just a magenta mage

Good Omens 3 spoilers.

I've been re-watching Good Omens before season 3 comes out/the special thingy they're doing(idk if this shit can be fixed in 90 minutes), and I dont think I ever realized just how strong Aziraphale's religious trauma really is. I know im probably late to the party on this, definitely due to me not being religious, but I have thoughts dammit.

Separate the art from the artist only applies when said artist is long gone and the art doesn't give them money.

I know it's a kids' show, and I'm overthinking it, but why the hell aren't more of the criminals scared of mystery Inc.? Not only is one member(depending on the version) 6'0-6'5, but also the dog is 5'4-5'9 that can also talk. That's Scooby on all fours btw, thats not him standing on his hind legs, which would make him 6'0-6'1. This is a great dane who talks and who can walk on his back legs like a person. DO YOU KNOW HOW TERRIFYING THAT WOULD BE????

Yes, dont get me wrong, the people LOVE it when Spider-Man is miserable and suffering, but I think it's deeper than that. We love to see Spider-Man when he's usually a kid/young adult suffer so horribly not because we enjoy it, but because we see him get up and keep going, I know for a fact that this isn't a hot take, but I need to word it. I think many others love Spider-man in this respect because it is so uncommon in real life to see people get up from the same situations, at least in my limited life experience, over and over again. To see a kid/young adult go through worse and keep going is inspiring. It's the joke that when you're going through a bad day or week or month or year or LIFE, you think of Spider-man and KNOW he's gone through worse and kept going and that can actually make you feel better. Like genuinely, yes, it's a funny joke, but it's also so, so true. Knowing Spider-man, who can be anyone, not just Peter Parker, can go through LITERAL HELL and WORSE and still get up and do better day after day, makes me unironically feel better and I know it does to for others. Being able to imagine the mask and how "it makes you stronger" to make you strive not just to get up again but also to do better is so inspiring.

The very popular belief that magic in BBC Merlin being an allegory for being queer/love in general makes Arthur's character so interesting when you think about it. His father taught him from a very young age that not only is "magic" evil, but it's also dirty and corrupts those who "choose" to "practice" it. And that everyone one who uses "magic" is some form of inherently weak for "choosing" to use it. When Arthur's, most likely, first and only true friend is secretly a warlock who uses "magic" to save him over and over again. And Arthur, who multiple times after Uthers death, and sometimes before, questions what he was taught even when he can never truly break away from his father's teachings until he knows what Merlin did for him. Arthur can never accept that "magic" isn't as disgusting and inherently evil to him as it is to his father. After all, wouldn't that make him sympathetic to "magic" users? Wouldn't that mean he could even understand why they "choose" to use "magic"? How could he understand why people do that if he didn't relate/feel similar?