Thorki & Good Omens

ADULTS ONLY, NSFW AO3: FiveStillAlive Twitter: @Fivestillalive1 Thorki fan, fic writer.

[runnerfivestillalive]

What if Too Late is just part of being a demon? Part of the curse? Black wings and strange eyes and Too Late. You meet a pretty angel, the one who saw you make the star factory, and he gave away his sword and he shields you from the rain, and you think you’re in love, but it’s too late, you already chose your side, and it wasn’t his.

You meet a pretty angel, and he’s upset at God’s choices, and he stands in a burning building because he knows you won’t hurt these people, and he lies to Heaven, and he asks to go with you to Hell, but it’s too late, you already know what Hell does to pretty angels like him.

You meet a pretty angel, and he always tries to be better than Heaven made him, and he robs graves at your side, and he steadies you when you’re drunk, and he tells you how kind you were, and his hands are so warm, but it’s too late, Hell’s hold on you is stronger than the earth beneath your feet.

You meet a pretty angel, and he follows you out of the church you destroyed, and he puts a gun in your hands and tells you to aim for his head, and he saves you from Hell with a trick he learned the hard way, and he’s so happy to be with you, but it’s too late, you can’t risk losing him now.

You meet a pretty angel, and he helps you raise a child, and you smile together, and you drink together, and you talk about eternity, and you invite him to come with you to see the stars, but it’s too late, he loves this world you’ve shown him, and he won’t leave it to its fate.

You meet a pretty angel, and it isn’t really a meeting, because you stay by his side. You meet a pretty angel, and you can’t get enough. You meet a pretty angel, and he asks you to dance. You meet a pretty angel, and his eyes are on you always, you know, because your eyes are always on him. You meet a pretty angel, and you won’t be too late, not this time.

You meet a pretty angel, and he’s going back to Heaven, and you beg him not to go, and you kiss him, but it’s too late. It’s always too late.

[runnerfivestillalive]

Ooo! I’m not planning one, but I’d love to see anyone else’s take on Aziraphale’s pov!

[runnerfivestillalive]

HA! I had to scroll so far for this!

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

"How dare you, now we're on a slippery slope to acknowledging that Tom is also not really an Animorphs character, he's a 98% hypothetical brother that Jake used to have before the series started" BUT ACTUALLY

I've had this thought in my head for months and never spat it out anywhere: tumblr girlies love to freak out over the whole "haunting the narrative" trope and that's what Tom is. Elfangor too in the more classic sense, but Tom is the fun new twist in the sense that we basically never get to interact with him in canon. He's at least mentioned in almost every if not every book and his body's there plenty, sure, but not him.

That is such a good point. Like, part of what I find so fascinating about Tom is that he witnesses huge chunks of the story, but does almost nothing because he has 0 agency. He's the only non-Animorph regularly present for battles and for the downtime in between, the only person period who has his level of insight into the Animorphs themselves (Jake especially, but also Rachel and Marco) while also having his level of insight into Yeerk Empire leadership.

He sees almost everything. He's there for the Animorphs' first mission and their last. He's there when the yeerks get the morphing power, when David kills Saddler, when Jara and Ket escape, when the taxxons go rogue. He's there, but he isn't.

Jake tells Ax in their first conversation: "I've lost a brother too" (#4). He says it to the reader: "I don't have a brother anymore" (#47). And then he doesn't, not anymore. Crayak said it all along: "Have you killed your brother yet?" (#27). Tom haunts the narrative, well before his death.

[runnerfivestillalive]

“No. No, you filthy creep. You aren’t going to win this time.”

These are the only words we ever hear Tom speak for himself.

Tom is a child. He’s Jake’s older brother, but he’s not off to college by the end of the series, so at the beginning he’s like… 15. He’s just a kid.

And the one time, the ONLY time, we get to hear him actually speak for himself, he’s charging at Visser 3, currently a fire-breathing monster, armed with nothing but his fists. He doesn’t have any idea his own little brother is among those he’s defending. He knows he can’t win. He sacrifices his one chance at freedom so that maybe, just maybe, just this once, the bad guys won’t win.

He can haunt as many books as he wants.

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “do not stand at my grave and weep” after the poem by mary elizabeth frye. the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[goatbeard-goatbeard]

It’s so funny how Crowley is constantly saying “nothing to do with me! The humans thought of that themselves!” about various human atrocities. Oh no, that’s terrible, who gave humans the idea to think for themselves? We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.

[enby-xb-nomad]

🤣🤣🤣 okay I love Crowley as much as anyone but this made me snort-laugh on the train

[captainfantasticalright]

Neil Gaiman once said:

“I love the idea of what Crowley's idea of Aziraphale is. His idea is a lot more heroic and standing-up to everybody than Aziraphale's idea of Aziraphale.”

“Just as Aziraphale's idea of Crowley is somebody who can be flippant and insouciant when faced with the monsters of Hell”.

“They're probably each rather better at dealing with things than the other one is, but that's what they think the other one is probably like, and I love that”.

Well, I love that too.

[azfell-ajcrowley]

The offers that can't be refused: the Metatron-Beelzebub parallels.

Because people keep telling Crowley said no, Aziraphale said yes. Oh, God, give me strength.

Crowley said he rejected Hell's offer, but did he? Let's compare the Beelzebub's and Metatron's methods. Let's find the parallels between the scenes.

The appearance of the superiors is accompanied by bell ringing in both cases.

Crowley and Aziraphale are unpleasantly surprised, they exclaim their superiors' names. Why would such high-ranking bosses personally visit a traitors' hideout?

They remind about the arrangement with their superiors.

The threats: the direct one from Hell, the veiled one from Heaven.

The change of guises.

The flattery.

The knowledge of the Earth as the deciding factor for their choices.

The mentions of Gabriel. It's logical for the conversation with Beelzebub, because the Prince's of Hell motives are already clear. Crowley was summoned for the purpose of finding their beloved Archangel.

What is the reason the Metatron mentions him? And as a benchmark for assessing Aziraphale's actions. From the point of view of the Voice's of God manipulative art, one can understand why. Aziraphale cannot be evaluated on the Michael or Uriel scale, because he himself considers them as bad angels.

And finally, the position offers. Crowley nodds while looking at Beelzebub, Aziraphale says he don't want to go to Heaven.

Bonus: the threats of erasing from the Book of Life. Crowley rushes to Aziraphale intending to save him. And Aziraphale having received additional threats from the Metatron tries to reproduce their conversation for Crowley.

They're the same, Your Honour!

Crowley has refused to be a Duke of Hell just like Aziraphale has agreed to be a Supreme Archangel. Neither of them have responded yes or no.

It's clear this demon lied to Beelzebub, but his angel is also very experienced in this matter. And Aziraphale is accused of doing exactly as Crowley did. Without a chance to get out of it, he decided to keep silent, so as not to incur the wrath of his superior. Namely the Metatron who is even higher in rank than Beelzebub.

[scottishmushroom]

inaccurate good omens part 10

inaccurate good omens master post

[runnerfivestillalive]

... "inaccurate"?

[yourangle-yuordevil]

If you can't see them they can't see you, right?

[runnerfivestillalive]

Observations update

Heeeey, if any of my two and a half readers are on Tumblr… imagine my surprise when I was getting chapter seven ready to post and I discovered that it was what some might call “not finished”. Uh… it might be a bit. Sorry!

[gleafer]

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Reddit’s favorite steamy fandom sub @goodomensafterdark is hosting an ineffable smut war starting on this Monday and ending Valentine’s Day! Writers and artists will be submitting their sauciest fandom creations in a friendly battle to see who gets the audience sweating more!

It’s all in good fun and EVERYONE wins a whole month of creators serving the spice!

Come join us, maybe you’ll find your next favorite writer or artists! (Why not both??)

[beemovieerotica]

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

[theunvanquishedzims]

#here is a man so heartless he has literally cut his own heart out of his chest #but he's still not as evil as the fucking east india trading company

[gleafer]

Another sneak peek at my Buffyverse slams fist first into the Good Omens Gaimanverse comic “Crowley’s Very Bad, No Good Day”.

Full comic lands on my Patreon/Gleafer Jan. 15th!

God I love banter. I could draw bantering all day long. Bantering banter.

Banter.

[gleafer]

Another sneak peek at my Buffyverse slams fist first into the Good Omens Gaimanverse comic “Crowley’s Very Bad, No Good Day”.

Full comic lands on my Patreon/Gleafer Jan. 15th!

God I love banter. I could draw bantering all day long. Bantering banter.

Banter.

[empireofthesin]

I love that Crowley was high rank and Aziraphale was a cherub because Aziraphale still went “but he’s cute and I like him” and pursued him anyway, floating around until Crowley called him over.

And he kept on pursuing him

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

I think Metatron is a huge fool for thinking that separating Aziraphale from Crowley, an Angel who spent 6 thousand years coming up with ideas for them to have excuses for dates, means Aziraphale will let Crowley go.

[runnerfivestillalive]

I got high and I realized that

in the same way that football is more dangerous than rugby,

because the padding makes you hit harder,

and boxing got more dangerous after padded gloves,

for the reason above,

and even runners get more injuries on the padded shoes of now,

in that same way,

war is more dangerous,

for the padding we've added.

We have treatments for the wounded soldiers,

drones to keep us safe while we attack,

and death tolls I dare not even look up.

And I wonder how many other things we humans

are hurting ourselves on for over-padding.

Would we care about the climate more

if we'd never shut our windows to the heat?

We would care more for the homeless, I'm sure,

if we had to walk past them on our way,

instead of driving through the street.

And I want a comfortable world,

full of safety and softness.

I love my treated water, my winter heat, my grocery store full of safe and easy food.

I love schools full of children who have never yet known death, I love warm blankets, and seat belts.

But I wonder if we should not think more

about what padding we should add to the world,

and what padding we should perhaps

take off.

[aprilodite]

Crowley's Stages of Grief

Now I'm just cleaning up and posting the other nonsense I've been taking notes on.

[gingiekittycat]

I know we as a fandom are kind of going with a hyper-masculine bearded Aziraphale for his Supreme Archangel look (which I am loving btw), but consider instead:

Aziraphale bringing that 1793 frilly lace-sleeved pink patent leather-shoed mascara-wearing gayer than gay energy to the look

Reprising his most successful damsel in distress temptation in another attempt to get Crowley to come to Heaven

Idk he might actually succeed...

[runnerfivestillalive]

Okay, but Archangel Damsel would be fantastic, actually!