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50s geek and greaser

(just thought they would suit it)

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David Tennant reads the bookshop scene from Good Omens during Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Posting here to memorialise this even after the BBC takes it down from their website. Originally performed 12th Nov 2019 at the Barbican, London. 

…his Aziraphale voice is so delicate oh my word, I’m ready to offer my life savings and possibly a kidney in exchange for a full-length audiobook

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Regency Aziraphale and Crowley in the style of Ingres’s portrait drawings.

I remember copying Ingres at school was gruelling but equally rewarding. It usually involved hours at the Met drawing room with a magnifier. Each one of his lines is expressive, and every edge is finely controlled. An Ingres copy wouldn’t have the feel of the original at all if it’s not done this carefully with a SHAAARP pencil on very smooth paper. (Ironically, not Ingres paper...)

I took out the same magnifier and all the Ingres catalogues I could find at my place for this drawing too... The struggle is real (?)

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Good Omens Gifs Masterlist

!!! Because Tumblr has a link limit in one posts, the list is divided into two.

This is part 1, part 2 with Collections, BTS, Promos, Interviews and other is here.

Show:

(general tag for show gifs is goodomensedit)

Episode 1

Earth creation

Crowley tempts Eve

Didn’t you have a flaming sword?

I do hope I didn’t do the wrong thing.

It’d be funny if we both got it wrong, eh?

The first rain starts and Aziraphale shields Crowley

Hastur and Ligur meet Crowley at the cemetery

Crowley signs the contract

Crowley cursing after learning about Arrmageddon

It’s sushi

It’s miracle he hasn’t spotted you yet

Crowley’s ‘Yup’

Sister Mary Loquacious examines the Antichrist

We need to talk

Celessstial harmoniesss

Aziraphale saying no

Aziraphale is invited to lunch and remembers 1793 crêpes

That was scrumptious

Get thee behind me, foul fiend

My point is… dolphins

What are they putting in bananas these days?

Eternityyy

The Sound of Music

Crowley and Aziraphale become undrunk

See a wile, ya’ thwart, am I right?

We’d be godfathers

Godfathers, I’ll be damned

The Nanny

A and C entering the Heaven/Hell office building

They don’t suspect a thing

A and C meet very inconspicuously on a bus

AC on the bus - what if he comes into his full power

Michael’s fluffy hair detail

Aziraphale’s coin trick 

Harry the Rabbit

Crowley complaining about memos

Episode 2

Pornography

Sandalphon - Sodom and Gomorrah

I didn’t mean to fall

Agnes - Thou art tardy

Anathema arrives to Tadfield

Crowley and the plants

Crowley’s hips in his flat

Crowley and Aziraphale bicker about driving speed

Bebop

For my money it was just an ordinary cock-up

Big spooky fan, me

A and C are shot

Crowley scares the paintball guy

Crowley removes the stain on Aziraphale’s coat

Don’t your lot disapprove of guns?

Crowley changes the painball guns into real ones

The wall slam

Crowley uses a miracle on Mary Hodges

Let there be light

Oh Lord, heal this bike

Whatever water slides off + ducks

Crowley glaring glarefully

Aziraphale’s shortbread tin

Mind how you go

Episode 3  

Eden - God asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Noah Ark - The animals

Noah Ark - Crowley’s eyebrow

Noah Ark - Not the kids, you can’t kill kids

Noah Ark - How kind

Noah Ark - Are you going to say ‘ineffable’?

Noah Ark - Oy, Shem! 

Crucifixion - Crawley changed to Crowley

Rome - What else I’m going to be, an aardvark?

Rome - Aziraphale tempts Crowley

Shakespeare - Crowley pushing the pull door

Shakespeare - What does your friend think?

Shakespeare - Come on, Hamlet, buck up

Shakespeare - Toss you for Edinburgh

Shakespeare - Hamlet needs a miracle

Bastille - Aziraphale sees Crowley

Bastille - Aziraphale was peckish and has standards

Bastille - I was reprimanded last month

Bastille - Crowley removes Aziraphale’s chains

Bastille - What about if I buy you lunch?

Victiorian - I like pears

Victorian - Do ducks have ears?

Victorian - Obviously

Church - Aziraphale finds out he’s been played

Church - Aziraphale’s surprised face detail 

Church - Sorry, consecrated ground

Church - Aziraphale finds out about ‘Anthony’

Church - The famous Mr. Crowley?

Church - What does the ‘J’ stand for?

Church - You won’t enjoy dying or what comes after

Church - It’d take a real miracle for my friend and I to survive it

Church - Crowley saves the books

60s - Young Shadwell asking Crowley if he’s a witch

60s - You go too fast for me, Crowley

60s - Aziraphale’s tartan cravat detail

Anxious Aziraphale rehearsing what he’ll say to Heaven

The Witchfinder Army

Crowley and Shadwell

Gabriel’s eyes detail

Elvis

I don’t even like you

We’re on opposite sides

Bandstand breakup

Nuclear reactor acting weird

Episode 4  

Gabriel insists about the War - otherwise how would we win it

I’m soft

Gabriel asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Michael shows Gabriel the Earth observation files

Michael’s conversation with Ligur

I only ever asked questions

Newt sees the UFO

Pepper muses about whales

Newt faints

One big avocado

Crowley invented selfies

Warlock - You smell like poo

Hastur - He said that I smelled of poo

So long, sucker!

Aziraphale dancing

Demons dancing

Oh… fuck

Episode 5 

Do I look like I run a bookshop?

Crowley in the burning bookshop p1

Crowley in the burning bookshop p2

Aziraphale appears in Heaven

Aziraphale in Heaven realizes that he can posses people

Crowley in the pub - Aziraphale appears

I lost my best friend

Look, souvenir!

Aziraphale waves at Tracy in a mirror

The southern pansy

If you’ve got to go, then go with style!

Aziraphale, Tracy, Shadwell flying

Dog in the basket

Episode 6

Nice dress, suits you

Army human

Bentley explodes

I’m having a moment here

Lick some serious butt

Aziraphale tries to shoot Adam

Dagon encouraging the troops

Book girl, catch

Aziraphale starts telling everybody how he met Crowley

Gabriel and Beelzebub appear at the airfield

Lord Beelzebub, what an honour

God does not play games with the universe

Gabriel and Beelzebub compaining to each other

A and C’s cheeky grin detail and separate details

We are fucked! + detail

Come up with something or I’ll never talk to you again

Aziraphale and Crowley with wings in the time bubble

Aziraphale, Adam, Crowley hand holding

Adam rejects Satan

Anathema asking about Dick Turpin

Hastur calling Michael wank-wings

I’m the Archangel Fucking Gabriel

Shut your stupid mouth and die already

A in Hell asks for a rubber duck

C enjoys the Hellfire in Heaven

Adorable nose scrunch detail

Swap back

Let me tempt you to a spot of lunch?

Aziraphale’s wiggle

Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing

To the world

Ritz ending

Opening title

Dining and flying

Good Omens logo

The flying saucer

Deleted scenes

Crowley being cool and throwing his jacket on the railing

Disposable Demon wants to hit the angel

Crowley thanking the rats in the BT Tower

Aziraphale saves a baby

Parallels and annotations

Subtle clues about the switch

Miracles gesture system and wings

The Them vs. the Four Horsemen - sword, crown, scales

Crowley cuts across the lawn

The empty flower pot

Aziraphale’s raised wing vs. piano raised lid

Wing cover - AC vs. Eve and Adam

Gardener vs. Nanny - Don’t listen to her/him, listen to me

Eve and Adam vs, Aziraphale and Crowley - Leaving the garden

Neil Gaiman at the cinema

Bentley’s broken door

Aziraphale vs. Crowley dancing

MS face at church - is he trying not to laugh?

Mary Poppins vs. Nanny

AC vs. Victorian swans

Crowley and Aziraphale travelling mirror reflections

David Tennant and Daniel Mays in Good Omens vs. Des

Manips

Crowley realizes that he can’t call Aziraphale

Crowley taps Aziraphale’s shoulder

Janthony

Can I hear a wahoo?

Get this demon a wahoo

Gabriel is a wanker

Heart

If you make a vow to shield someone

Boop Crowley

Fixed dove scene

Crowley angel flashback

I smell someone spending too much time on social media

Continue to part 2 :).

(last updated 1.11.2020)

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What’s a birthday celebration without presents?

Good Omens Celebration is happy to announce our first giveaway in honor of the Earth’s Birthday. We’re giving away a pair of pins to 5 randomly selected entrants that reblog or like this post between now and midnight UTC on October 25th, 2020.

The giveaway is open worldwide. Winners will be chosen on October 26th and announced on the Good Omens Celebration blog. Winners will be contacted via Tumblr and have until November 1st to respond.

Do you need to participate or make something for the Good Omens Celebration to enter?

NOPE. Just reblog or like this post and you’re entered.

Can you enter more than once?

Sorry, only one entry will count for the giveaway but you’re free to reblog as may times as you like to promote it.

Can you enter if you’re in (random country)?

YEP. The mod of the Good Omens Celebration is covering shipping worldwide.

Where did these pins come from?

The winged hourglass pin was a prototype made for a Good Omens themed mystery box that unfortunately never happened. The kissing pin was just a lucky bulk find that fit to perfectly not to include.

Have another question?

Drop us a line!

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crowley so casually taking off his sunglasses in the bookshop still kills me. he’s drunk, he can’t bloody see in the low light, he wants to have a good hard look at aziraphale because maybe he can do a little snakey hypnotism, also aziraphale’s very pretty, isn’t aziraphale very pretty, it’s easier to see him being very pretty without his sunglasses and anyway its just aziraphale, he won’t mind, and besides, dolphins don’t have human eyes either

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Just some cozy cuddles on a rainy day.

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Highlights from “David Tennant Does A Podcast With...” Neil Gaiman!

David Tennant called Neil Gaiman “one of those insufferable people who’s entirely self-sufficient” after Neil confessed he’d been learning to bake during lockdown.

Neil Gaiman fought to keep the episode 3 cold open even when everyone else (producers, et al) wanted to cut parts of it out for being “utterly budget-busting.“ 

Neil Gaiman on writing the cold open: 

“I also knew [the cold open] would make everything else work… it would turn the [bandstand] from a scene that was a bit sniffly into one that would break people’s hearts. You’d spent 28 minutes watching the ups and downs of these two on Earth for 6,000 years becoming the only important thing in each other’s lives. Here is this moment where they have two utterly disparate philosophies of existing. Aziraphale cannot go off with Crowley and Crowley cannot leave without him, but he has to. The excitement that I had of writing that & the joy I had in knowing that we were going to watch a relationship open like a flower to us, ending in the 1960s with the handover of holy water, that there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house. I knew that because it did that for me. Watching what [David] and Michael brought to it, it became the most glorious, tentative friendship over thousands of years that becomes sort of peculiar and flirty and weird and prickly and funny. It was the one that won me the Nebula Award.

David Tennant on the cold open: 

“It’s Michael and [my] favorite sequence as well. We’ve often said.“

Neil Gaiman on the Globe scene, after having to rewrite it due to budget and time constraints: 

“I’d never before seen a crew applaud at the end of a scene except for that Shakespeare scene… you had all of these jaded crew at 7 o'clock in the morning just clapping. It was amazing." 

Neil Gaiman on writing Good Omens with Sir Terry Pratchett: 

“Neither of us knew that what we were writing was saleable. We were writing to amuse each other. Our agents put it out for auction. And Terry, who at that time I don’t think he’d sold a book for more than 15,000 pounds, phoned me in terror as the auction approached 100,000 pounds, and said, ‘We have to stop this.‘  I said, ‘Why?’ ‘It’ll come out, they’re going to pay a lot of money for it. Then it won’t sell enough to make up for it, and then I won’t be able to sell my books anymore!’ And I’m like, ‘Terry, if the book doesn’t sell, they’ll blame ME.'”

Neil Gaiman on writing: 

“I believe wholeheartedly and utterly that writing is mysterious and spiritual and magical thing that is possibly the nearest I will ever get to touching the infinite. It was always that feeling that you had a huge block of stone and my job as the writer was to chip out all the bits that weren’t what we were making, and we would be left with the statue that was already there in the marble. I believed that utterly, and I also believe that it was an absolutely utilitarian process. The most important thing in creation is that you start creating.”

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this is fine.

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This boy is going to end me.

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Deleted and reuploaded cause I posted the wrong version yay! Finished my post-fall vibes Crowley. I honestly just wanted to paint him being all demonic surrounded in fire lol. I hope you guys like!

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Meanwhile, in Hell.

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Calm Snake

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What if calls with Heaven have common video conference issues as well

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i‘m on my back again

dreaming of a time and place

where you and I remain the best of friends

even after all this ends

Can we pretend?

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good omens + text posts/tweets