#should I tag this as good omens too

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Lil Good Omens crossover cuz I felt like they lowkey fit the scene

[clefadrylcorner]

Obsessed with lovers and piners calling the object of their affections their best friend. Like yessss blur the lines between platonic and romantic love. show how important they are to you in a multifaceted way. Cover up your feelings with another kind of love that is just as true. One type of love does not negate the other and but tragedy can rip both out from under you single handedly, and it will hurt so much more that way. Losing a friend and a lover. Gaining both and not needing any labels for what they are. Using labels but having it be so much more than a title. Were they friends before they were lovers? Or were they lovers whose friendship grew inside of their love? Unclear! Who cares!

[im-the-j-in-anthony-j-crowley]

Good omens tag game

Name two things you have in common with Aziraphale and two things you have in common with Crowley

More reasons to love them!

Crowley

1.- Taste for black clothes and... I WANT TO BELIEVE that I look good too

2.- I love Aziraphale Dramatic

Aziraphale

1.- I love books

2.- Stubborn. Really stubborn

No pressure tags: @fearandhatred @bildads-shoes @harbinger-of-existential-dread @di-42 @sayeverythingwillbefineplease @littlekhaos626

And of course, open tags!

[miniiinebulaee]

an angel and his books

[beansandshrooms]

This little brain worm has made his way into every aspect of my life. No, I'm not obsessed...right...???

[tubelight-404]

FIRST TIME GIVES INEFFABLE HUSBANDS VIBES AND I DONT THINK I CAN HANDLE IT 😭😭😭

[jutsomethoughtsihave]

MCR FANS, GOOD OMENS FANS, SANDMAN FANS, SUPERNATURAL FANS, AND ALL TUMBLR USERS WAKE THE FUCK UP

As many of you may know, Neil Gaiman has written a show that will release on n*tflix on april 25th. But for some reason i havent seen ANY posts about how tumblrcore this is????

ok, firstly, and most excitingly, WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE IS THE MAIN THEME OF THE TRAILER???? HUH???? (link attached idk why it isnt accepting that its a link) https://youtu.be/hwJmZ2Ekfbc?si=YFUezKkI4dS76cXi

Secondly, the actress for death from the sandman is in it! :) She's a familiar face...

Thirdly, and this is crazy, ROWENA MACLEOD'S ACTRESS IS IN IT LIKE HELLO?????? THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING ANYONE COULD EVER ASK FOR TALK ABOUT THIS MORE

[silychurl]

Dumping a few of my Gomens sketches then back to lurking!

Currently going through a trying to design some new looks for the Ineffable Partners for fun sakes in between some bigger projects. So far the list is:

Fantasy Armour Shenanigans Aziraphale (Supreme Arc-Angel?)

Viking Era Aziraphale (Crowley’s design in the concept comic is from Imus.sumi on Discord! Have yet to ask their Tumblr handle but it’s something I’ll get to asking in the near future. Also probably the one that’s going to change the most since I do want to lean in a more historically accurate look for this one due to story reasons)

Fem Crowley and Aziraphale Disco Inspired looks (emphasis on inspired on this one since it looks like I’m just going on generally a night dance club look for it, unlike the others these are made for a future full illustration so I’m giving myself much more leeway on it)

Sorry for the lengthy post, back to lurking.

[nohaijiachi]

I don't think the people saying the apology ballet stuff are genuinely saying that only Aziraphale was wrong, just that the screw up on his part was so massive that while they both have to work stuff out, and they do, for once Aziraphale should apologize to Crowley (he literally never has as far as we've seen I think) and it's gonna have to be like, a big one. Especially because of the never apologizing thing (I seriously can't recall him ever apologizing to Crowley)

However I disagree that the dance should disappear entirely. It seems like a very cute thing to keep around... But only for trivial everyday silly married stuff, once they actually have a functional relationship with proper communication. You know the stuff I mean, things like arguing over the sofa in the new cottage or a restaurant one of them doesn't want to try but ends up liking. Think it'd be hilarious. Imagine them in the middle of a store going "I was wrong you were right" with dance steps over an ugly armchair or something

(I'm putting this under a read more cuz it go long lol)

There's certainly this very unbalanced dynamic that has taken root between them, when it comes to admitting fault, isn't there? It's true we never see Aziraphale apologize, but on the other hand, all of Crowley's apologies to me always felt less about the act and more about Crowley saying what he thinks he needs to say in order to have Aziraphale stop being mad at him. As smartly pointed out by a reply I got on that post, the apology dance wasn't really an apology, it was just a way to sweep their little row under the rug and continue on as if it never happened in the first place. Another blatant example of this is in season one, when, after their fight at the bandstand, Crowley tries one last time to convince Aziraphale to run away. Quoting by memory, sorry if it's not entirely accurate, but Crowley says: "I'm sorry, I apologize, whatever I said I didn't meant it! Work with me, I'm apologizing here, yes, good? Get in the car." It's an apology only on the face of it, from the almost dismissive tone to the way Crowley rushes into it; he's 'apologizing' because that's what he does when they have a quarrel, even if he doesn't mean it, even if he still thinks he's right, all just in service of making sure Aziraphale is talking to him again and continue on, one more little chip in the mug that is their disastrous communication.

Pretty much all of the issues between them, in the end, lead back to that single, big point: They don't communicate, because up until the armaggeddon, they couldn't. Their lives literally depended on being able to say what they wanted to say without actually saying it, but of course it's inevitable when, forced to communicate in such a manner with one another, the waters would get muddled. It is an inevitable consequence that at some point the mug would just... Break.

And personally I do not think that Aziraphale owes a bigger apology, in this case. To be clear, I'm not defending his actions blindly, and I think we can all agree that him proposing to Crowley to go back to being an angel was hella hurtful, but Crowley punched back just as much, didn't he? That kiss was 6000 years of hopes and regrets all piled into one, all pushed onto Aziraphale as a last, desperate hail Mary, with all the the consequences that entails, and that hurt him something fierce.

And that's how we get "I forgive you".

I don't believe either of them owes the other a 'bigger' apology. I think they both owe and deserve a sincere one, one that comes from the heart, with the acknowledgement of all the mistakes made on both parts, and what they intend to do to rebuild upon stronger foundations.

That said the idea of the apology dance being used much, much later, when wounds have been healed and issues settled, being used for small, silly everyday things as a way to just make the other laugh... Yes, that is one Big Galaxy Brain take, my friend, I accept it wholeheartedly.

[idontknowwhatimdoing-13]

The absolute tragedy of knowing your ship would relate to a piece of toxic/unhappy relationship media

[builtintripping]

Hi! I just discovered your blog and I just want to say that I love your art! I'm also currently into Good Omens and your drawings are awesome!!! (triple exclamation mark for emphasis)

I really liked your reverse!Omens drawings! Would you consider doing a short comic of them? (like 4 panels or something)

HAI ANON YOU ARE SUCH A SWEETHEART THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVELY COMPLIMENT IT MAKES MY HEART FULL AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH 🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰

actually i do have a bunch of scenarios for them here and there that i wanna draw~ i don't usually take requests unless it's about something i currently enjoy and also having the energy to draw, so here's a messy lil something (bildad the shuhite era) 👀

[mbat]

i checked back in on dan and phil because people said they were uploading to their gaming channel again and i havent watched them in years really and i still have good omens brainrot going on so you can imagine that im just mixing old and new fixations and making the obvious connection here

that connection being crowley dan and aziraphale phil. i just had to say that

[ozym4ndi4s]

I have this one headcanon, tell me if it's inaccurate to anything that might've been mentioned anywhere but uh

I like to just imagine that Hell is hot and Heaven is cold? Because. They're opposing side, and Hell is usually the one that gets the fire and shit bc.. hellfire-

SO

I have this idea that Demons are cold blooded and Angels are warm blooded? Because of their respective habitats?

Crowley's a snake, Hastur's got a frog, Dagon is.. something scaly, do you see where I'm going with this? (Yes I know that not all the Demons have cold blooded animals representing them but shhhh-)

And when you think of like. Good. It's a warm and safe feeling, like being wrapped in soft and cuddly blankets and other stuff I can't be bothered to think of rn. So Angels, being.. 'good', would be warm blooded

Yes there are thematic things that go with this too

The colors I personally associated most with Aziraphale (this is just me tho idk about all of you) are a soft whitish-yellow and a sort of baby blue, contrasting Crowley's stark bright red and dark greyscale/black tones (also his bright yellow eyes)

Aziraphale has yellow for warmth, blue for cold

Crowley has black/greyscale for cold(/dim?? Dull??? Something), and red/yellow for warmth

They have (kinda) both ends of the color spectrum. They are their own side

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[pasiphile]

>.> Can you say more words about GO2

Oh, I can, but they're not very nice words.

While I had my issues with the first season, the second season is just so... bafflingly bad? Like, so strangely bad. Plotwise it feels like something written by a beginner. Like for some reason they've given a huge budget to some mediocre fanfic. There are just so many instances where they obviously had to get from point A to point B and just made up a quick shortcut without thinking too much about the implications or it, you know, making sense. Some of it is because of the honestly strange decision to let other writers take care of the flashbacks, with the worst contender the WWII flashback (zombies exist now? with no repercussions? so much gratuitous gore? Also the whole sequence with the gun would be so dramatic if, you know, demons actually died instead of being discorporated being nothing but a minor administrative setback). But it's also there in the main plot. Fire extinguishers work against demons for some reason? Aziraphale goes all the way to Scotland and back to learn basically nothing? The whole contrived romantic subplot with Nina and Maggie? The fucking Gabriel/Beelzebub thing? It's all either so heavy handed or just plain lazy. And I'm all for suspension of disbelief but if it's just one thing after another...

To me it feels like the basic plot of the whole second season could've over and done with in half an episode, and they just put in filler after filler to fluff it out into a full season where, in fact, barely anything happens.

And it's so odd! I know John Finnemore's work, he's good at intricate little plot connections! And Neil Gaiman can hardly be called an inexperienced writer either! It just feels like they were too lazy to actually bother writing a plot that works.

Meanwhile characterisation-wise, they've gone further on the path they'd already started in season one and wandered even farther away from what made the book characterisation interesting. In the book, Crowley is the nice one, who's generally polite and friendly and very fond of humans, while Aziraphale is, honestly, a bit of a dick and a recluse who prefers not interacting with humans and is 100% down to kill a child if it means he can keep his comfy lifestyle going. Aziraphale accidentally kills a dove and doesn't care about it. Crowley is the one that revives it. It's that kind of contradiction that makes it so fun, and to see that reversed into Aziraphale being a bleeding heart saving-the-poor-humans and Crowley acting all tough and sarcastic really erases a lot of what makes the pairing so charming.

But the thing that bothers me the most is how much they included the Big Conflict between Heaven and Hell. In the books, both Crowley and Aziraphale are low in the hierarchy. You only catch a glimpse of the big players and only at the end. Plus, they're lazy. It's a plot point that they both have human agents to take care of the work for them and that they don't get involved. They're not remotely interested by the overarching conflict or wanting either side to win. The whole point of the Agreement is that they take over a bit of each other's work for ease and convenience. And they're not particularly involved in humanity's welbeing either, and they definitely don't go around saving individual humans. They're disturbed by it, sure, but they don't think about interfering in any way. They only start taking an active role when their comfy lifestyle is threatened. And that's what I like about the whole thing. It's small, in a way. It's contained. Meanwhile the TV series went full out with Hell and Heaven fighting against each other and Crowley and Aziraphale suddenly becoming major agents in that conflict, catching the interest of demons and angels all the way up. It feels very at odds with the central theme and message of the book.

I did enjoy watching it. About 50% for the little things that did work, and about 50% to point and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

And to spot the Pratchett references, of course. Those were nice.

[sentientsky]

In the place where the foundations shiver with the weight of every ghost you’ve laid to rest beneath the floorboards / In the liminal, staticky place where you were first made monstrous (made hollow and whimpering and fickle) / In the place that tore you lengthwise and emptied you onto the front porch, you learn to swallow back the rage, hold it captive and writhing in your gut. 

You learn your way around a set of teeth.

You learn the hackles-raised, jagged-mouthedness of a home without a scrap of heat. You learn how to pull each of your canines out by the bloodied pulp, all nerve endings and the blunted edges of grief.

You learn it because what other choice do you have? What’s the alternative, when all you’ve ever known is the dull scrape of your back against the wall, of your heart tearing clear through your chest?

And god, god, god (you pray to an empty sky). God, you’re so bitter and your bones are all galvanized under your skin, and it hurts. It fucking hurts. 

And yet you’d sooner turn your own snapping jaws on yourself than risk learning what happens to animals that misbehave.

So you make yourself small, you make yourself antiseptic and supplicating and placid. You domesticate every thrashing need to escape. You walk into a family dinner with darting yellow eyes: Cerberus with three heads, each maw zip-tied shut by your own hand. You show them the soft flesh of your underbelly—you show the whites of your eyes.

You bite back the terror, you choke on the wrath. Because what else is there to do? (inspired by this post from @actual-changeling. thanks for the gut-wrench, alex </3)

[birlwrites]

more crowley thoughts!!!

(also, muriel is a child of divorce now and crowley is a single dad 😔)

CROWLEY IS LIKE. I'M A DEMON I'M NOT NICE I CAN'T GO AROUND RETURNING PEOPLE'S LOST PROPERTY

AND THEN HE HAS HOUSEPLANTS. AND HE HITS ANATHEMA WITH HIS CAR AND IS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT FIXING THE CAR. AND THE CAR GETS DESTROYED ANYWAY BECAUSE HE HAS TO GO TO AZIRAPHALE AND HIS SUNGLASSES BREAK IN THE BOOKSHOP AND HE BACKED ADAM UP WITH A TIRE IRON. HE TAKES A BOOK FROM THE SHOP AS A SOUVENIR/MEMENTO AND BRINGS IT WITH HIM TO THE BAR AND I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW HE WALKS

AND!!! HIS GO-TO SOLUTION WITH A REALLY HEAD-ON PROBLEM IS FAST TALKING AND TRICKERY (HASTUR, DUKE OF HELL, YOU WILL LEAD THE LEGIONS OF THE DAMNED/WHATEVER THAT RULE WAS HE MADE UP ABOUT CIVILIANS, THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS, I LOVED THAT SO MUCH) AND HE *IS* VERY SNAKEY AND LIKE. SLITHERING OUT OF THINGS OR COMING AT THEM FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION LIKE WITH JOB'S GOATS ETC

AND HE LOVES HIS CAR SO MUCH AND HE WANTS TO RUN AWAY WITH AZIRAPHALE AND I CAN'T GET THE LINE 'SHOEMAKING AND OBSTETRICS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE TWIN PASSIONS OF BILDAD THE SHUITE' OUT OF MY HEAD AND THE WAY HE SITS DOWN ON THE ARMREST OF AZIRAPHALE'S CHAIR TO TALK TO MURIEL MAKES ME INSANE

HE THROWS STACKS OF BOOKS ON THE FLOOR BUT HE DOESN'T SELL ANY OF THEM. HE CONFRONTS GABRIEL OVER AND OVER BECAUSE *HE'S* PISSED ON AZIRAPHALE'S BEHALF EVEN IF AZIRAPHALE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE. HE HELPS AZIRAPHALE WITH HIS MAGIC ACT AND ENCOURAGES HIM TO GO INTO THE SHOP FOR PROFESSIONAL MAGICIANS. HE KNOWS THE BOOKS IN THE BOOKSHOP WELL ENOUGH TO TELL WHEN ADAM ADDS NEW ONES. HE FIXES THINGS (AZIRAPHALE'S COAT, THE CAR) BY BLOWING ON THEM FOR SOME REASON. HE DRIVES THROUGH THE M25 WHILE IT'S ON FIRE LISTENING TO I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR AND LITERALLY MAKES IT THROUGH WITH THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. WHEN AZIRAPHALE PRETENDS TO BE HIM HE ACTS SO COOL AND COMPOSED BECAUSE THAT'S HOW HE SEES HIM. HE CALLS AZIRAPHALE 'ANGEL' *RELENTLESSLY.* HE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT THE NEBULA. AND HE REALLY GENUINELY TRIED AT THE END OF SEASON 2 IT K I L L S ME I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN JUST THINKING ABOUT IT AND HOW HE MUST HAVE BEEN PLANNING IT OUT BEFORE AZIRAPHALE THREW THIS ABSOLUTE CURVEBALL

LIKE!!!!

CAN I GET A WAHOO