Omg Suzy Youre So Crazy

Omg Suzy you’re so crazy

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i love paintings that look as if they have ghosts in them

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

as someone who has been obsessed with the good place for three years and good omens for six months i really like the way that these particular medias depict heaven and hell.

they’re both broken systems but they’re broken in different ways. the good place’s heaven and hell are functioning generally like they’re supposed to, with the leaders of the good place being overall comically nice and the leaders of the bad place being comically mean. but their methods are so outdated that hell is overcrowded with humans who really didn’t do that many evil things- but being a good person has become so complicated that no one has gotten into heaven for over 500 years. this is a story about the complexity of life, about actions vs unintended consequences. and convincing the good and bad places respectively that something is wrong would be a forced catalyst to rebuild the entire system that has been in place since before the beginning of time. and no angel or demon wants to think about that. so they wait until the humans do it.

good omens is obviously more biblically compliant. their hell is also presumably overcrowded, since they mention that they’re extremely understaffed, but unlike the good place we don’t see any humans in heaven or hell, save a few nazis who talk to some demons. they don’t talk a lot about humans in the afterlife, but they focus on the questionable aspects of heaven and hell themselves. because when it comes down to it, heaven and hell are not that different. sure, one side is good and one side is evil by name, but they’re really just labels that don’t mean much. the only reason they seem to even exist at this point is to end the human race. there’s no order, their leaders keep running off, and everyone keeps trying to follow god’s plan because that’s always been the plan and plans cannot be changed- except, of course, aziraphale and crowley. but no one thinks about change except them, because then everyone would have to rethink the system that has been in place since before the beginning of time. it’s not about good or evil, really- it’s about choosing sides and following the plan. it always has been. and it’s not like they can just abandon their sides, either, because then they need replacements. cue the latte. (this is not an endorsement on coffee theory)

broken systems in the afterlife means chaos in both of these franchises. demons show grace and angels show the opposite, because what do those words even mean? good place michael is evil to humans despite his fascination with the human race, because he wants to, but then because he’s supposed to. aziraphale and crowley have spent so much time around humans that they’ve become more of humans than an angel and a demon. janet was built to be a permanent assistant for humans, and then became so advanced once spending time with team cockroach that she developed complex emotions that weren’t even technically possible for a being like her. even adam, the literal antichrist, was raised as a normal child, therefore giving him genuine love for those around him, and allowing him to reject his “inherent evil nature,” so to speak. all of these characters are SUPPOSED to be something.

these are medias about broken systems in the afterlife, because the lines between good and evil are so blurred. these are medias about being human.

and i don’t know about you guys, but i think that’s insanely cool.

My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.