Aziraphale Choppleganger

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[angelo-rib-shack]

Pinned post introduction!

My name is Angelo and this is my Good Omens rp blog, as well as my main blog.

Angelo is @the-metatron 's favourite son.

My other rp characters:

@angelo-chuck-wagon (A submissive time traveling cowboy version of Angelo from another timeline)

@the-lady-metatron (A female version of the Metatron)

@angelina-rib-shack (Daughter of The Lady Metatron, also an alternate universe version of Angelo)

LOTR/wizardposting rp blog:

@gandalf-big-oos

Historical rpg:

@lady-lord-cornbury

@king-james-favourite

DISCLAIMER: If you are vehemently opposed to AI images, please just leave my blog alone. Please do not send me asks asking me why I use it, or telling me why I shouldnt. I don't owe anyone any more explanations, even in good faith.

On a positive note! Here is some of my rpg related artwork! These days I use Procreate to do most of my pieces. I am a very slow artist, because I'm meticulous about my pieces... but I will occasionally do a drunk draw and take requests through my asks. Drunk drawings are quick and easy.

Lady Lord Cornbury and @william-the-ladyfinger

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[nkp1981]

David Tennant at "FanExpo Philadelphia", May, 2026

Found on: TikTok

[bon-bonsai]

Happy pride month to everyone! and to my fav genderfluid, agender; demon and angel.

[ineffable-effability]

birdcage revival starring david tennant and michael sheen, you agree

[annarcana]

[textsfromstarfleet]

i think star trek should write an in universe reason why some series don’t have swearing and some do. make it a universal translator glitch or something.

[textsfromstarfleet]

the captain of each ship can turn the swears on or off when they want to

[cumaeansibyl]

Kirk would have kept the swears on but any ship carrying Dr. Leonard McCoy is required by Starfleet regulations to turn them off

[royal-fizzbin]

How dare you keep this in the tags @narwhalsarefalling

[iamthecutestofborg]

[thiswomanshouldbewriting]

Good Omens au in which they are fucking from very early on because they have a drunken conversation that goes something like this:

Crowley: "So, if everything is part of Her plan, if everything is predetermined... Nothing we do can ever be outside of her Will, right? Anything we do is because she planned it that way."

Aziraphale: "Uhm... I guess?"

Crowley: "So we can do anything we want. Anything at all. No reason to hold back, because if she didn't want us to do something she'd stop us, right?"

Aziraphale: "I mean, when you put it like that..."

Crowley: "Come on, angel, surprise me. Tell me something that you've always wanted to, and we'll do it."

Aziraphale immediately jumps Crowley's bones. They don't talk much after that.

[yetrop]

Too soon?

[armageddidnt]

Yes, but I’m still cackling 

[championoftheoppressed]

Crowley and Aziraphale through the years.

[amagnificentobsession]

My heart just shattered 💔

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can always start making a beautiful life for yourself even if you’ve lost some years to grief. your entire life does not need to be a perfect story, and it always doesn’t have to be only good or only bad. it’s gotta be a lot of both.

[yournonbinarypal]

[armageddidnt]

The 5 real themes of good omens that the finale completely botched

I know we only had 1 episode and whole plotlines were scrapped but I was just left feeling so empty after the finale given how powerful and moving and profound the themes of season 1/the book were. So buckle up for a long ride let's talk about it

Theme 1: Human Incarnate

The book and the show established that humanity is unique because it is neither purely good or purely bad. From the book: "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people." This Aziraphale describes as "much better" than either Heaven or Hell

This is one of my favorite sequences in the whole show. And the music is soaring and gorgeous. Adam recalls the things in his life he has come to know and love; his parents, his friends, his dog, his home. He makes it have nice weather all year. Aziraphale could feel that love at the Tadfield Manor. Heaven and Hell tried to create an instrument of destruction. But by putting that inside a human boy, they didn't realize the strength of one boy's love would be strong enough to literally burn the hell out of him. He told Satan himself to shove it and rewrote reality to have the dad he truly loved. The power of humanity's love is stronger than any immortal power could ever be.

This is the idea that would have been so cool for the finale but unfortunately never paid off. As the second coming prepares to destroy Earth again, Aziraphale and Crowley could have teamed up with the power of humanity to reshape heaven and hell for good. Adam and Jesus as the antichrist and christ born to end the world and instead used their humanity to save it. Instead we got the book-of-life arc and humans were literally left to dust

Theme 2: Free Will

Next good omens establishes that angels and demons are just puppets but humans are the ones with real free will because they have the ability to be good or bad. Even with heaven and hell, the humans on Earth always have a choice. In season 2, they agree on this, but Crowley's main grievance is the inequity of it all. Humans have free will but it still isn't fair.

God made angels and demons and humans but the humans never had to follow her 'plan.' Free will and the ability to recognize what is truly right outside the propaganda of good vs evil is what saves the world.

Humans always had free will, even if God was around to kill a bunch of them with floods or take their stuff to win bets or something. Creating a new universe without God wouldn't change that. They would still have free will, just less threats from above/below, I guess. What Crowley's established character really should have wanted here was to fix the inequity inherent in human society. That's what is truly holding them back, not a lack of will. Removing God from the universe doesn't actually solve the root problem here

Theme 3: Our Own Side

This is something Crowley learned very early and spends the whole show trying to teach Aziraphale. That good must be separated from heaven and bad must be separated from hell.

Heaven can do some truly appalling horrors and demons, at least Crowley (and somewhat Beelzebub I guess) have the potential to be kind. 'Their own side' is one where they have the freedom of humanity, to do what is truly right. Aziraphale and Crowley sort of found their way there in the finale, but it was all rushed and Aziraphale never really turned his back on heaven, it sort of just became irrelevant when everything started disappearing. What a beautifully flawed and nice world they could have created together

Theme 4: Love Conquers all

What was it all for? Love. God made Aziraphale and Crowley for each other because she liked to smile at the silliness of their love. The literal only constant in the entire universe. Their love for the world and each other saved it. I think the decision to turn Aziraphale and Crowley's queer love story into a tragedy was the biggest mistake of seasons 2/3. Forcing the soft and romantic comedy of good omens into a queer tragedy was the instant it all crashed and burned. Now everything is tainted leading up to the pain and destruction of it all and the whimsy and lightness is gone. There were moments of it, but it was all leading toward the end. And queer love deserves to not be a tragedy. We have far too much tragic queer love in our society. Yes we got the south downs, but Aziraphale and Crowley never got to experience that freedom. They finally came together just to instantly be destroyed. We deserve happy and fulfilling queer love that is sweet without the bitter parts. Good omens was intended to be a comedy, not a tragedy

And then this was SUCH A COOL IDEA they introduced. Perhaps the first time ever an angel and a demon performed a miracle together. The power of their love could create magic stronger than anything heaven or hell had ever seen. I was so excited to see the wonders they were going to create, they ways in which they could have rebuilt the world better using that love. If they had this kind of power doing a tiny miracle, what could they have accomplished if they really put their minds to it? God herself couldn't have stopped them. And instead, the finale literally revoked Crowley's magic for the entire episode. They sacrifice themselves for a new earth and people that didn’t even exist yet instead of using any of their power to change it. The god awful execution of this theme is probably the biggest letdown of the entire finale imo

Theme 5: Fix It, Don't Replace It

This is so obviously established in seasons 1/2 I cannot believe how badly they missed the mark with this one

Literally shows us the horror of replacing the Earth with all new people. Even children can recognize that just because something is broken, it doesn't mean you throw it away and start all over. They loved the world enough to want to save it. The world is inherently worth saving, flaws and all. If you love something, you don't abandon it. The ENTIRE PLOT of season 1 explores the horrors of humanity and yet humans, Aziraphale and Crowley do everything in their power to save it.

It absolutely blows my mind how directly this scene contradicts the entire message of the finale. Job didn't want new children, he quite liked the old ones. Aziraphale and Crowley didn't want the antichrist's new Earth, they quite liked the old one. We didn't want new human versions of Aziraphale and Crowley, we QUITE LIKED THE OLD ONES. Where the hell did that mentality go when they told God to create an entirely new universe????????????? Season 1 said the world is flawed but it deserves saving exactly as it is. Season 1 said an angel and a demon go off to the ritz together, exactly as they are. The finale said the world is too broken, we have to make it disappear and start over. The finale said Aziraphale and Crowley have too many issues/traumas to be happy, we have to destroy them and start over. That's why as cute as Asa and Anthony's love is, we quite liked them exactly as they were, angel/demon trauma + history and all. They deserved saving too.

Good omens has always been so special to me for how much it pokes fun at but also celebrates the messiness and wonder of humanity and love. The 6-to-1 episodes was a major setback but somehow the finale still managed to drop basically every one of its most endearing and powerful messages. What is the "real world" the finale is trying to make us value? One without a god to screw things up sometimes?? The best parts of humanity always shined through not even despite, but BECAUSE of the heavenly challenges they overcame. It's very clear good omens as a whole was always meant to be a one-season/one-book story. There was so much potential and missed opportunities and I wish we could have had the finale we were all dreaming of. I will always love the world of good omens season 1/the book, so that is the world I'll keep in my heart. And all the nightingales therein

[di-42]

I agree with everything OP said, but I would like to add something about the free will point because I don't see this acknowledged anywhere.

They sacrificed themselves for a godless universe where humans can have free will (which they already had). But it's implied that the new universe is our universe, the real universe we live in, not a fictional one like the 6000 year old universe in the book/show (which leads to the lazy 'it was only a dream' twist, but that's another point). So there is no god in the new universe and humans make their own decisions and need to look after the world. I applaud that. Except that even though it's a godless world, it's still a world with religions and where the humans believe there is a god and keep behaving the same way they did in the fictional universe where there was a god.

So. What's. The. Point.

[angelo-rib-shack]

And then Bob Newhart woke up…

[mariacallous]

[sprinkledsalt]

I am once again posting this excerpt from Why Does He Do That?

"MYTH #4: He holds in his feelings too much, and they build up until he bursts. He needs to get in touch with his emotions and learn to express them to prevent those explosive episodes. My colleagues and I refer to this belief as 'The Boiler Theory of Men.' The idea is that a person can only tolerate so much accumulated pain and frustration. If it doesn’t get vented periodically— kind of like a pressure cooker—then there’s bound to be a serious accident. This myth has the ring of truth to it because we are all aware of how many men keep too much emotion pent up inside. Since most abusers are male, it seems to add up. But it doesn’t, and here’s why: Most of my clients are not unusually repressed. In fact, many of them express their feelings more than some nonabusive men. Rather than trapping everything inside, they actually tend to do the opposite: They have an exaggerated idea of how important their feelings are, and they talk about their feelings—and act them out—all the time, until their partners and children are exhausted from hearing about it all. An abuser’s emotions are as likely to be too big as too small. They can fill up the whole house. When he feels bad, he thinks that life should stop for everyone else in the family until someone fixes his discomfort. His partner’s life crises, the children’s sicknesses, meals, birthdays—nothing else matters as much as his feelings. It is not his feelings the abuser is too distant from; it is his partner’s feelings and his children’s feelings. Those are the emotions that he knows so little about and that he needs to 'get in touch with.' My job as an abuse counselor often involves steering the discussion away from how my clients feel and toward how they think (including their attitudes toward their partners ’ feelings). My clients keep trying to drive the ball back into the court that is familiar and comfortable to them, where their inner world is the only thing that matters. For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuser’s selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness. Part of why you may be tempted to accept 'The Boiler Theory of Men' is that you may observe that your partner follows a pattern where he becomes increasingly withdrawn, says less and less, seems to be bubbling gradually from a simmer to a boil, and then erupts in a geyser of yelling, put-downs, and ugliness. It looks like an emotional explosion, so naturally you assume that it is. But the mounting tension, the pressure- cooker buildup of his feelings, is actually being driven by his lack of empathy for your feelings, and by a set of attitudes that we will examine later. And he explodes when he gives himself permission to do so."

[one-bite-is-undercover]

This book is a top recommendation of mine, as a therapist.

[drchucktingle]

WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL

[carry-the-sky]

imagine a universe where crowley and aziraphale look at each other, look at god, and say: are those really the only two choices?

it's actually inconceivable to me that they wouldn't ask the question. humanity, the cosmos, the one creature in existence each of them loves more than all of it combined. everything hanging in the delicate cradle of god's good grace. put it back the way it was, or destroy it entirely. you'd certainly ask. why wouldn't they?

it's a fallacy, crowley will say. a false dilemma. you're god. we can ask you for anything.

god just smiles, a thin expression that begins and ends in the corners of her mouth. the devil smiles too, but in the inverse. wordless answers all around.

seriously? that easy? crowley says to aziraphale under his breath, and aziraphale will roll his eyes, buoyant with fondness.

i do believe you're onto something, my dear. it's all in the name, isn't it? aziraphale is thinking of whickber street, a thermos full of the holiest water. dogs learning to balance on their hind legs. understanding dawns like a sunrise. the naming of the thing gives it power.

very good, god might say, but neither of them are listening anymore.

crowley's eyes are the color of sunflowers when he turns away from her, never to look upon her face again. well, what should we call it, then? bertha? jehoshua? free willy 2: the adventure home?

another eye roll, even fonder than the first. they might reach for each other, in this universe, the one that birthed them and all the stars and nebulas, the one that birthed you and me and everyone we've ever known and loved. they might hold hands, or embrace, cheek to cheek, arms sliding around waists. i like to think that they move at the same time. crowley's hands find aziraphale's face, aziraphale's eyes fall to crowley's mouth.

(they kiss, of course. how could they not? it's as immutable as gravity, inevitable as time, but not because of god. that's the beauty of free will; it creates itself. a great wagon, as rumi said. out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. i'd like to think there's a cottage waiting for them there, somewhere in the middle.)

but first—

we've come to a decision, one of them says.

there's a hell of a universe next door, says the other, and you two look ready for retirement.