Agent of Chaos

Desecrated

youre fucked

feeling stupid as hell because I somehow only just now realized that the companion cube is to chel what chel is to glados. like as far as being an object, a research tool, something towards which an emotional attachment is ridiculous but also inevitable. something that you know you'll have to throw in the incinerator later and which never says a word to you, and yet you can't help yourself from falling in a strange kind of love. damn this game gay

normally id put this in tags but fucking. the bit in portal 2 about the companion cube. where she taunts you with it again. a return of something that might have affection or compassion for you, but you cant be sure. a surprise reunion.

she taunts you with companion cubes that are out of reach but keep getting destroyed by her. upset about how close you were to finding that connection again. she even talks about how maybe one couldve talked. but we'll never know now because it's gone. and the fact that she gives you the ORIGINAL beat-up companion cube, still just fine (if burnt), when you finally leave the facility for good at the end.

Fucking.

the lesbian undertones are suffocating

Why is every diy hack video secretly a massive fucking health hazard

Cover your bulbs with paper. Do it. Put that all around your hot fucking lightbulbs all day and night. It will be so cute. Sand that plastic down with no protection. Wash those shavings away into the water supply. PLEASE. If you put plastic waste into the oven you can make cute things and re use the oven and baking trays to cook your food on it will be so nice!! You want to use craft resin without a mask or gloves. You want to put it in your mouth. Use it as a plate. There will be no problems here! Just cute decor! You can dremel anything!!! Dont even think twice about it!

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To @unwarrantedrabbit, Happy Holidays! And here's your @portal-secret-santa

This is GLaDOS interacting with the chief engineer (and Rattmann) a few days after she was built, hope you like it, even thought it's a bit dark :]

in case anyone was curious where the original scene is from! it's the modern iphigenia by quickyoke on ao3. I love this fic sm

so neat to see this scene from @roman-writing’s fic!!

almost christmas

Imagine if you survived taking a railroad spike to the brain but you didn't get any personality changes out of it but everyone was constantly assuming that you did and it made you notably more irritable than you used to be

Maybe the real brain damage... was society

before you came into my life i missed you so bad

Aziraphale’s look meant “do it again” but also “I am trying to understand what is happening” - Rob wilkins

Oh. He kissed the shark. I am sick.

catalysts, protectors

girls after asking too many questions:

WHY is writing the first draft of a fic always like

oh BY the WAY

This scene proves, doesn’t it, that living in the car is Crowley’s choice. When Aziraphale comes back from Scotland, Crowley shoves the box at him before he gets to the threshold. He gives Aziraphale no option to even say, “won’t it be easier to leave the plants here” let alone to propose anything else. Was Crowley, by any chance, actively avoiding a conversation about him living in his car this whole time?

Crowley is absolutely not okay, we know, we know. He is frustrated, he is struggling; he is asking what the point of it all is. Yes, he is fiercely protective of his independence when he says “my car”, “the precious, peaceful, fragile existence I have carved out for myself”—and the same time, he is still not willing to talk. He probably does not even see a way to have important conversations safely; the fear of rejection might still be too much. His instinct remains to run away from trouble. With something as terrifying as vulnerability and openness, he needs Nina and Maggie to tip the scales.

He has the swagger. He acts like he knows what’s happening, like he has things figured out.

I think we’re just starting to see how much that has not been true.

I think the car thing goes one step deeper than just not being open to a conversation, which is that Crowley living in the car is a symptom of lingering fear.

It’s a getaway car.

This is established in s1 when Crowley literally tries to load Aziraphale up and, apparently, drive the Bentley to Alpha Centauri. It’s a very strong symbol of safety for Crowley - he survives the wall of fire on the M25 because he believes the Bentley will carry him through, and he drives it all the way to Tadfield on fire believing beyond the shadow of a doubt that the car will deliver him safely.

S2 shows that Crowley’s flat is owned by or paid for by Hell and thus he’s had to move out. Fine. There’s a suggestion that Crowley is or has been submitting expenses for reimbursement anyway, and Crowley is still capable of doing miracles. There’s no real reason at all for him to be living in his car.

But he’s always ready to move. He’s always ready to go to Aziraphale. When Aziraphale rings him up and says, come here, he’s two minutes away. By living in the Bentley, Crowley is always, always ready to run away.

Presumably the only reason he hasn’t yet is because he can’t ask Aziraphale to leave the bookshop - both because Aziraphale loves the shop but also because doing so would require the same bravery he finally pulls together in ep6. But he’s ready on a moment’s notice.

In s2e1, Crowley is tense, struggling with what he’s supposed to do now, anxious about what will happen next. He’s doing regular check-ins with Shax, keeping tabs on what Hell is up to despite his fear of being found out (asking Shax if she thinks Hell knows, Shax responding that Hell wouldn’t care anyway). He’s lingering within a 5 minute radius of the shop. When Aziraphale leaves with the car, he monitors them - he can tell that Aziraphale is going too slow (urging Aziraphale to be faster about going and coming back). And Crowley doesn’t officially give in to Aziraphale’s request to use the car until Muriel arrives - until Heaven’s representative shows up to monitor Aziraphale.

Then Crowley immediately capitulates. Tosses over the keys. Literally minds how they go.

Because Crowley trusts that Aziraphale will be safe in the Bentley. Because Crowley thinks of the Bentley in terms of protection and escape. He grounds himself with Gabriel and Muriel to allow Aziraphale to leave in the safest way possible, away from prying eyes.

He’s living in the car so he can leave on a moment’s notice. So he can get to Aziraphale on a moment’s notice. He knows they’re not safe.

Which means that his “offer” in the Final Fifteen™️ to stay and just keep on together is just as much of a fantasy as Aziraphale’s plan to fix Heaven, and they both know it.

@forineffablereasons this is so spot-on I wanna open your head and kiss your brain directly