How Strong Is Aziraphale?

How strong is Aziraphale?

Let’s estimate how heavy is the rock that Aziraphale is lifting in the garden of eden’ scene. Based on the footage we have, I will approximate its shape to a trapezoidal base prism (more specifically, its base is a trapezoid rectangle).

To discover the base measurements, I will use this scene (because is the one where he is closer to the stone, minimizing camera effects) and Mr. Sheen height (1,78m) to do some pixel measurements.

Some math later and using the fact that two edges of the rock accompanies the junction of the larger stones I managed to get the height and smaller base of the rock, but I still needed the other side and the bigger base.

For this, I measured the angle shown. With these informations and trigonometry, I concluded these are the base’s measurements. Now, for its depth (this one was hard and probably the source of possible errors), we need some considerations.

Based on other scenes from the wall, we can safely say that this stone does not represent its thickness. However, we can see the inside of the wall, which is made of three to five layers of pre cut blocks.

I am assuming, now, that Aziraphale’s stone has the depth equivalent of the first outside layer that we see, since antique stone constructions don’t use mortar and the piece could fairly “break” in that spot.

Thanks to our adorable Eve, we have a scene to make some pixel measurement using her hand as reference (an average woman hand has a length of 17,27cm) and I concluded that the stone’s length is 28cm.

Using the right volume formula, the result is V=0,03087m^3.

Now, we need to estimate its density. According to some proposed locations, the garden of eden is in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Based on the book “Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence”-Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, the primary construction stones of this region is limestone and gypsum.

The density of limestone (the most probable one) is 2711kg/m^3, which results in a weight of 83,69kg for our little angel to lift.

To sum up, Aziraphale is lifting approximately 83,69kg (184,5 pounds) without using any knee technique and without even looking discomfortable. Maybe the buff angel we see in the storyboards is not so off, after all.

10 ways in which fans rewrite their favourite television shows:

1) Recontextualization - the production of vignettes, short stories, and novels that seek to fill in the gaps in broadcast narratives and suggest additional explanations for particular actions.

2) Expanding the series timeline - the production of vignettes, short stories, novels that provide background history of characters, etc., not explored in broadcast narratives or suggestions for future developments beyond the period covered by the broadcast narrative.

3) Refocalization - this occurs when fan writers move the focus of attention from the main protagonists to secondary figures. For example, female or black characters are taken from the margins of a text and given centre stage.

4) Moral realignment - a version of refocalization in which the moral order of the broadcast narrative is inverted (the villains become the good guys). In some versions the moral order remains the same but the story is now told from the point of view of the villains.

5) Genre shifting - characters from broadcast science fiction narratives, say, are relocated in the realms of romance or the Western, for example.

6) Cross-Overs - characters from one television programme are introduced into another. For example, characters from Doctor Who may appear in the same narrative as characters from Star Wars.

7) Character dislocation - characters are relocated in new narrative situations, with new names and new identities.

8) Personalization - the inserted of the writer into a version of their favourite television programme. For example, I could write a short story in which I am recruited by the Doctor to travel with him in the TARDIS on a mission to explore what has become of the Manchester United in the twenty-fourth century. (However, as Jenkins points out, many in the fan culture discourage this subgenre of fan writing.)

9) Emotional intensification - the production of what are called “hurt-comfort” stories in which favourite characters, for example, experience emotional crisis.

10) Eroticization - stories that explore the erotic side of a character’s life. Perhaps the best known of this subgenre of fan writing is “slash” fiction, so called because it depicts same-sex relationships (as in Kirk/Spock,etc.)

- Henry Jenkins Textual Poachers pg 162-177

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sixerella

6 years ago

Don’t be afraid to dream

This beloved Cartoon series

started as this webcomic

This best seller Manga

and critically acclaimed hit animated series

started out as this webcomic

And this best seller novel

And award winning blockbuster movie

started out as a serialized free story on somebody’s website.

Don’t be afraid to write big even if you start small.

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sixerella

5 years ago

to me, the big divergence between book omens and tv omens in regards to aziraphale and crowley’s relationship is this

tv omens: 6000 years of pining, nerds who can’t communicate but everyone knows they’re in love anyway, paranoid about their respective sides finding out, fuel for a billion confession fics that are all amazing ngl

book omens: have been married since 4003 BC and get married again every couple of centuries for the sake of aesthetic, knows no one is watching them so they take every opportunity to be incredibly married-for-a-million-years in public

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sixerella

5 years ago

Goth cowboy?

GOTH COWBOY

Cursed Creature here

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sixerella

5 years ago

This^

I love when u love the villain but also don't excuse their actions so you're just "ah yes bastard burn in hell also I love you"

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sixerella

5 years ago

I swear if Jon didn't send this to Michael and post it, I'm gonna riot

I don’t see this image posted enough.

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sixerella

5 years ago

All right so David Tennant and especially Michael Sheen do a dynamite job of acting as each other's characters, but seriously Miranda Richardson deserves just as much love and credit. She jumps from Madame Tracy to Aziraphale and back in seconds, her whole body language shifts, she moves differently for them both, she flails her hands as Aziraphale, she goes utterly terrifyingly batshit while possessed as an angry ghost, she nails it. It's all a phenomenal bit of frikking acting that deserves way more adoration and attention than it gets.

Tell me that's not Aziraphale all over, to say nothing of the bit afterwards where she clutches at herself and frets about where the soldier might have been sent. Excellent.

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sixerella

5 years ago

I just really like the idea of Gabriel and Beelzebub going out to get coffee together every week or so. Just to vent about their jobs and subordinates and humanity.

and like, they go to the same cafe every time and they use this time and place to navigate how to pass as humans.

(under cut because it got a little long)

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