Making an introductory post in my usual fashion (late):
TL;DR: Good Omens, writing, queer stuff and other things. Oh. And Good Omens Cdramas now apparently.
This is first and foremost my place to scream about good omens
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Other things sneak in because of poor infrastructural management
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GOOD OMENS SEASON TWO THREE HERE'S TO HOPING IT'LL HAPPEN IT'S HAPPENING!!!
Be kind to each other
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Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈
I will add more stuff once I remember
I like lists.
I sometimes scream in the tags. This is completely normal.
"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
I keep trying to put my thoughts about the finale into words, but everything keeps coming up short. I did not love s3 as much as s1, and it did not emotionally devastate me as s2 did, and the pacing did suffer a lot, yet I found it charmingly endearing.
Frankly I am happy we got to see a conclusion at all considering everything, so I did not really have any expectations as I watched it, maybe that's why I ended up liking it? We got a lot more moments between Aziraphale and Crowley than what I was expecting (forever living at that waist touch), and I liked the supporting characters too, old and new. While it was heartbreaking when their whole universe ended, I think the story was going to end this way ever since the Book of Life was mentioned. Personally I didn't feel it was a tragedy even before the human AU (quite literally), simply because it was an only an ending, and it was an ending where they held hands until the last moment, and it was an ending that was also the beginning of something else. The cycle of life and all.
And I loved the human AU bit! So many parts of our angel and demon were echoed in them, and it really shows them having everything they could have possibly wanted since s1. And they are married! I was so frikkin happy when I saw it.
Aziraphale and Crowley got over 6000 years with each other. It may not have been a 'happy ever after' 6000 years, but it still counted, it still mattered, their love was so strong it catapulted into a whole new universe and when they had to say goodbye, they did it on their own terms. For an angel and a demon whose purpose and ending too probably had been planned since the beginning, it was their last, true act of free will. Despite all of the sadness in that scene it felt very hopeful to me; Crowley and Aziraphale looked at the one of the worst situations that anyone could possibly be in and still asked for a better world in their final moments.
Also I find it weird that people say when there was no kiss because there actually was a kiss, just not the one most people wanted. It doesn't make it less of a kiss, you know.
And while Jesus' storyline was really cut short, I did like what they did with what they were able to put in the show. He was such a refreshing character, I really wish we could have seen more. That ending tho😭
The angels and demons this season were awesome. I loved Michael, which was not a statement I ever envisioned myself saying. The way they were just so tired of it all in the end, the way that the whole system was incredibly taxing on beings other than our man duo, the "you can forgive me, but I can't" part, everything was just so *chef's kiss*. And Dagon and Eric! Considering how many times Aziraphale has declared war on hell (throwing his halo in s2, trespassing in s3) Dagon should have gotten the chance to do the same with heaven at least once.
All in all, it wasn't the perfect wrap up to the series, but it was a decent, if a little clunky, ending, and I'm so glad I got the chance to experience it.
This is a really fantastic return to form for this genre of post. In recent years there's been less and less effort put into this vital aspect of internet culture, it's nice to see a return to the truly artisanal work of the late 00s.
Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other
The *screen ratio* changes when we go from one universe to another. Up until the epilogue, we watch everything in cinematic widescreen, with black bars on the top and bottom.
And then when we reach the epilogue, those bars... they go away. We've broken through.
my hot (or luke warm really because i don't think it's revolutionary, i just haven't seen anyone appreciate this part of the finale) take is that the gos3 finale is explicitly a love letter to fandom and does so without poking fun at fans and with more respect than i've seen from other pieces of media that referred to their fandoms at all. imo the finale states quite clearly that asa fell and prof crowley are in an alternate universe that mirrors fan creations when the main story has come to an end. we see this pointed out in multiple ways:
god is obviously shown as a creator, the author. going from s3 alone: the book of life deciding about creation and uncreation of anything in the gomens universe; the bookshop in an empty universe filled with BLANK BOOKS which directly tie the two together (books & the universe); a&c writing the rest of the scene into existence; and the direct dialogue lines mentioning them being characters in someone's (god's) story. they even poke fun at god and satan showing up at all! god and satan are there because it's a neat way to tie up the story!
why crowley? because aziraphale's love for him made god (and the audience!) smile. self explanatory really
the visual and tonal differences between the gomens world and the asa/prof crowley universe. that alternate universe looks more real, is not as brightly colored (which imo posits it as both our universe and fandom's human aus that are often more realistic and more focused on the mundane than the canon); those scenes heavily play into romcom (and therefore fanfic) tropes. it's a meetcute! it's cliche and cute exactly as it's supposed to be because it's not strictly the gomens world, it's a fanfic
and then of course the very obvious exchange between Crowley and God, right before a&c go to discuss their decision. "A story doesn't have to go beyond the last page of its book, Crowley, and that story is over." "I don't accept that."
we're not meant to take the finale at face value. we're not meant to understand that a&c are literally destroyed. we're meant to understand that their story has ended because it was always going to end. because it had to end, as every book and tv show and movie does. but we, the fans, just like Crowley, don't have to accept that. we can create a thousand universes, including the one with asa and prof crowley, where the story will continue to stay alive, even beyond the last pages of the book, just because it makes us smile
Admittedly he was listening to a Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
It's interesting because I have seen a ton of reactions to Good Omens, but none of them seem to connect that the ending essentially rejects judeo christian beliefs in favor of a more eastern ideology of karma and reincarnation.
Those who are saying they aren't "them" at the end seem to be missing the fact that that narrative is saying they are absolutely them. If that doesn't feel right to you, it's your right to question the nature of what makes a person, question life philosophy in general, turn that over.
In fact, the narrative asks that of you. But I also think some people might be having a hard time with it because it essentially rejected a philosophy that is so embedded in western culture that of course it might not feel right for a whole lot of people. I would say that's the point.
