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it's ironic how many people I've seen absolutely up in arms over michael sheen being asked about his age gap relationship, claiming that it "infantilises" his partner, anna.

there is nothing infantalising about being curious about the relationship dynamics between two people at different stages of their life. there's nothing inherently judgmental or disapproving in asking about it.

however, it is infantilising to treat a middle-aged man as if he's so fragile he needs to be protected from any potentially uncomfortable questions (which is something he knowingly signed up for in this case).

I think people's brains are so addled from needing-to-fuck-that-old-man-disease they're creating problems where there are none.

#the assembly #michael sheen #i found his answer sweet and interesting #especially when talking about how little time he'll have with his kids compared to most younger parents #that people are *still* attacking the person who asked the question is maddening #i also think this opens up a wider conversation about the meaning of the word 'spectrum' #given how many people I've seen claiming neurodiversity is 'no excuse' for 'being rude' and citing their own diagnoses as proof #this happens VERY often with mental health issues too #eg 'mental illness is never an excuse for violence/saying hurtful things!! I have anxiety and I'd never hurt anybody!!' #cool. glad to hear it. but your anxiety is irrelevant in a conversation about oaranoid schizophrenia or ocd or whatever lmao

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I made this sideblog more than a decade ago???

time has NO meaning what the f-

#what was it even originally for??? #was this a hannibal thing? #i can't even remember now

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Not Good Omens related but I have another grievance.

I know I'm on the loving Loki site but does Tom Hiddleston need help getting away from Marvel? I know Disney must be paying him very well but do they have something on this man?

He had an interesting career going on for a bit. Crimson Peak was stupid but fun, Only Lovers Left Alive, High Rise (mixed response but I liked the novel and thought it was adapted well enough). That Le Carré thing was fine, I guess; by-the-numbers espionage stuff. He made a fantastic Hal/Henry V in the Hollow Crown but that was well over a decade ago now.

This is an actor who should've been making critically acclaimed, depressing little British indie films about posh people having affairs, Shakespeare adaptations, occasional big-budget Oscar bait biopics, and appearing on stage to glowing reviews. He was basically grown in a lab to win an Olivier yet only shows up with a bad dye job every other year to do a bit of green screen nonsense for his Murine Master.

His IMDb is just fucking tumbleweeds.

Does he just not get offered anything else? Why is he stuck playing a comic book character and attending cons? Is this genuinely his ideal career? Why won't he get a haircut? I have many such questions.

#tom hiddleston #tom TOM please blink twice if you need help #this is not a hater post for once this is one of genuine concern

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Good Omens season 3

Ep 1: Crowley and Aziraphale’s big divorce (not gay) (best episode of the season)

Ep 2: Jesus shows up or whatever. God I’m not looking forward to this plotline and Neil’s tenuous grasp of american evangelicism despite it being the entire background of the story. Jesus says “Why can’t we all just get along :(” while the angels in Heaven argue and Aziraphale watches a tiny tv hidden in his desk that shows him everything Crowley is doing at all times. Michael Sheen’s acting saves the episode.

Ep 3: Crowley sits in the Bentley listening to Love of My Life by Queen while sobbing. Neil posts something like “sometimes the love of your life is your work best friend <3”. Georgia Tennant posts a candid pic of David with his red Crowley hair wearing his assortment of pride pins and looking at Michael like this 🥺 in retaliation.

Ep 4: Random Gabriel and Beelzebub minisode. They are shown having straight missionary sex in Alpha Centauri while listening to Buddy Holly. They hear about the upcoming Rapture and decide maybe they should go back and help out. For some reason this is the whole episode.

Ep 5: The Rapture raptures. Theologically, ideologically, and narratively we are left with a lot of questions. Features an extended close up on the new carabiner on Uriel’s belt, which is widely praised on tumblr as meaningful lesbian coding. Aziraphale and Crowley reconcile in a scene so poorly written but so well acted that several new mental illnesses are invented.

Ep 6: Aziraphale and Crowley save the world or whatever. Jesus says “gay is ok!” and gives a big thumbs up to the camera. Nina and Maggie chastely kiss in front of a cheering crowd with absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. Neil wins a GLAAD award for this scene specifically. At the last second Aziraphale and Crowley kiss like they are trying to climb into each others ribcages, because at least David and Michael love us. Unfortunately the scene is so poorly lit and blocked that the tumblr gifs of it look like absolute shit.

#so whats time travel like op? #is it fun?

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feeling very over this whole thing now but ngl I do enjoy seeing super in depth theories from TV gomens fans that take every single aspect of the first season very seriously cause a lot of it can just be explained with "it's a parody of the omen"

like

just go watch the omen (1976), mate

#this is specifically inspired by a post I saw musing in some depth about why the hospital was set on fire and what neil meant by that #and whether it was part of the larger themes of the story #so let me tell you #the hospital gets set on fire cause that's what happens in the omen lmao #oh and all the analyses over nanny crowley that were going around twt for a while! #youre not going to guess where the idea of a demonic nanny came from!!! #💀💀💀

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Nah

When he chose God over the love of his life

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I may be the only "good omens critical" person on here who's thrilled to see we're getting a season 3 lmao

I love complaining about shit! best case scenario is neil somehow pulls something decent together. worst case scenario is it's fucking AWFUL and I get to bitch about it.

either way it's probably going to be very gay and ludicrously fanfic-y which is entertaining in its own way

that's a win/win situation babyyyyyyy

#I went through all the rage and heartbreak ober lost potential and my blorbos being ruined months ago #just on the entertain train now #plus we get to see more of deetee with bright red clown hair looking like a kpop boygroup member at their 30th anniversary reunion #good omens critical

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i KNOW the gomens tv show has a different version of crowley and aziraphale and it's not really fair to compare it to the book one-to-one but every time i see ineffable husbands referred to as a grumpy/sunshine ship with aziraphale being the sunshine i take at least ten points of psychic damage

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I don't know if this is indicative of how many people were disappointed by s2 or simply that I follow the right blogs, but I had to find out through my news feed that GO got renewed for a 3rd series because I haven't seen a single post about it

Sorry, just seen this now as I sort of forgot this blog existed lmao.

I found out because the renewal news was trending in the UK for a while but didn't see anybody I follow talking about it. I think the fanservice-y direction of S2 and general lack of plot may have turned off more casual viewers or people who were expecting a continuation of the story from S1. I'd be interested to see what the viewing figures are like for the final season.

If you're not hugely invested in the relationship between this TV version of Aziraphale and Crowley, especially the flanderised turn they took in S2, then there's really nothing even remotely interesting about the show now.

Of the people I know irl who watched S1, none finished S2 because they found it boring and we're annoyed that the Gabriel mystery didn't seem to be going anywhere. The more time passes since it aired, the more bizarre I find the whole thing. It was just so disjointed and continually pushed its ostensible plot into the background to make way for these momentum-killing flashbacks. I'm not surprised it took so long to get renewed, even when taking the strikes into account.

I will be watching S3 because 1) I'm a completionist 2) I'm a glutton for punishment and 3) I *did* enjoy the chemistry between Sheen and Tennant in the first season and I'm hoping they can capture that again whilst injecting whatever remnants of an actual story Terry left behind.

#good omens critical #asks

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"why would you waste your energy on hating?" i don't find it tiring at all. it's quite energizing in fact.

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body type i like to call "artist who is scared of fat people"

#99% of fem!aziraphale art #and of course fem!crowley is rakishly thin but with giant tits

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can I please get the Replying From Sideblogs Feature Please. im so tired of looking like this every time someone says something to me.

#yours sincerely #flowerytwats

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"I'm sorry about the car," Aziraphale was saying. "I know how much you liked it. Perhaps if you concentrated really hard-"

"Gosh, I'm sorry," said Crowley, who knew how much the angel had treasured his book collection.

Presented without comment.

#good omens critical #my book beings would never #oh am I nitpicking? good #I'm picking all the nits baybee #we're back in business! #done fucked up my beloved characters #gif credits in the alt text because there didn't seem to be a way to link to the makers directly

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Also emblematic of Neil forcing characters to change, retconing their previous dynamic, in order to fit into a specific narrative that wouldn't otherwise work. "Yeah yeah no they've always been bad at communicating because it says so right here in the text. Stop looking over there; look at me. They don't really understand each other. Misunderstandings out the wazoo over here."

Uhuh. Sure.

Though it is making me laugh to see how so much of the tiktok and twitter fanbase are now turning back to S1 and marvelling at how different Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship was then. How easy and flirtatious and comfortable it was. ("Even though they kissed in S2 it's like more romantic in S1 somehow??")

Yeah.

Almost like S2 wasn't actually that well written isn't it? lmao

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More than 100 posts of pure bitchery and bile. I'm so proud :')

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Though it is making me laugh to see how so much of the tiktok and twitter fanbase are now turning back to S1 and marvelling at how different Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship was then. How easy and flirtatious and comfortable it was. ("Even though they kissed in S2 it's like more romantic in S1 somehow??")

Yeah.

Almost like S2 wasn't actually that well written isn't it? lmao

#good omens critical #and like I didn't LOVE how they were written in S1 either #too much gaiman-ing for my tastes #but I was not aware #of how nuch worse it could get

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Bringing this back 'cause it's still haaaaunting meeee 🎵

Even in the fucking flashbacks he was WAY too self-righteous to be on board with that. It was a very important part of their relationship and established the "shades of grey" thing they even mentioned in S2 and yet all we really saw was Aziraphale being a goody two shoes and Crowley being The Specialest Boy who can do no wrong.

We get him defying God way back in the Job story and then getting all weird about it in the present day.

BORING! Boring and OOC, Neil.

Aziraphale's arc in the book and, ostensibly, S1 is that he's a bit of a self-righteous hypocrite who's happy to regurgitate the company lines but will flout the rules for his own comfort and gratification, and then learns that actually, they're even worse than he thought so fuck 'em.

Then it's just a pointless reset for S2. UGH.

Question:

Would the Aziraphale of season 2, in both the present day and the flashbacks, EVER have agreed to The Arrangement?

Would this Aziraphale have been content to perform temptations on behalf of Hell to make his life easier?

#[vyvyan basterd voice] shut up neil!!!