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[runasulienadanika]

GRIDDLEHARK AND CAMPAL ARE OPPOSITES BUT ALSO PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND IT MAKES ME SO INSANE

6th House is on mercury and 9th House is on pluto so they're on the opposite ends of the dominicus system

9 is 6 uspide down and 6 is 9 upside down

the Ninth House and the Sixth House are religion vs science

Gideon and Harrow are (were) childhood enemies, Camilla and Palamedes are (were) childhood friends. Gideon and Harrow had a hard time trusting each other, Camilla and Palamedes trusted each other with everything.

Gideon and Harrow are all about forgetting ("But I don’t even remember about you most of the time", the whole lobotomy situation), Camilla and Palamedes are all about remembering ("I’ve carried you, Warden. And I’ve carried your memory … I’d rather carry you", "Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem. I always remember him. That’s mine")

Gideon and Harrow are water (the Pool Scene, Gideon being in the "well" in Harrow's mind, Harrow deciding to stay in the River and Gideon "dying" in the River), Camilla and Palamedes are fire (Palamedes's first death, Palamedes and Camilla's lyctoral ascention)

in griddlehark's case the necromancer carried their cavalier's soul, in campal's case the cavalier carried their necromancer's soul

Gideon and Palamedes sacrificed themselves, Harrow then carried Gideon's sword even though it was killing her and Camilla carried Palamedes's bones even though boe electrocuted her for it

Gideon and Camilla are both "devotion's casualties"

Harrow and Camilla risked permanent brain damage to save the souls they carried

Gideon barely had any training for her position and Camilla trained her whole life, but they both didn't normally use their rapiers and were both set on fighting rather than on traditional duelling

the 6th and the 9th are both poor, underestimated, dying houses. Harrow and Palamedes have been leading them since they were very young and they do anything to try to improve the situation

Harrow fell in love with the Body when she was 10, Palamedes began writing to Dulcinea when he was 8. both into old dead chicks (as Gideon phrased it) while also loving their cavaliers

Camilla watched Gideon impale herself to force Harrow's ascention, Gideon watched Camilla light herself on fire during her and Palamedes's ascention

"This was your shell but it was all filled up with me" & "It's not you. It's me wearing you"

"I keep turning around to find you, and there’s nobody there." "I know the feeling." & "You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?"

"Kiriona Gaia was staring politely at the side of the truck, as though there were something really interesting on the paintwork" & "Even Camilla, who had turned away to politely investigate something on the opposite wall, wasn’t there"

"It was just her and Harrow and Harrow’s bitter, high-boned, stupid little face" & "Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe"

AND

AND

AND

AND

there's probably more, that's just from the top of my head. but yeah, they make me insane and i'm foaming at the mouth.

[eklmrlos]

thinking about their peaceful morning in the cottage

[cobragardens]

I've read a lot of fic about Aziraphale learning to sleep, or Crowley convincing him to try sleeping when Aziraphale has never seen the point, but for me this piece plays off a very poignant idea that--now that I'm seeing it--seems very obvious, especially for Show Omens, but that I've never once seen explored: maybe Aziraphale doesn't sleep because it's not safe.

We know Hell "never check[s] up" on Crowley and is severely understaffed, which explains how Crowley has been able to develop a sleeping habit: he's not any less safe from Hell asleep than he is awake. And we know demons can't enter the bookshop without invitation.

In fic and meta this is presumed to be due to "wards" Aziraphale has placed over the property, i.e., continuously acting miracles; but we see in canon that miracles require an occult or ethereal will to occur: as far as we can tell from what we're shown in the series, they're discrete events consciously willed into being by their directors. Aziraphale pulls power "down" from Heaven and Crowley pulls power "up" from Hell (and before the creation of the cosmos, the Starmaker pulls power from everywhere around themself) to make them happen.

There's no indication either way of whether a miracle like a ward is discrete or ongoing; if it's continuous, like an electrical field, that may require the continuous will and conduit of the miracle-doer. If that's the case, what happens to the ward if the miracle-doer falls asleep?

Even if that's not a concern, we do know for sure that before Aziraphale rebels against Heaven and establishes the bookshop as an "independent Heavenly embassy," Gabriel and Sandalphon can and do barge right in anytime they feel the need to put the frighteners on Heaven's misfit angel.

And then there's the symbolic meaning of the bookshop's oculus--not just the omniscience of God, but an eye always staring down from Heaven even into Azirphale's private space, the panopticon's someone could be watching at any given time.

And there's that Heaven-white Roman head, occupying the centre of so many of the S2 bookshop scenes--again, Heaven (specifically the Metatron, as he's the other floating head) spying on their own. (The head is also a reference to iconic British tv series The Prisoner, in which Cold War superpowers use busts and most notably a Roman bust as a/v surveillance tools against their own agents.)

Gabriel's already got a Thing against Aziraphale eating, which Aziraphale has to excuse as blending in and doing as humans do and defend by pointing out Gabriel's own love of human tailoring. What would the Supreme Archangel and his enforcer do if they found their Earthside employee sleeping on the clock?

Season 2 of Show Omens establishes that, although Crowley and Aziraphale now associate openly, they still understand themselves to be in danger from both their respective erstwhile employers--enough danger that Aziraphale moves to protect Crowley from demonic intrusion by assuming partial ownership of the Bentley and Crowley prefers to let the bookshop remain "technically" Aziraphale's even though Aziraphale gives him to understand that it belongs in fact and use (just not in contract) to both of them. The places a human would consider "home" or "safe" are neither for Aziraphale and Crowley, and they both know that. So even after Aziraphale stops working for Heaven, it may still not be safe for him to sleep.

All of this crystallized for me because of this piece. Because look at Crowley's face. You can see from @eklmrlos' previous pieces that they're very fucking good at putting exactly the facial expression on Crowley they want us to see, and that, along with the picture's caption specifying this is at the South Downs cottage, makes me wonder if maybe this is a depiction one of the first times Crowley has ever seen Aziraphale asleep.

Whether it is or not, it's unquestionably about the fact that Aziraphale is sleeping: he's what's presented to the viewer (and what Crowley's looking at), and the first two sketch panels show us that Crowley has touched him and even kissed him on the ear and Aziraphale hasn't woken up. So the significance of the picture lies in the fact that Aziraphale is asleep and doesn't wake up to mild interference.

I would argue that this is specifically about the vulnerability of sleep, too. The two sketch panels illustrate the need to sleep with someone trustworthy because you don't have control of what they do to you while you're sleeping--and if they do it softly enough you may not ever even know about it. @eklmrlos also chooses to depict Aziraphale with his belly exposed to the viewer, an expression of vulnerability that runs so deep humans share it with thousands of other species. You don't even have to be a mammal to understand what an exposed belly means.

And Aziraphale's belly in particular is shown here as softer than the appearance currently demanded by our diseased culture; it's also a part of himself that Good Omens fans are aware he covers with at least three layers of clothing, and these specific notes make the vulnerability of its exposure--and the significance of the moment being shown--hit even harder. (It tickles my nerdheart so much when artists achieve a layer of meaning with their art that only exists because it's fanwork.)

But it's Crowley's face that drives home that the safety of this moment is special. Because that's the expression you wear when you're in a museum looking at the painting you've always wanted to see in person but never thought you'd get to, or a zookeeper lets you feed a tortoise bigger than you are, or you look up at the sky at night: it's a face so intent on drinking in what it's seeing that it almost, but not quite, forgets to show its owner's happiness.

[sabotage-on-mercury]

Not soulmates, based on this quote by marsadist (via twitter) [Crowley's version]

[beanarie]

I binged Deadloch this week and loved it so so so much.

yessssss my friend FANTASTIC choice. i love this messy gay anticolonialist show

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[magnus-perceval]

Some more toony Aziraphales, and his reference image.

[rainbowhyperfixation]

The rest of the series is here

I love this interaction so much 🥰🦎

Btw, Squamata is the order that lizards and snakes belong to and means “having scales”

[kreaterka]

I just can't be without them, so I took them on holiday with me. 😊

[ineffabildaddy]

shout out to all the good omens fic writers who:

don’t get large numbers of hits on their fics

started writing for go after season 2 came out (or after season 3 came out! hi!)

don’t have a big ao3 subscriber/tumblr following count

write slowly

have unfinished wips up on ao3

don’t often get their fics recced by others

you’re not any less valued for any or all of these things<3 you are important to the fandom! you are appreciated and a necessary, nourishing part of the ecosystem<3

reblog this with an underrated go fic (less than 10k hits perhaps). could be by you or someone else!

[cheeseplants]

YEY let's rec some underrated fics.

The Best Part - @happynachohologram A throwaway comment from Aziraphale sets Crowley wondering about the best parts of retirement. UGH this is just fluff on steroids.

Honourable Members - @groovynightstrawberry Aziraphale and Crowley were something, once. Now they sit across from each other in the House of Commons, a few metres and a whole world apart. HOT HOT HOT. Night Blooms - @gaiaseyes451 I found a strange flower in your garden that smells incredible and tasted just as good. Only, now I can’t stop dreaming about you… Luscious, mysterious, heart wrenching. Beautiful. All The Little Moments - @paperclipninja It was the talk of the ton. Notorious scoundrel and most eligible bachelor, Anthony Crowley, has returned. Regency AU! ALL the historical tropes and pining, eat it up with a spoon. Cosmological Constants - @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon An Asa/Anthony fic that will make you cry. It is gorgeous. a taste of honey - @carry-the-sky

A post S2 Aziraphale and Crowley rekindle their own friendship, yet spend a while yet still finding their way back to kissing. The best kind of lovely slow burn and payoff. In the Interests of Time - @doonarose

What if our Aziracrow turned human? How would they cope? Written pre S3. A delightful smutty awkward first times romp.

There are so many more amazing ones out there. Please share!

[rhosmeinir]

Go read these fics by all these lovely writers!! Thanks for putting these together, Cheese!

[radish-cake-12]

I just finished this one: A Season of Whale Song by @drconstellation - really enjoyed it and the sequel Of Lions and Leviathans is a WIP but only 3 chapters to go to the end.

I am OBSESSED with this fic Keep Calm & Carry On by @dragonfire42 and @naturallyteal it's a WIP but it's being updated regularly and it's FASCINATING. Tower of London Ravenmaster Aziraphale & Pigeonkeeper

One of my all time favorites by @scrapbramble Love in the Days of an Ill-Timed Plague canon compliant after s1

[drconstellation]

Thank you for the mention @radish-cake-12 I've been distracted by a bang fic wip at the moment but I will get back to Lions and Leviathans before the end of the year, it will be done!

I'd like to give a shout out to @ajconstantine for being brave enough to finish The Art of Letting Go by Nekhen here with The Art of Letting Go: After The Last Page. This is the gift to fandom I never expected to see, at peace with where the original story was tragically left, but now we will get a picture of the intended ending. Thank you.

[astraniaaurum]

help me get out of an abusive marriage and toxic household

I know I posted on here earlier about asking for help in needing to be moved out to California with my older sister by the end of the year at the earliest. what I didn't mention in that post is that I was planning to move there because I'm also getting divorced from a spouse who has told me he no longer loves me and never actually treated me the way I deserved to be treated in a marriage, and whom I've come to realize is also an abusive and toxic man who gaslights me, namely, among other things.

the plan has changed slightly since I made that last post, and at this point I'm needing to divorce him and be moved out within the next few months instead of by the end of the year.

I'm saving up the money to move out, but I also need at least $230 for a non-disputed court filing, and if anyone can donate at least a tiny bit for it that would be genuinely appreciated.

ve/nmo: sauntered_serpent

ko-fi: astrania

pay/pal: blackvvidow

I need out of this marriage as soon as possible. I have survived and endured this long but at this point merely ‘surviving’ is no longer an option if I want to keep my emotional and mental wellbeing intact.

if you can't donate, boosts and reblogs would at least be appreciated. thank you.

[fawnilu]

:)

[mistysblueboxstuff]

wanted to paint something cute

[captainblou]

Hi, hello,

I made this.

Ok, bye <3

[fellshish]

they should only cast david tennant in wet man roles

[ineffabildaddy]

is that not what they already do?

[tweedfeather]

And we kissed as though nothing could fall.

[tweedfeather]

And we kissed as though nothing could fall.

[caterhoades1971]

Wip 2 more hours about 6 in total.

Have a super week.