Couldn’t You Just Pause It

we’re all distracted by the beautiful queer love between an angel and a demon but can we talk about Adam Young? about Adam as, well, as Adam, as the first man, the first representative of all humanity? it’s not a mistake or coincidence the baby wound up with that name, of course. (ineffable…)

he might have been Satan’s son but he is raised human, by humans, with humans. he is human, in all his upbringing and outlook and emotions, in all his flawed glory. he is proud, yes, and he is a leader (the Them always have looked to him, he has the best ideas) and yet he loves. he loves so deeply and so selfishly, in that very Pratchettian way – selfishly, yes, because he makes everything he loves into his own, and so he protects it as he’d protect himself. and isn’t that such a human thing to do? to take that flaw and make it something beautiful instead?

Tadfield is his Garden, is his youth and his innocence. he’d give the world to his friends but he… he would stay right there, he says. he’d stay in his Garden. it is his paradise, unspoiled, loved so much that Aziraphale felt it at once, that all the summers were perfect summers, that all the weather in general was idealized in a way which it never really is in reality. he reached out through his love and made the world better. and when he came into his powers, what spurred it? a boy’s naive but genuine desire to fix things. it wouldn’t have fixed anything, of course, in the end. he abused his power and hurt people accidentally, and could so easily have abused it more, worse… but the motivations were good. he wanted to help. to make it better. and isn’t that such a human flaw too? 

but at the end, through all of it… with the help of his Them – of his Horsepersons, who aren’t just concepts made by humans but are themselves human – and of the same angel and demon who were there at the very first – and that isn’t a mistake or coincidence, either – he knows. he understands. his father, his real father, the one who was there for him all along, says that he might not quite know what Adam did wrong, but that Adam does.

and he does. he knows. after 6000 years outside of the Garden, that first bite of the apple has finally come to, ha, fruition in Adam, that so entirely human boy. he knows what he did wrong. he knows the difference between good and evil. between right and wrong, and between Right and Wrong, too.  

Tips That Can Save Your Kid’s Life.

When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.

Crowley, teaching Aziraphale to drive: Okay, so you’re driving and Gabriel and Michael walk onto the road. Quick, what do you hit?

Aziraphale: Oh definitely Gabriel

Crowley, sighing: The brakes, angel. You hit the brakes.

Pride and Prejudice: relatable moments 

imagine your otp

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

Baahubali Summertime Challenge 6 - Milana ~

Baahubali-Lion King parallels

@teambaahubali

(And yes, this probably fits better as a meta but I assume the cross over universe thing works too?)