#flood!crowley

[beebopboom]

I don’t remember if there was ever an actual explanation for this but earlier I was just wondering -

What’s with Crowley’s obsession with having things work under water, like his watch and pen?

and because my brain loves me it goes

“oh god the flood”

so enjoy that thought with me

[tanpopomugishu]

@olfactoryventriloquism requested Crowley as a snake on the roof of the Ark as Aziraphale holds the dove perched on his finger, on bluesky 🦋. And what did I draw? Aziraphale hijacking Noah's job, while Crowley watches 🤣🤣

---- I'm very insecure about this one, the composition feels kind of off, and I've always been the worst when it comes to drawing structures. On top of that, I had the greatest idea of drawing it in colour, knowing that it will add to my nervousness about this piece. 😩

@goodomensafterdark

[kaseylgifford]

Survivors

[lutraslutra]

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When Crowley said “Not the kids, you can’t kill kids" he wasn’t talking about children. Change my mind . XD

[dalliancekay]

We didn't get to see Crowley's reaction to wet Aziraphale. And what's more, we never got to see MY reaction to wet Aziraphale.

[garmrheim]

continuing my backlog posting from twitter and next uuup is mesopotomia my beloveds... a wip of me giving myself what i want lmao

[knifeforkspooncup]

Click for better resolution!

"Don't test them to destruction"

For @fearandhatred who's writing a Mesopotamia fic and I just know she's going to crush my heart like an overripe fruit with it. Here Leanne, it's my turn to give you a lil angst.

[kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon]

On the proper care and feeding of a human corporation

Good Omens | Rated Explicit | ~55K words | 9/9 chapters now complete!

✨Amazing art by InKibus/Augenblickgotter✨

Thanks SO MUCH to the best beta readers: @dbacklot99 @doonarose and @brenna -- you all made this so much better 💖 Special thanks also to Tossukka for beta-reading my Finland section and providing so much helpful info and advice on names, language, mythology/Otso/peijaiset, and cloudberries :D

CW/tags:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Monsterfucking of many flavors, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Metaphysical Sex, Vaginal Sex, Alcohol, Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Tension, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), Crowley Has a Vulva (Good Omens), Angelic mass destruction of a non-sexy kind, Aziraphale Has a Penis (Good Omens), Consent Issues, Angst with a Happy Ending, Historical/Through-the-Ages, see more at AO3!

Summary:

Aziraphale's having a problem with his corporation. Oh, not every day. Only every five centuries or so. Good thing there's a demon hanging around on Earth who might be interested in helping out. A through-the-ages fic.

Read at AO3!

Final massive thanks to Sanz for running @gomonsterbangersbang! And tagging @goodomensafterdark for its wonderful feral community of support ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[funnyifwebothgotitwrong]

And her. 💙😘😍

I love her 🔥😍💙

That's it. That's the post.

[ineffableclassics]

As Aziraphale walked among the perfumed groves, he held out his hand and the trees he touched went from blossom to fruit with a delighted shiver. It was a sullen kind of rebellion, to spend miracles so frivolously. It was as if he were declaring to the world that the people who weren't on the ark still deserved something good, something precious and divine.

The water is coming, and on their own, Aziraphale and Crawley have no idea what to do or how to do it. Together, however, things may be a little different.

Words: 17,489

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen And Up

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19873681/chapters/47066161

[orth82]

Today's gloomy and rainy. If anyone has any good Mesopotamia/flood fic recommendations, please pass them along.

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🤍🖤My Aziracrow fanart gallery🖤🤍

[aduckwithears]

Sometimes I miss her (long hair Crowley)

[scrambledslut]

[televised-eyes]

my question for good omens 3: what will crowley’s post breakup hairstyle be?

[amagnificentobsession]

“God isn’t upset with the Australians……………

“Yet”

[drconstellation]

Goats, Crows and The Flood

Or why Crowley turns the goats into crows in the Job minisode

If you're reading that and thinking "eh, what's the Flood got to do with it?" then read on. It wasn't done just so Crowley got to change his name. It's never as simple as that. C'mon now, this is the GOmens AU, I'm not going to write a meta about something like this and not give you at least three if not four layers as to why, now, am I? Certainly not, and this one won't be any different.

Recently I picked up a book that has been sitting for far too long on a pile near my kitchen that needs sorting through called Parallel Myths* and in it is a section on Flood myths. (It's got lots of other good bits as well, but the Flood myths are what I want to talk about here.) The Flood is a wide-spread myth, with stories all around the world from India, to the Greek myths, to the Incas and Aztecs and in North America as well.

There are four stories that include crows as messengers who are sent to look out for land. The first is our familiar bible story. Oh, did you miss that bit? Yeah, I know, you keep getting told about the dove that represents the holy spirit that came back with the olive branch. Why would they want to tell you about a dirty old crow? And why is that crow dirty anyway? Ah, hold that thought...we'll come back to that shortly.

Another very famous story that include a crow being sent out to look for land after a great Flood is in the epic story of Gilgamesh. While on a journey Gilgamesh meets an old man named Utnaptishtim who tells the hero how he survived a great flood by building a boat after being warned by the gods to do so, and then floating for several days before coming to rest on a mountain top. At first he sent out a dove, but the dove returned. Then he sent out a swallow, but the swallow returned also, so he knew there was no land yet. But the third bird he sent out was a crow, and it didn't come back, so Utnaptishtim knew it was finally safe to leave.

There are also crows mentioned in two North American Flood myths, with the Cree and the Algonquin, and in both stories they are also sent to look out for land.

So why am I telling you this? Because of this:

Which is, as we know, is a bit of a play on words, but it establishes the association between the ungulate offspring and the human offspring when we run into the next occurrence of the innocent being killed on the Almighty's fickle whim in the Job minisode in S2. And we know our favourite demon is just not going to take that lying down that without some kind of protest.

So after delivering his open monologue to the goats, which gives an insight into himself, then being confronted by Aziraphale, and revealing he has a permit, from the Almighty Herself, no less, he turns Job's goats into crows.

(And if you've missed the bit about why the goats, and not the sheep, which the archangels kept going on about, its because sheep were seen as more "Christian" as the rams were considered faithful to their ewes, as good followers should be, but goats were observed to just do it with any-nanny, with no sense of commitment, if you get what I mean, so they were considered more "demonic" in nature.)

The bible seems to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with birds. On hand they can be used for food or sacrifices, on the other hand they are metaphorical demons! There is an association made between "birds of the air" and demons, waiting to pick off the weak (of thought) and young before they can be enfolded into the "safety" of the church.

Even the noble eagle is frowned upon in a way, as it eats carrion, or rotting meat. And that is something ravens and crows are known to do as well. This eating of dead animals, and humans on the field on the ancient battlefield, led crows to be associated with death and the afterlife, and by extension, transformation from one form to another.

(I can't help thinking at this point about the Sandman's assistant crow helper that travels between worlds, but also I've written a couple of metas about both Crowley and the Bentley being facilitators for the crossing of thresholds between different worlds.)

If you've ever had a close association with a crow or two- and I have, over several years, they can be wily opponents! - you come to respect their intelligence and adaptability, no matter how they might be frustrating you! **

The raven is also mentioned in the Book of Job 38:41

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

We didn't hear this line delivered to Job during the minisode, though we certainly heard some of the other lines from verses 38 and 39 that come before and after it. God is in the middle of telling Job about the universe, the earth and the creatures upon it, and how She looks after them. The line Jimbriel speaks about the morning stars all singing together is Job 38:7, for example. Just before mentioning this loathsome bird, She mentions that most noble of animals, the lion. But look, She also cares about ugly croaking raven fledglings that seem to get kicked out of the nest as soon as they can fly. How do they fend for themselves? It is seen as the mercy of God that she provides for each of the creatures of the Earth, both the lion and the raven. (Well, there's some interesting metaphorical links riiiight there...I hope I don't need to spell them out....)

So where are we? We've gone from a crow being a messenger for Noah, to kids/goats from the Flood scene in S1E3, to demon-associated goats being transformed into demon-associated crows in the Job minisode in S2E2, just before Job's human kids are saved from destruction by being transformed into geckos - which is also a significant symbolic creature for resurrection (which I explain in another meta.)

You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we loop back for a longer look at the Flood in S3. Kids, crows, a transformative experience...

Va-va-voom, here we come!

*Parallel Myths by J. F. Beirlein (1994) A Fascinating look at the common threads woven through the world's greatest myths - and the central role they have played through time. ISBN 0-345-38146-7

**I know there are corvids all around the world, and they can be shy, important birds in the ecosystem but here in Australia they can also be big bullies who know they are bigger than the other birds and throw their weight around accordingly and then do gross stuff like dirty up the backyard bird bath by finding discarded sandwiches and dog bones or even Lego blocks and drop them in to "soften" them for later consumption and just leave a filthy mess there for everybird else. yyyiikkk.