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well petronius didn’t own a restaurant but you know what he was? A cerimonial and a poet who wrote the Satyricon which is a book about satirical greek romance featuring homosexual and erotic stories. I also wanted to add the while Petronius didn’t write a lot about food in his saturas (the genre of the satyricon) the theme of banquets and food is very important and also present in his book in the passage of Cena Trimalchionis which depicts the “malus more” of free slaves at the time. Also did you know that the name Satyricon might derive from the fact that Satiri loved to “stalker” and follow Ninfee around, at least based on what my professor said anyway. I don’t know i this will make any sense but Aziraphale and Crowley here are depicted as beings who have rather human tendencies and who enjoy rather depravity if I may say so, I mean Petronius is not Cicero am I right? This is what they were in reality, not two heroes but two random dudes connecting despite their differences, their love wasn’t really predictable if was casual, ineffable if I may say. They weren’t made to safe the universe they were made to understand it and help humans to fix it this is the only way human incarnate can win on religion and oppression
Thank you! I will never understand how the fandom remains blind at how clearly Aziraphale is propositioning Crowley here:
Restaurants were not really a thing back then, not in the modern concept of fancy dining. The popular classes ate basic meals at noisy and crowded taverns, people rich enough to afford fine dining had it served by slaves at home. The neither the concept nor the word to name it wouldn't have existed in Latin.
Petronius is a) the signed name of the author of one of the first explicit gay eroticas of the western tradition b) through the Satyricon, openly mocking of the mores and values of his age's upper class and c) more than likely, a pseudonym, not a real person but a false name to protect the actual author from the rage of the system so brazenly criticised.
"[Petronius] does remarkable things to oysters" is, in no way, shape or form, something remotely normal to say about an eatery you are trying to persuade someone to dine at (and anybody daring to argue otherwise should try using it on a colleague or an in-law and report their results back). A sentence so preposterous should make jump every "secret code" alarm.
Oysters. C'mon, this one was supposed to be crystal clear. Just to most universally acknowledged aphrodisiac of the world, nothing to see here.
EXACTLY!! Aziraphale was SO obvious here!!
The Book is Gay as Hell (and Heaven)
Interpretations of the Good Omens book, particularly the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley, as being an allegory for Cold War era tensions and not a book about romance and love are funny to me because. It's both. It's both. It's ALWAYS been both. That's the POINT.
The choices made by Sir Terry when writing about Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship are extremely deliberate. All of the symbolism and metaphors have double meanings. Because they're spies. They speak in coded language. Everything is shrouded in plausible deniability. It's extremely clever, and it's a very, very loving depiction of homosexuality in a time period that was desperately cruel to queer people.
Take the excerpt about the Gavotte, for example. Aziraphale learns it in a discreet gentleman's club, aka a gay club, in the 1880's. And this is important. People who've seen the show likely know the context of the gavotte as the "kissing dance" whereby people dance with a partner and then kiss at the end, or exchange flowers. That would be the pre-19th century Gavotte. The 19th century Gavotte was more like a military-style march, and it's described as a dance used in events revolving around martial prowess and national pride.
I thought it was extremely cute that the book, when describing whether or not Angels could dance, went out of its way to be like "HYPOTHETICALLY Aziraphale CAN dance on the head of a pin... Only the Gavotte. But he'd need a partner that could also HYPOTHETICALLY fit on the head of a pin. Have we mentioned that demons love to dance and can fit on the head of a pin?"
Again, Aziraphale and Crowley act in ways around each other that exude plausible deniability. It's showing that they got together for business reasons but have a deeper desire to be with each other romantically. But because of their jobs, they can't be open about this at all. In fact, they would quite literally be destroyed. This is a DIRECT commentary on how LGBTQ people were treated at the time. Thatcher-era laws against homosexuality made tons of people retreat to the closet, lest they lose their jobs, be outed to their families and cut off, or worse. Homosexuality was technically decriminalized at the time, but the social implications of being gay were so extreme that it might as well as have been illegal still.
I have shitloads more examples if anyone wants me to go on a spiral about it, but this was a big one that I felt was easiest to pinpoint my thoughts about.
book canon: aziraphale's has a dance partner for KISSING on the head of a pin! look it's crowley!! ;) tv canon: coffeeshop owner asks about their relationship. crowley is SHOCKED.
To be honest, what hurts me the most is seeing something like “In every lifetime and in every universe". It just reminds me that they stripped away everything I found meaningful and beautiful about their love.
Yup, apparently I’m still not done being sad and angry about it.
[I’m not saying it’s wrong to like the soulmate trope. Of course it’s okay if you do. I just personally find it hollow.]
so in quote-free-will-unquote-verse, we have a poorly mimeographed copy of the ineffables showing up together, after all. and in every snow globe universe, there's another similar copy finding each other again, right? while back in universe-prime, they chose not to be an us at all. tell me... which one of these is not like the others? which one doesn't march in lockstep? which one looks like they had any chance to decide be different at all?
Good Omens fandom come here we're having a long, much needed group crying and cuddling session
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Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!
-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026
"somebody killed my best friend. bastards! all of you!" to "no us. ever again" is CRAAZY. Crowley would never let Aziraphale die much less be the reason for it. I dont know who that pessimistic suicidal demon is in s3 but that is not my Crowley
My Crowley saunters into Hell and lies through his teeth to Prince Belzebub and the rest of management with a shit-eating grin, all for a chance to keep the world existing.
The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it
skill issue. i understand it completely
has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?
so I have a fucking insane idea.
Most of the fandom didn't like the finale (I am in the small group of people stupid and lucky enough to mostly overall enjoy it but that's beside the point). So I was thinking why don't we just make it ourselves.
I'm not talking just a rewrite on ao3, I mean a full six episode series, written and animated and voiced and music scores composed by the people in this fandom. We can keep the plot points and scenes we liked, expand on things that needed more time, give Jesus some more screen time. and give our ineffable idiots a happy ending. properly this time.
yes it would take fucking ages and there'll be coordination issues and arguments and it's gonna be really, really tough to do, but I think we can manage it.
So, what do you guys say?
(tagging my long-suffering good omens moots to spread this if you like the idea)
@ezra-didntreallyfall @thelocalidiot @bucky-barnes-at-221b @ineffablequeermoony
What d'you think, darlings? Shall we FIX-IT?
Of course it will be very tough. (But I am an optimist. 😎🥂✨)
(GO3 critical) Personally, pre-GO3 I was sure whatever solution they were gearing up to present to the whole situation with heaven and hell in the Good Omens universe, it wouldn't involve the complete annihilation of angels and demons.
Because there's this bit in the book where Adam and his friends are discussing angels and demons/heaven and hell through the lens of the Them and the Johnsonites, which I personally interpreted to be in support of this line of thought:
" Seems to me, " said Wensleydale, " that if you asked people in lower Tadfield, they'd say they'd be better off without the Johnsonites or the Them. " ( ... ) " but I bet they'd think it'd be a jolly sight less interestin' if we all weren't here. "
And it was, in my opinion, " a jolly sight less interestin' " for them to have simply removed angels and demons entirely. To have removed that bit of fantasy that made the Good Omens universe what it was. Its entire premise.
I would've thought the conclusion would be more along the lines of what's being said here. Re-emphasising agency to choose to make one's "own side" despite the influences of heaven and hell in their universe. (Which, were arguably not as big and overwhelming as they'd hoped for anyway.) (And wasn't that the joke? That no matter what Crowley and Aziraphale did to influence humanity, it didn't matter all that much, because humanity's capable of both great good and evil all on their own?) (I see arguments that they meddled in Maggie and Nina's relationship in S2 but Maggie and Nina didn't end up immediately together like Crowley and Aziraphale had hoped either. Doesn't that then also prove the lack of real influence angels and demons have on humanity?)
Here I'm talking about the agency of humanity, of course, but also of the other beings in that universe. Many of which were already breaking away from the pure black-and-white thinking expected of them (other than our main leads, there was Gabriel and Beezlebub, Muriel and Eric, etc.).
To quote another part of the book I think many have already pointed out:
Being a demon, of course, was supposed to mean you had no free will. But you couldn't hang around humans for very long without learning a thing or two.
This was in reference to Crowley. Why not applied to other angels and demons as well? I would've personally loved to see more supernatural beings hang around humans and learn a thing or two. The shenanigans that would've ensued.
In my opinion, there was a way for everyone to be happy in their original universe.
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happy pride month 🏳️🌈
THE LIKE BUTTON IS GAY FOR PRIDE MONTH??????
Edit; you need to reblog the pride tags for it to work on reblogs (On web at least) (for me you do, may be a me problem)
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Man how I miss the fandom’s take on these characters, it feels like we were well and truly robbed…
Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.
Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
This image is so so fucking important to me
Reblog this, cowards
friendly reminder that aziraphale made crowley smile in rome when he realized he was in a foul mood
that he blushed when he described crowley as a wily adversary (keeps me on my toes)
that he smiled when he realized the bentley was back without a scratch after having blown up
that he refused crowley a suicide pill
that he kept an eye on crowley for 26 years after 1941, then sought him out and gave him the holy water so that he didn't have to get it himself. but i can't have you risking your life. not even for something dangerous. if we must quote it then at least let's quote it right.
that he went to hell for crowley and made sure they wouldn't bother him anymore
that he only ever cared about crowley not being destroyed
that no way aziraphale didn't check on crowley in three years
friendly reminder that aziraphale would never give up crowley without a fight, not even if crowley asked