idk i just feel like if you were actually attracted to women you’d be attracted to women in their default state not just exclusively in an outrageously plucked and preened one
like if you see a woman with body hair or whatever and go “ew that’s disgusting!!!” like you’re not attracted to women then bc women have stuff like that we’re born with it it’s literally normal and you think it’s disgusting
“i would never date a woman with leg hair, armpit hair, facial hair, saggy tits, cellulite, stretch marks, etc etc etc” great! so you admit you aren’t attracted to women then!
Mentioned this in a reblog, but the little piece about how the Book of Life erases beings from existence so nobody ever remembers them?
My brain thought up a scenario:
Aziraphale hears about this Book from one of the archangels, or even Beelzebub, or maybe even Metatron telling him about it cause it's important for the Second Coming.
But either way, Aziraphale knows how secretive it is, and decides to take a peek when he's by himself. He quietly goes into where the Book is, and given his new Supreme Archangel status, opens it easily.
First few pages, normal. Just names, alphabetized, along with describing what the being is. Demons no longer have their angel names in it of course, so it looks crossed out
Which. It's crossed out, their angel names. The ink spreads where a line previously was, so portions like this is all blotted out
It looks like this where a large blot is. But there is no name here. In fact, there's a few ink spots littered on the pages now. And flipping through the Book more urgently now, Aziraphale sees more and more dark spots, some stacking on top of each other to erase multiple names in a row
On a couple pages, only a few names show up in the sea of black ink.
Someone's in the room. Aziraphale jerks and tries not to scream when he sees its Metatron. Metatron is as cool as he's always been, just commenting how Aziraphale decided to look himself
Aziraphale, keeping it together as best as he can, closes the Book and tries to casually reply he just wanted to see what it was up close, since he's the Supreme Archangel now
"And what did you think?" Metatron hasn't stopped stepping closer. Aziraphale despite his instincts screaming at him, doesn't back up
He says it looks meticulous, to put it nicely
"Of course," does it seem like Metatron is getting too close "you must understand, it's a... necessary process.
Metatron's hand rests on the book, still staring directly into Aziraphale's eyes, "You can't make it seem like there's some sort of institutional problem"
honestly aziraphale doesn't even need to do any reform in heaven to stop the second coming, all he needs to do is get these two to fuck nasty
Just the other day I was chatting with an older woman about this exact thing. She's retired so she enjoys going on almost-daily walks around her neighborhood and the surrounding neighborhoods. Well she told me that it was really weird that in the newer constructions where the younger families live, EVERYONE has their blinds closed all the time. In fact she can tell a younger family lives in a house based on the simple fact of whether or not their blinds are closed in the middle of a sunny day. It's to the point where she can't even tell if they're even HOME and available for a visit to welcome them to the neighborhood!
When she said that, I realized that I do that too when I live in a more publicly visible apartment. I told her that I think it's because of the internet. Younger people feel like we're constantly being watched, observed, and JUDGED for merely existing. So when we're home, we just want to be alone, unbothered, and unobserved because it's the one place we can control that. She was very surprised to hear that I felt like that and she was VERY concerned for us young folk (and to be honest after talking with her I became pretty concerned too...)
People from her generation will have their blinds open all day, hang out on their front porch, and randomly visit/enjoy random visits from neighbors and strangers. If a stranger knocks on my door it's scary and if they want to stay and chat? It's a huge inconvenience and it feels super awkward and weird and I'm stuck wondering why exactly they're talking to me, when just a few decades ago welcoming someone new to the neighborhood was just what you did! In fact to not do so was rude!
It made me really worried that as the Panopticon sinks its teeth deeper into our psyches, we are losing the very essence of what makes us human and got us this far as a species: community. I find that being on the internet for hours a day tends to almost trick my brain into thinking "I've been social all day, my social need is full" when in reality I've only talked to one, maybe two people I know from my real life all day, and only for short bursts, not REAL conversation.
I find it hard to have the energy to invite friends to hang out, and when I want to I feel like I'm a big inconvenience for asking them to take a break from their busy lives for me (not that they would ever say that's the case, but it's this nagging feeling internally). I feel like while we used to be a series of large islands of local community, our islands splintered apart and started drifting away from each other. Now your island is just you, your immediate family, and maybe a couple close friends. Those living physically closest to you feel like they're miles away and unreachable, to the point where you might as well not even bother.
I guess I just have one question for you: Do you know the names of your next door neighbors?
That makes me think about how the rate of paranoia of being watched must be so much higher now than it used to be and must only be increasing, which is very concerning,,
Just finished Stardust. My main takeaway is that being a simp with a kind heart will get you far. Tristran is one of fiction’s most likable simps ever. I think Stardust is the weakest novel by Gaiman I’ve read so far, but it’s by no means bad. The conclusion was really fucking satisfying.
I’m writing a wild west/sci fi combo fic where Stede and Lucius are aliens who fled from their home planet for Reasons™ (and Stede is missing his middle and ring finger on his right hand for the same Reasons™) to a western town were Ed is the mayor that may never see the light of day tbh but I just wrote this interaction and I love it
Ed: that’ll get rid of his annoying ass for at least two weeks
Izzy, experiencing too many emotions for his feeble body: Blackbeard trusts me so much I’m the most beloved person in his life did you see that did you see how much he trusts me to do the most important missions he touched me on my shoulders I’m never washing this jacket again omg omg omg 🥵😳🫠