back together

there's nothing wrong with us, black mold. we don't cause or exacerbate breathing conditions like asthma or other illnesses. it's cool, we're cool

furthermore, if you're capable of removing the window unit, DONT take a hose with the same soapy water and wash the portion of the window unit that sits outside the window and is therefore weatherproofed.

whatever you do, don't allow the air conditioner to dry before plugging it back in and turning it on again

and if you have a central air conditioner, you will definitely never ever consult a manual or sources online to perform a similar cleaning procedure on the cooling unit outside.

It is a lot of elbow grease and definitely not just spraying a can and waiting. Especially do not use the ones that are self rinsing via the natural condensation of water around the coils where all you have to do is let the foam settle a couple hours before turning the unit back on. These foaming cleaners are also terrible to use on the removable air intake vent covers. You definitely do not just have to spray the opposite side of all the trapped shit on the plastic mesh and let the foam push it off. Also that stuff on the cover is great for you and your air conditioner.

Like sometimes they want to experiment with a bit of anal and instead of just buying a sex toy and some lube like a normal person, they instead shove random objects up their ass that inevitably get stuck and then they try to get them out by themselves which makes things worse and then they lie to doctors about it and like this all leads to all kinds of extra complications like internal damage, risk of infections, bleeding, the fall of Yugoslavia, etc.

2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. --> Let it suck. --> You can fix it in edits. 

3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. --> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. --> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. --> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.

4. No work is ever wasted. --> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way.  --> Failure means you tried, which is good. --> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. --> Keep going until you like what you’re making.

just John looking at Paul  l i k e  t h a t and Paul is just beaming over the moon