#omen press

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Carl Payne Tobey - Astrology of Inner Space - Omen Press - 1973 (illustrated by Barbara Brandel)

[eklmrlos]

they are finally free

[raggedy-spaceman]

Neil behind the camera all day tomorrow

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

THEY ARE BACK TOGETHER! ❤

Press Day Photoshot, 10 July: Michael Sheen (Aziraphale), David Tennant (Crowley), Quelin Sepulveda (Muriel), Maggie Service (Maggie), Liz Carr (Saraqael), Shelley Conn (Beelzebub) and Nina Sosanya (Nina) :)

[azfellandco]

It's about Crowley bearing witness to Aziraphale's desire, about the way that desire is animal and visceral and enormous and terrifying*. And about how Crowley sees that and wants it. Crowley offers the ox rib and watches Aziraphale eat because eating provides them no sustenance, it's purely for pleasure, sensual, selfish. And Crowley introduces Aziraphale to this, and thousands of years later still takes obvious pleasure in feeding Aziraphale, in watching him eat. In watching Aziraphale's pleasure.

And I think it's significant the things we see Crowley put into his body in s2, and why: six shots of espresso, as something bracing before seeing what it is that made Aziraphale call him in his "something's wrong" tone; whiskey, because he has to give Aziraphale some bad news; wine, because they "might as well get comfortable" during the storm coming down on Job, after Aziraphale learns that Crowley is actually pretty unhappy with Job's suffering; and poison, to dispose of it so Elspeth (or Wee Morag, I've fogotten which is which) doesn't die. Crowley doesn't take Aziraphale's "something that calms you down", only consumes things that not only don't bring him pleasure but are an attempt to prevent pain. Crowley, who introduced Aziraphale to this important physical, sensual, selfish pleasure, denies it to himself. He denies himself the eccles cakes, he denies himself partaking in food, and he denies himself Aziraphale.

And we see throughout the rest of the season other things he's denying himself: the comfort and safety of a home in the bookshop in favor of the mobility and ready-made escape of living in the Bentley, the surety of saying what he really means during the confession. He cannot bring himself to admit what he wants, that he wants. Gabriel and Beelzebub "going off together" is not what he wants. He wants Aziraphale, but he doesn't say that, because he's never, in the years and years and years we've seen this season, let himself want or be seen wanting. "Going off together" is as close as he can get to speaking it. "A group of the two of us" is as close as he can get. So he has to watch as Aziraphale leaves and takes his pleasure in the world with him.

[viceandmature]

Showing off their CDs

[wat-toni]

Thank you David Tennant, you absolute KING! He is wearing the nonbinary pin and this nice shirt that pro trans is ♡

[biceratops7]

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Same energy 👆

[ineffable-and-galore]

Girlies when David Tennant confirms the fan theories

[theelastword]

something new about aziraphale that i’m getting emotional over on this fine night (no one is shocked): i cannot stop thinking about the first scene of season 2. specifically i cannot stop thinking about the fact that even then, in a moment where both he and crowley even looked younger due to their innocence / lack of doubt or questioning just yet, aziraphale is already doing somersaults to worry for those around him. he doesn’t even KNOW this angel, and the idea that crowley could get in trouble for asking questions shouldn’t occur to him yet, but he’s still so burdened by anxieties and doubts for other peoples’ well-being and conditioned to protect others at his own expense (not to mention eerily close to seeing through Heaven for what it is). aziraphale is so fundamentally good, worrying about other people and caring about them before the very idea that bad things could happen to a fellow angel SHOULD have ever crossed his mind in the first place. and to me that disproves all notions that aziraphale is naive, because he’s been tragically aware since before the Beginning— and before crowley. which makes moments like the post-Job “what does that make me” scene even sadder because by all accounts, if aziraphale was familiar with what it’s like to doubt and worry before the Fall even happened, before he ever should have known what those things were, then he should have been one of the angels to fall, right? Wondering and doubting and worrying about things leads to a Fall, right? Only he didn’t. In a world in which there’s a line dividing doubtless, brainwashed, “happy” angels from doubtful, too-curious-for-their-own-good demons, aziraphale might just be the loneliest being in existence. he’s quite literally the sole person (that we know of) who stayed an angel but is forced to carry a burden that never should have been his, that NOBODY around him in Heaven has to carry. and he can’t ask about it because now he knows for sure where asking questions leads you, but he probably doesn’t understand why he has to carry that burden in the first place. the one he’s been carrying it since before Earth was even created.

[pleasantboatpress]

Factory Settings by Anonymous

Crowley gets reinstated as an angel.

title/body text/page numbers: Ibarra Real Nova chapter headers/drop caps: Plain Black

106,998 words | 412 pages

SO. so. I was feeling some type of way about the good omens s2 finale and this fic. oh man. it did such a good job both filling the hole and in my heart, AND, ON TOP OF THAT, added such wonderful lore, with some of the best characterisations that I have enjoyed reading in the fandom. It was wonderful, and I honestly don't feel like I need anything else.

as for the design, I had some fun using space imagery for basically everything. honestly I just had lots of fun doing space things regardless. I tried my hand using gutermann thread for the first time for my endbands and dear god did that take ages. I also attempted to use my foil quill and haha. that did NOT go well. at all. regardless, it's such a beautiful fic that I really really wanted to make a beautiful book for it. if you haven't read it, please do!

[ingravinoveritas]

Love like that will surely come my way...

[werewolf-transgenderism]

spent an inordinate amount of time approximating the bookshop in animal crossing, please clap

[ID: five warmly-lit screenshots from ACNH showing an approximation of Aziraphale's bookshop, cluttered with antique furniture, bookshelves, piles of books, and antique art and knickknacks]

[raggedy-spaceman]

10th of July, Good Omens season 2 Press Day

Neil: So remember, whatever they ask about the plot you have to answer with “wait and see”, nothing more nothing less, got it?

David: Sure, no problem, I’m used to it with Doctor Who it won’t be any different.

Michael:

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Question: And in the meantime, you were still working together. You were doing Staged. So do you guys just love to work together?

David: That's all we are going to do now.

Michael: Yeah.

David: It's contractual. Yeah.

Michael: Yeah. Neil Gaiman made us sign a contract in blood.

David: And that's it forever now.

Michael: Yeah.

[theineffablepinkbeast]

Can't believe Crowley's standards were so low in heaven, he was friends with Furfur (I’m going to assume from now on that his angel name was Furiel, change my mind-)