#funniest moment in the episode for me #cosmic levels of jealousy #because he doesn’t know it’s gabriel yet #he thinks it’s a human one night stand who won’t leave #and fully and immediately #our boy AJ was like “okay. today’s the day I kill some guy.”
frankly hell as an operation functions much better than heaven, despite forcing Every demon to work out of their mother’s musty basement with a leak and one shared lightbulb. like, crowley actually had to report back about what he did. when he meets hastur & ligur in the cemetery, they all share their “evil deeds” of the day. crowley had to give a presentation about the m25. hell not only had to jumpstart the chattering order of st beryl and work out the plan to deliver the antichrist, but also handle the hellhound. heaven did basically nothing & knew nothing….. aziraphale gave away the flaming sword and no one noticed? gabriel checked in on aziraphale and was like “gross sushi” and hightailed it out of there? they knew so little about earth they thought it was appropriate to talk/buy porn in a soho bookshop ?? tbhhhh if anyone was in jeopardy of losing their job during those 6000 years it wasn’t aziraphale
Aziraphale got one rude note in 1790 and that was it. Like some poor angelic secretary got handed his P-Card folder and was like, “Holy shit - the dates on these receipts go back to 4,000 BCE? They really expect me to dig through every single miracle this minor principality has ever performed since the dawn of recorded time and make sure they all add up? Just… fuck, I don’t know. Just tell him to do fewer miracles. Put on a sticky note that says ‘you’re over your monthly allowance of miracles.’” And then she promptly shoved the folder to the back of the shelf and no one ever mentioned it again.
going off of this, I can imagine crowley explaining away so many of his minor miracles that hell is sufficiently explanationed out, bc no matter how ridiculous his excuses are, they make sense and it’s infuriating and it’s at the point where they really really just don’t care anymore
hell secretary, surrounded by stacks of dirty & damp paper, smoking a cigarette: no I don’t want to know why you made hamlet popular just shut up & leave
crowley, leaning heavily on the desk, sending papers toppling: no no you have to hear. don’t you want to hear? seriously. you have to. it’s bc now he’ll be known primarily for his dramas and not his comedies, isn’t that just diabolical? I mean—
secretary: sure.
crowley: just think, generations of misery from one minor miracle!
the movie really undersells the fact that frodo spent half a year planning to make his departure from the shire as inconspicuous as possible and merry and pippin and sam saw him doing that, figured out he was leaving the shire and that it had something to do with bilbo’s ring, and then spent nearly as long preparing to go with him. icons
worth nothing to people who havent read the books: they didnt tell him they were planning to come with him until the very last minute when he’s finally about to spill the beans, and merry’s just kind of ”yo frodo you have the worst poker face in the shire and you constantly walk around saying shit like ”oughhh i do wonder if i shall ever look down this path again oughhwh woe” out loud for everyone to hear” and frodo just sits there like
AND and. frodo’s like don’t try to stop me from leaving!! i must go!! and the girlies are like SILLY BILLY we mean to go with you!! and he’s like NO NO you don’t get it i’m probably gonna DIE!! and they’re like no no YOU don’t get it we KNOW!! you think we’d let you march off to your doom alone??
okay but don’t forget fredegar “fatty” bolger…the one hobbit who was like “I see you’re going on some sort of quest…have fun with that, I’ll stay here and housesit” and then the freaking NAZGÛL come visit while he’s housesitting
Me, ready to remind everyone about Fatty Bolger: I knew there was a reason Adib and I are friends.
But seriously, my boy Fredegar volunteered to deal with nosy Brandybucks and MAYBE Lobelia, and ended up with a Nazgûl drop in and then got thrown in jail for resisting Saruman.
he wore Frodo’s clothes for this which probably made no difference given the data the Nazgul had to work with but it sure does show his commitment to the body doubling bit
I’m just rereading fellowship and I’m stuck once again on Frodo really very much spending half a year preparing to leave, among other things catapulting the quest into even more tense geopolitical times, allowing the Nine Riders to converge on the Shire and miss him by days; and commuting a very long camping trip to occur in winter, resulting in not just winter storms and less available foraging, but shorter days to hike and stay safe in the sun from orcs/dark things, because of his whimsical plan to leave on his and Bilbo’s birthday at the end of September. It was practically possible to leave earlier - Gandalf’s letter, which went astray, urged him to leave at the end of July at the latest.
But Frodo wanted to leave on their shared birthday. Anyway.
The best part is when he gets to Rivendell and Bilbo criticises him politely for this, not just because it made the whole Fellowship that much harder, but because it “wasn’t the day Bilbo would have picked to let the S.B.s into Bag End…” because, of course, Frodo begins his journey when he sells Bag End to the odious Sackville-Bagginses. So to celebrate Bilbo’s birthday, Frodo gives his beloved home to his local nemesis; a home which he spent most of his lifetime keeping her out of.
Anyway. Bilbo’s a funny little guy. Nephew turns up three months late on a time-sensitive journey about the end of the world, and he reaches for “Weird birthday gift to me, lad, but okay.” 💯, no notes
growing up with a psychologist for a mother was so funny because my sister and i would be like “mo-om why do we have to go to bed now” and she would respond with a long explanation of the research on the effects of sleep on the brain and body followed by another explanation on permissive vs. authoritarian vs. authoritative parenting styles, with citations
this was actually really good in some instances though because i started having insomnia and intrusive thoughts very young and when little me was like “mom i don’t like the thoughts in my head but i can’t make them go away and i can’t sleep” she replied with “oh honey. active thought suppression never works. in fact, wegner et al. (1987) tested this when they told a bunch of people to talk about whatever they wanted, and they told half of them to try not to think about a white bear. people thought more about the white bear when they were trying not to think about it! but when they told the people to think about a red car whenever thoughts of the white bear came to mind, the people had a much easier time not thinking about the white bear. so you see, you can’t force the thoughts out of your mind. you just have to let them pass through, and pick something else that you want to focus on”
and so ever since i was a very little kid i knew how to deal with intrusive thoughts, I’ve had them my whole life but never developed ocd or senses of shame about them cause my mom did her phd on thought suppression and she knows what’s up
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