pleasure is a freedom-song

But it is not freedom.

[allysdelta]

We did it! We got Season 3!

Whatever happens from now, we're getting our ending. It may not turn out exactly as we expect, but the important part is that we're getting it.

See the talk between the Aziraphales here!

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[allysdelta]

A companion piece to my Crowley comic, in which Book and TV Aziraphale have their own little heart-to-heart over sushi. Angelic bedside manner isn't really all it's cracked up to be.

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[ao3cassandraic]

This is incredibly sweet and also quite a sharp piece of analysis.

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TikTok - Make Your Day

Not sure how well TikTok links translate to Tumblr but—BUT—!! Jensen McRae’s new song “Childproof” is so Supreme Archangel Aziraphale-coded that I’m choking back tears.

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[beerok23]

Mandatory things you find in a proper Good Omens AU Fan Fic

Crowley being mesmerized by Aziraphale at first sight.

Absence or lack of communication that leads to crisis before a sappy resolution.

They are in love with each other and they both think the other can't be in love with them.

Shifting POVs to remind us that they both are idiots.

Aziraphale having problems with his appearance (for lack of self-confidence or induced by others) and Crowley managing to reassure Aziraphale for said insecurities.

Crowley inner thoughts being the funniest thing you'll ever read in your life.

The origin of the "Angel" nickname.

Wine, lots of wine.

Ngk. Ngk is always there - Neil and Terry's fault, because it's from the book, obviously.

Azi's manicured hands. Again, if you haven't read the book, I think you should.

Crowley's limbs or hips not being attached to his body when he walks.

Whatever their AU job is, you always have Crowley in love with plants and Aziraphale living for his books. The bookshop is a constant. The plants are always yelled at.

Aziraphale moaning while eating. That is a must have. Also, Crowley is never a great eater, but he loves coffee.

Crowley being or acting like a slut (that's not mandatory, sometimes he's just gorgeous).

A supportive friend on both side (Anathema, Muriel, Maggie, Nina, Tracy...).

Anathema and Newt always being a couple - which is great, because it shows how NOT tossic this fandom is, we all want the canon couples to be happy canon couples.

Gabriel being a dick (former lover, actual lover, older brother, villain...).

Very talkative sex :)

A happy ending - because we can't imagine a world where these two idiots don't end up together.

[kneedecker]

ALL Good Omens fan fiction can be neatly separated into two categories:

Those works where Crowley has but one brain cell, or

Those works where the Ineffable Partners have to share one brain cell.

And I think that’s beautiful.

[rylandsgrace]

Ok queen

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tfw your son-in-law destroys your geese (y’know—big cross ducks)

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Good Omens brain rot is apparently a family disease.

Having recently finished Demonology & the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma (utterly delightful)… I started reading FACTORY SETTINGS yesterday morning—it was so good that I started over, reading aloud to my eldest. We’re obsessed. Between yesterday midmorning and sometime around 2am, we made it to chapter 36. Today we started again around 11am and three hours later have just wrapped up chapter 50. Kid’s in a half-hour appointment, which gives me time to drink some hot water and do a little pbbbing and brrring to relax my voice before the final ten chapters.

I’m absolutely heartbroken that this is published anonymously. It’s fucking brilliant. The writer deserves joy and hot cocoa and 6,000 years of love and affection from whoever their person or persons are.

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

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil ! I just came from attending your conversation panel with Art Spiegelman and I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed it and how your words were very helpful to me. Especially when you were talking about books being doorways to comforting places you can escape to if the real world becomes intolerable. This is how I view many of your books, especially Good Omens as I was thinking of Aziraphale's bookshop. You inspire me everyday to keep showing up when it's important, keep reading and expanding my mind and its lexicon, keep writing for enjoyment, keep going through life. Thank you for every offered word of wisdom you've given to your audience. Also I do have a question pertaining to this panel: What is YOUR favorite flavor of ice cream? 🤨 You never mentioned it. The story about your son was hilarious though!

I think it may be Butter Pecan. I tend to order Butter Pecan when faced with many many flavours of ice-cream, and sometimes I am made incredibly happy, and often as not I taste something that tastes vaguely chemical and disappointing. So it's the platonic ideal of Butter Pecan, and rarely the reality.

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I am hijacking this post to tell everyone my #1 life hack that I realized earlier this year is not commonly used. When you meet people and save their contact information into your phone (I assume you are all doing this part, yes?)—

Use the section for notes. Use it. You can write down the names of their family members or to remember details about their life that don’t fit cleanly into other fields on the contact form (like what their hobbies are). Note when and where you met someone and who they were with, etc.

But my favorite thing to track is people’s favorite things. Kid’s coach mentions their favorite type of cookie during an icebreaker? Perfect, now I know what my kid is giving as a holiday gift. Teacher explains to students that she prefers dry erase markers in her favorite color? Even if you’re getting something else, at least I now I know what color gift bag to use. Looking for an excuse to get together with someone? Easy—I know your three favorite films and I know that there’s a new movie coming out that’s been compared to two of them.

[kneedecker]

Good morning to everyone but especially Chappell Roan, who has magnanimously gifted us with a fun Aziracrow-coded lyric* AND whose addition to my Ethereal Effeminate Electropop station on Pandora was like an algorithm-perfecting miracle.

* Is it really Aziracrow-coded or am I reading too far into it? Either way, it’s a brilliant bit of word play. See for yourself—here’s the bridge (?) from “Red Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan:

Well, back at my house, I got a California king

Okay, maybe it's a twin bed—And some roommates (don't worry we're cool)

I heard you like magic… I got a wand and a rabbit

So baby, let's get freaky, get kinky—Let's make this bed get squeaky!

[kneedecker]

Ope—forgot to say yesterday (Thursday):

Good morning to everyone except the DGA but especially the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

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Good morning to everyone except for the entire Good Omens fan fiction community; I was perusing your work while waiting for a routine medical appointment and nearly had to schedule a follow up because my blood pressure was just over the mark.

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Good morning to everyone except me and my interpersonal boundaries with all the qualities of a gumband (elastic, flexible, brittling with age).

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Good morning to everyone except those who don’t understand my need for S3 Aziraphale to channel Sam Smith’s feral self love / bad bitch vibes.

Crowley may have sauntered vaguely downwards, but when Supreme Archangel Aziraphale descends, I need him to be voguing down those stairs.

[9ndreus]

So Bildad does this little gesture before the magic trick bringing Job's children back:

And guess where else we've seen it before:

[ao3cassandraic]

oh lord David Tennant I am in your walls

well played, sir

[kneedecker]

My kid peeked over the shoulder as I watched these GIFs—I was excited to find out about a new detail. Aziraphale’s season 1 gesture was so charming, and Bildad!Crowley’s version so comical… But I hadn’t noticed the connection before. Kiddo points out: “Crowley didn’t learn how to stretch his hands from Aziraphale. Aziraphale learned how to stretch his hands from Bildad, because Bildad came before, right?” And I—

David Tennant did some “timey-wimey” nonsense to take credit for Michael Sheen’s acting choices. Is it stealing if Michael Sheen enjoyed every second of it?