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The Welsh Angel 🥺🥺🥺❤❤❤

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

mutuals if you were a video game character I would do every step of your questline and get your good ending

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

eragon does break his right wrist in canon (1st book)

Fun little parallels I realize now I have done.

In canon, and in MIC, Blagden’s right wing is the one that is broken by Barst.

Islanzadí loses her right arm, a specific parallel I put in place to connect her to Blagden.

If the dragonfire burns work out as I’ve somewhat settled on, Arya’s right arm will have the flame scars.

Look at this whack little family sharing single battle war wounds! I’m so proud of their bonding so well.

Matt McCreary

Hi, so, just a question, hadn't the OG bench already been replaced before? The one in the tv show is different than the one that has been replaced now. The bench handles are different…

The “OG” one

The one in the show (s1)

Idk maybe I’m wrong, could you explain if I am?

Hiya! :)

Short answer: for the filming they put more benches there and changed the layout :) it's unlikely that the bench we see in the shot remained in the same place.

Long answer:

In 2017 when they were filming Good Omens there, there were only two benches in that place

But for showing that this is the place where many opposite agents meet they needed more benches, for example here we see five.

So they must have added benches for the filming.

Furthermore the layout of the park benches changed over the years (it has been more than 7 years since filmiing S1! :D ❤), until 2021 there was the layout with two separate benches

Somewhere around 2019 when the show came out the park put the benches together:

and here I suppose people picked one of them as the The Bench.

In 2022 they added two more benches next to them:

This layout remains until now.

So as the OG bench was picked the bench that was in the place, but yes it is not the one that the butts of Michael and David touched, because of the filming changes to the park benches :).

MANIFESTING

From the people who brought you Squid Facts, Horseshoe Crab is Calling

I don't know about you, but I need a little joy right now. Earlier this month, I was walking down the street in my neighborhood and I came upon this:

I was like "Wow. Ok. Yes I AM picking that up." I couldn't resist! What an enticing strategy!

I had to try it myself.

After kicking the idea around with a few friends, I landed on "Horseshoe Crab is calling", and we updated to the modern iOS. Maybe i should have kept the green and red, I'm not sure.

Who the hell wouldn't be intrigued by this?!

(P.S. shout out to Basic Barbie, another street artist in the city who is unapologetically femme in a predominantly male scene. We love Basic Barbie.)

The link on the bottom goes to a list of actionable things people can do to slow climate change. Very curious to see how many people visit the page.

If you would like the print file so you can get business cards printed yourself to pepper around your natural habitat, DM me. Happy to share.

“Manic pixy dream girl” Son & and his “type-A bipolar wine mom” Dad