#TIME FLIES

[sherbet-requiem]

[tanked-up]

(Soap when he met Ghost)

Soap: I like the tattoos on your forearm

Ghost: Thanks-

Soap: Date me

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(Years later)

Soap: I love your back tatt-

Ghost: We’re already married, Johnny

[peachebo]

every anime has it's beach episode

[btsiu]

baby is back home 🥹🩷

[didyougaming]

[sandibullock]

WARRIOR NUN 2.01 | Galatians 6:4-5

[ultrafacts]

Damn. Time flies. Who's still with me?

[nootie-patootie]

When you were under the impression that it was still October, but the fireworks outside suggest otherwise 💥🐈‍⬛

[sillysadduck]

happy birthday to me!!! I'm officially... 22??? somehow??? damn

[snowthedemonfox]

happy birthday to everyones favourite digital rabbit

[gojosprettyprincess]

GUESSSS WHO JUST TURNED 19🥳🥳🥳!!

[meep-meep-richie]

2011 2023

[cordeliasdarling]

I can’t believe Wednesday was released in 2022 and it’s 2024 now

[drconstellation]

Memento mori

If you have the Good Omens book, you have probably seen the little winged hourglasses that act as section separators.

Then if you paid attention during S2, you would have noticed at least two visual representations of hourglasses appear: One on Jimbriel's assistant shopkeeper vest and a large one in Hell itself.

(There are actually two time-related symbols on Jim's vest, but I'll start with the hourglass symbol.)

These are collectively known as the Memento mori, which is usually translated from the Latin into "remember that you die." It is a philosophical reminder about the inevitability of death, one of the major themes in GOmens, which is ironic since we are seeing from the viewpoint of immortal entities who don't have to face it themselves.

Artistically you may see this expressed by a skull and bones, or a skeleton, a coffin, or wilting flowers. Another form of it is the popular saying tempus fugit or "time flees" inscribed on sundials.

We can also hear it - the Danse Macabre, the piece of music the Bentley plays for Aziraphale on the way to Edinburgh, is another example of this theme, as it depicts the Grim Reaper carrying off the rich and poor alike.

Hurry up Aziraphale, you don't have all day!

The other time-related symbol on Jimbriel's vest is the ancient Greek meander pattern, named after the Maeander river in modern day Turkey.

This represents a winding river folding back on itself in big looping oxbow bends. Symbolically it represents both unity and infinity - the undulating flow of human life that continues on and on into eternity through reproduction.

Sounds like something we've heard before:

AZIRAPHALE: Ah. The point. Ah, well, you've heard of Earth? CROWLEY: Ehhh… Not as such? AZIRAPHALE: Ah. Blue-green planet. It'll be over there somewhere when they roll out that quadrant. Now that's where the “people” that we're currently designing are going to be. I've seen the plans. We're going to start out with a breeding pair, and then pretty soon there'll be oodles of them! They'll breed like...um...well, they'll breed like people.

OK, then. That kind of sums up the two competing main themes in Good Omens nicely. Everthing Has An End or Eternity.

The problem is, they both sound equally horrific.

[photozoi]

Wow!

The year went by FAST... Scary Fast!!!

Mr the Mung Bean, Silken Windhound, who is 1 year old already!!!!

[radios-silent]

2 years of heartstopper s1