[kyumo-02]

whats going on in the apostolic palace man

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(1) Good Omens: 2.05 The Ball (2019 - 2023) // (2) Pride and Prejudice (2005) // (3) Pride and Prejudice (1995)

[rebelcaptain4life]

Crowley believes the most romantic thing is love confessions in the rain. Aziraphale believes the most romantic thing is regency-style balls. Therefore their favourite movie to watch together is Pride and Prejudice (2005). In this essay I will

[drugstoreperfumemp3]

I'm gonna get the humans out of here and then I'm coming back. I won't leave you on your own.

GOOD OMENS - 2.06 Every Day (for queerbuck)

[doomedvoyages]

I actually don't hate aziraphale going back to heaven. I think heaven is trying to co-opt his resistance to it to cut it off at its knees just as the state co-opts the language of resistance to it to control it. I think we'll see a lot of "praise be to God for sending us Aziraphale to show us the previous leadership was going afoul of Her plan! Good thing everything is okay now and no one needs to look deeper at any systemic issues here because now we've got Aziraphale at the reigns!" next season, just as we see companies fire problematic ceos and hire their own critics to Change Things.

But I think fundamentally heaven is both a day job and a cult he was born into for aziraphale. He doesn't sincerely believe in it, tho he has internalized some of its rhetoric, but he has to pretend to for his own safety, and his own safety and comfort is paramount to aziraphale. He likes having a nice work/life balance that keeps him safe and secure but also happy and comfortable. Ultimately, armageddon forces him to confront the tension between what he really feels and what heaven has told him to believe in, and hes willing to sacrifice his own safety and possibly his life to do what he thinks is right. He's willing to do that both because it's what he believes in, and because if armageddon succeeds, his comfortable position will be taken from him anyway. he suddenly has nothing to lose by resisting heaven.

I think the mistake in season 2 was not making the stakes feel higher, and not putting enough pressure on crowley and aziraphale. The Book of Life threat is mentioned, but it doesn't feel like it has weight, and the moment it should feel most significant--when Michael brings it up--it feels like an empty threat, and it's immediately dismissed by the Metatron. Heaven and hell also don't feel like real threats. they kinda just show up and idle around, and the demon siege at the end also feels pretty empty. Aziraphale and Crowley also dont even really seem that worried throughout the season.

I think aziraphale would go back to heaven, and ask Crowley to come with him, if he was made to feel really afraid that heaven and hell might never really leave them alone, that they will never be free, that there are still tools they could and will use against them, and accepting this offer by the metatron is the best way to keep them safe. but they needed to establish that feeling and that pressure throughout the season, and the ultimate conversation should've gone a little differently. I don't think aziraphale would ever ask Crowley to come back to heaven unless he's begging him to do it for his own safety

[ambulancelivedebut]

actually this needs its own post. gomens book is about humanism. gomens tv is about azcrow being gay. this is their fundamental difference

[ambulancelivedebut]

my 2021 prediction is that neil gaiman is gonna make a terrible ooc season 2 of good omens

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DATE OF ORIGIN NOV 5 2020

[catchymemes]

Water biscuits

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is a spiritual companion to that exclamation point kitty.

[littleguysdaily]

[snufkinofficial]

imagine if you told someone you were in love with him and he was like sorry. I have to go reform the two party system

[ato-dato]

Aziraphale, I’m getting a feeling You're not taking movie night seriously

[violet-witch-6]

Gonna be real, my first time watching THAT scene I honestly wasn’t sure how they were ever gonna patch things up because I can’t even imagine the pain of standing in Crowley’s place after 6,000 years of loving someone in silence, trying to show them who you are at every opportunity, painstakingly chipping away at the delusion they’ve bought into since the beginning (more than you ever did) in order to show them the truth—to show them who you are (who the two of you could be together) —and then just as you’ve finally worked up the courage to lay it all out there and toss the dice hoping (with what, for the first time, you’re starting to believe are less than doomed odds) that they’ll love you back and that it will be enough—only for all of it to be dragged out from under you because they look you in the eye and all but tell you that they never understood you at all. They weren’t listening. And, sure they want what you want (to be together), they love you back (still unspoken but legible in the way they glow at the thought that they might still save you) (as if you need saving) (as if you’d want it)—but not as you are. They think the change they ask of you would be received as a grace and the betrayal of that is gut wrenching in a way that no flat out rejection could be, I think. If I were Crowley, I can’t imagine how I’d come back from that.

But then I watched the scene again. The moments after that betrayal. Once Crowley’s put his glasses back on, raised his defenses and sounded the retreat. I wondered, watching the scene again, how it could ever reach the point where the kiss made sense when they were already so torn apart. But the thing is that no matter how wrong Aziraphale was to want things to go back to the “way they were”, everything that led him to that conclusion comes from the thing Crowley loves most about him: his goodness. Aziraphale is good in a way that heaven is not, and Crowley knows that, but Aziraphale still hasn’t learned that lesson. He wants so desperately still to believe in god and heaven and the ineffable plan and even though it’s that desire that’s led him to hurt Crowley, I don’t think Crowley can completely begrudge him. By the time Crowley’s walking out of the book shop, the betrayal has already faded—not gone, but less than when compared to his sadness for Aziraphale and what his angel is going to go through when heaven lets him down (again)—assuming that it doesn’t just break him.

And the kiss—that fucking kiss (be still my beating heart)—that was Crowley planting a seed. “I know better than you do” he says and he does because Crowley has always been more honest with himself than Mr. “Master class in self delusion” A. Z. Fell. Aziraphale is about to be more alone and more lost than he has been in 6,000 years, so Crowley needed to make 100% clear to him where solid ground was. Aziraphale won’t be able to rationalize this away or hide behind propriety because it can only mean one thing and that is that he is in love with a demon whose on his own side with no interest in ever rejoining the heavenly host because heaven is not the epitome of goodness or love that he so desperately wants to believe it is. It’s not even capable of being that—no matter how hard Aziraphale tries to bend it back into what he thinks is it’s natural shape (because isn’t that what he wants so desperately to do as chief archangel? To make heaven the place he’s always thought it was?). Crowley really said “whatever you do next, do it knowing I love you”. He said “I’m done letting you ignore this.” And I get it. Cards on the table means cards on the table. No more half measures no more dancing around it—any of it. If Aziraphale wants to walk into the belly of the beast, then the least Crowley can do is make sure he’s doing it with his eyes wide open.

[wompbrat]

i do love good omens bc like realizing that christianity is a prison and virtue is a scam and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying life to the fullest……..that’s a gay story

[wompbrat]

bringing back this (so naive, so innocent) post from a few days ago to comment re the issues of like. is homophobia at play in this story or not. because it absolutely is whether the characters know it or even the writers know it. like how am i as a gay person supposed to watch this and not read it as a story of gay love triumphing over religious trauma

[wompbrat]

@weirdgirlcore thank you for putting this into words

[katistry]

ICANT BREAHTEDSEEEEE

[the-ratt-kingg]

Ello’ Ello’ Ello’

[wordsinhaled]

thinking about how much crowley and aziraphale have been getting slammed for their poor communication and on the one hand... absolutely, i agree 100%. they have so much work to do in that department, they are always missing each other when it comes to seeing what they each want from the other and expressing it clearly. but on the other hand... like... encompassing six thousand years into a conversation? six thousand years of knowing each other. six thousand years of gravitating toward one another

like... the bit that really gets me, in crowley's confession, is - "...and we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't. i mean, the last few years, not really" - this implication that like... at least on crowley's part... since they saved the world together he's allowed himself to be more open in how he feels about aziraphale. that in his mind he's already long since chosen Their Side, they've chosen their side in their behavior towards each other, and they've talked about... our car, our shop, but even before that...

we see in the minisodes, the way they already act. they're a pair that shows rather than tells all the time and it's so abundantly clear that everyone around them can see it, is constantly asking about it, assuming it, reading it on them like they're an open book - with everyone but each other.

but like how do you put into clumsy human words how much love you feel for someone who stood next to you while you created the stars? who helped you create them? how do you say openly how you feel to the one person who understands you and your nature better than anyone else, who indulges your every whim because they want to see you happy while everyone else says you were built wrong, you're too indulgent, you're too soft but you're perfect for him, specifically, because you stood at the beginning of the universe together?

like how are they supposed to talk about that? especially when it's so forbidden to talk about that?

there are so few words that truly feel like they properly encompass what love truly and genuinely means? what loving someone TRULY means? how it's giving up your onliness and entrusting yourself into the hands of another, now you're not just you, now you're you but the world is brighter and sharper and more beautiful because of another? how we're all stuck on a spinning rock in the middle of space in the middle of the universe in the middle of the galaxy in the middle of eternity just little grains of sand and then there's another little grain of sand in the scheme of things, but it's the most important one ever created because of how happy it makes you?

but multiply that by six thousand years

so like of course you fucking cry and you stare at each other with tears in your eyes like you're absolutely ESSENTIAL to one another. but like how do you make it work in words when you don't know if there are even words for the prospect of existing without one another? and you have this absolutely incandescent and fragile thing between you that everyone understands to exist, you understand it to exist too, and sometimes it is scary as fuck to admit that you need someone. it is terrifying and uncomfortable and vulnerable and we're just people who live maybe 100 years on this earth? a blink of an eye compared to six thousand years of shared existence?

like...? truthfully i don't think i could talk about it easily either because oh my god that's fucking terrifying. that six thousand years of your comfortable and beloved shared existence could go up in smoke with one misplaced word. like no fucking WONDER he can't get the words out. and no fucking wonder, it's easier to couch things in terms like group and team and everything when you're on the verge of falling apart into a million pieces because the other half of your soul wants to leave you behind. it's easier to say come with me, work with me, be my second in command, than to admit he's first in your heart and mind every second of every day since you saw him bringing light at the beginning of the universe???

just... you know? they need a fucking break. they need a vacation. they need a cottage in the south fucking downs

[mymultifandomhell]

i'm doing great btw :)

[nephiliminality]

One of my favourite blink-and-you'll-miss-it Good Omens S2 moments:

Before Aziraphale fixes the phone:

After Aziraphale fixes the phone:

I wonder if the BBC spotted that 😂