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Good omens fic writers/fanartists after GO3:
âI could make them as dust. Just say the word.â
âNo. Thatâs worse than war.â
â Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
My Secret Santa gift for @saglaophonos! A comic for her post-s2 fic you do something to my patience
what child is this?
The night of Jesusâ birth, Mary has some questions for the angel Aziraphale. In a humble stable in Bethlehem, he struggles with the implications of the Ineffable Plan.
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I gotta say, yâall, it makes me feel connected on a spiritual level every time somebody reblogs a gifset of Aziraphale with some tag along the lines of âI didnât expect to love him as much as I did but holy shitâ because seriously that is the biggest mood.
Like, I was expecting to love Crowley. He was my favorite character in the book, I knew David Tennant would be perfect for him (and he was, GOD he was fantastic), I was 100% solidly prepared for that.
I was not
at all
prepared
for this soft smiley motherfucking N E R D.
LOOK AT HIM.
HEâS SO PRECIOUS????
Heâs so excited? About everything?? Food, books, wine, learning the gavotte, double-crossing Nazis, you name it. Heâs like a literal ray of sunshine every time heâs on screen, which is partly because heâs an angel and they deliberately dress him in white, and partly because Michael Sheen cranks every single emotion up to 11 and makes sure we see every single bit of it. (And that is the best acting choice e v e r.)
Like good lord, no wonder Crowley loves him after knowing him all of 5 minutes. How could you not?!
Crowley: Iâve had this angel for less than an hour but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself. Literally everybody watching Good Omens: HARD SAME.
I just. Guys. Aziraphale. I canât. I love him so much, and Iâm so happy so many other people feel the same way.
I TOO WAS NOT AT ALL READY AND I TOO FELL FOR HIM IN .2 SECONDS
we all fell hard
letâs be real. we are all just crowleys
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry
The next line of her speech is also great: âAny human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.â
the only time plants werenât terrified of âCrowleyâ
soâŠum. how are we feeling good omens fans
I mean, Crowley and Aziraphale reunite ->Metatron dead->đâšgayâšđ->The End.
the year is 2025. michael sheen is appointed showrunner and executive producer. gets his grubby mitts on the script and every other line is changed to blatant innuendo. each scene is so sexually charged that it's like staring directly into the sun. the last 10 mins is a montage of them outright fucking on every available surface of the south downs cottage. the show is now, inexplicably, set in south wales
So, what is the deal with the worldâs most conspicuously uneaten Eccles cakes? (A meta)
Well, I wouldnât say itâs bad writing, not even the on-purpose-as-a-secret-message kind. I agree there is a visual âloose threadâ here that the creators wanted us to notice, but I donât think the meaning has anything to do with Metatron or the eventual plan for S3. I think the eccles cakes are all about whatâs going on in this episode with Crowley and Aziraphale, and theyâre unsettling in exactly the way theyâre meant to be, even if we might not register the full implications consciously on first watch.
On the most straightforward level, this shot is the punchline to a joke set up by Aziraphale and Nina in the coffee shop. Crowley orders six shots of espresso, bound to get him all worked up and stressy. Aziraphale, who desperately wants Crowley to be thinking clearly when he learns about the Gabriel situation, says to Nina: âWhat do you sell that calms people down?â And she replies: âEccles cakes.â From this moment on the cakes are a visual symbol of what Aziraphale needs from Crowley right now.
Still stuck on how Aziraphale ate that meat like he was starving. Like heâd been starved for millennia, and he hadnât even known it, because heâd never once been fed. But we know they donât have to eat (nor sleep, etc.), so what heâd been starved for is pleasure. Being present in his body, feeling the joys and longings it could feel. Understanding what taste buds were made for. He hadnât known; heâd never learned to miss it.
Now imagine what a kiss has done to him.
Imagine what a kiss can create: a sensation of intimacy with the other person, of emotional rawness, the raw honesty stripped of all pretending to be just colleagues, human connection, emotional bonding etc. They might be supernatural beings but they also inhabit human bodies and have for millennias, that kind of thing is bound to shape the entity into the shape it inhabits. After all... âForm shapes natureâ.
i actually feel like the bamfiest aziraphale moment that isn't getting enough love is the "you came to me. i said i would protect you. and i will." like hoooly shit. it's brave in a quiet way, in a kind way. and the way it's delivered too, it really feels like for a brief moment i got to see all the way through his soul to its shining core. anyone gif that bit?
Aziraphale was such a little bastard (/affectionate) for giving Jim hot cocoa to drink when he knew his old boss's opinion on sullying the temple of his body with "gross matter."
He did the same thing with Muriel, offered them tea knowing what they probably thought of it and then amiably watched them to see what they would do with it.
He's gone rogue, people. He's corrupting Heaven one politely offered hot beverage at a time.
The Magic Trick You Didnât See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2
(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)
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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off.Â
Yes, itâs long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatronâs deal is (Iâm like 99% sure of this and itâs EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekovâs Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse?Â
Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me Iâm an insane crackpot, and u know what, i wonât even be offended
In case you donât know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, Iâve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOBâ
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Aziraphale lied Theory
First of all, this theory is not mine, its from @/doubleskk on Twitter and can be found HERE. Go show them some love! It's in Portuguese, so I'll do my best to translate it - blue texts are my personal additions!
This season, we have something very clear in Aziraphale's development arc: is his relationship with LIE. He lied to protect Job's children, and he lied he had performed a miracle to make Nina and Maggie fall in love. That's not counting other little lies, sprinkled throughout the season here and there.
We keep seeing Crowley say "I'm a demon, I lie", but in the big finale, we have Crowley saying the truth - the big truth, the one he has been avoiding for 6 thousand years.
All of this was to set the stage for the biggest lie of all: the lie he had to tell Crowley to fend him off and protect him.
When Metatron goes to buy the coffee, he asks Nina if people ask for death, as the name of her shop is "Give me a coffee, or give me death". What if that name is an allegory for the actual conversation between Metatron and Aziraphale?
Aziraphale may have been threatened. Either Azira goes back to heaven (coffee), or he and Crowley would have their existence erased from the Book of Life (death). So, to protect Crowley, Aziraphale had to invent a lie to make sure he got away. The Book of Life was namedropped a couple of times in the show, a Chekhov's gun that never went off - Neil is too good of a writer for that.
And Aziraphale knew that Crowley would be pissed if he agreed to go back to Heaven after everything that happened, and he knew that Crowley would never accept being an angel again. "But rescuing me makes him so happy" - Aziraphale had to make sure Crowley wouldn't realize he needed saving.
That's why he knew exactly what to say to mess with Crowley.
At 41:14 of episode 6, when Azira starts telling the (alleged) lie to Crowley, he becomes all flustered, moving his hands from side to side and stammering, SAME PATTERN as when he lies to the angels about having done the Nina and Maggie fall in love, in episode 2.
[This part really works better with 2 videos side by side, which you cannot do on tumblr, so if you want you can check them out here]
The sequence of him talking to Metatron at the table is nothing more than an enactment of his lie. The conversation didn't go like that, Aziraphale made everything up.
And when Crowley declares himself, Aziraphale starts shaking his head in despair: not now, don't tell me that now.
He also looks out the window as soon as the confession starts, as if he knows Metraton was watching him outside.
Then there's the kiss, Aziraphale falters for a moment, but he has to keep up with the lie and he knows he has to hurt Crowley on purpose. And after Crowley leaves, Aziraphale is MUST recover in seconds, because Metatron is coming back. Also notice that when Metatron comes back, he doesn't ask if Crowley agreed to go back to heaven or not. He just sends a "How did he take it?"
That is, there was never any choice, and for Metatron Aziraphale was only going to break the news that he was leaving. And Aziraphale had to invent a lie to the inmates to make sure Crowley stayed away from him.
Iâd absolute believe that Aziraphale lied, his expressions in that scene are way off AND he repeats things he absolutely knows arenât true. Plus, why would he ever expect Crowley to agree to be an angel again? Even the audience knows he wouldnât, and those two have been friends for millenia!
BUT to run with this theory, I also believe that Aziraphale may have been hoping Crowley would catch on. That just when Aziraphale was about to give up on Crowley picking up on the cues, Crowley DID catch on and came back (possibly even stopping time, if the clock in the back is anything to go by, as this fascinating post points out https://www.tumblr.com/lonicera-caprifolium/724544316818800640?source=share).
This would put the âI forgive youâ, Crowleyâs composure in the end, and âA nightingale sang in Berkeley squareâ into a new light. Which I find very intriguing - those two were continuously set up as a double act for all of season 2 AND in the end of s1, after all.
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?...
...made funnier by the fact that, even once he has it on, Aziraphale doesn't stop holding it like it's a snake.