#the farthing has vanished

[youryurigoddess]

“The farthing… has vanished”

Remember that line from the Nazi Zombie Flesheaters minisode? Sick and twisted. And we need to talk about the reason why, even though the magic trick in question is nowhere near as spectacular as the Bullet Catch. Let’s start with a quick recap:

The farthing was a British coin worth one quarter of a penny, discontinued in 1961 due to its plummeting worth. The reverse featured the image of a wren, one of Britain’s smallest songbirds with plumage in rather drab shades of beige and brown. Reminding you of someone?

A popular design of a sixpence, the bigger coin in this set, minted in the 1920s and 30s depicted oak branches with acorns. Which means that seen from close quarters, so basically Crowley’s perspective, Aziraphale’s vanishing coin trick leaves empty branches with no bird in sight.

As if that image wasn’t traumatizing enough for almost everyone in the Good Omens fandom post S02E06, the etymology of wren’s name in most European languages refers to royalty in some way. Like a literal king or otherwise supreme bird. That’s why killing a wren or harassing its nest is traditionally associated with bad luck. In certain parts of France it’s still believed that the robbing of a wren’s nest will render the culprit liable to be struck by lightning.

In Irish the wren is called a trickster, which connects to the ancient (as in: mentioned by Aristotle, Aesop, and Pliny) fable on how wren became crowned in the first place — by proving that intellect beats strength:

On one occasion a general assembly of birds resolved to chose for their king that bird which could mount highest into the air. This the eagle apparently did, and all were ready to accept his rule when a loud burst of song was heard, and perched upon the eagle’s back was seen an exultant wren that, a stowaway under its wing, had been carried aloft by the kingly candidate. The trickiness angered the eagle so much, says one tradition, that he struck the wren with his wing, which, since then, has been able to fly no higher than a hawthorn-bush. (Ernest Ingersoll)

In art and folklore this little bird symbolizes rebirth, immortality, protection, and the promise of spring. As a luckbringer it was supposedly present at the stable in Bethlehem when Christ was born; and and Irish proverb runs: “The robin and the wren are God’s two holy men.”

But there’s also a catch. According to legends, it was the flapping of the wings or the song of the wren that betrayed the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen, while hiding from the mob, and led to his stoning by the Sanhedrin — the highest tribunal consisting of the Head Priest and the Jewish elders.

That’s why December 26, his remembrance day, is celebrated in the UK and Ireland as Wren Day. Its highlight was a traditional bird hunt, where the wren as king of the birds was hunted and subsequently paraded through the town and rural areas on top of a pole or holly branch, decorated with ribbons and colored paper, as a substitute of the ancient human sacrifice of the Year King for winter solstice. The wren boys still travel from door to door singing, dancing, and playing music, demanding money to “bury the wren”, but fortunately no more animals are harmed in the process.

With Aziraphale being chosen as the new Supreme Archangel and literally disappearing from the face of the earth in the season finale, his becoming a scapegoat or a sacrifice to a greater, communal goal might be a real possibility when something goes wrong with the Second Coming. The good news is that this level of danger should be enough to get the Ineffable Husbands back on speaking terms.

#Yuri is doing her thing #Good Omens #Good Omens meta #Good Omens 2 #GO2 #GO2 meta #Aziraphale #Supreme Archangel Aziraphale #ineffable husbands #1941 minisode #1941 flashback #Fell the Marvellous #magic trick #the farthing has vanished #no nightingales

[swirlingthings]

Hi Tumblr!! I thought I’d share a small extract from my new blog post ‘Good Omens Is Heaven For Autistic People - An In-Depth Look’! I touch on a lot of different things including Aziraphale’s behaviour, his relationship with Heaven and their moral framework versus his relationship with Crowley, as well as his arc across both seasons of the show (and looking forward to season 3). I’m so proud of it, and the response so far has been incredible. I’ll include a link to the full piece at the bottom of this post. Thank you for reading! ❤️🥂

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Aziraphale has interests in food, books (particularly books of prophecy and rare texts), music (mostly classical – this also links to his love of dance) and most of all: magic tricks. When engaging with these interests, his behaviour becomes much more physically expressive. No other episode of Good Omens makes this clearer than S2E4 ‘The Hitchhiker’ – not in the main present day plot, but the minisode ‘Nazi Zombie Flesheaters’ (‘NZFE’). Written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, the minisode is a direct continuation of the iconic 1941 ‘Lift Home?’ scene from the Good Omens S1E3 cold open.

Crowley drives Aziraphale to The Windmill Theatre where he needs to drop off some whiskey to Mrs Henderson (Dame Siân Phillips), only to discover that the bottles were smashed due to Crowley parking his Bentley close to the church that was bombed. Aziraphale then offers to fill the role of the magician who was meant to be performing at the theatre that very night, partly to repay Crowley’s good deed of saving his books and partly for the joy of doing magic tricks on a West End stage. The pair return to the bookshop where Aziraphale gleefully demonstrates a sleight of hand coin trick. It is perhaps the most joyful we have ever seen him, and his physical movement reflects this extreme emotion that he is processing. It’s not hard to see why many autistic fans immediately drew comparisons to ‘stimming’ here.

One of the reasons this minisode was so anticipated is because Aziraphale falls in love with Crowley in 1941. Aziraphale disclosing his love of magic, or certainly the extent of it, to anyone other than Crowley is difficult to imagine, and for this to happen at this stage in their relationship is telling. He has just begun viewing Crowley in a different way and is now openly engaging with something he knows the other celestial/demonic beings do not understand in front of him, and with him.

After Crowley expresses some concern over whether a coin trick is appropriate for a West End stage, Aziraphale comments that he is not a professional conjurer, much to Crowley’s dismissal. Aziraphale is delighted by this, not just because of the excitement of what he is about to undertake but also because Crowley believes in him.

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Good Omens does not combat preconceived ideas of autism held by neurotypical people because there are no explicitly autistic characters. This limits how much it can actually challenge stereotypes or make people think differently, as most of the audience will not connect what they are seeing to their idea of autism. However, I do think it does help to challenge the notion that certain personality traits or behaviours which are common in autistic people are “weird”, or some other kind of negative thing. Stimming in particular is often viewed negatively by neurotypical people, but in Good Omens you are supposed to notice how heavily Aziraphale masks when in Heaven, and you’re supposed to see how comfortable he is around Crowley because their love story (and Aziraphale’s journey of accepting himself fully) is at the very centre of the show. He usually stims the most when he is engaging in something which brings him joy, like magic, and seeing him do this openly in front of Crowley is heartwarming.

It is refreshing and beautiful to see an autistic-coded character be so completely and passionately adored, and for this to be at the heart of the piece of media. Autistic characters are rarely shown as love interests; they’re often not adults at all. Aziraphale and Crowley are very different from each other, but again, this works naturally as part of the story and is not done as a way of “othering” either one of them. They also understand each other, and even though at times their communication hasn’t been clear, this is mostly related to their differing morals and perceptions of Heaven and Hell. Aziraphale is completely free around Crowley and doesn’t mask any aspect of himself when they’re together – if that’s not true love, then I’m not sure what is.

Good Omens Is Heaven For Autistic People - An In-Depth Look. swirlywords.

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #michael sheen #david tennant #neil gaiman #good omens analysis #swirlywords #autistic aziraphale #autistic #autism #lots of thoughts #renew good omens #the farthing has vanished #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens s2e4 #good omens series 2 #stimming #good omens meta #meta analysis #actually autistic

[goatbeard-goatbeard]

Inspired by the Houdini post and the morse code post,

#weird things with his tongue #the farthing has vanished #aim for my mouth #but shoot past my ear #houdini theory #morse code theory #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens 2x06 #good omens 2x04 #good omens poll #good omens polls #good omens speculation #good omens theory #good omens shitpost #good omens clock

[a-bastard-worth-knowing]

[ bullet ] // maybe some historical based thing?? idk 👀

This all feels much too familiar to the first bet She had ever made with downstairs. Satan, with all their diabolical and fiendish behavior, poked and prodded at Her patience by taunting about how humanity would only fall further into his grasp if they had nothing. They thank God for their daily bread and payments, but if they had none of those things, what would there be to thank Her for?

And of course, they had to be proven wrong, right?

‘The Great Depression’ is what they called it. It’s devastating, and while the angel had been told not to intervene — ‘your job is to watch and come back with any advancements, not thwart with Her plans’ — and to simply watch from a distance, what harm could be done by returning that daily bread to those that lost it? It was small portions, nothing more, he’d swear it underneath the Lord’s gaze. Even so, all of this wasn’t permanent. They’d be rewarded for their faith after the tide had cleared, as always.

Perhaps his internal dilemma was why he hadn’t heard the click of a gun until the barrel had made impact with the side of his head, sending him tumbling down with a quick bleed forming. It all happened too fast. One moment the culprit is threatening to discorporate him (that would be most unfortunate) if he doesn’t hand over everything he has, and the other, he’s watching Crowley appear out from somewhere and step in front of an oncoming bullet.

Always saving him, it seemed.

“Crowley—!” The angel cries out in surprise, alarm, panic, every emotion swirling in his chest as he rushes over to kneel beside him. This couldn’t destroy him completely, why was he being like this? And yet the sight of him clutching at a bleeding wound is nearly nauseating, his own hands hovering over it nervously. “You fool, you— why would you ever—” He nervously scrambles for the right words, concern clearly written on his face.

#tell me while we dance? (answered asks) #the farthing has vanished! (ask memes) #𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐥’ 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐲 (saunteringserpent) #((i tried my best 🥲🫶 /lh))

[vidavalor]

Good Omens has shown us, among other things...

-Crowley pointing the paintball gun at Aziraphale and giving the office workers miraculous escapes from death *before* it showed us The Blitz, Part 2's Bullet Catch that shows us what he was referencing to Aziraphale by doing so

-Aziraphale's love of human magic and his vanishing coins act and Crowley grumbling about all of it *before* it showed us "the farthing has vanished!" and The Marvelous Mr. Fell and his "volunteer assistant" on stage in 1941

-The 1862 breakup *before* the 1827 scene that gives context for their traumas that led to the breakup

-The sexy lunch in 2008 *before* the ox rib date that started it-- all the way back in 2500 B.C..

-Crowley telling Aziraphale about his night dealing with the antichrist baby: "Well, not, delivered-delivered, just... handed it over" *before* professional midwife/cobbler Bildad the Shuite "birthing" Job and Sitis some "new" kids

-Crowley, alone, forced into the start of Armageddon by delivering the antichrist in a picnic basket *before* 1967, in which Aziraphale dreams of a world they could get to before they run out of time in which they could go on a picnic together

-Aziraphale looking to the side Crowley always comes up on when he hears the miracle sound in the sushi restaurant in 1.01 *before* we even know that Crowley always comes up in the same way from various scenes teaching us this

-Aziraphale's tartan obsession *before* its origin story, which is the date in Edinburgh in 1827 wherein he became spirituality Scottish and thought he lost Crowley and after which he adopted the tartan as a thing related to the two of them and never stopped wearing it. See also: showed us 1967 and the tartan thermos *before* explaining to us that the tartan isn't just something Aziraphale likes but is something with meaning to the two of them together as a pair

-Crowley rambling drunkenly about bananas, fish and gorillas in the bookshop *before* his and Aziraphale's 'banana fish gorilla shoelace with a dash of nutmeg' conversation over wine in 1941, showing us that he was drunkenly remembering in a scene in S1 a romantic scene in their history that we didn't know then and wouldn't know until S2

-Crowley & Aziraphale dining at The Ritz in 2008 in 1.01 *before* we even know that was The Ritz or why it matters that it was, which they don't tell us until the final, romantic moments of S1

-Crowley obsessively growing a large, lush, overhanging canopy of plants in his apartment *before* telling us he's got a thing for vavoom-y erotic gazing and kissing under the shelter of canopies the likes of which have never been seen in a Richard Curtis film

So, my dear, dear loves... explain to me why I'm not going to be adding to this list next season:

-that heartbreaking 2.06 kiss *before* the first one they had a bazillion years ago?

#ineffable husbands #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale

[crawley-fell]

The farthing...has vanished.

#he's so cute im going to eat my own hands #look at that proud nervous energy i wanna squeeze his face and kiss his nose #good omens #gomens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #aziraphale fell #mr fell #michael sheen #my gifs

[indigovigilance]

This has been eating at my brain for 5 minutes, but why does aziraphale wear reading glasses sometimes. Is it for aesthetic? Is it their eyesight? Help

Hi @electronicturtlepaper, thanks for the ask! I gave this some thought, and I propose four reasons that Aziraphale wears reading glasses:

Aziraphale imagines himself having a 50-year old human body

He likes doing things the human way

They are integral to his enjoyment of art

He uses them to communicate with Crowley

Expanded arguments and evidence, as always, below the cut:

Aziraphale likes to imagine that he is a 50-year old human.

I think there's a little bit of a tendency to think of the ineffables as being superhuman. They are, but not the way Superman or Wonderwoman are. We get the best illustration of this in S1E6 when Crowley is driving through the M-25 inferno:

Crowley has something no other demons have, an imagination. Right now, he's imagining that he is just fine, and that a ton of burning metal, rubber and leather is a fully functioning car.

We know from this Season 1 scene that Crowley's imagination manifests reality; in this particular instance, it is to defy the laws of physics, to keep his body from discorporating and his car from falling apart.

Even though the way it's being used feels "super," we can see how the mechanic of "imagination manifests reality" could be used in the exact opposite way by someone who likes to think of themselves as a homely, affable pillar of the community that has owned the bookshop on the corner for as long as anyone can remember. We see other ways this manifests, like not being able to keep up with Gabriel while jogging:

He could think of himself as a battle-ready soldier, but he doesn't. He thinks of himself as someone who likes culture, good food, and fine clothes; cardio doesn't really play into that, so his corporeal form manifests accordingly. By the same token, he's an avid reader, and as far as his Whickber Street neighbors are concerned, has spent all day, every day reading books for the past no-one-knows-how-long; how would he not need reading glasses?

By sheer power of imagination, Aziraphale has manifested himself into needing corrected vision.

Aziraphale Likes Doing Things the Human Way

Keep in mind that this is the angel who absolutely did not fool Nefertiti with a single caraway seed and three cowrie shells, but he sure did put his whole entire soul into learning prestidigitation from the best human magicians of their day, and took French lessons so that he could ask his aunt's gardener for a pen.

Wearing reading glasses to read is part and parcel to a 50-year-old man running a bookshop. Miracling himself some Lasik eye surgery would be cheating, just like using a miracle to make the farthing vanish in a sleight of hand trick. In order to do something the human way, all the normal human handicaps must apply, including myopia.

Aziraphale's Enjoyment of Art is Enhanced by Wearing Glasses

I also think that Aziraphale considers wearing eyeglasses to be an integral part of the human experience of the joy of literature; reading a novel without peering at the page through silica lenses framed by metal wire would be like eating sushi without dipping it in soy sauce. The experience would be incomplete.

But, then again, look at this dork:

He's wearing his glasses to listen to music. Clearly this isn't necessary or even helpful (but as someone who has taken off their glasses so they can listen better to somebody, I can assure you it's very human). So this tells us that Aziraphale's glasses are, among other things, his "I'm enjoying art right now" accessory.

This is further reinforced in the following beat, when he's opened the door, and he's not wearing his glasses anymore:

So sometime between turning off the gramophone and opening the door for Gabriel, he took off his glasses to signal that he has quit shastakovich.exe and is returning to "normal adult responsibilities" mode.

Aziraphale Uses His Glasses To Communicate

...and we know exactly who he learned this from: @goodomensgifs credited for this wonderful gifset, hereafter incorporated by reference because my computer is so mad at me rn and can't handle loading gifs.

Crowley uses his glasses to communicate his emotions a lot. He uses them to show vulnerability. He uses them to show contentment. He uses them to threaten. He uses them to show that he is wounded and defensive. He uses them to demonstrate that he is or is not willing to talk. Aziraphale has learned from the best.

The first time we see Aziraphale leverage his lenses this way in Season 2 is when Crowley returns to the shop after their fight about Gabriel. When he's alone, waiting for Crowley to return, Aziraphale isn't wearing his glasses:

but quickly puts them on when Crowley walks in the door:

Quite a few analysts have published metas on equivocation (@cobragardens and @ao3cassandraic, maybe we should start using an #equivocation tag? Because this is becoming a recurring topic), which I incorporate here by reference. Crowley and Aziraphale have had to learn to communicate without saying a lot of things out loud, and glasses are playing a role in that.

By putting on his glasses, Aziraphale has just put up a big "I'm feeling hurt and defensive" sign; at the same time, Crowley takes his glasses off, to signal that he's ready to talk. Aziraphale peers through his glasses while he's pretending to ignore Crowley, reinforcing that his glasses are assisting him in demonstrating his umbrage.

Aziraphale finally takes his glasses off to tell Crowley that his "you were right" wasn't a good enough apology:

At this point in the conversation, the angel is allowing himself to be more vulnerable and show just how upset he is.

This evidence is taken from limited samples, but it fits with the general dynamic of the characters observed elsewhere.

Thanks for the great prompt, I never would have done this exploration otherwise but it was very rewarding.

Good Omentober!

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If you liked this, you may like:

Clothes + Equivocation = Romance by @cobragardens

The Colors of Crowley by @cobragardens

The Golden Lion by @cobragardens

Angel Pinky Rings by yours truly, @indigovigilance

...and any fan is welcome to drop an analysis request in my askbox!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #glasses #equivocation #ivoc #indigovigilance answers asks

[submarined-silles]

“the farthing…has vanished!!!”

can never not smile while thinking of this scene and i am feeling ill so i drew it to try and cure myself. it didn’t totally work but i’ll be damned if it didn’t help. that smiiile:(

#art #digital art #good omens #good omens fanart #az fell #aziraphale #my art #kinda fucked up the mouth. oh well:)

[daria-meoi]

And the farthing has vaniiiiished! 🤩😇

You know what it is? It is a farthing. And it has a tiny birdie in it. Which kinda could be mistaken for a nightingale. The nightingale has vanished, all that, you know. Except it is actually a wren 👀 Wink, wink, wink 😅

#good omens shitpost #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #good omens theories

[youryurigoddess]

The Nice and Accurate Observations of Your Local Yuri Goddess

Obligatory disclaimer: most of my takes are written on an ad-hoc basis on Twitter. Hopefully I’ll upload all of them here before that forgotten by God Herself app will finally end its existence, but in the meantime you can read everything deemed too long to publish in other places.

General observations

The summer that was never supposed to end

The Good Omens designers really took a paint swatch book and said “Let’s see how much pain can we get out of this”

Maggie’s pendants and good omens

Opening sequence

On love and sacrifices

Gabriel’s (missing) cross

The biggest Easter Egg yet

1941

“The farthing… has vanished”

Welcome to the Magic Shop

A nightingale sang in the London Blitz

Final Fifteen

Let there be Light

Aziraphale and Crowley

Chaos and order

Dysfunctional family dynamics

The stuff dreams are made of, or the interesting case of Anthony J. Crowley

Crowley’s main objective

Snake courtship behavior

Aziraphale’s most powerful weapon

Aziraphale’s favorite books were hinting at the S2 plot all along

Aziraphale’s bookshop

Hidden in plain sight — Aziraphale’s desk

A. Z. Fell & Co. bookshop and its statues

A. Z. Fell & Co. bookshop and its statues, part 2

Jesus Christ and His Second Coming

Aziraphale and Crowley’s elevator photo shoot is inspired respectively by Mary and Jesus

Be kind (or nice) to each other

Crowley’s slippers, nightmares, and predictions for the future

Intertextuality

No Nightingales

The Glenn Miller’s Story

The Sound of Music

Nothing Lasts Forever

The Small Back Room — Hour of Glory

Other

Terry Pratchett and Good Omens

The 1992 Good Omens movie screenplay (“the shitscript”) and the WGA strike

#good omens meta #good omens analysis #yuri is doing her thing #good omens #bible fanfiction

[elizmanderson]

trope: immortal beings who are delighted by human magic tricks but also terrible at them

now, I have here a sixpence and a farthing. but if I close my hand thusly, for but a blink of an eye...the farthing has vanished!

- Fell the Marvelous

it started out as a dollar bill and now it's four quarters... oh, three quarters. three quarters, even harder!

- The Magnificent Doctor Presto

Fell the Marvelous Poster

The Magnificent Doctor Prestor Poster (?)

#good omens #the good place #aziraphale #michael #fell the marvelous #the magnificent doctor presto

[a-bastard-worth-knowing]

[touch] / [gentle] - whichever way round u want 😊

Aziraphale has known Crowley long enough to sense when his demeanor is off. Just as the serpent has learned his different tones of voice, he’s gazed studied his carriage and remembered how he moves to go along with certain emotions. The usual sway of his hips always accompanied a casual attitude, mostly when he’s relaxed and as nonchalant as ever. His steps are nimble and precise when he’s angry, shoulders tensing enough to be noticeable.

When he’s in pain, his shades are always on; a protective barrier between whatever it is he may be feeling and an attempt at concealing it from others, from his angelic companion. He lounges against any surface, and to a stranger, the demon would’ve been busy doing nothing. Except Aziraphale wasn’t a stranger, and the limited movement meant pain.

“What’s hurting you?” He pensively asks when he approaches from behind, a hand resting on the area of his back where his wings would gracefully unfold and immediately taken aback by the feeling of tight tension beneath his palm. The angel makes a musing sound of realization, as if he could feel it himself. In a way, he supposed he could, just as he could identify any overwhelming sense of love.

“Good lord, is that not uncomfortable?” Not giving Crowley much time to respond, his thumbs press against the tightness of his muscles, circling slowly and applying enough pressure in hopes of relieving some of it.

#tell me while we dance? (answered asks) #the farthing has vanished! (ask memes) #𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐥’ 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ��𝐨𝐲 (saunteringserpent)

[antlerx-art]

GOOD OMENS 2 EPISODE 4 REACTION - CONTAINS SPOILERS‼️

NAZI ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS IM SO NOT READY

aziraphale why do you have to be so pretty

modern heh🤩 but not bebop🤨 HES CUTEE

OH. MY. GOD.

OH MY

NOT MOONLIGHT SERENADE

IF THIS PLAYS LATER IN THE EPISODE IN THE FLASHBACK IM GOING TO ACTUALLY FEEL SICK NEIL GAIMAN YOURE CRAZY YOURE SO CRAZY OHHHH MY GOD

okay i’m normal again

SHAX?

DONT TOUCH HIM LEAVE HIM ALONE

oh i don’t think we’ve ever seen aziraphale talking to a demon other than crowley have we?

“im a little bemused as to why crowley would risk destruction for you, you don’t seem his type at all” EHHEHHEHE aziraphale knows he is

POOR OLD FURFUR? WHAT DO YOU MEAN TICKET TO THE BIG TIME

aziraphale uhm i love you but that was VERY naive you’ll have to run her over with the car now 👍🏻

OHHH YES LONDON 1941 LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

AAAAAAAAA its the same scene but the nazis are about to become zombie flesh eaters

furfur face reveal?

LOL THE NAZIS WENT TO HELL

ah yes nice fresh cup of fire

THE LIFT HOMEEEEEEEEE

aziraphale’s face 🫶🏻😭 “shut upppp”

“on behalf of my………..good friend here” michael sheen had an aziraphale moment in that one interview

YAY ITS AZIRAPHALE’S MAGIC SHOW

okay so furfur uses the nazis to spy on aziracrow HEHEHEH they’re gonna interrupt them during the dinner aren’t they

miracle blocker 💀

the proof being?? an almost kiss ?? i’m delusional

yummm tasty human flesh meal

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEYRE IN THE BOOKSHOP

“oh there’s no need to thank me that’s what……… friends……..do” AZIRAPHALEEEEEEEEEEE

“to mr fell (that’s me😊) a wonderful student”

AZIRAPHALE MOVING AROUND BEING EXCITED FOR THE MAGIC ACT AND CROWLEY PLAYING THE PUBLIC OH THEYRE SO THEYRE SOOOO

also what made crowley so embarrassed about it in the future?

“the farthing has vanished!!!!”

“you, my nefertiti fooling fellow~ are about to perform on the west end stage! if that doesn’t make you a professional conjurer, i don’t know what does” CROWLEY YOU HAVE TO PUT A ROMANCE WARNING BEFORE SPEAKING THIS IS SO ADORABLE

AND JUSSSST THW WAY AZIRAPHALE SMILES AT HIM????

oh my is this going to be the boa scene? 🫢

“natural dexterity” yeah now i see why crowley’s embarrassed

why does aziraphale have a firearm license HOW MANY LICENSES DOES HE HAVE

“you wot?”

CROWLEY’S GOING TO BE THE ASSISTANT I KNEW IT (THE HAND ON THE ARM!!!)

THEY HELD HANDS AZIRAPHALE PUT HIS LEFT HAND ON CROWLEYS TOO OOOOOHHHH MY GOD THE AMOUNT OF SLOWED GIFS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE OF THIS MOMENT

these nazi zombies are crap what was their plan anyway

HELP they’re all soldiers

THE MIRACLE BLOCKER NOOO

OOOHHH ITS NOT GONNA END WELL IS IT

shit they took the picture

i’m actually sweating

POOR CROWLEY’S TREMBLING

WOOOO IT WORKED

AZIRAPHALE IS SO GAY WITH THAT BOA STOP STOP BEING GAY YOURE TOO SWEET

“aziraphalala” me reading his name for the first time

girl put that picture on fire it’s literally in your own hands

aziraphale has stolen the evidence with a magic trick hasn’t he

HAHA YESS HE DID

OHHHHHHHHHH THE DINNER THE DINNERRRRRR

SHADES OF GRAY VERY DARK GRAY AND VERY LIGHT GRAY ITS THEM OH ITS SO THEM IM IN TEARS

do demons even have vital organs?

“CROWLEY’S PET”😨

don’t touch his bookshop.

nina break up with them that relationship is so stressful please

NAH CROWLEY TALKING TO THE BENTLEY LIKE A DOG 💀

THEYRE GOING TO HAVE THE BALL YEAAAAAAH

tagging @neil-gaiman since he said he was interested in reading live reactions

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #good omens season two spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #gos2spoilers #gos2 #gos2 reaction #spoilers

[vidavalor]

This adorkable scene could well wind up one of the most heartbreaking bits of foreshadowing come S3...

Aziraphale, in 1941, showing Crowley his sleight of hand magic trick. He has in his hands a sixpence and a farthing-- two different coins from the same monetary system that were both still in circulation in 1941 (but later are retired to a cottage in the South Downs... I mean, are later retired as forms of British currency.) The coins in the scene represent him and Crowley. Aziraphale puts both separately in his hand, closes it when they're together and waits "but for the blink of an eye" (the opposite of 6,000 years lol) before pursing his lips and blowing on his hand in a parallel to a kiss (hinting at end of S2). And when he reopens his hand...

...the farthing has vanished. Only the sixpence remains.

The two coins Azriaphale held together in the literal palm of his hand are separated and now the farthing is now apparently gone... but is really just out of sight. It's really still possible to bring it back into existence but it is, to all but the magician and those who understand how the trick is performed, hidden. It appears to have disappeared. It appears to no longer exist. Remind you of a certain plot S2 put into motion at its very start that hasn't yet paid off?

Watch this gif 'til the end for the visual parallels between the scenes...

I think that it's very possible that there is no Supreme Archangel Aziraphale coming at the start of S3 because there is going to be no Aziraphale, period, and sorting out that mess will be part of the plot.

#ineffable husbands #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens theory #good omens meta

[swirlingthings]

me when the farthing has vanished

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens edit #aziraphale

[chimkinnuget]

Banana fish gorilla shoelace a dash of nutmeg 😋😋

GDHXEHSHDB AND THE LITTLE "and the farthing has vanished!1!! :3"