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politeanarchy · 1 year

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Holiday Report

(also on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/43713631 )

Inoffensive, vaguely jazzy arrangements of Christmas songs provided a mellow ambiance in the background, behind a general hum of conversation. The room was hung with garlands of greenery and twinkling lights, and an array of tables held trays full of little nibbly things. At one end of the room was an enormous Christmas tree, with an elaborate nativity scene set up underneath.

Harriet Dowling was circulating near the entrance, and paused to greet a new arrival in a dark suit, whose tinted glasses conveyed that he was both stylish and intellectual, and not to be confused with any of the American security detail. He had found the bar already, judging by the plastic cup of wine he was holding.

"Mr. Harrison, happy holidays! I'm so glad you could join us tonight," said Harriet. "Mr. Cortese is here, too." She waved at a figure nearby, whose hair, beard, jumper, and expression were all equally wooly. He gave a little wave back at her, or perhaps at Mr. Harrison, and strolled amiably over to them.

"I wanted to thank you both so much," said Harriet, "for all your work with Warlock this year. His grades are much better, and he seems to be really enjoying his lessons."

Mr. Cortese beamed. "Dear lady, you are too kind. I've merely done my humble best to, er, broaden the boy's horizons a little, to offer a bit of guidance on the path, as it were."

Mr. Harrison gave Mr. Cortese a repressive glare, then adjusted his smile and turned to Harriet. "Yeah, he's a sharp kid. Keeps me entertained."

"His father and I really appreciate it," said Harriet. "Well, I won't keep you. Enjoy the evening."

Mr. Cortese gestured affably with his disposable plastic cup of wine*. "Evening, Harrison, old chap."

[*a mediocre American white]

Harrison had already persuaded his own cup of wine that it should aspire to be a more acceptable vintage, and discreetly did the same to Mr. Cortese's as he approached.

"Good evening to you, ang—that is to say, my esteemed colleague," said Harrison, with a wry twist of one eyebrow.

Mr. Cortese took a sip of his wine and smiled at his counterpart. "Oh, that is an improvement. Much obliged."

Amid the crowd of political secretaries, low-level diplomats, household staff, and secret service men, it was perhaps only natural that Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cortese would fall into conversation together. Warlock's tutors weren't really part of the usual crowd, and it was somehow easy to overlook them. Despite a certain number of potentially striking personal peculiarities, they managed to fade quietly into the background. They had, presumably, professional interests in common, and were assumed to be comparing notes on their student.

This was true, though perhaps not quite in the way that the rest of the party-goers might have thought.

Mr. Harrison's dark, sleek beard twitched, as though he was trying to suppress a smile of his own, and almost succeeding. "How has Warlock been enjoying your uplifting curriculum?"

Mr. Cortese made a sound like an offended sheep. "Hmph. I got the distinct impression he was mostly excited about it being the end of term. I'm sure he'll spend his holiday playing those awful computerized games, and forgetting everything I've told him about the history of Christmas."

"Bet he'd remember it if you told him about what really happened."

"You know perfectly well I can't do that. In any case, he'd never believe me."

"Yeah, exactly! He'd assume it's just another made-up story, like so much of what Christmas has turned into anyway, so it wouldn't matter. But he'd remember it."

"What have you been telling him, then? Anything memorable?"

"I've got him researching Yule customs and Saturnalia. Human sacrifice, overturning the social order, Lords of Misrule. The fun stuff," said Mr. Harrison smoothly.

"Of course you have."

Mr. Harrison was fairly certain Mr. Cortese was pouting, but it was impossible to be sure, because there was too much beard in the way. "So you didn't happen to mention about how Gabriel—"

"No!" Mr. Cortese huffed irritably, Warlock and his education forgotten in the remembrance of past frustrations. "Anyway, I tried my best to explain to Gabriel at the time. It's not my fault he didn't listen."

"I'm sure that's true. You are nothing if not comprehensively thorough. Not to say pedantic."

"It was a very brief report! Perfectly concise and understandable, with just a few suggestions for how best to approach the humans of the day. I said that things were very unsettled, what with the taxes and all, and that they were mostly very lovely simple people, at least once you got out of the palaces and whatnot, and that humans weren't really used to Heavenly visitations anymore, so he would need to reassure them that nothing bad was happening, he'd just popped in to bring them the good news."

"Mmm-hmm."

"There may also have been some explanation of the behavior of the people in the palaces, and the expectations of the people not in the palaces, which is to say the ordinary citizens, shepherds and so forth."

"Mmm-hmm."

"Well, one doesn't like to leave out important details of etiquette."

"'Course not."

"And then, after I'd gone to all that trouble to explain, Gabriel said, 'Sounds like the humans in these parts are a bunch of nervous nellies! Don't worry, I know how to deal with mortals.'"

"And promptly went off and manifested in some random field full of sheep, glowing like a supernova and shouting BE NOT AFRAID!"

Mr. Cortese looked sulky. "And then the whole crew showed up after him, half of them singing Hallelujah and the other half arguing over how Gabriel should have announced it instead. Goodness, it was embarrassing. And in all the confusion, I completely forgot to tell poor Mary and her husband I'd arranged about the rooms."

"It worked out all right. In the end."

"The only person who did anything helpful at all was some woman all muffled up in a headscarf who miraculously turned up at the stable at a critical moment with some hot water and towels. I was jolly grateful to her, I can tell you. I never did find out who she was, but I sent a general blessing after her in the chaos. I hope it reached her."

"...Yeah. Yeah, it did."

"How do you know? You missed all the excitement. I didn't see you until at least a week afterward, and you were just recovering from that awful rash."

"I, um, ran into her as well. Chatted a bit. Local gossip, you know how it is."

"Hm." Mr. Cortese looked thoughtful for a moment, as though putting together some bits of information he hadn't previously considered in relation to one another.

Mr. Harrison decided it was time he changed the subject. "I suppose you'll be off to write up your end-of year report, after this."

"Oh, I'm well started on that already," said Mr. Cortese, with a modest chuckle.

"How awfully virtuous of you."

"Although I shall certainly be adding some notes from tonight's observations."

"Is that so. Tell me angel, what do you observe?"

Both tutors turned their attention to the far side of the room, where Warlock and several of his friends were gathered. They had been eating sugar for a good solid couple of hours, and were in the noisiest possible high spirits.

"He seems to be having a nice time with the other children," said Mr. Cortese, with a fond smile. "That shows an understanding of camaraderie and good fellowship, I should say."

Warlock was gesturing with a candy cane, one end of which had been carefully sucked into a lethally-sharp point. Occasionally be lunged at people, trying to stab them with it. There were some noises of yelping and protest.

Mr. Harrison waved his cup airily. "And I get to report on his keen interest in injuring and intimidating lesser mortals. Oh, the point's broken off. What a shame."

"Listen, Cr—Harrison, they're singing! How lovely, to hear young people expressing merriment so traditionally, in this joyful season." Mr. Cortese sighed happily, and closed his eyes so he could concentrate on listening. Unfortunately, that meant he could hear the words of Warlock's song.

Deck the halls with gasoline! fa la la la la, la la la la! Light a match and watch it gleam! fa la la la la, la la la la!

Mr. Cortese's face fell, and beside him, Mr. Harrison snorted into his drink. "You could probably also say he's celebrating warmth," said Mr. Harrison cheerfully, and Mr. Cortese gave him a scathing look.

Watch the school burn down to ashes! fa la la, la la la, la la la! Aren't you glad you played with matches? fa la la la la, la la la la!

"As a representative of both Heaven and the educational establishment, I find it most disappointing," said Mr. Cortese sadly.

"Yeah, I gotta say, this one's gonna sound better on my report than yours."

See the blazing school before us! fa la la la la, la la la la! Strike a match and join the chorus! fa la la la la, la la la la!

A slow, amused smile spread across Mr. Harrison's face, while Mr. Cortese drooped. "Did you know there was a second verse?" inquired Mr. Harrison.

"I didn't even know there was a first verse!" wailed Mr. Cortese.

Follow me through smoking rubble! fa la la, la la la, la la la! Holy crap, are we in trouble! fa la la la la, la la la la!

Mr. Cortese perked up a little at the last line. "There, you see! He does at least understand that actions have consequences."

"Oh, yeah, yeah! Definitely considering the, ah, the...ethical implications, sure." The amount of sniggering that accompanied this remark rendered it less than reassuring. "You can tell yourself that, if it makes you feel any better."

"Well. Perhaps I've seen enough. Should probably be off, so I can finish writing my report in good time."

Mr. Harrison drank the last of his wine, and set the empty glass down in the middle of the nativity scene. "Come on, angel, I'll give you a lift back to the bookshop." They found their way to the door, with the voices of Warlock and his friends fading away into the distance.

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg...

Before he climbed into the passenger seat of the Bentley, Mr. Cortese paused for a moment to look up at the stars. "It is going to be all right, isn't it?" he asked quietly. "I mean, he doesn't seem to be, well, evil, exactly. Merely inclined to...boyish high spirits."

"Nyeeeeeaaaahhh, that's right, just trying to have a good time with his friends."

The two man-shaped beings settled themselves into the car, and drove away from the embassy, becoming less like respectable tutors as they drove, and more like worried occult and ethereal forces.

"Would we be able to tell, though, if he was beginning to manifest his powers?" wondered Aziraphale, losing the last traces of Mr. Cortese's patient confidence.

"Yeah! Well, yeah, probably. I mean, you'd think, wouldn't you?"

"It's only—I don't like the thought of this being the last Christmas. I suppose I'd hoped some year we might—" He trailed off, stared out the window, and picked at some lint on his jumper.

"Might what?"

"Oh! It's silly, really. But I'd imagined that we might, I don't know, roast some chestnuts. Make egg nog. Sit by a fire and sip hot toddy."

"We will," said Crowley, who had entirely ceased to be Mr. Harrison. "Next year. After all this blows over."

"I know you're just putting up a brave front, to try and cheer me up."

"Is it working?" asked Crowley, as the Bentley came to a stop in front of the bookshop.

"No. But I appreciate the effort." Aziraphale pulled himself together, and got reluctantly out of the car. He smiled, and it almost looked like he meant it. "Happy Christmas, Crowley."

#good omens #good omens fanfiction #christmas #christmas stories #mr. harrison #mr. cortese #warlock #things what I wrote

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asleepyy · 5 months

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oopsie!omens pt16- Warlock Residence, 2012

A Nanny and a Gardener, Mr Cortese and Mr Harrison, Angels and Demons.

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#oopsie!omens #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #azazel #jophiel

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marmalademouse · 6 months

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I finally read Good Omens!🥳

Although I already knew a lot of book facts, just from being in the GO fandom, there were still quite a few aspects, that surprised me for one reason or another. So here are the notes I took while reading.

!Spoilers for the book “Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman!

Things that surprised me:

God is referred to as He?! (But I might have misinterpreted that?)

Nanny!Crowley has a gray dog named Rover with scarlet eyes.

Aziraphale & Crowley take on more roles during their time with Warlock, than it is shown in the show. Nanny!Crowley and gardener!Aziraphale leave, and return as Warlock’s tutors, Mr. Harrison (Crowley) and Mr. Cortese (Aziraphale).

Crowley is the one who resurrects the dead dove, that doesn’t survive Warlock’s birthday and Aziraphale’s magic show.😌

It is stated that Crowley isn’t good with animals. (Apparently he used to fall off of horses.)

In the book we get an answer on the whereabouts of the third baby. The boy lives in Tadfield as well. Adam calls him Greasy Johnson and he is the leader of another group of children in town.

Adam has a sister named Sarah!

Contrary to its portrayal in the show, Crowley’s flat is described as rather bright, with white walls and a white leather sofa.

Crowley met Leonardo da Vinci and explained “the helicopter thing” to him. One more example of Crowley’s strange bits of knowledge of the future.

The bookshop collapses completely during the fire.

Aziraphale briefly occupies multiple other bodies, before he stays with Madame Tracy, which was extremely funny to read.

Crowley doesn’t go to a pub after the fire and therefore he doesn’t encounter the disembodied Aziraphale. But later on it reads: “He [Crowley] might just as well find a nice little restaurant and get completely and utterly pissed out of his mind while he waited for the world to end.” So I guess they took Crowley’s musings from the book and made them reality in the show.

Crowley has bright red eyes while driving the burning Bentley.

Metatron was at the air force base and he appeared as a young man.

The wings of demons are the same as angels, however they are often better groomed. So book!Crowley’s current wings are white as well?

Satan never appears in person.

They don’t switch bodies/ appearances!!!

Unlike the show, the book doesn’t end with the nightingale line. The book ends with Adam, which is fitting in more than one way. Reading the book after watching s1 and especially after s2, makes it a bit difficult at times to acknowledge that the story/ the book is mainly about Adam, the Antichrist and the apocalypse, and only secondarily about an angel and a demon.

And then there are all the things that aren’t in the book…at all... Crowley doesn’t miracle away the paint on Aziraphale’s coat. No nose to nose scene in the former nunnery. No bandstand break-up scene. No “And when I’m off in the stars I won’t even think about you.”. No “Somebody killed my best friend.”. … And no flashbacks!!!🤯

Things I assumed were fanfiction inventions or fan’s headcanons, but turned out to be real:

It is explicitly mentioned, that Aziraphale has “elegantly manicured hands”!

Crowley loves the TV show “Golden Girls”.

I was sure all the posts, I read about Anathema’s thoughts on Crowley and Aziraphale, when they drove her home after the accident, were just fan headcanons. However she is indeed unsure what to make of the two (in her view) men, who picked her up. She even tells them that she has a bread knife at hand to defend herself if need be. But when Crowley says “Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel.”, she thinks “Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.” 🤭

“For Go-, for Sa-, for somebody’s sake” is a book thing as well!!

Apparently wing grooming is canon. 😅

WTF- and 🥰-moments:

Nanny!Crowley’s description: “Something about her might have said nanny (…) It also coughed discreetly and muttered that she could well be the sort of nanny who advertises unspecified but strangely explicit services in certain magazines.” 👀😳😘

The scene when Crowley says goodbye to Aziraphale, who just found Anathema’s book in the car, broke my heart a little bit: “He [Aziraphale] fumbled for his keys, dropped them on the pavement, picked them up, dropped them again, and hurried to the shop door. “We’ll be in touch then, shall we?” Crowley called after him. Aziraphale paused in the act of turning the key. “What?” he said. “Oh. Oh. Yes. Fine. Jolly good.” And he slammed the door. “Right,” mumbled Crowley, suddenly feeling very alone.”

Adam argues with Metatron and Beelzebub about him not wanting to rule the world and says: “I’m pointing out things. Seems to me you can’t blame people for pointing out things.” This reminded me of angel!Crowley, who had only asked some questions, who had just pointed out things…😢

“He smiled at Crowley. “I’d just like to say,” he said, “if we don’t get out of this, that… I’ll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you.” (…) Aziraphale held out his hand. “Nice knowing you,” he said. Crowley took it. “Here is to the next time,” he said. “And… Aziraphale?” “Yes.” “Just remember I’ll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth liking.” 😩😍I loved the whole passage, and for some reason I always thought it was “worth knowing” and not “worth liking”.

Towards the end, Aziraphale tells Crowley, that there are new books in his bookshop, books he never chose himself, due to Adam putting the world back together a bit differently than it was before. And then we get this: “Gosh, I’m sorry.”, said Crowley, who knew how much the angel had treasured his book collection.🥺

Book details used in season 2:

The season 2 conversation between Crowley & Aziraphale, in Scotland during the 1827 flashback, about people having the chance to choose between good and evil, is from the book.

In the book there is a witchfinder named Mr. Dalrymple, which is the name of the surgeon in Edinburgh in 1827. I doubt it is the same person though.?

In episode 6 of season 2 Crowley says to Muriel: “Angels are like bees. Fiercely protective of their hive if you’re trying to get in. (…)” In the book it says: “Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. (...)”

Evidently Neil used some details of the book, which weren’t incorporated in season 1, for season 2, and now I’m super curious which remaining elements (if any) he will pick for season 3.

I know these are no new observations or groundbreaking thoughts, but I wanted to document my experience reading the book for the first time.😊

#good omens #book good omens #book good omens spoilers #book omens #book omens spoilers #english is not my first language so please excuse any mistakes #sorry for the long post... maybe it is of interest for some people :o

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sighed-the-snake · 4 months

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I am listening to I'm Afraid of Americans by David Bowie, and one of the lyrics gave me an idea:

God is an American.

And so is Warlock.

In Good Omens, there are the three boys: Adam, Warlock, And Greasy Johnson.

Crowley and Aziraphale think they are raising the antichrist, but there has been a switcheroo: The antichrist is with a normal family, Warlock is raised under occult influences, and Greasy is the spare who grows up having a normal life alongside Adam.

There is some evidence that Greasy Johnson is the Messiah. (thanks to @thesherrinfordfacility for the great meta!)

But, I started thinking about the ways Neil and Terry subvert our expectations, and God's sense of humor in Good Omens, and a thought struck me:

What if Warlock is the Messiah?

Think about it. Greasy Johnson is connected to fish, like Jesus, sure. But also like a red herring. His purpose in the story is to be a bit of a mystery, a distraction from what's staring us in the face.

What if Aziraphale and Crowley were raising exactly the correct child who needed their influence? It just wasn't the antichrist. It was the Messiah.

Kindle page 62:

Warlock now found himself being educated by two tutors. Mr. Harrison taught him about Attila the Hun, Vlad Drakul, and the Darkness Intrinsicate in the Human Spirit. He tried to teach Warlock how to make rabble-rousing political speeches to sway the hearts and minds of multitudes.

Mr. Cortese taught him about Florence Nightingale,* Abraham Lincoln, and the appreciation of art. He tried to teach him about free will, self-denial, and Doing unto Others as You Would Wish Them to Do to You.

Warlock was exposed at a young age to the pain and darkness in human hearts. He was taught by a demon who's very good at temptation (according to Aziraphale) how to sway the hearts and minds of humanity with his words.

He's taught by an angel about compassion, thinking for himself, and doing the right thing.

These are vital lessons if you're going to be the savior of mankind who needs to convince billions of humans to listen to you.

Names have power in this story. Adam Young is named after the very first human and ends up on the side of humanity.

Harriet Dowling looked at her baby and said, yep, this kid looks like a traitor.

Warlock has not yet lived up to his name. What institution is branding him a traitor? Who is he betraying? What oath is he breaking? What responsibility is he refusing?

Could it be that Heaven shows up to tell him he's Jesus reborn and he has a destiny and Warlock firmly gives them a double-dose of middle fingers?

If Adam the Antichrist is a sweet kid so influenced by humanity that he goes against his nature to save them, is Warlock the Messiah going to be such an insufferable rich kid bratty politician's child that he'll refuse to pass judgement on a single soul because no one tells him what to do? Is he going to use his influence to harness humanity against Heaven and Hell? He's already had a demon for a nanny and grew up with an angel in his garden; he's not afraid of occult forces. Occult forces wiped his bum and told him to love slugs.

Some fun implications here. Jesus being American feels very Terry.

#good omens #good omens meta #warlock dowling #adam young #greasy johnson #God is watching the angels and demons scramble and laughing hysterically #Warlock was raised to be ungovernable lol

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zeldahime · 2 months

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Highway to Pail Day 17

[Day 1] [Prev] [Next] @do-it-with-style-events

February 17: Acute Angel

Warlock Dowling actually liked maths a lot, as a matter of fact. Everything about his life was weird or unpredictable, but maths had a soothing sameness about it. No matter how many ways you sliced it, whatever method you used, 104 times 986 would always come to 102,544. It would never end up being 17, or a sudden flight to a different continent, or an argument about whether or not Alexander the Great was burning in Hell. It would just be one hundred and two thousand, five hundred and forty-four.

The Earth was round, the sky was blue, and maths was his favorite subject.

He just didn't understand why everyone in his life seemed so upset about it.

His father thought it was some "sissy nerd shit, Harriet" and his mother was worried it meant he might not go into politics and she wouldn't be mother of a president; he'd heard them arguing about it when he was meant to be asleep. His tutors didn't like it either, even though they were supposed to be teaching him: Mr Cortese simply didn't understand maths at all and seemed desperate to escape any conversation where it came up, and Mr Harrison kept giving him harder problem sets and teaching him new things about it, but seemed worried whenever Warlock mastered a new theory, like he thought something bad would happen if Warlock thought too hard about it. Or, given Mr Harrison's gleeful obsession with evil warlords and pits of lava, like he was afraid something good would happen. And, of course, if any of the other kids found out, he'd never hear the end of it; he'd be teased until the end of time (or until they found something else to focus on, which is the same thing when you're ten-nearly-eleven). It was bad enough being named Warlock without inviting teasing for anything else.

Mr Harrison had taught him geometry, and how the Babylonians had divided circles up into 360 degrees like the number of days there were in a year, and how to calculate angles. He said earlier that day that once Warlock got the hang of circles and degrees, he'd get to do trigonometry next. He'd spent the rest of the day thinking of nothing but triangles.

Mr Cortese was trying to explain the lessons of the Founding Fathers to him—probably pretty badly, since he was English and kept backtracking over himself, though Warlock wasn't really listening—as Warlock drew pages and pages of angles in his workbook, trying to fit eight together into a circle made of 45° angles, or 12 30° ones. As he was absorbed in his angles, Mr Cortese's words washing over and past him, he remembered how Mr Harrison sometimes called him "angel" when they thought nobody was listening, and honestly Mr Cortese kind of looked like one, or as much as a grown-up could anyway without wearing a white dress and fake wings, and angel and angle kind of sounded the same....

Before he knew it, a lot of Warlocks angles had wings attached, including some of the ones he'd made into circles; it looked pretty wicked, actually. Maybe if he drew flames around them too, or maybe gave them swords?

Before he could decide, Mr Cortese had slid the notebook away from him.

"Fascinating perspective on the foundations of republicanism in the modern era," Mr Cortese said dryly, and Warlock's cheeks burned. "Your attention please, Mr Dowling? Where did you drift, and we can start again."

Warlock mumbled an "I dunno," and Mr Cortese sighed. "Well, we can hardly start the entire lesson over today," he said, and Warlock slouched down in his chair. "Well, perhaps it would be better to switch places, don't you think? Why don't you try teaching me about your maths? Mr Harrison has tried but between the two of us," Mr Cortese's voice dropped to a whisper as he took a seat, "he's simply not a very good maths teacher, at least not for me. I don't understand a word he says about mathematics."

Warlock perked up, though he quickly buried it. "I won't be a better teacher than Mr Harrison," he protested, but under the encouragement of Mr Cortese's smile, he tried anyway.

Mr Cortese didn't get it after he tried to teach it either. He just wasn't very good at maths, Warlock thought. Which was fair enough: Warlock wasn't very good at history or literature, and that wasn't Mr Cortese's fault.

#my writing #do it with style events #highway to pail #good omens #good omens fanfiction #warlock dowling

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hjbirthdaywishes · 1 year

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February 5, 2023

Happy 54 Birthday to Michael Sheen.

#Michael Sheen #Happy Birthday #Aziraphale #Angel #Part-time rare book dealer #Mr AZ Fell #AZ Fell #Mr Fell #Brother Francis #Mr Cortese #Good Omens #February #2023

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ineffableaddiction · 1 month

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The Guardian, The Dauntless

Angel Name: Aziraphale, Principality, Supreme Archangel

Human Names: AZ Fell, Mr Fell, Dr McFell, Brother Francis, Mr Cortese

Since before space and time as we know it existed, Aziraphale has been trying to protect others. Whether warning other angels against what he thought might get them into trouble, giving a weapon to humans cast out into the wilderness, trying to save souls or averting the apocalypse, he will do what he believes is right.

Even if it means putting himself in a dangerous situation, Aziraphale has a moral compass that guides him, and sometimes risks himself rather than go against his personal beliefs.

A natural risk taker, he can sometimes come across as brave and other times as foolish, but to overlook his intelligence puts others at a disadvantage. In the pursuit of knowledge, Aziraphale is willing to alter his viewpoints if he learns new information that has the potential to help others.

When his former boss shows up unexpectedly, Aziraphale is worried that Gabriel doesn’t have anyone to help him, even though he was the person who tried to permanently destroy Aziraphale with hellfire. When he finds someone in need, no matter who they are, he wants to help, no matter the cost to himself.

Aziraphale honestly believed he would be thrown into hell for saving Job’s children, yet chose to do it anyway. It was what he thought was right and remained steadfast in his convictions.

He is compassionate

He will risk anything if he thinks it’s for the right reasons

He wants to protect all life on Earth

Will adjust his views and grow as an angel/human-shaped being as he learns new things

#good omens #aziraphale #im an angel who goes along with heaven as much as i can #i give you my word as an angel

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general-fox-hux · 2 months

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When Warlock turns six, Crowley and Aziraphale leave and come back as tutors, Mr Harrison and Mr Cortese, and OMG Aziraphale teaches Warlock about Florence Nightingale, u cannot escape the nightingale 😭 And, being the hypocrite, he teaches Warlock about self-denial...

Also, "Despite their best efforts Warlock showed a regrettable tendency to be good at maths."

TRAGIC

#Good Omens #Crowley #Aziraphale #fox reads Good Omens

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dollsome-does-tumblr · 4 months

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2023 Fandom Year in Review

I'm a bit late on this because I kept being busy, but here! I probably forgot a bunch of stuff in my answers - c'est la vie.

✨Dollsome’s Fandom Year in Review!✨

Favorite new (to me) shows of the year:

Rectify

Joe Pera Talks With You

Reservation Dogs

Dave

The Righteous Gemstones

The Gilded Age

The Buccaneers

Beef

Somebody Somewhere

Vice Principals

Feel Good

Creamerie

Colin From Accounts

Poker Face

Favorite shows with new episodes this year:

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH!!!!!!!!!! 🏴‍☠️💘

Good Omens

Succession

Ted Lasso (kind of? 🫤)

What We Do In The Shadows

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Great

Abbott Elementary

Sanditon

The Nevers

Black Mirror

Some favorite TV show episodes watched for the first time this year (one per show! Just for a challenge!):

Our Flag Means Death - 2.04 “Fun and Games”

What We Do in The Shadows - 5.05 “Local News”

The Great 3.07 “Fun”

Succession - 4.09 “Church and State”

Ted Lasso - 3.10 “International Break”

Good Omens - 2.05 “The Ball”

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - 5.06 “The Testi-Roastial”

Beef - 1.10 “Figures of Light”

Dave - 3.10 “Looking for Love”

Reservation Dogs - 2.04 “Mabel”

Black Mirror - 6.05 “Demon 79”

Joe Pera Talks With You - 2.01 - “Joe Pera Talks With You About Beans” and 2.04 “Joe Pera Guides You Through The Dark” (Cheating and picking two because the episodes are so short!)

Favorite books read this year:

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Favorite song, album, or artist to listen to this year:

I discovered this album a few years late because I got tickets to a concert by them this year, but Bitter Better by Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards! I also loved Guts by Olivia Rodrigoooooo.

My favorite song is “Misbehavin’” from Righteous Gemstones, a bop like NO OTHER.

Favorite movies of the year:

No Hard Feelings, Saltburn, Barbie, M3GAN, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Rye Lane, Next Goal Wins, Quiz Lady, Eileen, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Cocaine Bear 🤣

First fandom of the year:

In January I had a major Jurassic Park/World resurgence wherein I watched all the Lego Jurassic World shows about Claire and Owen on Netflix and also read all of Tess Sharpe’s tie-in novels, while also feeling nine zillion feelings about Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler on the side because they are THE movie otp. I regret none of this, it was fun as hell.

Best new fandom discovery of the year:

The Gilded Age. I can’t believe I was living without Bertha and George Russell, and Julian Fellowes’ extremely stupid yet incomparably enchanting writing, for so long.

Biggest fandom disappointment of the year:

Ted and Rebecca not happening and also not getting nearly as much significant screentime together as I wanted. 😭 That one hurt me real hard, even though I always kind of saw it coming. I somehow just knew all the way back in season 1 that it was too wonderful and refreshing to happen. But even more disappointing to me was Keeley and Roy not getting back together. (And the fake-out of them seeming to get back together and then not really doing so. Ouch!) I wish they hadn’t broken up at all! That whole plotline gets a million thumbs downs from me. It made me feel so, so bad inside, a badness that never healed.

Honorary mention: Roman and Gerri’s last ever interaction getting deleted from 4.09!!!!!!! FERAL SCREAM!!!!!

I also really didn’t like what they did with Orlo’s character in s3 of The Great.

Biggest squee moments of the year:

(I can’t possibly narrow ‘em down well but let’s try.)

Like the entirety of OFMD season two, but I’ll narrow it down with great restraint to Mermaid Stede, the conversation on the sofa in “Fun and Games,” and the “You wear fine things well” redux kiss.

Roman watching Gerri recite the limerick and being besotted! Gerri caring about Roman with her eyeballs at the funeral! Roman’s Gerri tribute martini! Gerri smiling at Roman making fun of Greg that one time even though he didn’t know she was! It was a rough season, okay!

Guillermo dancing in the Pride Parade episode! Nandor always knowing that Guillermo didn’t have what it took to be a vampire and helping him become human again! The vampires doing the news!

Old ladies Midge and Susie making each other laugh at the end of TMMM! What a perfect way to go out.

Rebecca spitting her tea in Ted’s face in an act of fond vengeance. I really thought we were so happening after that one, mates! (And that moment in the hallway! And the Ted’s A Work In Progmess scene! Everything that made it feel like it might be happening!!!)

I also squeed during the Morning After Ted In Rebecca’s Kitchen Fakeout until I was dashed back down upon the rocks of cruel reality. Congratulations, show: I 100% fell for it. (Though part of that was because the people watching with me were like, “Wow, congratulations! It happened!” as if I had somehow personally willed it into happening. And you know I would have if I could have!)

Crowley and Aziraphale’s big scene at the end of Good Omens. It was a squee moment tinged with terrible pain, but such a squee moment nonetheless!

Also, Aziraphale’s “Smitten, I believe” lil’ look/remark. Will delight me forever.

Gregory and Janine kissing on Abbott Elementary! The flowers!!!!!!

Kelvin and Keefe’s first kiss (finally!) on The Righteous Gemstones!

Also on The Righteous Gemstones: Judy and BJ walking into the party to “Dance Hall Days” while BJ is rocking his shorts-romper ensemble. A moment that simply stunned me!

The end of the first episode (I think?) of Beef where “The Reason” by Hoobastank is playing specifically in the context of, I just found my nemesis whose life I’m going to make a misery. That made me so happy.

Seeing the Doctor and Donna Noble together again!

Favorite Main Character of the Year:

Catherine from The Great. Season three was such a tour de force for Elle Fanning, and I just loved every note of her character’s journey! I’m so bummed that we won’t get to see what happens to her next and I’m going to miss that performance and that character so much. 😢 She is INCREDIBLE!

Favorite Villain of the Year:

The briefly-seen Logan Roy, and the way he haunted his kids and kept tearing them apart after he died, and yet they still stared at him with such love and fondness and longing in that video in the finale and then proceeded to try to tear each other to shreds because that’s what he raised them to do. AAAH!

Favorite m/f couple of the year:

Gotta be RomanGerri. Good lord, what a time we had!

Runner-up: George and Bertha Russell, the morally questionable marrieds of my dreams.

Favorite f/f couple of the year:

I loved Midge/Susie with all my heart and rambled weirdly about them being Luke/Lorelai in (slightly) different clothes for the entire run of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, from the pilot being in that pilots contest onwards (remember that??). So it was just so wonderful and satisfying to have their relationship so loved on in the last season. And to get some canon ‘Susie is in love with Midge’ vibes going on, aaah! (Midge is in love with Susie, too. To me.)

Runner-up: Anne and Mary on Our Flag Means Death. I know they were only there for one episode but I’m god damn obsessed with them and will always dream of seeing them again in hypothetical s3. Staying at Ed and Stede’s inn? Swashbuckling into their lives on the high seas, possibly wearing other people’s faces? I will take ANYTHING!!! They ARE love and romance!!!!!!!!

Favorite m/m couple of the year:

Ed/Stede!!!!!!!! They came back to me!!!!!!! They were so in love and so deranged about it in so many moments that were absolute bangers!!!!!!!!! It was a total dream come true and I will never love another season of television quite in the way that I love season two of OFMD!!!!!!!!!

Also Crowley and Aziraphale, hoo boy. Don’t think I’ve forgotten what season two did to us as a society!!!! It was spectacular and I loved every minute of my deranged feelings.

And Nandermo always always always, and more with every season. Sorry, WWDITS showrunner dude!

Favorite fictional friendship of the year:

I really enjoyed getting to see Mabel and Oliver and Charles again in Only Murders in the Building season three! And the Rez Dogs in Reservation Dogs, which I finally watched! And the return of the Doctor and Donna to finish off the year!

Also, this doesn’t totally count as friendship per se, but George obstinately pretending to be Catherine’s bestie for self-preservation reasons in season three of The Great was riveting at every second and I was obsessed with it.

Your fictional boyfriend of the year?:

Edward Teach, going through every single human emotion and being so god damn beautiful doing it! 🥹

Your fictional girlfriend of the year?:

Gerri Kellman, my love, my light, THE stone-cold killer bitch of all time. 👑👑👑

Fandom that you never expected to get into:

I guess I never expected to get AS into Succession as I did. But somehow that final season really hit the exact vibe of ‘Your dreams could come true but they never will’ that absolutely and lastingly obsessed me.

Fandom that made an unexpected comeback:

Community, I guess? I’ve been really fixated on Community since our rewatch was begun! I always forget exactly HOW obsessed and emotionally invested I am until I am watching it again. And then I’m left in an abyss of feelios.

Fandom that inspired the most crack:

Oh, it’s gotta be Succession. That’s the only way to engage with Succession.

Last fandom of the year:

As mentioned: I am currently very in my Community feels due to my rewatch! Oh, does this show ever dwell in a tender and sweet place in my heart.

Overall favorite fandoms of the year:

Succession, Good Omens, OFMD

Your main fandom of the year:

Oh, gosh. Is it Succession?? I feel like the three above all got some major attention, but Succession might have been stretched out over the longest amount of time. Just, y’know. All that trying to recover!

The most missed of your old fandoms:

My year was definitely too Gilmore Girls lite for my liking! I also already miss Ted Lasso and simply insist that they make a fourth season. Even if they have to do it without Ted anymore 😢, I could dream of Roy and Keeley getting back together and see Rebecca and Nate and Higgins and Beard and the team and all my buddies again. I just feel like season three did not feel like an ending season and there’s still so much more juice in that ensemble.

Fandom resolutions for next year:

Just keep having a jolly time! Maybe watch less TV. Be more discerning in choosing which TV shows to watch so that there are more free hours in my day.

Fandom predictions for next year:

I predict Ted Lasso is going to come back in some form. It wasn’t over! It still isn’t over!! (I know if this happens it probably won’t include Ted, but wouldn’t it be hilarious if the desperate dream of Ted/Rebecca was suddenly back on? And by ‘hilarious’, I mean ‘everything to me’?)

I’m still quietly predicting the Killing Eve fix-it movie. I know it won’t happen, that Jodie and Sandra have moved on, but I’m dreaming of it anyway. And dreams can come true!

I predict that Jeff and Annie will finally get to be in love in the Community movie if it comes out. I am just choosing optimism and sweetness in this moment. I am choosing to believe.

In that vein: I predict that OFMD season three will exist!

I predict that Hugh Grant and Colin Firth will finally make a romcom together as the love interests. WHY NOT. IT'S TIME.

#dollsome's deep thoughts #year in review

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hey! can i just say THE NEW UPDATE IS AMAZING! thank you for including mr harrison and mr cortese, i love them so much and was so sad when they didnt make it into the show. your au is so good and im always so excited when i see a notification come up. my school copies have many drawings of azazel and jophiel in them now. i love your au so much, like with all my heart and soul. have a wonderful day!

THANK YOU! you can thank the discord server for that, they wanted to see them, and i thought.. why not! i also thought it was a bit of a shame that they weren't in the show, and my comic is nothing if not self-indulgent!

take a doodle! have a lovely day!

#ask #oopsie!omens #lexyychinchillaa

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DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (2002) Trailer.

Starring Mark Redfield Elena Torrez Kosha Engler Carl Randolph

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Designed and Directed by Mark Redfield. Written by Mark Redfield and Stuart Voytilla, based on their stage play, and the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

With J.R. Lyston, Robert Leembruggen, R. Scott Thompson, James Nailitz, Jennifer Cortese, Ronald Burr, Alena Wright, Brad Marshall, Chuck Richards, Tom Brandau, Josh Petroski, Jeff Miller, E. John Edmonds, Melanie Ambridge.

Music by Nalin Tenaja. Director of Photography Carl DeVos. Edited by Sean Paul Murphy. Special Make-up Effects by Robert Yoho.

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inconveniently-discorporated · 1 year

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I KEEP DOING RESEARCH AND I CAN'T FIND A CONSISTENT ANSWER 😭😭😭 HELP I'M NOT CULTURED

(by the way I thought y'all should know Aziraphale's teacher persona is named after wine, I didn't know that and got a giggle out of it)

#good omens

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After the girls - this week is all about the boys (and men) of Good Omens. Please mind the tags, rating and CW.

My inbox is open for suggestions, ideas and recs for stories that focus on supporting characters (as in, Aziraphale and Crowley are not the main ones). Self recs are encouraged!

Planned Obsolescence by HopeCoppice - 484 words, rated G, focusing on Newt and Pollution. Summary: Newt is already having a bad day. This might as well happen.

Sandalphon Meets His Match by Quannon - 4.2K, rated G, focusing on Sandalphon, R. P. Tyler, Aziraphale and Crowley. cw - vaguely implied violence. Summary: Sandalphon takes punishing Aziraphale and Crowley into his own hands with unexpected results.

Dog by EmaZuro - 466 words, rated G, focusing on Adam Young, Dog and god. Summary: Basicaly short story based on prompt from Good Omens Inktober. Dog and his master go for a walk and God gives you an advice.

Dick Turpin by @supergeek21 - 445 words, rated G, focusing on Newt, Anathema and Dick Turpin. Summary: An ode to the love between an awkward boy and his three-wheeled car.

A modern milkbottle by nightbloomingcereus - 497 words, rated G, focusing on Witchfinder Major Milkbottle and Sergeant Shadwell. Summary: Witchfinder Major Milkbottle has finally returned. But there have been some changes in the Witchfinder Army since he was last on active duty.

Run And Tell All Of The Angels. by Lanna Michaels (lannamichaels) - 2.3K, rated G, focusing on Adam Young, Greasy Johnson and Warlock Dowling. cw - surprise pregnancy. Summary: The bitter blood feud between the Youngs and Johnsons of Lower Tadfield ended with the arranged marriage of their children. In which there is a pregnancy, a dashing rich American, and Greasy Johnson wishes someone would pay him to go away.

Sleep So Sweet my Darling Boy, You Will Rule When Earths Destoryed by notebooksandlaptops - 1.6K, rated G, focusing on Warlock Dowling and Adam Young. Summary: Perks of being The Destroyer of Worlds, Angel of Darkness, Master of the Pit, Spawn of Satan on High, the Anti-Christ: the ability to control the weather, always getting exactly what you want for Christmas, your favourite couples on TV mysteriously ending up together and a man in your bed who had the weirdest upbringing because two dumbass celestial beings thought that he was you. Draw backs of being The Destroyer of Worlds, Angel of Darkness, Master of the Pit, Spawn of Satan on High, the Anti-Christ: Occasional Nightmares about who you could have been. Good job that Warlock is there and if Adam needs a lullaby, well, Warlock's got his childhood Lullaby Nanny taught him to hand...

Home For the Holidays by WaldosAkimbo - 1.3K, rated T, focusing on Lesley the International Express Man and Maud. Summary: A slice of Lesley and Maud and what they do for Christmas.

What We Do in the Dowling Estate by doomed_spectacles - 2K, rated T, focusing on Mr Harrison, Mr Cortese and Adam Young. Summary: A film crew follows Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cortese, private tutors hired to educate Warlock Dowling, the son of an American Ambassador.

His Master's Voice by @fenrislorsrai - 498 words, rated T, focusing on Dog and Adam Young. cw - unspecified traumatic things happen to people. Summary: Dog lives a long and happy life.Bodies are optional. He's not going back to Hell just because he's dead. His place is by his Master's side and always will be.

Bonus - master list with all past recommendations!

Authors - if you wish that your Tumblr account will be tagged, instead of the AO3, please comment or DM me the handle. Thanks :)

Thanks for reading, and remember - sharing is caring!

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