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There are Three (okay, four) Books

There is the Book of Life.

There is The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

(Okay, there was the Further Nice and Accurate Prophecies for the World That Is Yet to Come, but we don’t interact with it because Anathema burned it)

And.

There is Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

And I think it’s really important to remember that books have endings.

Like, there is a line somewhere in the Finale in which we are told that you can’t expect characters to live beyond the last page of the book. I walked away from this episode with the same book hangover feeling I have whenever I read a story that I loved. It’s a tiny grief, to not be able to spend anymore time with characters I have come to love.

And there’s this little metatextual bit in the Bookshop where they acknowledge Satan being there because it is narratively tidy to have him there. This story knows it’s a story.

But what’s weird and wonderful about this universe in particular is the way it baked in the possibility of alternate universes, and acknowledged the joy and possibility of expansion through fan fiction (Maggie and Nina are bookshop/coffee shop AU stand ins.). God says, “Choose, my Favorite Angels. Make the world you want to exist.” And we see that it is good.

Aziraphale and Crowley do in fact get their happy ending because that world has an ENDING. It ended with them together, hand-in-hand and in love with each other and with humanity. As it was and always will be.

But that world is not our world

Our world is the one that starts with the big bang, ages 13.8 billion years before we even show up. No gods, no angels, no demons. But there’s us. And there’s Terry (and what’s-his-name, but whatever, fuck him). And there are stories. Like so many stories. Lots and lots of books, everywhere. So much art.

And each other.

#good omens #good omens 3 #ineffable husbands #good omens spoilers

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"Did you see we've got a couple of Brian Cox's"... asks Derek, the bookshop owner

Brian Cox: Real-life professor of particle physics. But, well, also... Brian Cox: actor who voiced Death in S1.

"Did you see we've got a couple of Brian Cox's?" asks a character meta-named after the actor playing him, while talking about books, which are people. On a meta-level... Do you know you two are dead, and that none of what just happened actually happened? After all, why do you think it's me, and not this version of Aziraphale, who owns this bookshop?

#oh that’s very good #good omens spoilers #good omens 3 #metatron #metatextual

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okay so I’m not gonna make this a super long drawn-out post or anything because I don’t have my thoughts together enough for that yet. but generally the way I feel about the ending of Good Omens is divided pretty cleanly in two:

1) I am very sad that we didn’t get to see Aziraphale and Crowley have a happy ending in their own universe;

and

2) I think it’s a love letter to humanity that it ended the way it did. I also think it’s insanely beautiful and poignant that the ending is basically “their souls will always find their way back to each other in every universe, forever.” I genuinely can’t think about that too much or it makes me forget how to breathe and swallow.

This was always going to be complicated. There was never going to be a clean and easy way out, as much as we all wished there would be.

I will never stop thinking about these two, in all of their incarnations and across all universes (including the one we watched over the course of the series), finding each other and falling in love and proving that there is so much value in daring to question and to break the cycle and to make sacrifices and to LOVE.

I love them. I always will.

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Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations

Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc

Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-

When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.

But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.

I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.

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actuallyapathy

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I love environmental storytelling

Ita fucking hieroglyphs with you people

#I love everyone in this bar

The instagram algorithm was showing me nonstop posts that were copied from tumblr, which indicated to me that I was doomscrolling on the wrong app.

What up, nerds?

#old people on tumblr #i like your shoelaces

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me pretending my enormous feelings arent crushing me to death and carrying out routine tasks that are good for my health and longevity

earlgraytay

modern Great Gatsby AU set in Cleveland where instead of the Eyes of TJ Eckleburg, all action takes place under the disapproving eyebrow of Tim Misny

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this is only a flop post because you don't know who Tim Misny is

Tim Misny is our local Saul Goodman style ~personal injury lawyer~ who's become kind of a local fixture because of his billboards. They started pretty straightforward:

But he became well known enough locally that he started doing this:

And finally, devolved into this:

If you wanted a modern TJ Eckleburg you COULD NOT DO BETTER than this man's fucking Dreamworks Eyebrow

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this is only a

flop post because you don’t know

who Tim Misny is

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

bitchydragondoodle

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

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I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

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I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

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Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

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This post is in the Fanlore Article

callmearcturus

I almost can't directly think about how Ted went to England assuming his wife and son would eventually follow him and instead they divorced and that divorce happened while Ted was unknowingly fighting against the owner of the football club to actually make something of his life here, all while there is Zero Fucking Discussion about Henry going back to Kansas. Its just understood and obvious Ted isn't getting primary or equal custody.

All that, at the suggestion of the couple's therapist who winds up dating Michelle.

And despite all of that, Ted still manages to build a life, and then his mother shows up to tell him off for daring to better himself and drag him home.

Its just horrific.

#big oof