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Lucid
Rated E
by TwilightCitySky
Part two of Transmission
Crowley tries his hand at lucid dreaming, and gets more than he bargained for.
For those of you following this fic, thank you for your patience (I had a baby!) and chapter 9 is now up!
Read on AO3
I find this oddly... comforting?
If the ending as we saw it was always planned, then that's a huge misstep for me in terms of the narrative arc, the genre expectations, and the faithfulness to the story as presented on screen in season 1.
That's okay. It's not my story. But I don't have to engage with it further. It's a miss. I don't think it works on any level and maybe that's part of the reason the sequel was never written in the first place.
So it would have been six episodes of the same disjointed, pointless shit, in which the Second Coming is an afterthought, most of the characters got jettisoned in favour of some bloke named Brian who added nothing to the story, the ridiculous mcguffin introduced in S2 comes back in the dumbest way possible, and everybody dies?
I'm beginning to think this original screenplay writer was all fur coat and no knickers, you know.
It just smacks of narcissism. "I'll write my OWN sequel. With my OWN characters and ending."
He did okay working within the structure that his story with Terry gave him, but he was pants at extending the story on his own. It's the Game of Thrones situation all over again. The showrunner got beyond the source material and completely butchered the ending, despite having some guidance from the original (main) author.
Don't get me wrong, if this WAS Terry's ending I would still hate it, but I think this was edgelord Neil trying to put his own Deep and Original spin on some vague concepts that he and Terry threw around once.
Into the garbage it goes 👋.
I find this oddly... comforting?
If the ending as we saw it was always planned, then that's a huge misstep for me in terms of the narrative arc, the genre expectations, and the faithfulness to the story as presented on screen in season 1.
That's okay. It's not my story. But I don't have to engage with it further. It's a miss. I don't think it works on any level and maybe that's part of the reason the sequel was never written in the first place.
what happened to this being a fuckin comedy series?
fuck, something about them actually saying this out loud just...makes it hurt more. im not in denial. we saw it happen with our own eyes and not one day goes by where im not hit with an intense wave of grief whenever I think about it but just them saying this...fucking hell, man.
i cant stand it. I hate it. I want my safe space back. i know we have the fics and the fanart and im so grateful to this fandom and the support weve given eachother through our collective grief but...it still hurts.
s3 isnt canon to me but it is incredibly hard to ignore it when its the official ending for them. and i cant stand that feeling. that this is always gonna be hanging over our heads, something we will always remember. and not in a good way.
and tbh I really hope michael and david are alright. bc from the way they said these things, i dont think theyre happy with the ending either. its probably so painful for michael in particular :(
I hate that this happened to us. i hate that this happened to our comfort characters. I hate that michael and david had to act something so painful. i hate that they had no choice but to just...do the best they could with what they had. I hate the way everyones been so affected over this. I hate how its affected me, personally. I hate the fucking writers and I hate that cunt neil fucking gaiman most of all.
I just fucking hate it so much.
If there are still people who believe that Aziraphale's original motivation was to "change heaven" and "do the right thing" (like save the earth), and that he really wanted to return to heaven... AZIRAPHALE SAID THE OPPOSITE WITH HIS OWN FUCKING MOUTH.
There's no subtext, he's literally saying that he doesn't want to return!
Actually, if you think about it that way, this scene is really strong. In terms of Aziraphale's development as a character. He literally told METATRON to his FACE that he did not want to return to heaven because there would be no earthly joys that were dear to him (not literally coffee, because he does not drink coffee, but coffee symbolizes freedom + earthly joys to which he is attached). He openly admitted it in front of METATRON.
And before that, he told Metatron, "There's no point in discussing anything. I've already made my position clear." Oh, my brave, incredible angel...
He only gave in when it came to Crowley and his safety.
I hate how the ending completely forgot about Aziraphale's original motivation - to protect Crowley. Aziraphale didn't realize that the second coming was coming until he entered the elevator. Before that, his motivation was to protect Crowley at all costs until they could figure out what was going on. Yes, the news about the second coming played a role in his motivation - he couldn't let the planet burn down. But that wasn't his original motivation.
every day i wake up and hate the finale a little bit more. what do you mean you made me watch them kill themselves with zero prior indication this is where the story was going. what do you mean the threads introduced in the previous season got absolutely zero resolution. what do you mean new threads were introduced on a significantly smaller runtime just to also get no resolution. what do you mean the ultimate message is that the only way to fix something broken is to destroy it and start over. what do you mean this is good omens
Good Omens Fandom Events - Mid-June 2026
Quite a few new (or new to the calendar) events this month! There are so many new events popping up that I'm posting a mid-month calendar update to add a pretty big batch of them.
This calendar includes events inspired by Good Omens, across all eras, interpretations, and continuities. Whether you're a creator, participant, or enthusiastic cheerleader, there are plenty of ways to get involved.
Events in green have been newly added! Take a look! ⏰ indicates a submission deadline within the next month
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Creative Events, Challenges, & Prompts: (Events where you make, write, draw, or create)
June 2026
•Time After Time — ⏰ 1st-30th June 2026 (Creation Period), 1st-31st July 2026 (Posting Period) A Good Omens AU-focused event celebrating the many worlds, timelines, and alternate lives imagined for Crowley and Aziraphale after S3.
⏰•Good Omens 3, Fan Reactions Project—Submission Deadline 21st June 2026 Fan Reactions to S3 Compilation Video Submissions are open for a compilation of fan reactions to Season 3. Information, rules & instructions can be found on the project page.
•Summer of Ineffable Pride Bingo— Posting runs June-1st September 2026 A low-pressure Pride-inspired Good Omens challenge for writers and artists, encouraging seasonal queer-themed fanworks. This event is designed to be flexible and welcoming, allowing participants to join in whenever they like. See link for full details
⏰•The Mischief— Deadline: 30th June 2026 A call to contribute to the Book of Pride (to be displayed at TIC) featuring one-page submissions including writing, artwork, or other content printable on one A5 page (with margins). Contributions should be inspired by the Good Omens universe and Pride. See link above for details.
•The Ineffable Rewrite Challenge—A GOAD challenge encouraging fans to reimagine the finale. Stories should include the events of S1 and S2, Jesus, pizza, and the Book of Life. Beyond those elements, participants are free to take the story in any direction, length, rating, or style. See the link above for details.
July 2026
•The Ineffable Con Vid Show—Submission Deadline 26th July 2026 Video submissions are now open for the convention. Songvids, video essays, crack vids, fan trailers, animatics, dubbed comics, and more are welcome. Both new and existing works may be submitted. Convention attendance is not required.
•Julycious—Summer prompt challenge. Odd-numbered days 1st-31st July 2026 A summer-inspired creative challenge featuring prompts on every odd-numbered day throughout July. Join in with writing, art, or other fanworks whenever inspiration strikes and add your creations to the collection.
•Monsters and Myths Collaboration— Coming Soon Announcements are expected in early July, with sign-ups open for approximately two weeks. The event is scheduled to begin in mid-to-late July, with posting dates starting in October.
•Alternative Good Omens Finale Project— A fan-led animation project imagining an alternative ending is seeking artists, writers, and other contributors. See the link above for information and sign-up form.
August 2026
•Rare Omens Each week prompts you to create for different Good Omens canon and feature rare characters/pairs in your fan art and fanfic! August 2 - 8: TV Omens finale August 9 - 15: TV Omens series 2 August 16 - 22: TV Omens series 1 August 23 - 29: Book Omens
September 2026
•Good Omens Got True Talents Show 2026–Submission Deadline 27th September 2026 Submissions are open in a variety of categories, including Musical Performance, Non-Musical Performance, Arts and Crafts, Memes and Comics, Cosplay. The showcase video will premiere on 9th October 2026 through Sendarya: Exploring Visual Media Through Analysis
Ongoing/No Fixed Date
•Good Omens Britpicking Library—A community-built resource for Good Omens creators, aimed at gathering accessible guidance on British cultural details. The initiative will also maintain a companion blog for updates, questions, and a list of available britpickers.
•Bildadzine 2—Bildad-themed zine volume 2 is in the very earliest stages of development. Watch for upcoming announcements and participation details.
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Community Events & Meetups: (Events you attend, join, or show up for at a specific time or place)
August 2026
•Good Omens Tour of London—19th August 2026 A wheelchair-accessible walking tour of Good Omens London filming locations in the run up to TIC7. You don’t need to be attending the convention to join the tour.
•The Small Back Room— 21st - 23rd August 2026 A fan-organized weekend at Alton House Hotel, Alton, Hampshire, UK. Where attendees can gather to stream The Ineffable Con 7 together. Tickets are available for full weekend or single day attendance. Cosplay is welcome! For more information, contact @lintilla72
•The Ineffable Con 2026 21st - 23rd August 2026 Cookam, UK (but also virtual attendance options available).
October 2026
•The Ineffable Society Meetup 2026 24th October 2026 Philadelphia, USA. This looks like a great opportunity to meet fellow fans in person.
Ongoing/No Fixed Date
•Sendarya: Exploring Visual Media Through Analysis Following Season 3, Sendarya will continue Good Omens discussions while expanding coverage to additional fandoms.
If you have or know of an event to share, please submit it here or DM the calendar: Event Submission Form
Tag your posts #ineffablegoevents so we can find them and include them in the monthly roundup.
*(This list focuses on events currently open to participants and may not include events that are already closed to new sign-ups.) A huge shout-out to @naturallyteal, our agent-in-the-field. Like a particularly dedicated cryptid, he appears whenever a new Good Omens event is announced. 😉🩵
If you find this calendar useful, reblogs are always appreciated. It helps more GO fans discover events and create community within the fandom 💛
Tagging list under the cut.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from the tagging list.
"I'm not going to eat" ... "It's my job to set an example for all the other angels by making choices. Good, upstanding choices"
Yep - those lines are another s3 Aziraphale characterisation choice that I hate.
Contrast it with s1, and the scene where we first meet present day(ish) Aziraphale. Gabriel appears unexpectedly, notices that Aziraphale is eating and states that he wouldn't 'sully the temple of my celestial body with gross matter'. And rather than agreeing, Aziraphale defends himself and also subtly points out Gabriel's hypocrisy - 'nice suit'.
This is one of my favourite moments and it tells us so much about Aziraphale - despite how uncomfortable Gabriel makes him, Aziraphale is a bit of a bastard in response. It's perfect, the comment goes straight over Gabriel's head - and on the off chance that it doesn't, Aziraphale has plausible deniability. That right there is one of the reasons Crowley loves him.
Terry Pratchett gave us some of the most wonderful characters in all of literature. I do meant it.
And I adore one above all.
I won’t stop fighting for Aziraphale and write about him (and write him too, however inferior my abilities) just because that asshole didn’t understand him. Didn’t understand his love and who he was and always will be.
Aziraphale belongs with Crowley and I reject whatever bullshit GO3 was, that tried to retcon their beautiful relationship. Crowley is not cruel and mean. He’s also not one to defer to authority (neither of them ever were) and definitely not one to break Aziraphale and finally drag him to run from a difficult task. (I also don't believe angels and demons could not have changed. He and Crowley did. Beez and Gabe only needed a nudge.)
Their universe was salvageable. Exactly like ours is. Because they were born from this universe. From our struggles and our questions and our what ifs.
What if an angel and a demon walked among us, angel and demon from the old stories of Eden and Heaven and Hell and a world that was to supposedly to last 6000 years?
What if we fought the gods and fought to keep the world for longer? What if, wherever and however we are born we fought to try and make the right choices, because the angel believed we can?
No system is unchangable. No one has the right to tell us we mean nothing and it’d be better if we didn’t exist. Or whatever the message where a world full of queer people just going about their lives is destroyed, was supposed to be.
Aziraphale is stubborn and yes, somewhat selfish and self indulgent and he loves to enjoy things and that’s exactly why I love him. He also knows when to stand up for himself, when to back away, when to make a hard decision to save his love. He’s brave and sweet and silly and kind and a bit of a bastard.
I will always adore Aziraphale.
"That asshole didn't understand him"
"No one has the right to tell us that we mean nothing and it'd be better if we didn't exist"
👏👏👏
On fairness
I’ve been more than two decades (20+years) reading Terry Pratchett. I’ve read the whole Discworld series several times. But not only that, I’ve read other series and solo books (Good Omens among them). If there is something that Terry Pratchett's books leave behind when you finish them is a feeling of fairness and hope. There’s always a satisfying ending. Even when tragedy happens sometimes (Spoiler: when Granny Weatherwax died I cried my eyes out for two days) there’s always a motive for it and it leaves hope behind (after Granny’s death, Tiffany Aching will lead the witches to a new future). There is always fairness in the end. The weak ones always get justice, even if they don't always get everything they want. The powerful don’t get away with their evil plans, but get thwarted. Don’t get me wrong, his books are not all happiness and flowers. He writes about hard topics (misogyny, trans rights, discrimination, racism, death, corruption…), his characters are in many cases troubled (Sam Vimes, Death). But there is always hope in the end. Things get better and, at the very least, there is fairness. And that fairness is a big part of the satisfying sensation you get after reading his books. Another thing to be said about his books is that they are always charged with big doses of morality hidden frequently behind a thin veil of misanthropy (humans will be humans).
I’ve also been reading Neil Gaiman’s books for more than 20 years (btw, fuck Neil Gaiman to alpha centauri and back). The sensation they leave behind in most cases is not a pleasant one, but of unease. There’s injustice, frustration or heartbreak in many of his books. They are much darker and unfair. And the morality in them is more nuanced.
That unfairness is the reason why I know the ending we got in go3 had nothing to do with Terry Pratchett. Nothing short of Terry Pratchett himself coming back from the dead, walking back the black sands of the Dark Desert to tell me personally that this was his desired ending, would convince me of the contrary. Suposedly gos2 and go3 were made to finish the story as Terry Pratchett had wanted, they were doing it for him and for the fans, but they couldn't have made anything less in common with Terry Pratchett.
This was no tribute to Terry Pratchett. This didn’t honour his legacy. To have his story, 75% of it written by Terry Pratchett, butchered and emptied of meaning, fairness and sense in this way is outrageous. Because not only it doesn’t make any sense, it negates everything the book and s1 teach us. The fate the characters, that Terry Pratchett created and loved, suffered was worse than anything we could have imagined (consensual murder-suicide is still murder-suicide). Not to talk about the fact that the universe created by Pratchett has not only been destroyed, no, it has been erased and it has never existed. They tried to erase Terry’s work.
I recon I’ve been played for a sucker. I wholeheartedly believed it was going to be okay. It never crossed my mind, even for a second, that Aziraphale and Crowley were not having their happy ending. Back in 2005 the authors said that Aziraphale and Crowley were in the South Downs. They had been talking about their whereabouts and had come to that realisation. When asked what were they doing in the South Downs NG answered simply that they were sharing a cottage. And some of you may argue that is exactly what happened in go3, but no. Two very nice, I'm sure, and physically similar men got to spend their retirement married sharing a cottage in the South Downs. And I’m very happy for that sweet couple, and that scene is so beautiful and warm and nice I want to cry remembering it. But those weren't Aziraphale and Crowley. Period. Aziraphale and Crowley were evaporated along with their whole universe and they have never existed. Their 6000+ years of love and pining and hiding and fighting for humanity just disappeared into nothing. And that, my friends, is not fair. As it’s not fair the fact that the abusers, Gabriel and Beelzebub*, got to live their happy ending and their love for a few years at least, while Aziraphale and Crowley never could (they had been 6000 years dancing around each other while Gabriel and Beelzebub just what? About 4 years). And it isn’t fair that god herself, the ultimate responsible for the abuse they had to endure, is the one cornering them to decide to agree to a murder-suicide and execute it too. While it’s not fair that the meaning of s1 was completely turned around and humanity, the world and the universe were suddenly not worth saving, too broken to fix.
And you know what else is not fair? To spend years (20 years more or less) saying that this story has a happy ending, a very specific happy ending, and then not only not delivering it but killing the main characters in the most OOC decission ever seen and destroying the whole universe. To have a comedy, turn it into a rom-com, and then a drama without any warning.
Terry must be turning in his grave. What a horrible “tribute” to his work.
*As cute as we want to make that couple be, we can't forget that both Gabriel and Beelzebub abused Aziraphale and Crowley their whole existence and were the ones judging them and sentencing them to death in s1. Have we forgotten the "Shut your stupid mouth and die already”?
Nothing else today. Just be kind to each other.
Good Omens fic recs #93 - emergency GO3 fix-it edition
I know it's been a while since I've done one of these rec lists -- it's not that I quit reading fic but that I've been exceptionally busy -- but this one I felt was necessary. 5 amazing GO3 fix-its in this post (and please feel free to post your own favorites in reblogs or replies).
sometime is now, someplace is here by Path_Finder - A/C, 6k words, T. Crowley and Aziraphale ask God for something else -- and they have a real discussion. Lovely and healing.
in the kitchen by carrythesky / @carry-the-sky - A/C, 1k words, G. In which Crowley and Aziraphale start with the books to bring the world back, and they succeed. This is soft and beautiful and fits so well with the book/S1 philosophy.
Angiogenesis by casidicus / @a-causidicus - A/C, 6k words, E. After being reincarnated as Asa and Anthony, eventually Crowley and Aziraphale "wake up" and remember their old lives -- and finally have a real conversation and cathartic sex. This fic actually made me like Asa and Anthony a little bit, the story of their first date here is truly delightful.
Revival by CopperBeech / @copperplatebeech - A/C, 3k words, E. Everything I've read by Copper has been wonderful, and this story is both incredibly hot and deeply sweet, as Aziraphale and Crowley, instead of talking to God, have a very Big Bang of their own.
Beta Test by Twilightcitysky - A/C, 2600 words, T. The concept of this is so great and it makes sense in the GO universe -- in which God and Satan run a beta test universe with Aziraphale and Crowley in it -- the universe of the ending -- but then they're asked to choose again. Funny, sweet, and incredibly fun.
I have seen people saying "the ending was sad but perfect". But for me it is definitely not that. There are two ways in which the wiping out of the Good Omens universe and creating a new one could be interpreted:
(1) The new universe is our universe. [This was confirmed as a correct interpretation.] But all the major points in history are the same. You know, world wars, COVID, et cetera. Even Christianity is here, just without the God it is aimed at. This falls really flat. How is it possible that history repeats itself so nicely and accurately? We were supposed to finally have free will, yet almost all human decisions have to be the same in order to keep the timeline essentially unaltered. So... maybe there was no problem with free will after all?
(2) Well, okay then. Maybe this is a completely different universe, not ours, but a better one. A better one! Good job, my ineffable boys! But... Good Omens universe was a satire of our universe. This would suggest that the takeaway is that our world is not salvageable. It can only be destroyed. What is meaningful (or clever or beautiful) about a message like this?
The only way I can imagine it working is by putting aside the whole problem of free will and instead making Heaven and Hell always seek destruction. Then just do the Adam trick of altering reality so that everything is basically the same, but without angels and demons. You get my point.
Such an ending would still have issues, of course. Meddling with reality and time travel always do. But these are things one can look past, minor issues. It is fiction after all.
If people in the new universe are still making the same exact choices they made in the old universe (crusades, spanish inquisition etc.), then the old universe didn't have a problem of free will. S3 missed the point that humans being worse than hell was the whole joke of the book. Humans didn't need to be swayed with temptation: they already had free will and used it freely lol. Heaven and Hell were dumb corporate who thought they were doing a good job at swaying humanity but in reality they didn't sway shit. That was the whole point of the satire of the book, it's incredible that s3 missed all that and some more.
"S3 missed the point that humans being worse than hell was the whole joke of the book."
Yes! And Crowley KNEW this! He knew heaven and hell didn't really have much to do with how humans behaved, so what was he thinking?
Am I the only one who doesn’t like Aziraphale’s long hair?
Like I’m sorry this shit is so tacky and OOC, not to mention out of place in heaven.
Also he had his hair normal, changed it to this (hella impractical) for the war, then changed it back when he went to Eden? Why?
It's just a very weird fan service I think
Crowley not defending Aziraphale and Aziraphale not helping Crowley? Those are not my hopeless romantic celestial beings. They would not fucking do that.
"what are you a cop" is bookaziraphale's entire mindset btw. "is it very angelic to hoard books and be mean to customers" what are you a cop? "should you really be married to your adversary" what are you a cop? "should your husband be parking his car there" ah you ARE a cop. explodes your ticket notebook with his mind. like in his mind if the lord herself doesn't come down to tell him off he's doing just fine. because he's doing it. and if she DOES come down (where is the flaming sword I gave to thee) well then. what is she a cop
no so true. in fact I think this was a key experience in his conviction that he is correct about everything ever. after all she did not ask him again
book Crowley: you’re an angel, you can’t do the wrong thing book Aziraphale: you are absolutely right. everything i do *is* the right thing book aziraphale really took ‘do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ and ran with it
[ID: The first add-on shows tags from pronouncingitwang reading "#it is soo fucking important that not only did he lie to god #he thought it was so important that he wrote it in as a correction to the bilton and scaggs bible he wanted that shit printed+distributed" and the last add-on shows tags from indieninja92 reading "#MY BOY #as i like to say 'aziraphale did nothibg wrong... but not through lack of trying' #the greatest angel ever to sincerely attempt to shoot an eleven year old in the face" /end ID]
And when he knows he’ll HAVE to help the cops, he’s desperate to leave so that he WON’T have to help the cops!
[ID: A snippet from the Good Omens book. It reads “There was the sound of a siren outside, abruptly broken off as a bullet hit it. Aziraphale nudged Crowley.” The next part is highlighted, and reads “‘Get a move on,’ he said. ‘We're going to be knee-deep in police at any moment and I will of course be morally obliged to assist them in their enquiries.’” /end ID]
