Ven

Ven, she/her, Eternally Stony currently into Heated Rivalry AND bts, jimin, yoongi and yoonmin . I haven't written anything for over a year but before that I have written about 60 odd fics and many more that I never posted, read fics and sometimes get lost deep in the dumpster. I LOVE to hear from you, asks in my askbox are direct shots of happiness into my soul :)

[avengersnewb]

One was day and one was night;

One was black and one was white;

One was left and one was right;

One was darkness, one was light.

Together.

[jung-koook]

FAM(ILY) ♡

[sugar-petals]

i'm fucking crying, omega!namjoon eyeshadow 😭

[fuckyeahisawthat]

I think they really jumped the shark with the Book of Life. Once you introduce a nuclear option like that you have to have a justification for why it hasn't been used before now. (For example, why haven't Aziraphale and Crowley been written out if they're so much trouble?)

The Book of Life is not secret (at least not after s2 when it was retconned in); it's not particularly well-guarded; it's targeted; the cost associated with using it is low (you might go crazy but not before you have time to do a lot of damage); there's no danger of mutually assured destruction as long as you hang onto it. It's the kind of unlimited power that automatically makes things less interesting.

One thing that was really intriguing at the end of s1 was the suggestion that other angels and demons were kind of afraid of Aziraphale and Crowley because they didn't know what they were anymore. (And I was really hoping for a payoff moment that revealed that, bodyswap ruse aside, they actually had becomes immune to hellfire and holy water because they'd been on Earth so long they really had "gone native" and become a little bit human, in the way that Adam Young was human and also a little bit something else.)

And then when they did the accidental 25 lazari miracle I thought what was being set up was the revelation that angels and demons are super powerful when they're able to team up and do joint miracles together, but no one's ever figured it out before because sides, etc. And that this was going to be used in the story either to protect the entire Earth from the meddling of angels and demons, and/or to somehow break down the division between Heaven and Hell.

But alas.

[avengersnewb]

I have bts tickets 🥹. it's like level 3 (as in the end of the stadium) because it bloody did not let me get anything else and my husband was like JUST GET THESE and I'm soooooo glad that I did 😭

[sunrisesinthesuburbs]

How Good Omens lost its heart (and didn’t even fight to get it back)

I distanced myself from the Good Omens fandom lately, and i’m sure this is not a surprise to many of you reading this post. i want to be very clear: neil gaiman had a lot to do with it. I didn’t want to show my support for a show made by an abuser. And yes, i see and hear people claiming Good Omens belonged to the people and the fans, but realistically the rights and royalties belong to ng, and participating in the promotion of it all just felt wrong to me. So, my choice was to love my favorite characters of all time from afar, and for free: reading and writing and engaging with fanworks.

That being said: I really fucking hated the fuckass movie. I wish i didn’t see it, i wish the show stopped at season 1, and if you liked it, good for you. I did not, and I want to tell you why. Feel free to ignore me.

Is that a hole in your plot?

The writing was bad. Content aside, what I wanted for this characters aside, my feelings on ng and the other writers begrudgingly aside, it was a badly written piece of television. I counted too many plot holes in the first thirty minutes aside, but i will point out what felt the biggest to me.

The opening flashback: it was hot, and that was it. Where does it fit in the timeline we already know about? It doesn’t fit with their first meeting as angels, nor with their first meeting on the wall. Why keep rewriting the first time they met? We already know how they met, twice, and besides the sexual tension, what did this new flashback bring to the story? Arguably, nothing; another case of bad wigs, maybe, nothing more. Perhaps, another instance of contradicting the book and the first ever episode: “it starts, as it will end, with a garden.” Well, apparently not.

Skipping all that nonsense in the middle (Aziraphale leaving crowley in the alley? Jesus having two lines after being promoted as the main focus of the season? The book of life burning not immediately snapping aziraphale and crowley away? Crowley having no reaction to Aziraphale confessing undying devotion to him?) let’s get to the very end. The decision the main characters come to is to erase themselves and all traces of their universe to create a new, fresh universe where angels and demons do not exist, and free will reigns above all. Two minutes after, the movie presents us two human versions of said characters meeting again, 13 something billion of years later, falling in love and all that good stuff. What we are supposed to take away from this is: they were destined to meet and fall in love in every universe, no matter the circumstances. Where is the free will in a soulmate trope? Where is the free will in this condoning of predeterminism? If they were meant to be, then free will isn’t ruling this universe. Fate is. Was it all for nothing then?

Who are these characters?

The characters fell flat. The side characters were useless at best, annoying at worst. Michael going rogue was predictable, Jesus was a nothingburger, the entire Whickber Street ensemble was just… not relevant. And the main characters were subjected to the worst character assasination my eyes have ever seen. The worst of it? That entire scene with God and Satan: Crowley never once looking at Aziraphale, not even at the most heartwrenching confession; Aziraphale talking about Crowley being amazing in the past tense; Crowley choosing something that’s not Aziraphale, after his whole entire monologue and character arc in season 2; Aziraphale accepting complete erasure after fighting 3 years in heaven against it, just because lobotomized Crowley wanted it. What the fuck?

Also, Asa and Anthony. They were cute. Adorable, really. Two cute old men (with bad hair, but i’m willing to move past this) falling in love and getting married. Cute cute cute. Who the fuck were they? They were not Aziraphale and Crowley: they were an English librarian and a Scottish professor, not the angel and demon I loved and yearned and was obsessed with for years. And again, if it were them, why weren’t they recognizable at all? In all the human AUs i enjoyed the characters were perfectly recognizable: Crowley was still moody and a bit rough around the edges, yet soft and almost overwhelming in his loveliness; Aziraphale was still witty and smart and a bit (or a lot) of a snob, yet kind and warm and loving to a fault. These two human beings were cute, but they weren’t them. Who are these characters?

The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall

The loser, in this case, being queer people everywhere. Put your daggers down and let me tell you this: it is not acephobic to think a kiss was needed in this finale.

You’re right when you say that physicality is not needed to show love and connection; in this case, however, physicality between them was already a given – they already kissed. Out of desperation, out of despair, out of sadness, but they kissed. They crossed that bridge and their relationship jumped to the other side of strictly platonic and now, for a simple rule of balance and equity in pieces of media, the ‘ugly kiss’ desperately (pardon the repetition) needed a ‘good kiss’. The finger thing could have been cute, but it lacked the depth and emotional weight to carry the conclusion of a third act.

If that was all the goobye we are going to get, it is simply not enough: they wrapped up 6000 years of history (a history they previously spend two seasons fighting tooth and nail to not erase, mind you) with a finger kiss and an awkward smile. Am i supposed to say it was good?

Also, implying that people wanted some physical intimacy between two queer characters (after it was already established) just to satisfy some sort of fetish is too disrespectful to even comment about.

A straight couple would have gotten a teary goodbye, an explicit I love you and a kiss before turning to dust. The gays get buried — or erased from existence, in this case.

Human incarnate, or the lack of it

All in all, the finale felt cheap, flat, soulless. A comedy desperately grasping onto the physycality of it but not really committing to the bit, a love story relying on the chemistry between the mains without letting them have a single meaningful conversation, a show about humanity reducing human beings to comedic reliefs, over-the-top antagonists and afterthoughts easy to erase with a snap of two fingers.

And no, no one got a second chance: Adam rewrote the universe for nothing, Aziraphale tried to fix Heaven for nothing, Crowley asked questions for nothing. It was all erased anyway, and the ones who get to live simply aren’t them. Some version of them that was paradoxically destined to meet, going against the free will they gave up everything for.

Good Omens was always about knowing your fate, and choosing your own anyway. Loving despite, loving because of, loving even if. The love between to immortal beings being what kept everything together. The characters I knew and loved would have kept choosing each other and their world, not another new one, despite everything, because of history, and even if it was the hardest thing.

They loved their world, their Earth, and deserved to live in it. On their own side. Just the two of them.

So I really didn’t like the movie, and the message it sent. I did not find it bittersweet, just bleak. And this is why.

Going forward, I’ll finish every fic I started. After, I don’t know. It may take me a while.

Thanks for reading. Fuck Neil Gaiman and all abusers. Protect and believe victims.

[simmesimmy]

JIMIN’S HAIR IS BRAIDED ALL PRETTY IM IN LOVE

he’s literally everything to me ♡

ILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT LONG HAIR JIMIN!!

𐙚 𐙚 𐙚 𐙚 𐙚

[fan-a-tink]

An Ineffable Goodbye | Good Omens 3

[realitythroughthelensoffiction]

Good Omens 3:

"This isn't one of Gaiman's gloomy ones, is it? No wonder nobody likes it!"

[jiyooncrumbs]

Yoonmin in AMAs and Weverse live

[avengersnewb]

I got a fic idea after like...2 years? I have a spontaneous, just came to me in the shower fic idea and whoa I missed this feeling so much. it's still a remix of one of my own and basically mostly an excuse to write medkink for sabre and I haven't written a word but alas.

I missed this high so very much.

[avengersnewb]

I followed 59 yoonmin blogs just now 😋 here's hoping like 5 of them are active.

[jess-the-reckless]

Well, at least the people of Whickber Street didn't have to worry about a maniac brainwashing them all so he could play romcom Barbies with them, at least for a bit.

Until they all ceased to exist, that is.

Yay?

The more I think about it the more I realise this thing was fuuuucked from the first scene of S2, when they introduced that Before the Beginning scene of Aziraphale making butter-my-muffin eyes at unnamed angel Crowley. And then all that toot about manufacturing meet cutes with rain and umbrellas, when their original meet cute - the iconic one from the book - was right there.

I'm sorry, but nobody with an iota of skill as a storyteller could have missed that, let alone turned that unnamed angel into the subject of Aziraphale's eternal yearning when Crowley was also right there.

He doesn't even get a name! We have no idea who he was before he fell, besides that he had fun hair and liked making stars. He's not the one Aziraphale spent six thousand years with, but in the end a version of Aziraphale gets a version of him? I mean, the ineptitude of it is just breathtaking.

Clearly shit-for-brains had designs on writing a romcom, but as a romance writer myself I can only sit back and gawk at how hard he fucked this. If you wrote this as a romance ending you'd be tarred and feathered. Your Goodreads reviews would shit the bed as hard as if you'd been caught plagiarising, ChatGPTing, or sockpuppeting mean reviews of other authors work. Your name would be mud, hot dogshit, a byword for wasted time and someone who Just Doesn't Get It.

And you'd deserve it.

[twilightcitysky]

Well.

[sapierror]

also, I really don't know how to phrase this but to me the finale misses the joke, you know?

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

that corporate satire was what allowed this to be a comedy, a space to tell a beautiful story about choices, humanity, and love. the finale for some reason treats that background seriously, it turns that setting into an omnipotent, dystopian threat, which completely suffocates both the romance and the humor by replacing a petty system you can outwit, outsmart, outmanouver with a bleak, unearned nightmare where "the company controls your every breath, and you can never clock out"

[avengersnewb]

my sexuality is whatever is happening with Jimin right now. *point's vaguely at the princess braids and the Dior outfit and those delicate delicate gloves*

[avengersnewb]

how could a ship have around 40k fics on AO3 but not a discord server? why? 🥲

[definitelynotaginger]

Here’s a cave Tony doodle, I love this guy a little too much 🫩