Remember Gaiman said Good Omens s3 is the plot he & Terry imagined for GO2
Season 2 literally exists to explain WHY Aziraphale & Crowley love each other so much
Cuz Season 3 was ALWAYS going to have them separated 1/
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In May 2022, when I gifted Neil Gaiman this deck, he stopped at this card and said "Oh, that’s good" and soon after told us how much we were gonna love
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And this was in San Francisco y'all.
"Let There Be Frames"
The Good Omens Fandom is not only one of the sweetest, but also so ridiculously talented! Please enjoy 546 frames of pure miraculous art, passion, and collaboration put together over the last month by artists around the world!
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last time Crowley saw Gabriel he was telling his Aziraphale to just die already
like Aziraphale doesn't know that. & Azi's helping Gabriel because he's kind & good. but Crowley knows what Gabe is capable of.
no wonder he's terrified
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The changes made in
@neilhimself
’s
#TheSandman
were like the ones made in Good Omens + ones made in fanfic (hear me out!): Adding clearer emotional motivations to characters/condensing heart into something tangible + digestible in the TV medium. Not just checking off plot events.
Good Omens s2 is making way for s3
The endgame has been & always will be Aziraphale and Crowley settling down in the South Downs
We just need to get thru the low point and the drama to get there 8/8
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my aziraphale agenda is MICHAEL “the idea that goodness is lesser and less interesting and not as muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil and darkness, I think is nonsense!!” SHEEN 🔥🔥🔥
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@michaelsheen
I can see now that the Second Coming plot was SUPPOSED to happen w/ Azi taking over from Gabriel.
(What if a bastard angel was in charge of The System?)
Neil had to work the love story part INTO this existing plotline 2/8
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I've played thru the entire show 17 times since it came out (from my iPhone, my sister's iPhone, my tablet, and my laptop)
Not much, but like that Sandman quote, "Every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea."
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@neilhimself
All Neil's angels/demons are literally nonbinary, literally genderless and genderfluid and beyond gender. I'd love to hear the reaction from this corner if nb actors were cast in all of those roles and watch the explosion LOL
Cuz in book!GO, the ineffables aren't as intense a love story. They're very low-key.
They could spend ages apart and not have as much angst as they do in show universe.
Book!Azi is NOT as traumatized as show!Aziraphale 3/8
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So Gaiman heightened the aspects the show did really well: the love story, religious trauma, tenuous nature of Aziraphale & Crowley's existence, Azi's need for doing good, the actively manipulative nature of Heaven... 6/8
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Good Omens book 2 could have just started out w/ Aziraphale in heaven without AS MUCH emotional explanation for why they're apart, cuz the husbands weren't SO co-dependent as they are in the show 4/8
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The Fourteenth Doctor saying he's gay now is so important because this whole series of specials has ALL BEEN ABOUT HOW FLUID THE DOCTOR IS.
#DoctorWho
has always been queer. Wild Blue Yonder just said now we can SAY it on screen.
#DavidTennant
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Basically, Aziraphale is Tony Stark (traumatized and trying to do the right thing), while Crowley is Steve Rogers (fuck the system and go rogue)
This meta was originally posted on tumblr:
The Good Omens episode was sooooo good. Everything we could have wanted and moments that literally coulda come outta AO3. Many a fic and fanart were realized.
The love that Michael and David have for the fandom is so palpable too.
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But Aziraphale needs Crowley w/ him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions Heaven needs to hear
Because Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage 17/
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Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, & Heaven is no exception
When Crowley says Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he has to go there
You’re exactly is different from my exactly 20/
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Aziraphale sat on that rock & reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, cuz he lied & thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier 5/
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"look the dark in the face to be truly good"
That’s how Azi was willing to go to Hell.
That’s how Azi is willing to go to Heaven, where he was abused & belittled. He is willing to face his abusers to change them so that they can't destroy the world again 16/
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Azi is too good not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it)
Azi's been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks made by him & Crowley), Azi is seeing smt else: A chance to change them. 12/
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@obidjarins
Oh yeah and Aziraphale too. The threat of thinking Blasphemous Thoughts can get you punished so how can they really acknowledge the most blasphemous relationship of all (their own?)
But Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.
Azi doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?) 18/
Wishing you the happiest of holidays, from Aziraphale, Crowley, and their kitties.
My art for insta's papercut_doodles DTIYS.
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They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, & cuz of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.
(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.) 13/
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Like Job, Azi didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing
That’s why we saw Azi as a soldier in s2: the bookshop battle, the halo. And yes, the ending as well 7/
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When Azi saw Gabe/Beez, in a way he saw himself: Gabe, the biggest bully in Heaven, was a being capable of love & a child when he wasn’t poisoned by Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person.
Like Earth, Heaven was shades of gray 11/
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That’s why this was SO difficult for Aziraphale. Cuz he loves Crowley desperately. He wanted that kiss for eons. Taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them 24/
Dear Neil
@neilhimself
I’m losing my mind cuz I’ll see you in San Francisco on Tues but will I be able to gift you these tarot cards I’ve been drawing for you since 2020? 💔 Please let there be a way (a backstage? your agent??) Your work means everything to me 🙏
*bangs head on wall* I forgot to post the screen of Michael’s like on this /brb screaming 🔥
Thank you
@michaelsheen
for giving teeth to goodness like you did. It’s hands down my fave description of goodness ever (u are a poet 💙) & it inspires me a lot
The Metatron said smt Big was coming. Azi felt trapped when he didn’t have God’s ear during that first Apocalypse. He can’t risk the world again by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths so much more this season 14/
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Small Gods (by
@terryandrob
) is scathing of organized religion/corrupt ppl of the church, but kind to the individual w/ real, pure faith & a good heart. Its protagonist is better than the god he serves and eventually changes the church to be open-minded, humanist, & good 19/
DO IT AGAIN
Aziraphale is so repressed/traumatized that his face is only agony & guilt (eyes down, fear) when he thinks he can actually have a physical relationship w/ Crowley 1/2
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@swirlingthings
@neilhimself
The fact that Mason‘s journey started by just asking Neil. That’s inspiring in ways I can’t even fathom. Neil is an incredible human being, to make time to treat social media as a conversation, not just a place to put out PR. Honestly how do we deserve him??
Said Sheen: "I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to UK]–which was difficult... cuz we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do"
In the end, they split & Michael moved back to the UK
Good Omens theory very 🤡🤡 🧵
Buddy Holly's Everyday is getting a LOT of hype in
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marketing + the show (playing in the bkgd, Azi buying the vinyl)
What if the horn Gabriel’s box (based on meta by
@MJJoyceCrowley
) isn’t just any horn but the horn to a gramophone? 📣
In 2018 (in the wake of Trump in the US) Brexit happened. Michael Sheen felt compelled to get more involved in politics at home. But he was living in the US w/ Sarah Silverman at the time, & she too wanted to be more politically active in the US 21/
not crowley at some point next season telling some random stranger "oh my friend? he went to heaven" and getting the "he's in a better place" speech and crowley going absolutely LIVID
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#GiveMeS3OrGiveMeDeath
Y’know what? Fourteen still has that sad, haunted look in his eyes. Ten is so afraid but every other doctor looks happy and contented dying.
David Tennant? Never.
I’m already broken 💔💔
Happy
#AceWeek
🖤🤍💜 It’s been incredibly validating to find a place for how I feel under this ☂️
Feel free to use these ineffable icons I made to show off your pride cuz nothing says asexual like Good Omens (imo) ✌️ no credit necessary!
My piece for the
@douxiezine
!! A thoughtful Douxie this time because as much as I love his badass punk side, I’m also in love with his sensitivity, introversion, and compassion. 💖💖💖
#douxie
#trollhunters
#talesofarcadia
I don’t usually post selfies but I’m my way to see
@neilhimself
in SF!!!! IM FUCKING HYPED. I’ve loved this man for years and years 💖💖💖
There’s still tix available no mater what the website says so hit up the theater
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@neilhimself
Sometimes separating is healthier for the entire family (I wish my parents had done that). Wishing you and Amanda only the best going forward 💜 You both created beautiful memories and things together and I hope those will be what you remember from this chapter in your lives
@neilhimself
The heart and soul of the comics is the same!! The themes are the same! The changes made only deepened the characters and bring them to life in this new TV medium for the story. It’s a resounding celebration of the comics with absolute fan energy as the engine behind it.
@isolatedbug
@MJJoyceCrowley
Oh 100% agree!! He’s out to foundationaly change a system that fundamentally showed it’s true colors by condemning Crowley.