Supergeek21

Jessie || 30s || she/her || Nerd and Good Omens fanfic writer. Buy me a Ko-Fi or check out my work on AO3 through the link tree below! https://linktr.ee/Supergeek21 Also, I am IJustWantADragon21 on Reddit if you see me lurking in any fandom subs.

[alikspostscrptm]

why give me aziraphale and crowley... why make me believe that even if I’m an outsider and nobody thinks I’m important, I might find someone who’d be willing to sacrifice everything for me, just as they did for one another… why make them the ones who’ll save me during the darkest period… why make them such an important part of my life… and then take it away

[5thhorsemnftheapocalypse]

Just a thought expeirment, trying to connect dots.

I joined the fandom post season 2 and I diddnt like the ending

I joined the fandom post season 2 and I liked the ending

I joined the fandom before the show or during season 1 and I diddnt like the end

I joined the fandom before the show or during season 1 and i liked the ending

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

[biblicalbuddycomedy]

Look, if it’s not written by the original author it’s fanfic.

If two people wrote it together and one is dead, then it’s impossible for subsequent portions to have the same authorship.

QED, Seasons 2-3 ARE, technically, fanfic. Some of 2 was quite enjoyable fanfic! But the point is…the point is… the point I’m trying to make is… you needn’t feel obligated to accept ANY of it as canon. Guilt free.

[child-of-ineffable-divorce]

I think the Book of Job minisode is everything that Good Omens should be.

- Religious satire/commentary (the absurdity regarding the bet with Job, the archangels being generally clueless, the deconstruction of how to-the-letter you need to be with following the laws of religion)

- Genuinely funny (Ty Tennant having like 3 minutes of screen time and out-fruiting his dad, Jemima and her pot and wanting to be turned into a salamander, Bildad the Shuhite and all that that entails)

- an emotional, character-driven core (Aziraphale learning the limits of his own morality, the discussion of the role good and evil play in events and how each is perceived when done by different parties, learning just how similar Aziraphale and Crowley are as it pertains to personal desires (which we as the viewer know, but chronologically it’s one of the first times they connect like they do)

And of course

- the undertones (Crowley tempting Aziraphale into eating which, with the way Aziraphale devours that meat, has zero chance of not being a metaphor for some kind of physical relationship; the nature of being just a little bit different than your peers, and how that affects your views of yourself; and the purely humanistic, just-this-once-everybody-lives kind of narrative that emphasizes the importance and power of familial and interpersonal relationships)

[supergeek21]

I completely agree with this! It was the best part of season 2 and got completely with Season 1 and the Book!

It makes me hate it all the more that they completely undermined It’s point about people being special individuals who can’t simply be replaced with new ones or lookalikes in the finale.

[flameraven]

Exclusivity is up for @wiggleonzine vol 2, so I can finally post my piece for it! Aziraphale and Crowley enjoy a nice day at the beach and bask in the sun.

[glumdelay]

Comm for onxly.haze! An excuse to draw cute fluff..

[heard-nsfw-is-back]

The hatred of GO3 is so real. You either die on a cliffhanger or live long enough to become game of thrones

[supergeek21]

C: “Did I say the wrong thing?”

A: “Yes!”

Change of Plans

So here is my first official Good Omens season 3 fix-it. What if Aziraphale had spoken his mind when Crowley asked this awful question?

This started as a Guess the Author Fic for the Alternative Rendezvous server prompt “second” and it evolved into a 3,500 word fix-it of seasons 2 and 3.

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

(TW for directly quoting the decision scene of the finale in all It’s suicidal weirdness, but rest assured it is undone)

[abraham-wrote-mockingbird]

Crowley who asked to go off together to alpha centauri when the world was ending, Crowley "tell me you said no" when the world was ending again, but was fine with staying there when the world truly ending? I don't buy it. He wouldn't let that happen to Aziraphale, he wouldn't let him die like that

[supergeek21]

Crowley didn’t even want to fire a gun at Aziraphale on stage because he was afraid he’d hurt him! He wouldn’t have asked him to be annihilated!

[pearlusha]

beatles song lyric

[politeanarchy]

So I guess there's some long-ass post circulating, where somebody says they like the Good Omens ending where the protagonists (and everybody else in the universe) are disintegrated into dust, but they need everybody who's sad about that to shut up and not say anything, because sad people are ruining their enjoyment of everyone getting disintegrated. Ohhhhh..........kay?

[ouidamforeman]

Hey did you guys know that the good omens novel is supposed to be about the Cold War

[supergeek21]

THIS! THIS! THIS! 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[kentucky-at-kfc]

So I was on a paddle boat today, the small ones you have to move with legs ya know

and I was thinking

Crowley and Aziraphale were probably on one of these in like Venice, Italy or something

but crowley would have to do all the work while aziraphale would eat biscotti and look at birds

I cant stop thinking about it and I feel like I need to draw it now

[lonicera-caprifolium]

they both say they have "business" in Italy, but really it's just another convoluted plan to set up a date--

[rainbowhyperfixation]

Inspired by some fandom conversations 😅

[tweedfeather]

On the matter of tags: an earnest attempt to communicate

As a random member of the Good Omens fandom community, I’d just like to toss my hat into the ring and attempt to clear up some misunderstandings. I also want to encourage some honest, good-faith dialogue in a severely fractured fandom.

This is not an attempt to convince anyone to interpret the finale a specific way. This is a practical conversation about how we discuss the finale in fan spaces.

For the purposes of this discussion, I will be focusing on tags as they are used on social media platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram. AO3 tagging is considerable more complex and warrants a whole convo in its own right, so I won't focus on that here.

THIS POST INCLUDES DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE.

So, tags. Tags have become a thorny issue in the Good Omens fandom. I suspect this issue is so pertinent now, two months after the finale aired, because most of us have dropped “GO3 spoilers” tags, which people would have been filtering out if they did not wish to see anything from the finale. The finale is no longer a fresh commodity, so we are all trying to determine for ourselves what the next phase of our engagement with fandom will look like.

In fandom spaces, tags are a courtesy. No one can force anyone to use tags, of course. But tagging is a long-running standard of fandom etiquette across multiple online platforms. Tags are tools that help us find or filter out specific content. But what happens when we disagree on what tags should even be used in the first place? When tags themselves are a battleground?

I have seen assumptions that finale dislikers are demanding that all content with Asa Fell and Professor Anthony Crowley be tagged with “suicide.” It's possible that I’ve missed some significant conversations, but as someone on the disliker side, I have not seen anyone demand that Asanthony shippers use a "suicide" tag on all their posts featuring Asanthony. If anyone has asked that, I agree that it would be unreasonable! But I strongly suspect this perception comes from a game of fandom telephone in which different conversations are being conflated.

What IS being asked:

All content featuring Asa and Anthony should be tagged with their names or their ship name, Asanthony.

The "ineffable husbands" ship name should not be used for Asanthony.

Content warnings are strongly encouraged when sharing visuals of the scene where God grants Crowley and Aziraphale’s request to be removed from existence, specifically the moments as they disintegrate, as this decision is interpreted by many fans as a suicide.

Let’s address that first point now.

Tagging Asanthony as "Asanthony" makes sense. I think most people are already doing this. If you’re not doing this, well… I strongly advise you to reconsider. Tags aren’t just for those filtering out content, but for those seeking it. Someone who doesn’t want to see Asanthony can use this tool to avoid them, and someone who is specifically seeking out Asanthony content can use the tag to find them and share some appreciation.

Where we have some disagreement is the second point listed above: whether Asanthony deserve to be tagged with the general “ineffable husbands” ship name as well. I don’t think we’re ever going to agree on this one. Some people do see them as the same ship, and others do not. Personally I’m someone who does not see Asanthony as "ineffable," but I am okay to concede on someone using the general ship tag for them, as it really does boil down to one's own interpretation. In my view, so long as "Asanthony" is also used, tag them as you see fit.

Now for the third point. This is where I'll be talking about suicide.

Suicide is obviously an incredibly sensitive and distressing subject, one that is highly likely to carry a personal resonance for many fans on all sides of the GO3 debate. I understand why people are upset to have to bring this subject up in their tags when they do not see the final scene that way.

But if you do find it upsetting to even consider using that tag... that means you agree that this topic is distressing, yes? The ineffables' decision was genuinely genuinely distressing for people who interpreted their choice as a suicide. I am pleading with you to understand this: there are members of our community who struggle with suicide ideation, and that scene genuinely triggered some of these people.

You don’t like to see this tag imposed. Well, others don’t like to suddenly come across visuals that in their view shows a suicide. Not seeing Crowley and Aziraphale's decision as a suicide is just as much an interpretation as seeing it as a suicide is.

We will never agree on our interpretations of Crowley and Aziraphale's final request to God and how it played out. The fact remains that the scene where they make this choice and it is granted is triggering to a significant portion of the fandom. This is not a niche opinion.

We won't be able to reconcile our views on this. But we do have to share fandom spaces together. Blocking others who have a different approach to discussing this scene is always an option. But maybe we can also attempt to reach a middle ground in the form of a tag.

I have chatted with others about this, and an idea I have seen discussed is for the fandom to come up with a neutral term for the scene where God grants Crowley and Aziraphale's request, akin to how we settled on “the Final Fifteen” for the last fifteen minutes of season 2. This term should not favour one interpretation over another.

Some suggestions:

The Final Half Hour (or… the Final Twenty? How long is this scene? Anyone clocked it?)

The Decision

We’ve Come to a Decision (WCTOAD? Well, I do like toads)

Please chime in if you have other suggestions!

Like I said at the top, no one can force anyone to use tags. This is ultimately down to one's own discretion.

But I think it's fair to say that our fandom is currently in crisis. The community has fractured — or perhaps it is simply going through some very nasty growing pains. Maybe we can grow with it.

We will never be in a place where we all agree on GO3’s choices. Right now, we are all figuring out how we want to navigate this story and fandom we have all come to love. However we feel about the finale, we are all trying to find new ways forward.

We can argue about who’s right. We can block as we see fit. We can tag or not tag according to our own interpretation to make a point.

We can also decide to make productive choices that will help us all navigate our fandom spaces moving forward. Above all else, we can choose to be kind.

If you've read this far, thank you for hearing me out.

[supergeek21]

I would like to add that even if you argue that Asanthony can’t be called “ineffable husbands” (I don’t believe they should be) they should 100% NOT BE TAGGED AS AZIRACROW! They are NOT Aziraphale and Crowley! They are Asa and Anthony! Full stop. People who want nothing to do with them should not be duped into content about them by claiming they are the characters they replaced who, again, many see as having committed suicide so the new pair could live. You can’t have reincarnation without someone dying. That’s just how it works and for many of us, theh thought is beyond triggering.

[argylepiratewd]

Imagine looking at this sweet, brave baby and thinking "Ah, yes, he deserves to be belittled and insulted repeatedly, treated like the villain for *checks notes* enjoying earthly pleasures and trying to make things better and save the universe and make Heaven and Hell stop treating people like shit, and not get the happily ever after he's dreamed of for so long."

Imagine looking into his round pookie sunshine face and his bright eyes and being mean to him.

[supergeek21]

It’s a fucking travesty!

[vivi-theakuneko]

Fix-it ver. Don't Stop Me Now