GOOD OMENS S3 IS FILMING IN JANUARY 🥹
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM LIKE THIS AGAIN—
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Do we have any Jane Austen + Crowley interactions fic in this household?
Thanks and have a nice day ^^
We have a #jane austen tag, the last post on which features a couple. But here is a post dedicated to Crowley & Jane Austen fics...
Goodbye, Dear Jane by siephilde42 (T)
Aziraphale asks Crowley if he has ever gotten attached to another person, and Crowley admits that he grew quite fond of a certain author. Crowley feels guilty because he never properly said goodbye to her, so Aziraphale proposes a trip through time.
well-versed in etiquette, extraordinarily nice by laiqualaurelote (G)
Once she had said to him, hoping to probe: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
To which Mr Crowley had only responded: “What do you know of the universe, Miss Austen?”
In which Jane Austen, criminal mastermind and aspiring novelist, pulls off the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery, with the help of a certain demon.
All those truths (some not so universally acknowledged) by strawberriesandtophats (E)
In which Aziraphale and Crowley meet up at a party during the Regency Period and have a great time eavesdropping on a certain famous author.
Literature and Liquor by Tossukka (T)
The year is 1809. Crowley’s friend Jane is a master smuggler of both goods and information who seems to know exactly who people are and how they act. She asks Crowley’s help with a larger robbery she has been planning, and Crowley agrees without hesitation. Meanwhile Aziraphale has been helping her friend, a brilliant author Miss Austen revise her novel manuscripts in the hopes that they could one day be published for the wider audiences. Aziraphale finds the books witty, innovative character studies of British gentry, but getting a romance novel written by a woman published in the early 1800s would take a real miracle.
When Aziraphale accompanies Jane to a ball, they run into Crowley, and all three are surprised by the other two being acquainted. Although the angel and the demon are happy to not poke further into each other’s businesses with Miss Austen, Jane seems to be convinced her two friends are in the middle of a great love story like from one of her novels and need some encouragement to admit their true feelings.
'Not Enough to Tempt Me' by ZephyrOfAllTrades (T)
Aziraphale found a new friend. A budding writer who unfortunately dabbles in matchmaking. It was all fun and games until she reunited with a familiar red-headed demon.
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"Help may come from an unexpected quarter."
We can take apart all of God's intro to Good Omens in 1.01 at some point if people continue to be into my word nerdy posts but I want to look at just one part of it right now-- the end of the horoscope-- and how it applies to S2 in a way that I think helps to explain The Final Fifteen. That part is:
Help may come from an unexpected quarter:
A coming is an arrival. Gabriel's unexpected arrival is the start of S2 and 2.01 is entitled "The Arrival." One of the meanings of a quarter is that it is a coin-- specifically, that it is American money worth 25 cents. There is not a British monetary equivalent to the quarter-- just as that, if we go by accents, there is only one "American" angel in a sea of "British" ones and that "American" angel is, of course, Gabriel.
The quarter is the coin inserted to play a song on an American jukebox. Gabriel's miracle of a constant state of "Everyday" on The Resurrectionist Pub's jukebox makes him basically a never-ending roll of eternal quarters. So, in this way, Gabriel is the unexpected quarter, right?
So, let's keep going with this and see what we can dig out of the words in the end of the horoscope that God read to us in 1.01 that might relate to what going on in 2.06...
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. "Hired help"/"The help" can refer to both to those who clean and to those who cater...
...and also to assistant shopkeepers, in general, whose goal is to try to be as helpful as possible:
Remember how the opening shot of Good Omens in 1.01 is the word WAR but then it expands out and shows us that we were looking at the word WAR within the word WARNING? This tells us that, right from the get-go, the show suggests that we take a close look at its language-- in particular, the roots of words. How they evolved, their histories and how they are related to other words aka their etymologies.
Our first rule of language in GO, per the opening of the show, is to always look for words within other words-- which I'm sure Anthony J. "(d)awning of a new age" Crowley would also suggest is always a fun idea. There can be a lot of deeper meaning in this but there also can just be a ton of humor as well. Case in point:
😂 UneX-PECted QuARTer:
More seriously now, though...
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. Hell: From the Old English and the Dutch hel...
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. Our unexpected quarter is Gabriel. The Metatron makes Gabriel a fallen angel, causing Gabriel to make a run for it, and starting a series of events that lead to Hell coming for Aziraphale:
Help may come from an unexpected quarter:
Maggie: Well, I'm going to my shop to sleep behind the counter... unless you need some help.
Nina: *asks Maggie to go get her 27 different kinds of milk/creamer, all of which come in... quart containers*...which Maggie does. When she returns, Nina and Maggie make the coffee ordered by "The Metatron," which would have been unable to be made without the quart of oat milk.
Help may come from an unexpected quarter...
Homophony: Quarter/Courter.
Courter: A suitor; one who courts. Like The (Apparent) Big Floating Head who shows up with a body for the first time that we've seen-- in a suit-- and courts Aziraphale at Marguerite's... the same place where Crowley was trying to have a date with Aziraphale the day before. All of which was kicked into motion by The Metatron casting Gabriel down-- and taking from Gabriel his signature, much-beloved suit (and leaving him in his "birthday suit" as a result.)
Making Crowley an angel again would undermine the entire Heaven/Hell system. All the demons would want to challenge their own status because if Crowley could, why couldn't they? It would actually cause it all to collapse and there's no way The Metatron would ever allow that... which is a big clue that this ain't The Metatron:
Aziraphale's being courted by The Devil.
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. A quarter of an hour is, as we know, 15 minutes. (God also referred to "almost a quarter of an hour" earlier in her opening monologue in 1.01 before saying "unexpected quarter" later on during it, which I take as a suggestion to always look at the multiple meanings of words in the show.)
The unexpected quarter of an hour = The Final 15 of 2.06. Crowley & Aziraphale fade away from the final splitscreen during the credits at just about Minute 52, I believe. Fifteen minutes prior to that is the moment that Aziraphale leaves the bookshop with "The Metatron" aka Satan:
Help may come from an unexpected quarter...
The unexpected twist-- and realization-- for Aziraphale of: "We call it 'The Second Coming'."
Note also what we said about come meaning arrival earlier... If 2.01 started with an episode called "The Arrival" and featured Gabriel coming to and arriving at the bookshop, if what is said here is to be believed and there is a "Second Coming" that is coming... then someone is going to end up like 2.01 Gabriel.... only, 2.01 Gabriel was the Supreme Archangel when he was cast down, which is what kept him from being sent to Hell. Aziraphale has no such political power.
Help may (and Help may) come from an unexpected quarter:
God sent unexpected quarter Gabriel as help-- speaking through him to remind Aziraphale of Job and of when God said, in Bildad's summary: "Satan and his diabolical ministers may destroy everything Job owns, no questions asked. Hugs and kisses, God."
God wanted Aziraphale to remember when She let Satan take what supposedly belonged to Job and Sitis as a test and he and Crowley worked together to stop it. She wanted him to remember when he thought he'd fall for thwarting her but She couldn't have been prouder because Job and Sitis were not the only ones really being tested-- Crowley and Aziraphale were. They did the right thing and they protected each other and the innocents around them in the process. That is what they should have been doing in S2 in the present.
Aziraphale did not heed the warning, though, so God stood aside and let it be that Help may come from an unexpected quarter as a result...
A quarter = 1/4th. Aziraphale's four, interwoven rings in the magic shop in 1941 that take out the house of cards from the bottom, symbolizing he and Crowley and Gabriel and Beez, who are going to take out the Heaven/Hell system. A quarter of our Ineffable Quartet, then, is Crowley. He is the most unexpected quarter there is when it comes to Aziraphale falling to Hell and Hell comes for Aziraphale with Crowley's help but against his will:
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. The paralleling and foreshadowing of Crowley dragged to Hell in front of the Gabriel statue in 1827, leaving Aziraphale on his own for a time. Sets up the reverse of that at the end of 2.06.
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. A quarter is a coin, like the sixpence and the farthing were in 1941. In "a blink of an eye", only one of the coins remained-- the farthing had vanished. The farthing is decorated with a wren. The coin with the little bird on it is the one that disappears, foreshadowing "no nightingales."
In 1941, the coin trick led to the magic shop... which led to The Bullet Catch... which led to a different representative of Hell coming for Crowley and Aziraphale and arriving at a different door, after Aziraphale had persuaded Crowley to perform a different type of dance with him in public... Furfur at the dressing room door paralleling "The Metatron" at the bookshop door. Crowley sitting to the side both times; some confusion, at first, over who the visitor is...
...but help may come from an unexpected quarter and it did for Crowley in 1941 because Aziraphale actually is a pretty decent magician and he saved the photo from Furfur (and so saved both of them) the same way that he does his coin tricks.
From the line preceding 'help may come from an unexpected quarter': You may be vulnerable to stomach upsets today...
Vulnerable: In a position to be attacked or harmed. Now, split it up: Vul. Ner. Able. (or A Ble.) Also contains: Vu and Rab.
Vul (in Czech): Both an ox and an idiot. "You idiot! We could have been us." Aziraphale, you're being tempted for real by The Actual Devil this time...
Vu: French for "seen," as in deja vu, which means "already seen" and describes the feeling of having lived through the present once already before. No one is recognizing the being at the bookshop door for who he really is. Also, we've seen these conflicts before-- this is Aziraphale's same daily round of negative thought cycles. At the center of those thought cycles...
Rab: Homophone for Rabb: Term used in Arabic to refer to God as "lord" or "master." The Voice of God may be The Lord and Master of Language on Good Omens but She doesn't actually want anyone to live in her name. She's trying to get them all to go live like whales already.
Ble (in French): Wheat. It is, technically, a fruit that is cultivated as grain. In Hebrew, wheat is referred to as khitah, which is a pun on the word khet, which means sin. The wheat berry has the same fruit structure as an apple, which is one of the reasons why it has been theorized by some humans to be what it was that Adam and Eve ate in The Garden of Eden that led to their fall. Interesting that falling is being mentioned, no?
Ner (in Swedish): Down; headed in a downward direction. Well, that's a great sign... 😂
Ner (in Old Irish): A boar, which is a wild pig. See: Grice, mentioned by Muriel. (A separate meta on Grice is linked at bottom of this meta.) Boar is a homophone for Bore and Boor. Bore is the root word of bored, which is for one of the reasons Crowley said in 2.01 why Aziraphale might call him and is also a Crowley euphemism for horny (see: other meta linked at the bottom of this meta.) A boor is an insensitive person.
Able: To be capable-- to have the power, means, skills and opportunity to do something. Aziraphale is capable of being a boor and of being tempted and of sin and of heading in a downward direction. He is also Able: clever, intelligent, adept... which he will need to get out of the mess he's gotten himself into.
Also: Able: Evolved from the Latin words habere and habilis, meaning, respectively: to hold and handy. (See: below gif. TW for The Kiss TM)... and also: "What's that lovely human expression? Hold that thought!"
Stomach: Originated, in part, from the Greek stoma, meaning mouth. Yeah, 2.06 brought some mouth-related upset for Crowley and Aziraphale (and us lol)... just a bit...
Stomach upset/Upset stomach: Something which causes you to have trouble eating. An upset stomach is probably the best possible way to refer to a temporary Crowley & Aziraphale breakup since food = sex in Ineffable Husbands Speak. For more on that, see: er... honestly... most of my blog lol.
Upsets = Upsets. Some upsets over what's Up. Flip it around, though, and it's... Set Ups. Up = Heaven and it's all a Hellish set up. Aziraphale has been... what's that lovely American expression?
This upset is also a setup and a setup? Is a trap. The Hastur-Aziraphale paralleling doesn't end with their clothes/hair:
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. There are four locations present at the end of 2.06: The Elevator (in motion), Heaven, Earth, a and Hell. We've left Earth, gotten into the elevator, and the button pressed was Heaven, so... the unexpected quarter that may come in S3 is Hell.
But, also in S3...
Help may come from an unexpected quarter. Post-fly, there's two of them, so, unexpected quarter now = Ineffable Bureaucracy.
Grice meta:
Bored/Board meta:
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Can't wait to relate The Tortured Poets Department songs with Aziraphale and Crowley <3
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Omg I love all the monster wives aus! What about for knight and dragon when the two first meet? Is it a meet ugly or a meet cute?
Oh, it's a meet ugly, I can tell you that much, haha.
Warning: mentions of human remains, Crowley sunbathing in her birthday suit, attempted murder of a dragon
So, a quick summary of the plot for this au: Aziraphale is a princess who escaped her family's expected wishes for her to be married off so she could run off to be a knight. Ended up being adopted by a coven of witches who help her prepare for being a knight. In this kingdom, you can become a knight through being a squire, being knighted for an act of bravery/heroism, or for slaying a great beast, especially a dragon.
Crowley is a shape-shifting wyvern who has magical powers because reasons.
On with the fic!
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This was the place, Aziraphale swallowed.
It was a large cliff side, overlooking the valley's forest. It was rocky, jagged, and very much exactly what Aziraphale expected from a dragon's home. Looking up, she could see a large ledge sticking out a number of meters up, where a huge cave opening was.
Down below it were the remains of other wannabe knights and professionals who dared to try and fight this beast. Many of the remains looked to be from death falls, others were clearly charred. Same with their ropes.
Aziraphale let out a breath, trying to calm her nerves. This was her only chance to be a knight, as she had never trained with a real knight, it would have been too dangerous. And she clearly hadn't gone to the capital to ask for a task to be brave, nor had she saved any villages or whatever.
No, that left only the option of smiting a beast of terror.
And dragons were an instant approval of knighthood, as they were dangerous and cruel. They were a massive threat, as she remembered her family telling her when she was a child. She remembered the books, the stories, and legends, the history scrolls of the kingdom.
Steeling her nerves, Aziraphale needed to be brave, she needed to do the smart thing and approach this with thought, no going in without a plan!
She was armed with an enchanted shield, one impervious to magic blasts and fire, blessed in Holy Water to be on the safe side. She had a guardian's bronze sword, a very rare and powerful blade that ignited into flames with the flick of a wrist.
How Nana Agnes got her hands on these, Aziraphale would never know, but they will do her well in the fight.
But for now, Aziraphale needed to survey the area, see the best way to get up to the ledge. Going directly up with any sort of levitation spell or item was a no-go, clearly some of these knights have tried. Grappling hooks wouldn't work, nor would rock climbing...
She noticed the large patch of trees growing near the cliff and she approached, maybe the trees? They rose up high enough that she could use a levitation charm and get up there.
Nodding, Aziraphale approached, looking to see how to climb up the trees, before noticing something else.
Behind them, hidden oddly enough into the cliff face, were stone steps, carved by... magic? Hand? It was hard to tell. How had she not seen them?
Taking a number of steps back, Aziraphale realized why. They seemed to hide behind the very high, dangerous jagged spires of rocks, and even hide behind rocks in the cliff.
"How clever!" She blinked and moved to climb up the steps, careful to not make too much noise with what little bits of armor she wore. It wasn't much, mainly a very fine, powerful chainmail made by Aunty Tracy, and some pieces that she really didn't want to know where Anathema and Newt got them from.
After an exhausting jaunt up the steps, Aziraphale finally made it to the ledge, surprised by the sight before her.
Laying across a large, flat stone, was a woman, naked as anything.
She had long, wavy and curled red locks that shone beautifully in the sunlight, like a ruby. She had golden bangles and cuffs on her wrists and arms, and she seemed to be unconscious.
A damsel in distress!
Aziraphale felt her cheeks flush, hopefully from the heat up this high and the climb, not because of the naked beauty. She swallowed hard and approached quietly, shield at the ready, sword only a flick away from burning brightly.
The dragon had to be nearby, right? He would never leave his prey out in the open... this could be a trap, a captured victim to lure in a heroic person, only for them both to become tonight's main course.
Aziraphale turned her attention to the cave, it was too dark to really see further into it than just the entrance and the first fifteen or so feet. She heard no sounds from inside, just the gentle echo of a gust of wind blowing through, the moans of nature.
Then there was a yawn, from behind her.
"Mmm... whazat-? Oh! A knight!"
Aziraphale turned sharply, seeing the woman sitting up, stretching, her long hair hiding her backside from the other woman. Please, don't turn around, Aziraphale thought, her face burning. "S-Shhh! Miss, we must leave, before the dragon returns."
She moved back towards the stairs, thinking that maybe she should offer her cape to help cover the poor girl. "Come along, my dear, I'll get you to safety. We really should get going."
"Ooh? Aww, how sweet~!" The woman giggled. "You think I'm a damsel in distress? That's new! Then again, you lot never catch me sunbathin', so I guess this is a first."
"W-what?" Aziraphale frowned, turning to face her, only to freeze.
The woman was standing on the rock now, completely bare to the world, and that's when Aziraphale finally really took in her body. Which she really should have done from the start, cause then she would have noticed the tail!
A long, thrashing tail, a warning, coated in black and red scales. And speaking of scales, they were in patches along the woman's skin, her nails were long and dark in color, and she was grinning with teeth like knives.
Her eyes were wide, completely golden like her jewelry, with black slits for pupils.
"You!" Aziraphale snapped out of it, the sword erupted into fire as she got into a battle stance.
The woman, no, the dragon, looked oddly amused. "Also a first, a flaming sword, never seen one of those before. At least not in this century! Clever bit of charm work there? Or is that the real deal?"
"Why don't we find out when I stab at your belly?" Aziraphale smirked and charged, only for the dragon to move fast, grabbing the blade in her bare hands.
"Naughty thing, aren't you? Comin' to my home to attack me? How..." Her amused look faded when she realized something. She screeched and yanked her hands back, staring at the wounds. "It's... it's the guardian's sword!?"
"Y-yes? Yes! It is! And it is deadly to beasts!"
The dragon hissed and blew on her hands, the skin around the wounds looked raw and painful, Aziraphale couldn't help but wince. "How dare you! Coming here to harm me?! I did nothin' to you!"
Aziraphale blinked, frowning. "But... but you're a dragon! The locals told me that this is the home of the blue dragon that steals their sheep and slaughters their cattle!"
The dragon snarled, stepping back. "Blue!? Now you're insulting me!? I'm not a blue dragon, I'm not one of those pricks! I'm a black and red dragon, you idiot human! And I don't steal livestock! I don't even like sheep, it's nasty!"
The wannabe knight had completely forgotten that there was clear proof of black and red scales on this creature.
Ah.
Well...
The flame went out and Aziraphale coughed. "I... this is... oh dear."
"Yeah, 'oh dear', indeed." The dragon sneered, sticking out a forked tongue.
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Not a great first meeting, but don't worry, Aziraphale will make it up to Crowley.
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thinking about the fact that from a human’s perspective crowley is just some skinny middle aged goth dude with dyed red hair and a face tattoo who drives an almost hundred year old car to his complete opposite aesthetic boyfriend’s bookshop nearly every day. why? because he can, that’s why.
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obligatory 60s wives post
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Everyday, it’s a-gettin’ gayer~🎶
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quick 60s ineffable wives fanart
you can get a print here: inprnt!
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Fly me to the moon Leyendecker🌙
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HELLO GAY PEOPLE IN MY PHONE
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the girls!
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