#gabriel book

[fuckyeahmarkgatiss]

An early peek at Bookish!

#submission #bookish #mark gatiss #gabriel book #polly walker #rk_pr’s instagram #Instagram

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The Good Omens book in the Good Omens show. :)🥰❤

#good omens #goodomensedit #jon hamm #gabriel #jim #2i2i14 #ep2 #easter eggs #s2 easter eggs #good omens book #it was a nice day #fun fact

[gleafer]

AO3 TAGS IN ACTION: Gabriel is a JERK,

#illustrator #illustration #digital artist #artist on tumblr #crowley #good omens #good omens art #aziraphale #gleafer art #good omens aziraphale #gaimanverse #good omens gabriel #gabriel #jimbriel #comic book art #crack comics

[beaulesbian]

I was shelving the books by the first letter of the first sentence. - Good Omens, 2x02

"It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one." - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

#good omens #what a nice cameo of the book itself!! very nice indeed #goodomensedit #goedit #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #archangel gabriel #gabriel good omens #go s2 spoilers #go s2 ep 2 #mine #gif:good omens #jon hamm

[yourangle-yuordevil]

He was just drinking his two totally normal glasses of regular wine 🍷

#good omens comic #if the wine gives bad vibes it's just A COINCIDENCE ok???? #alternative places where Crowley has slithered super fast when the angels arrived in the library: #inside Aziraphale's shirt sleeve #behind some books in a lower shelf #under a rug #he also faked being a coat stand and Aziraphale quickly throwed his jacked over him #good omens #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #snek crowley #archangel gabriel #Pennetta grafica per favore BASTA ESPLODERE non ne posso più FAMMI DISEGNARE PLZ

[diioonysus]

reading + art

#sir john lavery's “miss aura's the red book” #cant find artist or painting name #artist is willard leroy #artist is frederick morgan #the maid with golden hair by frederic lord leighton #girl reading by alfred emile stevens #young girl reading by michael peter ancher #woman reading book by william oliver #a pleasant corner by john callcott horsley #woman reading by jacques-emile blanche #in the orangery by charles edward perugini #artist is joseph duran #girl with pigtails by samuel henry willam llewllyn #the love tale by francis john wyburd #lady sirling maxwell by james guthrie #artist is roma ribera #a lady reading a book by albert chevallier tayler #artist is wilfred gabriel de glehn #woman reading standing by frederic dufaux #artist is jules-adolphe goupil #view reading by charles james #cant find artist or painting #young girl reading by jean-honore fragonard #artist is christian valdemar clausen #mother and child by james jebusa shannon #artist is albert roosenboom #lady with a book in a garden by frantisek dvorak #aften by carl vilhelm holsoe #reading woman by carl holsoe #woman reading on a sette by william w churchill

[da-looney-bin]

The one thing I love about reading Book Omens and then watching Show Omens is that it explains small things I tend to notice and question.

For example, the scene where Aziraphale brings the holy water to Crowley

This one! I couldn't find a clearer pic unfortunately.

But when you look at this scene there are what looks like bullet hole stencils on the car window behind Crowley. And in Book omens!!

Absolutely love this hehehe 🤭

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #neil gaiman #crowly x aziraphale #gos2 #gabriel #good omens book #crowley's hair #s2 crowley's hair #book omens

[macrolit]

Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 30 September 2023. Good luck!

Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here.

#giveaw@y #literature #old books #sylvia plath #ralph ellison #black authors #dostoevsky #flannery o'connor #gabriel garcía márquez #classic literature

[simsim54]

Stranger: *Gesturing to Alex* Is this man bothering you? Henry: Yes, but he is my husband. I signed up for this

#rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #alexander claremont diaz #prince henry of wales #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex x henry #first prince #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #red white and royal blue movie #love quotes #thoughts #prince henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #incorrect quotes #book quotes #booklr #enimes to lovers #henry x alex #prince henry rwrb #alexander gabriel claremont diaz #alex and henry #wallpaper #fanfiction #dark academia #incorrect rwrb quotes #spilled ink

[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

Art Details Series: Women & Books  | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Lilla Cabot Perry, Louis Emile Adan, Thomas Benjamin Kennington, Seymour Joseph Guy, Delphin Enjolras, Ethel Porter Bailey |

#art #art details #art detail #women #women in art #books #light acamedia #dark academia #painting #paintings #oil on canvas #oil painting #fine arts #Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale #Jean-Honoré Fragonard #Victor Gabriel Gilbert #Lilla Cabot Perry #Louis Emile Adan #Thomas Benjamin Kennington #Seymour Joseph Guy #Delphin Enjolras #Ethel Porter Bailey #art series #women reading books #books in art

[quotespile]

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

#literature #quotes #Gabriel García Márquez #Memories of My Melancholy Whores #quote #books #lit

[alexa-crowe]

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS 2.05 | “Return of Callisto”

#xenaedit #tvedit #xena #xena: warrior princess #xena x gabrielle #mine #officially married in my book. perdicus who? i stopped caring when he left those villagers for dead lol

[cataclysmic-cathexis]

#one Jim is a fluffy bunny #but could also erase you from the Book of Life #the other jim could take you out quicker than you can say petrified orange #good omens 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #good omens #ineffable bureaucracy #beezelbub #archangel fucking gabriel #Ofmd #Ofmd Jim #ofmd oluwande #ofmd twitter #good omens twitter

[indigovigilance]

Jimbriel, Satan, the Book of Life, and what it means for Crowley

Acknowledging that what we know so far about the Book of Life from various characters is highly suspect, I'm going to posit to you that Beelzebub is actually the true authority on the Book of Life, and that they bookend Season 2 with very important (and hopefully accurate) information about the Book of Life. With that in mind, let's take Beezlebub's S2E1 description and see how it fits with other canon evidence:

But what does it mean to have never existed in the Good Omens universe? For that, let us look to Satan.

From in-show canon, we know that Adam was able to retroactively change Satan's status as his father to not his father:

Adam altered reality, although Crowley, Aziraphale, the other celestials, and even Adam himself remember those events from a timeline that supposedly has been erased:

But Crowley nonetheless confirms that this is reality now. Satan was never Adam's father.

Additionally, though not technically in-show canon, we know from Notorious NRG that once Satan became Lucifer, this erased Lucifer from existence in the GO universe:

And Crowley's monologue in the bar drives it home; even though Lucifer no longer exists, Crowley still remembers him, and some key events that they were involved in together.

But a more dramatic portrayal of erasure is found in our favorite Good Omens himbo, Jimbo. In the trial of Gabriel, the Metatron makes direct allusion to the fact that Gabriel will no longer be Gabriel after his demotion:

Not "your memory of your time as the supreme archangel will be erased," no, it's:

Your memory of your time as Gabriel will be erased.

Whether he means to or not, Aziraphale reinforces this characterization of memory-loss-as-new-identity:

This can be taken simply as a safety measure, but Jimbo doesn't understand it that way and we see throughout the remainder of the season that Aziraphale is very consistent about calling his unexpected guest "Jim," even correcting Crowley when they're speaking privately and it wouldn't blow his cover to call him Gabriel:

But the final word on memory and identity, especially as they pertain to Jimbriel, again comes from our Lord of the Flies, Beelzebub:

All your you is your memories.

Altogether we see that there is significant in-show canon to support a theory that memory is inextricably linked with identity, and that when memory is removed, identity is so drastically changed that the name of the entity must also change... and the person who existed before, with that former name, exists no longer; it is as if they never had.

(But, as we see in the case of Gabriel, they can be restored.)

I told you in the title that this post was about the Book of Life: it is. Everything discussed here about memory and identity must necessarily characterize how the Book of Life operates, at least with respect to erasure. When someone is erased, they don't vanish, but they are so changed it is as if a new person has taken the place of the old, the way Jim took the place of Gabriel, until he got his memories back. But we can surmise that when someone is erased from the Book of Life, their memories aren't conveniently stored in a TARDIS/Ru Paul fly for later recovery. The memories may not be gone, but I'm going to guess that they would be extremely difficult (or impossible) to retrieve.

What this means for Crowley:

I think we need to give this scene a lot more credit for telling us how this universe works. Surface level, it reads as "you don't understand my trauma, and how I've been changed by it." Which is a very valid interpretation. But we can dig deeper and see that, given everything else we know about celestial beings losing their memories, names, and identities, Crowley is alluding to something far more horrific than just the scars left by flaming swords and halo-grenades.

These are the scars of a lobotomy. Something was taken from him, and he is aware of it.

He knows that his memory has been tampered with. Various people (Furfur, Saraqael) tell him that they recognize him, and of things they've done together. He has no recollection of them, but instead of getting agitated, he brushes it off and ignores it. This lack of questions from the guy who questions everything tells us that he already has the answers; not the memories, but the knowledge of why he doesn't have them.

Furthermore, when he's trying to get Jim to remember the something bad and Jim says it hurts, Crowley says:

I know. Do it anyway.

How does Crowley know that it hurts, to try to recall memories that have been taken out of your head?

Because he's been through it.

He has tried to remember, and some memories, like working on the Horsehead Nebula with Saraqael or monkeying around with Furfur, weren't worth the pain. Or perhaps it was pain on top of pain to remember what he had lost.

It is an especial testament to the cruelty of Heaven that he remembers going into battle, but not the bonds he formed with his friends. He remembers a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulfur, but not the work he did on the Horsehead Nebula, a thing that brought him joy.

And now, the person he loves most in the world, his only refuge from the terror of his empty nightmares, from his malignant and creeping sense of unease that something is missing, has gone back to that place where his identity was so horribly violated that he lost his name.

How will our hero cope?

If you liked this meta, you will almost certainly like my meta on Continuity Errors.

For my thoughts on who Crowley may have been before the fall, go here.

For my thoughts on how this pertains to Metatron, go here.

As I continue to produce metas related to this theory, you'll be able to find them all here.

#good omens #good omens 2 #book of life #good omens meta #aziraphale #crowley #gabriel #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #beelzebub #ivoc #erasure theory

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

#No they aren't in a love triangle #Gabriel ships his new parents #Imagine the husbands doing something romantic and Gabriel just pops up from behind a book shelf like: #Aw you guys are sooo adorable #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands

[catwouthats]

Amnesia Gabriel, trying to flirt: Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?

Beelzebub:

Beelzebub: yes.

#he learned the pick up line from on of aziraphale’s books #canon because i said so #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens beelzebub #good omens gabriel #ineffable bureaucracy #good omens incorrect quotes