#like azi????

[quizzical-is]

This show is rotating in my mind eternally it's just so good and like everything I love about scifi.

#scavengers reign #scavengers reign sam #ursula tho #i will write a whole post about her soon #you know the characters are good when i cant pick a favorite #like azi???? #amazing #levi???? (crying) also amazing #kamen is a soggy noodle of a man and yet still fascinating #and of course sam is the emotional support cool guy which is why hes always fucking getting stabbed or some shit #im intruiged but inherently untrustful of the new crew #i feel like they are here to show how not to survive on the planet #idk tho #we shall see

[mintybagels]

no monday in your sunday clothes

#i was legally obligated to draw this #like come ON I HAD TOO #60s fem azi my beloved #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #gos2 #ineffable wives #ineffable spouses #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens fandom #good omens fanart

[inhonoredglory]

Aziraphale’s Choice, the Job Connection, and Michael Sheen’s Morality

Update: Michael Sheen liked this post on Twitter, so I'm fairly certain there is a lot of validity to it.

I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.

Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,

We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and “oh it’s nice.” And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose.

I was looking forward to BAMF!Aziraphale all season long, and I think that’s what we got in the end. Remember Neil said that the Job minisode was important for Aziraphale’s story. Remember how Aziraphale sat on that rock and reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, because he lied and thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier.

Aziraphale, a being of love with more goodness than all of Heaven combined, believed he needed to walk through the Gates of Hell because it was the Right Thing to do. (Like Job, he didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing.)

That’s why we saw Aziraphale as a soldier this season: the bookshop battle, the halo. But yes, the ending as well.

Because Aziraphale never wanted to go to Heaven, and he never wanted to go there without Crowley.

But it was Crowley who taught him that he could, even SHOULD, act when his moral heart told him something was wrong. While Crowley was willing to run away and let the world burn, it was Aziraphale (in that bandstand at the end of the world) who stood his ground and said No. We can make a difference. We can save everyone.

And Aziraphale knew he could not give up the ace up his sleeve (his position as an angel) to talk to God and make them see the truth in his heart.

I was messed up by Ineffable Bureaucracy (Boxfly) getting their happy ending when our Ineffable Husbands didn’t, but I see now that them running away served to prove something to Aziraphale. (And I am fully convinced that Gabriel and Beelzebub saw the example of the Ineffables at the Not-pocalypse and took inspiration from them for choosing to ditch their respective sides)

But my point is that Aziraphale saw them, and in some ways, they looked like him and Crowley. And he saw how Gabriel, the biggest bully in Heaven, was also like him in a way (a being capable of love) and also just a child when he wasn’t influenced by the poison of Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person. The Metatron also seemed to have grown more flexible with his morality (from Aziraphale's perspective). Like Earth, Heaven was shades of (light?) gray.

Aziraphale is too good an angel not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it).

Aziraphale has been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks he and Crowley helped create), Aziraphale is seeing something else. A chance to change them. They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, and because of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.

(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.)

At the cafe, the Metatron said something big was coming in the Great Plan. Aziraphale knows how trapped he had felt when he didn’t have God’s ear the first time something huge happened in the Big Plan. He can’t take a chance again to risk the world by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths (or the threat of death) so much more this season: Elspeth, Wee Morag, Job’s children, the 1940s magician. Aziraphale almost killed a child when he couldn’t get through to God, and he’s not going through that again.

“We could make a difference.” We could save everyone.

Remember what Michael Sheen said about courage and doing good––and having to “look the dark in the face to be truly good.” That’s what happened when Aziraphale was willing to go to Hell for his actions. That’s what happened when he decided he had to go to Heaven, where he had been abused and belittled and made to feel small. He decided to willingly go into the Lion’s Den, to face his abusers and his anxiety, to make them better so that they would not try to destroy the world again.

Him, just one angel. He needed Crowley to be there with him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions that Heaven needed to hear, to tell them God was wrong. Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage.

But then Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.

Aziraphale doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much they need him, or how much humanity needs him there, too. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?)

Terry Pratchett (in the Discworld book, Small Gods) is scathing of God, organized religion, and the corrupt people religion empowers, but he is sympathetic to the individual who has real, pure faith and a good heart. In fact, the everyman protagonist of Small Gods is a better person than the god he serves, and in the end, he ends up changing the church to be better, more open-minded, and more humanist than god could ever do alone.

Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, and Heaven is no exception. When Crowley says that Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he needs to go there. “You’re exactly is different from my exactly.”

____

In the aftermath of Trump's election in the US, Brexit happened in 2018. Michael Sheen felt compelled to figure out what was going on in his country after this shock. But he was living in Los Angeles with Sarah Silverman at the time, and she also wanted to become more politically active in the US.

Sheen: “I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to Britain] – which was difficult for us, because we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do.” In the end, they split up and Michael moved back to the UK.

Sometimes doing the Right Thing means sacrificing your own happiness. Sometimes it means going to Hell. Sometimes it means going to Heaven. Sometimes it means losing a relationship.

And that’s why what happened in the end was so difficult for Aziraphale. Because he loves Crowley desperately. He wants to be together. He wanted that kiss for thousands of years. He knows that taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them. They could change the rules of the game.

And he’s still going to do that. But it hurts him that he has to do that alone.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #it's kinda like capt america: civil war #with Azi as Tony Stark: traumatized and trying to do the right thing #and Crowley being Steve Rogers: fuck the establishment let's go rogue #gos2spoilers #good omens meta #good omens 2 meta #go s2 #michael sheen #go s2 meta #go meta #*mine #*mymeta #ineffables husbands #ineffable soulmates #*mybest

[certifiablyinsanez]

It’s so cute when people think Crowley is suave and sexy and cool. Like, only under the threat of destruction by Satan himself can make this demon say ‘fuck’ apparently. He has a corny ass voicemail. Don’t give him access to a crystal ball and a fez if you don’t want him to start acting goofy. 20% of his personality is being a Plant Mom. The other 80% is being a Wine Aunt. She cosplays Mary Poppins just cuz. She manages to stay “up to style” and is very bad at it somehow. 90% of his existence can be summarized as “Silly Simp”.

#Aziraphale literally cusses more #“quirky voicemails haven’t been a thing since like 2004 #like she didn’t HAVE to be a Mary Poppins nanny #don’t get me wrong I think they’re drippy but he always sticks out just not as much as Azi #she’s so slay #but she’s not what she seems 🤣 #good omens #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #good omens 2 #crowly x aziraphale #michael sheen #david tennant

[ato-dato]

I found my one and only gomens fanart from 2019 so it had to be redone. Naturally.

#i didn’t draw the gals (azi & crawli) because I couldn’t draw meeeennnnn #anyway #here we are #i haven’t improved as much as I’d like because I don’t draw as much as I should #but it is what it is #am I Right fellas #good omens anathema #anathema device #good omens #good omens season one #good omens s1 #redraw #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing

[queer-reader-07]

“i want aziracrow to have a proper kiss” this. “what about a sex scene?” that.

fuck it. i want these bitches to hug. just one really nice, really long, emotionally healing hug.

#they need comfort #specifically comfort FROM each other #and i honestly think a hug would do that so well #like a grabs the other out of nowhere and holds on tightly #no more barriers when they touch (*cough* crowley’s arms were like a wall between him and azi in the kiss *cough*) #i want them holding on desperately #so tight that no one could possibly rip them apart #yeah i think a hug would heal them #and also myself tbh #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens #ineffable idiots #ineffable partners #good omens 2

[bleucalire]

Comfort Characters Meme (+Comfort Art Style Bonus!)

#comfort characters meme #good omens #aziraphale #dcmk #conan edogawa #detective conan #my art #people always call my azi pokemon or ghibli style #when i pretty much draw him like an aoyama character #i just change the eyes lol #(but having him with the aoyama eyes here makes me emotional)

[tinkkles]

I really do love the fresh take on the dead wife aspect in scavengers reign like. She didn't die in some terrible accident or at the hands of an evil third party, she died because of you. Because of your ambition and carelessness and because you didn't prioritize her enough to even look for her as the ship was going down. You will carry this guilt for the rest of your life. She will haunt you forever. Pray that her ghost is enough to change you for the better.

#i just think the parallel of azi still running to mia's pod even though theres no way she can get her out in time #just some girl she barely knows & had a one night stand with and she still thinks of her first #vs kamen just going to argue w/ sam & fully buckling himself in to the escape pod before he even thinks about his fucking WIFE #kamen is such a good character (derogatory) like hes not cruel hes just so self centered and he doesnt realize it until its too late #AND THEN HIS PUNISHMENT IS TO. LOSE ALL SENSE OF HIMSELF. TO BECOME A PSYCHIC SLAVE TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE. GOD #this show is so fuckin brutal man. oough. #scavengers reign

[noodles-and-tea]

Destiny something something ineffable

#I know there’s been a few crossovers with these guys around but #I think Arthur comes back - Merlin regains his youthful form and has some kind of destiny dream about getting a job at this bookshop #in my version they’ve never met before but azi knows who Merlin is #I do really like the ones where they’d met back in Camelot tho #:)))) #my art #bbc merlin #good omens #Merlin #merlin emrys #aziraphale

[skullfragments]

soooo i've been real busy this past month and change working on this monster of a painting! it was originally for the GO Ref library study club but clearly took much longer than i anticipated😅

for those of you who don't recognize it, this is based on one of my favorite historical paintings, Judith Beheading Holofernes (1620) by Artemisia Gentileschi. i love the Baroque period and this painting (as well as her other works) makes me insane. here it is Good Omens style so maybe all of you can be insane with me <3

"Aziraphale (and Crowley) Beheading the Metatron"

(non-bloody and non-glowy versions under the cut)

#IT'S DONE #can i get a wahoo #dear tumblr pls don't fuck up the quality #sara does art #good omens #good omens fanart #shout out to the GORL server!!! #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #the metatron #OFF WITH HIS HEAD #i will never attempt digital oil painting again #(pls stop me if i do) #artemisia gentileschi #ITALIAN BAROQUE QUEEN #italian baroque #i need you all to know that the suggested tag that came up was 'italian barty crouch jr.' #david tennant you're already in this picture that's enough #baroque art #judith beheading holofernes #the superior version btw #tw blood #didn't you have a flaming sword? it was flaming like anything #if u zoom in pls appreciate the tartan bowtie detail #that shit took me way longer than it should have #as well as the approx 15hrs each i spent on azi's sleeves #did i miss any tags?? #ART #i'm going to hibernate now thank you

[bernard-the-rabbit]

ineffable wives

#inspired by an ad i saw on pinterest #also yes i know azi has like the same outfit from like 1940 from then on BUT LIL SWING DRESS CUTE OK?! #my trashy art #good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable wives fanart #ineffable wives #female presenting aziraphale #female presenting crowley #aziraphale fanart #crowley fanart

[castles-in-the-eyre]

FINALLY TIME FOR AZIRAPHALE’S PINING ERA

#he’s so SMITTEN #ftr I do believe with ALL my heart that azi has been pining since at LEAST the 1940s #but like. it’s so OBVIOUS NOW #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens season 2 #otp: it’s ineffable! #kiki’s omens

[cannibalhellhound]

I had this sketch and finally got to finish it

I love David Tennant in every shape or form but I love long hair and the color is just 🤌🏼✨

#I love him #I'm sad because Azi is amazing #but I'm bad at drawing adorable soft things and he's like a marshmallow #and I'll have a breakdown if I do him wrong #crowley #anthony j crowley #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley fanart #gomens #HelloI'mHayden

[smol-fatale]

There is something about the inverse relationship of a man-made entity being reclaimed by nature vs. nature being corrupted by man y'know? Something about the totality of the human experience being intertwined with nature in both positive and negative ways...y'know? About nature having the final say in either way. About how the most beneficial relationship for both is one where humans respect nature. Because we're never gonna fully understand it. Y'know?

#scavengers reign #yes this is about that evil no name like creature w/Kamen and the sunshine that is Levi w/Azi #could've said this in like a more literate way but we don't have all the words here aight?

[ato-dato]

Someone on twitter requested azi as elisabeth. Here she is. Aziraphale Bennet.

#this is what azi looks like in their mind #i just know it #good omens #good omens au #good omens aziraphale #good omens crowley #pride and prejudice #Pride and prejudice au #au #Elisabeth bennet #mr. darcy #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing #i let ppl request things for me to draw on twitter if you’re interested #if you even care

[moonflowergayy]

#good omens #goodomensedit #goedit #aziraphale #anthony j crowley #inneffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #myedit #remember kids be kind be gay and u might get yourself a simp like azi