#good omens ducks

[kaluwa-del-conte]

🦆 Quack~✨

[hoarder-of-dragons]

[Meanwhile Back on Earth] Crowley, drunk : I mean, I thought I did everything right. He was certainly giving hints yesterday but if i wasn't distracted by the demons trying to fucking attack the bookshop I would've been more receptive. And why did he leave for Heaven when he knows he can't the change its's bureaucracy! And to leave me here and say he forgives me like the bastard he is well I ought to....I ought to...What should I do? The Ducks: ..quack? Crowley, still drunk: THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING

[thethingswedotomorrow]

Good Omens Wallpapers!

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[0owhatsamsays]

The Ducks and Crowley's sin

I've been wondering what is it with the ducks in GO for a long time. Why ducks? Why Crowley talks about ducks so much? He even knows what food is good for ducks. Frozen peas. I didn't know that (sorry, ducks, next time I'll know, thank the GO universe for that).

I even asked Neil Gaiman once, but never got a response, expected. No hard feelings, Mr. Gaiman.

And this morning I decided to search ducks again and something caught my eyes. A story called "The duck and the devil". Interesting.

So I clicked to read it and....

Basically it's about a boy that accidentally kills a duck and his sister saw him. She starts blackmailing him to do what she wants and she promises not to tell their grandparents.

However, the boy gets fed up being blackmailed and finally confesses to his grandmother and she tells him that she saw everything and forgave him right then and there because she loves him, but she didn't say anything, wondering for how long he would let his sister make a slave of him.

The story's purpose is to explain that God sees everything and he/she forgives us and loves us. The devil makes us slaves to our sins.

This got me thinking about Crowley and the forgiveness that he doesn't want (either because he doesn't feel worthy of it, or because he thinks he has nothing to be forgiven for) and Aziraphale's "I forgive you".

Crowley protects the ducks (he also saves the dove, the goats, Aziraphale and a few people, but lets focus on the ducks), but what is this a metaphore for? What is his "sin"? Is it the reason for his falling, or maybe it's his love for Aziraphale? In my opinion, it's the latter.

If we assume that Aziraphale is the duck in the story... Crowley changes Aziraphale. He challenges him to think beyond black and white, to see shades of grey. Crowley tempts Aziraphale to turn his back on Heaven and humanity and just be with him. After all the good deeds he did, it always comes to this. This is the breaking point for both of them. This is what still pushes off Aziraphale.

Of course, Aziraphale doesn't know what Crowley knows about Heaven and there are other aspects, but we are not going to go deeper into that right now. The point is, this is the moment when Crowley chooses Aziraphale over everything else and Aziraphale sees it as a sin, because he doesn't fully understand Crowley's POV.

Crowley's "sin" is being thrown at his face constantly just as with the kid in the story. He is also blackmailed (Aziraphale too, but this is about Crowley) that his "sin" will be revealed. His love for Aziraphale.

And finally, just as the kid, he got fed up and decided to confess his "sin" and just as the kid, he was forgiven, because he was also loved.

In the story about the boy, the grandmother is the forgiver, but it's a metaphore about God's forgiveness.

In GO, Aziraphale is the forgiver, but I believe God forgave Crowley too. And God loves him too.

[teacup-captor]

YOU DO NOT FEED DUCKS FROZEN PEAS EITHER YOU FUCKING THAW THEM YOU THAW THE GOTDAMN PEAS THEM BEING FROZEN IS NO GOOD FOR THEM. THAW THE PEAS. THAW THEM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

[that-one-rat-in-the-cupboard]

Ducks can symbolize unlikely pairings.

I will now cry for several hours.

[innefableidiot]

Hear me out, good omens au where everything is the same but everyone is a silly little duck

Duck omens.

[kurj]

milton the duck update!! he likes his peas, but occassional bread wont hurt, he says

[aduckwithears]

Periodically, it hits me like a ton of bricks that this scene exists:

With the windows framed as their wings, the hand fluttering to the back, the most emotionally devastating kiss ever to be filmed...

I am still not well.

[theclaravoyant]

Thinking about how Crowley thinks Aziraphale calls him when he’s bored (when nothing is happening) , when he’s “done something clever” (when something good happens), or when he needs help (when something bad happens) . Like. Crowley my beloved that’s all the times.

[garbage-gif]

[kaluwa-del-conte]

🦆 “They’re complaining about the lack of frozen peas these days.” - (Cricket from The Bee Hive server 😆)

[eluetime]

A soft Crowley with a Duck

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Peter Anderson: Hi, my name is Peter Anderson. I'm from Peter Anderson Studio and we created the title sequence to Good Omens Season Two. So this scene is quite literally a continuation from Season One.

An interesting detail with this scene is the fly. The fly is significant because it stores Gabriel's memory.

Gabriel is hidden in every scene. This is the first time we see it.

This goat is half bird, half goat, representing a mistake in a moment of transformation.

In the pickled herring barrel, we have literally red herrings sticking out.

A lot of the gravestones have hidden engravings, easter eggs, all written by Neil.

[This one says: HERE LIES THE FORMER SHELL OF BEELZEBUB referncing Beelzebub having a new face in S2 :), another ones are: EVERYDAY, JANE AUSTEN, Here lies ADAM (the Adam from Adam and Eve is meant)]

Another hidden Gabriel.

Our same character that was trying to escape Hell in Season One titles is also trying to escape here, moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the procession. Except this time he's apprehended and dragged back into the procession.

Our Hell spider from episode four makes a little appearance in the background here.

Can you tell where the bus is going? Director Douglas McKinnon selected Powell and Pressburger's Stairway to Heaven to put on the billboard.

Another thing to note here is the type is all handmade specifically for Good Omens. The Alphabet only exists within the show.

The big floating turnip is a nod to Azirafel's magic tricks.

The Ladies of Camelot poster we pulled from the show.

We added plaques to the back of the chairs and Neil chose who to honour.

[There are: A TALE OF TWO CITIES by CHARLES DICKENS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by JANE AUSTEN, THE CROW ROAD by IAIN BANKS (twice!) and GOOD OMENS by TERRY PRATCHETT (Neil missing for some reason :) <3)]

Saraqael made an appearance from Heaven.

Our Space is back from Season One. Aziraphale and Crowley are having a little dance here. A moment of flirtation. There's a tiny planet in the middle that comes into existence at this moment.

Our Scottish tartan hills make an appearance here.

The aeroplane and the airline is a little bit of a clue here.

[THY KINGDOM AIRWAYS 👀]

It's raining love hearts in reference to Aziraphale's attempt at making Maggie and Nina fall in love.

Here are elevators to Heaven and Hell. A wee thing to spot. Here is Gabriel in the lift arriving from Heaven.

We've updated our flags to reference some of the plotlines in Season Two. For example, The Second Coming.

The movie poster artwork changes every week, representing the episode plotlines and the minisodes. We made the posters to look like the time period and in this case we've got a Good Omens version of Buddy Holly.

[The posters are:]

In the snack bar some of our popcorn is actually communion wafers.

There are specific characters from Season One in the boxes watching the movie as the procession goes by. This includes some of our original concept art from Season One.

The duck playing the accordion is from a newspaper headline that someone is reading in The Dirty Donkey from one of the episodes.

[this is also from the Good Omens book :): "Daily Mail. 'Letter From America.' Um, August the third," said Newt. "Just after the story about the woman in Worms, Nebraska, who taught her duck to play the accordion."]

Each episode is showing a new movie on the screen, each one selected by Douglas, and has clues about what's to come.

The season one phone box tumbles in the background.

The big mountain is made of all the ingredients from Season Two and a couple of remnants from Season One. We are heading towards the biggest Easter Egg, which is the lift. We're heading towards the Second Coming..

[nicolegmattos]

Book Crowley: You know what? I like your hair.

TV Crowley: Thanks. I like yours too.

Book Crowley: I think we should swap. And then we could prank the Angels a little.

TV Crowley: Yeah! I bet they won’t even notice the difference.

After some time…

Book Crowley:

TV Aziraphale:

TV Crowley:

Book Aziraphale:

TV Aziraphale: Oh, look. Aren’t those people feeding bread to the ducks?

TV Crowley: They’re WOT?!

Book Aziraphale: That’s yours.

TV Aziraphale: That’s mine.

[penseesduncookie]

ducks again 🦆