Someone just liked this in my notes so I’m gonna reblog it again. My relationship with Butch and Sundance is that they were referenced in Justified, in my favorite episode ever, and the relationship between Raylan and Boyd is hella gay, so I watched this movie because of that. Following the gay breadcrumbs as you do. Like trusted this mainstream media to be making a gay reference and it was! Recently I saw a video being passed around where Timothy Olyphant admits how very homosexual (his words) Raylan and Boyd’s relationship was from their first encounter and it made me feel very validated.

So, I feel like I’m losing my mind. I keep seeing metas about how Aziraphale wants Crowley to return to Heaven and be an angel again because he wants them to be on the same side/be good/change/etc., etc., etc. but I don’t see that at all. I actually see it as the very opposite.

Aziraphale loves Crowley just as he is. But there’s something more. Something huge.

embarrassing for amazon, not for neil. amazon has access to the finished scripts, with all the words right there. amazon has the money to pay the writers and actors a living wage, so neil could have been participating in the rest of the finishing process. this egg is all over amazon's face.

I’m honestly wondering at this point if Amazon used some sort of AI to to make these captions, without any human oversight. Voice to text is a thing, right? Sounds like something Amazon would do. It would get them out of paying somebody.

I think I have a potentially controversial opinion on Aziraphale and the ending.

No but I think you’re absolutely right. There’s a reason we see sweet happy baby Crowley at the very beginning, and importantly, see that Aziraphale sees him. I am dead certain that’s what he’s thinking of every time he brings up Crowley being an angel. I’ll bet a limb that that’s what he wants to give back to Crowley. As I said elsewhere - he can’t possibly give that back, it’s been taken forever, and we know that, but I sure can’t blame Aziraphale for trying.

Yes I this this is a big part of how Aziraphale is thinking.

I do wonder if Aziraphale remembers this interaction but Crowley does not and maybe does not even realise that they met then (as he doesn’t remember saraquel or furfur). It would make the disconnect between them over this all the harder to transverse.

Addition—

And that joyful innocent exhilaration at the world? That thing Crowley has lost? Aziraphale has it himself. He somehow still has it himself. It is part of why Crowley is so drawn to him. And he has it not about Heaven, but about Earth.

Angel Crowley’s excited joy at a nebula and Aziraphale’s excited joy at magic and books and dancing and pears. Same thing.

Aziraphale doesn’t have to return Crowley to his previous state, he needs to be Crowley’s other half and make him whole. Crowley finds it again by being with Aziraphale.

Exactly! Aziraphale believes it’s the Fall and being a demon that stole that joy, because he didn’t lose it. And that’s (as far as he can see) the main difference between them.

It’s a bit more complicated than that, of course; Crowley wasn’t just disillusioned by the Fall, but also by God’s callous cruelty and indifference. He’d have never remained as happy as he was then, just because of who he is and how he questions and overthinks everything. But to Aziraphale, it seems simple. Crowley used to feel true joy, then he fell, and now he doesn’t. Aziraphale didn’t fall and he can still feel like that. So maybe, just maybe, letting him be an angel again would give that back to him.

(That’s leaving out all the non-Crowley reasons, because as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, they DO have motivations besides each other. Aziraphale believes he has to act here. If he can make a difference, he has to take the chance. Just as Crowley has to question everything - it’s in their respective natures.)

Yes, and to expand on that: because he, Aziraphale, is SO terrified of Falling, of losing his angelic nature, because being an angel is still the ultimate measure of doing (not being, doing) good in his mind, and doing good is central to his very existence, he can't fathom what he'd do if that were to ever be taken from him, what he could possibly want back more. And because Crowley has shown time and again how much good he's capable of doing, Aziraphale can't fathom there's possibly something Crowley would want more.

I'm in the minority, apparently, but put me down for YES. This show and my little corner of its fandom have given me a lot of joy over the years.

#Uh yeah hello someone has to watch John and Eurus get married

Hey so you know how House MD was based on Sherlock Holmes, right?

This has most likely been pointed out before but I just found some pictures from the last time I watched House and I just can’t stop thinking about this —

Patient: You really as good as everyone seems to think you are?

House: Are you really as miserable as everyone seems to think you are?

Patient: I just want to do something that matters.

House: Nothing matters. We’re all just cockroaches, wildebeests dying on the river bank. Nothing we do has any lasting meaning.

Patient: And you think I’m miserable.

House: If you’re unhappy on the plane, jump out of it.

Patient: I want to but… I can’t.

House: Mmm. That’s the problem with metaphors. They need interpretation. Jumping out of the plane is stupid.

Patient: Well, what if I’m not in a plane? What if I’m just in a place I don’t want to be?

House: That’s the other problem with metaphors. Yes, what if you’re actually on an ice cream truck and outside are candy and flowers and virgins. You’re on a plane! We’re all on planes. Life is dangerous and complicated and… it’s a long way down.

Patient: So you’re afraid of change?

House: No, you’re afraid to change. You’d rather imagine that you can escape instead of actually try. ‘Cause if you fail, then you got nothing. So you’ll give up the chance of something real so you can hold onto hope. The thing is, hope is for sissies.

— Season 4 Episode 14, “Living the Dream” (aired 08 May 2008)

So I’m sure you know where I’m going with this…

“Look how brilliant you are. Your mind has created the perfect metaphor. You’re high above us, all alone in the sky, and you understand everything except how to land.”

So House says you need to find the courage to let go of “hope” (spending your life in daydreams that won’t come true if you don’t do something to make them happen), JUMP out of the plane (do the risky thing) in order to be more happy with your life… but holding onto hope and possibility of something better is preferable to the reality of failing and crashing to the ground.

Because after all,

It’s not the fall that kills you… it’s the landing.

Being gay isn’t dangerous. It’s other people’s treatment of you that is.

Loving someone isn’t scary, it’s the possibility that they won’t love you back.

But you’ll never find out how happy you could be if you don’t make that jump.

Oh and the next two episodes are called “House’s Head” and “Wilson’s Heart” and have House having all kinds of medical and memory issues, buried memory retrieval, hallucinations, talking to himself through other characters in his mind, shadowy lights to visualize being inside his mind, mystery woman with a false identity his mind creates who represents Wilson’s girlfriend, “I’m the answer”, “you believe in reason above all else, there must be a reason”, overdosing on drugs to solve the mystery, playing out scenarios completely in his mind, almost dying himself, Wilson restarting House’s heart after it stops (heart restarting a heart anyone?), House saying Wilson’s girlfriend’s name as soon as he wakes up after coming back from almost dying, hallucinating Wilson’s girlfriend in a pantsuit and having conversations with her as though she’s there, and then of course Wilson’s girlfriend dying and Wilson blaming House (since he called and she came to meet him), Wilson isolating himself from House, House keeping his distance, and then trying to guilt Wilson into being his friend again…

And here’s an interesting coincidence with the opening scenes from House’s Head and The Final Problem…

Yeah this haunts me.

Hmm - interesting!

Impressive! He looks so beautiful here ♥️♥️

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