Tumbling Like Alice

maniacalmole

(this art gave me some emotions, so…..)

Crowley laughed out loud at his own absurd joke that would not have been at all funny had less alcohol been involved. Aziraphale couldn’t help laughing at him. He giggled and tottered, and then he tottered right into Crowley.

Crowley nearly dropped his glass.

He felt like he’d been shot in the chest. At first he thought Aziraphale must have hit him with the bottle, but both the angel’s arms were wrapped around him, pressing the bottle and glass against his back. That didn’t explain the sudden pang in his chest, then, or why he was finding it hard to breathe. Maybe he really had knocked the wind out of him. The angel had a hard head sometimes, he thought with a smirk, but surely that mop of hair of his would have cushioned the blow a bit.

“Aziraphale–” Crowley said. But he did not tell him to get off.

The angel was still giggling, his shoulders shaking and his voice muffled by Crowley’s shirt.

“Az–” He forced himself to take a deep breath. Aziraphale tightened his arms around him. Crowley stumbled back a few paces, Aziraphale still clinging to him, until his back hit the table. He set his glass on it and gripped the edge to steady himself.

The ache in his chest was still there. Right by the angel. Crowley was starting to understand. It wasn’t a bad feeling, really. Not exactly pain. Something else.

“Ah,” Crowley said. Aziraphale had grown quiet. Crowley put one hand on his back, the other on that mop of hair of his. “Okay,” he said, smiling a little. That’s what it is.

lukehemmingsisapenguin:
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king-emare

Oh shit. I never realized this.

sapphiredoves

This is a depressing reality every 4th of July.

nabulus

So they go around the world bombing and killing people and then expect us to feel sorry for them?? Nah son, you deserve it.

antisleep

me if i ever find out any of my neighbors are veterans

open-plan-infinity

Hmmm. I mean, just because the army as an institution is flawed and damaging doesn’t mean everyone in it is a terrible person. To paint every single veteran with the same brush is reductive and to make light of the debilitating mental disorders many have just seems wrong. Like yes, fuck the military as an institution completely 100%, but blaming disabled ex-front-line infantry maybe isn’t the best direction for our anger, perhaps.

klezmo

A lot of veterans are poor people who were intentionally targeted by scouting programs coming to their schools starting at age 13, and most of them are worse off coming back than they were to start with… let’s be courteous to folks with PTSD

nativepeopleproblems

Don’t be an ableist fuckface. Intentionally triggering someone is disgusting.

tikkunolamorgtfo

I thought people on this godforsaken website at least understood this one basic principal, but apparently not, so let me make it crystal clear:

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE SELECTIVELY PROGRESSIVE

You can hate Ann Coulter. But if you suggest that she deserves to be raped, you are a misogynist.

You can hate Woody Allen. But if you say he’s part of a Jewish conspiracy or joke about putting him in an oven, you are an antisemite.

You can hate Michael Vick. But you call for him to be lynched or call him the N-word, you are an anti-black racist.

You can hate Caitlyn Jenner. But if you misgender her, or make comments about her genitalia, you are a transphobe.

And you can hate the military. But if you deliberately try to trigger veterans with PTSD, you are an ableist piece of shit.

You do no get to pick and choose which people to treat fairly when it comes to acknowledging and combatting prejudice.

Not liking a person is not a free pass to disregard anti-prejudicial words and actions. Either you respect marginalized peoples as a whole (even if you don’t like an individual), or you don’t respect them at all. There is no middle ground.

seeyouwithlaughterlines

If anyone really like, agrees with harassing veterans with PTSD or anything similar, unfollow me right the fuck now. I don’t want you following me.

You don’t have to like the military, it’s massively fucked up but y'all needs understand that most people in the military are victims of propaganda and are usually poor or part of a minority who are taken advantage of in order to join.

open-plan-infinity

^^^ All of these comments tbh

richesxx

Mhmm

fox-bright

They offered the ASVAB at my HIGH SCHOOL. They CAME INTO MY SCHOOL and said “If you guys take the military aptitude test, you get free donuts and you miss the first half of the day.” They brought in hot dogs.

They brought food to a place where half of us were in poverty if not more, and they said, all you have to do is take a little test and you’ll get a snack, you don’t have to come in to school on time (an extra full hour of sleep that morning!). So we did. By the hundreds.

My younger brother, a year behind me in school, scored “the highest we’ve ever seen in the whole damn state, son,” and for the next. Three. Fucking. Years. They harassed him. He got phone calls from every goddamn branch of the military. People would show up at our house at random, trying to recruit him. They’d tell him horror stories about how much better it is to enlist than be drafted (as if there’d been a draft in our lifetime!). They called our Mom at work. They sent recruiters to talk to our stepfather, who’d been in the Army, to try to get a handle on my brother’s weak points.

THREE FUCKING YEARS OF THIS.

My brother is the second child of six. My brother was thirteen by the time he had his own pillow for the first time. My brother was hungry all the time, dizzy from hunger some days–and oh, sidenote, my mother, stepfather and father are all abusive assholes who’d as soon hit you as look at you.

Guess what year my brother graduated?

If you guessed “May, 2002,” or “almost immediately after 9/11,” ding ding ding ding!

The ONLY REASON my brother didn’t join the military, in the end, is that his girlfriend at the time said “If you enlist, I will never speak to you again.” Her dad was a military man, and he was also an abusive shithead, so in her head the two were inextricable. But if she’d said “go for it?” Or if she hadn’t said anything at all?

Something like half of the males in my fucking graduating class enlisted.

It was better than starving.

And a great number of those are dead now.

I hate the US military industry. I’m disgusted by the things our military does. But by god I don’t blame our veterans for what was done to them.

Rich people don’t enlist.

The ones who join the military are the ones who are hopeful that for once they’ll know that they’re getting a meal, not just today but tomorrow too.

garrettauthor

Every damn point of the thread.

lynoth715

The soldiers are, by and large, as much a victim as anyone else.

mistakescontinuetobemade

Also don’t forget that as huge part of the American military are non-citizens hoping to become citizens via their service. A lot don’t even get that. The people starting the wars and consigning so many to death aren’t the ones in combat. They have “heel spurs”.