Good Omens

Because I feel like I’m posting way too much on main

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A very accurate and timely twitter thread. 👌

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savage

[icodeforlove]

“hey officer, would you like to buy some marijuana”

[jimmygingerr]

"Elliot Page, formerly known as-" [GUNSHOT]

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Excited for 2021 just because we will celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Prince wearing Assless pants to the VMAS in 1991

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Next time I hear someone praise harry styles I am showing them this image

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the 2020 updated version

[ineffable-but-good]

Ok not on brand BUT

I am going crazy looking for a Magnus Archives fic...

Jon is an architect (maybe some sort of designer?) who Elias starts mentoring. He finds out that Elias’ ‘wife’ is Martin, who is the entertainment at his get togethers (including Peter Lukas and maybe Simon Fairchild?)

PLEASE help me I’m starting to obsess

[thatgirlonstage]

Crowley and Aziraphale are ABSOLUTELY the epitome of those “vampires who have been alive for centuries but don’t know dick about history” posts, like, you think Crowley knows who Isaac Newton is? You think Aziraphale didn’t spend an entire century just trying and failing to read the same book once? The most pressing thing Az remembers about the French Revolution is that he and Crowley got crepes. Crowley didn’t even know the Spanish Inquisition was happening until Hell sent him a commendation for it. They would both utterly fail a history class for events they were literally present at.

[c17h21no4ever]

ugh i love two (2) useless ethereal beings

[sunnyaalisse]

Official translations of Good Omens I’ve read and that one line, you know the one:

@neil-gaiman and Terry Pratchett: “Just remember I’ll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth liking”.

Russian translation #1: “Remember: I will know that, deep down inside, you were enough of a scoundrel for me to like you” 

Russian translation #2: “Just remember that I will always know that in some sacred corners of your soul you are a bastard to enough of a degree to be worthy of love”

Ukrainian translation: “I just want you to remember: I’ve never doubted that deep down in your soul you are enough of a bastard to be worth loving.”

Put your favorite translation in the tags I prefer the Ukrainian one. 

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

Welsh translation: “Just remember I’ll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth enjoying.”

[loverboy-crowley]

Serbian translation: “Just remember that I always knew that you, deep down in your soul, were a big enough bastard to be worth loving”

[valtsv]

tired: fallen angels grieving about getting kicked out of heaven

inspired: fallen angels making memeing to cope

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[rubyanjel]

Ineffable Drama Queens

[ithappensoffstage]

Good Omens 1x04: Saturday Morning Funtime

[xavantina]

#tfw you are getting bullied for being gay but lowkey flattered that your bullies noticed you have a boyfriend

[wholesome-revelry]

great british bakeoff, good omens edition

crowley: i’m making a whiskey cake. (takes a long swig out of the bottle.) it’s me, i’m the cake.

pepper (twirling a hammer): yeah, i found the gendered aspect of it all more than a little constraining so i built an end table instead. (she holds up her table. it’s very good)

(newt is covered in jam and crying. the baking challenge did not involve jam.)

aziraphale (eating his cake batter out of the bowl by the spoonful) : (looks up at the camera, confused and caught out, and immediately continues.)

paul hollywood: can one of you please at least put something in a pan?

[dealanexmachina]

anathema: pulls out a confection, baked to perfection, from the oven, because one of agnes nutter’s prophecies was the recipe for the technical challenge.

[critgemhero]

You know what Good Omens does NOT get enough credit for? How it never, not once, makes gender presentation the butt of a joke.

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

Good Omens is the first big show I’ve seen to basically avoid transphobia all together when the opportunity presented itself, and even say fuck you to the gender binary as a bonus. If the biggest binary in all the universe, Heaven and Hell, don’t give a damn about it then why should you? 

[neil-gaiman]

Thank you! That was definitely what we were going for. I’m not certain we always achieved it – or at least, people didn’t always seem to see that was what we were doing. (It made me sad when a few people on Twitter reacted to Crowley-as-nanny as if it was meant to be a transphobic man-in-a-dress joke.)

For our angels and demons, it was intensely liberating having male and female actors auditioning for the same roles, and just picking the ones who we felt nailed the characters best.

Also, can I just hear a wahoo for the wonderful Archangel Uriel, Gloria Obianyo?

[demonic-mnemonic]

Sometimes I just sit and think about how Aziraphale and Crowley spent several years giving some ordinary human kid THE weirdest possible upbringing of all time.

[ariaste]

uhhhhhhh fic of Warlock as an adult where he mentions things offhandedly in therapy sometimes and his therapist is EXTREMELYY???????? CONFUSED????????????

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Warlock: Yeah, when I was a kid it always seemed like the adults around me were trying to use me for their own reasons. My Dad had his Super Macho, American Man thing he was trying to project on me and I think Mom was trying to use me to get back at him in some way because she felt neglected…

Therapist: That sounds frustrating.

Warlock: God, you have no idea. And then there was my Nanny and the gardener.

Therapist: Did you have close relationships with them?

Warlock: Yeah, I loved them, but it was always “Warlock, you must love and respect all of God’s creatures and only use your power for good, don’t listen to Nanny, blah blah” and then Nanny would be all “Warlock, all creatures exist only to be ground under your heel, all the powers of Hell are at your disposal”.

Therapist: …

Warlock: I caught them making out in the pantry once, it was really jarring. 

[xiaoguiwang]

good omens is literally 107k words of idiot plot but like. well-executed

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[adventures-in-poor-planning]

every second aziraphael goodomens is onscreen with the other angels he just radiates “uncomfortable gay cousin at the family reunion” vibes. like at no point during the show is he literally listening to his uncle talk about sports and trying not to give away that he doesn’t know either of the teams he’s talking about but spiritually, spiritually that’s exactly where he’s at. 

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conversely crowley also has gay cousin vibes around the other demons but in his case, it’s like “yes i am gay and also cooler and better than all of you” vibes. like “FINE i’ll show up but it’ll be late and with iced coffee and also i’ll sit at the kids table and tell them about witchcraft” vibes.

[rubyanjel]

Crowley is whipped