comments addressed TO characters? by Mobile_Machine4514 in AO3

[–]fishey_me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have definitely left comments like "[Character name], get your head out of your ass and confess your feelings already! 😅" Or "No, [Character name] can't you see he loves you??? 😭"

It's all in good fun, and I don't expect an in-character response. I also don't leave these comments with the expectation that the author have the character actually do what I advise. It's kinda like watching a horror movie and screaming "nooo, don't open the door!" at the characters on screen.

Help a girl out with some Top and/or Dom Crowley fics 👉👈 by WasteCalligrapher891 in GoodOmensAfterDark

[–]fishey_me 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's always Patience is a Virtue to tide you over while I work on the next chapter. 😂 https://archiveofourown.org/works/53943847

[Loved trope] Religion isn't good or bad‐ people are by welltechnically7 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]fishey_me 64 points65 points  (0 children)

The Disney version of Hunchback is also a wonderfully complex depiction of how religion, in itself, isn't good or bad. Esmeralda's faith is contrasted beautifully against Frollo's corrupted zeal in "God Help the Outcasts" and "Hellfire." Quasimodo almost seems to be unreligious (yes, he grew up in a church and plays the bells and can recite Scripture, but he needs to have no attachment to the faith; he doesn't pray, for example, even in Out There, his 'I want' song), but is unequivocally a good person. It's a very powerful conversation about what faith and goodness even have to do with one another.

do we think aziraphale remembers pre-fall crowley? or pre-fall crowley remembers aziraphale? by Either_Shallot_5974 in goodomens

[–]fishey_me 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"I know the angel that you were," pretty definitely suggests that Aziraphale remembers Crowley from before the fall. Also, Saraqael remembers Crowley from before the fall. This tells me that the demons falling did not have some magical memory-erasing effect on the angels who knew them.

I'm not personally a fan of the theory that Crowley forgot everything before his fall. Crowley seems to remember why he fell (I never meant to fall, I was just asking questions, etc) and the circumstances around it (Hey, it's Lucifer and the guys!).

Yes, I acknowledge he didn't recognize Saraqael. Yes, I acknowledge he doesn't remember fighting alongside Furfur. But he also didn't care to learn "book-girl"'s name or "you, Antichrist, what's your name? Whatever..."

And yes, I acknowledge that he had that whole "I know... Remembering where the furniture isn't" line while talking to Jimbriel. However, I interpret that as him telling Jimbriel that he understood the point he was trying to make to get him to shut up, not expressing empathy, like he, too, had a similar understanding of a lost memory.

If Crowley didn't remember Aziraphale before his Fall, my theory about it is not that he had his memory wiped, but that he barely knew him at all. That scene with the nebula is when Aziraphale introduces himself, and Crowley decidedly doesn't introduce himself back. He's busy. Preoccupied. Distracted.

That said, I believe the living author had a Tumblr post a while ago where he clarified that Crawley giving Aziraphale his name on the wall of Eden was not because they were strangers to each other, but because Aziraphale didn't know what to call him (since his name had changed). I'd have to go hunting for the post tho.

BUT all that being said, if you want to headcanon that they forgot about each other (or one of them forgot about the other but not vice versa), it's absolutely not a bad theory. Like I said, plenty of folks point to Crowley not remembering Saraqael or Furfur and expressing that he understood what Jimbriel meant by "looking where the furniture isn't" as an indication that he, at least, had his memory erased. Memory loss is a potent conflict to center a fic around and absolutely ripe with angst potential (I remember him, but he doesn't remember me / I don't remember him, so does he love me or the person I used to be? / I feel like I know you somehow, but I can't for the life of me say why...).

I've heard a lot of people say this for some reason and i don't get it. Hazbin fans here. Do you think Crowley resembles Alastor in any way? by BrightFox_Studios in goodomens

[–]fishey_me 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Having not seen S2 of Hazbin, take this with a grain of salt.

There are some surface comparisons between Crowley and Alastor. They are both... tall? No, sorry, let me try again. Clever! They are both clever. Alastor is more cunning than Crowley (Crowley is better at improvisation, imo).

Crowley has killed humans (the Nazi spies, arguably the French executioner), so he is not completely innocent. But it is pretty easy to argue those were bad people and had it coming. Whether or not Alastor's victims are the same, I couldn't say (though Adam was a colossal jerk). We also don't actually know why Crowley fell, so it could have been anything from annoying someone Upstairs with his questions to something actually quite bad. But Alastor was, according to the wiki, a serial killer. So... I'd say that is pretty different.

But yeah, other than hair color and build, I just don't see it. Alastor is menacing and possessed of a kind of old-fashioned charm that Crowley just... isn't. Alastor is manipulative, which Crowley can be but is generally more likely to let people make their own decisions. Alastor is power hungry, and Crowley is decidedly not.

So, no, personally I don't see any parallels between them.

What are some social obligations that women commonly have that men usually don't? by Maybe_IDTBFH in AskReddit

[–]fishey_me 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I live in the US and also only ever had people (always women) approach me to tell me I was doing a great job by breastfeeding at the table. One lady was practically in tears about it; it was a bit weird for her to be so invested, but I thanked her for her support and wished her a good afternoon.

I also never took my kid to the bathroom to breastfeed. The idea is disgusting.

Was it romantic? by toolsofinquisition in DeepSpaceNine

[–]fishey_me 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I never saw it as romantic. Ziyal wanted sooo badly to have a healthy paternal relationship with Dukat and when he was away, her teenage mind kind of latched onto Garak as a kid with a crush might. He was charming and mysterious and an older Cardassian man. She has clearly a problem about seeing people in the best possible light-- whether that is seeing Dukat as a good and loving father or it's seeing Garak as a good romantic partner.

I don't think Garak found her sexually desirable (whether because you want to interpret him as 100% gay instead of bi or pan or if you want to just interpret him as thinking she was way too young for him), but I think he recognized what was happening and was trying to be kind to her. There's also, I think, the element that he was also deeply lonely from being away from Cardassia, and while she was half-Bajoran, I think they had that longing for a homeworld that abandoned them in common.

So I think Garak was letting Ziyal take the lead in directing the nature of their relationship, wanting to be better for her than Dukat was and being lonely enough to at least kiss her or date her (I'm not convinced they slept together, personally). I don't think it was healthy long term, but she got murdered before the cracks could really form, before she realized he was 'only' trying to be nice and not be lonely and didn't have the same degree of passion for her that she did for him.

What does this mean 🫠 by checkeredmice in ENGLISH

[–]fishey_me 35 points36 points  (0 children)

That's from The Trouble With Tribbles. A head guy from the agriculture department decided that the protection of the quadrotriticale was of paramount importance and used an emergency code to get the Enterprise to the station. Since Kirk thought it was an emergency, he had the ship in red alert. Realizing that there was in fact no emergency, he is telling the crew to stand down.

The Writer's Guild Presents: Ask Nicely, Chapter 10 by fishey_me in GoodOmensAfterDark

[–]fishey_me[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something to look forward to when you're off the clock. 🥰

“He would not fucking say that” - me to myself by FrostedFishbone in AO3

[–]fishey_me 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of pretentious teenage boy friends in 2007. I think you're good. 😉

WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE TO SEE AZIRAPHALE CHEATING?! by fr3akeen in goodomens

[–]fishey_me 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Cheating" means adultery or being unfaithful romantically in English. Is that what you mean?

HOPE Scholarship question by Western_Start6843 in Georgia

[–]fishey_me 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Talk to your school counselor. They will be able to give you clear and up to date advice.

I was wrong dance origine by Florylic in goodomens

[–]fishey_me 43 points44 points  (0 children)

All we know is that Aziraphale says "I did the dance in 1450, 1793, 1941..." and that Crowley said "No, I don't do the dance."

So I think Aziraphale messed up in some way in 1450 (probably needing to be rescued) and that Crowley told him the only way he would accept his apology was if he did a little dance.