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it’s late but I cannot stop thinking about the ‘Leia Goes Back in Time and Meets Qui-Gon’ AU, specifically— what happens when he finds out that she’s not only Force-sensitive, she’s insanely Force-sensitive.

Now, since the Force doesn’t really “work” a certain way in Star Wars, I’m just going to go with fanon and say that stuff like mental shields and telepathy and such exist, because I really enjoy the idea of two people being able to bicker even when they’re out of earshot. This means that Leia has crazy good shielding, which, really, is barely fanon— she resisted whatever the hell a “mind probe” is supposed to be. It’s not a far jump from “good at resisting mental torture” to “good at telepathy shielding.”

All this to say: practically no one IDs her as Force-sensitive. Why would they? She just feels like a null in the Force. A weird blob of nothing.

Which makes the whole situation when Qui-Gon ‘I believe in ancient prophecies even though prophecies are objectively one of the worst and least reliable versions of precognition, but really who can explain most of what I do, so just accept it and move on’ Jinn finds out that Leia is, oh, the most powerful Force-user in a millennia, so much funnier.

He’s been chasing her around, trying to get her to help the Order out (which she is not going to do, for the millionth time, and please stop sneaking into her hotel or she’ll push you out a window), and he ends up in the middle of an assassination attempt, because one of the things that Leia is really good at is making people mad.

Qui-Gon watches as a giant pillar falls on her, unable to catch it in time, and he has the sinking feeling that he probably should have done something different with her. And then the pillar shifts, and lands on top of everyone who had been trying to shoot her.

Leia climbs out of the carnage, a bit bloody, a bit bruised, but shining like a thousand suns in the Force. And then she sees Qui-Gon.

She swears, obviously, very long and very loud and all directed at him, and he weathers it all not with the grace of a jedi master, but the grace of someone is used to being yelled at (whether he deserves it or not is irrelevant).

“No,” she says, before he can say another word. “Whatever you’re about to say, I don’t want to hear it.”

Qui-Gon tilts his head, considering, and then speaks. “Have you ever heard of the prophecy of the Chosen One?”

#star wars #star wars au #qui gon jinn #leia organa

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tehrenb · 10 minutes

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GOOD OMENS S02E04 • "The Hitchhiker"

#they're such dorks #i love them so much #good omens #go2 gifs #good omens 1941

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Puzzle. I love drawing them being domestic

#good omens #good omens fanart #otp: ineffable

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tehrenb · 1 hour

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Dear Good Omens fandom friends,

can we please agree to keep our sand in our sandbox?

We have a great sandbox. It's big and full of people building castles and villages and roads and stuff. Some of that is big and complicated and detail-oriented, some of it is strange and weird and funny, some if it is off-the-rails in any and all senses of the word. All of it is lovely. Some of it tries to rebuild Neil Gaiman's sandcastle as faithful as possible, either to build onto it or to try and find out where the secret rooms might be hidden. Some of it looks a lot like his but has its own little turrets and courtyards and gardens added everywhere. Some of it looks completely different and doesn't try to hide it. Some of it isn't even meant to be taken seriously and just exists to make people laugh. But there is so much of it that everybody can find something for themselves; and if we don't we just find a free space and start shifting sand ourselves.

Neil Gaiman has his own sandbox. He has built something brilliant and beautiful in it, and he is currently busy building another storey onto it. He doesn't want anybody to see the new part before it is finished, and I know that sometimes the excitement of finally wanting to see it is hard to bear.

But that is why we have our sandbox. To make our own stuff until he reveals the rest of that sandcastle we all love so much. To pass the time, to have fun with it, to meet new people and find more brilliant little sandcastles. Never again will there be as much creativity, as much activity, as many people around in this sandbox than there is now, in the time before the last bit of his castle is revealed. I am sure most of us will be delighted and surprised at what he will have created. Some will be disappointed because they were expecting his sandcastle to look different, some will be disappointed because they saw a castle in our sandbox they liked much more, but most will be delighted because after all we came up with he will still have managed to surprise us.

Our sandbox. His sandbox.

The two are separated for a reason.

Because if you keep throwing sand into his box to get his attention, or keep trying to get a good look at what he is doing over there, or keep yelling at him to look over to ours and tell you which one looks like the one he is trying to make, or which one is the best, or how stupid one of the others looks (last one would also make you a dick), you are quite simply risking the new part of his sandcastle to collapse. Or for him to have to remake it in a way he didn't plan to, or simply dislikes, or that we will all dislike.

And just because he is glad we are enjoying ourselves and proud that his work inspired us to create all these things, doesn't mean he wants to see (all of) it. Some things he definitely wouldn't want to see; other things the creators definitely don't want him to see.

I'm proud of our sandbox. It's huge. It's brilliant. It's creative. It's collaborative. And it's ours.

Have fun in it. But keep it apart from his. Keep out of his. And keep him out of ours. Stop trying to drag him over. He has stuff to do. Important stuff. Stuff I, for one, am waiting very impatiently for.

And he will never show us the parts of the castle that aren't finished yet, no matter how often you ask. And just because he is making an effort to be funny about it doesn't mean we aren't annoying him when we keep asking.

#yes this #good omens #good omens fandom #neil gaiman #go3 speculation

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Hi! I loved SS/WM and followed your link to the Spotify playlist for Crowley. I was wondering if you could tell a bit about the reason for each song? Your notes say it's a "study on what crowley thinks of himself at different points of his life" and I've tried to sort of chronologically map out those points but failed miserably. Is Hozier 'cause of Lilith or am I losing my mind, etc. Just curious if you'd like to talk about it.

(p.s. i hadn't heard that version of Rasputin and it's awesome so thank you for incidentally enlightening me)

It's been a while since I looked at it, but I definitely wasn't dedicated enough to make it chronological, lol. But some thoughts (long, so under the cut):

When You Die - MGMT I'm mean and I'm evil / Don't call me nice / I'm gonna eat your heart out / I've got some work to do / words don't do anything, it's permanently night, and I won't feel anything I feel like this is representative of Crowley's general mindset a few years after Lilith's death all the way up to right before SS/WM starts. He's resigned to the life he has, who he is; he does have anger beneath the surface towards the people who made him this way, but he doesn't see things ever changing so he papers over it with work and the spiky facade he presents to the world. Mercy - TV On The Radio I fell in love with professional evil, on the day you left my side 'You' referring to Crowley's mother; her death being a turning point, after which he falls in with 'professional evil'- Prince, but also just stealing to survive on the streets I see tons of people looking lost and lethal and I think we're all the same Crowley wonders how many other career criminals chose their paths or also just landed there because of a fucked-up past I just can't keep the stain from my soul He thinks of himself as damaged/tainted goods Aces High - Iron Maiden To be honest I don't remember why I put this in 😭

The Villain Of This Story - Machinae Supremacy I kill, that's all I know / I am the villain of this story / What else could I ever be? Crowley thinks it's his fault that everyone he loves gets hurt, and that he's a lost cause. So repeating themes, but I like to think this one's linked to a particularly edgy phase. Tbh it might say more about me, because I'm an early-2010s emo kid, haha. Rasputin - Turisas This one's not so much a self-reflection as the type of song I see Crowley and Warlock majorly bonding over in the early years of their relationship. They've belted this out loud and made neighbors mad. Somewhere on the internet there's a Vine of Crowley drunk out of his mind trying to do a prisyadka with this playing in the background, and the video cuts right as he falls over

Children of the Damned - Iron Maiden Black holes in his golden stare / God knows he wants to go home / If he had lived, he would have crucified us all / He thought oblivion, well, it beckons us all Crowley believes that 'Raphael' is a person that fully died long before his father tried to murder him, and that Anthony/Crowley is almost someone else entirely. And sometimes he wonders who Raphael could have been if he'd gotten the chance to grow up.

Day Sixteen: Loser - Ayreon 'Cause you're just like your mother, well, where is she now? You'll end up like her soon, six feet underground / If you had any balls at all, you'd grab me by the throat / You don't even look like me / You're an aberration, some freak, I suppose Crowley's father's voice in Crowley's head. Some of it accurate to what Kieran actually thought, some of it overblown taunting twisted by Crowley's own psyche, with an undercurrent of guilt i.e. is there something more he could've done? If he'd stood up to his father back then, could his mother maybe still be alive today? Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive - Machinae Supremacy I wish I could invoke some better part of me / But I have too much fun killing everyone / I gotta kill, kill something right now Crowley as a completely unreliable narrator. He's good at his job, even enjoys parts of it, hasn't tried to get out, so that must mean he enjoys evil, right?

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene - Hozier Lurched like a stray to the arms that were open / No shortage of sordid, no protest from me / With her sweetened breath and her tongue so mean / I lay my heart down with the rest at her feet 100% about Lilith. Her initial decision to take Crowley in was predatory and had no emotion attached to it, but she was outwardly kind, paid him a lot of attention, and celebrated all the things people from his hometown ostracized him for. Snake eyes? So unique! Interest in fashion? Let's go shopping! Hey, we like the same music! Crowley fell for her fast. Personally I like to think that their relationship wasn't the most proper-- that there were early periods where Lilith knowingly took advantage of pretty teenage Crowley, gave him his first sexual experiences, probably even taught him how to use seduction as a weapon for professional purposes (with, uh, lots of hands-on practice). Lovesick teenage Crowley had no idea what was proper or not, and took it all in stride. But later, Lilith would realize she genuinely loved him and stop doing that kind of thing, and by Crowley's mid-twenties they'd have a more little brother/big sister dynamic. And even though present-day Crowley doesn't know that Lucille had Lilith killed because of him, he knows that she loved him, and therefore forgives all of the iffy stuff to still love her back. Honestly, Lilith was one of my favorite characters, and she wasn't even alive for the main story! On My Shoulders - The Dø And why did I break my back for you in the cold? / How long will I sit and wait like a soldier? Crowley on the cusp of wondering yeah, why have I done so much for Lucille all this time, especially now that she's proven she doesn't care about me, or anyone, at all? Space-Dye Vest - Dream Theater A bit of a weird one, but: He wants you for possession / He doesn't want you to be real or to think or to live / He doesn't love you, but I love you / I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings How Lucille views Crowley vs. how Aziraphale views Crowley Show Me How to Live - Audioslave Someone get me a priest / To put my mind to bed / Nail in my hand, from my creator, you gave me life, now show me how to live Crowley in the cemetery in Scotland, frustrated and confused. Why did God let him live through his dad's murder attempt? Let him escape Prince's notice? Only to end up here alone with a dead mother, an angry Aziraphale, and everyone out to get him? If God wants him to be alive so bad, why won't She tell him what to do?? Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails I'd rather die than give you control / Bow down before the one you serve, You're going to get what you deserve Crowley in Gabriel's office at The Royal Museum, successfully facing down Lucille. A bit of posturing, projecting more confidence than he actually has. Better Place - Saint Asonia I don't owe you anything, and you don't own me Self-explanatory :^)

#sswm #good omens fanfiction #heist au #behind the scenes #good omens #playlist

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tehrenb · 5 hours

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I promised Dragon Crowley and Dragon Azirapahle, so here they are :)))

I'm not set on Aziraphale's arm color, might change in the future.

I'll try to get design sheet together for them sometime in the future!

Fun Dragon Au Fact: Entangling tails is an intimate act that is usually done only between family and life partners 👀

#good omens #good omens fanart #dragon au #otp: ineffable

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Sketch Sheet Go Brr

Based on this ficlet >>> A More Gentle Touch

@nik-knight (sorry for tagging you twice in one day omg) wrote a little ficlet for my Creature Omens AU, and it gave me MASSIVE brain rot. I just had to doodle a bunch of the scenes from it I couldn't just pick one sdjhdf

Seriously, go give it a read! Even if you aren't big into the Azirabirb and Snake Crowley concept, its really good and super sweet ;;

Thanks once again to her for writing something based on my little head canon!! I'm super honored, genuinely ;; <3 <3 <3

Oh, she did ask me a few things about the AU that I figured I'd share here:

Crowley and Aziraphale's "true" forms are of a Bird and Snake. Heaven and Hell are represented similarly (Heaven mostly by birds, and Hell by whatever animal motif they naturally have).

Humans still exist in the AU. Everything is essentially the same as in the show besides Angels and Demons having different forms.

When not hiding themselves, Angels and Demons are cloaked in a kind of glamour that makes them appear humanoid to anyone they are interacting with. Any oddities in the interaction are naturally filled in by the human brain, though it can get a little weird on what they remember.

They can shift to a humanoid form if they need to (some things are just easier with hands), though Aziraphale favors his Bird form when in his Bookshop.

Crowley spends more time in human form than Aziraphale. Azi tends to only do it when necessary or when leaving the shop.

#good omens #good omens fanart #fanfic of fanart #good omens fanfiction #dove aziraphale #snake crowley

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