Inspire

Welcome to the future, where cars fly, robots serve our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the Earth. Side blog for all my GO BS.

[jumpingjove]

I know many of you were extremely fed by angst!Crowley. But I was not. Here's what I would have wanted to see (with the hopes of a fully functional, healthy relationship outcome for Aziraphale and Crowley coming out of S2):

Aziraphale leaves, as he feels he must, although deeply hurt by Crowley's betrayal.

Crowley stays, as he feels he must, although deeply hurt by Aziraphale's betrayal.

Crowley moves into the bookshop. Becomes the new caretaker of Whitbecker St. He's not an angel, still full of mischief, but he does take care of his own. We see him slinking down the street, headed to the bookstore, still cool as a cucumber, but everyone we know is greeting him as he walks through like he owns the place. Maggie and Nina are clearly together, maybe even with a tot. Crowley is uncle/godfather and smitten. The bookshop looks a little different - more plants, some familiar statuary from his apartment now in pride of place. Still not selling many books, but it's obvious that in the absence of Aziraphale, Crowley has created a home for himself and, even has a small community of friends/friendly humans around. He's kept things going and built happiness.

This could plug into the plot we got. When Aziraphale comes back they have to work out their mutual sense of betrayal and see if they can find a new trusting foundation even though each feels the other left them.

Even better would be if Aziraphale couldn't stay away for more than a few weeks, and now actually visits on the regular - friendship and late night cocoa with the blinds drawn where he vents about heaven and Crowley supports him. When the second coming goes awry they already have a trusting foundation to hop back in and work together. The Jesus plot stays relevant and ties up/reflects S1's antichrist plot except this time it's Jesus who saves the world in the face of God, and Aziraphale and Crowley are mostly peripheral to that, although rushing around like mad anyway.

They stay at the bookshop for a while, but as those humans get old and pass, they decide it's time for a change. End on South Downs cottage.

[thegoodomensdumpster]

accept this silly self indulgent book aziraphale and crowley kiss comic

[hey-must-be-a-devilbetween-us]

Its just...maybe I was naive, maybe I should have known better, but I didn't know how much I needed the finale to be okay.

like, not even great, not even good, but just okay, just safe, sad that it was over but happy that it happened, a closed book with a happy if mediocre ending.

and then it wasn't, and it knocked me entirely off kilter, and the worst part was it completely blindsided me, it wasn't just mediocre, or rushed, or boring, or disappointing.

It was all of those things and also tragic. It made me sad.

and the thing is...before that, I never could have imagined that Good Omens would make me sad, would have me break down in tears inconsolable days afterwards, it never even occurred to me as a possibility.

It was one of the few things I had that kept me safe inside my own mind, it was a talisman against sadness, it was where I walked when I needed sanctuary, and now it feels like there is a giant pit in the middle of my former haven that I have to worry about falling into and being trapped.

because Good Omens made me a promise, as a viewer and a reader 7 years ago, that the world is saved because it is worth saving, that everybody lives, everybody, even telemarketers.

That Anti-Christ's grow up with their best friends in their Kingdom of Tadfield because that's enough of the world for them, that Witches fall in love with Witchfinders, that Prophetesses make their own destiny, that Death and all his friends will ride motorbikes to the end, but not today, no not today. Due in very small part, really just moral support, of a Demon and an Angel who wanted to stay, just a little bit longer, maybe another 6000 years, go for a picnic, dine at the Ritz. That promise was broken, if this is the legacy that they want to give Sir Terry Pratchett I would say its as bad as spitting on his grave.

Shame on them.

[animulablandulavagula]

well petronius didn’t own a restaurant but you know what he was? A cerimonial and a poet who wrote the Satyricon which is a book about satirical greek romance featuring homosexual and erotic stories. I also wanted to add the while Petronius didn’t write a lot about food in his saturas (the genre of the satyricon) the theme of banquets and food is very important and also present in his book in the passage of Cena Trimalchionis which depicts the “malus more” of free slaves at the time. Also did you know that the name Satyricon might derive from the fact that Satiri loved to “stalker” and follow Ninfee around, at least based on what my professor said anyway. I don’t know i this will make any sense but Aziraphale and Crowley here are depicted as beings who have rather human tendencies and who enjoy rather depravity if I may say so, I mean Petronius is not Cicero am I right? This is what they were in reality, not two heroes but two random dudes connecting despite their differences, their love wasn’t really predictable if was casual, ineffable if I may say. They weren’t made to safe the universe they were made to understand it and help humans to fix it this is the only way human incarnate can win on religion and oppression

[lanzadeperla]

Thank you! I will never understand how the fandom remains blind at how clearly Aziraphale is propositioning Crowley here:

Restaurants were not really a thing back then, not in the modern concept of fancy dining. The popular classes ate basic meals at noisy and crowded taverns, people rich enough to afford fine dining had it served by slaves at home. The neither the concept nor the word to name it wouldn't have existed in Latin.

Petronius is a) the signed name of the author of one of the first explicit gay eroticas of the western tradition b) through the Satyricon, openly mocking of the mores and values of his age's upper class and c) more than likely, a pseudonym, not a real person but a false name to protect the actual author from the rage of the system so brazenly criticised.

"[Petronius] does remarkable things to oysters" is, in no way, shape or form, something remotely normal to say about an eatery you are trying to persuade someone to dine at (and anybody daring to argue otherwise should try using it on a colleague or an in-law and report their results back). A sentence so preposterous should make jump every "secret code" alarm.

Oysters. C'mon, this one was supposed to be crystal clear. Just to most universally acknowledged aphrodisiac of the world, nothing to see here.

[animulablandulavagula]

EXACTLY!! Aziraphale was SO obvious here!!

[nimbusalba]

Universes

And I realized something else (yes, I’m very insightful today, ok?). They stole my fantasy.

I was happily hiding myself from the horrors of the world (very real horrible horrors we are currently living in this dystopian world) in my lovely fantasy world with angels and demons who could fall in love, with kids who could stop Armageddon, with witches who predicted the future and witchfinders who fell in love with them.

But they (those horrible cishet men) took that fantasy world and erased it and made it to never have existed at all. And replaced it with you know what? The horrible dystopian world of horrors we live in.

They (those horrible cishet men) must feel very smug thinking they are very clever, but if I wanted to see a story about the fucking real universe, the one where there’s no magic, I wouldn’t be watching and reading fucking fantasy, you know? They missed their target audience.

I know I like to put here some nice gif of the boys but... I just want to watch everything burn rn.

[fellshish]

good omens 3 is as if they made a non book based season 3 of heated rivalry where shane and ilya had a big fight, talked through some of it but not all, barely touched each other, then died to save hockey

[fellshish]

it’s ok though. cut to fifty years later where two lookalikes meet. sean and rozza. sean is from holland. rozza says i’m half russian do u want a tuna sandwich. they hold hands in a cottage. they quote a line from all the things she said at each other. someone tweets it was always supposed to end this way

[burnt-out-and-confused]

And nothing bad ever happened

[pirategf]

There was definitely something very weird about them, she decided.  Aziraphale bowed again. “So glad to have been of assistance,” he said.  “Thank you,” said Anathema, icily.  “Can we get on?” said Crowley. “Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel.“  Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.

[katfell]

Good Omens and Aziraphale Scorn

The idea of having a more Crowley tinted lenses on for S2 seemed like it should pay off in S3 when Aziraphale's hope and rationality and hard work will be rewarded and acknowledged in the end. Now it just looks sinister because the good and kind angel is just stupid and pointless isn't he. Everywhere I look, there are metas about how he's not learned anything and should have listened to Crowley. Cynicism won.

And yet, it was Aziraphale who saved them anyway. Yes, I expected Crowley and he will renew the Universe without Heaven and Hell, but dissolving into nothing is still a better fate (imo) than eternity apart - especially if God would be cruel enough to keep them separated and Crowley would suffer the demon's fate of the Second Coming.

My point is, Aziraphale's tenaciousness is what got them to the finish line. Everything was always stacked against them. And Aziraphale kept them safe. And alive.

Pushing Aziraphale into the side character / love interest / reluctant silly girlfriend / hardworking wife who does everything and gets blamed for everything too while the poor husband drinks and mopes - - it's clear what NG thinks of the kindness and determination and self sacrifice of Aziraphale and many AFAB people in the world. Their suffering does not matter. It's just a means to an end of the glorious hero. The end that does not even make sense in the end. And fell very flat for me.

[obligateweirdo]

This is never going to stop bothering me, is it? No. It isn’t. Twenty years from now I’ll be rocking in the rec room of my nursing home and burst out laughing”AZIRAPHALE GOT A RAW DEAL!” and the other old people will be like “There goes that Obligateweirdo again” and go back to Parcheesi and shuffleboard.

I wanted so much for him to have his day.

[moolmung]

[ezra-didntreallyfall]

I feel like what the finale doesnt get is that Aziraphale didn't fall in love with Crowley despite who he became after the Fall and the trauma from that, the version with trauma is the one he fell in love with. The angel he knew is not Crowley.

[h0lyhandgrenade]

I did enjoy these guys.

Available as a poster on my Storenvy!

Also a reminder that I’m most active on my Twitter these days 

[galaxyspeaking]

Oh my darling, we’ve been dancing since the start

[kotse]

to add to their earthly to-do list 📋

commission me on kofi

[videnoirs]

season 3 (and 2, to an extent) fail to me for a lot of reasons but especially because aziraphale and crowley aren’t supposed to be the heroes of humanity or whatever.

they’re lazy, selfish, and hedonistic immortal beings who want to save the world so they can continue driving cool cars and eating expensive food. they do not give a single fuck about their coworkers or the details of their jobs, and fumble their way through everything remotely heroic. why are these dweebs making any major decisions about humanity or speaking directly to god herself? why are we turning them into self sacrificing jesus figures?

[nimbusalba]

Poll results

The results are here, whether you voted or not, it’s too late now (it's always too late).

Let’s analyze these numbers (I’ll try to be as objective as possible). There’s almost 1600 votes for the poll about the film as a whole and more than 1000 for the ending of the film, so there’s a wide sample of people in both polls. As a whole, we can say that these numbers are not good news for amazon & co. 

Post by @nimbusalba · 1 poll

💬 24  🔁 158  ❤️ 132 · Tumblr · It's been a few days and I'm curious. The fandom is divided. My dash is obviously biased, so let's see the nu

A staggering 50% of the voters didn’t like or even hated the finale as a whole, with quite a lot more hate (28,1%) than dislike (21,9%) (we are a passionate fandom). 

Almost a quarter (23%) of the fans are not sure yet what to think about it.

And, obviously (this is maths after all), the other quarter (25,9%) has positive reviews. Almost 1 out of 5 people liked it (19,6%) while only a few really loved it as a whole (6,3%).

Now, if we see the results for the ending of the finale, the numbers change a bit (thanks to @fellshish for the addition of this poll, which is quite interesting). 

Almost the same number of people who loved the film as a whole also loved its ending (6.9%). However there’s a big dip in people liking the ending (11,7%), which brings us to 18,6% of people having positive feelings about the ending of the finale. That’s 7,4% less people having positive feelings towards the ending than the film as a whole, and most of that descent comes out of the ones liking it, rather than the ones loving the film (who are almost the same number in both polls). 

About the voters with negative feelings towards the ending, we can see there’s an overwhelming 57,5%, with most of them hating that ending (43,4%) (what’s not to hate? Sorry, objectivity!) and just 14,1% who disliked it. Again, we are passionate people in this fandom. 

Finally there’s almost the same number of people in both polls who haven’t reached a decision over the ending yet (23,9%).

It’s very interesting that more than 7% of voters are positive towards the film as a whole but hate the ending (there is much more hate than dislike in the ending poll). There’s many people too who dislike the film but hate the ending.

Finally, the addition of @thebright1 had a little over 400 votes. Most of the voters (53,2%) found sense in s2e6 final 15 before season 3 aired. About 2 out of 5 voters (43%) haven’t understand the meaning yet, and an astonishing 3,9% have found its meaning after watching go3 (I’m astonished because s3 didn’t deal with any of the issues the F15 brought up, imho)

In conclusion we can say that only a quarter of voters are happy with the finale, and that is even less for the ending, with just 7,4% of voters who liked or loved it. That said, we could argue that the film is disliked in general and its ending in particular is hated by most of the people who voted on this poll. 

All in all, we could say the fandom is divided, yes, but we are not so far away and the edges of the division are a bit blurry.

Thanks for voting, reblogging, and commenting on this poll.

Sorry for not posting this yesterday, but motherhood took its toll on time once again.

[vanelythesydgerfankid]

Accidentally + unknowingly got one of the two translations of the book where Crowley canonically says he loves Aziraphale-

(it's Ukrainian, translation under cut) :PPPP

Translation:

And then he smiled to Crowley

— I just wanted to say . . . If we don't survive this battle . . . I always knew that, deep down, there was a spark of goodness in you.

— Yeah, go on, — Crowley replied bitterly. — Perfect time for mockery.

The angel reached his hand out to the demon.

— It was nice knowing you.

The demon took said hand.

— We'll have a drink or few after this, surely. And . . . Aziraphale?

— Yes?

— I want you to remember: I was always certain that, deep down, you're just enough of a bastard to be worth *loving*.