“I’m so much healthier (and HAPPIER) as the ‘estranged’ one!”
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“I’m so much healthier (and HAPPIER) as the ‘estranged’ one!”
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Hiiiii everyone, sorry I've been absent from life.
I went to my favorite post-apocalyptic event of the year, which was AMAZING.
I then had some serious throat ulcer causing virus (two different doctors were unable to diagnose anything specific, and the culture grew nothing?? Somehow? This fucking medical system 🥴)
I'm okayish now, but super busy packing up my life, yaaaaay!
I will still be busy until the move is finalized, unfortunately.
You're all wonderful and I love you!
I love how our thoughts, theories & metas on Good Omens have developed since GO2 came out.
The immediate theories were all very emotional, knee-jerk reaction type ones. Very well thought out, but thinking with hearts rather than heads.
Now that time has passed, I’ve seen a big change in the ‘angle’ of the theories. They’re more logic-based, more reasoned, less emotional.
We could all have studied 5 seconds of film close up months ago, but we weren’t in that headspace then. But we are now.
It shows that it’s worth it to have time go by to let a show sit & mature in your brain. To mull it over and chew on it. Formulate your own theories and thoughts and really sit with them. It requires time. And brainrot. So much brainrot.
It’s also a perfect example of the difference between good media (of any sort) and excellent media. Excellent media gains meaning the longer you sit with it and the more times you come back to it. Excellent media has the sort of nuance that BEGS you to revisit it because you know there are things you’ve missed. Good Omens as a body of work, both the book and the shows, is absolutely brilliant media.
Yes! Nuance is the absolute key word for the book and the show. There are layers upon layers upon layers of nuance. Like the onion Michael Sheen struggles to peel but so brilliantly brings to our screens.
There is so much depth to appreciate. And, on the whole, the fandom is kind enough - on tumblr anyway, from my experience - to roll with people broadening & changing their views and theories. Which allows for the rather astounding level of detailed analysis of individual frames of film and the narrative.
If everyone shot down people who changed/morphed their opinions, we also wouldn’t see this level of wonderful detail. So let’s all continue to be a kind, caring and welcoming fandom. 🖤
I love it here so much. The amazing people I've met through this fandom, and all of their creative ideas and art are just astounding.
the hardest thing about chronic pain to me is how it makes me doubt my own brain.
I have chronic pain. specifically chronic migraines. and the hard thing about that, or neurological pain in general, or really just so fucking many different chronic pain conditions, is there is no proof.
there's no scan a doctor can do to show my pain level or symptoms. you can't look at my head and go "huh, looks fucked up, probably a 8/10 pain." absolutely everything I experience, in order to be understood by a medical professional or even just anyone really, has to be self-recognized and self reported.
and that requires so many steps and levels of trust. like just to fucking start, I have to be aware that the invisible thing I am experiencing is not a thing everyone feels! which again, fucking invisible! Then I have to be aware it's happening at all, which sounds basic but with chronic shit is not. I had to explain to a doctor this week that I do not know if I ever experience "normal" or low-level headaches, because I'm so used to severe migraines that anything below that doesn't register. Sometimes it even takes hours for me to notice I'm having a migraine!
and then I have to be able to assess my own pain, judge how bad it really is, when after nine fucking years my scale is goddamn broken. and the longer I've had a migraine, the further out of whack it goes. I have to recognize and categorize my symptoms, one of which is fucking brain fog, and I have to communicate these very nebulous and abstract concepts to other people.
And then. And then they have to actually believe me. I have to convince them I'm not lying, I'm not looking for attention or drugs or pity or excuses. with zero hard proof, just my words. and then it cycles, because if people doubt my pain, I start to doubt my own experiences. I start to think I'm being a wimp, I'm faking it, I can try harder. so then I downplay it, so then I think it's fine, so I push through it, and this works great until I am fully fucking incapacitated.
and then people are shocked and surprised because I "look healthy."
it has taken fucking years for me to accept that what I am experiencing is real and people who doubt me can go fuck themselves. and it's still very much a work in progress. every single day.
but my pain is real. and so is yours. and people who doubt us can, to reiterate, go fuck themselves.
This.
THIS.
List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers 💗 (No pressure, only if you want to.)
Okay, I'll play along!
Playing with my 11 year old
Listening to music (always open to new music recommendations)
Bringing smiles and joy to loved ones and strangers alike
Creating and appreciating art in its many forms
Cosplaying the post-apocalypse with my dirt family ala Uranium Springs and/or Wasteland Weekend
+1 bonus
Learning new things, especially about space or physics

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Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!
Interesting; I didn't know this was a thing.
It’s apparently a thing, but it’s a very new thing, so it may need some help being known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help
Important context from the Wikipedia article:
[Text: The campaign intends the signal to mean "reach out to me safely", and advises that if someone sees a person using the signal on a video call, they should contact the signaler by another means (such as a text message or email) to ask them what they need. The campaign recommends that contacting emergency services should only be done if signaler explicitly requests this. Asking yes–no questions will reduce risk and make it easier for them to respond.]
Remember that calling the police introduces other dangers into the situation, particularly for BIPOC, queer, and disabled folks, and if there are any substances involved. Police are NOT good at de-escalation.
The video is a little misleading, according to the wiki.
"[C]ontacting emergency services should only be done if signaler explicitly requests this. Asking yes–no questions will reduce risk and make it easier for them to respond."
Please READ the Wikipedia article! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help
Gonna repeat the previous reblog because it's wicked important:
"Remember that calling the police introduces other dangers into the situation, particularly for BIPOC, queer, and disabled folks, and if there are any substances involved."
Police are NOT good at de-escalation!
Reversed Veil of Worlds:
Crowley's POV
5/20 pages
Oh dear... he could HEAR all of that? Has he been listening the entire time? 🫣
The urge to bother my mutuals
reblog if it’s okay for your mutuals to bother you <3
Oh please yes,
Only here have I found ppl who share the same interests 😁
Please bother me! My DMs are also open, just don't be a letch, transphobic, or a dick.
New friends are always welcome! Let's nerd out together! 🤗
Thank you angiewords for the above!
do you ever think about how sometimes it just... takes one random message? and suddenly you find yourself with a best friend or in constant conversation with someone who lives on the other side of the world but is just as much of a freak as you are or maybe you find yourself in love with someone without a last name but with so much kindness and affection in their words and presence. crazy how life and love and friendship just happen
This happens. It's always beautiful.
Helloooooo! *hello hello hello*
Anyone else not getting a lot of interaction lately? Is…is it me? *huffs in hand to check breath* Where’d everyone go? It can’t be me…I’ve been considerably less obnoxious. *sniffs armpit*
Hmmmmm. Imma post sumfin and see how far it gets. Did I get 🎶DUNDUNDUN🎶
SHADOWBANNED???????
IM JUST TRYING TO DO MY JOB HERE! -Beetlejuice, probably
Punk rock 80s Crowley says Hi
I've seen people talking about issues with Tumblr this week, but I don't post enough to have noticed a difference myself. 😅
I see you, though!

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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.
Dude with all due respect ao3 was literally created because other fanfiction sites kept deleting and censoring stories with rape, noncon/dubcon, incest, etc porn as well as LGBT ship fics. The site does have a required ratings and warnings systems and tags so that you can exclude works that have themes or content within them that you don’t want to see.
If you don’t like what the site is showing you, you are using it improperly.
There is no such thing as ‘a little censorship’
The above tagger has subjects they dislike; they need to learn to navigate around them so they don’t need to interact. That’s why tagging is so important: allowing the work to be found or avoided as needed.
The problem with ‘a little censorship’ is…endless. You want to control what other people are doing: how do you not see how that’s fucked to begin with?
You want to remove the ‘gross’ or the ‘inappropriate’ subjects, like that isn’t wholly subjective. Incest bothers you? Don’t read incest.
I can’t typically do fics with cheating, but I am not about to go tell the folks who write it that they can’t, purely to make me feel better. My eldest hates unhappy endings, they don’t get to dig up sad ending fics and yell at the author. My middle kid likes a different ship than I do in pretty much all of our common media. I don’t get to tell him he can’t read it anymore.
Fancy, emotionally charged buzzwords don’t change the fact that yeah, all of those are the same concept. You don’t like it, someone else is writing it, others are reading it, and that bothers you. That’s on you, my dear.
You will never have the right to tell someone else they cannot read or write it purely because you dislike it.
Learn to block, learn to filter, learn to accept that the real world has people who like things you do not.
This is the donut/diet argument all over again: you can’t have or dislike donuts, so you want to make sure no one else can have it either. Hard no, my friend. You have control only over yourself, and you need to remember that.
‘But those are bad things, I’m trying to get rid of the bad things only!’ No. They make you uncomfortable. There is a difference. Just as there is difference between reality and fiction. Just like what you think is bad may not, and probably will not, line up with someone else.
Fiction is not promoting rape, incest, whatever else. Kids aren’t going to go out and recreate things they’ve read for shits and giggles anymore than playing grand theft auto is going to make them join the fucking mafia or whatever it is. Sims players don’t suddenly rip their clothes off and drown in the pool, reading about Vash banging his brother a la Flowers in the Attic is hardly going to make someone knock on their actual brother’s door, etc etc etc ad nauseum.
More importantly: there is no end to ‘a little censorship’. Someone else gets to decide what I’m allowed to read and write, and the organizations with that aim have proven over and over and o v e r to be insane. Anything remotely queer is banned for being Bad or Sexualized (because these people have learned that PROTECT THE KIDS is the easiest way to rally the ignorant masses into believing that the rainbow is somehow preying on children… and thus need to be Controlled…)
You don’t want incest, you don’t want no con, someone else doesn’t want any form of kink, a third busybody can’t stand that boys kiss boys, a fourth can’t handle trans characters, another carves out the ace spectrum, yet more go after the stories exploring gender dynamics in the ABO verse.
That’s not even getting into politics, where it turns into now no one can post stories that explore changes in government, that are anti war, that are hopepunk and show all the ways society could be better. Or, on the opposite spectrum, things akin to the anarchist’s cookbook: how to make weaponry to forcibly make things change.
Oh, can’t have books that talk about different religions, either. Can’t have books that let girls know they should be treated equally, that they can do whatever they please, that they’re more than a walking baby factory. can’t have stories with magic, that’ll lead to evil thoughts. Can’t have stories with explicitly consensual anything, gotta keep the population pure and filled with shame about their desires. (There is a reason so many romance novels have a bit of unsavory shenanigans: the thrill of being wanted so overwhelmingly in a world where feeling that want means you are Not a Good Girl)
We’re living this, right now, again.
This is why knowing your history is so important.
Look at books have that been banned, burned. I’m going to oversimplify but: Picture books (and tango makes 3) because two male penguins adopted a baby, and we can’t let our kids know that’s acceptable, never mind that I, a child of a lesbian, literally bawled my eyes out upon finding that book in my twenties. I would read it every day to my own toddlers, because look! They’re like Awa and Gramma! 1984, because the entire point is how burning books is Bad. Animal Farm, the new government is just as bad as the old and we the people deserve better. Gone With the Wind, for being about the American south and not only making it seem like maybe slavery is kinda meh but also hinting at a woman having a sexuality. The scandal. Harry Potter. Not because JK turned out to be transphobic trash, but because it’ll turn kids into satanists, y’know, because of all the magic. A thing that is totally real and possible to recreate. Are you there god, it’s me, Margaret. Because it talked about menstrual cycles.
As an American, seeing headlines where kids are banned from the library because of policies like this is terrifying. Kids in Florida have zero books in the classroom. They have to be screened to be considered ‘appropriate’. And that means whitewashed, bland, and unchallenging of the norms the neo nazis are pushing. Can’t have anything about the struggles of the non white populace, can’t have anything at all about the queers, can’t have anything that paints the south in a bad light.
There is a bill currently attempting to pass into law, KOSA: kids online safety act. Under the guise of ‘protect the kids’ the government here is literally attempting to sanitize and censor the entire internet, for everyone. AO3 will be on the list of places they’re going to try and nuke. Yeah, even your cute vanilla super straight happy ever afters. All in the name of making sure imaginary little Johnny doesn’t think kissing boys, wearing pink, becoming friends with the Mexican kid down the street, or opposing genocide is acceptable behavior.
Censorship is not about protecting you, me, the mythical children, or anyone at all. It never has been.
Censorship is purely about control.
Censorship is about controlling your awareness, your intelligence, your ability to realize you are living in the worst timeline, and your ability to organize and fight back. Censorship is division. Censorship is deliberate cruelty meant to cripple you and make you malleable.
After all, you’ve given up your ability to explore new ideas, to think outside the box they’ve put you in. You are tamed, declawed, and too stupid to notice now. Don’t worry your pretty little blonde haired and blue eyed head about it now, Julie, the government will tell you want you need to know. Oh, what happened to your neighbor? Sweetie, what neighbor? No one was ever there. Repeat after me, no one was ever there.
AO3 is protecting my ability to read and write whatever the fuck I want, while giving me the search capabilities to NOT run into shit I dislike. AO3 is giving my teens a safe place to read and explore their own sexualities and interests, to engage in uncomfortable situations in a controlled way. AO3 is giving my teens a place to practice being human.
Censorship is always the bad guy.
AO3 is a fucking godsend, a pillar of creativity and freedom of engagement, and should be revered as such.
The previous blogger's tags need to be memorialized, because holy shit, they are on point:
KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
Also, what you say on there? Is now...
Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
Sell / share this "content" with other businesses
Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
I know it's long ... But it's so, so necessary. Please read & be aware of such 🤬 screwed up companies
❤️🩹 Warn your friends & family
#kokobot is not your friend.
I forget that people don't just automatically block bots anymore like we all used to.
This is seriously predatory. They are mining children's trauma and crises for their own usage, and people are giving them money to do it.
Please block kokobot right away, and tell people about this bullshit.
@staff - this is, at best, corporate negligence. You're giving them a platform to USE CHILDREN AND THEIR TRAUMA.
Am I saying this will be your new favourite show? That it will make you smile and shiver and puzzle and delight? That it's something really special? That it will ease the pain of waiting for other shows to happen?
Yes. I am saying that.
It's SO good. And it starts in three weeks...
Neil's tag! :D
Neil, mate, Good Omens 3 is likely to be three years away. I'm going to need some from of new food before then, and I was banking on The Sandman universe snacks to keep me going. The possibility of that counting as cheating hadn’t even crossed my mind........
I'm now questioning my morals and loyalty BECAUSE of his tag trying to reassure people it isn't cheating 😅
Tumblr daddy Gaiman has provided us with a snack for intermission, and says that it's not cheating on our precious bois?
This looks like some gay-ass shit.
FEED IT TO ME IMMEDIATELY.
Source: Ada Elder
Oh, wait. They were expecting us to easily accumulate wealth in our 30s like they did, then slowly convert to conservative.
Joke's on them, wealth doesn't just happen anymore.
sometimes I wanna reply “bitch me too” to my mutuals posts but I’ve never talked 2 them so they might not see it as friendly joking so i just dont
reblog if it’s okay to say “bitch me too” to you if you’re mutuals

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In love with this
we have to spread this around so this dudes hapless victims can go "YOU!!!"
we have to spread this
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Reminds me of the time in school we had this table hockey game (though it was like soccer or something) and the little wooden ball frequently disappeared (stolen or lost or whatever). I found the ball in the staircase close to the table and took it, intending to put it back later. I was sitting close to the table, and two of my classmates went to the table. They were looking for the ball and complaining about how it always disappeared. They went away for a short while to ask a teacher about it or something and I went over to the table and put the ball back, right in the center, completely unmissable. They returned shortly and were perplexed to see it there, and I could barely keep a straight face
I love this chaotic neutral energy.
GENUINELY. SCREAMING!!!!!!
my binder finally got here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to pick up my mail so I had a religious experience in the nearest bathroom and almost cried
it works SO WELL. THEY'RE FUCKIN GONE!! AHHHH!!!!
Now I understand why people never want to take them off
I'm very happy :)
thank you to everyone who helped with my 'doing shit' post (off the top of my head) @weirdly-specific-but-ok @hoarder-of-dragons @indigovigilance @dashoulinas-fandom-dump @patoslover @saygeadvice @hello-ello-ello @howmanyholesinswisscheese
I love all of you and everyone else who helped <333
That's so EXCITING OMGGGGGGG YESSSS!
CONGRATULATIONS AHHHHHHHHHHH
The first binder! I'm so fucking happy for you! I love you! Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!
Please do take it off when sleeping though, okay? It's pretty important. Take care of yourself!