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vidavalor · 12 hours
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Come over anytime @nimbusalba and everyone. We're learning the Ineffable Husbands' hidden language on my blog. *hands out pamphlet* Do you have a moment to hear about the church of Crepes and Fish? 😂
my housemate is watching Good Omens with me in the sense that he just drops in on random episodes and tries to piece it back together (he says he prefers this). so we were on s1e3 and we got to "I'll toss you* for Edinburgh" and he was like "are you telling me people think this is platonic" and I was like... yeah some people, and then we got to "little demonic miracle of my own" and he was just like, they're obviously in love with each other
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*idk if this translates for everyone but in British this means "I will give you a hand job" as well as "I will flip a coin"
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My dear, I hope you are planning on designing costumes at some point in time because you have a great sense of style! Even for '70s clothes which, let's face it, were fairly hideous lol.
Ok,so since Crowley in the 1970's looked like this:
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What do you think Aziraphale looked like in the 1970s?
1967!Aziraphale, which is to say male-presenting Aziraphale for the last 80 billionty years but with his bowtie as a bit of a neckerchief situation and his collar more open. And thank you for brightening up my blog with some Disco Tony today. There's never enough. 🪩🐍
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vidavalor · 15 hours
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He should be more considerate of his partner's health, though. Crowley would discorporate if he saw Aziraphale pants like that. His borderline immortal heart is not strong enough for those thighs and that caboose in clinging crushed velvet.
Ok,so since Crowley in the 1970's looked like this:
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What do you think Aziraphale looked like in the 1970s?
1967!Aziraphale, which is to say male-presenting Aziraphale for the last 80 billionty years but with his bowtie as a bit of a neckerchief situation and his collar more open. And thank you for brightening up my blog with some Disco Tony today. There's never enough. 🪩🐍
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vidavalor · 15 hours
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Thank you @minervas-hand for adding in your ideas! I totally agree with you that Gabriel's story is a lot about toxic masculinity and supremacist systems. I tend to see Jim less as a flip that's been switched to pre-Heaven and more like Beez, Crowley and Aziraphale give Gabriel enough emotional safety that he doesn't have to hide the stuff that was hinted at being there all along.
There are some hints in S1 that Gabriel isn't just a total douchebag and that he playacts as much as Crowley. What isn't looked at a lot is that Gabriel could have told Aziraphale not to eat in the sushi restaurant scene-- instead, he doesn't get it and he's got some attitude in how he asks (to try to maintain his position) but he's not ordering, he's asking. He wants to know why Aziraphale eats. He's curious. He then admits to Aziraphale that he "likes the clothes" when Aziraphale compliments his suit, showing he's more open-minded than he's treated as being at times. Gabriel doesn't really have these conversations with any of the other angels. (One thing I think is really funny is how Michael and Uriel are basically imitating versions of Gabriel's suit in terms of dress, helping to illustrate his power and their own-- so far-- lack of curiosity.)
In S1, Gabriel still isn't trusting to a point where he feels like he can be more honest with Aziraphale but he was in the neighborhood of it and he knew so intuitively that Aziraphale was probably someone he could trust that he remembered it when he forgot his own name. Maybe more of note is the scene when Michael presents Gabriel with photographic evidence of Aziraphale and Crowley and Gabriel is quiet with a complicated expression. He doesn't have a choice but to tell Michael that it's okay to follow it up on the back channels they pretend do not exist but Gabriel's reaction wasn't that Aziraphale had done something Gabriel found repulsive-- it was more like oh fuck. He already knew (as is hinted at pretty strongly in the sushi scene as well.) Crowley and Aziraphale are really not that great at being stealth-- not for millennia lol-- Gabriel is the reason why they never got caught. He didn't see anything wrong with it and was protecting them. He also didn't love the hypocrisy that was going after Aziraphale for violating rules that the top angels violate all the time-- Michael bringing Gabriel evidence of Aziraphale having a relationship with a demon when it's also made clear that Gabriel knows about Michael and Ligur and has not made a thing about it... it shows how Gabriel tried to give Michael some rope because it was the right thing to do but they showed Gabriel that they couldn't be trusted in return.
It winds up illustrating how isolated Gabriel really is. If he can't trust Michael, the angel he's around the most and who is arguably the smartest of the bunch, he really has no one up there that he can talk to. Sort of makes you wonder if Gabriel really tried to recall Aziraphale to Heaven in 1800 out of a reaction to Aziraphale making the embassy and how that illustrated that he wanted to be permanently assigned to Earth. Gabriel was just like I know Crowley's hot but please don't leave me up there with Dad and Sandalphon, Az, I'm going to go out of my mind...
Gabriel sees his job as protecting the angels of Heaven from the system of Heaven as best as he can-- all of them, even the ones he doesn't like, which is basically all of the top angels. He knew that he was the only thing standing between most of them and The Metatron/them being cast to Hell. Aziraphale stopping Armageddon made Gabriel angry because Aziraphale was the only one he really liked or felt close to and now he was being forced to kill him because if he didn't, he'd be next and if he went, too, there'd be no one left to try to keep everyone else safe because the others jockeying for his job would not be as benevolent.
He's been told to kill the closest thing he has to a friend to save everyone else by saving himself so don't talk to him about greater good, sunshine...
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Makes how Crowley saw this scene a bit ironic, doesn't it? He just sees the dick who tried to murder the person Crowley loves-- fair lol, but not totally accurate. Get to know Gabriel a bit more and you to see past get what you called it, minerva-- that patina that's over Jim.
Gabriel didn't just tell Crowley's only friend to shut his stupid mouth and die already-- Gabriel told his only friend to do so-- and it was part of a whole slump into depression that led to his own fall.
I mean, just, Gabriel hates these two and yet he's still trying to protect them. He's really not that bad:
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He also looks just so disappointed lol when "Aziraphale" somehow miraculously survived and he had an excuse to just let him walk out of there. Also interesting visual between the scene in the above gif and then Crowley and Aziraphale protecting Gabriel in S2.
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Anyway, thank you for letting me ramble off your excellent thoughts. 💕
*dings the bell* … I’m back.
My Ukrainian friend made potato salad! It has cucumbers, carrots, onion, & canned green peas in it, and it’s absolutely delicious!
Sooo… can I ask what moment/scene you found the most devastating so far? I guess The KissTM is the most popular but I wonder if you’ve spotted something even more heartbreaking?
Hi @procrastiel Much love to you and your Ukrainian friend & please thank her again for me for the recipe as we made it and it was delicious. 💕Hope she's doing well. The KissTM is pretty heartbreaking for sure but I had a couple of moments that I found at least equally as heartbreaking...
The blues below the cut. TW: Depression.
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What really got me in S2, in terms of heartbreaking stuff, was the focus on the less "showier" kinds of depression in Aziraphale and Gabriel. I'm not dismissing the amazing Crowley story the show has been telling but it tends to be more overt. The story focusing on depression lingering beneath different types of exteriors-- those who project themselves as being upbeat and/or fine-- was really well-executed and it had moments as devastating to me as the kiss.
The "but that's for professional conjurers only" scene and, in particular, the choices made in Aziraphale's response to Crowley's "my Nefertiti-fooling fellow" response is probably my favorite bit of acting in the series entirely to date. Michael Sheen broke me into little pieces with the way he conveyed a lifetime of pain, depression, anxiety and sleepless nights in Aziraphale's eyes on the "professional conjurers" bit and the smile...
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...I love how you literally watch the pain of it all melt off his face at Crowley gently reassuring him and the smile that starts and then becomes just a beam of love he can't keep off his face. It's gorgeous.
It's actually what makes The Final 15 hurt even more, really, I think-- because you know that this is what Aziraphale needed. It's the same core set of problems but he needed 1941!Crowley and he got AlphaCentuari!Crowley because of where they both were at in the moment. It just makes 2.06 even more brutal because it shows you how they do understand each other and how right they are for each other if they could just stop being idiots lol.
I also actually think this is one of the most intimate scenes in the show. It shows a lot of guts on Aziraphale's part to be honest about how he's feeling and that's courage that Aziraphale has in general but was lacking a bit in the present in S2. He lets Crowley in here-- which is the theme of all of it and what he's not doing in S2 very much, especially in 2.06-- and we get a scene where Aziraphale is vulnerable and hurting and trusts Crowley with it and Crowley is there to help him as much as Aziraphale helps Crowley. It's very sweet and romantic but in a heartbreaking way because of how it shows how much pain Aziraphale is carrying around with him all the time. The lovely bit, though, is how it also shows how Crowley knows and is trusted with it. That it all takes place in largely the same space as the mess in 2.06? Gah. Devastating...
The other storyline that broke me was Gabriel. I know not everyone has the empathy for him that I do and he can be a total jerk, no doubt, but I thought he was the best example of the show bringing in other perspectives on life in Heaven/Hell in S2. We had angles like Furfur and Muriel illustrating that life for those not on Earth is lonely, isolating and boring and that many are yearning to live a bit more. Crowley and Aziraphale have not had it easy by any means but we are given characters whose perspective is that they're jealous that Crowley and Aziraphale have at least been able to be on Earth and have one another this whole time, which is more than a lot of other angels and demons can say, and that's fair. Expanding upon the glimpses of Gabriel that we saw in S1 and showing that, really, he's more complicated than we might have expected, was something I both loved and was a bit broken by.
Essentially, S2 shows that Gabriel is actually arguably the worst off character of all of them-- Crowley and Aziraphale included. That he really had no one until Beez is shown on his face so well-- Jon Hamm and Shelley Conn selling Gabriel's depression and how healthy this relationship is in almost no time at all really shows how great they both are. Look at this poor bastard, though, really...
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He has the worst job of all of them. The Metatron is really in charge of Heaven-- Gabriel's the pretty face, forced to keep everything going or be killed for disobeying. S2 emphasizes how much he and Beez did what they did at the end of S1 basically at gunpoint-- it was kill or be killed and neither of them have the power to overthrow anything on their own. They have enough power, in the future, to probably help sway some things. Gabriel's always had enough power to make differences where he could and he used it to try to protect people. He can be a judgy jerk but he also fundamentally cares about the people around him and he's been drilled for so long into believing that upholding Heaven is his only purpose and only reason for existence that he's even still mulling over the ghosts of those thoughts when he has his whole gravity crisis in S2, even when he can't remember his name.
This is the bit that got me actually teary, though:
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Imagine being thousands of years old and no one's ever given you a present. You don't have a birthday. You don't celebrate holidays. No one's ever protected you or been on your side or even just listened. You don't have any friends because everyone is afraid of you and you have to put up those pretensions to stay alive. The people you spend your entire life with are out for blood-- they'd sooner see you stripped of your sense of self and tossed through the ranks or to Hell and take your seat. Your life is one, long, never-ending meeting with your abusive dad and charming personalities like Michael and Uriel and Sandalphon. For six. thousand. years. Gabriel had never eaten anything before S2. He's never slept. Imagine six thousand years of being the Senior VP of Climb Every Bullshit Mountain without ever having a lunch break or ever going home. It's kind of no wonder that Gabriel spent half of S2 taking a nap-- he's exhausted.
He's not from anywhere. He doesn't even have a desk. Is it any wonder that this poor bastard was already rebelling a bit in S1? That he didn't totally get Earth but he was sneaking down there to get tailored suits made just so he could have something that is his own and taking himself for jogs in the park so he could get away from everyone for awhile? He's vain, sure, yes, but really because his looks are all he has that actually belong to him. It's why Beez gives him a pass on the statue-- because they know that this poor guy doesn't have anybody but them. The humans immortalize him in marble like he's a God and everyone in Heaven and Hell is terrified of him-- and he's been terrified of trying to be real with others because who is he going to trust who won't stab him in the back?
All Gabriel has that is his own are his clothes and Heaven even takes that, too. Beez is the first person who has ever seen Gabriel as a person. Is it any wonder why Gabriel likes and goes to Aziraphale for help? He knows that Aziraphale is the only angel who is both kind and sorta sees him there sometimes. He's the only one who ever seems to consider that Gabriel might exist in there as more than just The Supreme Archangel.
Gabriel's memory loss is actually very much akin to the real world occurrence of retrograde amnesia, which can and does actually happen to people who have undergone traumatic events. (It doesn't happen all the time but it's also not as rare as you'd think it might be.) The mind shuts down in such a way as to intentionally forget everything related to the trauma in order to protect itself and that can sometimes result in a loss of identity. The forgetting, though, also frees Gabriel because when he can no longer recall the fascist system of Heaven that has been harming him for so long, the actual self that he's been repressing and hiding shows up.
I see a lot of people talk about Jim as if he's a separate entity from Gabriel and he's really not-- he's Gabriel without the self-protective airs that Gabriel puts on. Jim is really not much different from glasses-free Crowley-- they have the same approach to self-preservation. It turns out, when he's free from the toxic masculinity hellscape that is Heaven, Gabriel likes hot chocolate and tiny dinners and bookselling and is emotionally available and mindfully curious about everything. He's a lot of fun and he cares about his friends and is grateful to have them. He's still a snarky bitch sometimes but so is Crowley lol so... That Gabriel was so miserable before, though, I thought was really pretty heartbreaking.
Now that I've depressed you, we'll leave on the sweeter note of Gabriel torturing some humans to romance Beez...
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vidavalor · 16 hours
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Lovely @the-oxrib-and-oyster 😍 I agree with all of that but for that they hadn't seen each other as I think there's some stuff to suggest they had but an emphatic yes to everything else. You pointed out really well how the scene shows how Aziraphale has his highs and lows but always ultimately finds a way through. He's stronger than he thinks he is-- like the rest of us. 🤗
I'm still not over Aziraphale, in his snakeskin-patterned vest, flirting with Crowley while wrapping himself up in a white (aww), bird feather-covered, human accessory inspired by a boa constrictor.
Does quite seem likely that Crowley is the bird-snake feather boa in this analogy, yeah?...
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...made funnier by the fact that, even once he has it on, Aziraphale doesn't stop holding it like it's a snake.
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vidavalor · 16 hours
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Thank you @createserenity 🤗🥰 You made my day!
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(Non-Frozen) Peas. A Good Omens Sex Meta Thing Side Dish
Shorter little vegetable-themed side dish to Crepes, which you do not have to have read first. All by way of Aziraphale's dirty French in S2 about how he has a craving for Crowley's Eden.
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*slips into GO fandom quietly* *whispers*
Do you all realize that another translation of Aziraphale's "Ou est la plume de la jardiniere de ma tante?" is...
"Where is the feathered garden box of my queen?"
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I probably don't need to tell you that both 'garden' and 'box' are sexual euphemisms for lady parts and, to make matters funnier, remind you of this scene earlier in the season, in which a literal box became related to... well, it's somewhat open to interpretation so let's just call it a gasp-worthy, part-related situation. :)
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"Where is the feathered garden box of my queen?" is Aziraphale saying that it's been a minute since he worshipped Lady Crowley and he misses her.
This would account for Aziraphale's impish "but you understood me" and flirty little smile and wiggles. He's so cute about it that Nina comes out of her coffee shop to try to hear what they're talking about that's made the bookseller look so alive and has Snarky Sunglasses all flustered.
Crowley's "Only because, for two hundred and fifty years, you've been wittering on about the plume of your imaginary 'tante.'" = "Only because, ever since you took French lessons the human way, I've had to listen to you euphemistically referring to my occasional wild flower garden and calling me your queen in two different languages and I love to hate how much I absolutely love it."
We know that Crowley did understand Aziraphale and not just because he also speaks French but because his traditional choices in translating it back to Aziraphale in protest-- "you don't have an aunt, she doesn't have a gardener and he doesn't have a... pen"-- is intentionally a bit incorrect because Aziraphale used the feminine French word for 'gardener'-- la jardiniere-- in his sentence. As a result, Crowley is protesting that "the gardener" is a he right now, Aziraphale, and he doesn't have a-- pause of 'wait, this isn't going to work if I translate 'plume' as 'feathers'-- euphemistic or literal-- as I have both so I'll go with the other thing the word means instead'--... pen.
(Which winds up even funnier since a pen is phallic and euphemistic, in this sense, for currently having a penis, which is actually Crowley's current state of effort in that moment. Hold those thoughts until we get to turnips and inkwells down below lol.)
A 'plume' in French is a pen, a feather, a quill, and a cloud of rising smoke. In Good Omens, it's also used in the smoke-like definition by Michael to describe the pink plume of magical energy that came from the bookshop when Crowley and Aziraphale miracled together. Crowley responded with 'pen'-- which is a riff on the fact that Aziraphale is riffing on "la plume de ma tante", a cliched line said derogatorily to mean 'those sentences that you learn when you learn a new language that you'd never say in real life.' Crowley used 'aunt', 'gardener' and 'pen' as the translation in reference to the cliche Aziraphale was referencing. Aziraphale, though, adjusted the line, as we saw-- adding words to it to make it a stealth, flirty request-- and Crowley did hear the innuendo. Crowley correctly heard Aziraphale using 'plume' in the 'feather' sense (hilariously, considering that they have actual feathers in their angel/demon forms lol), with the 'feather'-context 'plume' being euphemistic for Crowley keeping it real down below.
(It could be worse, Crowley. He could be in a blasphemous mood and referring to it as "The Burning Bush"... which I feel like you'd actually find hilarious but anyway, moving on...)
In English, appropriated from the French, a 'jardiniere' is a flower box/garden planter. 'Tante' is French for 'aunt' but it's also a word meaning both 'queen'/'pansy' in the queer sense of the words (a 'pansy' also being a kind of flower, of course, adding to the Eden motif that "*the* Southern Pansy" Aziraphale has going on for his gardener partner here) but 'tante' is also one of the words that just means 'queen' as well, in the 'regal' sense of the word. It might not be the first word Aziraphale would use if he were, instead, speaking a sentence in French about, say, Queen Camilla-- but it's maybe a more appropriate one for flirting with his gender-everything partner by telling him in French that it's been too long since he spent some quality time with his queen's jardiniere.
'A la jardiniere' is also a French cooking term. It translates as "in the manner of the gardener's wife" (Gabriel: "Whatever that is."). It is obviously an archaic-sounding term when it comes to gender but, for the purposes of metaphor here, it's actually a little useful. The phrase is born out of the idea that the chef would be male, straight and married and that his wife would be keeping their kitchen garden-- which, even though she was probably running it, is credited to him, because the patriarchy-- from which fresh vegetables could easily be picked and used in a dish. As such, it's a lot more fun that Aziraphale is using the French here because the actual gardener doing the garden work in the definition of 'jardiniere' is specifically female by the term's description, so it's another way to reference Crowley's femininity.
There's also, of course, that "in the manner of the gardener's wife" is about as porny a definition for a phrase that can possibly be translated from one language to another lol and so adds to the idea of 'jardiniere' being sexually euphemistic. Atop that, there's the fact that the word itself relates food to romance and sex by referring to the chef and the gardener as married in its definition. The second half of this scene is the Nina & Crowley "partners" conversation. In a season that has Crowley and Aziraphale unable to deal with words like 'couple' and 'partners', if only Maggie and Nina understood that maybe they don't know how to use traditional words but damned if Aziraphale isn't already on covertly calling Crowley his spouse when flirting with him.
While 'a la jardiniere' is a cooking term, 'la jardiniere/jardiniere' is also a French food term. It is a side dish or a garnish of mixed vegetables, usually spring garden vegetables. So, carrots, green beans, potatoes (Crowley: "You say 'potato', I say 'excellent'" lol), turnips (Aziraphale can turn garden variety sex into inkwells!-- haha 'garden' pun, get it? please send help-- and inkwells are the things one dips a quill pen into.... and, now, we're back to the 'pen' translation of 'la plume...').
The most signature vegetables of jardiniere, though, are peas.
As Crowley would tell Shax and anyone who will listen, literal ducks-the-water-fowl need not get their actual jardiniere defrosted.
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Aziraphale-- the more discerning duck-- likes his hot, though.
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vidavalor · 16 hours
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Ok,so since Crowley in the 1970's looked like this:
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What do you think Aziraphale looked like in the 1970s?
1967!Aziraphale, which is to say male-presenting Aziraphale for the last 80 billionty years but with his bowtie as a bit of a neckerchief situation and his collar more open. And thank you for brightening up my blog with some Disco Tony today. There's never enough. 🪩🐍
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Sheenery lol. I love that. Yes, the lighting was great in that scene. The halo lighting Aziraphale up was also a nice bookend to the start of 2.01 and Aziraphale as a ball of light, basically, zooming up to Crowley in space.
my housemate is watching Good Omens with me in the sense that he just drops in on random episodes and tries to piece it back together (he says he prefers this). so we were on s1e3 and we got to "I'll toss you* for Edinburgh" and he was like "are you telling me people think this is platonic" and I was like... yeah some people, and then we got to "little demonic miracle of my own" and he was just like, they're obviously in love with each other
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*idk if this translates for everyone but in British this means "I will give you a hand job" as well as "I will flip a coin"
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Do you get the Guylian choccy seashells in your neck of the woods? I got myself a box recently (cheaper than any of the name-brand Easter eggs and nearly twice as much chocolatey goodness per box!) and immediately thought "Aziraphale would love these!" What do you reckon -- soft angel being sensually hand-fed fancy sealife-themed chocs by his flame-haired serpent?
Will you please start writing fic? 🐟❤️‍🔥*is Mrs. Cheng with the fan*
I have had those, yes. They're delicious! You've reminded me that I should order another box... I've actually made them before. I used to work at a gourmet chocolate shop where almost all of the stuff was made in-house and the owner collected antique chocolate molds, some of which were hundreds of years old. We made chocolate seashells out of some of his molds year-round because the business is in a seaside town. Anyway, mah point is that people were making chocolate seashells prior to 1800 so maybe those were the kinds of chocolates that Crowley brought Aziraphale for the opening of the bookshop? 🐚
I like your vision as who ever objects to the food porn, really, but methinks the flame-haired serpent deserves to get fed more often (with actual food, I mean...).
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vidavalor · 2 days
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Please never stop writing GO meta; you're my absolute favorite.
😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗 You made my day @cascodedtech!
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I'm worried about Muriel, Vida. What are they going to do if those young lads come back and try to steal the cashbox like they did during Lockdown? 😜
😂😂😂😂😂 You should message me, Anon. We'd get on well.
I'm not sorry to say that I feel pretty strongly that Aziraphale was the brains behind The (Fictional) Attempted 2020 Bookshop Cashbox Robbery. I think Muriel is safe from Aziraphale's imagined strapping, muscled young lads who broke in and (affected faux-innocent voice) tried to steal the cashbox! before Aziraphale soon had them learn the error of their ways...
Crowley's always interested in hearing more about them, though.
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Getting paged for spicy word things is way better than the Slack messages I'm getting at work today, lemme tell ya 😂 Thank you @ineffableigh (Don't worry-- I'm at lunch & the Tumblr's on my laptop with my music, not my work computer, so no concern that I'll accidentally message my boss back toss-related sexual euphemisms...)
@inmygoodomensera I love you already. Nice to become acquainted. 🥰 While I'm big into anyone seeing whatever they need to get out of the story, I'm in complete agreement with you. There are so many moments that it's kind of hard to conceive of how anyone could see them as anything but lovers but I'm sure they feel the same way about me so *shrugs*. Regarding toss... yeah. Let me add in some stateside euphemisms to that because I've almost put it in two other metas but it hasn't quite fit so *rubs hands together* this is perfect.
To toss someone, like you said, in British slang is a sexual euphemism for a handjob and because Crowley is saying "toss" also with the context of flipping a coin, it's top shelf wordplay. It also, as you know, why "a tosser" in British slang is the same thing as "a wanker", as it's derogatory slang built linguistically off of masturbation. "Wanking/Having a wank" being British for masturbating, whereas those of us in the U.S.. would be more likely to refer to it as "jerking off", particularly for those with male anatomy, among other euphemisms. Of note here is also Crowley's line in GO: Lockdown, which is structurally built to suggest that he has another euphemism for it: "I'm going to have a nap and set the alarm clock for June."
One would think that it would be more helpful to set the alarm clock before one falls asleep but the innuendo is that he's going to "have a nap" and then "have/take a nap"-- jerk off and go to sleep.
In the U.S., though, 'toss' also sometimes has another sexually euphemistic connotation besides the British understanding of it. It's less frequently used and might be a bit dated-- go on and adopt it, Gen Z, you've come up with the best slang in ten generations, honestly-- but to toss in a sexually euphemistic way in America is to, ah, provide oral attention to the whole situation. It's oral sex and analingus and ignoring nothing on the path between/in the whole neighborhood. It's spoken as "toss you" but also as "toss your salad", which is... ya know... Good Omens-y in the extreme. 😉
Salads are often made up primarily of vegetables and Good Omens uses them metaphorically for being essential, healthy living. You're supposed to not avoid salads, per God, and that's because they're good for you and you won't survive if you don't eat one-- ideally, regularly. By this, God means eat a literal salad (the food) and eat a metaphorical salad (feed your fellow ducks your frozen peas-- talk to them about what's going on with you-- get yourself some healthy, open communication) and, if it's your thing, eat yourself all the sexually euphemistic salad (and other food) you desire.
In S2, as Aziraphale just basically stops eating entirely, let alone salads, reflecting his whole mental health breakdown, there are a lot of salad-y references-- potatoes, tomatoes (which is a fruit but is also a salad star), (frozen) peas. (There's also a hidden green beans reference in the wordplay in the booklet Furfur had in 1941.) All of theses combined are examples of the "spring garden/salad vegetables" of la jardiniere in French cooking. It's on two (not necessarily unrelated) levels, though, because while one is about healthy communication and talking, the other is sexually euphemistic because then there's Aziraphale's French, right?
"Oui est la plume de la jardiniere de ma tante?" which uses "la jardiniere"/"a la jardiniere", in one way, in its "kitchen garden" connotation as part of Aziraphale's innuendo in which he was requesting some quality time with Crowley's jardiniere.
The mirror/other side of the coin of S1's "toss you for Edinburgh" is Aziraphale got back from Edinburgh in S2 and offered to toss Crowley's salad.
While Aziraphale is in Edinburgh, too, when he phones Crowley, Crowley tosses a stack of books to get to the phone to talk to him. 😂
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The week got a bit out of hand, though, so they just started literally tossing other, symbolically-interrelated things... like a tray of vol-au-vents...
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...and playing halo ring toss...
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We should also mention that a horse bucking a rider off its back is phrased as a horse "tossing" the rider and Aziraphale couldn't stop making horse-related innuendo in The Globe Theatre scene. (And, honestly, ever since-- the statue where Crowley keeps his glasses in S2, for instance lol.) The whole "apparently, I have to ride a horse" conversation, not to mention the other meaning of this:
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Eat the rainbow, friends. 🥗
Other stuff about innuendo in The Globe Theatre scene that I wrote awhile back, should anyone be interested:
my housemate is watching Good Omens with me in the sense that he just drops in on random episodes and tries to piece it back together (he says he prefers this). so we were on s1e3 and we got to "I'll toss you* for Edinburgh" and he was like "are you telling me people think this is platonic" and I was like... yeah some people, and then we got to "little demonic miracle of my own" and he was just like, they're obviously in love with each other
the brainrot spreads
*idk if this translates for everyone but in British this means "I will give you a hand job" as well as "I will flip a coin"
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Agnes Nutter in S2
Prophecy 3008: "...Open thine eyes and rede, I do say, foolish principalitee, for thy cocoa doth grow cold."
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Prophecy 4020: "Let the wheel of fate turne, let harts enjoin, there are othere fyres than mine; when the whirl wynd whirls, reach oute one to another."
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Prophecy 5001: "When the skies are crimson seen, then ye both must stand between the world of life and the world of war, where the iron bird lands no more."
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Prophecy 5004 (the final one, always for Aziraphale): "When alle is sayed and all is done...
Aziraphale: "Well, I guess there's nothing more to be said."
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...ye must choose your faces wisely...
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...for soon enouff, ye will be playing with fyre."
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The romantic implications of improper use of apostrophes
A short, little meta on rings and apostrophes...
Ok, remember Mr. Arnold of Arnold's Music Shop and his thoroughly relatable reasons for never wanting to go to one of these annoying Whickber Street Thingamajigs again? The second of his reasons, in particular? Note who the camera cuts to when Mr. Arnold brings up "improper" use of apostrophes:
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Crowley's little eyebrows and squirming, as he is thinking about how he is guilty of improper apostrophe use just the day before-- "technically", as they'd say. Mr. Arnold bringing up apostrophes is a wordplay clue to hidden language-- "improper" apostrophes in shop signs, which is to say in shop language and names. There's only one scene in the series where that's a thing. It is also the only one that would justify the Crowley reaction shot in the Mr. Arnold scene... and the implications are pretty romantic.
It's this scene:
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When Crowley adjusted the name of the bookshop when Aziraphale called from Edinburgh, he changed it in such a way as to denote a sense of ownership through use of apostrophes. Crowley knows that the place is really called A.Z. Fell & Co. and he could have said that or just his usual way of referring to the place: "booK.shoP." The choice to answer in such a way as to reference to whom the bookshop belongs when he suspects that this is likely Aziraphale calling is a nod to the our car/our bookshop acknowledgement that they have going on.
Because Aziraphale has acknowledged that the bookshop is theirs, it belongs both to "Mr. Fell" and to Crowley, but the wordplay joke is that, when spoken aloud, you can't hear where the apostrophe falls. (That you refer to where an apostrophe goes as to where it "falls" also makes this an even more amusing word joke.)
Meaning: Fell's Bookshop sounds identical to Fells' Bookshop... the latter of which would, of course, denote that the bookshop belongs to more than one person who happen to share the surname of Fell.
Crowley gets squirmy when Mr. Arnold brings up apostrophes the next day because he's thinking about how he was subtly referring to himself as Aziraphale's spouse when Aziraphale-- wait for it, my fellow word nerds-- gave him a ring (on the phone) from Edinburgh.
Aziraphale apparently heard it as intended-- or, at least is on the same page-- because, as we looked at it in other metas that I'll link at the bottom of this one, Aziraphale's use of "la jardiniere" in the French he spoke to Crowley ties to the French cooking term "a la jardiniere," which has a specific definition that resulted in Aziraphale subtly referring to Crowley as his spouse.
Aziraphale also gave him a flirty little smile and that knowing "but you understood me" after saying so, knowing that Crowley heard more than what he had translated back:
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Not to mention to ring a bell... Crowley ringing the bookshop bell on Aziraphale's desk when he came back in 2.01; Shadwell on exorcising demons by "bell, book and candle"; God's cheeky interest in Pavlov's experiments in S1... the sexual euphemism that is to "ring my/your bell"... Mr. Arnold mentioning signs in shop windows and Crowley was looking through the window into the bookshop when Aziraphale rang the bell to wrangle the angels and demons, furthering the ring-related wordplay. A sign doesn't have to be paper hung in a window relaying information-- it can be your partner saying he's "had quite enough" and trying to take control of a situation. A sign of things to come.
I'll leave you with the paralleling scene from 1.01 when they first talk after having their romantic evening ruined by the start of Armageddon. Crowley gives Aziraphale a ring on the phone while what is in focus on Aziraphale's side of the conversation is his angel ring. When they meet the next day off of this phone call, church bells are ringing in the scene. Wordplay inspired by the visuals, as well as the first use of ring (phone, communication)/ring (jewelry) in the series:
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I doubt it will be the last. 💞
Metas about Aziraphale's French in S2:
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Can hardly blame him, really. Nice of him to also think of us, though. Greater good and all. The best of angels, Aziraphale is.
I love that Aziraphale didn't just miracle them a free table-- he influenced a five foot horseshoe of free space around Crowley's half of it at midday in a wall-to-wall crowded pub so his snake husband would have room to lounge.
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Aziraphale so agrees with you (as do I.)
Aziraphale went offline but he also totally set it up. This little look (and the earlier one lol):
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Nothing really just Crowley's horny little lip bite because it's the weekend and we've been good.
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Do you think they have pet names for each other? Do you think Aziraphale actually says "my dear" like in the book? Does Crowley call Aziraphale something besides "angel"? (Not like that's not enough!)
Hi there! Aw, cozy question... Please help yourself to lemon meringue pie. Surprisingly, the answers to all (!!!) of these questions are actually among the things I've found doing an etymology deep dive on the entries we saw in 'The Demon's Guide to Angelic Beings Who Walk the Earth', which I'm hoping to post soon. You will like the answers, I'm betting. Crowley does call Aziraphale something besides "angel" and the "baby" that he called him in S1. It also happens to be in French. How's that for a tease? 😉 😜
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