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It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

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oh my GOD?!?!

to those who haven't already seen it

this yt channel does one of the best gomens edits I've seen

the timing is impeccable

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Saw that review and became FULLY POSSESSED until I finished this

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beard!stede truthers unite

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Pirates Were Not Nice- OFMD messes with our perception or real life.

DISCLAIMER: I love OFMD, but I also love learning and talking about real-life piracy, so there are a few things within this fandom space that bug me.

Ok so Anne Bonny is definitely going to be a fun, romantic and likeable lesbian in season 2 of OFMD...

BUT she was not irl, so was a pirate, so lets break it down a little bit.

Anne Bonny was a pirate and she killed for fun sometimes and she was not the fun personification of pirates we see in OFMD. Same with Blackbeard, same with irl Stede Bonnet.

It rubs me the wrong way when people start talking about these characters in real like situation, about "Oh, Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach were actually in love in real life!" "Anne Bonny and Mary Read were a lesbian power couple that plundered the seven seas together" [Anne Bonny was never a pirate captain (oddly common misconception), and both of them have lengthy list of male lovers].

We can love the show and also acknowledge that 16th century piracy was brutal and unjust, and OFMD is as far removed from what happened in real life as you can possibly be while still telling a story that vaguely resembles real-life pirates and adapts them to our modern-day world.

Ed and Stede as seen in the show can barely even be attributed to the real life Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet. They are in their entirety characters, who happen to have had some of the same experiences as their real-life counterparts.

Real life Stede Bonnet inherited owned a plantation before he abandoned his wife because he was bored and didn't like being married, and died at 30 years old after spending the majority of his already-short-lived piracy career (roughly two years) as what was effectively Blackbeard's prisoner.

Piracy was not glamorous, or fun, or happy.

Stede Bonnet was named one of the most cruel pirate captains of the Caribbean at times because of the way he treated his crew and treated his prisoners, and he was a bold pirate, yeah...

but he also sucked ass at being a pirate. He had no training as a sailor, and relied on his crew more than deemed acceptable of a real captain.

This doesn't mean he shied away from shameless murder, abandoning his crew members, etc., all things typical of a pirate captain and I see a few too many people acting as though these pirates were fun, cool people. Pirates had slaves, they killed for little reason very often, and the reason we hear about 'acceptance' for queer people, for people of colour, etc. aboard pirate ships is because pirates were desperate and took anyone they could. (Unless of course you were a woman, in which case many crews might have quickly murdered you, which might actually be a small mercy)

Piracy was dangerous; it was vile and it was cruel. The characters in OFMD are dramatized, and have far more humanity than any real pirate ever did.

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Ok but Crowley and Aziraphale were the first gays fr fr

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the aardvark?

yeah

Arthur could be a model I think. I don’t care if I’m biased

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so many gorgeous artists on here, it makes me wiah i understood how to do art

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he's just so pretty

At this point I’ll do anything for a s2 Stede pic of any kind

“He shouldn’t have a beard” “he should have one” “he should have his hair tied back” it’s rhys, this man gonna look gorgeous no matter what and I’m too excited abt it

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Dear Mr Gaiman,

In legal terms, do Aziraphale and Crowley exist in the human world? Are there any documents proving them to be real?

This might sound like a bit of a silly question so feel free to disregard it, but if for example someone questioned if they were residents or anything of the like, would they be able to prove that? Have they procured fake birth certificates, proof of residency, or anything of the like? Of the same sort, if Crowley, say, got pulled over by police, would he have a driver's liscence (fake or not doesn't matter, that isn't the question) or anything of the type to show them, or would a minor miracle be involved to avoid their attention altogether?

I know that it was mentioned that Aziraphale did in fact acquire a driver's liscence in 1935, and while you have said in a previous ask that whether he passed his test legitimately or not is up for debate, he also has legal papers for the bookshop, other shops he is the landlord of, etc. I suppose this mostly applies to Crowley, but would they ever allow themselves to be found in any instance in which either of them would ever need to show their liscences or any legal documents?

Thank you!

I think you can assume that Aziraphale has all the paperwork anyone could ever require of him and that Crowley doesn't and cannot be bothered.

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god, this is what makes Mr Gaiman so incredible, and despite its issues, this is what keeps the Good Omens fandom space healthier than most. he tells it like it is and just has us go write fanfiction whenever there's an issue, lmao.

more writers should adopt similar mindsets, because I guarantee they would shut down plenty of disagreeable feelings among fans if they just set it 'straight' and said "fuck it, this is what my canon says, but go write some fanfiction if that makes you unhappy"

Hi Neil! I doubt you will even see this but this topic is somewhat important to me,

Obviously you know about the wide spread ridiculous hate with the queer representation in good omens and unfortunately that includes people getting mad at fans for using different pronouns on genderless characters, which has gotten out of hand lately especially when it comes to crowley. It’s perfectly fine to use whatever pronouns we prefer on genderless characters right? Was hoping to hear it from you since people go so overboard with that hate about things that make others happy.

Either way I thank you so much for the amount of representation in good omens, it constantly makes my day better when I think about it.

Have a nice day!!

I didn't know that there was any hate. Anyone using Good Omens to spread hate is missing the point and needs to stop.

Angels aren't humans or mortals. They don't have genders. There isn't a pronoun you can use for them that's wrong, and unless you can speak in the tongue of the angels there's not a pronoun you can use for them that's actually right. Ditto Demons.

Anyone who is spending their time telling other people they are somehow fanning Good Omens wrong should take a deep breath and go and make some fanfiction or some art or organise a meet-up or do something that's fun instead and makes people feel better.

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you're kidding

After a year of admiring amazing art and fics, I finally started drawing them too. So why not share, yeah? :')

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can’t believe we got a canonical fanfiction-flavored “oh…” moment of love realization from Crowley.

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Grumpy Asshole captivated by his Heart-Of-Gold Blond Girlfriend is my favorite genre.

Why do Stede & Ed and Aziraphale & Crowley mirror each other so well?!?!?!?!

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Aziraphale shielding Crowley from water

and Crowley shielding Aziraphale from fire