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What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #neil gaiman is a treasure

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A page from my 80s retro comic “COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE”

Next chapter dropping soooooon!

#good omens #good omens art #crowley #aziraphale #gleafer art #80s era #femme aziraphale #crowley is punk rock #punk Crowley

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Hello Mr. Gaiman, long time listener, first time caller. Are you ever going to make the old men fuck, nasty style?

I’m never sure how to respond to you Shadwell/Job shippers. Perhaps you should expend your energies on AO3.

#middle-age erasure #there's youth #and there's decrepit old age #and nothing in between? #c'mon people #also neil did you *have* to throw this writing prompt out there #(you knew exactly what you were doing)

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Something we didn't notice (part 1)

A lot of theories have emerged regarding s2e6. But I'll just show you what's not very obvious. Just my observations. I'll try to collect anything that's slipped in somewhere but hasn't attracted widespread interest.

The Metatron is ordering coffee. Right after that we see Michael threatens Aziraphale with the Book of Life. The Metatron enters.

The Metatron wasn't here when Michael made the threats. But he says:

So it turns out he heard Michael's threats from outside the bookshop. It seems to be very alarming to Aziraphale.

Aziraphale moves away from the Metatron. Fear? Let's say.

The Metatron raises the coffee cup in front of Aziraphale, then lowers it, raises it again, and we can see a barely perceptible finger tapping. Right on the logo sticker "Give me Coffee or Give me Death".

Aziraphale glances repeatedly at the coffee cup, he doesn't look calm. "Are you going to take it?" Or would you prefer death?

The Metatron looks threateningly at Crowley (and it seems he even whispers something silently to him). Aziraphale turns around at that very moment, and stares until the Metatron turns away from Crowley.

Crowley's expression while talking to Nina and Maggie and after talking to Aziraphale. Looks very similar. It could be described as pondering in both cases. He's not wrathful. He's not broken. He's trying to connect the dots. After Aziraphale said something to him before entering the elevator.

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ASTROBLEME - Collab - Page 1

astrobleme [ as-truh-bleem ] - an erosional scar on the earth's surface, produced by the impact of a cosmic body, such as a meteorite.

A collab between @daneecastle and me, next page coming out over on her blog!

Check #astroblemecomic for updates!

Part 2 out now!

#good omens #good omens fancomic #astroblemecomic #art collab #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2

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So, I made a silly little post a while ago about how cute it was that Aziraphale suddenly wanted to take the Bentley after waiting 90 years to drive here. But since I wrote it, I watched the episode again, and suddenly a few things started to fall into place.

Aziraphale being so desperate to take the Bentley always struck me as kind of strange. Like, he's spent 90 years of Crowley driving around and has never asked to drive before. Why right now? Crowley seems as surprised by the request... he's not taking the train? He loves trains!

And then... it hit me. He's going to Edinburgh.

The last time he went to Edinburgh, his worst nightmare came true. Crowley got pulled down to Hell to face punishment for his acts of kindness.

And now, Aziraphale is going back there. The circumstances are completely different, of course, but I'm certain that he remembers vividly losing Crowley. He would want to make sure that Crowley is safe and out of Hell's reach while he's gone.

But with him out of London, how can he make sure that his demon is safe? The Bentley is now not only Crowley's car, but also where he's living now that he got kicked out of his apartment, so most of his time is spent there. Aziraphale is probably aware of this, but he also knows that the demons can get to Crowley in the car. Beelzebub entered the Bentley without permission, as did Hastur in season 1.

But the bookshop is safe. Only Aziraphale can give permission to enter the shop (Crowley seems to have permanent permission because he can now come at will). So, he takes the Bentley, and asks Crowley to watch over Jimbriel in the bookshop, in the one place that he will be completely safe.

Now all Crowley has to deal with is an amnesiac archangel! What could possibly go wrong?

#and by claiming the bentley as 'our car' me made it safe from demons #aziraphale keeps doing anything to protect crowley #good omens #good omens meta #good omens 2 #good omens 2 meta #aziraphale #aziraphale loves crowley #crowley's bentley #the bentley #our car

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the thing about surveillance is that whilst the watcher, true, may not always be - if at all - watching, the watched doesn't always know that. the threat remains the same. take this for example (tw in tags): you live in an abusive household. there are cameras all over the house, every area and every angle. there's no light to indicate when it's activated. you don't know when or where you might be being observed remotely, but risk 'punishment' if you put a toe out of line. you're allowed to do whatever you want, you have freedom! but very much from inside a barless cage. so you start to do things only when you know you have an excuse or explanation that is plausible, and can be realistically applied to keep you out of danger. and when you get away with it, you might think 'okay they weren't watching that time', but the risk never disappears, and neither does that fear.

no, heaven is not always watching aziraphale, and he's gotten away with a lot of things, but the narrative irony is that we know heaven doesn't appear to give a fuck until armageddon. aziraphale, however, has a very different perspective of heaven than the audience does; perhaps he knows something we do not, but even if that isn't the case, his viewpoint is entirely subjective. for me, the fact remains that even if heaven isn't actively surveilling him, the possibility alone is enough for him to constantly dance that line, and pull back entirely when things cut too close to the quick. in the context of him standing to lose - let's be blunt - the core identity of himself, i don't think his response to that continuous, underlying, insidious fear is all that invalid, actually

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale meta #good omens meta #surveillance #tw abuse #tw: abuse #tw: domestic abuse

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“Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.”

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #crowly x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #good omens edit #good omens gifs #good omens timeline

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I have to get something off my chest. I've seen so many posts and art this week about how upset and lonely Crowley is, it being Valentine's and all.

But Crowley is home. He can (presumably) go back to his flat, watch endless TV, rant to his plants, get a drink, go to wintery St James's and complain to the ducks. He can drive to the sea and scream at the waves. He can eat ice cream and listen to Queen in the Bentley. Aziraphale has no comforts. He gave up everything he loves to give sorting their freedom one last chance. He must be missing his soft, worn clothes.

His cluttered, busy home full of books and artworks and armchairs and its cosy lightning.

Food. And drinks.

Music. Concerts. Theatre.

And of course, his best friend.

It's highly unlikely that anything has changed in Heaven since he hasn't been there. The Archangels probably hate him even more. Whatever Metatron has planned, most likely involves a lot of surveillance and very little actual power (something Az will need to overcome and I can't wait to see how). The place is sterile, over lit and empty. He must be be missing Earth so much. And be so lonely there. Aziraphale deserves the biggest hug.

#good omens #aziraphale #good omens 2 #ineffable divorce

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Good Omens won Best TV Comedy Drama Comedy.co.uk Award!!! WAHOO 🥳🥳🥳❤❤❤

Neil: Okay. I am Neil Gaiman, and I want to thank the British Comedy Guide and all of the readers who voted for Good Gmens to be the Best TV Comedy Drama of 2023. We're all thrilled. All the actors, all the people who made it, and me. And now I have to go back to toiling deep in the salt mines to make you Season Three so you can find out how the story ends. And thank you again. We're chuffed.

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my attempt to translate the confession scene into a comic. will post new pages and link it here as i go along 👍

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable divorce #final fifteen #the final fifteen #aziraphle #aziracrow

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Okay so this rant is brought to you by this gorgeous art by @builtintripping what the fuck dude you hit me right in the heart.

Because it’s just. We spend all this time thinking about how affected and hurt Crowley would be after the final fifteen, and yes, of course he would be -- one look at his face tells you he doesn't think he'll ever come back from this, but fucking-

Aziraphale. What about Aziraphale?

Imagine how hard it would be to tell your best friend in the entire universe that you have to go. You have to, you have no choice, coffee or death — leave or death — and you both know it.

He tells you he loves you, asks you to run away with him again, and he has no idea how much you want to. No idea. You want him so badly it hurts, and on some level he knows that much, but he also knows you have to leave.

He knows, but he’s still desperate.

He looks at you with broken eyes and pleads at you with a broken voice. You put that pain in his eyes.

He kisses you, and it changes nothing except how much it will hurt you when he leaves the bookshop.

How hard would that be? To keep yourself from melting into his touch. To shoulder his confession and harden your heart, because it’s coffee or death - leave or death. How hard would that be, to keep a brave face against your abuser when the one person who has ever managed to convince you that you are more than what they say you are, is gone.

How much would that hurt?

Anyways love the art @builtintripping thanks for facilitating my rambling-

#this #so much this #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable divorce #the final fifteen #final 15 #good omens s2 finale #aziraphale #aziracrow #give me coffee or give me death

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glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

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You get us

Pt III good omens but i STILL SOMEHOW haven't watched it (and i'm increasingly passive aggressive)

i'm now basically held hostage adopted as mascot by this fandom. it's fine i'm fine *SIGNALS FOR HELP DESPERATELY*

Alright fuckers I swear this time I'm going to get some shit right. Without further ado, here's my third attempt at a good omens summary:

Everything everywhere is queer all at once

Angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley on earth likey each other

The car is a bentley and it is BLACK not silver and everyone is very upset about this. my bad yall it was reflecting light therefore i guessed more silver than black but I'm not Anish Kapoor take your black.

Then it is yellow, and aziraphale likes it. crowley preferred the black because he's a flamboyant emo.

God is a deadbeat absentee parent and you are all children of divorce.

There's a naked archangel and they cause problems for the husbands somehow. By being naked? By being an archangel? By being at their doorstep? Who knows not me

They were actually married for 6000 years, they just are the last to know about it.

Crowley is on fire. Like, he's slaying for sure, but also he is literally on fire, like Aziraphale's bookstore.

The actors like I said before are Michael Sheen and David Tennant but this is the place where I finally admit that I don't actually know who is whom. I'm going to assume Michael is Aziraphale because Michael sounds angel-y and David is Crowley because uh Michaelangelo made David and was gay for him.

Terry Pratchett is not fictional.

He co-wrote the book with @neil-gaiman, who IS fictional, because he does not have social media. Several of you have assured me that he is in fact a fandom inside joke. I like to think he would be proud of me.

They adopt a preteen and Crowley gives him bad advice.

At some point a baby was delivered to someone and was exchanged for the son of Satan. Idk if the baby is the preteen, or the son of satan is the preteen, or neither. This could be a fanfic, I have no way of differentiating the fanfic from canon on tumblr, except that the canon is weirder.

Crowley does not go down a chute. He goes down a telephone cord after making himself microscopic to pole dance on a pin with shroom-induced backgrounds.

During this his stage name is Disco Tony. Get it king go slay you're making better life choices than I am tbh.

Aziraphale is a biblically accurate angel, and you have all gone to extensive lengths to prove this to me. I understood nothing, but there you go.

It's all very queer, just like the fandom.

Crowley is a retired demon but he still sins by breaking the speed limit.

They eat at fancy restaurants and bicker but like in a sexual undercurrent way.

Crowley gives Aziraphale a private dance that is not a lap dance, it is an apology dance, but not in a kinky way, until it is.

Their haircuts keep changing and range from 'this is acceptable and gay' to 'i let a drunk chimpanzee take gardening shears and a blowtorch to my hair'

It's all ineffably queer my good fellows

Everyone keeps trying to convince me Neil Gaiman is the villain yeah no guys I know it's really you. Y'all be like 'SEASON TWO BROKE ME' and then you're making headcanons to make it sadder yeah I see you mmhm.

There is a final fifteen. It is sad. What is it? No one told me.

The demon turns goats into crows and the angel turns them back and then children are turned into newts (does the angel turn them back? who cares not yall) and the demon was the snake in the Eden garden and everyone's furry game seems to be on point.

There are a rather lot of children. I have not seen them. But I am assured they are there. They are, guys. I assume they were turned into the alcohol Aziraphale and Crowley drink or something.

There was an apocalypse plotline. It was averted. It is not important. You don't talk about plotlines in this fandom, no sir.

Crowley doesn't want to go to heaven. Aziraphale is sad.

The kiss is not nice, just like this fandom. It is queer, just like this fandom. It is sad and desperate and masochistic, just like this fandom.

Aziraphale doesn't want to stay back with Crowley. Crowley is sad.

Season 2 ends. Fandom is sad.

Everyone's sanity is hinging on the promise of a happy ending in season 3. Good luck guys.

Y'all better appreciate this. I can't even boast to my mother about this legacy of mine, hey mum your son has been held hostage kidnapped inducted into a cult adopted by a fandom he's not part of look he's winning at life.

#good omens #good omens fandom #ineffably queer #good omens summary #good ineffable omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #masochistic fandom #we could have been us #tell me you said no #angel #demon #6000 years of pining #queer #lgbtqia #absentee parent #aka god

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THE SIDE OF CROWLEY'S CHEEK. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

#good omens 2 #good omens #good omens 1941 #grinning in response #i'm so normal about them

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Pt II good omens but i've still never watched it

so you crazies blew up the other post, and many of you tried to explain the plot to me. many others said there is no plot. many said i was accurate. many said i wasn't. and then i watched a few youtube edits of the angel and the demon.

I'm convinced that I know at least a little bit more now, so like the great guy I am, I decided to share how well you've educated me.

the plot is an angel and demon become alcoholics together while doing the good ol' animal husbandry

neil gaiman doesn't have social media

everyone is crying because the angel wanted to go to heaven and the demon said no

and then the demon did the kissy smoochy to make the angel stay and the angel said no

they were not married for 6000 years but they were more married than married

there is a car. it is silver and crowley likes it.

the car is then yellow. crowley doesn't like it. aziraphale does.

there's some kind of Jane Austen ball and dance

oh but also crowley gives aziraphale a more private dance in their home and he bows while making intensely sexual eye contact with the angel who is turned on and says nice and everyone is gasping about it

no one knows about god, not the fandom, not the characters, not god herself. god is ineffable. hey mum i learned a new word!

they run over an american witch

the angel likes books in a way bordering on obsessive and worshipful

the demon likes the angel in a way bordering on obsessive and worshipful

there's a gramophone

crowley says sorry a bunch of times

aziraphale keeps getting flustered and dying coz of crowley, and the fandom dies every time. crowley is also dying. everyone is dying. hopefully not literally, im now scared of this fandom.

there's a psychedelic drug trip at some point that's in the edits where crowley goes whee down a chute. either that or the sleep deprivation is getting to me. fuck you, good omens fandom.

terry pratchett is a guy

whether he is real, or a character, or like neil gaiman he is neither real nor a character, i am unsure, but he is important and people want me to remember him

crowley likes speeding

#pt II good omens but i've still never watched it #it got better #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens badly explained #marvellous

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good omens but i've never watched it

i've never seen good omens but it's all over my tumblr dash so this is what I've gathered can someone please confirm if i've got it right

there's a demon named crowley

there's a biblically inaccurate angel named aziraphale but like it's very sexy when the demon calls him 'angel'

the demon and angel have been married for 6000 years and they still keep looking at each other all sappily

Neil Gaiman is somehow involved, I think he's the writer but also he's on tumblr (uh, @neil-gaiman) and people keep questioning if he's real

is neil gaiman like a fandom inside joke why is everyone asking if he's real

there actors are called michael and david and amazon prime thought they were the same

there is a bookstore and crowley is sad

they kiss and it is very nice and desperate and crowley says we could have been us. i have no context for this. someone is going to heaven i think.

there is a god, i'm not sure if they're good or evil though

the demon wears sunglasses

it's a comedy but for some reason everyone's crying after whatever the last season was, are you guys okay

things are on fire

they are very gay

there was a book and at one point they switch bodies

more fire and crowley screaming

they are called ineffable husbands i dont know what that means

they fight crime or they do crime or they fight crime by doing crime i really cannot remember which

gay

#good omens but i've never watched it #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens badly explained #glorious