Joaquin Phoenix Ends His Speech By Quoting His Late Brother River Phoenix.

The wind is coming from south

fem!Theta Sigma/fem!Koschei

Summary: Koschei loves Theta like Echo loves: badly and faithfully. like only sea can. like only one, who sees the Universe in the other, can. Koschei loves Theta like a beggar loves coin: with greed and offense. Koschei craves her like only God can crave: all and without remnant. every thought, every gesture, every cell of her body.

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Aziraphale has memorized Winnie the Pooh and it’s more important than you think

Basically Neil Gaiman was casually dropping hints about Good Omens 2 plot as early as 2019:

Aziraphale has memorized the Winnie the Pooh books, several Georgette Heyer novels, and Bobo’s Modern Coin Magic, though.

Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance (which she has virtually invented, based on extensive historical research as well as Jane Austen’s influences) and detective fiction genres. She used romantic plots and happy endings in both.

That is, with the exception of Penhallow, her 1942 mystery novel explaining how a desperate act intended to bring about good consequences brings only more tragedy in its wake instead (and spoiler alert: murdering a thoroughly unlikeable elderly character doesn’t secure the expected peace or happiness).

J. B. Bobo’s Modern Coin Magic, while not that modern anymore with a publishing date of 1952, provides a complete treatise on sleight of hand coin conjuring, making an excellent companion for those who want to impress and entertain with some classic magic tricks. Including working professional magicians like Fell the Marvelous.

But what about the Winnie the Pooh books? Sure, they offer the ultimate childhood escapist fantasy with a happy-go-lucky story and cheerful characters living in the Garden of— um, Hundred Acre Wood. The original Ashdown Forest is, by the way, located under the South Downs National Park authority.

A. A. Milne has participated in and survived two world wars. Writing was a creative way of talking about his struggles and those of many other individuals affected by trauma, mental health issues and illnesses that are left untreated and undiagnosed. Each of the animals famously symbolizes different disorder.

And according to the major theme of the power of friendship saving the day (with an occasional help of Christopher Robin, who plays his ineffable game as long as his adults let him), even a scary guest turns out not so scary after all, becoming a new friend himself.

Notice the snakes adorning Crowley’s table :). 

(And if by any chance someone doesn’t know… the angels wrestling statue in the back ;))

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        I am not a good man! I am not a bad man. I am not a hero. and I’m definitely not a president. and no, I’m not an officer. do you know what I am? I am an idiot, with a box and a screwdriver. just passing through, helping out, learning. I don’t need an army. I never have, because I’ve got them. always them. because love, it’s not an emotion.

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                                         love is a promise.

　 　 　   before there was a mad man with a box, there were two. 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 © a wild endeavour

yes i made one of these, no i don’t regret it

Dr who theory:

The whole "Master as Death's champion" conversation after Torvic was the Doctor's guilt induced hallucination, and actually the Master did not change because of it, but the Doctor thought he did so thought it was their fault. = More guilt for the Doctor

Either way, these two need to sit down and actually have a proper conversation.