I've Never Seen Good Omens, Which, In Retrospect, Seems Extremely Weird For Me.

I've never seen Good Omens, which, in retrospect, seems extremely weird for me.

I already have a fascination with Abrahamic literature and film. Actually, I love all mythology, especially Greek. It's a special interest, I think. I have a hard time telling people I have a special interest in mythology because I'm an agnostic athiest and profoundly against religious institutions in practice. But as stories, they're brilliant tools for storytelling.

Do you like religion?

Yes.

Do you *like* religion?

No.

I also love the work I've seen from Neil Gaiman (which is admittedly not a lot), and I love the leads (Michael Sheen & David Tennant).

AND, I see that the neurodivergent community at large absolutely loves this show (and I presume the book as well), and I'm *the* neurodivergent. Neurodivergency wishes they were me.

So I'm thinking I should watch Good Omens.

sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs

i hope every single workplace in america strikes and i mean it

Autism is feeling mature compared to your peers as a child and then as an adult feeling extremely immature and childish compared to your peers

Real.

Neurodivergency ≠ lack of moral comprehension. You will never be coddled for intentionally being a bad person.

Stop using autism as an excuse for shitty behaviors. Truly, fuck off.

I don't give a fuck about your autism. Pathetic shit of an excuse if I've ever seen one. If you're seriously ok with going around telling people to go kill themselves, you have a morality problem, not an autism problem.

You're still an asshole even if you're autistic. You're just an autistic asshole. And you don't get to make the rest of us look bad, because you somehow think it's cool to weaponize autism in order to be a steaming shit pile of a person.

Autistic people are perfectly capable of distinguishing right from wrong.

Go fuck yourself.

Something about the fact Covid is being talked about like a common cold now is horrifying to me.

"Oh yeah I got covid again, gonna be resting for a week or so"

"Coworkers came in sick again, now I've got covid. Oh well, whatcha gonna do"

Its normal now. The new strains, the repeated catching, the fact its no longer a pandemic and is now a part of our daily lives.

A deadly disease that can and does permanently disable people who catch it is being treated like an inconvenient stomach bug.

And it was avoidable.

People are dying and being disabled in fucking droves and all anyone can say is "whelp, that's how it goes!" As if there wasn't/aren't vaccines, as if there wasn't/aren't methods that can help (masking, social distancing, etc), as if other places who took it more seriously didn't have better survival rates.

This outcome wasn't a guarantee. Selfish, ableist, racist, conspiracy loving ass-hats made sure it happened.

Looking at the numbers and then talking to people who didn't want to mildly inconvenience themselves to save lives is horrific.

Millions died.

Millions more will follow.

Thousands were disabled by it.

Thousands will follow.

And it. Was all. AVOIDABLE.