So While We Wait To See How Low We've Slid On This Slippery Slope, I Thought I'd Give A Primer On How

Lukewarm take: it's not bad but it's not as good as the first season, and a lot of the reasons why can be traced to the fact that the only character that had political convictions died at the end of season 1.

Whyyyyyyy do people think that arcane s2 is good? It’s like comedically bad and so many people are talking like it’s awesome. Red what is your take on why people think it’s good

tune in on friday for my two-hour video about why I think it's good

La décennie du numérique.

Goddamn voting website is not working are you fucking kidding me

There is also the glory of Hogfather's villain, Teatime. In both the English and French version, he gets irritated because people mispronounce his name. But in French, Teatime translates to "L'heure du thé", which he insists is pronounced "Le Redouté" (The Dreaded One)

I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

burning some leitners, as a treat <3 ( tma art tag )

desperate times and measures and so forth, to be fair, but if the entity living in my eyeballs after getting catapulted there from a magic book who’s familiar with various otherworldly shit that I just found out existed earlier that day said they had a bad feeling about going into a dilapidated house in an isolated clearing, I would not go into that house

Clean version of a comic I drew in history class

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It is unclear where that leaves France's government for the immediate future — because of President Macron's odd decision to call snap elections that led to the current nearly-three-way-split legislature, no further elections can be called until the summer.

I was right

I am not trying to ruffle any feathers, but I have to say this before Season 2 comes out, so I can act smug when I’m right. Here is my number one prediction for Good Omens Season 2:

There won’t be a voice-over.

Now hang on. I know it’s a controversial opinion. Let me explain.

I have noticed that virtually every adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s books has some sort of voice over, either diagetic (like Going Postal, where it’s part of the framing device) or non-diagetic (Hogfather). And I get it ! If you’ve read any of the Discworld book and have this weird brain quirk where a part of you is always thinking about how this would translate on screen, you’ve probably noticed two things:

1. There’s visual humour in text form. How ? This man was a genius and a will be missed forever.

2. There’s so much that just can’t be translated on a purely visual level. The footnotes! Should we just leave the footnotes out ? They’re so great! They add so much to the world in general. There are running jokes that only appear in the footnotes ! Should we just accept that it won’t make it to screen ?

Yes. I’m sorry, but yes. Some things will be lost. Maybe you can integrate one of these jokes as recurring background events ? A lot of people are not going to notice though. There’s an expectation that the reader will read all of the words, while the viewer may not see all that’s happening on screen (although, to be fair, you will be noticing new puns on every re-read for years in the case of the Discworld).

(In comparison, adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s work are less prone to voice over. If I remember correctly, Coraline didn’t have one. Sandman starts with a bit of voice-over from the main character, but nothing more after that. I don’t remember any in American Gods. MirrorMask has left me nothing but the memory of a fever dream, so I can’t be sure. )

This is not to say that the voice-over in season one was pointless. It establishes the tone, to start with. If you remember, the opening narration is about the age of the Earth, in which we learn that it was created on the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., and therefore learn its star sign. It’s a good way to show that yes, there are angels in this, and demons, and the garden of Eden, and if you want to think too hard about this, they’ve got you covered. But if you think that these depictions are either blasphemous or religious propaganda, it might be a good time to learn to take a step back (and a joke, in my personal opinion).

But there are definitely instances of narration that would never have happened if season 1 wasn’t a book adaptation. I am thoroughly convinced that Dog’s experimentation with chasing and being chased by cats would have been screen only. Maybe a scene. Maybe something happening in he background. Who knows.

And here’s the thing. Season 2 isn’t the adaptation of a novel. I remember a tweet by Neil Gaiman about how he and Pratchett had a sequel plotted out, but even that isn’t season 2. According to the same, tweet, Season 2 is how we get there.

My number 2 prediction is that there will be a an intense heist scene during which Sadie and Dottie both try to steal some incriminating letters unbeknownst to each other.

Chapters: 4/15 Fandom: Malevolent (Podcast) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Doe/Arthur Lester Characters: Arthur Lester, John Doe, Bella, Parker Yang Additional Tags: Amnesia AU, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Spoilers Through Coda, Arthur POV, John POV, longfic, Plotty, Corporeal!John Series: Part 3 of a universe that doesn’t care and people who do (Lighthouse) Summary:

Arthur Lester awakes terribly injured, being tended to by a so-called nurse named ‘John Doe’. His horrific, oddly realistic nightmares plague him every night, just as his memory loss plagues him every day. Underneath the notice of his nurse, he begins an investigation to find his missing memories.

Having nearly lost Arthur, John contents himself with simply allowing Arthur the space and time to recover. For the first time, he has new companions to help him: Bella, Parker, and little Faroe. However, an old enemy still lingers out in the cosmos, one who earnestly wants to become whole again.

i appreciate that everyone is having a good time w the stabbing memes but every year im a bit like