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After finding out that duolingo have been teaching me incorrect stuff (I noticed this during some japanese lessons), I wanted to try something else. I have really fallen in love with LingoDeer but now I am afraid that I will find the same problem with this app. Anyone know if I risk that? Just checking before I spend all my money on a subscription....

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Because of tumblr I started watching ofmd. I am now on episode 9. But I heard that the ending is a bit like the good omens season 2 ending so now I am too scared too continue and will live in denial untill October 5th

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It feels appropriate

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Iiiiihhhhhhhhhhh

Hello!! I have a question about the ending of s2 ep6 (loved the season by the way!!)

What lead you to making Crowley kiss aziraphale? In the past i recall you mentioning that you felt unsure to stray too far from the original material or say anything new about their relationship without Terry Pratchett being here so i wonder what caused you to change your mind? Not complaining, just curious :)

I said I wasn't going to change anything about the nature of their relationship in the first book, and I didn't. I know what Terry and I had planned for the sequel, though.

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I was watching the bts videos yesterday including the making of the opening credits and Mr. Anderson said “We added plaques to the back of chairs and Neil chose who to honour on them”.

He’s referring to the chairs we briefly see in the theatre where Aziraphale is doing his magic act:

Left to right: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Crow Road by Iain Banks.

I want to focus on these three in a row specifically because Neil chose to put those books there in that order and I had something of an epiphany last night about it all when insomnia was chewing on my toes.

These three books have also been mentioned out loud in the show in episode 2 when Gabriel is reorganising the shelves:

“It was the day my grandmother exploded” - The Crow Road

“It is a truth universally acknowledged-” - Pride and Prejudice

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” - A Tale of Two Cities

For those unfamiliar with the books, I’ll do a quick potted summary of each, with a focus on why I think they’re relevant and especially why the order of the chairs in the theatre feels relevant.

A Tale of Two Cities

Set during the French revolution with one lead who is an aristocrat who has stepped away from his class and background to support the less fortunate than himself because he disagrees with the way they did things. Also, he changed his name because he doesn’t want to be associated with the place where he came from.

The big culmination of the books is when said man is betrayed and set to be executed, but his friend takes his place. There is very literally a body swap by someone who looks very like him in order to save his life. This body-swap is done out of love.

aka - season 1.

Pride and Prejudice

Two people from very different class backgrounds have a very very bumpy start to their relationship because of misinterpretation, miscommunication and a lot of external pressure put on them by the rules of their respective societies. Both of them have different information and because of that, both of them are seeing exactly the same situation very differently. One of them tries to express his affection, but does it so badly that the other tells him there is no chance she will join him.

aka - season 2

The Crow Road

A young man tries to solve a mystery of someone’s disappearance using only the papers they left behind, with said young man’s background rooted in faith and belief in a higher power. There’s also a secondary plot about emotional growth into a more mature and more fulfilling relationship.

aka - season 3

Needless to say, I am quite excited :)

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I love how good omens was no. 1 trending again for a hot second. It's either no. 1 or not on the list at all, there is no in between

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So if the theory about the Megadumb rewriting the past and the present via the book of life is correct, we all know that Muriel will read through all of Aziraphale's (600 or 6000?) volumes of diaries. They will then ofc be a crucial part to correcting things or just finding out what is real and not.

BUT! This will 1000% also make them the BIGGEST ineffable husband shipper *ever*. I mean, just think about how much we ship them, but Muriel would actually have direct acces to their entire love story and all of Aziraphale's "omg I swear his hand touched mine today!!!!!" and "he was totally looking at me, iiiiihhhhhh"

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I definitely think that them being able to do such a grand miracle will be important in season 3. They did emphasize that they did the miracle together when they talked about it, so I'm sure that that is the reason why it was so powerful.

However, it could be because of their love to each other (which I think is most likely) but it could also be because angels and demons somehow are stronger together and that a part of season 3 is to make them work together.

Proof: they only did half a miracle each. When either of them do miracles alone no alarm bells go off in heaven

“their miracle was so big bc crowley used to be an archangel” have u considered that aziraphale and crowley love each other so much that their love alone could move the tides just by staring at the ocean for too long. have u considered that they did the miracle not really to protect gabriel but to protect what they had, what they’d built with each other. and that was them barely even trying

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Just putting this out there...

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I need to talk about how present Jane Austen was in this season and how one of the central themes of her books is the harm brought by not being able to communicate ones feelings and what made Aziraphale and Crowley part ways was the fact that at the end they DID NOT COMMUNICATE AND THAT LAST “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER” MEANT TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS FOR THEM I’M -

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just little tiny things i’m noticing that are sending me into a tailspin:

even with the entire range of emotion his facial expression went through at first - aziraphale’s eyes are closed when crowley pulls back from kissing him

his bowtie is askew from how crowley was crushed against him and yet prim-and-proper aziraphale doesn’t have the presence of mind to care one bit

when aziraphale touches his lips his hand is literally shaking violently. listen… what in the brideshead revisited self-denying repression. boy has he got it BAD for crowley

he also tries like three times to back out once metatron comes back because he’s realized he fucked up - asks about the bookshop and tries to stay, eyes darting toward the window, starts to say he thinks he needs to go

part of me is sure nothing would’ve worked to get him to change his mind but i’m also half-convinced if metatron hadn’t come back at that precise moment aziraphale might’ve gone after crowley after all because [tenth doctor voice] what. what. what

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Someone: so what does the A.Z. stand for, mr Fell?

Azi: Aziraphale

Someone: what about the Z then?

Azi: A-Z-raphale

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Like he had to ask. They were probably the ones beggingasking him if they could pretty please have a kiss scene in season 2

Do you think Neil Gaiman was like "Hey guys do you want to kiss? Are you comfortable doing a kissing scene? Do you guys wanna do it? You know how the fans are into it." I just kinda wonder how these conversations go. Cause I would not be comfortable asking two people I work with to kiss each other on the lips for my art.

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Me the month leading up to the release of good omens season 2: okay I do realize that good omens has consumed my life and my brain and my thoughts and that I am addicted but all of that will change after I have just watched it and then I can get back to my life

Me now: damn, guess I am a liar then

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Today’s Good Omens posting is about *spins wheel*

how Crowley’s self-loathing colors the way he sees Aziraphale’s interactions with him and how we should take that negative bias into account

I’m not even gonna talk about the whole final scene/misunderstanding because we’ve all talked about that one by now. Instead I want to talk about Crowley’s description of the 3 reasons Aziraphale calls him:

(Paraphrasing) “you’re bored; you need to tell someone about something clever you did; something’s wrong”

this is a succinct breakdown and it lowkey paints Aziraphale in a bad light; Aziraphale only calls Crowley when it’s beneficial to him; this is a transactional relationship

but like, I think, to some degree, those 3 reasons are simply the only reasons Crowley can actually imagine Aziraphale being interested in talking to him. The last one is a common song and dance between them, sure, but what about the first 2?

Aziraphale calling out of the blue, rambling about how things have been slow and quiet in the neighborhood of late and wanting to take that time to catch up - Crowley can’t fathom ‘Aziraphale missed my voice and wanted to make sure I was doing okay’ and turns it into ‘Aziraphale is just bored obviously’

Aziraphale calling, absolutely giddy, talking a mile a minute about something clever he’s done can’t possibly be ‘I’m the first person he wants to share his victories with, the person whose opinion matters the most to him now and always’ so instead it’s ‘Aziraphale just needed someone to tell this to before he popped’

(There’s an interesting thing implied here as well, which is that it’s Aziraphale calling Crowley regularly and yet we talk about how Aziraphale isn’t taking initiative in the relationship but I digress)

Point is, I think Crowley knows that Aziraphale likes him, it’s part of what makes everything so heartbreaking - the way he ends up being rejected in spite of that - but just like I think he misunderstands Aziraphale’s heaven proposal because he can’t see that Aziraphale thinks he is better than heaven already, he misunderstands any reason Aziraphale would possibly reach out to him as some level of wanting something rather than… just wanting to talk to him. He doesn’t recognize that he is Enough for Aziraphale, no strings or acts of service attached.

We just need one amazing kiss conversation to set this straight

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One thing I haven't seen people talk about is that we actually do get a direct parallel to "You go too fast for me" in Season 2. It completely went over my head the first time I watched it, but it's the entire scene with Aziraphale driving the Bentley. The more I watch it, the more it seems like a metaphor.

We literally get to see Aziraphale picking up the pace, driving faster at Crowley's instruction- and the comment that he can feel when the Bentley isn't going fast enough just adds a whole new layer.

There's more to go into here- Aziraphale getting his drivers licence when Crowley got the Bentley, him actually being in the drivers seat for once, referring to the car as "our car", attempting to change the car before Crowley insists he change it back.

The last on that list is a big one, I think, if we do take the Bentley in this scene as a metaphor for their relationship. I mean, it quite literally foreshadows the end of the season with Aziraphale attempting to change their relationship to suit him and Crowley flat out refusing that change.

We all thought a title like 'I Know Where I'm Going' seemed to be a continuation of sorts (YGTFFM, but...) and it really did hide That in plain sight.

I would also just like to add, for no particular reason, that Crowley drives away from the bookshop slowly at the end of the season. Something something about the pace, huh?