Even in Eden

I'm Kei (she/her) and this is my Good Omens themed sideblog. Sapphic Ace. Icon art by Ange.

[hey-must-be-a-devilbetween-us]

Enjoy the finale that's fine, and feel free to block me after reading this post but I'm begging you please here me out- for the love of somebody you have to look at the messaging it's giving you a little bit deeper, analyze it a little more for your own safety because at this point I'm concerned for the queer folks who are so defensive of it.

because it is scary and irresponsible to tell an audience especially an audience that has a not insubstantial amount of younger queer fans that no actually, death is the only way to escape the oppressive systems that victimize you, submit to destruction in a beautiful act of love and sacrifice and you'll be rewarded by that system of power and be able to be with the love of your life in the next life.

call me paranoid all you like, but I'd rather put this out there now then have to read about something tragic happening because of this, or at least it will be small comfort that at least I tried.

You have to stay, please stay with us, this life that you have right here right now might be painful and unfair but it can be so so beautiful and joyous and we shouldn't have to fight for it but we do and we will for as long as we have to.

Our queer ancestors have fought for longer than you can even imagine for you to be here with us, and there are elders and peers who are still fighting for you right now.

You deserve to live and be at peace in this life, and you can I know its possible, don't give in because it all seems so pointless, it all seems so broken, it all seems so much bigger than you could ever handle because you're not alone, its not you (or the two of you) against it all, the queer community spans the whole fucking world and all of human history and we still need you.

Because one of us is all of us, and one of us being lost is too fucking many and I'm sick to the back teeth of it.

Please stay, please give this broken world a chance, please give your broken heart a chance, its worth it.

[fellshish]

does anybody remember the s1 exchange between aziraphale and crowley where crowley was like what do you mean god is going to drown everyone even kids you can’t kill kids and then aziraphale was like it’s ok god is going to create a rainbow at the end :))))) and then the gomens finale is like god kills everyone but it’s ok bc there’s 1 gay couple at the end :)))))) anyway,

[mastergeckotattoo]

imagine being an angel and realizing the most beautiful thing in creation is sitting next to you complaining about nebulae

[colourlifesmile]

~ you're more than enough. you're everything ~

[tartan-thermos]

Listen, we all laugh at how much mileage Aziraphale is gonna get out of his kinky ‘captive princess’ fantasies once he and Crowley get it together, and we are completely right and correct to do so. But we’ve all been sleeping on the other half of that equation. Because Aziraphale’s the one who’s been setting up these, “Oh no, I am dramatically imperiled (and/or mildly inconvenienced); where oh where is the dashing and devilishly handsome knight who will save me?” scenarios for centuries - but Crowley’s the one who’s been turning up unfailingly, again and again and again.

Because Crowley? Crowley wants to be the hero. Crowley wants to be James Bond. He wants it so badly it hurts, bullet-hole windscreen transfers and all. Crowley’s deep, dark fantasy is that he can be good - but also a little bit bad. The rogue agent, the wild card, the one who doesn’t follow the rules, and doesn’t much truck with listening to his superiors. Crowley’s deep, dark fantasy is one in which he gets it right; in which he does the right thing at the right time, and has the right witty comeback in the right situation, and instead of being punished, he saves the day and wins the heart of the genderless celestial being of his choice. Crowley’s deep, dark fantasy is one in which he is never not in control of his situation; one in which he bounces back easily and stylishly from all manner of fights and challenges and adversity; where he faces nothing he cannot overcome with the right combination of wit, ballsiness, and a little Hollywood luck. Crowley’s deep, dark fantasy, the one he can never, ever admit out loud, is one where the world is simple and uncomplicated in the way nothing in real life is simple and uncomplicated; a world in which the good end happily, the bad unhappily, the baddies are dispatched in PG-13 fashion, and none of it needs to be questioned or second-guessed at all.

Crowley’s deep, dark fantasy is one in which there is nothing so dastardly, nothing so terrible or fearsome, that it cannot be solved by a guy in a flash suit arriving in the nick of time with a fancy car, and a complicated watch, and a pen that can write underwater.

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Good omens fic writers/fanartists after GO3:

[veganineden]

On the Evolution of “Happily Ever After” and Why “Nothing Lasts Forever”

A reflection inspired by Good Omens 2

One of my favorite Tumblr posts on the second season of Good Omens 2 was actually not about the series at all, but our reaction to it, primarily the ending. @zehwulf wrote, “I think a lot of us—myself included—got a little too comfortable with assuming [Aziraphale and Crowley would] work on their issues right away post-Armageddon.” We did the work for them through meta, fanfiction, fanart, and building a plethora of headcanons. Who among us AO3-surfing fans didn’t read and love Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm?

In the 4 long years since season one was released, we did more than seek to understand and repair rifts between two fictional beings: we were forced to reckon with ourselves too. We faced a global pandemic, suffered traumatizing losses and isolation, and were forced to really and truly look into the face of our atrocities-ridden and capitalistic world. The mainstream rise of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice work, and our participation in this work, showed us that the systems in place were built to oppress and harm most of us, and they are. 

So, what does this have to do with the evolution of “happily ever after”? 

My friend put it best in a conversation we had following the season finale, when she pointed out a shift in media focus. The “happy end” in old stories about wars and kingdoms used to be “we killed the evil old king and put a noble young king in his place and now citizens can live in peace” and we’re transitioning into a period of “we tore down the whole fucking monarchy.” 

If we look at season one, written to follow the beats of a love story, it comforted us by offering a pretty traditional happy ending pattern: you get your fancy dinner with your special someone, the romantic music plays, and you have a place to call your own. Season one’s finale provided a temporary freedom for Aziraphale and Crowley, the “breathing room,” but it didn't solve the problem that was Heaven and Hell, or the agendas belonging to those systems of oppression. 

Is it good enough to keep our heads down, pretend the bad stuff isn’t happening, and live our own personal happy endings until we die? Moral quandaries aside, if you don't die (or if you care about the generations after you), then, like Aziraphale said, it “can’t last forever.” There’s a clear unpleasant end to the “happily ever after” that’s based on ignoring our problems– it’s the destruction of our relationships, and humanity. 

Ineffable Bureaucracy can go off into the stars because they do not care about humanity. 

You know who does?

Aziraphale. 

And Aziraphale knows that Crowley cares about humanity too. (He knows because Crowley was the one who proposed sabotaging Armageddon in the first place, who only invited him to the stars when he thought all was lost, because Crowley would save humanity if he thought it was possible, and Aziraphale knows Crowley has survived losing Everything before, and he will do all in his power so that Crowley does not need to experience that again.) 

In season one and two, we see how much they care about humanity, beyond their orders, to the point The Systems begin to frown at them. Aziraphale hears Crowley’s offer to run away together in the final episode of season two, to leave Earth behind, and just like the first time that offer was made in season one, he declines. He knows choosing only “us” is not a choice either of them can live with for the rest of eternity.

I believe season 3 will provide an opportunity to “dismantle the system,” but I don’t know how it will play out. I worry that Aziraphale has put himself in the now-dead trope of the “young noble king.” (I wish Crowley had told him why Gabriel was dismissed from his duties.) I worry that he would martyr himself as a sole agent for change. I worry that he doesn’t actually know how to dismantle anything by himself: because you can’t. He needs Crowley. He DOES. He needs Crowley, and Muriel, and other angels and demons and humans without fixed mindsets to help him. Only by learning to listen and making room at the table for all can they (and we) move past personal satisfaction to collective liberation. 

Crowley was right when he said that Aziraphale had discovered his “civic obligations.”

So, I think we will get our modern-day happy ending– and it’s going to involve a lot of pain and discomfort, communication, healing and teamwork– and in the end, it’ll all be okay. There will be a time for rest and a time for “us.” 

And most likely a cottage. 

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

 - Maya Angelou

[diaryofloveletters]

The finale proved two things to me:

1) I understood Aziraphale’s “no.”

2) Our system is broken and no one knows how to fix it. They used a magic eraser button instead of any form of revolution. To say I am disappointed would be an understatement. It’s up to us to do better.

[hollow-head]

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys

[waywarder]

However else I feel, the main thing on my mind today is actually how grateful and thrilled I am to have already experienced so many finales/endings/what-have-you for Aziraphale and Crowley thanks to the absolutely beautiful fic within this fandom. I have cried, laughed, gasped, and on and on over the deeply thoughtful and meaningful works that so many of you have created and shared over the years. I consider myself a better writer for having spent time among you. My earliest forays into reading GO fic were essential to my personal journey of transness. I am such a different and more authentic person today than I was in 2019, and I owe so much of that not as much to the actual book or series, but to the fanworks and specifically to the courage of so many queer writers willing to turn subtext into something vibrant and glowing.

Thank you, Good Omens fanfic writers. You are some of the most talented authors I've ever had the privelege to read.

[lady-lazarus-13]

As I try to stay sane, I'm making my way through the book called Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without a Bullhorn by Omkari L. Williams.

If you're interested, please borrow it from your library or buy a copy. I'll aim to post snippets of it as I read through it.

This book encourages us to become micro activists in our daily lives. It doesn't mean we don't go out and do big shit when we can, but it aims to help us show up every day. Our activism can be a sustainable, life-long practice. Because together, even small actions can lead to big outcomes.

[blurds]

Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

[some-triangles]

This post seems to be making the rounds again so here it is on the word blog

[odonata523]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[ineffable-fits]

ineffable wives go to a party in matching green!

[starwalkingpotato]

Ok, here is the OFFICIAL AND ONLY CORRECT GUIDE to starting reading Prachetts Books. Its a multiple step process, so read all steps carefully otherwise you will be wrong and shunned to eternity.

1. Go outside.

2. Trust the universe for once in your life.

3. Find any of these: Library, Thriftstore, secondhand bookshop, a cupboard with free books, ...

3. Locate the Prachett Book.

4. The universe has now deciced with which book you must start with.

5. Compliment the universe for its wisdom.

6. From there on repeat the steps above.

[the-haiku-bot]

4. The universe

has now deciced with which

book you must start with.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[todoga]

happy international women’s day

[arashixyarts]

Your art style is so lovely! It’s always a joy to see your posts on my dash. <3

If you’re ever in need of ideas, might I suggest fem 1941 Aziracrow? 🫣💕

thank you <3

not sure if this is what you wanted exactly but here you go :3

[fellshish]

The different and sometimes tiring types of reactions to the neil gaiman allegations

- ‘neil didn’t write good omens’ (he did and we simply have to learn to separate art from artist)

- ‘how dare you think about anything else but the victims’ (people can care about multiple things at once + these allegations have been known for months and months?? some of us have processed this)

- ‘how do david/michael/etc feel about this’ (it’s none of our business)

- ‘donate to victims of sa’ (sure if you can)

- ‘bdsm is fine WITH consent’ (it is)

- ‘everyone is innocent until proven guilty and i refuse to condemn him’ (go read the article / enjoy being blocked by me)

- ‘his writing was always Problematic’ (learn to separate art from real life victims of sexual abuse please)

- ‘his writing can still mean a lot to you without you being a bad person’ (yes. just try to avoid giving him money maybe)

- ‘it’s just terf propaganda’ (it really really isn’t. and fuck terfs)

- ‘reminder to prioritise your own mental health, step away from online spaces if you need to, and: you have no obligation to read the entire article if it’s too triggering’ (true. you’re still a good person i promise)

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hi 👋 I love your art! how about Crowley and Aziraphale at the beach? I imagine Aziraphale wears one of those old fashioned bathing suits and Crowley wears speedos