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I love our fandom

We're like little mice scouring for any little crumb we can find

Thank you Rachel T

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Breakup so bad elons accusing trump of being on the Epstein list

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Everything is Them.

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It takes a village to raise a child and it takes an even stronger village to love and care for its elders as well. ♥️

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when is michael sheen gonna play another cutie patootie. his characters are always so mean and scary, i wanna see more of him having adorable hobbies and wiggling and giggling

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It's okay... I meant to watch the show and read the book back in 2019.

Ended up happening in 2022. For the show. The book still lies neglected on my bookshelf. In mint condition :(

I finally watched Good Omens...

and then I listened to the audiobook... and then I bought the book... and then I found out about the mug... and then I found out there was a musical... guys. why did anyone let me procrastinate about watching this fucking show?? </3

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Right? Idk if my lack of interest in many of these plots is because of my personal experience. I'm ND and AFAB, so no surprise, I've fallen victim to lots of bullying and general mistreatment. I also used to have really low standards regarding relationships and such (and I'm still working on overcoming this and building confidence). I used to think it was normal for people who "loved" me to hold resentment towards me and just be annoyed with/hate a bunch of things about me. Because, you know, "Relationships are messy," and "It means they care!" I'd also hoped that, with certain relatives and classmates who seriously seemed to have issues with me, I could finally "figure it out" and get them to like me one day. Nope!

I still have people in my life who, for whatever reason, decided that we need to be enemies. Idk why, and I don't care anymore. I just think it's weird and unnecessary. Like, we could just have a nice, peaceful work, dorm, school, apartment, etc., environment where everyone just does their thing and vibes, but nope! I guess that's too boring. We need to have conflicts and hierarchies! And hey, Mango's an odd individual who prefers to keep to themselves... let's disturb their peace! It will be so funny! It's not like you can avoid everyone who's like this either. People who have it in them to be this petty are EVERYWHERE! And I've certainly never entertained the idea of dating them. Yuck! I'd rather ignore/avoid them. I'm just grateful I've started having fewer issues with this as I've gotten older.

I'm not saying I dislike all the premises that pertain to enemies-to-lovers. I actually have a couple of story ideas that fall under this category. In one, they start out as enemies because of a very genuine misunderstanding. It's a demon hunter AU, where Crowley happens to be a very misunderstood demon because, well, everyone assumes demons are evil! There is no hate, though. Aziraphale is just fulfilling a duty, and Crowley does whatever he can to protect himself without harming the human (will only do so a little bit as a last resort). Aziraphale does his best to limit cruelty towards demons while slaying them. Knowing Aziraphale, he despises being a part of this in the first place. He'd much prefer living in a world devoid of this conflict, but he also knows he needs to protect other humans from demons. Most of them are an existential threat to humans, after all! So... it just makes sense! He's not going to understand that Crowley is innocent when he first encounters him in this context. Also, Aziraphale's always been "odd" compared to the other demon hunters. The irony is that, while they're supposed to be more virtuous than the demons they slay and the humans they protect, many of them end up having massive egos. They demand unconditional and constant worship from society. They don't view demons as thinking, feeling beings, so they sometimes think it's okay to show them cruelty and humiliation. They love to flaunt how powerful they are and make it known just HOW MUCH they contribute to society. So... perhaps Aziraphale and Crowley relate to each other in some ways.

Yep, it might be cliche. I just adore a misunderstood "enemy" who either isn't, or doesn't want to be an enemy. It seems so befitting for Crowley, too. He has so many half-hearted "evil plans" that aren't really all that evil and end up backfiring on him. So cunning, yet so clumsy. But also, he doesn't give a fuck! Neither does Aziraphale. Their most "violent" fights are probably the equivalent of one tapping the other with a pool noodle, and the other pretending to be dead.

My other idea needs time to develop, tbh. Who knows if it will even end up becoming a story?

I do appreciate how in canon, they were friends-to-"enemies"-to-still-friends-to-lovers. Really, more like friends-to-forbidden-lovers. And, like, while they do struggle with the taboos of what they're doing and the stupid expectations placed upon them, they are very much willing to question the "norms" of their celestial society.

I've never been all that fond of characters who enforce "traditions," "norms," or "rules." The protagonist so obsessed with following along with societal expectations that they become toxic. Or the enemies-to-lovers plots where the two characters act like they hate each other because they're secretly attracted to each other. It gives so many "conquering" vibes. Like, it's supposed to be some male p*wer f*ntasy where the guy ends up "taming" or "managing" the attractive woman with a temper. Or, "She's only worthy of him because even though he's a powerful asshole, she's the only one who can stand up to him!" Sounds... exhausting!

I sometimes wonder if Good Omens is refreshing because it shows a developed, healthy relationship constantly standing strong against the meddling of the outside world. So many people fall victim to peer pressure. So many people end up externalizing their baggage because... the world sucks! And so many of these awful behaviors are reflected through the media we consume. I was in a toxic relationship myself when I first watched GO. Before watching this TV show, I had been normalizing SO many things my partner was doing that, deep down, I KNEW weren't good for me! After seeing how wholesome Azicrow was... I started questioning things a lot more. I thought back to when it seemed my relationship was happy, and when my (now ex) acted like they had so much in common with me, and at the time seemed very compatible. Why couldn't it just stay like that? Why did my ex slowly do a 180 personality-wise? I'd decided, from that point forward, I didn't want to settle for anything that wasn't the cute, wholesome relationship I saw on the screen that day. Hey, maybe it's unrealistic. I've met plenty of people with messy love lives. I don't envy them. Maybe that's just "the norm." But I'm still keeping my standards for what company I keep around very high. I know what I want. And I know that what I don't want just isn't good for me. Thankfully, I have a handful of people in my life who are delightful to be around. It hasn't been easy finding them!

I often think about the fact that Crowley and Aziraphale were basically smitten with each other from day one. Most other shows would, I think, have gone a pretty straightforward "enemies to lovers" route with it, probably having them being directly hostile toward each other for a while before settling into some tense truce that eventually speedruns it's way into a passionate romance. Not Good Omens, though, they're too good for that.

Like, you know, they like each other IMMEDIATELY. On the wall around the Garden of Eden, watching Adam and Eve, freshly fallen courtesy of Crowley, wander off into the world to face the horrors, while they giggle with each other over silly jokes. Even then when, by all rights, they really SHOULD have been hostile to each other they just couldn't bring themselves to be.

Like, URGH I don't know if I'm expressing this properly but they've liked each other since the beginning and they never really bother pretending to be enemies other than the absolute minimum level of lip-service to their respective authority figures and it's just so...I don't know, so REFRESHING, at least for me who's watched/read waaaayyyy too many "enemies to lovers" things that tread over the same old ground.

It's just nice to see people who like each other from the get-go, you know? Without the media in question trying to convince us you can only have chemistry with someone if you start out disliking each other? It's nice.

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Tbf, this is the first time I watched a show and had a REALLY good feeling about them being both queer and having great chemistry/a healthy relationship.

So pre-good omens 2, I wasn't on Tumblr so I didnt really have anyone that I could talk to about the show. So I wrote down all my thoughts about it in various diaries. I found one the other day where I theorized that there would be a ballroom scene, except since I was so used to queerbait shows at that point, if written "knowing tv shows, this is where Crowley and Aziraphale are given underdeveloped female love interests". I'm so glad that last part didn't come true but it is weird that I was right about there being a ball.

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Or even just a kudos! Even when there are already hundreds on the fic.

Every time I get a nice ao3 comment I can feel my brain buzzing with dopamine

You like my fic??? It fills you with joy??? Marry me now

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I don't think we appreciate enough how much of a queer win that ineffable husbands kiss was.

I mean, two characters who have been beloved by the queer community since the early 90s finally having that confirmation 30 years after the fact? Fucking wild.

Having them played by middle aged men? Awesome!!! We need more older queer people in media. We've always been around!

And portrayed as well as that? AAAGGHHHH!!! I mean, that scene was so serious and emotionally charged. It wasn't played for laughs, and it didn't treat their feelings for each other as something bad or undesirable. It made you feel for them, and root for their undying ineffable love.

In short, I love them your honour.

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Jfc, I went four months hardly engaging with GO. Anything new?

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petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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Am I the only one who pretends my pillow is Aziraphale?

Maaann I want to snuggle with Aziraphale soooooo fucking baddddd

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Right? It feels like one of those interests that lasts for life. Personally, I just got swept up by a new hyperfixation (a non-fandom one), but I still find myself coming back to GO now and then.

Okay, not to be sappy on main, but no matter where my fandom heart takes me, it always brings me back to Good Omens. They have become such comfort characters that feel like old friends at this point. There is still so much incredible art coming out and some of the best (most fluffy and wholesome and soft *and* explicit) fanfics I have ever read and keep coming back to are of the ineffable idiots. I love them so much.

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And also, I can't get into the idea of marriage and kids. I like spending lots of time with interests and people involved with said interests.

Coworkers like "you need to marry and have child" I'm emotionally married to crowley and aziraphale

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Every fanfic is a Crowley x reader for Michael Sheen

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big NO for human theory.

i will never accept this.