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teen & young adult
to be fair les misérables IS a teen & young adult book if it is somewhere around 2012-2014 and you are fifteen years old, gay, and most importantly really really weird
remember when good omens (2019) came out and neil gaiman made it clear in no uncertain terms that angels and demons were inherently nonbinary, that angels and demons (and crowley in particular) can and Do have a variety of presentations that they choose for themselves, and that the story is a Love Story between two nonbinary entities fighting for their right to love each other openly in the face of religiously charged black and white thinking thatâd forced them to hide and deny their love for each other at the threat of punishment.
and then instead of celebrating the openly queer, openly trans, openly fluid and neutral and non-conforming relationships and people presented by the series people were just Legitimately like âWow, canât believe neil wonât say that aziraphale and crowley are gay (read: Cis) men, looks like queerbaiting is alive and well đâ and nobody stopped them
people have switched their understanding of queerbaiting from âintentionally implying representation that they have no intention of following through on to attract gay peopleâs Money but not isolate their straight audienceâ to âqueer representation, but not the kind that I wantâ
I appreciate all of the people insisting that they Tried to stop them by explaining the importance of nb representation and how explicit both neil and the show/book are about their relationship (thank you for your service), but personally I meant with this gun I just found
Iâve seen a few people asking about the representation in the show itself as well as what neilâs said about it, so hereâs a semi-cohesive discussion on it!
first, lets start with the claim that angels and demons are inherently nonbinary. This is something thatâs been especially highlighted with the adaptation, but has been present since the original novel!
the novel was published in 1990, so the term used then is âsexless,â but itâs stated plainly that angels (and by extension demons) arenât men or women. The implication here is that they Physically donât present one way or the other by default, but that they can Choose to if they want to. I think itâs also worth noting that with the addition of Physicality (theyâre nonbinary in the identity sense, but they also arenât gendered at all by default) that angels and demons Also fall along the lines of intersex (which is something that I donât see brought up often). they can Choose how their physical parts manifest, and thereâs absolutely nothing that says that that choice has to be limited to cis or perisex ideas of what bodies âshouldâ look like.
and of course, we have Many Many instances of neil confirming that this was the intention.
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and we can see this followed through on in both the casting and presentation for the angelic and demonic characters! according to neil, the casting itself completely dropped the barrier of gender, with people of any identity and presentation auditioning for the exact same roles. [Link]
as a result of that we have casting like the archangel michael, a character with a traditionally masculine name and traditionally masculine presentation played by the actress doon mackichan.
we have beelzebub, the prince of hell whoâs pointedly never referred to with pronouns at all throughout the course of the show (though neil has suggested the possibility of zem using zir pronouns [Link], which would be the first time Iâve seen neopronouns in Any piece of mainstream media, which I really hope makes it into season two) whoâs portrayed by anna maxwell martin.
We have pollution (not an angel or a demon but certainly related) using exclusively they/them pronouns while baring the title of king, whoâs portrayed by lourdes faberes.
all of this is to say ! angels and demons are canonically nonbinary, canonically not constrained to gender or physical sex at all, and this is present in both the novel and the show and was carefully considered in both the casting and presentation of these characters. this Alone is overt and intentional queer representation. but naturally, this isnât the main course when people talk about queer representation in good omens, so lets turn our attention towards our leads!
crowley is an obvious first start, fans of the show are likely to jump straight to nanny ashtoreth and for good reason, but Iâd like to wait for a moment.
crowley, a being defined both by change and by pushing boundaries, actually shakes up his presentation quite often! though itâs more commonly in ways that arenât as obvious to the audience, either because itâs more subtle, or because the style is so old itâs not recognizable.
for the latter, crowley was presenting femininely during the crucifixion scene ! wearing a style of robe and headdress that women wore at the time (which was confirmed as intentional by neil gaiman on twitter [Link]).
and then of course, what many people donât realize is that crowleyâs more modern looks are filled with subtle feminine touches ! This post goes into it all in more detail: [Link]
but for instance ! his iconic shades are womenâs valentino glasses [Link], his pants are Mostly womenâs jeans, his accessories are Very Often womenâs, and his waistcoat and jacket are a womenâs cut (low to accommodate breasts). Every article of clothing crowley is wearing in the picture below was designed for women, even the scarf.
heâs generally read masculinely in modern times, but the truth is that itâs a Mix of masculine And feminine.
which is where Iâd like to acknowledge nanny ashtoreth. this is the point where crowleyâs feminine presentation is the most overt (neither subtle Nor lost to a modern audience), but itâs also unfortunately not always taken in good faith. quite a few people have expressed concern that itâs an example of the transphobic man in a dress trope, which is a common kneejerk reaction to plot beats like this in media.
hereâs the Truly important aspects of nanny ashtoreth:
1: while itâs true that crowley presents femininely while heâs posing as nanny, this is far from the Only time that he presents this way (as weâve covered!). he wasnât trying to âpretendâ to be a woman for ill gain, he simply had to take on the role as warlockâs caretaker and chose to spend that time presenting femininely, as heâs done before and after. there was nothing about the situation that Necessitated that crowley present that way, he chose to because he Wanted to, simple as that.
2: nanny ashtoreth isnât supposed to be funny. at least, no more than the situational comedy of a demon and an angel trying to raise the antichrist together in the hopes that their influences would cancel each other out creates. nanny is filmed neutrally, the show doesnât call attention to or question her presentation at any point. and in fact, the script book describes crowleyâs reveal as nanny as âsexy and domineering.â
which itself is Toned Down from the description the book uses for her.
good omens doesnât want us to think that nanny ashtoreth is funny or strange or off putting, good omens wants us to think that nanny ashtoreth can get it. just like Canonically.
and notice how the book And the script book uses she/her pronouns for nanny, even when itâs in narration or description as opposed to dialogue. when crowleyâs presentation changes her pronouns do too.
itâs also worth noting that neil himself has acknowledged the âman in a dressâ reading of crowley as nanny and expressed Sadness at it coming across that way to anyone. this was also in the context of him agreeing with a post all about the nonbinary presentation of the characters in good omens. [Link]
which is to say ! crowley has a history of playing with gender presentation, presenting femininely and masculinely and everything in between, since the very Creation of presentation itself to modern day. he is an Overtly fluid nonbinary character, which is particularly important because that also sets him apart from other demons and angels. crowley is defined by the fact that he Does understand and Love humanity in a way that other demons simply donât. while demons are simply Devoid of gender, crowley is intimately familiar with humans and their presentation and chooses to be All of it. he pushes boundaries for presentation by choice rather than incidentally.
and then we have aziraphale! zira is, of course, nonbinary by the very nature of him being an angel, but of course his presentation doesnât play with gender as overtly as someone like crowley does (or even archangel michael), but I do think itâs still There.
while crowley is defined by Change, aziraphale is defined by Comfort, Routine, and Indulgence. crowley is othered from the other demons with his overt presentation, while aziraphale is othered from other angels by the things that he Likes and the ways that he Acts.
where crowley is more likely to embrace the outright feminine, aziraphale is Effeminate. heâs Soft, heâs clean, he likes his clothes Posh (even when dressing like an aristocrat got him in trouble in revolutionary france), he likes good food and dancing old slang and his library (and he of course loves his crowley). and the story doesnât fault him for these things, it wants him to Drop the shame that heaven makes him feel for them. Drop the shame that heâs not the perfect solder represented in gabriel, uriel, or michael (drop the shame of a guardian of the eastern gate who gave his sword away to humanity because he loved them).
and on the face of it, none of these traits Have to be related to queerness in and of themselves. but good omens directly makes that connection. lets go back to that book quote from earlier, now with slightly more context.
aziraphale is interpreted as a gay man by the people around him, and he has been for a Very Long Time. and this fact is, quite literally, one of the many things that aziraphale Happily claims for himself. that he learns to wear with Pride when he lets go of the notion of having to be what an angel is âsupposedâ to be.
this line in particular doesnât make it into the show, but this makes it way through in shadwell (the bigoted old man set in his ways) who reacts to aziraphale the ways you think a character like him might. when shadwell calls aziraphale a âsouthern pansyâ aziraphale knows exactly what that means. he was alive when that slang was popular, he was alive and Knew shadwell when shadwell learned that slang in the first place.
which is why its significant, then, when aziraphale finally drops all pretenses of needing to abide by heavenâs rules, when he possesses a body so he can find crowley and stop the war that heaven wants (a feminine body, which is significant as this is the first time that aziraphale has been allowed to present overtly Femininely. which I highlight because neil himself always includes it with the instances of crowley presenting that way, making it intentional), and shadwell uses that term for him again and we get this
aziraphale affirms himself, affirms his life on earth, affirms his individuality, affirms his desire to leave heaven behind to choose earth and humanity and Crowley, by declaring that heâs The southern pansy, that heâs Queer.
and of course, this is far from the only instances of aziraphale being overtly queer, but I wanted to highlight how itâs framed by the narrative. that itâs not just there but Celebrated. that the fact that he is the way that he is, that heâs able to Embrace it and Love himself as he is, is exactly what saves humanity. that Weâre supposed to love him as he is too.
but while weâre here, lets talk about the subtler details for aziraphaleâs queerness.
- Soho, the area his bookshop is located, has been a historically queer area for quite literally hundreds of years, populated with gay bars and clubs, and is still a hub for queer culture in london in the present day. [Link 1, Link 2, Link 3]
- aziraphale learning how to dance isnât just queer for the fact that itâs something that no other angels do. aziraphale learned the gavotte in a âgentlemenâs clubâ in the 1800s. the gavotte is a kissing dance wherein you kiss your partner, eventually working your way through the room. kissing a room full of men in a gentlemenâs club recreationally is already pretty Queer, but we have further confirmation outside of the series itself ! neil confirmed on twitter that the club aziraphale learned in was âthe hundred guineas club,â which was not only a real gay club in london at the time but was one of the Most Prestigious, Expensive, and Exclusive of its time (âTheâ southern pansy indeed). [Link 1, Link 2, Link 3]
- aziraphaleâs Impressive collection of oscar wilde books. which of course ties him to queer culture on its own, but it can also be noted that itâs rumored that oscar wilde gave his first editions to his lovers. which michael sheen (aziraphale actor) has readily played into on twitter [Link] commenting on fanart of aziraphale looking smitten surrounded by flowers Like This
- the script book gives us more context on what aziraphale (and crowley) were doing in rome thanks to a few lines that were apparently cut for time.
aziraphale was in rome in the first place to influence Nero, who (after aziraphaleâs apparent Influence) would become the first emperor to marry another man (three times in fact).
now, you may be asking yourself, if aziraphale is so strongly coded like a gay man, with this fact being reinforced by both other characters (and even the narration) throughout the book and show, then why canât he be interpreted As a gay man? well, the simple answer is that he can be, as long as we also acknowledge that heâs still nonbinary. Iâm a nonbinary gay man, and the fact that Iâm one of these things doesnât erase or Diminish the other. it just comes down to Respecting both aspects of his character.
that said, he doesnât Have to be gay or aligned for his presentation and personality and coding to be this way. there are nonbinary people who Donât identify as gay or as masc-aligned who look and act like aziraphale. and thatâs exactly Why neil insists on refusing to label him that way, just like heâs always insisted that Fans can and should interpret his work however they want. he will not say that aziraphale is a gay man because he wrote him as nonbinary, but he fully supports people reading him as an aligned nonbinary gay man (or any interpretation at all, as long as they still acknowledge that he and crowley love each other).
and all of That is to say that crowley and aziraphale (along with all of the angels and demons on the show) are Overt and Intentional queer representation Regardless of how you read their relationship (if you think it wasnât overt enough or, bizarrely, you try to insist that crowley and aziraphale werenât intended to be in love at all). it is, in fact, Transphobic to say that Overt Nonbinary Representation isnât âenough,â or worse that itâs Queerbaiting. if you think they shouldâve kissed on screen, if you think they shouldâve said âI love youâ in so many words, if you think they shouldâve said with their mouths that they were dating now, youâre free to feel that way. but none of that means that good omens Doesnât Have overt queer representation.
this was Mainly focused on the queerness in good omens in terms of gender and presentation, so I may come back and do a breakdown of Exactly how much I disagree with the notion that aziraphale and crowley arenât overtly in love in the show (not the least because neil says says as much every opportunity he can, and both the actors playing the leads have said as much themselves), but this is long enough and Iâm sick of writing it now afkjlsd
so to close this off: the next person who calls good omens âqueerbaitâ has to personally pay for my top surgery.
Iâm so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they couldâve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. Iâm sobbing
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Mycroft saying "your loss would break my heart" because he was drugged, gives me the image that if those two had had a normal life, mycroft would definelty be that person who after drinking too much, starts saying things like "i love you so muchhh" and being overly affectionate.
And we all know what sherlock is like when he's way too drunk i.e him almost crying over tessa's date disappearing.
These two are such soft babies deep down
Greg: I kind of have a crush on someone, but Iâm worried about telling you who it is, because youâre not going to like it
Sherlock: rip the bandage off
Greg: itâs your brother
Sherlock: put the bandage back on
Omg imagine if one day Mycroft and Sherlock kinda start arguing and as a prank, Sherlock enters Mycroft on Come Dine with Me and he finds out 30 minutes before the other contestants are supposed to arrive.
Like seriously imagine the conversation:
MH: 'William Sherlock Scott Holmes! What the hell did you do to me now?!'
SH: 'Brother, what are you talking about?'
MH: 'You've signed me up for a cooking show!'
SH: 'Oh, yes I did. I forgot about that.'
GL: 'Mycroft, where's the flour? I need it for the pie.'
MH: 'HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS?!'
Fuck the world? No, fuck me - Lestrade or smt idk
fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation
My brother and I trying to piece together our dadâs life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again
When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were âI told them they shouldnât have hanged that woman. Well by damn theyâre paying nowâ and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means
My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, âOh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, sheâll be fine.â Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.
No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.
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white dude in this horror movie : *translates old arabic text* *somehow it rhymes perfectly in english*Â
Now I really wanna see a horrible faltering translation from one of these movies, like âWhomsoever enters this room, they shall⊠well, this word is like⊠literally it means âunbecome,â but it was used as a euphemism for death, pooping, andâwait, when was this carved?  was it 15th century? Cuz it was a euphemism for sex too in the 15th century.  This is either a cursed crypt, a bathroom, or a royal bedroom. Who wants to roll the dice?â
âYou guys, Iâve gotta be honest, okay? This thingâs written in some kind of weird localized dialect, and Iâve only ever studied the standard form of the language. I mean, this part right hereâŠI canât even tell if itâs some kind of error, or an obscure slang phraseâŠwhatever it is, I have no idea what the fuck it means.â
âthis is written in ancient sumerian. itâs about⊠uh⊠well that word is⊠uh. okay this is either a poem about farming, or straight-up a nasty sex guide. it might be both. i want a shower.â
âokay see the thing is in one dialect this word is the name of a terrifying Demon but in a completely different language from the same area that has the same writing system and gave a lot of loan words to the first, it means âhorseâ - and the context is really not helpingâ
âYou know what? This thing is bound in human skin and the walls are bleeding letâs just leave.â
i think chris fleming is important enby representation because they're just. so far away from what people read as nonbinary like. People expect nonbinary to look like an afab Woman Lite (TM) who spends too much time in LGBT space, but he's just a feral massachussets cryptid who is very intimate with straight culture and can spit 800 words a minute and have each one of them hit you like a truck
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It wouldnât be the first time Lestrade hears something he shouldnât have.
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Sherlock has been so happy and confident ever since he hooked up with John.