#STOP COMPARING GOOD OMENS TO SUPERNATURAL THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO POINT IN DOING THAT. WHY

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no but the thing is. they KISSED. on screen. it was a real scene, not deleted, not removed from a script, it HAPPENED in front of the world's eyes. and AND the actors are normal about it and the whole cast and crew is normal about it and it's not vague and it's IMPORTANT. no matter the rest of it and what came after it, it happened!!

#and i AM gonna say this in the tags to avoid too much controversy but #STOP COMPARING GOOD OMENS TO SUPERNATURAL THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO POINT IN DOING THAT. WHY #why do you need to treat good omens as inferior to a show that was so fucked up. i love certain aspects of spn but #i would never in my life pit those shows against each other because they are nowhere near the same in ANY way #and guess what. i feel more fulfilled with the (CANON might i remind you) arc between crowley and aziraphale than i ever did with destiel #there. i said it and i WILL happily die on that hill alone if i had to #I LOVE WHEN ROMANTIC FEELINGS BETWEEN CHARACTERS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED AMD THEY DID THAT FOR FUCKING REAL #good omens spoilers #gomens #good omens 2 #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #david tennant #michael sheen

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today we are thinking about tragedies

specifically, tragedies compared between my dps fair folk au/the italian renaissance au. this was bc i was writing the fair folk au today, and a lot of it is taking on this weird tragedic bent - and out of those two this is the one with the happy ending! what is going on????

but i think i know why. the fair folk au is just full of characters who believe wholeheartedly in the inexorable hand of fate. like, when todd swears fealty to neil? the only reason neil lets him do that is because he thinks he'll be dead within the month! he's convinced he'll follow the fate of all his family, to die in battle. and on his part, one of the biggest takeaways todd gets from the fairy realm is that of the dominance of nature; it giveth, it taketh away, etc. and so he is always half-convinced that as the only human here one day the earth will simply reject him like a foreign body and he will die... it's a miracle he's survived this long anyway.

and then BECAUSE all of them believe so much in the trappings of fate, these little omens start popping up everywhere. ravens on todd's windowsill. a shadow in the shape of a cross on the throne room floor. after he swears fealty to neil todd accidentally cuts himself on his blade, turning the oath into a blood covenant, an action that he sees as an omen of death. (sidenote; this scene actually marks the second time i've written a scene where someone licks blood off their fingers and it's a reference to the bible. ffs. something needs to change)

anyway the point is that both of them are convinced that the worst is yet to come, so the worst starts popping up around them. the eye sees what the heart feels and all that. you only see that which confirms your worldview. so then when they get their happy ending, when neil's father dies and none of them follow him and the land accepts todd as one of its own... it absolutely blindsides them. like, all the elements of tragedy are there! they're ready to be mixed! and then suddenly this one guy is so full of endless love and devotion that he turns it into a victory instead. (which is again playing into mythological themes - the love between a fairy and a human being enough to literally rewrite the story...)

so how does the renaissance au measure up to this? well, very simply, the renaissance au is about how TWO men hold endless love and devotion for todd - and how he holds endless love and devotion for everyone around him - and how none of that is enough to stop fate from getting them in the end anyway. and it's also about the decayal of love and devotion - see todd's naivete and optimism crumbling after years at the mercy of milanese politics - see andrea's desire to be a heroic saviour of the people crumbling as he evolves into the same kind of tyrant he deposed. and really the difference is simply that everyone in the renaissance au sees what fate has in store for them and starts kicking and screaming to get away from it... yeah, it's a whole self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing. (interestingly this also shows up in the environments of both aus, which i didn't recognise until now; the fair folk au takes place during night or these murky times, twilight and sunset - and the renaissance au is almost always set during the day - todd dies with the midday sun streaming through the windows of the duomo di milano. you become what you avoid!)

so. tl;dr... what?????? i don't know, this got away with me. summary: the fair folk au gets a happy ending because the love and the devotion is enough to overcome fate; the renaissance au is a tragedy because the love and the devotion were never enough to even counter fate, but you already knew that, and you tried to do it anyway. somewhere in there there's a theme on how supernatural evils are forgiving and malleable but man-made evils are immutable and vicious. good things only come to those who accept!

#yeah... this got away with me #begone. i'm thinking about the Themes #does this even make any sense #tristan writes