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Hi! My mum and I had a conversation in the car where I mentioned how funny I found this bit, because I had read it as Anathema thinking that she had, in fact, just been run over by a very campy gay couple, and a campy gay couple wouldn't harm her. But my mum read this as Anathema, who she thought could feel that Crowley was a demon, realizing that she was also in the presence of an angel, and an angel wouldn't harm her. And I guess I just wanted to know which was the intended message?
The version that Terry and I had in mind when we wrote it was the former.
Reading the comments I realize that things that were perfectly obvious to readers in the UK 33 years ago don't land the same way now.
If anyone has been in any doubt about what Anathema was thinking the line that would have made it utterly clear would have been..
...the "two consenting cycle repairmen".
In the UK the 1957 Wolfenden Report recommended that 'homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should be no longer a criminal offence'. And the phrase "consenting adults" became a euphemism for gay men once the recommendations of the report were put into action and male homosexual acts were decriminalized. (It took a decade and happened in 1967.)
So, yes. She thinks they're gay. And she was safe.
[video by tommcgovern27. original caption: this one's going out to anyone living in a studio apartment rn]
haha pretty cool song shame it doesn't have a keyboard solo that fucks super har-
thank you for showing this to me, famous youtuber and comedy icon TomSka
HOT Mesopotamian singles in YOUR AREA !
People will tell me to Touch Grass and I am just like "I live in the FUCKING desert what grass????"
I am trying but they are so fast and crafty
There’s so many shoutouts to mentally ill people who still manage to succeed at school or work and it’s not that they don’t deserve praise and respect, but here’s to the mentally ill people who
- Get bad grades
- Fail classes
- Dropped out of school
- Lost their job
- Are unemployed
- Are on welfare benefits
- Rely economically on family members or a partner
Your worth isn’t defined by how productive you are or whether you live up to society’s demands and expectations and you are just as worthy of respect and compassion as the mentally ill person who juggles a university education with a full time job.
tch... pathetic creature
It's Elephants Foot Friday!!!!
RB to instantly receive 8000 roentgens of radiation
[start i.d.: a drawing of sam nightingale like needy from the pool scene in jennifer’s body. she looks at the viewer with a soft, smug look, drenched in green slime. the entire image has a green/teal haze. end i.d.]
yeah. two years ago when you were still socially relevant.
They’re adding “skill issue” to the dsm
Have you ever had an dream smack you with such intensity that you have no choice but to drop everything and make it a reality?
My friend said this but this is a very important point that yall need to understand.
Shel Silverstein wrote and illustrated poetry for children,
drew cartoons for Playboy,
and made the most terrifying album cover of all time.
Don't put artists in a box.