#newt/anathema

[tamilhobbit]

Just rewatched Good Omens. (Still perfect.)

Newt & Anathema kiss and have sex. Why wasn't anyone whinging at @neil-gaiman about how they saw these two as asexual, and their asexual representation was ruined by the kiss/sex?

I think we all know why.

These people somehow never see [presumed] cishet couples as ace rep. It's always only ever queer couples. I saw this response to Ed and Stede kissing in Our Flag Means Death, and now again with Crowley and Aziraphale in Good Omens 2.

I think homophobes have realised that the whole 'I see them as BROTHERS!/Why can't we ever just focus on the beauty of friendship and platonic love?' argument no longer holds water.

So they appropriate asexuality and misuse it to complain about any canonical queer media.

The aroace folks & even sex repulsed ace folks I know don't have any issue with these kisses. They like the queer rep. And they recognise that any couple, even a cishet one, can be ace. Ace people still kiss. Heck, I know ace people who still have sex. It's an incredibly complex spectrum.

Why is it that only MLM/WLW characters, for lack of a better term, must shoulder ace rep? Why is this outcry becoming a common response to two male-presenting characters kissing, but never to a man and a woman kissing?

Could it be because these people see a gay couple as inherently sexual just for existing? Queerness as inherently sexually deviant? (Which also ignores that asexuality is part of the LGBTQIA/queer umbrella.)

Is queerness only palatable when hinted at, when completely and utterly sanitised and desexualised? To such an extent that even a kiss is going too far?

Because that seems to be what these people think asexuality means.

(I'm absolutely not claiming that all ace people are pulling this shit. I'm demisexual. But I do think that homophobes and people who have some internalised issues to work through are the ones appropriating asexuality as an excuse to protest onscreen queer love.)

[mrghostrat]

BNF Chapter 17 • December 19th • [ ☕️ ]

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman at NADWCON 2011 (North American Discworld Convention) ❤

Neil: The single worst experience that we went through was, I think, the film. The first go round on the film, where it was bought by very nice people who convinced us they were very nice because we were absolute innocent. And I just remember going up for the first meeting with them.

And we were going up for the meeting, and Terry says, 'Here, come over here.'

I said, 'Okay.'

He said, 'Um, look, I'm not sure about these people, and you're not sure about these people. If this is our first meeting, if they're just completely barking, we should have a code word. And whoever says the code word, we both get up in unison and we leave'.

I said, 'Okay, so we need a code word that neither of us could conceivably say in normal conversation.'

And Terry says, 'Yes.'

I said, 'Okay, what about Biggles?' Now, Biggles, for those of you who don't know, was a famous...

Terry, joking: A famous Cardinal. [Cardinal Biggles in Monthy Python].

Neil: He was. Of course.

Terry: They're young, that's the only one they know.

Neil: Captain W. E. Johns wrote books about Biggles, who was a World War I flying ace who, with his pals Ginger and Algy used to go out and shoot out the evil Germans. So, if any Germans are here, you're not evil, it was just in this book. So. So, I say, 'What about Biggles?'

And Terry is, 'Okay. Biggles it is.'

So we head up for the meeting, and we're sitting there around the table talking to what seemed to be terribly nice, sensible people. And then the executive walks in. And the executive in this case was a woman who looked like she had mugged somebody 20 years younger than her and stolen her hair. And she walked in and she didn't... She said like, 'Hi, Neil. Hi, Terry. It's lovely to meet you both. Now, I'm sure that the guys have been talking to you about your book, Good Omens, and what we're thinking about now. Okay, let me just run some stuff past you. We figure the dynamics of this are the kid, Adam, whatever his name is, Newt, the witchfinder. We see him as, like, maybe being Tom Cruise, young, goodlooking, hunky, but he's looking for the witches. And the witch, Athaneema, I think her name was. Okay, so there's Newt and there's Athaneema'.

And I look at Terry, and I need to actually mime this - I think we should do this together.

.

Fun fact: Neil wrote the 'Athaneema' into the Good Omens series :).

[mielpetite]

The Book

My patrons voted for me to do a piece for each episode this year so it’s February, and time for episode two!

This piece is for “The Book” so you know I had to show our angel when he gets his mitts on said tome and makes one of the most fun faces to draw. For this piece, especially because the scene is so high contrast in lighting, I wanted to find a happy medium between realistic portraiture and a nouveau look. But I also employed the framing conventions of the book itself to provide four small color block illustrations of crucial characters of the Nice and Accurate Prophecies.

[snek-eyes]

oh Newt 😆

[inezrable]

[fexalted]

good omens + text posts (part 9)

an assortment i made last year with some season 2 mixed in for variety :3c

[ineffabildaddy]

people who think newt and anathema have no chemistry and wouldn't actually work as a couple have clearly never witnessed irl the very real and fairly common shy nerd bf x assertive alt gf relationship dynamic. it's a beautiful sight actually

[rainydropz]

some good omens side character love

[crowleysgirl56]

Good Omens season 3/finale thought of the day:

Have we ever given any consideration to the fact that Agnes Nutter may have written multiple copies of her second book of prophecies knowing full well that Newt and Anathema would burn the first copy she sent them? She probably just keeps posting it to them at various times, with more intense and threatening notes like “Ye playe with fyre lest it burn ye”. And after Newt and Anathema burned the fourth copy and a fifth still manages to turn up they just give up trying to destroy it. It would be a good way to bring them back into the finale (though as I previously posted Jack Whitehall isn’t available for filming, so maybe just Anathema?), seeking out “that weird couple” who stole the first book and then appeared at the airbase and seemed to know so much about what was going on. Maybe they’ll know what to do with this second book because Newt and Anathema certainly don’t want a bar of it anymore.

[bunshr00m]

Do you have any good omens head cannons?

when "the them" get older they still bring up that one time adam went all evil when they're annoyed w him

anathema thought she didn't wanna date until she met newt and realized her type was just very pathetic boys and she hadn't met a pathetic enough boy

for some reason i think muriel would get asked out a lot on earth but at first they wouldn't realize they're dates so they're just happily cruising along being an absolute player. after realizing they'd be like "so if i just keep making lip contact with my dates they'll purchase more human sustenance for me? what an interesting trading system!"

i also headcanon that muriel is a lesbian though because i sense my own

gabriel finds flies on him a lot. in pockets, in hair, in his teeth. beezlebub just wants him to have lil friends

nina isn't very good at expressing affection so she'd do it really awkwardly. she'd hand someone a trinket, say "its yours" and then leave without explaining anything.

maggie hates nina's ex more than anyone. if she ever met them she'd give them a proper little smack. also i can see her as the "with all due respect, which is none..." meme

this one is basically canon but crowley makes fun of aziraphale for saying such british things despite also being british. "just popping off to the loo :)" "jUsT pOpPiNg OfF tO tHe LoOoOo"

finally i think crowley eats burnt ass toast bc he's just weird like that.

[lxvenderjewel]

good omens as the official maggot discord server: part 1

all parts!

@weirdly-specific-but-ok @hello-ello-ello @falling-raine @aroaceblackhole if yall wanna tag other people i'm cool w that

[headcanonthings]

Crowley, standing in the middle of the destroyed kitchen: How? How were you able to summon me? Newt, flicking desperately through a cookbook: I don’t know! You were meant to be chicken soup! Anathema: *walks into the kitchen* Anathema: Anathema: *slowly backs away*

[zevampirex]

The all Cat omens gang, can you tell who is who?

[innefableidiot]

Crowley, Anathema and Nina should all meet at a pub or cafe or something and just drink and talk shit about people. And I mean like people watching but also talking about people that really piss them off. Then I can imagine Aziraphale, Newt and Maggie just off somewhere else and they have a very calm book club or something.

[captainfantasticalright]

random collection of Good Omens s1 behind the scenes photos.