Furby Apocalypse

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

I need help looking for a long lost (pre-prime series) crowley/aziraphale fic that was a fan version of what we now know series3 to be about.

Can anyone remember a fairly long fanfic that was written before the prime series (so book Aziraphael and Crowley based i think, but could have been radio show based) that was a fan version of what ‘668: neighbour of the beast’ could have been (thus what S3 will be based on), and included all the details that were known at the time - the American road trip, Aziraphale watching the first free two mins of soft porn cable tv shows, and taking notes on them much to Crowleys amusement and dismay.

I just remembered the fic and desperately need to read it again.

fic request good omens
ariaste

The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

ariaste

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous
But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code
And Have You Dead To Rights*)

(*Maybe)

***

Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Keep reading

robylovi

OP I DIDNT EVEN KNOW WRITING COULD BE THIS GOOD NOT JUST FOR THE SHOW BUT LIKE, THAT DOCS WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND INTELLIGENTLY WELL WRITTEN I’M ASTONISHEDDD

Even if you turn out to be wrong, I do hope you talk abt your original theories when we finally get the full piece of the story because your writing is just so immersing I could read it all day (and I very much have been, literally couldn’t stop after I started) thank you so much!

ariaste

@robylovi I have written down my predictions and sent them to one (1) friend so that I’ll have a record of them – I love the idea of comparing them to what actually happens in S3 when it comes out to see where/if I was on the money and where I veered off in a WILDLY different direction, that would be a lot of fun! I don’t mind owning up when I’m wrong about stuff like this; the enjoyment for me is just in the Thinking about it. Anyway, somebody remind me about this after s3 LOL

“your writing is just so immersing I could read it all day (and I very much have been, literally couldn’t stop after I started)”
This is so kind of you to say, thank you!! 🥺 (I also write books and fanfic so there’s lots more of my words available for you if you liked these ones 😁)

sometimesminze
irishshauna

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hamster-anarchy

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

fighterkimburgess

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

starsunderfog

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

fgrobichiko

Behind the Bastards did an extremely good little series on this, if podcasts are your thing. It was absolutely intentional, and it’s absolutely intentional now that the British government doesn’t answer for it.