Good Omens Answers We Never Got

Nothing ever begins... but my Tumblr habit began with the Eccles Cakes then I fell down the rabbit hole.

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Aziraphale's spectrum (one of the many) from

I'm a soft marshmallow filled with fluffy clouds, please hug me

to

You're my b*tch

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Today I was in the mood for a bit of Aziraphale.

[theogdeadpoet]

!GOOD OMENS 3 SPOILERS!

Do I think that Asa and Anthony were cute? Yes. Do I also hate them? Yes. Let me explain. Throughout television history there has always been the same tropes for queer characters: Predetory, misrable, bullied, alone, in a relationship but only if they're the side character, and death. We have seen this over and over and over again.

We've seen it in supernatural with Castiels' dying confession, in Stranger Things with Will's humiliating coming out, the end of any byler hope as we knew it and the completely unnecessary rovicky breakup, in movies like Brokeback Mountain, As You Are, and Maurice where the whole plots are built off of tragedy. And when we do get positive representations of queer people and their relationships their respective shows/movies get cancelled or pushed aside, for example: I am Not Okay Wth This, The Owl House, and Shera and the Princesses of Power (And I would absolutely love to get into the under-representation of queer women in media another day).

SOOOO, when Good Omens got adapted for TV and popularized people were excited to finally have a piece of queer media with queer characters that didnt end in tragedy, that spread the message that everything would end up okay in the end (I also admit that I'm relatively new to the GO fandom so I'm not 100% sure as to what people felt like at the time but I'm speaking from my own experience of watching the show and consuming older fan media of it as well). As I watched the show I felt so overjoyed to see such a beautiful relationship on screen, it was so refreshing (especially after being in the pits of doom and despair aka the supernatural/destiel fanspace for so long) to see these lovable characters learn and grow and be happy with one another.

Then the end of season 2 came up and EVERYTHING changed, all of a sudden the queer despair came back and Aziraphale and Crowly couldn't be happy and together anymore because aparently you can't have queer media without some sort of tragedy!!!!! After the dramatic, painful, and OUT OF CHARACTER end of season 2 it all just became a snowballing boulder of shit. I got to season 3 and all of the positivity and hope of the show had been completely sucked out of it. It had completely lost its message. And by the end of the movie all hope had been lost. Here we went again with two of our favorite queer characters dying a completely avoidable death. Another unhappy ending. Another tally in the book of queer tragedy. Which brings me back to Asa and Anthony. Like I said in the beginning I thought the whole idea of them finding each other in every universe was very cute, but that being said, Asa and Anthony were NOT Aziraphale and Crowly. They were not the MAIN characters we had grown to love and relate to, Asa and Anthony were simply side characters to a much bigger and more interesting story put in to help us forget that very few shows, writers, and producers will ever let us have a queer couple in the spotlight. It shows that they will never be brave enough to give queer people a chance to shine.

And that's my ted talk

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Lol just red this

No matter what his parents assumed, a bow tie was not the gateway drug to crop tops and assless chaps.

My new favourite human AU fic

The Regret List by anatomicgirl

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58351150/chapters/150447991#workskin

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I can't believe that after watching GO2, amongst all my other meta posts, I posted about Jim reading the first line from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and hoped it wasn't foreshadowing someone sacrificing themselves for the greater good.

Jim read, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." First line of ATOTC.

The book ends with Carlton, a cynical, directionsless alcoholic who feels his life has no meaning, sacrificing himself on the guillotine (set during the French Revolution) so that love of his life can have a happy life with someone who looks identical to him and says, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

Fuck you Crowley. I bet you watched the film with Dirk Bogart as Carlton. But Carlton didn't drag the rest of the universe with him and Asa is not Aziraphale even if you'd like to think you are Prof AJ Crowley.

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Crowley making Aziraphale sad in the Bentley

How's that working out for you?

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Thank someone for AO3. Just read this paragraph this morning and all is now well in my world

Crowley laughed. “Definitely. We spent 6,000 years NOT kissing, so we should spend the next 6,000 years kissing as much as we can.”

“You’re assuming Earth has another 6,000 years,” Aziraphale said sadly. “We might not be able to stop Armageddon.”

“We’ll stop it,” Crowley said with confidence. “Because anything less than eternity isn’t enough time to love you properly.”

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Berwick street in Soho.

A corner shop with heavenly and down below themed businesses.

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David getting nominated for playing Crowley in GO3 makes me want to rage into the void.

Yes he acted his socks off but so did Michael. They are supposed to be two halves of the same soul. How did that get lost along the way? It just ended up as the Crowley show.😞

[mistysblueboxstuff]

soft Azi i painted yesterday

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[tadfieldwhickberchronicles]

Aziraphale you deserved so much better Pookie 🥺 I'm sorry you'll never get to rail your hot demon boyfriend, you would have made him seen the stars he loves so much

[lovesburntofferings]

I miss the days of Aziraphale and Crowley ridiculously sharing half a brain cell. I miss Crowley being a clever, optimistic demon, gluing coins to sidewalks and messing with cell towers and the M25. I miss Aziraphale being a fussy, prim and oh so posh connoisseur of everything hedonistic, most especially Crowley.

I miss the days when thinking of them together wasn’t some complicated gymnastic exercise. When they had eternity. When they looked at each other with a fierce and protective love, because that’s what filled their unnecessary hearts.

I miss it.

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Thank you Pinknews

[kandelyabr55]

[tadfieldwhickberchronicles]

Aziraphale you deserved so much better Pookie 🥺 I'm sorry you'll never get to rail your hot demon boyfriend, you would have made him seen the stars he loves so much

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Crowley with Georgia at Wimbledon final today

Seriously David. It was so hot and you wore a black suit.

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Ooh new Michael Sheen film

Michael Sheen's "entirely unpredictable" Welsh sci-fi confirms first UK screening

It has been described as a "joyous celebration of eccentric outsiders".

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