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Safe Space For Earth Assigned Angels & Demons

[lovesburntofferings]

I can hardly get my head around the fact that back in June of 2021 when Prime announced there’d be a S2 of GO, that it *wouldn’t be* based on the conversation in a hotel room between *both* authors, but a ‘Soft and Romantic’ interlude NG wrote alone, that way back then he had already locked in THIS S3 ENDING. (Which my heart believes he alone is responsible for.)

All his talk of a ‘Happy Resolution’ and a ‘South Downs Retirement’ for Aziraphale and Crowley were LIES. Five years of hurtful, cruel, manipulative lies. Was he laughing at us? At our love and sense of connection to not just an Angel and a Demon and their forbidden love story, but to the whole GO Universe?

He knew the importance of Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship to the queer community. A vulnerable, at risk community in need of safe harbors and representation. And he planned all along to not just unalive our angel and demon, he made them chose to do it to themselves!

What an effing bastard!

[finngualart]

[ineffably-queer-book-lover]

Wow, I don’t think I have seen this one before? Amazing! 🥰

[lovesburntofferings]

Perfect. ❤️❤️❤️

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Every time I see Fanart of Crowley and Aziraphale being themselves and happy in the 'present day' together, or a silly fluffy piece of fanfiction, the kind of art and fics that were all over the place post GO1, and I see that it was made after the Finale, whatever it's directly happening in a 'fix-it timeline' or addressing the Finale as a bad dream or not engaging with it's existence at all, it makes feel a little bit hopeful and very very thankful. I just want to go out to all of these creators and tell them, thank you, thank you for still believing in these silly little losers and their happiness, thank you for your part in not letting this 'Finale' take them away from us, thank you for keeping them alive. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[binbogummy]

This actually makes me so sad...

Everything ended on such a bleak note, both in universe and in the fandom itself.

And now it's over.

The story and message that so many people fell in love with in the book and S1 was not only brushed aside, but rendered pointless in the new canon.

Anathema, Newt, Shadwell, Madame Tracy, Nina, Maggie and ALL the people of the old universe were erased from existence without a say or even a mention.

There was never an old bookshop on the corner of Whickber Street, and never a vintage Bentley parked just outside it.

And Aziraphale and Crowley, OUR Aziraphale and Crowley, never made it to the south downs, despite what we were promised.

And this post just felt like the showrunners officially wiping their hands of the whole thing for good. So we'll probably never get any closure in regards to any of it.

[lovesburntofferings]

This just made me angry all over again! Prime does NOT get to close Aziraphale’s Bookshop to US! They did not take good care of our Angel and Demon, or the Bentley, or Crowley’s plants, or the Ducks! So they can just f**k right off. Fandom will take care of this precious universe from here out, thank you very much.

(NG you can f**k right off too. Knowing now that back in 2021 when S2 was announced, and you were spinning us up with hope and visions of Azi and Crowley in the South Downs, THIS ENDING was already set in stone. Just…. F**K you!)

[thewesterntreetoad]

I, for one, am choosing to believe that we're all still living in the original, magical universe. Life is just more fun that way!

Little Free Libraries? Aziraphale came up with those! Pop up ads? That one's on Crowley.

If I find unexpected cash on the street, I'll be just that much more pleased. And if I lock my keys in the car, well, it feels a little better to know that it wasn't *entirely* my fault. These characters, this show, and this fandom bring me joy, and I'm going to keep that joy with me every day in spite of it all, thanks very much.

[lovesburntofferings]

I will always chose them. *Always* ❤️

[lovesburntofferings]

One of the things people who like the Finale, or the ending of the Finale, point to is that there was no way for Aziraphale and Crowley to be happy together in the universe they inhabited. That the only road to true happiness for them as a couple lay in some distant reincarnation, where demons, angels, god and satan never existed.

But I wonder, before the Finale was aired, when we were still unaware of what its conclusion would be, was this the ending they felt inevitable as the only version where Aziraphale and Crowley could be happy together? Did they already believe there no way, no different aspect of the Universe they already lived within for them to be happy, and so the Finale’s ending was what they’d wanted? What they hoped would happen?

I’m truly asking because I’m baffled by those who think Aziraphale and Crowley, not just dying, but never having existed at all, so a billion plus years later reincarnated versions could be born and they’d have the happiness Azi and Crowley wanted, was the best way for the entire series to end.

When the South Downs was posited as the place Aziraphale and Crowley would eventually retire, did they think no, Azi and Crowley couldn’t be happy there. Not in their universe. Were they always expecting (hoping?) that it wouldn’t be them, but instead some future reincarnated human version of them that settled there with their books and a garden?

If so, I never saw it. Never read that meta or those fics. Never saw a discussion of this on FB or Tumblr or Insta. I know there was quite a bit of speculation that they’d become human. But I’d always thought it was meant Aziraphale and Crowley, the angel and the demon, would become human, not that they’d die and be replaced by reincarnations. It’s very possible I missed these conversations. There’s so much GO meta it’s difficult at best to keep up with all of it. Has anyone read anything, or had any discussion with fans who enjoyed the Finale about how, before it ever aired, they felt this way?

I’m trying to understand the abyss which divides those of us so very unhappy with the Finale, and those of us who truly enjoyed it.

I’m very firmly in the unhappy camp regarding the Finale, but I’m not looking to change anyone’s mind with this post. I’m not arguing for what I liked and didn’t. I’m not judging or arguing with anyone who liked the Finale. I’m just extremely confused as to why this divide exists at all. I’d like to understand. I’m grieving the GO Fandom which existed before the Finale. Existed, to some extent, before S2.

Any and all comments welcome here. I’m going to sit back and listen.

[emotional-support-demon-crowley]

Crowley loved Aziraphale more than he ever cared about humanity.

After yeeting Adam at the nuns, he tried to convince Aziraphale to help him stop the Apacolypse, and you know what his arguments were? If Earth is destroyed, we won't have anywhere to go on our pretend real dates. Food, music, the bookshop. Things they enjoyed together.

When he realized they raised the wrong kid, his entire plan became ditch Earth and run away. Three times he decided that was the best next step. Twice he pitched it to Aziraphale and once while he was alone.

When he thought Aziraphale was murdered, he gave up on saving Earth or running away to hide and got spectacularly drunk instead.

When he realized Satan was on his way, it took Aziraphale threatening him before he locked in. And that threat was fix this, or we (literally) end here.

Crowley loved Aziraphale more than he ever loved people and more than he loved the Earth.

But I guess season 3 kinda forgot about that.

[lovesburntofferings]

This! This! And this!

[lovesburntofferings]

Ok, so god tosses Crowley out of Heaven for asking questions (about how Heaven was being run) and rising up in rebellion when he (and Lucifer and the boys) tried to change it (for the better) and couldn’t. Result - Crowley loses his Grace, becomes damned, and ends up glueing coins to the street.

When Aziraphale returns to Heaven (to stop the 2nd Coming and change how Heaven was being run), tries to instill Universal Happiness (and is only marginally successful), Crowley loses his Bentley, becomes majorly depressed, and ends up glueing himself to a filthy back alley.

So, if taking the Finale at face value (in spite of all the ‘clues’ in S2 alluding to much more happening in the F15), Aziraphale returning to Heaven to try and fix it, exactly as Crowley had tried to fix it, caused more emotional damage to Crowley than losing his Grace and becoming damned?

Just sayin’.

[lovesburntofferings]

Aziraphale working for the Metatron in whatever the fu*k universe billions of years later is the most depressing, dystopian, soul crushing message. Crowley was *freed* to study astrophysics, become a published writer, be able to go shopping in bookstores during the day. But Aziraphale is slaving away as a 50 something employee and having the Metatron *still* intruding into his love life. Go after that red head Asa, get his number. If I don’t tell you to do that then all the sacrifices made eons ago by some demon and angel (who never existed?) will be completely wasted!

FFS🤬

[caspianthegeek]

The GO BTS dropping today have filled me with a very specific rage. It is pride month. Safe spaces are rare. How dare an abusive allocishet man decide to try to take that away from a queer fandom.

It is not an accident that we all see Aziraphale as the queer guardian of Soho. Its written in his DNA ever since he was described as gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Regardless of his ship with Crowley or Heaven's plans, there was one very clear truth in the GO verse: Aziraphale was a protector of humanity and particularly queer humans throughout history. In a world where representation of queer people is minimal and protectors of queer people even more so, he has been a shining beacon since the 90s.

And Whickber Street reflected that. Our queer angelic capybara may have caused little safe spaces throughout all of history but we got to see little glimpses of it. Multiple queer shop owners. Forgiveness of rent. Safety and protection that became evident in how it was missing in the finale with the street becoming run down and graffitied.

And the destruction of the three canon queer owned businesses we knew existed. Maggie's record shop is closed, give me coffee or give me death has changed ownership, and Mutt's magic shop is now part of the Chinese restaurant.

This shouldn't make me irrationally angry, but it does. How /dare/ he.

There's an underlying message here: As God I will take away your angel and you will fade away. You will die, close shop, and leave.

At best, its arrogant. At worst, its bigotry smugly wearing an ally shirt telling the queer community how much we need their good will.

Either way, it can fuck off.

Back after s1 I wrote a story about angels and demons defecting and all of us versus all of them. I've changed a lot since then and I'd write it differently now. But a piece of that core message hasn't changed: together we can and should tell the forces that would silence us to leave.

Our angel wouldn't leave us or his demon. Our demon wouldn't give up on his angel or our world. And we cannot give up on them or each other. Not now. Not ever.

[firelikestars]

nah fuck that. what the fuck.

so 6000 years of queer defiance, quite literally in the face of god, now never existed. erasure has never been more literal. crowley and aziraphale didn’t just die, they never existed. their love story never existed. death you can grieve, you can commemorate what was lost; love transcends death. at the very least, they deserved that.

where was that love story, by the way? where was the romance? legitimately i felt more love between them during the final 15 than in the entirety of that 90 minutes. at least then it felt like they mattered to each other. fuck.

and aziraphale still works for the metatron?? are you fucking kidding me??? that is a wild message to be sending. even in some idealized world where they fall in love with free will, aziraphale still cannot escape the one that kept them apart. queer love still has to be allowed and endorsed and encouraged by the oppressor. fuck you actually.

genuinely i would’ve been so fine with a human ending if it was done well. i would’ve taken anything, i would’ve been so happy with a mediocre finale or even a bad one! fucking whatever! but that shit was offensive.

[lovesburntofferings]

Aziraphale working for the Metatron in whatever the fu*k universe billions of years later is the most depressing, dystopian, soul crushing message. Crowley was *freed* to study astrophysics, become a published writer, be able to go shopping in bookstores during the day. But Aziraphale is slaving away as a 50 something employee and having the Metatron *still* intruding into his love life. Go after that red head Asa, get his number. If I don’t tell you to do that then all the sacrifices of eons ago by some demon and angel (who never existed?) will be completely wasted!

FFS🤬

[lovesburntofferings]

There’re no words in any language I know which adequately expresses how angry this makes me. Really? Just have Crowley kill Aziraphale, himself and, since to me they existed in the same universe I did, I guess I’ve been unalived as well as everyone I know and love. I don’t care if the actors felt this was appropriate, or a good idea, or a satisfying ending. Unpopular opinion? Probably. Blasphemous to disagree with them? Most likely. Probably going to get a ton of push back from fans who don’t agree. Doesn’t change my mind.

Having characters with whom I’ve grown to love, identify with and who’ve helped me find and value my own place as a queer person in this world, kill themselves, will never be ok with me. What the heck kind of message is this? I know the difference between rl and fictional characters. I also know the power of literature, art, film and television. How they can inspire. Give hope. Change perspective. So the entire journey of GO is to say if your universe doesn’t work out, then just destroy it, or yourself?

FFS! 🤬

[lovesburntofferings]

I know whether or not including ‘the kiss’ in GO3 is a subject of some controversy within our queer community. This post addresses who I believe is involved with excluding ‘the kiss’ and why that might be more parties than is currently being discussed.

The writers of GO3 are culpable here (and while NG received partial writing credit, he wasn’t an active part of this production, and should have had very little or no say at all on the final product) but the majority of writers don’t have the power or authority to nix something as important as the kiss was in S3. We’ve been told ‘The Script’ dictated there’d be no kiss in the Finale. Then we were told the kiss had been discussed on the set and it was ‘agreed’ it would have been repetitive and therefore left out. These statements just seem to be ‘blame tossing’ as if avoiding naming others who might have been involved.

Having written for American Television for over 30 years I can attest to exactly how little power most writers have over what ends up in the finished film. I realize GO was mainly a British production, but not entirely one (Prime is considered an American Production Company) and perhaps British writers have more authority regarding these things. But I doubt it.

I believe the decision to eliminate the kiss in the Finale also involved higher ups- the producers, the management of production companies, possibly the distribution company (which is also Amazon Prime - owned by Jeff Bezos, who’s fully on board with the current American President’s war on the LGBTQIA+ community).

On American sets, directors can make a call like this, but Rachael said she wasn’t the one to say no to the kiss. I believe her. Top tier actors on American sets, also have quite a bit of sway in this regard. This may not be true of top tier British actors or with British productions.

I doubt we’ll ever know everyone who weighed in on this decision. Like so much of Aziraphale and Crowley’s story it will remain irritatingly unresolved. But blaming solely the writers leaves out others I believe culpable. Just more grist for the meta mill.

As a side note - the 2026 Emmy Nomination process is currently underway. Good Omens S3 has been officially put up for nominations. The series who make the final cut of Emmy Nominees will be announced July 8,2026.

[thedeepmiracleperfection]

To everyone saying "they don't need to kiss to prove they're in love"

Do you understand the implications, especially in today's political climate, of a show that revolves heavily around a queer/queer-coded couple where the only onscreen kiss between said couple is their breakup? Especially one that explores themes of sin, forbidden love, religion, dogma, and high control groups? One where the character associated with hell is the one forcing the kiss and the character associated with Christian heaven (even if heaven in this case is bad) is the one who is not receptive to that affection? A show where the heaven associated character tells the one who kissed him "I forgive you"? One where the main characters have had to hide their relationship for fear of their lives in a storyline that is heavily analogous to the persecution of queer people? Where even in a scene that showed explicitly they were married, the show still would not deign to display physical intimacy between two men? Y'know, some of the most highly stigmatized kind of affection there is?

If they had never kissed at all, I wouldn't mind. But by kissing in season 2 when they broke up, they showed that they were willing to cross that line. They stopped being ambiguous in that moment. They're whole "we're not humans and don't show love like humans" went out the window when the show decided they would in fact engage in an overtly queer act. But the only time there is unambiguous queer affection is when it's used to separate the characters.

If they had never had a full on sex scene between two hetero characters who had just met in season 1, I wouldn't mind. But the show was more comfortable with displaying physical intimacy between a man and a woman that we never saw after season 1 than they were between the two main characters of the show.

If they hadn't had an ending that literally showed their wedding rings, showing that they clearly can and will display a queer couple and also conform to heteronormative standards by having them married at all, then I wouldn't mind. But they went as far as having the characters who famously had a relationship that was open to interpretation and put them in the husband/romantic partner box, but wouldn't dare go as far as physical intimacy?

I know that many people who are not amanormative or allonormative are frustrated that a relationship that was previously ambiguous/up for interpretation was boxed into a romantic label. But now that they have, it says something that they chose to display queer relationships, and they chose to display physical affection, but not both at the same time. It says something even if they didn't intend to. It's just too awfully convenient that the couples who are always subjected to "well you don't need to be physical to be in love" are the queer couples. In a political climate that promotes homophobia and violence against our community, increasingly sex negative and pro-censorship legislation regarding online spaces, and legislation that aims to categorize participating in anything remotely queer in public as a sex crime, I think anyone who looks at a story of romantic love between two masculine presenting people and says it's not necessary to have overt physical acts of affection has lost the plot.

It's a cop out, plain and simple. And queer fans deserved better.

[princess-spock]

[rainbowhyperfixation]

[image description: graphic which has text with some words emphasized by being in a different color. Text says “CAN YOU IMAGINE A STRAIGHT STORY WHERE THE MOST WE COULD HOPE FOR A REUNION OF LOVERS WOULD BE A KISS...

…AND THEN THEY DIDN'T KISS BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KISSED ONCE?”]

I said on numerous occasions between season 2 and 3 that if they can show two people who met 5 minutes ago have sex and also have a second implied sex scene, they can do the same for the two beings who have known each other for more than 6000 years. I didn’t forget about queerphobia. I just expected that a show that has been progressive in so many ways wouldn’t go backwards. I was wrong, on so many counts. And I’m heartbroken because of all the choices that the writers made

[lovesburntofferings]

The writers are culpable here, to a point, but writers alone don’t have the power or authority to nix something as important as the kiss was in S3. We’ve been told ‘The Script’ dictated there’d be no kiss in the Finale. Then we were told the kiss had been discussed and it was ‘agreed’ it would have been repetitive and therefore left out. These statements seem to be ‘blame tossing’.

Having written for American Television for over 30 years, and as such am a member of the WGA, I can attest to exactly how little power a writer has over what ends up on film. I realize GO was mainly a British production, but not entirely one. Prime is considered an American Production Company, and bound by WGA contracts.

I believe the decision to eliminate the kiss in the Finale involved higher ups- the producers, the production companies. On American sets, directors can make this call, but Rachael said she wasn’t the one to say no kiss. Top tier actors, on American sets, also have quite a bit of sway in this regard. This may not be true of British actors or with British productions.

I doubt we’ll ever know who exactly made this catastrophic decision. Like so much of Aziraphale and Crowley’s story it will remain unresolved. And it will continue to be damaging to the queer community for all the extremely well laid out reasons of the OP.

As a side note - the 2026 Emmy Nomination process is currently underway. Good Omens S3 has been officially put up for nomination. The final cut of Emmy Nominees will be announced July 8,2026.

[lovesburntofferings]

Saw a post on Instagram. It didn’t land until I had scrolled past, lost who the original poster was. So, this realization is not my own, but when it hit, it hit hard.

Anthony and Asa will never understand why a Nightingale’s Song meant so much to Aziraphale and Crowley.

*** Please - I don’t want to hear how Anthony and Asa are somehow Aziraphale and Crowley. To me, they are not. I respect other opinions but don’t want any comments about that on my blog. Thank you***

[tenderlywicked]

Crowley and Aziraphale, when united, are able to generate a 25 Lazarii miracle while Jesus (1/3 of God) is famous for his one (1) Lazarus miracle. Where does this blasphemous math equation lead me? Apparently, NOT in the direction it took the screenwriters in season 3 :(

[ineffabildaddy]

for all the people that are struggling to come to terms with the good omens finale and what it means for the fandom (myself included), i really really want to stress that you will not lose anything you don't want to lose because of it.

here's a list of things that are still here, that you can access anytime:

the book

the radio adaptation

season 1

season 2 (grab the bits you like and ignore the rest if necessary)

the bits of season 3 you did like (ignoring the rest may feel more difficult here but it is achievable i promise)

all the fanworks that exist already, whether they were created pre-tv adaptation, post-s1, post-s2 or post-s3

all of david and michael's interviews and other promo about the show pre-s3

the fans that are currently active in the fandom

the memories you've made in the fandom

and here's a list of things we can look forward to:

more fanworks/fanwork events, because people are still creating and will continue to do so

getting to know new good omens friends, whether they're new to the fandom or just new to you

in that vein, welcoming new fans to the fandom (it may not seem likely but new people will continue to seek us out!)

the final ineffable con and all the craziness and content that will come from that

people continuing to discover your fanworks, old and new

the moments where you'll start to feel the finale, the show in general and/or the fandom becoming easier to engage with again

most of all, aziraphale and crowley will always be there for you. i promise. i know it may feel like they're gone, but they're not, as long as we still watch them, think about them, read about them, write about them, draw them, cosplay them, talk about them... they want to be here, on earth, with all of us, and they are, i promise they are.