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[queenofdestiny]

We're going to see our darlings again ! (I'm still in denial of episode 6 tho)

We are ineffably elated to confirm that Good Omens will return for a third season! This calls for a round of hot chocolate and sweet treats!

@neil-gaiman

#anthony j crowley #Aziraphale #good omens

[queenofdestiny]

For me it's "at some point you need to write the plot between the plot twists"

[queenofdestiny]

I feel like some of y'all are forgetting about the main, thematic point of Good Omens.

"Most human mistakes are made not from humans being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but rather from humans being fundamentally human." - the voice of god, episode 1x1. (sorry if I got the quote a bit wrong, I'm working from memory here.)The entire point of Good Omens season one, and what will undoubtedly prove itself to be the point of seasons two and three, is the wonderful chaos of humanity.

In the very first scene, Crowley says "not very subtle of the almighty, is it? A fruit tree in the middle of the garden with a giant 'do not eat' sign," a quote which is immediately followed by Crowley wondering if, in tempting humanity to eat the apple, he actually did something good.And the show will spend the rest of its run proving that he did. Not good by Heaven's definition, but good in the human sense of right and wrong, which GO also spends a lot of time distinguishing from one another.

Because ultimately, Armeggedon is stopped not by Heavenly ideas or divine intervention, but rather by the chaos of humans. By the utterly human need to disobey, to mess things up, to eat the apple just to see what will happen. And it's a trait that Aziraphale and Crowley have fallen in love with. Because Good Omens is a show about an angel and a demon, meant to be heaven incarnate and hell incarnate, who instead fell in love with humanity and each other. And so they became human incarnate.

I'm worried people won't get my reference so I'll quote it here. "I hoped you'd be heaven incarnate. I was worried you'd be hell incarnate. But you're better. You're human incarnate." Aziraphale to Adam, 1x5. Adam saves the world not by being good in a way that's simple and pure, but rather by being human, and finding, in that humanity, the mundane, chaotic, messy things that make us beautiful.

Finally, this theme is tied together in the final episode with three quotes. One from Crowley: "well, time to leave the garden, then?" One from Adam: "Dog. Don't you dare walk over that fence, because then I'd have to leave this garden, and that would be a very bad thing." And one from God's voiceover: "Adam didn't see why everyone got so mad about people eating their apples. And there never was an apple, in Adam's mind, that wasn't worth the trouble that you got in for eating it."

It's almost too on the nose, but I love it. And season two has the same themes, it's just a little quieter about them. The love between Aziraphale and Crowley as well as Gabriel and Beelzebub is a rebellious act; a moment of humanity that heaven tries to suppress. An "institutional problem". They're both breaking out of the roles they were supposed to play by doing the very human thing of wanting something entirely outside of strict ideas of right and wrong.

Good Omens is a celebration of the chaos of humanity and a condemnation of the Christian ideas of purity and original sin.

In this sense, I think it's incredibly fitting that the main characters, and the characters who are consistently held up as the most obvious example of this phenomenon, are a queer couple. A couple who refused to fall into predestined roles; arbitrary ideas of good and evil. A queer couple who fell in love with humanity and while doing that, fell in love with each other.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 1 #gomens #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable bureaucracy #gabriel x beelzebub #meta #long post #analysis #good omens meta #good omens analysis

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I've noticed that people have started spreading the 1992 Good Omens script around. Please don't. If you've got it up, please take it down. There's a mess of serious and real legalities involved, and I don't want to have to start being a dick and asking for copyright takedowns and all of that, and I don't want to have to regret letting it out into the world. Just take it down, unshare, delete links. Thank you.

[queenofdestiny]

Just putting that here

#sherlock #supernatural #doctor who #fandom #Tumblr

[queenofdestiny]

“How many people have died to achieve this world domination of yours?” “769.” “…What?” “769 people died to achieve my plans. I counted them, and had each of their names etched on my throne so I never forget what my victory cost the world. Now tell me, how many have you killed to see me dead?”

[queenofdestiny]

motion capture actress 曦曦鱼sakana shows how to move in games

[queenofdestiny]

get you a man who can do both

[queenofdestiny]

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod

#hazbin hotel

[queenofdestiny]

Hey ! ❤️ sorry to bother you but I can't find the post where there was a list of all the scenes that were improvised in Good Omens. If you happen to find the post, or to know the few scenes that were not in the script, I will be so grateful 🥹

Hiya! :) Improvised scenes (haven't seen the post I'm afraid :)<3):

In the First Feason:

The end of the bench scene in the dinosaur park

Shadwell's "Sergeant Pepper" when he meets Crowley

In the Second season:

Crowley ordering the sherry

Aziraphale huhhing the tumour jar

Crowley's Flower of Scotland

Furfur mispronouncing Aziraphale

Crowley goofing with the fez in the magic shop

[queenofdestiny]

Hey ! ❤️ sorry to bother you but I can't find the post where there was a list of all the scenes that were improvised in Good Omens. If you happen to find the post, or to know the few scenes that were not in the script, I will be so grateful 🥹

Hiya! :) Improvised scenes (haven't seen the post I'm afraid :)<3):

In the First Feason:

The end of the bench scene in the dinosaur park

Shadwell's "Sergeant Pepper" when he meets Crowley

In the Second season:

Crowley ordering the sherry

Aziraphale huhhing the tumour jar

Crowley's Flower of Scotland

Furfur mispronouncing Aziraphale

Crowley goofing with the fez in the magic shop

[queenofdestiny]

No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.

#six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #soc #crooked kingdom #jesper fahey #nina zenik #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #kanej

[queenofdestiny]

If anyone's curious about the Crows' birthdays and ages, I made this handy spreadsheet while working out everyones' timelines:

Note: even though their astrological signs are all "canon" information, Nina's astrological sign is potentially wrong/contradictory to the text. We're told in Chapter 6 of Six of Crows that Inej is "just a few months younger" than Nina, but their respective astrological signs make Nina nearly a full year older than Inej.

#useful #meta #dates #six of crows #soc #the crows #nina zenik #matthias helvar #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kaz brekker

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Okay hear me out. At the end of season 1 of good omens, we don't know precisely when the body swap takes place right ? And Crowley and Aziraphale couldn't know when exactly heaven and hell would be coming for us. That gives me a theory: around the bus ride back to London, they swapped their bodies which means that Aziraphale seeing the bookshop intact and remarking the new books would actually be Crowley and Crowley's delighted smile at the sight of the Bentley would be Aziraphale being happy to see the car, knowing how important it is to Crowley.

That would explain the dialog at the park, around the ice cream shop because it would be Crowley and not Aziraphale asking about the car and Aziraphale asking about the bookshop.

And the cherry on top of this theory is that it would mean that Crowley knew Aziraphale's bookshop well enough to see that there were knew books in it.

Please tell me if it is canon so that I might avoid humiliation but I don't think it is.

#good omens season 1 #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #crowley #aziraphale #body swap

[queenofdestiny]

I think we have all wondered what is up with Bildad the Shuhite's glasses. Not only this minisode happens waaaay before glasses were invented, it also occurs between two scenes where Crowley was not wearing any type of eye covering; the Flood and the Crucifixion. So why is he wearing glasses in that time period?

I may have an idea about it.

All three minisodes are essentially Aziraphale's memories, we see the events the way Aziraphale remembers them. In all three minisodes Crowley is more suave, more self-assured, more clever, more dashing than he normally is. That's because that is how Aziraphale perceives him. Remember the bathtub in Hell? That's Aziraphale trying to be the Crowley he sees.

This means that we need to take everything we see in the minisodes with a grain of salt. Did Aziraphale really gorge on ox ribs like a starved caveman? or present-day high-standards Aziraphale is exaggerating? Did Bildad really call him "angel" or is that something that current day Aziraphale added to the memory because he is so used to it now? So, maybe when he is remembering Bildad, there may be points where he can't recall how Crowley's eyes looked like in that particular moment (remember Crowley used to use miracles to hide them). So Aziraphale's memory autocorrects that detail by putting glasses on him. We, humans, do that all the time with our memories, adding and extrapolating the parts we are not clear on, it is automatic. Aziraphale might be doing the same to fill the gaps. And maybe that is how Crowley ended up with anachronistic glasses in antiquity.

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #bildad the shuhite

[queenofdestiny]

“Thin Dark Duke” is my new name for Crowley. 💀

#good omens #screenshot #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #michael sheen #david tennant #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable husbands

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Guys guys guys I'm watching season 1 of good omens again and I don't know if you saw it but in episode 5, the security guard at the tadfield air force base is reading American gods by Neil gaiman, I don't have a screenshot but I'm so proud of myself because it's the first Easter egg I find by myself in a series so yeah

#good omens #good omens season 1 #easter egg #neil gaiman #american gods