My Lot Do Not Send Rude Notes

Sir Terry Pratchett had nothing to do with this!

Hey, guys! Did you know there's a 1992 version of the Good Omens script that Neil Gaiman DESPERATELY does not want people to see? Apparently, it's SO BAD that people universally refer to it as the "SHITSCRIPT". Here's how Neil feels about it:

Notice the vague legal threats---which I believe was the same abuse tactic he used against his RAPE VICTIMS! Interesting! (Man has a pattern.)

Anyway, it's on the fucking Internet Archive. You can read it here:

I also found this Google Drive link (thank you, people of tumblr!). You can download it if you are so inclined:

oh and ALSO, Terry Pratchett left the 1992 project out of principle (I suspect because he could tell the company they were working with was going to make it a shit show). Meanwhile, NG stayed and wrote the entire script himself (presumably just for the money, except the company eventually went bankrupt and seems to have paid him nothing for it LOL). Soooooo, makes us wonder why NG wrote a season 2 and 3 at all, huh??? 🤡

Anyway. If you for some reason still believe NG has any competence as a screenwriter (when he isn’t 100% basing it off an already-completed narrative that Terry Pratchett wrote over half of), then go ahead and take a look at this. Imo it belongs in the flaming trash can, right next to the GO finale.

"...this is a story that means a lot to all of us. We all have our different versions of it, but it’s ultimately the same story about two enemies who come to care for each other and decide that the Earth is worth saving." (Italics mine.) "Making changes to the details is alright, but your play was missing that essential core, and that’s something that’s very important to us... So—and we do mean this constructively—it’s going to have to be two thumbs down."

Every word spoken by the three judging couples is balm that we need in the light of the "finale." A shout out, too, to The Odd One Out and Evening The Odds (by two different writers, but essentially a continuous story), in which movie, show, radio and book couples all meet, and there's a conspiracy to free Movie Az from his relationship with an unrecognizably abusive and nasty Crowley (bonus kicker about which angel that Crowley was before he fell). I think it's a wonderful time for these stories to circulate again, now that we've seen what a live-acted shitscript really looks like.

Pack of Beakers

Goth Beaker

The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer

The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer

The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur

No FUCKING way ever would crowley decide the answer was to kill Aziraphale.

I ended up adding some rather quick colour to the sketch I did yesterday- Spot the blushy blush and shiny wedding ring^^

We know it's scary out there.

Remember:

You know who you are.

You will find your people.

Take care of yourselves.

Take care of each other.

We see you. We love you. You belong.

And we won't stop fighting for you.

LET ME SEE WHAT YOU HAVE!

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

“Yeah, sure. One night, Aziraphale. That’s all I promise you because if I start to feel uncomfortable, it stops. I’m not exposing myself to eight nights of holy burns, even if they’d just be minor ones.”

Aziraphale nodded carefully. “I can’t ask any more than that, my dear.”

What happens next is eight days of love, laughter, and discovering that there is always something new to learn about your partner, even after six thousand years.

Words: 17,465

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen And Up

@the-bentley

Art Credit: The Light of Torah by Chava Roth

Happy First Night of Hanukkah to those of you who celebrate!

Sometimes a traditional cup of cocoa enjoyed together on Christmas Eve in a tiny cottage in the South Downs can lead to more intimate activities . . .

Words: 2,568

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

@the-bentley

Happy birthday do my buddy @ad-astrah.

something I think we unfortunately need to understand here is that it’s not an echo chamber anymore. if it were an echo chamber, you would not encounter it in every fandom, every comment section, any given subreddit on any conceivable topic, directed at anyone visibly Jewish (from famous people to random Jews on the street), and so on. this is no longer an echo chamber problem, it’s a systemic societal mainstream problem. there was a clip I saw shared from The View today where some of the women had to call one of the others out because they felt she was blaming Jews as a whole for the war with Iran (this woman has been antisemitic on air many times before), and the default response was to defend her. I was reading something else today and someone said they enjoyed getting a push notification from the New York Times that was about gossip and not about “genocidal Zionists,” and this was said by probably some totally normie American woman. a Jewish man running for Congress was banned from a coffee shop in Brooklyn and people are wholly on the side of the coffee shop and delighted he lost. these examples are recent, of course, there are much worse ones to cite (ie: championing murderers when the victims are Jews).

We are currently going through a cost of living crisis, the worst unemployment rate in recent history, gas is even more through the roof than in other countries since we are so far away from other countries. Oh and the UN has published a warning that the government is violating indigenous rights.

Yet disestablishing a country on the other side of the world is this party's main focus. And when you ask yourself why, its because they're likely gearing up to blame all of those issues on Israel, then zionism as a whole, and then jews. And this isn't the slippery slope logical fallacy as some of the people who have joined this new party, have done exactly that. There is one "activist" group local to my city who claimed that the jewish council in Australia was a "zionist lobby group" and were lobbying the Australian government after the terrorist attack in Bondi. However what the truth was, is that after bondi, the Australian government had reached out to the jewish council as part of the inquiry into the attack. That is not lobbying. The NZ government did the same after the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch.