Back in those days, I think I was the only one of all of us who had specific controls and patterns for specific tasks, and it was VERY important to me to keep those things consistent.
These days, most of the screens you see actors interact with are semi-interactive. Usually, they run a flash animation that will change when you click a key, tap the screen, or click the mouse. Some of the more complicated touchscreen ones have hotspots that do different things. So for an actor working with those screens today, the order of operations is very important, because they affect what happens on the screen. For us, it was backlit plexiglass with the occasional blinking light.
But you know what’s cool? The LCARS interface that you see all over the Enterprise D from 30 years ago *clearly* influenced the screens you see on all your favorite science fiction shows, and I love that.
it’s hilarious how polite and proper aziraphale is with everyone except crowley. like his inflection is completely different talking to anathema or gabriel compared to when he’s talking to crowley. with crowley he’s always very enthusiastic or expressive, or whiny or irritable or passive aggressive. it’s literally Bitchiness As Intimacy
The Fact Is that aziraphale feels safe and comfortable being himself around crowley. he can be very dorky and excitable, and he can be in a foul mood, he can roll his eyes or be irritated with crowley and it’s okay, because crowley isn’t gonna freak out about it and give him a long lecture about how unbecoming it is of an angel that basically amounts to reminding him how inadequate he is for feeling things. he’s just gonna give him a Look like he does in the diner when aziraphale says “do you have any better ideas? or one, single, better idea?” bc he knows aziraphale is just being petty.
like i do love thinking about how aziraphale seems to feel safe expressing himself in excited and positive ways, i just really love how obviously aziraphale lets his guard down and lets himself be imperfect around crowley
One reason that I am so passionate about aromantic and asexual people being included in discussions about the queer community is because we are so few in number.
It is so gosh darn difficult to find other ace and aro people irl. We’re a small community that mostly connects through the internet because we are a small percentage of the population and not that many people know about us yet. So, most of the support we get irl is from gay, bi/pan, and trans people. Not other ace and aro people.
I have two irl asexual friends now, but for the first six years I was out as ace I had none. Maybe an online person here or there, but no physical presence. Nobody to eat lunch with or vent to or hug when things got bad. Instead, the support I got was from my gay and bi friends. They supported me, and I supported them in return. The very first person I ever came out as asexual to was a gay guy I was friends with at the time.
He was there for me and I was there for him in return. He was relieved to find out I was ace actually, because that made me another queer person he could talk to. And soon after I connected with several bi and pan people at my high school. We were able to stand up for each other, get things done, relate to each other.
Including ace and aro people in the queer community means giving ace and aro people a support system. A safe space. An opportunity to relate and be related to. To love and be loved. To protect and be protected. When you’re already included by default it’s easy to sit in your leather wing backed chair in your ivory tower and say “Well these people should just form their own community.” but in reality that just doesn’t work.
Ace and aro people will always have their own community, yes. But also lesbians will have their own community. Trans people will have their own community. Gay men will have their own community, bi people, pan people, non binary people, the list goes on. But all the people in those communities can form one super group that relates, that supports each other. That unites under the umbrella of “not totally cis and hetero at the same time”.
It’s a support system that ace and aro people desperately need. We have bad and good experiences because of our orientation, many of which other queer people can relate to. We see the rest of the community and go “Same hat!!!” and feel a little less alone. And yeah. That includes heteroromantic aces and heterosexual aros. They need that support too, because believe it or not, heteronormative society isn’t kind to them either. They understand a lot more than you think. They’re not trying to join because it’s trendy. They get that same hat feeling just like you and I.
Don’t be rude in the notes please. I won’t be debating.
I’m not getting my hopes up and I’m certainly not trying to get anyone else’s hopes up, but I just want to stare at this suspiciously for a few minutes because it’s not actually an outright “no there won’t be a second season”
I am holding on to the lack of him flatly rejecting the idea of a second season with ALL of my teeth.
EVERY SINGLE TEETH. EVERY TOOTH.
Listen, listen, just set Michael Sheen and David Tennant loose in character with a camera and I’d be happy.
