6,000 Years Late With A Good Omens Blog

I watched it and it was everything I ever wanted so now it’s time to make a blog about it | liv | she/her | been sailing on this ship for ten (10) years

[explorersaremadeofhope]

im doing a very quick (aka skimming-a-lot) GO reread and i'd forgotten how much i love discorporated aziraphale. he is 3000% done. he has no fucks left to give. this part of the book is just him and crowley, independently of each other, having hit rock bottom and come through despair and out on the other side into "fuck it we ball" and it's wonderful. they're so in sync and so unhinged.

favourite discorporated az moments:

telling mr shadwell he's the southern pansy

gets so annoyed with the televangelist he tells him that heaven only has a 50% chance of winning and the rest is propaganda, after denying it for the whole book

"you lot [humanity] are all going to be civilian casualties either way"

telling mrs ormerod that he knows he's in england because nobody else could have asked such a fucking stupid question

world's least sincere "wasn't that touching."

'the exorcist' reference *

extremely eager to murder adam young

i cannot emphasise enough how down with child murder he is **

tells madame tracy they need to be doing 70mph and then makes her fucking vespa warp through space at 200mph

"i'm the nice one. you can't expect me to—oh, blast it. you try to do the decent thing, and where does it get you?" aziraphale snapped his fingers.

* im willing to bet money that was crowley's idea and ended with him feeling vaguely queasy while aziraphale sat next to him going "what absolute nonsense, this isn't how it works at all"

** until he actually meets him. but still.

[maniacalmole]

Book fans when season 1 came out: It was CROWLEY who resurrected the dove!!!

Book fans when season 2 came out: Aziraphale has no fear and even fewer fucks

[mrghostrat]

studying kisses + practising ineffables [ full size ]

some zooms if you cbf downloading the 4k 👉

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[queerfables]

Reading this excellent laudanum meta by @azfellandco got me thinking about Crowley and Aziraphale and suicide pills. I haven't given this subject much thought in the past, because I agree with Mir that this wasn't on Crowley's radar when he asked for the holy water. Certainly book!Crowley only ever thinks of it as a defensive weapon, and even when faced with literally eternal torture if he's taken alive, he's meticulously careful to protect himself from exposure.

But the thing is. The thing is. It's actually not crazy of Aziraphale to fear this. Not because I think Crowley is particularly prone to suicidal ideation. But rather because they are enemy agents committing treason with every moment they spend together.

"Suicide pill" is an entirely anachronistic term for Aziraphale to use in 1862, since the concept wouldn't arise until World War II (making this Aziraphale's own lead balloon moment). What sometimes gets lost when we talk about this scene - understandably, given all the strong emotions going on in it - is that a suicide pill is a weapon of espionage, a pragmatic last resort for when your only alternatives are captivity, torture, and a painful death. Even if Crowley did mean to use it that way, there's no reason to think he would ever go through with it unless his other options were much, much worse.

And this is where my brain started sparking like a faulty wire, because refusing a request like that is love at its most selfish. Aziraphale cannot bear to lose Crowley. No matter what. He's asking Crowley to risk enduring torture with no way out rather than leave him on his own.

And then at the same time, it's love at its most recklessly and gloriously unguarded. A suicide pill doesn't just exist to protect the captured operative, it protects all the dangerous information in their heads from being exposed. And Crowley and Aziraphale hold all kinds of incriminating secrets about each other. Do you believe there's absolutely nothing hell could do to Crowley that would make him betray Aziraphale? Because Aziraphale does. Or he is willing to accept that Crowley could be used against him. He would rather be betrayed by Crowley than bereft of him.

It's such a messy, human way to love. And the fact that Aziraphale relents eventually just makes it all the more human. He'll give Crowley the choice, and ask him not to take it, and have to live with just the hope that that's enough. And he saves Crowley's life with that trust! God, everything about it means the world to me.

[seapiglet]

As cute as I found the opening scene to season 2 I just haaate how much it changes the background to their relationship. Like the whole point is that they are friends despite being "hereditary enemies". They showed each other kindness in Eden when they were absolutely not supposed to. Making it so that they knew each other before implies that Aziraphale only engaged in conversation with Crowley because he remembered him as an angel, only sheltered him from the rain to return a favour, and harboured the belief for 6000 years that Crowley would be more acceptable, more lovable if he were to return to his angelic state. It just wrecks a key part of their companionship and affection for one another that was so important to the story.

[thealogie]

Really fucked up that we have David Tennant’s aziraphale voice on tape but have absolutely no idea what Michael Sheen’s crowley voice would sound like

[ingravinoveritas]

We do, though! There is a video of Michael reading the same bookshop scene at a Town Hall in 2019 and you can watch a clip of it here! (Including a screenshot because he's pretty...)

[thealogie]

I’m literally never going to be the same again. Thank you for this.

[casismybestfriend]

[tyrograph]

Bonded pair, do not separate

[madseance]

Crowley, a demon, standing in the Garden of Eden next to Aziraphale, an angel, who he will spend the next 6000 years pining for: it’s just funny to me that God would put the one thing you’re not allowed to have right in front of you, like what’s that about

[rupertgayesarchive]

op this is such a good take

[good-omens-heritage-posts]

good omens heritage post

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

[shitfacealecsofty]

[luppiart]

“They saw where wings disappeared into suits. They saw dark hair, and fair curls, pressed against each other. They saw blue faces, and black lips, and eyes frozen forever up at the Heavens, and eyes closed.”

I read a fanfic so beautiful I started crying and never stopped ?

I have never in my life been this obsessed with a fanfiction, A Diamond Sky Above Titanic has ruined my existence aaah-  I have actually been *feeling* since yesterday, and this scene absolutely broke my heart argh-

So here I tried to illustrate it, I experimented a lot so it’s kinda sketchy..

*goes back listening to the whole Titanic soundtrack and crying*

[luppiart]

Can you believe I am obsessed with a plant dork and a book nerd ? 

Also what is sleeping it’s 2am here.

[luppiart]

I did it to see the colors

Just started an immense procreate file for an immense A Diamond Sky Above Titanic art with a lot of scenes merging in a long panel this might take forever so have a wip now and watch me disappear for days

[luppiart]

They have some issues with season 2

[u3pxx]

drew a bit of these fellas again for fun bc i'm soooooo inspired by the graphic novel <33 🍎🐍 ok now back to the grind (work, ouch) RUNS

[therealtwontie]

Love

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

"what are you a cop" is bookaziraphale's entire mindset btw. "is it very angelic to hoard books and be mean to customers" what are you a cop? "should you really be married to your adversary" what are you a cop? "should your husband be parking his car there" ah you ARE a cop. explodes your ticket notebook with his mind. like in his mind if the lord herself doesn't come down to tell him off he's doing just fine. because he's doing it. and if she DOES come down (where is the flaming sword I gave to thee) well then. what is she a cop

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

no so true. in fact I think this was a key experience in his conviction that he is correct about everything ever. after all she did not ask him again

[hollow-head]

book Crowley: you’re an angel, you can’t do the wrong thing book Aziraphale: you are absolutely right. everything i do *is* the right thing book aziraphale really took ‘do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ and ran with it

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: The first add-on shows tags from pronouncingitwang reading "#it is soo fucking important that not only did he lie to god #he thought it was so important that he wrote it in as a correction to the bilton and scaggs bible he wanted that shit printed+distributed" and the last add-on shows tags from indieninja92 reading "#MY BOY #as i like to say 'aziraphale did nothibg wrong... but not through lack of trying' #the greatest angel ever to sincerely attempt to shoot an eleven year old in the face" /end ID]

[forensiccountermeasures]

And when he knows he’ll HAVE to help the cops, he’s desperate to leave so that he WON’T have to help the cops!

[ID: A snippet from the Good Omens book. It reads “There was the sound of a siren outside, abruptly broken off as a bullet hit it. Aziraphale nudged Crowley.” The next part is highlighted, and reads “‘Get a move on,’ he said. ‘We're going to be knee-deep in police at any moment and I will of course be morally obliged to assist them in their enquiries.’” /end ID]

[topaziraphale]

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I live for Aziraphale’s energy.

[yuhengwanye]

I tend to talk about my dislike of Raphael!Crowley in terms of class - how taking a shit-tier “not even a local councillor” protagonist regularly being shat on by Dukes and making him secretly an angel prince is indicative of other shit we have going on in our society - or because there’s next to nothing in Raphael’s traditional skill-set that Crowley shares (except fucking up demons, lmao).

But actually, I’ve realised that my very visceral hatred stems from something else:  the conceptualisation of Crowley as the angel who was so compassionate he couldn’t exist in Heaven, who questioned and disobeyed out of love for vulnerable humans, who hated suffering and whose gentleness became so radical that he accepted exile and risked death…

… guys, that’s Aziraphale.

[santhomedusae-deactivated202006]

#crowley feels but his gentleness doesn’t always compel him to act#aziraphale acts without thinking and has to backtrack and justify it to himself later (via @crowleyraejepsen)