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Wouldn’t it be funny if we found out that Tumblr has a limited amount of accounts you can block and the Good Omens Finale is the one responsible for it?

And yes, Brenda, we are out here blocking accounts not because we can’t agree to disagree but because we are hurt by a beautiful story ended up in the trash.

#late night thoughts #good omens 3 #where is my baby #Aziraphale #they deserved better

Sunday (digital) sketches.

It has been a lovely, relaxed, peaceful weekend. I enjoyed good homemade meals, good books and a lots of cups of tea.

#personal #trying to be positive #still thinking about it #digital sketches #blue ink #procreate

hollow-head

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys

olfactoryventriloquism

So, I’ve been obsessed with Pratchett since I was 15. That’s 23 years for those keeping count. I just finished GO3 and these are my initial thoughts:

Crowley and Aziraphale becoming human: I don’t love, but you could argue that that was what he planned, and I would buy it. It does follow some of his themes.

But there is a knife’s edge that Pratchett balanced between fury and compassion. He absolutely loved humanity, but he also hated what humans did to each other out of malice, spite, or even laziness. Good Omens the novel was filled to bursting with that.

The end here lacked all of that somehow. God in S1 is unknowable, but God is S3 is just a capricious bitch who seems to have it out for Crowley specifically and through him Aziraphale. The viewer certainly gets angry at God, but the narrative seems to be that, while cold, she is doing the right thing and giving them their happy ending. And while Crowley expresses compassion for humanity, it falls on such deaf ears that the narrative doesn’t actually support that.

The closing sentiment seems to be that we can make their lives better by just erasing all their trauma and baggage. No. Sam Vimes did not pull himself out of the gutter and bodily hold himself out of it every day to be told that actually amnesia would be best. If you wanted to make them human: make them keep their memories. That would have been fine.

Terry would have Crowley and Aziraphale say “fuck you” to God and protect the earth as it was. The way they protected Job’s children. The way they did at Tadfield Airbase. Here they just throw in the towel and start a new universe. They accept their failure so quickly as to be farcical.

And you will never ever convince me that TERRY PRATCHETT would have allowed the words “a story shouldn’t live past its ending” to be spoken without the speaker being immediately eaten by a banshee.

leoreadss

Absolutely! I agree on every single point!

#good omens #good omens 3 #not my ending

mrghostrat

and they were streamers 👀

i've been wanting to rotoscope another gif since that kiss, and @blairamok's ice skating wip looks SO AMAZING i was inspired to have another go

(much to love the gif makers!! crowley + aziraphale)

twilightofthesandwiches

Today's vent:

leoreadss

It had to be done! Good job.

#good omens #good omens 3 #fix-it

Not even the hottest cup of tea can solve this mess.

#good omens 3 #thanks to all the actors for giving the best they could with what they have #no hate to them #no hate to the crew #no hate to the director #aziraphale #crowley #where's my husbands

Ok I know we need to agree to disagree but if I see another ‘look, look, look, the stars at the end! It’s them!’ post, I will gently flip a table while being very disappointed ☹️

#good omens 3 #they died and that sucks #be for real about it

I just had the wildest dream.

Everyone thinks Muriel is weak, dim and practically useless. What if, when they are about to make the decision to unalive themselves, Muriel goes: “Ehm ehm, excuse me, is this the Ineffable plan?” And proceeds to unroll the longest, well, roll in Bildaddy style and shocked everyone cause she was actually taking notes when God was explaining the plan in a boring meeting where there was no coffee, and everyone was asking silly questions like “what’s a computer?”

So in the end nobody dies, and God go back to heaven and plays whatever game she wants to play, Satan does the same, and heaven and hell leave EVERYone alone.

#good omens 3 #what if?#muriel saves the day #aziraphale #crowley

aivelin

The Shuttered Garden: How the Good Omens Finale Betrayed its Humanistic Roots

Text: Aivelin Illustration: a-ida

The series finale of Good Omens dropped this Wednesday, leaving the fandom shaken and in absolute distress. The audience reaction was immediate, driving the Rotten Tomatoes score for Season 3 down to a disappointing 36%. The online debate grew so heated and overwhelmed with grief that numerous fan accounts faced 24-hour social media bans for their highly emotional confessions.

Viewers are highly divided. While a fraction accepts the heavy ending as a necessary evil, the overwhelming sentiment across platforms is utter bewilderment and heartbreak: "These characters do not feel like the ones we grew to love in previous seasons!"

This raises painful, critical questions: Is this sudden shift in characterization a narrative misstep? Is the tragic, suicidal ending a harsh subversion of the original book, which famously promised a comforting happily ever after?

To find the answer, one must look closely at who held the creative reins for the scripts of Seasons 2 and 3. By analyzing the writing credits, clear and undeniable patterns emerge, linking these distressing plot choices directly to Neil Gaiman’s broader, often dark and subversive, body of work.

The Solitary Vision and the Realigned Mold

While the first season captured the shared spirit of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 novel, the subsequent seasons belong to Gaiman’s solitary vision. When viewed alongside his wider world of storytelling, such as The Sandman, American Gods, and Stardust, the tragic fractures in Aziraphale and Crowley’s bond lose their surprise. Gaiman’s worlds are populated by immortal beings who are deeply fractured at best and cruel at worst. In these narratives, it is almost a rule that celestial entities will take advantage of the hearts that love them, turning devotion into a tool before abandoning those souls to a devastating fate.

Crucially, Gaiman always veils this emotional cruelty behind high-minded dilemmas. The act of abandonment is never framed as simple coldness; instead, it is masked as a profound moral crisis ("We cannot be together because I am a god and you are human"), a sacrifice of monumental importance ("I must leave our future to save my kingdom"), or an unyielding divine necessity. Even when Gaiman’s romances lack outward malice, they are consistently denied peace. In Stardust, the mortal husband passes away, leaving his immortal, celestial wife to endure eternity in silent, isolated grief. By transforming Aziraphale into a colder, more emotionally distant figure who abruptly leaves Crowley for a heavenly promotion, Gaiman is merely reshaping Good Omens to fit his favorite creative blueprint.

Deeply Pessimistic Parallels

Ultimately, the ending of Good Omens Season 3 and the conclusion of The Sandman reveal deeply pessimistic parallels. The Sandman closes with its protagonist suffering the consequences of his own rigid nature, forced by higher powers into self-destruction so that his kingdom might survive. In the wake of this death, the universe offers a surrogate replacement - a new entity stripped of the original’s memories, whom the remaining characters are forced to accept despite their lingering grief.

Aziraphale’s sudden, illogical decision to leap at Heaven’s offer mirrors this exact brand of narrative cruelty. Neither Aziraphale nor Crowley deserved to have their hard-won autonomy stripped away for the sake of a grandiose self-sacrifice.

A Profound Departure from Terry Pratchett

This shift represents a profound departure from the late Terry Pratchett’s fundamental worldview. Pratchett harbored a deep-seated aversion to suicide tropes and grand, sacrificial violence in fiction. His works respected the dignity of both life and death. In his narrative, the Apocalypse is defeated not through self-sacrifice or bloodshed, but by the quiet resilience and stubborn pragmatism of ordinary people. The first season beautifully honored this philosophy, as the Antichrist and a group of children stopped the Apocalypse through sheer, down-to-earth humanity.

The subsequent seasons discard this logic entirely, altering the very cosmology of the universe. In Season 1, God was an infallible, detached observer whose ineffable plan quietly empowered the right people at the right moment to prevent ruin. By Season 3, God is reframed as a petulant, semi-malicious entity capable of erasing existence on a whim.

Furthermore, while Pratchett and Gaiman likely brainstormed the concepts of the South Downs cottage and the conflict between Heaven, Hell and Earth together, Pratchett would never have designed an intentionally suicidal and destructive endgame. In his philosophy, survival is achieved through an attachment to mundane, earthly joys. In the first season, Crowley is saved from hellfire by his love for his car and his human-like imagination, while Aziraphale survives because of his eccentric, earthly devotion to collecting rare books.

Conclusion: Fanfiction or Harsh Reality

A true thematic continuation of both authors' visions would look radically different. It would find Aziraphale and Crowley left alone in a quiet bookshop for eternity, weaving their magical memories and shared love for humanity together to rewrite every lost book back into a brand-new universe. If that choice ultimately stripped them of their divinity and left them mortal, it would be a logical, bittersweet happily-ever-after within the sanctuary of a beautiful, earthly garden.

Instead, Gaiman has opted for character regression and profound emotional devastation. To pretend that Aziraphale's betrayal of Crowley and their martyrdom makes narrative sense within the established logic of Season 1 is an exercise in denial. Audiences are left with a stark choice: either view everything past the first season as high-budget, angst-driven fanfiction, or accept a harsher reality. The original, humanistic spirit of Good Omens died with Terry Pratchett, leaving behind a cold universe engineered for heartbreak.

leoreadss

THIS:

"Pratchett would never have designed an intentionally suicidal and destructive endgame"

and THIS:

"The original, humanistic spirit of Good Omens died with Terry Pratchett, leaving behind a cold universe engineered for heartbreak."

#good omens 3 spoilers

We need all the balm we can get

#good omens 3

This is for all the beautiful stories you're writing that will help us ease this bittersweet ending.

#crowley and aziraphale #let's 'fix' it #silly art #good omens 3 #they will never be humans #that's not what they wanted #they're not them

I've read better fan fiction than that, and the people who write it usually just run on coffee and maybe a cold sandwich, sacrificing their sleep for a fucking masterpiece.

#good omens 3 #bring them back #give us back our stupid husbands #aziraphale #crowley

I guess there was no suggestion box in the writing room.

Sorry guys.

They deserved better.

#those are not our idiots #good omens 3 #good omens spoilers

Ok lovely people. I’ll be offline until I watched S3.

Remember to stay hydrated, to breathe, to eat something and to enjoy it as many time as you can!

See you on the other side!

#good omens 3 #we are so back