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had I received the memo I would have lit it on fire
Squick is a useful word that allows you to say “I don’t enjoy this and am in fact the opposite of enjoying it, but there’s nothing wrong with you enjoying it.”
It’s a good word and the only reason I can think of to want it to not be used is bc it flies in the face of the purity police’s wanting to make all things they personally dislike “problematic” and “gross”.
Squick is also a useful word when you don’t want to misuse/dilute “trigger.”
Example: I am deeply squicked by descriptions of characters eating in a messy fashion that would leave food and grease all over their faces. I don’t have any trauma or phobias associated with it, so it’s not a trigger. And it’s not something that’s widely disapproved of, like, say, murder, so it’s not something you’re likely to tag for. (After all, how many “cute” photos have you seen of Baby’s First Attempt To Use A Spoon?) I just think it’s really gross, and if it pops up a lot or in detail it’s very likely to tank my enjoyment of what I’m reading, so I’d prefer not.
That, dear children, is a squick. I am squicked by messy eaters.
Please bring the word back in 2020. It’s incredibly useful.
People, I am BEGGING you to bring back “squick”. It is so. damn. useful.
Seriously, when/why did it fall out of use among the rest of you? I still use it, everyone I know (in and out of fandom) still uses it.
its called Color Theory and we been knew. “Art is subjective” but there are certain “rules” you can follow to make things more appealing in a subconscious/subliminal kind of way.
Black Widow: May 1st 2020 Eternals: November 6th 2020 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV series): Fall 2020 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: February 12th 2021 Loki (TV series): Spring 2021 WandaVision (TV series): Spring 2021 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: May 7th 2021 What If…? (TV series, animated): Summer 2021 Hawkeye (TV series): Fall 2021 Thor: Love and Thunder: November 5th 2021 Blade: ?
Observe Adults. Know that each and every one of them is faking it. At no point was any adult actually given an instruction manual on how to do adulthood. Inside each of them is someone exactly like you.
For those outside the UK, you can also listen to it on the BBC page I linked to. It plays anywhere in the world. And if you listen to it on the BBC site, they will know that people all over the world are listening and that it is successful, and they will put it up again, and put up things like it, like replaying Anansi Boys, or Neverwhere. Which they won’t if people are listening to it on YouTube, where the BBC cannot track any success metrics….
I’m not trying to shame the previous poster, who is trying to be helpful. I’m just trying to remind all of you that the BBC is broadcasting Radio for Free to EVERYWHERE, and that you listening to it on their platform makes a difference.
A Paris holiday! Crowley would regret this, even though it was his idea, until he got some booze into him. Worth it to see his best angel so happy.
Putting the details in a reblog, just to keep things tidy.
This was all inspired by my favorite episode of Travel Man with Richard Ayoade (who by the way would make an incredible Aziraphale) where he takes Mel Giedroyc to Paris for a couple days. It just charmed the heck out of me, and I thought, You know who would like this? Aziraphale.
First they make macarons under instruction at Le Cordon Bleu. Crowley’s not feelin it. Then to a perfumerie for a bespoke fragrance. (And thanks to @thunderheadfred for putting together a scent profile for Crowley – that’s one of her specialties. Still bugging her to write up a full post about it.)
The Notre Dame, spire intact. The historian in Aziraphale regrets not going inside, but all things change. He’s not sorry he traded it for more time with Crowley.
@thegoodomensdumpster wrote about Shakespeare & Company, one of the most famous book shops in the world. They, a Parisian, were kind enough to give me lots of info about Paris! They also run my favorite GO Tumblr.
To Le Procope, oldest cafe in Paris, for dinner and then to a bar to get toasted on absinthe. Crowley’s only got eyes for Aziraphale.
Thanks to @piratical-princess, my actual sister, for helping me fix a whole lot of stuff in this. I love you. Please don’t ever let me try to draw a book shop or cathedral again.
remember when we were kids and we used to all sing that demented version of the barney song where it was like “i hate you you hate me let’s go out and kill barney”
i don’t remember ever doing this. you were a fucked up kid
i hate you
you hate me
let’s go out an kill barney
with a baseball bat
and a 4x4
NO MORE PURPLE DINOSAUR
really? Our version was more like..
i hate you
you hate me
lets go out and kill barney
with a great big gun
two bullets to the head
WOOPS LOOK AT THAT, BARNEY’S DEAD.
Ours was like:
JOY TO THE WORLD THAT BARNEY’S DEAD
WE BARBECUED HIS HEAD
DON’T WORRY ‘BOUT THE BODY
WE FLUSHED IT DOWN THE POTTY
AND ROUND AND ROUND IT GOES
AND ROUND AND ROUND IT GOES
AND ROUND AND ROUUUUUND AND ROUND IT GOES
I hate you,
You hate me,
Let’s get together and kill Barney,
With an AK-47 and a shot to the head,
Uh-oh Barney’s dead
The one I knew was:
I hate you,
you hate me,
let’s get together and kill barney
sorry kids but Barney’s dead,
we just shot him in the head
a b c d e f g
barney is my enemy
stick a rifle up his nose
pull the trigger there he goes
sorry kids barney’s dead
here he is without a head
You’re all fucked up
Barney: *exists*
Adolescents on the playground:
I hate you
You hate me
Let’s get together and kill Barney
With a 1 shot, 2 shot, 3 shot, 4
No more purple dinosaur
This isn’t about Barney, but I remember one that went “abcdefg gummy bears are chasing me. One is red and one is blue. One is stuck inside my shoe. And now I’m running for my life because the red one has a knife!”
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