[ineffablesilversmith]

Hi! I’m a metalsmith and Good Omens fanartist.

✧ My work: #ineffable silversmith

✧ My carrd: https://ineffablesilversmith.carrd.co/

✧ I share process stuff and WIPs on Bluesky and in my stories on Instagram

✧ Unless stated otherwise, these pieces are personal fan projects and not for sale. I do sell some of my work in my shop.

[ineffablesilversmith]

Ineffable eras brass pins, July edition

[tweedfeather]

On the matter of tags: an earnest attempt to communicate

As a random member of the Good Omens fandom community, I’d just like to toss my hat into the ring and attempt to clear up some misunderstandings. I also want to encourage some honest, good-faith dialogue in a severely fractured fandom.

This is not an attempt to convince anyone to interpret the finale a specific way. This is a practical conversation about how we discuss the finale in fan spaces.

For the purposes of this discussion, I will be focusing on tags as they are used on social media platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram. AO3 tagging is considerable more complex and warrants a whole convo in its own right, so I won't focus on that here.

THIS POST INCLUDES DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE.

So, tags. Tags have become a thorny issue in the Good Omens fandom. I suspect this issue is so pertinent now, two months after the finale aired, because most of us have dropped “GO3 spoilers” tags, which people would have been filtering out if they did not wish to see anything from the finale. The finale is no longer a fresh commodity, so we are all trying to determine for ourselves what the next phase of our engagement with fandom will look like.

In fandom spaces, tags are a courtesy. No one can force anyone to use tags, of course. But tagging is a long-running standard of fandom etiquette across multiple online platforms. Tags are tools that help us find or filter out specific content. But what happens when we disagree on what tags should even be used in the first place? When tags themselves are a battleground?

I have seen assumptions that finale dislikers are demanding that all content with Asa Fell and Professor Anthony Crowley be tagged with “suicide.” It's possible that I’ve missed some significant conversations, but as someone on the disliker side, I have not seen anyone demand that Asanthony shippers use a "suicide" tag on all their posts featuring Asanthony. If anyone has asked that, I agree that it would be unreasonable! But I strongly suspect this perception comes from a game of fandom telephone in which different conversations are being conflated.

What IS being asked:

All content featuring Asa and Anthony should be tagged with their names or their ship name, Asanthony.

The "ineffable husbands" ship name should not be used for Asanthony.

Content warnings are strongly encouraged when sharing visuals of the scene where God grants Crowley and Aziraphale’s request to be removed from existence, specifically the moments as they disintegrate, as this decision is interpreted by many fans as a suicide.

Let’s address that first point now.

Tagging Asanthony as "Asanthony" makes sense. I think most people are already doing this. If you’re not doing this, well… I strongly advise you to reconsider. Tags aren’t just for those filtering out content, but for those seeking it. Someone who doesn’t want to see Asanthony can use this tool to avoid them, and someone who is specifically seeking out Asanthony content can use the tag to find them and share some appreciation.

Where we have some disagreement is the second point listed above: whether Asanthony deserve to be tagged with the general “ineffable husbands” ship name as well. I don’t think we’re ever going to agree on this one. Some people do see them as the same ship, and others do not. Personally I’m someone who does not see Asanthony as "ineffable," but I am okay to concede on someone using the general ship tag for them, as it really does boil down to one's own interpretation. In my view, so long as "Asanthony" is also used, tag them as you see fit.

Now for the third point. This is where I'll be talking about suicide.

Suicide is obviously an incredibly sensitive and distressing subject, one that is highly likely to carry a personal resonance for many fans on all sides of the GO3 debate. I understand why people are upset to have to bring this subject up in their tags when they do not see the final scene that way.

But if you do find it upsetting to even consider using that tag... that means you agree that this topic is distressing, yes? The ineffables' decision was genuinely genuinely distressing for people who interpreted their choice as a suicide. I am pleading with you to understand this: there are members of our community who struggle with suicide ideation, and that scene genuinely triggered some of these people.

You don’t like to see this tag imposed. Well, others don’t like to suddenly come across visuals that in their view shows a suicide. Not seeing Crowley and Aziraphale's decision as a suicide is just as much an interpretation as seeing it as a suicide is.

We will never agree on our interpretations of Crowley and Aziraphale's final request to God and how it played out. The fact remains that the scene where they make this choice and it is granted is triggering to a significant portion of the fandom. This is not a niche opinion.

We won't be able to reconcile our views on this. But we do have to share fandom spaces together. Blocking others who have a different approach to discussing this scene is always an option. But maybe we can also attempt to reach a middle ground in the form of a tag.

I have chatted with others about this, and an idea I have seen discussed is for the fandom to come up with a neutral term for the scene where God grants Crowley and Aziraphale's request, akin to how we settled on “the Final Fifteen” for the last fifteen minutes of season 2. This term should not favour one interpretation over another.

Some suggestions:

The Final Half Hour (or… the Final Twenty? How long is this scene? Anyone clocked it?)

The Decision

We’ve Come to a Decision (WCTOAD? Well, I do like toads)

Please chime in if you have other suggestions!

Like I said at the top, no one can force anyone to use tags. This is ultimately down to one's own discretion.

But I think it's fair to say that our fandom is currently in crisis. The community has fractured — or perhaps it is simply going through some very nasty growing pains. Maybe we can grow with it.

We will never be in a place where we all agree on GO3’s choices. Right now, we are all figuring out how we want to navigate this story and fandom we have all come to love. However we feel about the finale, we are all trying to find new ways forward.

We can argue about who’s right. We can block as we see fit. We can tag or not tag according to our own interpretation to make a point.

We can also decide to make productive choices that will help us all navigate our fandom spaces moving forward. Above all else, we can choose to be kind.

If you've read this far, thank you for hearing me out.

[ineffablesilversmith]

Makers mark charm necklace giveaway

One entry for every $10 donated to Trans Lifeline, the Trevor Project, or Transgender Law Center. Please see the graphics for details; links for the organizations and my email here!

Coses 7/5/26 at 11:59 p.m. PDT

[hotcrosspigeon]

Posted a new chapter of Gives Me Hot Cold Fever!

Chapter 5: Of Delirium and Desire

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In which Aziraphale discovers that the Serpent of Eden is venomous.

And Crowley panics.

Enjoy 💜

[cassieoh]

Crowley is happy to wait. the tail? not so much

A quick sketch from reference as a little reminder of what I love about these two (comfort, love, tails and halos, and [redacted])

[cassieoh]

Little pottery drop!

Check out these and the rest of the drop here!

[emotional-support-demon-crowley]

In honor of all the warm, fuzzy feelings I've been getting lately from the coverage of the Artemis II mission and Project Hail Mary, I'm going to shamelessly plug one of my old Good Omens fanfics that focuses on a space mission.

Terminus

Also available in audio format as [Podfic] Terminus, read by the wonderful @literarion.

When reluctant astronaut Aziraphale Fell finds himself in need of assistance, the last thing he expects is to develop feelings for the mission controller who answers his call; the charming, foul-mouthed Anthony Crowley. As they work to get Aziraphale home, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other. Unfortunately, Crowley has reason to believe the powers that be don’t want Guardian One and its sole occupant to survive the journey.

[cassieoh]

Early morning on the South Downs

[ineffablesilversmith]

Our World brooch, sterling silver and steel

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Aziraphale’s summoning circle brooch, sterling silver and steel

[ineffablesilversmith]

The Saunter trapped slide pendant, sterling silver

[ineffablesilversmith]

Illuminated Omens place setting by @cassieoh 🖤

[ineffablesilversmith]

Crowley eye thaumatrope pendant, sterling silver and etched red brass with white topaz and spessartine garnet

[cassieoh]

I recently took sketch requests for a twitter milestone and this was my favorite, so I went ahead and finished it <3

see uncropped on twitter or patreon (where there's also a coloring page and timelapse)

[ineffablesilversmith]

Saint Babygirl, pray to her to purify your mind of those pesky thoughts, for she has never had a single one in her whole existence

Electrolytic etched copper for a project

[lilpy]

He's in his (temporary) breakup era, let him have a cry