I'm in love with impressionism and I want to include it in my work. In order to do so, I need to study the style first, which led to this personal project of painting Aziraphale and Crowley in some of the scenes which Monet painted in his work.
That was the initial thought, then while trying to post on IG, I came up with short writings to give my audience a context. Now, I don't know if I could continue writing silly short conversations between the husbands to accompany the paintings in the future, but oh well let's just do it while I can.
Sorry for the yap. I have only done 3 paintings so far...
Having them together, I finally see that I have a thing for green...
In which Crowley and Aziraphale choose death Because Reasons, and the Bentley says "LOL no."
(Because OF COURSE the first thing I write since 2020 is very lightly lipsticked bitching about the finale. Powered by salt, but not very effectively. 😅
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About five hours into their first road trip as a couple (of celestial beings fully cut off from their respective Head Office's miracle accounts), Aziraphale had a horrifying realization.
"Oh, f...iddlesticks," he sighed, choosing cowardice at the last second.
(It was, in fact, no such thing; Aziraphale was simply a man(shaped being) who appreciated the greater impact made by a judicious bit of profanity, used sparingly. Specifically, its impact on Crowley, in situations not involving quite so much clothing. Or the operation of a motor vehicle, excepting that one ill-fated incident, of which they Do Not Speak.)
There was a soft, amused huff to his right.
"What's got you almost saying the naughty words, Angel?"
"Ah, well. Er, do you recall, when you asked me to pack the alcohol, and I told you that I would after just one more page?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, I did!" Aziraphale recounted proudly.
"Okay..."
"Well, alright, it was one hundred more pages, if you must know."
"Must I?"
"But then I went straight to the cabinet and gathered up all the alcoholic beverages we could possibly need for three days away--"
Crowley made a noise of dismay.
"We'll run out by morning!"
"--and then tripled it--"
"Ehhh, okay, that should get us to Sunday."
"--and packed it securely away into that lovely insulated carrying case!"
Aziraphale could nearly see the suspicion creeping over his dear demon's face.
"And the case is...?" Crowley prompted.
Well, no point in stalling any further.
"...sitting right inside the front door," Aziraphale finished lamely.
Silence.
"So, no alcohol tonight," Crowley paraphrased mournfully.
"Well, we could always stop somewhere and get some," Aziraphale pointed out. "It's barely half past five"
Crowley made a face.
"Nnnnyeah, but the shops'll be busy, traffic might be bad."
"Ah, yes, quite true," Aziraphale sighed, unable to argue with this ironclad logic.
"Dunno, Angel, I think the only thing we can do is just swerve off this bridge here."
Aziraphale considered this for a moment.
"Well, I certainly see no viable alternative. Terribly sorry to have killed us both with my negligence, dear boy."
"Eh, we had a good run."
"Off we go, then."
With a nod of confirmation, Crowley gave the wheel a sharp, sudden twist. The two shared a long, tender look and weird finger kiss as they crashed through the guard rail and into the open air below.
"Sodding hell, not again," the Bentley thought crossly as she gathered up the last vestiges of magic stashed in the glove box for just such an occasion, and sailed herself and her two beloved idiot passengers to safety. "I'm going to find the person who told Dad and Dad about Thelma & Louise, and run over them SO HARD."
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A/N: Why is the Bentley still sentient and magic when Crowley and Aziraphale don't have miracles anymore? Uh..........hey, look over there! *runrunrun* *slam* *drives off into the sky*
The idea of this blog is to be a collection of submitted letters from fans to Crowley and/or Aziraphale, other characters within the show, the show itself, the fandom, or even to the authors, venting frustration about Gaiman or loving Terry, or anything else. Just any sort of thing you wish you could say to the characters or creators, or people involved. They dont have to be high-effort or even formatted like a standard letter it could literally just be "fuck you gaiman" or it could be several paragraphs of text.
You can send anonymously, send more than one, or send photos of physical letters if you want to write one.
The point of this is to help people get any feelings about the show, or its creators or fanbase out into the open to process any grief or love, or other feelings you may have about Good Omens. This is a judgement-free space and anyone harassing others or spreading any sort of hate or interpersonal drama will be blocked.
Other than that, essentially anything goes. I hope this helps to spread joy and healing for anyone who submits letters, or engages with other people's, and may Moist Von Lipwig carry your letter to whoever needs to see it 💜
accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you
This is amazing. I legit cackled when I saw this. Also I love the idea of the conversation that would follow:
Crowley: Care to explain the horror show in your fridge?
Aziraphale: Well, I’m sure I’ve mentioned upstairs has been rather cracking down on miracles of late - and I’ve been practicing that trick, you know the one with the finicky compartments and such- and- well- it’s possible I might have been a tad heavy handed closing it and that he might have got a bit, well…smooshed I suppose.
Crowley: That doesn’t explain why the unfortunate bird is in your fridge.
Aziraphale: Oh don’t give me that look, I couldn’t bear to leave Lazarus like that, and this way he’ll keep until I’m back under quota.
Crowley: Lazarus?
Aziraphale: Well, uh, you see-
Crowley: Angel, just how many times exactly have you killed this poor bastard?
This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
LEGO Lord Archduke Slorch the Vile (and his Heavenly, but certainly not angelic Husband)
Yeah, I'm still struggling with the fandom fallout after GO3 and haven't exactly felt like sharing all my new GO3 LEGO babies in the aftermath, but *gritting my teeth* these babies deserve some love and I hope that there are enough fans left here who will appreciate them *looking around warily*?
If you do, please give them some love. If you don't, just ignore this post and please don't hurt my babies' feelings with any spiteful comments. Seriously, they're trying so hard to bring some joy to this fandom, please don't tread on them. *glares glarefully at anyone even thinking about hurting my babies* Thank you very much!
That being said *putting down the teeny-tiny LEGO shovel*, please enjoy our Ineffable Spouses, sharing an intimate moment (yeah, we wish, I know)!
I bet that Crowley in this wonderful Aziraphale-gifted version of his dream wife Heaven outift must have helped their husband to get dressed up down for his important business trip to Hell, right? Also, still wondering if there was some tartan hidden somewhere... tartan pants maybe? 😉
For additional pictures and some ramblings about the creation of those two idiots, including credit for the "store-bought" parts...
Honestly, I love these ridiculous costumes to pieces! It's not stated explicitly, but still strongly implied that Aziraphale must have miracled up this exact color-inverted replica of Crowley's usual outfit, right down to all the little details, like the snake skin boots and the snake belt!
Seriously, Crowley's torso was relatively easy to design for me, because it is a copy of his usual outfit, so I dug up my old torso design file and edited the hell out of it (literally) before getting it printed on a Tan LEGO torso. The rounded bottom part of his jacket covering the hips was meticulously cut and folded out of painted paper. The colours actually match better than it looks in these pictures.
The boots were giving me the biggest challenge here! I could not just have them printed on some LEGO legs, because I wanted to use those longer custom legs by Leyilebrick, the only valid option for Crowley in those bloody tight jeans, imo. Ahem.
So, yeah, recreating snake skin boots in LEGO minifigure scale? Shoot me now! Well, the results are far from perfect, but I tried my best. It really would have helped to have hi-res screencaps, but I still haven't found any, so most of the creative process was squinting at blurry enlarged images, a huge dose of 'best guess' and a lot of swearing! Oh, also acrylic markers and masking tape, of course! 🤷
Crowley's hair used to be this custom hairpiece before I painted the hell out of it. Unfortunately it's not available anymore. I'd love to get my hands on more of those pieces for other versions of Crowley!
Credit for the head goes to Minifigs.me! I bought and "beheaded" their Prince of Darkness minifigure, because those round golden sunglasses looked like a great match! I might have taken a teeny-tiny bit of secret pleasure in this act of revenge on behalf of some mistreated bat(s). *looking around innocently* 🦇
Ah, Lord Archduke Slorch the Vile, my beloved! Seriously, this costume is so horrible I can't help but love it! How, and I mean how the fuck, could Aziraphale come off genuinely intimidating in this ridiculous Joker mock-up?! Thank you for your acting skills, Michael Sheen! 🤡
People who know me and my bloody annoying perfectionism had a good laugh at my struggle to not get anything about this one perfect. Let his face be smudged. Let his teeth be sharp, but don't try to fix them any further. Let those silver chains dangle crookedly. Let his half gloves look ragged. Use the most ugly colours for his hairpiece (taken from this minifig) and don't worry about a smooth finish. Let his coat and shoulder pads look torn. Let him look horrible and own it! A Master of the Secret Torments, indeed! *still apologizing to my inner Monk who died a million times in the process of making this minifigure*
Anyway, I'm really grateful I had at least one BTS picture to work with here. Slorch's clompy (why isn't that an official word?) boots are hilarious! Initially I used some off-brand legs with printed boots and added some 1x1 plates for the high soles, but it didn't look that great. In addition those legs were too loose for the LEGO hips with the silver belt, making the whole figure fall over again and again, so I ultimately ditched those and just stole a pair of Crowley's long legs (the husbands really don't mind sharing). Since all the printed details from the other legs were almost completely hidden by the coat anyway, this solution works for me.
"Credit" for the head and torso: I took this Joker head and this LEGO torso and ruined modified the shit out of them! No idea if the way I painted the face is suggestion enough of the big mismatched nose, but whatever. Fun fact: if you'd pull off Lord Slorch's coat, you might still find the HARES OF HAVOC print on the backside, which I found too funny to remove! 🐇
All the dangly bits around the hips, the coat itself with its shoulder pads, and the chains dangling form the collar are made of masking tape and painted with acrylic markers. The spiked collar around the neck used to be on of these boring LEGO neck collars before I repurposed it lovingly! 🔪
Hopefully I didn't forget anything important. Feel free to ask if I did.
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Please enjoy, reblog, like, comment,... but please don't reblog this post to any communities. Thank you!
Tagging the usual crowd with the customary addendum to please let me know if you want to be added to or removed from the list! 😘
Post-GO3 Addendum:
If you want to be removed specifically from any future Good Omens 3 LEGO posts, please also let me know! Hopefully I will find the time to share more of my LEGO babies soon, but some of them will be from S3!
One of my favourite GO moments is when Nina calls Crowley weird bc she really breaks the glittery 4th wall of the story and makes you realise how deeply strange they must look.
To everyone on the street there is just this extremely gay, pushy bookseller bookhoarder who probably sells something illicit or runs a backroom operation in his shop to stay in business in the middle of Soho. Then there’s his off putting emo rottweiler husband/body guard/possibly a sugar baby because his only job seems to be mogging during their thinly veiled public dom/sub play while he drives the other one around at a gazillion miles an hour in Draculas favourite hot wheel.
Guys, it doesn’t matter whether you liked the finale or not. Remember what Good Omens has been teaching us all these years: be kind to each other, no matter how different you are.
We have nothing but each other. Only together can we keep this fandom going and give each other light. Please, be kinder to one another, really. Hatred and hostility between “sides” never lead to anything good, that’s another lesson from Good Omens.
I hate the finale with all my heart, but I don’t understand people who deliberately go out of their way to push their opinions onto those on the other side. Let’s be more tolerant of each other and accept the fact that we will never all have the same opinion. And I especially don’t understand when people resort to insults and pressure, things like “calm down and stop acting like children, the finale is amazing and you should accept it and love it” on one side, and aggressive attempts to force opinions under posts of those who liked the finale on the other.
We’re different. That’s the beauty of being human.
