SlashWhore

Primarily: Good Omens and David Tennant. Rarely: my orig OTPs JohnLock and Gahore. My Tumblr: https://martinsharmony.tumblr.com/ My Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/martinsharmony

[martinsharmony]

My thoughts on Good Omens finale

Like anyone cares about little old me and what I think but I just wanted to say the things on my mind.

I took the day off to watch. I had my breakfast, attended to a little business and then when I was ready, darkened my room, silenced my phone and my computer and settled in. It was finally time.

I have to admit that I'm disappointed. I don't want to admit that though because I wanted it to be everything I always wanted it to be. All the promise that we were....promised.

I wanted a kiss. You have no idea how badly I wanted it (ok I know my audience - maybe you do know). An undeniable testiment and show of their love. No queerbaiting. I thought everything was leading up to that. Genuinely. I'm sad we didn't get it.

But I thought that about Sherlock too. And with Sherlock I felt the fans had been literally slapped in the face with that last episode. I don't necessarily feel that way about this.

I'm seeing some posts pointing out things and yes I have to say I agree to an extent. It could have been so much more. In fact, it was so much more. I really have to wonder what was changed? What was taken away? It does feel rushed and...unfinished.

There were lots of points that I feel went unaddressed: the whole allegory of queer love conquering adversity for example. The fact that them doing miracles together was SO powerful (because of their love for each other?) Or the entire basic premise of Good Omens being a satire on organized religion. Actually now that I think about it the resolution feels a bit too on the nose there.

Maybe this is just a big universal hint that something like this is so built up over so long it can never be what we want. We want too much.

The entire premise was just too powerful. Too perfect. It was the ship that could do everything. It was too much.

We were bound to be disappointed. I wanted it to be perfect but it was never going to be.

But, I'm also genuinely trying not to be disappointed.

I want to find the good bits. The hopeful bits. The bits that I can love. Mostly because I don't want this community and this fandom and my investment in it to be soured. I want to still feel a connection to it - somehow. I want to find a way. I need to find a way.

I want to believe everyone did the best job they could with what they had.

One thing I did love was what Aziraphale said about Crowley being the best Angel. Emotionally, that was the most satisfying part for me. All the while up until then I kept thinking that Aziraphale was being a bit too casual and flippant with Crowley and not acknowledging his pain and even taking a bit of advantage of him or taking him for granted. I kept hoping and waiting for them to really talk. For the truth to come out - for some kind of real confession or heart to heart. Some vehicle for them to make their mutual love known to each other. That confession bit came the closest for me, and Crowley took it to heart and was clearly touched by it. (although I did notice the tears were CG (can anyone confirm?). And yes I'm dissappointed about that too. I know David can summon the tears if he wants to). I mean yes God (where was Frances McDormand?) did literally say they loved each other but I wanted THEM to say it TO EACH OTHER. WITH WORDS.

The fact that Crowley literally said he was heartbroken, and was a drunk depressed mess but also sticking close by the bookshop continuing to protect it for YEARS even though Aziraphale wasn't there says volumes about Crowley's true deep love for Aziraphale, and how much pain he was in. There is a beautiful sadness in that.

And Aziraphale said Crowley was the best Angel. That right there says he loves him. But dammit I wanted it to be a bit more literal. And demonstrative. With tongue.

Even with all of that said I refuse to say it was awful or that we were robbed, etc. I have complicated feelings. I sort of think the minute that Season 2 came into existence where they came up with the love story - breaking them up in order to get them back together again - it became doomed.

Will I stop watching? No. Will I continue to obsess? Yes - for now. I know that my hyperfixation will eventually fade.

For now though I'm very much looking forward to what my dear fanfic writers will do with all of this. What fixits will they come up with? How will all of this information be incorporated into new fics and artwork? What new theories will people come up with about what Clues we missed? How things are maybe not as they seem? What easter eggs will we find? How will this finale be changed and expanded upon in ways that we will love?

I can't wait to find out.

Notes on 2nd watch

[theweight]

this orange was pregnant. Isn’t the world amazing

[martinsharmony]

Fetus in fetu orange

(when a baby is born with a twin INSIDE of it)

[crowleysgirl56]

TW: Neil Gaiman

So here’s an unfortunate reminder of the past. I’ve cut a screen grab of it rather than reblogging, because fuck that guy he doesn’t get another reblog out of me. I’ve also cut out the original questioner because I don’t think it’s fair to unnecessarily expose them even if the post is public.

I used to get so many notifications on people liking this reblog. Then when the allegations came out (which if I remember correctly was only days later) they thankfully trickled away. I got another one just now and it reminded me when I heard Aziraphale say pedometer in the finale it frankly felt like such a gut punch. Which is a shame considering it was during in what was, in my opinion, one of the best scenes in the finale.

It’s proof that what we got truly was all NG’s work and not something that was re-written as so many had assumed. The fact that this moment was also something preserved out of everything that had been cut, a thing specifically mentioned by NG and probably one of the last snippets we got before he was cancelled and thrust from this platform, is yet again another telling sign of how much the two other writers probably upheld his story and vision.

It has been sitting uneasy on my chest for over a fortnight now. I have more to say but will do so in another post.

[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.

[crowleysgirl56]

Name one other ending of a show that has ever done this to a fandom?

Sure people complain about Game of Thrones, or Supernatural and probably Stranger Things. But did it have people grieving and reeling and saying their safe space is gone?

What a legacy. What a horrific legacy to inflict on so many people. And then try and put Pratchett’s name on it. How dare they. How dare Amazon and the three asshole writers responsible for this.

Shame is a word not strong enough.

[martinsharmony]

Okay I commented but I'm reblogging to say my same comment because it's so obvious and people need to see it. Sherlock did this exact same thing. Slapped the fans in the face. Negated the premise that they were laying down. And IMO maliciously.

[sixidiotsdavidtennantfan]

Cough! Splutter! Thank you Steviesmithmakeup on instagram

[siriogold]

Ajwkgdjakamhdisahdgejjsmagdhshshahhhgahdjdksjssghh☝️🤩😍

[martinsharmony]

David Tennant is a fucking gorgeous Motherfucker

[enthusiasteditor]

Good Omens came out on 31 May 2019, and from that moment on, a lot of people's lives changed. Mine certainly did. Among the many things this series brought into my life, joining the fandom gave me the chance to learn more about aspects of humanity I hadn't had much exposure to before. It gave me the opportunity to explore the many nuances of sexuality, gender identity, and the different forms that love can take, in short, the endless variety of what it means to be human. I learned. I read. I listened. I observed. I understood. It opened my mind even further. And I carried those lessons into my everyday life and my work. I've been able to support people, push for changes in my workplace to make inclusion something real rather than just an assumption, and become a better version of myself. I hope, in some small way, I've helped make life a little better for others too. Whatever people may think about the controversies surrounding Season 3, no one can take this away from me: Good Omens made me a better person.

Happy Pride Month, everyone

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵🩷🖤

[martinsharmony]

I know I'm def more aware of trans and non binary people as a result of this show

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[martinsharmony]

I never knew how his worked. Thank you for explaining it.

Be VERY careful with torrents. I know someone who went to jail for child porn for 7 years but he was not looking for child porn. It was in the torrent file he downloaded. Police could prove it. He was banned from the Internet for life. This was many years ago but still.

[cactusflowermist]

It just gets worse when you think about how the ending was sadistically designed to mess with the audience. That became crystal clear in the script excerpt from the scene at the end: "Crowley swallows. Will this be the second kiss, a declaration of love to match Aziraphale's?" NOPE! Neil Gaiman actively encouraged an expectation that they would have a happy ending, only to viciously tear the rug out from under us. Why? Why put them in this fucked up situation in a COMEDY? Well, no one should have trusted an abuser with writing their ending.

NG really said "I'll give you a kiss, but you won't want it", for season 2, and then he gave us the South Downs ending that no one wanted (though some have accepted or embraced it, happily for them).

In a story where funny twists or loopholes like "actually you're not my father" and "isn't the great plan also the ineffable plan?" saved the day before, there would have been countless different endings that could have stayed true to the ending that Pratchett allegedly wanted, without falling into NG's grim, sadistic, darkness.

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[martinsharmony]

WHAT SCRIPT EXCERPT?

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[hag-o-hags]

Don't sleep on @queerliblib the Queer Liberation Library for all your queer Libby needs!

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen guest at Soccer Aid 2026

[scotchnlondonfogg]

And sitting next to none other than Olivia Colman!!!!

[martinsharmony]

I guess he got kicked out of the traitors house already?

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.

[kyra45]

To summarize it overall:

App acts like a browser but paywalls offline reading while reviews state it’s full of intrusive ads and lacks basic functionality such as commenting. Do not use this app. Use the ao3 website. The app uses Gen-AI content for imagery on categories and is essentially forcing people to pay if they want to read your fics offline.

By the way you don’t have to pay anything to read fics offline. You can do it for free using easily accessible resources that don’t cost anything.

You do not need to pay $1 every week, $2 every month, or even $18 a year. It can be done free! By anyone!

You can also turn ao3 into an app itself by adding it to your Home Screen. You don’t need to download shady apps.

[adulthumanproblem-deactivated20]

The way to read fics offline is by downloading them onto your device. AO3 lets you do this, in multiple file formats, right at the top of the page:

If you don't have a PDF reader on your phone, there are any free ones (I personally like ReadEra). Or you download it as HTML.

AO3 doesn't have an app, and doesn't need an app. Don't fall for this. There's no telling what they'll do with your login data.

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

[fujodotcom]

so you’re telling me rob wilkins, executive producer of all three seasons of good omens, of the “aziraphale wanted crowley to kiss him again” fame, hated good omens s3. you’re telling me that filming for s3 wrapped in february 2025 and at the ineffable con in august 2025 rob wilkins said two things: “nothing can top the kiss... apart from... i can't talk about season 3 can i" and that there’s no reason for there not to be more aziraphale and crowley, they have their lives to live together going forward. you’re telling me that in august 2025 it was also revealed that post production was still ongoing, meaning that s3 hadn’t yet been finalized into its final cut. not even mentioning the layers of neil gaiman psychological torture this entire thing fucking goes… you’re telling me rob was EXCITED after filming but DISAPPOINTED after the release? do you know what i say to all of that? #rwse. do you know what that means? ROB WILKINS SECRET ENDING

[itwasaniceday]

He's also been posting cryptic tweets about being silenced btw...

[fujodotcom]

I’M SORRY?

[itwasaniceday]

It's just Discworld quotes, but the one thing they all have in common is that they mention silence. These were posted in the days leading up to the finale, and he doesn't normally post things like that, so I've been wondering if it's connected haha

[ineffableserpent]

i think the people who called us media illiterate and dumb for not liking the ending and not believing it was the real sir terry prachetts ending owe all us anti go3-ers (thats a shit name. wtf are we called?) an apology dance lol

[martinsharmony]

Oh that's interesting

[mizgnomer]

Crowley’s hairstyles/looks - down through the ages

See also: The 2019 [ Season One ] version The 2023 [ Season Two ] version

Bonus: Professor Anthony J. Crowley, Physicist

[martinsharmony]

Oh I absolutely LOVE this

[shroomwar]

I think what bothers me most about the human version of Crowley at the end is that he truly is nothing like the Crowley we know, because he’s like Angel Crowley. This whole finale pushed a rhetoric that Crowley never deserved to fall, that he was the purest of them all, and that’s just…wrong. Even as an Angel, Crowley had faults. Prideful, dismissive, certainly not aligning with the good Angel archetype they’ve posthumously assigned to him. This gets especially infuriating if we consider demon Crowley as, on many levels, a metaphor for the effects of trauma. Crowley has said many times that the Angel he was is not who he is now, and we see that so clearly over the course of the show. He’s hurt and angry and tired, he’s clearly been impacted by the events that happened to him and that all plays in to his character. So for them to decide that all of that is irrelevant and discard it in favor of a watered down human version that reflects a self Crowley left behind long ago, it really feels like a slap in the face. It’s like they took all of what Crowley thought Aziraphale was saying in the final fifteen and made it reality. You only get to be loved if you are an angel. You only get to be loved if we erase the past that has shaped who you are. You only get to be loved as a memory of someone who no longer exists. And I just think that sends a really sad message.

[rainbowhyperfixation]

It looks like he wore the same wig for The Hack as at the end of the Good Omens finale 😅

[midnightblue767]

Well!

[adevilputaside4me]

Oh shit.

(Marc Burrows wrote the biography for Terry Pratchett.)