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they/xe, 18 don’t know how tumblr works :p

[minksmallow]

i just thought of an idea to help flesh out character personalities :>

so i'm trying to make a personality for a character but just writing a list or a formal paragraph just doesn't portray the vibe of how he'd interact with people in his universe. so i started writing "interview answers" - a collection of short responses from other characters in the universe if they were being asked about my OC in an interview. "What do you think about [Character]? What kind of person are they?" type vibes. this way i'm finding it a lot easier to understand how other characters see him and how they think he sees himself based on the interactions they've had with him.

the responses aren't from real characters bc i dont really have any others in his universe at the moment (and i think that's helpful because actual characters might not have such specific insight on his personality and intentions) but if i DID then i could use those responses to create a more tangible dynamic between the characters to better understand their relationship, how they see each other and how they interact :D

[gayforgoodomens]

if biblical lore is fully canon in good omens (which i suspect it is, since we have all the major stories such as eden, the ark, sodom, and jesus being referenced in the show), i…really want people to explore the story of Job. because i truly think the story would have been a huge, huge catalyst and turning point in aziraphale and crowley’s relationship and opinions of heaven, hell and god

…or maybe i just want someone to write about aziraphale going “well it’s ok, his trials are over and he has new children now”, and crowley truly being angry at him for the first time and yelling that you don’t throw away children and replace them with new ones like god seems so fond to do

[gayforgoodomens]

I can’t believe it

[minksmallow]

regarding one of the differences between angels and demons,

we know that all angels (including demons) can sense things. in season 1, aziraphale can sense the Love when they arrive at the convent. in season 2, crowley senses Something Bad when shax's demons start arriving on earth. so they can all sense things, this is something they share. however, i think they use this ability in different ways. we know that crowley doesn't recognise people by appearance, he rather senses them (whether that be by scent or just vibes, i'm not sure. lets go with vibes for the sake of this post because that's my preference).

he instantly recognises aziraphale in madam tracy's body because he's not looking for aziraphale, he's sensing him. of course he knows what other people look like (aziraphale, beelzebub's difference in face, the way the metatron is usually a floating head), but that's not the factor he uses to identify them.

similarly, shax knows that gabriel is in the bookshop. she just doesn't know that he's jim because of the miracle. she knows because she can sense him, because the fly is in the bookshop, and the fly contains all of gabriel's Gabriel. she doesn't recognise his face at all, none of them do. (i mention this because michael later on questions jim and asks if they've met before. she recognises him moreso than shax because she's going by appearance, but obviously it's still buffered by the miracle). so that's two demons that use pure Vibes to identify people.

but angels are the opposite - they can ONLY recognise each other by physical appearance. which is a bit weird since they're celestial beings, but i'll get into that later. when gabriel meets beelzebub for the first time after zzze's changed zzzir appearance, he doesn't recognise zzzir. at all. beelze has to almost convince him that zzze is beelzebub. he doesn't recognise zzzir by vibes, only by zzzir face - which has changed. he's completely clueless lol

and when the metatron comes into the bookshop in episode 6, NONE of the angels recognise him because he's not a giant floating head anymore. and there are like 5 or 6 of them in there, so it's kinda a thing that so many of them can't recognise their BOSS when he walks into the room. but crowley recognises him. he doesn't need to be a giant floating head for crowley to know that that's the metatron. the angels are so oblivious that they can't even recognise their boss if he doesn't look EXACTLY how they expect him to, but crowley senses him the same way the demons sense everybody.

i always remind myself that at their core, demons are still angels, but every now and then something like this throws me. i definitely think that the sensory thing is something that the demons developed after the fall when they all started changing their appearances to be more, well, demonic. the angels never had a reason to try and recognise each other after a change in appearance, i suppose, but the demons did, and now they have an ability that the angels don't (or at least one that the angels aren't in touch with).

this was just an observation. not sure how it managed to turn into a short essay lmao

[perpetualcontrolleddrowning]

Something something the way that Crowley introduced himself to Aziraphale the first time they met in the garden and reacted as if they had never met before. Something about him later behaving as if he did actually have those memories of their time in Heaven together and trying to pass it off as being someone different now. Something about Heaven's way of punishing angels that go against the plan by erasing their memories. Something about Crowley seeing Gabriel without his memory and saying "ask him properly." Something about "remember it now" "it hurts, to remember. my head isn't built for that" "I know. Do it anyway"

Something about "I know. Looking at where the furniture isn't"

Something about I know

[nice-and-accurate-ramblings]

Okay. Okay. Okay. But- Aziraphale saying “I forgive you” to Crowley and him responding with “don’t bother”, when Aziraphale has used that phrase in the past to convey, “you’re wrong”. The “don’t bother” resonating so much like “unforgivable, that’s what I am” from season one, conveying something very painfully much like, “don’t go forgiving me when I haven’t done anything wrong. I’m not apologizing.”

The way that Crowley refuses to apologize for questioning heaven is the same way he refuses to apologize for loving Aziraphale- I’m not sorry, and don’t you dare think that I am.

[nice-and-accurate-ramblings]

Okay. Okay. Okay. But- Aziraphale saying “I forgive you” to Crowley and him responding with “don’t bother”, when Aziraphale has used that phrase in the past to convey, “you’re wrong”. The “don’t bother” resonating so much like “unforgivable, that’s what I am” from season one, conveying something very painfully much like, “don’t go forgiving me when I haven’t done anything wrong. I’m not apologizing.”

The way that Crowley refuses to apologize for questioning heaven is the same way he refuses to apologize for loving Aziraphale- I’m not sorry, and don’t you dare think that I am.

[kanav86]

No way Crowley being 'stuck by lightning' and God asking Job "can you send out lightning and have it come back and report to you?" was a coincidence.

[inconveniently-discorporated]

It also kind of stood out to me that God went on so long about whales, considering the whole "AND THE WHALES! BRAIN CITY, WHALES"

Did Crowley help make whales?

[minksmallow]

there are so many implications that crowley was a higher up angel. i mean, these both imply he worked very closely with god in the past (and that they were hashtag besties), and in episode 1 she states that she worked closely with upstairs in creating the nebula :>

creating the nebula alone must’ve been a very important job, considering that it’s the home of the Earth where all of gods plans were made to take place, so who else to take care of it than an important angel that god trusts?

[neil-gaiman]

I've watched the recently released season 2 of Good Omens, and I know a third series is dependent upon the audience and the writer's strike. In the unfortunate event that Good Omens is not renewed for a season three, would you consider releasing a script book of what would have happened for the fans to read?

No, I'd write a novel.

[pafupai]

wallpapers/lockscreens of rebecca sugars art! (mostly her “hoodie” series) please like or reblog if you use 💕

[zoestorm]

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

[wizardbracket]

Round 1: Match 60 of 64

Castiel (Supernatural) vs. Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Castiel

Aziraphale

Voting ended onApr 10, 2023

Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:

Castiel:

"he does things no one else can, and he wears an iconic outfit"

Aziraphale:

"Look, I know he's an angel... but I love him. And he does magic tricks and magicians are kind of like wizards!!"

[wizardbracket]

Re-blogging all of the close polls (within 5%)

[signerjarts]

“Jolene" 

 Your beauty is beyond compare

I shudder from your Eldritch stare 

With scaly skin and fins of emerald green

[alexiswalkingonsunshine]

Why would you leave this gem in the tags

[fierceawakening]

ONE FOR THE MONSTER FUCKERS

[chillqu33n]

Comfortable mornings ☀️

Once again me drawing in tiny canvas these two

[simply-brightly-zee]

Folks let me talk about Crowley and sunglasses, because I have a lot of emotions about when he wears them and when he doesn’t, and Hiding versus Being Seen.

We’re introduced to the concept of Crowley wearing glasses even before we’re introduced to Crowley, by Hastur: “If you ask me he’s been up here too long. Gone native. Enjoying himself too much. Wearing sunglasses even when he doesn’t need them.”

Honestly Crowley’s whole introduction is a fantastic; we learn so much about his character in a tiny amount of time. The fact that he’s late, the Queen playing as the Bentley approaches, the “Hi, guys” in response to Hastur and Ligur’s “Hail Satan”. I like this intro much better than the one originally scripted with the rats at the phone company, but I digress.

Crowley wears sunglasses when he doesn’t need them. Specifically, he still wears them around the demons, and when he’s in hell.

You know where Crowley doesn’t wear glasses? At home.

We never once see him wearing glasses in his flat, except for when he knows Hastur and Ligur are coming. That’s an emotional kick to the gut for me. Here’s one of the only places Crowley’s comfortable enough to be sans glasses, and when he knows it’s going to be invaded he prepares not just physically with the holy water, but by putting up that emotional barrier in a place where he wasn’t supposed to need it.

An argument could be made that Crowley actually never needs glasses. We’re shown that it’s well within the angels’ and demons’ powers to pass unnoticed by humans. Crowley and Aziraphale waltz out of the manor in the middle of a police raid, and going unnoticed by the police takes so little effort that they can keep up a conversation while they stroll through. Even an unimaginative demon like Hastur apparently doesn’t have trouble with the humans losing it over his demonic eyes. The humans in the scene at Megiddo are acting like “this guy is a little weird” and not “holy shit his entire eyeballs are black jelly”

That means that Crowley’s glasses are a choice, just like Aziraphale’s softness. Sure, he could arrange matters so that nobody ever noticed his eyes, but he doesn’t want to. Crowley wants acceptance, and he wants to belong, and he’s never, ever had that. He didn’t fit in before the Fall in Heaven, he doesn’t fit in with the demons in Hell. With the glasses, and with the Bentley and his plants and with the barely-bad-enough-to-be-evil nuisance temptations, he’s choosing Earth. This is where he wants to fit in, perhaps not with the humans, but amongst them.

Even after Crowley is at his absolute lowest, when he thinks Aziraphale’s dead and he’s on his way to drink until the world ends, he takes the time to put a new pair on when the old ones are damaged. He needs that emotional crutch right now, even with everything about to turn into a pile of puddling goo he’s not ready for the world to see his eyes.

Which is why I swore out loud when Hastur forcibly takes them off.

It’s about the worst thing that Hastur could have done. Rather than leading with a physical threat, his first act is to strip away Crowley’s emotional defences. It’s a great writing choice because god it made me hate Hastur, even more than all the physical violence we see him do.

It’s also the moment that Crowley really truly gets his shit together, and focuses all of his considerable imagination on getting to Tadfield and Aziraphale to help save the world. He’s wielding the terrifyingly unimaginable power of someone who’s hit rock bottom and realised it literally could not get any worse than this. He doesn’t put another pair of glasses on after discorporating Hastur, and he spends the majority of the airbase sequence without them.

He puts them back on again, I think, at the moment that he really lets himself hope. When he thinks ‘shit, there may be a real chance that we get through this to a future that I don’t want to lose’.

The vulnerability is back, and he needs Adam to trust him. In Crowley’s mind being accepted by a human means he needs to have his eyes hidden. Someone give the demon a hug, please.

Interestingly, there’s only one time in the whole series that we see Crowley willingly choose to take his glasses off around another person. Only one person he’ll take down that barrier for, and even then he’s drunk before he does it.

Dear God/Satan/Someone that makes my heart ache. Crowley’s chosen Earth, but he’s also chosen Aziraphale. He’s been looking for somewhere to belong his entire existence, and it’s with the angel that he finally feels it.

When the dust settles and the world is saved and they finally have space to be themselves unguarded, I like to imagine Crowley takes off the glasses when it’s just the two of them; the idea of being known doesn’t scare him quite so much anymore.  

[angelite-and-serpentine]

I reblogged this post this morning, and I’ve literally been thinking about it all day. (I mean what a good analysis @theladyzephyr​!!) 

In particular, I’ve been thinking about how this idea applies to the sunglasses in the Aziraphale as Crowley scenes. On one hand, maybe the rule of sunglasses as a way to create an emotional boundary doesn’t hold up in these scenes, because we’re dealing with Aziraphale. 

Now, personally, I think Aziraphale knows Crowley well enough to knows when and why Crowley chooses to wear his sunglasses. Maybe he doesn’t get every individual reason as to why, but we never see Aziraphale push the boundary with the sunglasses. He doesn’t joke about them. He doesn’t force Crowley to take them off. He just accepts the sunglasses, because he understands and respects that they are important to Crowley. 

So we then we have the swap, and Aziraphale!Crowley is brought to Hell. 

During Crowley’s trial, Aziraphale chooses to keep the glasses on. This is very in line with Crowley’s character. He’s in Hell, surrounded by demons who want him dead, and he’s just watched the archangel Michael pour him a lovely bath of holy water. This is to say, in this situation Crowley would 100% be scared and need the security of the glasses. 

And then we see Crowley in the bathtub. 

No sunglasses. This is where we see Aziraphale breaking from Crowley’s character. 

Why is this breaking character? Because Crowley, when handling holy water in ep5 to set up for Hastur and Lingur, has his glasses on. Yes, he’s in battle mode, but the directors could have decided that he put on his glasses after Home Alone-ing his apartment. They don’t. Instead, we have this scene with Crowley in his glasses pouring the holy water into a bucket, and I think that it’s partially because Crowley is aware that he could screw up here. He could end up in a puddle of goo before Hastur and Lingur turn up, and part of dealing with that potential reality is by hiding behind the sunglasses. 

So back to the bathtub. If Crowley was about to face his extinction in front all of Hell, he sure as fuck wouldn’t take off his glasses. 

But Aziraphale chooses to take the glasses off. 

There are a couple reasons he might have done this. He might have wanted to keep the glasses free from holy water, like the coat, not wanting to risk potential harming Crowley when they switch back. This is a cute idea truly, but we also know that Crowley has back up glasses and, honestly, Aziraphale would have bought him new ones anyway (again, like the coat). 

Aziraphale might have also removed the glasses, because maybe he doesn’t know when or why Crowley wears his glasses. This seems unlikely, because, I mean, this is Aziraphale we’re talking about. He knows Crowley better than anyone. 

So that leaves us with the idea that this was a deliberate choice. Aziraphale decided that the sunglasses needed to be removed. And, in doing so, he creates a tremendous amount of power for Crowley. Taking off the sunglasses is a louder fuck you than any ask for a rubber duck or a towel could have been. 

By removing the sunglasses, Aziraphale!Crowley has essentially said “I am not afraid of you. I am comfortable as myself. You cannot hurt me.” It’s powerful. 

And then there’s one more detail. 

Aziraphale!Crowley has also chosen to go full demon eyed, instead of the human/demon eye that Crowley uses throughout most of the series. And I think that this choice was to further reinforce this idea of Crowley taking his power back. The full demon eyes take away the humanness of Crowley (which we, as viewers, know is a good trait, but the demons of Hell see humanness more negatively), but it replaces that humanness with an incredible amount of self acceptance/ confidence. In other words, this is Aziraphale saying “Try me bitch,” while all the other poo their pants. 

Aziraphale!Crowley survives, and our bois get back together. 

And the sunglasses are back on. This was also Aziraphale’s decision, and, to me, this is Aziraphale acknowledging that Crowley still needs that emotional barrier. He’s back in character. Back to understanding and acting as Crowley, because he knows that his display would be enough to keep Crowley safe for the time being. 

Anyway, if I don’t stop here, I’ll never stop talking about Crowley’s sunglasses. But here! Have a gif of Aziraphale walking like Crowley. My treat. Thanks for reading!

[notachaconne]

Oh I missed this one and it is excellent. Taking off the glasses to get in the bath is a key component of Aziraphale playing Crowley as he sees him: the cool badass. It’s mind-bending what the two actors are doing here. Now I want to go back and, as well as the slightly rolling walk, look for details of how Crowley plays Aziraphale (as an officer, a gentleman, and a badass).

[twilightcitysky]

I had seen the first part of this meta but not the second, and the whole thing is absolutely excellent ❤️.

[neil-gaiman]

My apologies if this has already been answered, but I have a question about Aziraphale’s bookstore in Good Omens. I read that the set was burned down for the last part of filming for season one, but I’m assuming that it is still a location in season two. Did the team have to rebuild the front for season two filming? Was the interior shot in a different place so it could be salvaged? Thank you for any answers you can provide.

The bookshop in the first season was shot on a disused airfield in Bovingdon, so it could be safely burned down.

The bookshop in the second season, along with a lot more of Soho than the first season, has been built inside a studio in Bathgate, in Scotland. It’s a lot warmer, and there are also places in the bookshop that were only implied in the first season that we visit in the second. Like upstairs.

Our production designer, Michael Ralph had the plans for the bookshop, so he just had them build it again. His wife Bronwyn had a slightly harder task: to track down all the things that were IN the bookshop and find them again. And because she is a miracle worker, she did.

[neil-gaiman]

And a reminder that you've known that the bookshop has an upstairs for at least a year as well. I'm watching people melt down over me telling you things I told you long ago. If you want to learn things about Good Omens season 2, you could do worse than just read the archives of this here Tumblr from about the Summer of 2021 onwards...

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Reading Neil’s archive is always a joy! :)

Also, you can try the Season 2 masterpost I made, the summary post about episodes, and the season 2 tag on my blog with everything season 2 :).

[wisesnail]

Did someone say SEASON 2???! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[ratfish-blues]

The change in Nadja and Lazlo's relationship from season one where both of them had slept with The Baron but hadn't told the other about it and Nadja worried about Lazlo and the Baron's meeting being awkward to this last episode where they're openly communicating about their mutual desire for The Baron and encouraging each other's sexual interests while still being obviously in love with one another. Like, both scenes were played for comedy but it does speak to a new level of openness and trust with one another that Lazlo and Nadja simply didn't have in season one and it is so cool to see how their relationship can develop and progress even after hundreds of years like the writers did such a good job with this.