A few more people have found this blog so here's a pinned post with links to my metas, little things/gif series, art etc and the nuts and bolts of stuff here in case you want that.
ETA — Post S3 update:
Hey everyone. First of all THANK YOU I don't know what i would do without this community.
If you follow this blog you know how i feel right now - mostly sad, tired, and grieving. I'm trying really hard to get the sense of peace and closure that some are feeling post finale and I'm not there, but I'm going to be doing more reading and writing and musing on that.
However! This post is mostly to say I am here for you if you are feeling some kinds of ways. Please feel free to pop into my messages or asks. I'd love to chat.
I've also decided to reblog some stuff from this blog from waaaaaaaaay back in the immediate afterglow of season 1. Tagged #good omens s1 revisited
And that's it. Hang in there. Do things that make you happy. Book omens and S1 are forever safe in our hearts and hands. <3<3
I'm a rabid reblogger of most everything Good Omens from meta to shitposts to fan art to fic to edits. Some of it ends up in a queue but mostly it's a firehose. Show, book, all are welcome here. I've been in this fandom one way or another a loooong time (yep, tumblr elder here) and can quite comfortably hold multiple and sometimes opposing characterizations and theories in my head at one time. I do try to tag but I'm gonna be honest it's less about organization and more about using the tags to chat and snark and get emotional b/c it makes me happy.
I use #fan art and #good omens meta and #good omens theories and #good omens speculation. My own stuff I tag with
#a duck talks
#a duck gifs
#a duck draws - Good Omens fan art
#a duck writes
I love wordy additions to posts, and if you yell in the tags we are family. Oh, might be NSFW stuff but not usually. PS I don't love angst but I guess I do now? Thanks season 2!
And... since there's a few out there now, some links to my metas and things.
Little fic of a conversation in Job's cellar
Credits split-screen colors
Let's Talk Laudanum
Little things to love about gos2 series
GOs1/GOs2 Parallels in gifs
A comforting thought
The bookshop as Eden and 2 different Apples
Crowley's 1827 outfit
The scent of bitter almonds (an alternate coffee theory NOT having to do with mind control)
Road Trip fic prompt
Aziraphale's Fairy Tale
The Duality of Jane Austen
aaaand... my post freaking out about s1 that broke containment a bit
Ah shit I never saw David's exact wording until now 😫 just seeing the first post I figured maybe they didn't end up having a fancy wedding at the end or something, nothing drastic like idk asking for death while aiding in genocide! ffs. Clearly he knew we were fucked 😭
you CANNOT convince me that Anthony “And. I. Did. Not. Care. For. It.” J Crowley wouldn’t have defended Aziraphale when God said that he was lazy, gluttonous and prideful…
When I posted my previous art of Aziraphale and Crowley smoking on Facebook, I received this comment.
Yet another misconception that came from AziCrow in the show being "clean" for modern audiences. Back in the days, everyone loved art of AziCrow smoking. Now I post a drawing of them smoking and there are people acting like I am giving guns to a child.
First of all, they canonly smoke as written in NG and TP's new year resolution for them:
Crowley:
Resolution #6: I will try to understand why Hell is a no-smoking area. I just think it's ridiculous having to stand around outside the gates, that's all.
Aziraphale:
Resolution #9: I will try to understand why Heaven is a non-smoking area.
Second of all, the book was written in the 80s, smoking was a normal thing. They also lived 6000 years throughout human history. I don't think they even stopped at just smoking. My headcanon is that they have tried every human invention that can get them high. (If you know what I mean).
Thirdly, they also get no bad consequences from smoking. They aren't human. You don't have to worry about them getting cancer or anything.
I'm honestly tired of people treating two mature, immortal being who lived through human history as some kind of pure saint. Especially Aziraphale. Let them smoke.
And naturally I just have to keep drawing them smoking from now on.
when Aziraphale said 'you go to fast for me, Crowley' and Crowley said 'Right, its too late its always too late'
How were we supposed to know that was true?
How can you blame us for having faith that Aziraphale could catch up? That Crowley could slow down?
How could you ask me to accept that Aziraphale and Crowley at their most coalesced...just decide it's not worth it, they're not worth it, their lives on the beautiful ball they've been orbiting around each other on for...forever...isn't worth it?
Intrinsically, by virtue of it being their lives, where they can finally finally be free?
Instead they choose their own demise, even when its not really what Aziraphale wants, he has to swallow his needs once again, because...
Crowley's going too damn fast, and now its too late.
So NG (fuck that guy) said that after armageddidn't, Crowley and Aziraphale kept their distance from each other. Force of habit. Crowely lived in his car, Aziraphale puttered around his Whickber street community.
But consider the alternative (and I know many have). They don't let each other out of their sight. They almost died! Why separate? Why now? Lean into the freedom! Lean into each other! Let 👏 them 👏 be 👏 together 👏
…Sometimes I feel a bit guilty about all the time I spent over this month, like, writing Good Omens Meta on my Phone when I should've been working. But then I thought about it and actually, this is just me being incredibly on-theme. Is there anything more Ineffable Husbands-y I could do than pretend to look busy at work while not-so-secretly slacking off to do what I actually want to do? I am simply living up to Crowley and Aziraphale's example.
"I'm not going to eat" ... "It's my job to set an example for all the other angels by making choices. Good, upstanding choices"
Yep - those lines are another s3 Aziraphale characterisation choice that I hate.
Contrast it with s1, and the scene where we first meet present day(ish) Aziraphale. Gabriel appears unexpectedly, notices that Aziraphale is eating and states that he wouldn't 'sully the temple of my celestial body with gross matter'. And rather than agreeing, Aziraphale defends himself and also subtly points out Gabriel's hypocrisy - 'nice suit'.
This is one of my favourite moments and it tells us so much about Aziraphale - despite how uncomfortable Gabriel makes him, Aziraphale is a bit of a bastard in response. It's perfect, the comment goes straight over Gabriel's head - and on the off chance that it doesn't, Aziraphale has plausible deniability. That right there is one of the reasons Crowley loves him.
Now, I don't doubt that Aziraphale does have self loathing associated with eating food and not being what Heaven deems a 'good' angel. But he has struggled with 6000 years of that, and he ultimately hasn't let it stop him from enjoying the world.
This is the same Aziraphale that tempts a despondent Crowley to oysters in Rome, and the same Aziraphale that gets himself captured in Paris just so Crowley can buy him crepes. The same Aziraphale that in 1967 uses the future prospect of picnics and dining at the Ritz to signal to Crowley what he really wants.
Crowley buying Aziraphale food was one of the unspoken ways they showed each other that they cared.
So why in s3 would Aziraphale initially reject Crowley's offer of a meal and say that it would be a good, upstanding choice to abstain? A better written season would use his reluctance to show how deeply traumatic it was for Aziraphale to be back in Heaven. To show how undeserving he feels of Crowley's affection and forgiveness.
Instead, it just feels like another instance where s3!Aziraphale has been reduced to a caricature of himself and it's no surprise it is only used as a lead in for Crowley to then attack him ("Does that include choosing Heaven over me?").
A lot has been said about Aziraphale failing to help Crowley in the alley, and this, for me, is (a similarly OOC) Crowley doing the equivalent back to Aziraphale. Instead of showing concern about something that should be a clear sign of Aziraphale's distress, he reacts with anger. But I don't think the writers understand these characters enough to even realise it.
Remember when "Come up with something or I'll never talk to you again" was the worst thing, the worst thing Crowley could possibly hear, and then he threw up his hands and stopped fucking time and everyone in it, even SATAN for fuck's sake, and you're telling me, you're telling me that with their supposedly ultra powerful combined love miracles that they couldn't stop God?
I bet they could have. I bet they could have stopped God.
Instead we got another "come up with something" line and Crowley went "you'll never talk to me again"
