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mytree1315 · 19 days ago

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Good Omens & the Existential Art of Not Giving Up (or, When It's All Exhausting)

So many of us love Good Omens, especially Crowley and Aziraphale, with an intensity that our friends and loved ones may not understand. We analyze their choices, their relationship, their future. We cry over them. We speculate, create and enjoy fanfics about them, and await the conclusion of their story with all of our hopes and fears on the line.

For me, one of the biggest reasons I'm so attached to their story is because of the way they constantly fight to figure out how to exist as they are, in a universe that forces them be something they're not. They make mistakes, they get overwhelmed, and sometimes they totally screw it up. But they always come back.

They never give up.

Our world is -- tough -- to say the least. Many of us are struggling to figure out how to exist as we are. So many pressures and expectations, so much conflict and... Well, you already know exactly what I mean! Existential Exhaustion is real, and all too present.

Good Omens provides something much more important than an escape from those harsh realities. I believe it provides HOPE.

I lost hope for a little while. I've been away from Tumblr and my AO3 writing for months because of it. Good Omens was helping me keep my head above water in a chaotic, exhausting world. When the future of GO itself got chaotic, I lost something (for awhile) that helped me make sense of the world's chaos.

But these characters, Crowley and Aziraphale, are beautiful and brave and flawed and So Ineffably HUMAN... They show us what it is to fight and fall and fail and rise to fight again. They remind us that we can mess up and still be lovable, worthy of love. And, when they get it right, they show us what acceptance and fidelity can be.

Stories are usually about how people (and angels and demons!) respond to challenges. We only get to be privy to the story of Our Ineffables when their lives are about to get turned upside down. AntiChrist about to enter the world? Season 1. Their precious, peaceful, fragile existance together about to be threatened by a mysterious Something Terrible from Heaven? Season 2.

I love to imagine what Aziraphale and Crowley's lives together were like in that short time they had together in between. (It's why we love the flashbacks, right? An extra peek at their relationship!) That time was far too short, but they came a long way since that gentle night at the bus stop, and protecting each other's very existence from Hellfire and Holy Water the very next day. "To the World", they said. "To Us," it meant, and how much they love it and strive to protect it.

Like us, Our Ineffables are flawed fellows. They get overwhelmed. Aziraphale gets too anxious, and starts spouting off things he doesn't really mean. Crowley loses his temper, and likewise starts spouting off things he doesn't really mean...

They fight with each other.

They fight for each other.

And life stays hard. They get overwhelmed. Anxiety happens. Anger happens. Bad decisions happen. Existential Exhaustion. Doesn't put any of us at our best, yeh?

But they keep trying to figure it all out and make it right. For the world and for each other...

Maybe I believe in Our Ineffables so much because I need something to believe in that gives me Hope, something that helps me keep fighting. Because I do believe in them, both of them. They mess up, but they don't give up.

Maybe that's not such a weird thing for any of us to believe in.

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mytree1315 · 21 days ago

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I think you might like this one. Its my favourite so far

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48956668?view_full_work=true

Help me find the perfect fic!

Hello beautiful people, happy pride for all!

I’ve been missing Good Omens content so much, the only thing that can help is finding a fic that can actually make me feel things.

I’m looking for a romantic, heartstopping fic that either makes me want to live or makes me want to die (it’s a fine line, really).

Here are some requirements:

- It cannot be an AU (i don’t like au’s very much, i want the characters and the universe to be just as they are in the show/ book)

- It has to, at the very least, have a happy ending (it can be fluffy and heartwarming all the way, but i’m good as long as it ends well, it’s okay if it’s angsty or sad before the end tho)

- Either from 1941 or later on (can be post series 2, post series 1, anything that comes after or during 1941)

- Can be spicy, but not too graphic. It has to be more romantic, and has to include kisses, but please do not recommend me purely sexual fics. I need FEELINGS.

- True to the characters and their voices.

That’s it. I really hope you guys have some good ones for me 😭 Thank you thank you 🥀🪽

#good omens #ineffable husbands #good omens fanfic rec

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mytree1315 · 22 days ago

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Let's not forget this one :))))))

ignore the fact that house is trying to fuck wilsons booty WHAT THE FUCK IS HE READING !!!

#house md #gregory house #hilson

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mytree1315 · 22 days ago

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How strong is Aziraphale?

Let’s estimate how heavy is the rock that Aziraphale is lifting in the garden of eden’ scene. Based on the footage we have, I will approximate its shape to a trapezoidal base prism (more specifically, its base is a trapezoid rectangle).

To discover the base measurements, I will use this scene (because is the one where he is closer to the stone, minimizing camera effects) and Mr. Sheen height (1,78m) to do some pixel measurements.

Some math later and using the fact that two edges of the rock accompanies the junction of the larger stones I managed to get the height and smaller base of the rock, but I still needed the other side and the bigger base.

For this, I measured the angle shown. With these informations and trigonometry, I concluded these are the base’s measurements. Now, for its depth (this one was hard and probably the source of possible errors), we need some considerations.

Based on other scenes from the wall, we can safely say that this stone does not represent its thickness. However, we can see the inside of the wall, which is made of three to five layers of pre cut blocks.

I am assuming, now, that Aziraphale’s stone has the depth equivalent of the first outside layer that we see, since antique stone constructions don’t use mortar and the piece could fairly “break” in that spot.

Thanks to our adorable Eve, we have a scene to make some pixel measurement using her hand as reference (an average woman hand has a length of 17,27cm) and I concluded that the stone’s length is 28cm.

Using the right volume formula, the result is V=0,03087m^3.

Now, we need to estimate its density. According to some proposed locations, the garden of eden is in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Based on the book “Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence”-Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, the primary construction stones of this region is limestone and gypsum.

The density of limestone (the most probable one) is 2711kg/m^3, which results in a weight of 83,69kg for our little angel to lift.

To sum up, Aziraphale is lifting approximately 83,69kg (184,5 pounds) without using any knee technique and without even looking discomfortable. Maybe the buff angel we see in the storyboards is not so off, after all.

#damnnnn girl #aziraphale #good omens

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mytree1315 · 25 days ago

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I swear the Good Omens fandom is made up of the kindest, coolest, creative, most wonderful people. I can't really think of a time I've come across a shitty Good Omens fan. The artists? Forget about it. Frickin' aMaZiNg artists, the lot of you. And I never read fanfic until Good Omens. Ok, that's not true. I stumbled across a freaky deaky Freddy Krueger fanfic once. I didn't read fanfic again until Good Omens and that's when I got into it. Y'all are a bunch of gifted wordsmiths. And the fellow Good Omens fans I've been lucky enough to meet IRL have all been lovely. Good Omens fans are badass. Just saying.

Me looking at all of you:

#best fandom that ive ever been in #we've been through so much im so proud of us #good omens #good omens fandom

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mytree1315 · 27 days ago

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From what I'm seeing Loki might be the first ever show to queerbait AND straightbait

DIVERSITY WIN!

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mytree1315 · 28 days ago

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All Too Well

An Ineffable Husbands fanfic

Post-S2 / Angst, Heartache, Hope

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Crowley doesn’t cry. Not in the way humans do.

He doesn’t collapse into sobs or reach for tissues. His heartbreak is more insidious. It coils in his chest like a viper, striking each time he lets his guard down. Every tick of the clock, every shadow at twilight, every damn cup of tea left unfinished in the morning reminds him of the angel who left.

And tonight, he sings.

Correction: he scream-sings.

The Bentley is yellow.

It hadn’t been yellow yesterday. Or the day before. Crowley had slid into the driver's seat half-hungover and wholly exhausted, eyes hidden behind sunglasses even though the sky was moonless, and there it was. A bright canary yellow. Soft. Warm. Kind.

He blinked.

"Oh, come on."

He stepped out of the car, circled it twice.

"No. Absolutely not. You are not doing this to me."

The Bentley gave a soft, almost apologetic creak.

Crowley snarled. "You can't just turn into his favorite color like that."

The car remained yellow.

With a long, shaking sigh, Crowley got back in. Slumped in the seat. Let his head fall against the wheel. The leather felt... warm. Comforting.

Like Aziraphale's hand on his.

The radio clicked on.

> "I walked through the door with you / The air was cold..."

"Oh hell no," Crowley muttered. "No, no, no."

But he didn’t change the station.

Didn’t stop his fingers from tapping the beat.

Didn’t stop the tears from building behind his glasses.

> "And I might be okay, but I'm not fine at all..."

Crowley slammed his foot down on the accelerator.

The Bentley purred forward, tires singing against the rain-slick streets of London. It was 1:37 a.m. The city was asleep. But Crowley wasn’t.

He never really slept these days.

"You remember it too, don't you?" he whispered, eyes flicking up to the rearview mirror. Not at himself. At the memory of Aziraphale in the passenger seat, mouth half-open, staring at a sign he read aloud like it was poetry.

"Sconehenge. Oh, how delightful.”

Crowley had laughed, for real, that day. Aziraphale had looked at him with such soft amusement.

The same way he'd looked just before the kiss.

Crowley gripped the wheel tighter.

"Bloody Heaven. Bloody...everything."

He wasn't even sure where he was driving. The car had ideas of its own lately. Probably heading back toward Soho, toward the bookshop. Toward home.

Except it wasn’t home anymore. Not since Aziraphale left.

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The chorus hit like a brick wall.

> "You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest..."

Crowley pulled over.

The Bentley coasted to a stop under a streetlamp, yellow light pooling on yellow paint.

He ripped off his glasses. Threw them in the passenger seat. Let his head fall back against the headrest.

"You absolute bastard," he whispered. "You said we were a team. Said we could be our own side."

His voice cracked.

"Why wasn't I enough?"

The car made a low, sad sound. The kind of groan it used to make when Aziraphale braced himself during fast turns.

Crowley chuckled bitterly. "You're grieving too, huh?"

The engine hummed, almost like a purr.

"He'd hate this," Crowley mused. "Me scream-singing mortal pop songs in a lemon-colored car."

He cleared his throat and sang again, softer this time.

> "And I know it's long gone and that magic's not here no more / And I might be okay, but I'm not fine at all..."

The memories came unbidden.

Aziraphale laughing as Crowley magicked a thunderstorm just to soak a rude cafe patron.

Dancing in the kitchen, the glow of the refrigerator light casting halos on Aziraphale’s golden curls.

Aziraphale saying, trembling, *"I forgive you."

Crowley had kissed him.

And Aziraphale had let him.

And then left.

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Eventually, the car circled back to the bookshop. The lights were off. The window display unchanged since the day he left. A faded sign: Closed for Renovations.

Crowley stepped out. Stood on the curb. The air was sharp.

He looked up.

"You said you'd fix it. You said you'd change them from the inside."

He didn’t expect a reply.

He walked to the door. Rested his fingers on the glass.

And then, on a whim, he reached into his coat.

Pulled out a small, blue scarf.

Aziraphale's.

Left behind at some long-forgotten picnic in 1973. Smelled like books and sugar and something achingly Aziraphale.

He pressed it to his lips.

Whispered, "I remember it all too well."

The Bentley waited.

Yellow.

Unmoving.

Loyal.

And the song played one last time as Crowley stood in the streetlight's glow, scarf in hand, praying to a Heaven that never listened, hoping—just this once—it might.

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[To be continued...]

#why must you hurt me like this #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #good omens #ineffable husbands

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mytree1315 · 1 month ago

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Hungry for Good Omens 3 crumbs of information? Let’s see what I’ve found and speculate a bit about cast members, filming locations, and… trees! As always, please tag accordingly, share only with the fans consenting to know potential spoilers, and get yourself something to drink since it’s going to be a longer read.

News flash: both Ned Dennehy (well-known to Good Omens fans as Hastur) and Sean Pertwee (recently revealed to star in the Finale as Brian Cameron) admitted to have been working on location in Tenerife during the film’s production time slot (January and early February, respectively). In Dennehy’s case, even providing a rather intimately close look at his character.

The location alone isn’t particularly surprising, as the Canary Islands and Tenerife in particular are currently experiencing an influx of international productions, including several TV shows by global streamers, making use of the favourable weather and prices. But Dennehy’s post, additionally liked by a Good Omens crew member, seems somewhat suggestive.

In the Instagram story above, Sean Pertwee called 14 January 2025 his last day on the shoot in Tenerife and subsequently traveled to London and Edinburgh, from where he shared another video three weeks later.

Now, technically the Tenerife film set could be a part of Pertwee’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva job he started last autumn. However, that would imply that he plays a greater role in the upcoming production than the currently available promotional materials imply, and the location stamp in the bottom right corner, Drago Milenario, is too deliciously Good Omens coded to overlook it.

It isn’t even a place, really, but a living organism. A plant. A tree.

Meet Drago Milenario, also know as El Drago, a natural monument and symbol of Tenerife. The oldest and largest living specimen of the endemic Dracaena draco (dragon tree), it is said to be a thousand years old and stand at 18 metres high with a 20-metre perimeter. “Great big bugger,” as Aziraphale would say.

There has been much debate over the age of the tree, and some even say that it may be over 5000 years old; more recent estimates seem more conservative and suggest that El Drago is no more than 800 to 1000 years old. It is difficult to say unambiguously, because the traditional method of counting rings is not applicable in this case — dracaena has no rings.

Its home, the Millennial Dragon Tree Park, or Parque del Drago, in Icod de los Vinos, is a sacred place and a burial zone of Tenerife’s original inhabitants, the Guanches. Members of the Guanche people venerated El Drago as a divine tree; a symbol of wisdom and fertility, believed to have magical powers, granting longevity and warding off evil spirits. Its blood-red oil or sap is called dragon's blood and historically used to treat wounds and embalm corpses. According to local legends, that’s because slain dragons don’t actually die, but rather turn into dragon trees like this one.

The dragon part of the story sounds objectively cool, but if we overlook it for a second, we might notice why the connection to Good Omens is so strong here. When asked about trees in the show’s context, one’s first point of reference is quite naturally the Garden of Eden scene and the shot above featuring the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The thing is, it wasn’t the only one.

According to the Bible, the very reason why Aziraphale was even stationed in Eden (possibly with a few other armed angels) was to protect the Garden from the newly exiled humans. More specifically, his “apple duty” meant that he was supposed to guard a very particular and yet unseen tree:

“The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of lifeand eat, and live forever.’ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the Tree of Life.” (Genesis 3:21-24)

In the apocryphal Apocalypse of Moses, the tree of life is also called the Tree of Mercy. Adam, the first human, famously sent his son Seth and wife Eve back to the gates of the Garden to beg God and His angels for some oil of the Tree of Life to save him from his deathbed by granting either full immortality or longer lifespan. They were obviously denied, but in another part of the Bible — the Book of Revelation, on which most of the official Good Omens plot is based, Jesus announces the details of His Second Coming, including who and when will get the right to enjoy this forbidden fruit:

“Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to reward each one as his work deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. (Revelation 22:12-14)

The Catholic Church in particular believes that the Tree of Life mentioned above is the Eucharist and often combines the image of the Tree with the Cross of Christ, both literally and figuratively (see above: The Tree of Life printed by John Hagerty, 1791) granting the immortal life to His Chosen Ones:

And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign forever and ever. (Revelation 1-5)

In his Roll Play BAFTA interview published on 10 February 2025, while talking about his work for the Good Omens Finale, David Tennant himself has specifically referred to the possibility of Aziraphale and Crowley spending eternity together. But where? Well.

The visual symbolism of an apple tree seems so important for the Good Omens 3 plot that it’s even represented on the exclusive mug design shared on 30 April by one of everyone’s favourite production crew spouses, Carla Scott Fullerton (fullercoaching on Instagram):

For those who missed the original discussion, the reverse side of the complimentary mug gifted to Good Omens 3 crew members and depicted above contains a photo of slate number 100, scene 59 of the production with a quote “We’ve come to a decision…”. A typical feature film of this length consists of around 60 scenes, so it’s definitely the ending or one of the scenes directly preceding it.

Which means that the story ends, as it began, in a garden. And with a very specific apple tree, adorned with initials AZ and CR in two little hearts as hinted by the drawing in the background.

There’s a specific crew member though — one of the firsts to be confirmed for the upcoming production, actually — that has shared a Good Omens themed work with an apple tree a whole year earlier.

Here you can see Michael Ralph’s (i.e., Good Omens production designer’s) concept art depicting Neil Gaiman’s version of heaven on earth – “Heaven is a Library” – at LA music venue, The Wiltern, for The Art of Elysium’s Heaven 2024 charity gala. It’s got Va Va Voom yellow walls, red carpet, spiral stairs, a centrally located oculus, and lots of plants with an apple tree with a swing in the middle. In case this image wasn’t suggestive enough, it’s worth to focus on the twin display tables with Cupid statues on top, direct copies of the one from A. Z. Fell and Co. bookshop in Soho.

It’s not even subtle — and wasn’t meant to be, considering how Event Eleven, the creative agency behind the gala, typically organises high budget premiere events and promotional campaigns for Amazon Prime TV shows, and to this day it’s the closest we’ve got to a Good Omens 3 public celebration.

While this one was for charity and officially not affiliated with the studio, it took place only three weeks after the official announcement of Good Omens 3 and involved not only this curious simulacrum of Aziraphale’s bookshop as a setting, but also Jon Hamm on stage as the guest of honour, referencing the co-leads of the TV series and reciting an excerpt from the 1990 novel in an approximation of their characters’ voices, and the Ukrainian artist Katya Zvereva was commissioned to make an installation for the gala called literally “Tree of Life” (above).

If you remember my bookshop meta, you will probably find the official explanation of the event’s theme particularly interesting:

“Heaven is two things that are, perhaps, the same thing. Heaven is both a library, the place where we go for knowledge, wisdom, advice and for stories, and heaven is also a refuge, somewhere that we can go, whoever we are, for safety and protection. Heaven contains librarians and refugees, shelters the helpless, and gives them — us — somewhere quiet to sit and read or listen.”

Not incidentally, the only iteration of the Tree of Life in the actual show so far has been built into the layout of Aziraphale’s bookshop (left). Its Kabbalah depiction (right) is a representation of the entirety of creation, composed of ten spheres — referred to as the Sephiroth/Sefirot as a whole — each denoting a universal quality, such as wisdom or beauty. To quote The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Israel Regardie:

This altar diagram shows the Ten Sephiroth with all the connecting Paths numbered and lettered, and the Serpent winding over each Path. Around each Sephirah are written the Names of the Deity, Archangel and Angelic Host attributed to it. The Twenty Two Paths are bound together by the Serpent of Wisdom. It unites the Paths but does not touch any of the Sephiroth, which are linked by the Flaming Sword. The Flaming Sword is formed by the natural order of the Tree of Life. It resembles a flash of Lightning. Together the Sephiroth and the Twenty Two Paths form the 32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation. The Two pillars on either side of the Altar represent:

1. Active: The White Pillar on the South Side. Male. Adam. Pillar of Light and Fire. Right Kerub. Metatron.

2. Passive: The Black Pillar on the North Side. Female. Eve. Pillar of Cloud. Left Kerub. Sandalphon.

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