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MAJOR NPMD SPOILERS
hey do you ever wonder what wouldve happened if max was an actual ghost aka he couldn’t touch or kill anyone? im writing a fic about it! i update it every tuesday! alternative POV between pete and steph! it has plenty of lautski and max being the worst but in a non-lethal way! also the rest of the cool beans gang! haunting hijinks and in-character introspection ensue!
when we get a scene in beyond the spider-verse akin to the andrew garfield amazing spider-man showing up to aunt may’s house beaten up and bloody but with the carton of eggs scene. but it’s miles in his spider-man suit torn to shreds covered in spider-verse debris at his parents’ doorstep. and holding two cakes. that is when i will sob like a baby.
“It’s gotten to the point where I think a lot of people can’t believe it if they get a residual for $25,” O'Brien said. “They’re so used to opening those envelopes and it’s 30 cents.”
O'Brien, who has appeared on dozens of shows, from “Grey’s Anatomy” to “Pretty Little Liars,” shared images of residual checks from more than two decades ago worth $47.49, $87.77 and $216.25. Others, from the past few years, amounted to $1.63, 43 cents and 1 cent.
Lower residual payments mean fewer actors earn the $26,470 per year needed to qualify for SAG-AFTRA’s health insurance coverage, said actor Michael Spellman. The union said about 14% of its 160,000 members currently meet that threshold.
Really important info for anyone thinking this is a “rich people strike”
Nobody’s talking about how Crowley GOES TOO FAST FOR AZIRAPHALE. It was true then and it’s still true now. Crowley is ready to run away, he’s been ready for years, but Aziraphale is just not there yet. He’s not mentally ready for that. He still needs to figure out that part by himself, and Crowley just goes too fast for him.
Okay I’m sorry I’ve gotta post this take because it’s been driving me nuts, and I know I’m probably biased as an Aziraphale kinnie and a soft dom, but I do not understand the fans looking at the scene where he drives the Bentley and going “awwe look they get along so well together, father-car bonding time, so cuteee!!” because like- did we watch the same scene??
Y'all, he was intimidating the shit out of that poor car. It was cooperating with his wishes because it was scared of him, not because they were getting along so well together.
Like- watch that bit again, and really look at Aziraphale’s microexpressions and tone when he talks to/about the car:
(Sorry for the dogshit photos, I couldn’t find the clip online to screencap from)
The little eyebrow raise and emphasis on the word “stays” while looking directly at the car?? This sentence is a warning; he’s essentially saying “if you play anything other than classical music while I’m driving you, the Almighty help me.” This is not a cute bonding moment, this is top energy!!
Crowley literally asks “what are you doing to it” when he chimes in on the radio, implying that these changes have occurred not by the car’s own volition but because of Aziraphale’s direct influence. He’s making the car bend to his will and change to meet his desires for what he wants the car to be/look like/drive like. We even see him do this with other technology later in the same episode, when he borrows the cellphone from that random guy and just kinda… talks to it like an operator to get it to call his bookshop, rather than use it properly.
This is canonically just how Aziraphale acts with modern technology, he simply expects it to be or do whatever he wants, and miraculously, it becomes that. Essentially, Aziraphale is doing to the Bentley in this scene what Crowley does to his plants; putting the fear of God into it. I can practically imagine him saying “drive. BETTER!”
IDK, obviously it’s open to interpretation, but it just kinda bugs me because the way people have been talking about this scene (among others) just feels like falling back into that classic-fandom habit of boiling Aziraphale’s character down to “uwu soft bean~” and literally nothing else. He is soft! Absolutely! But there’s also much more to him than that, especially in this season; Michael Sheen himself said in an interview (with Collider, I think) that “…one of the things that we wanted to explore with Aziraphale in this series is perhaps finding something a little steelier underneath the apparent soft surface.” He’s a multifaceted character, and I took this scene to be that “steelier” side coming out, a demonstration of how stubborn and determined to have his way he can be, even for something small like driving a car.
I decided that i hate the “coffee theory” so much, let my angel have religious trauma, let him make mistakes, let him understand how much he hurt his demon, let him beg forgiveness…
Aziraphale’s reaction to the kiss: A Breakdown (that’s it that’s the reaction.)
A lot of people say that this anguish Aziraphale feels after the kiss is due to this feeling of “Why now? Why didn’t you do this before, when I wanted you to?” And I think that can be part of it, for sure. But man, that’s just one part of this gigantic, writhing ball of emotions in Aziraphale in that moment, all of them fighting each other, all of them painful. I’m going to breakdown the breakdown, because writing essays analyzing the minds of fictional characters is apparently all I want to do these days. Also, judging by this absolute nutball of a season that confirmed literally multiple “bit of a stretch” deep dives, I feel I can ignore that little voice whispering “this is silly” into my ear. I can dive as deep as I want, because there goes Neil Gaiman with an aqualung, swimming deeper.
So. The kiss, and why Aziraphale looks so gosh darned sad about it.
First of all, there’s shock. Major shock. Because despite everything, he still likely never thought this would ever actually happen. (Him and me both.) Or maybe – a small maybe, but a maybe that I might put a dollar on, if the odds were good – the idea of kissing Crowley never occurred to his conscious brain before at all. He’s so good at compartmentalizing and denying that it’s very possible he’s managed to nip every intrusive thought before it went far enough to be fully conscious.
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