✨good omens season 1✨

rach, queer, she/her, 30s. following from @crowleysss

[baggvinshield]

good omens is in my veins

hi :) i've been on this hellsite (1/2 affectionate) since 2014. I resurrected from like a 4 year hiatus for good omens 2 and have things to say

good omens meta general

1941

the book of Job

Aziraphale is Raphael

already jossed absolutely obliterated but here for posterity's sake: crowley was lucifer / the archangel sometimes called lucifer by humanity / the morningstar etc it's not my fault he wrote lucifer fan fic again even if he didn't intend to *shrug emoji*

my other side blog is @dolcewill

[baggvinshield]

Think about them during the book of Job. You know, the whole, "What do you know about what I want" and "then may god forgive you" and "are you sure angel?" and "I'm like you now" and "I lied" and then think about "i thought I'd take the car!" "What car?" "Our car!" and go insane with me

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[black-quadrant]

Reblog this triple-dead post for something good to happen to you this week.

[kotse]

from one, two

commission me on kofi

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[ravioliet]

imagine being a dog and you think your chances are pretty good. and then you look over and there's Mitski getting her wallet out

[sapierror]

it's been a week. 'angel' and 'demon' were job descriptions. heaven and hell weren’t supposed to be an immutable destiny, they were a satirical bureaucracy sharing an office building inspired by a KitKat commercial. upper management couldn’t tell if the ineffable plan and great plan were the same slide in the mission statement deck. south downs was supposed to be retirement. have a watch, bugger off and tend to your marigolds. they never stopped armageddon because it wasn't their job description, the humans had that covered with their choices and their ineffability and their humanity. they were the romcom supporting cast, narratively useless save for being the lens through which the audience sees the story

and then suddenly they weren’t

[sapierror]

“I will wait for you” belongs to real Anthony J. Crowley in 1941 flashback pt.3, as a response to real Aziraphale’s “You go too fast for me, Crowley” NOT Professor Randomly Crowley or whoever he is with not even a J in his name

[gigew]

GOOD OMENS "The Book"

[verkomy]

the only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you

you can get a print here: inprnt!   

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

childhood friends to complete strangers

[aduckwithears]

Pardon me, but those were load bearing immortal characters you just destroyed.

[depraveddame]

[depraveddame]

AND ANOTHER THING.

“Destined to find each other in every universe no matter what” is literally the definition of predeterminism— it’s the soulmate trope.

Is the free will in the room with us?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

in 2024 I felt like I was ready to articulate exactly what troubled me about the way that Neil Gaiman cultivated an image and a particular relationship with his fandom and then. well. and the thing is that it would still have troubled me if he hadn’t turned out to be an evil rapist and was just kind of a self-obsessed guy with poor boundaries, but now it’s impossible to talk about that lol.

[elf-kid2]

I am interested in what you have to say. I am interested in your perspective on this matter of reputation, fandom, and social/parasocial relationships.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I have tried but honestly I can’t really rewind my own brain to 2024 before the scandals broke and when it was all fresh in my mind due to the excitement around the Good Omens show. Ultimately it came down to having bad boundaries with his own fandom… the “rockstar” thing was very purposefully cultivated, and he got way too comfortable publicly encouraging a really extreme degree of hero worship in a way that felt deeply irresponsible from a public figure.

Like… his tumblr was quite active, his askbox was open, and he no doubt received dozens to thousands of asks per day. The ones he chose to publish were frequently over-the-top “you’re literally the reason I’m still breathing” “your books are so important to me I’m going to name my ovaries after you” type shit that’s like… personally I think you have to be a little bit of a creep not to find kind of uncomfortable. He would never attempt to graciously de-escalate or redirect that sort of interaction and really normalized it as the way to speak to and think about him while also courting the down-to-Earth and accessible Tumblr uncle thing. Just. Like. He made himself irresistible to a kind of psychologically vulnerable young queer woman hungry for validation in a way I had thought was shameless and irresponsible and retroactively think was very calculated.

[spockgirl]

what if god killed you and replaced you with a version of yourself who wasn’t a hater. not me baby go ahead and just get rid of my soul or whatever

[toadee]

having the foresight to understand your shitty 90 minute script—a production document no one is meant to ever read!—will be the subject of such intense speculation that it will be necessary to distribute widely and writing this in so you can queerbait just one last time

[ultra-penith]

The Book is Gay as Hell (and Heaven)

Interpretations of the Good Omens book, particularly the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley, as being an allegory for Cold War era tensions and not a book about romance and love are funny to me because. It's both. It's both. It's ALWAYS been both. That's the POINT.

The choices made by Sir Terry when writing about Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship are extremely deliberate. All of the symbolism and metaphors have double meanings. Because they're spies. They speak in coded language. Everything is shrouded in plausible deniability. It's extremely clever, and it's a very, very loving depiction of homosexuality in a time period that was desperately cruel to queer people.

Take the excerpt about the Gavotte, for example. Aziraphale learns it in a discreet gentleman's club, aka a gay club, in the 1880's. And this is important. People who've seen the show likely know the context of the gavotte as the "kissing dance" whereby people dance with a partner and then kiss at the end, or exchange flowers. That would be the pre-19th century Gavotte. The 19th century Gavotte was more like a military-style march, and it's described as a dance used in events revolving around martial prowess and national pride.

I thought it was extremely cute that the book, when describing whether or not Angels could dance, went out of its way to be like "HYPOTHETICALLY Aziraphale CAN dance on the head of a pin... Only the Gavotte. But he'd need a partner that could also HYPOTHETICALLY fit on the head of a pin. Have we mentioned that demons love to dance and can fit on the head of a pin?"

Again, Aziraphale and Crowley act in ways around each other that exude plausible deniability. It's showing that they got together for business reasons but have a deeper desire to be with each other romantically. But because of their jobs, they can't be open about this at all. In fact, they would quite literally be destroyed. This is a DIRECT commentary on how LGBTQ people were treated at the time. Thatcher-era laws against homosexuality made tons of people retreat to the closet, lest they lose their jobs, be outed to their families and cut off, or worse. Homosexuality was technically decriminalized at the time, but the social implications of being gay were so extreme that it might as well as have been illegal still.

I have shitloads more examples if anyone wants me to go on a spiral about it, but this was a big one that I felt was easiest to pinpoint my thoughts about.