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Alright folks! The Good Omens Celebration 2020 is in it’s early planning but here are some of the basics:

This is going to be a relatively informal celebration with a home base being set up here.

Festivities will officially start on May 1st and run the entire month.

There will be some prompts for each day if folks would like to create fan works, but that doesn’t have to be the focus!

We want to showcase not just Good Omens, but it’s entire fandom.

Recommend your favorite fics! Reblog those fan arts in your likes! Tell a fun headcanon! Make a new friend! Boost a creator you like! Collaborate on something! Share how Good Omens or it’s fandom has affected your life!

We’ll be tagging things as #GOC2020 to keep it sorted. Please feel free to toss in ideas, suggestions, or just a Wahoo. As with all early days: rebloging or posting about the celebration to spread the word to other fans is the best way to get news out. If you follow along we’ll be posting updates and opening up for prompts or themes.

Party like the World didn’t end!

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About Our Wings

So Purgatorios don’t have generic white or black wings, or even gray wings like some people might think.

Most of us have wings different from one another because our wings are modeled after those of Earth’s birds. Some are more common - pigeons, ducks, geese - but most of us end up changing them up a bit over the course of our employment before settling in on something we like.

When I first became a Purgatorio I had the wings of a Robin - and for a long time after first becoming a field agent I had the wings of a Starling. Now I’ve very comfortably settled on relatively plain wings, being those of a Rock Pigeon.

For anyone wondering, I’ve never seen Memoriae’s wings in person, but I’ve heard tell from those who’ve seen her very angry that she has the wings of a Blue Spix Parrot.

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How Purgatorios Work

Since this is an outlet of the office now, I figure I might as well go over the basics of how we work for anyone finding this for the first time.

Purgatorios are agents of Purgatory, which is the space between Heaven and Hell. Because of this, we aren’t Angels and we aren’t Demons, we are something else entirely. Due to the evolution of... Not-Earth along with humanity, Purgatory as a place has come to occupy the many, many office floors between Heaven and Hell.

Every Purgatorio was previously a human, who went to neither Heaven or Hell. How this normally works is that if neither of them wants to, you are sent to Purgatory normally to climb the tiers (feel free to ask about that in case I forget to explain it sometime). However, if both WANT to have you, and they can’t settle it, you become a Purgatorio, an otherworldly entity in charge of keeping humanity human, while hopefully improving just a bit as a whole. Some of us were important historical figures, others weren’t, but we all take new names upon becoming agents, so Lex isn’t my real name, and anyone else who uses this likely isn’t using their name either. What we’re able to do “magically” is somewhat determined by who we were in life, but mostly or magic works the same as other creatures’.

There’s a Hierarchy in Purgatory with normal workers, Lawyers, Field Agents (like yours truly), and Executives. However, as of late, everyone is just dicking around, and the Secretary, Memoriae, my boss, runs most of the show. She can fire anyone in an instant so I stick on her good side.

The last particularly interesting bit about Purgatorios is hat while Heaven has Holy Water and Hell has Hellfire, Purgatory as a special kind of Air that no one has really ever told me the name of. We can use it to paralyze Angels and Demons who get in the way of our work, though most of us aren’t allowed to use it. If we use it on Earth it can cause spontaneous discorporation. I’ve never had to use it myself, but t doesn’t sound pleasant.

#purgatory #lex #agent of purgatory #explaining purgatory #purgatorios #good omens #good omens headcanon #good omens askblog #askblog #ask blog #ask me things #hope this is helpful!

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hey lex, who were you

Ah, you see... I was a human but revealing who exactly, at least at the moment, would possibly put me in grave danger from other Purgatorios. As far as I know, only Memoriae knows at the moment, and I’d like to keep it that way until I’m positive I wouldn’t be at risk.

I will confess that my name is somewhat spread about - in specific musical circles. Other than that, I’ll leave you all to speculate.

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Hello everyone!

This is Lex, your resident agent of Purgatory, and the official owner of this blog... Which now, unfortunately, has been commandeered by my superior Memoriae as a resource for all of Purgatory...

Anyhow, this is the ask blog for Purgatory, so feel free to come to us with any questions you have about our increasingly confusing jobs!

(OOC: This is an askblog based on a Good Omens headcanon about Purgatory and how it would work! It would be much appreciated if you could support us a little to help us grow, even something as simple as a reblog! Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy what we’re doing here!

#purgatory #lex #agent of purgatory #good omens #gomens #good omens headcanons #good omens headcanon #askblog #ask blog #good omens askblog #ask me things #pls ask me things #thank you for your time

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how old is purgatory, and went not llamas fix everthting :p

Purgatory has existed as far back as Adam and Eve dying, at least as far as I know.

As for the llamas... I believe they were part of Tor’s creation originally, and adding more is supposed to bring it back to being a silly place to buy illegal things. The execs will correct me if I’m wrong. However, it won’t fix it because humans are intrinsically... Human.

#askblog #ask blog #ask me things #pls ask me things #lex #agent of purgatory #good omens is life #good omens fandom #good omens stuff #good omens fanfic #good omems headcannon #good omens #crowley power top #aziraphale power bottom #good omens askblog

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Please note:

Any demons or angels not following the guidelines will be swiftly and quickly discorporated.

Also, please, for the last time, please stop suggesting more llamas, it won’t fix Tor.

Sincerely,

Memoriae, Secretary of Purgatory

P.S. I occasionally anwser questions

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Have you ever considered:

Punishing Lustfulness by making them watch bad 80s’ sex-Ed films for the rest of eternity?

We have. It works.

P.S: In all seriousness, though, apologies for the lag on the short story, is coming, I promise. Just been taking a while I get it beta-ed a bit and such.

#purgatory #askblog #ask me things #i am a lonely pigeon #headcanon i guess #good omens #gomens #what goes on in purgatory

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Please Reblog This If It’s Okay To:

Send questions about yourself

Ask questions to/about your characters

Ask about your headcanons 

Send questions about your works (fanfics, art, music, RPs, etc) 

Ask about popular ships/headcanons

Ask about plot ideas you’ve had but haven’t acted upon yet (snippets of AUs, a scenario you wish to write/draw but haven’t gotten to yet)

Questions about other ships/headcanons that aren’t as popular or are rarepairs

Questions or comments about favorite tropes, headcanons, characters, foods, weather, or anything else you are okay in answering!

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A few years ago, we got sued by Hell, so we’ve been legally forced to phase out setting people on fire as a punishment/trial for things. Good thing if you ask me, it was getting a bit repetitive.

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Announcement!

OOC:

So today I finally finished the short story I wrote that about Lex that launched this askblog project thing.

It should be up here sometime in the near future, when I have moment to type it out. If I can’t put it here I’ll put it on AO3 and link it here.

#askblog #ask me things #original writing #soon not now #good omens #gomens #purgatory

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The concept of Rickrolling either came from Purgatory, or was popularized by us. It’s been so long I don’t remember which.

#purgatory #it came from purgatory #askblog #good omens #gomens #headcanon i guess #pls ask me things #im a bored pigeon #well... not physically a pigeon but still #rickroll

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It Came From Purgatory (1/?)

Over the years, Earth has had the misfortune on being exposed to many things created by Putgatorios.

This list includes, but is not limited to:

Traffic Wardens

Acid Wash Jeans

75% of the meme dances

Car Alarms

Netflix

#purgatory #it came from purgatory #ask me things #askblog #headcanon i guess #headcanon #good omens #gomens #oh right this is going into my original content now i guess

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Hello humans!

I realized whilst watching/reading Good Omens that the idea of Purgatory is never mentioned, and headcanons have been bouncing around my head ever since.

This is henceforth the official blog of Purgatory.

Some things about me:

My name is Lex, and I’ve been an agent of Purgatory since around the 1850’s. I use they/them pronouns, listen to too much music (except for the fact that “too much” can never apply there), have a bit of a smoking problem (which thankfully doesn’t affect me because I’m dead), and generally do not tolerate stupidity. Extremely greatful to be on Earth and not in the office, where stupidity flourishes.

For now, I am your resident Purgatorio, or agent of Purgatory.

Ask me what you will about what I put up, I’m more than willing to answer.

#good omens #gomens #askblog #hello mortals #purgatory #yes im waiting for someone to question the pigeon #and i will explain purgatory #posting daily hopefully