#good omens lockdown special

[unseeliefaerie]

Noticed a pattern of Crowley reaching out to Aziraphale and Aziraphale rejecting him and now I'm sad

Bonus (Spoilers for Season 2!)

In the face of all that, Crowley is so brave for this

#tfw the demon crowley is the one who is honest about how much aziraphale means to him #and the angel aziraphale is the one still unwilling to admit it #im going to scream #this isnt a zira hate post i love my boy and he has his reasons #but oh my god crowley is so completely gone on him #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #good omens season 1 #good omens season 2 #good omens lockdown special #michael sheen #david tennant #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #go2 #I can't make gifsets but I can do this

[lovaboy]

watched the lockdown special again yesterday… if it’s true that crowley’s living in his car at this point it makes this exchange just the fucking worst, man. his disappointed little sigh after aziraphale turns him down :( and then the fact that he says he’s setting the alarm for june at the beginning of the call but then changes it to july after getting turned down?? truly sick and twisted

#crowley sounds miserable this entire special :( let him come over!!! #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens lockdown #jess.txt #go: originals #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley

[dott-de-la-torre]

Wait but if he was evicted, does that mean that Crowley spent the pandemic locked in his car? 💀

No wonder he wanted to stay with Aziraphale so badly

#It’s still not clear if the Lockdown special was canon but whatever #he’s such an idiot he can't communicate #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens lockdown

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

"You know, I could hunker down at your place. Slither over and watch you eat cake." ⁠ —Crowley to Aziraphale in the Good Omens Lockdown special

#I'm HARDLY the only one who picked up on it in s1 of course I just love how it got made SUPER obvious now lmao #Good Omens Season 2 #Good Omens TV #Good Omens #ineffable husbands #also I'm STILL never over that line from the Lockdown audio like what the fuck. truly what the fuck. sicko thing to say. #hang on where's the post I made abt it #Crowziraphale #starky's original posts #anyways not to be obnoxious but it's so funny that this also happens to be a garashir thing. what were the odds.

[veinsfullofstars]

See you in July.

(ID: Good Omens fanart of Aziraphale & Crowley during the 2020 Lockdown special. They sit back to back glancing over their shoulders at each other, Aziraphale on our left sitting in a high-backed chair of brown wood and red cushions, Crowley on our right, sitting lower to the ground against a fluffy white pillow, a red blanket covering his legs. Azirpahale wears an olive-green sweater vest, his signature bowtie and pinkie ring, a white button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, beige trousers, and white socks. He holds a maroon corded phone to his ear, several towering stacks of books behind him, some topped with plates of tea and cake. Crowley wears a set of simple black pajamas, holding a smartphone to his ear. END ID.)

I thank Neil and the team every day for putting that out there during a time when we all really, really needed it.

Started 05/02/20, finished 05/09/20, and posted 05/10/20 a.k.a. Good Omens’ 30th anniversary... which is not 05/01/20 like we’d all collectively thought it was at the time, Neil included. A silly mistake, but, hey, we got two celebrations out of it, so win-win. Also NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 08/07/23.

#veins art #veins old art #veins ships #veins fanart #fanart #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #good omens lockdown #no spoilers for season 2 #I care them a normal amount #veinsfullofstars

[helphowdoiusethis]

How do you not brain rot about good omens?

I have thus friend right? I told them the whole plot of season 1 of good omens on a 2 hour bus journey.

Now today this same friend?

Well, I explained the plot of all three minisodes and the lockdown special and now I'm planning how to say everything about the main plot of season 2. This friend also repeatedly heard about Good Omens season 3 being confirmed.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #aziracrow #good omens 3 #ineffable fandom #good omens brainrot

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Maggie Service interview with Ekaterina Spiridonova for ADAR, July 2024

You starred in the first season of Good Omens. Very soon, Season 2 is coming out, in which Neil Gaiman wrote the role of Maggie especially for you. Wow! Please share your impressions about it.

— Season one was a blast. Even with my having to wear a satanic wimple, glued on eyebrow, moustache and beard hairs and a wart I was in a joyous mood filming it. The first Season felt like a love letter from Neil Gaiman to Terry Pratchett so there was a very special atmosphere on set. I honestly thought it was a stand alone series as we’d told the entire story of the book. So to receive an email from Neil in the middle of lockdown, when I couldn’t imagine a world in which we’d get to work in the creative industry again, saying that he was writing Season two and was writing a part for me called Maggie so that there’d be no confusion in who would be playing her felt very special indeed.

Were there any behind-the-scenes stories on the set of season two that you can tell us about?

— The sets built for the show were magnificent, they built the streets of Soho in a studio in Scotland. Neil and I took a stroll on a break one day and discussed where there was probably an underground bar and what the name of our underground band would be. I reckon we should try and make that a reality one day, it would be pretty epic!

Describe your character Maggie in the new season in 3 words.

— Open. Kind. Loyal.

If you can play any existing character, which one would you like to choose and why?

— Probably Shax who you will meet in season two played by the brilliant Miranda Richardson. She’s funny, scary, silly and edgy.

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #interview #maggie interview #maggie #maggie service #shax #bts #neil gaiman #neil and maggie #underground bar #fun fact #maggie about maggie #s2 interview

[isaacthedruid]

GOOD OMENS 2 TRAILER

“I’m back” “i can see that”

— Neil mentioned on his tumblr there would be a time skip, roughly the same amount of time has season 1 ended (so maybe about 3-4 time jump?)

Where did Crowley go?

My guess, homie took a long nap that was hinted at in the “Good Omens: Lockdown” special, where Crowley was going to sleep until covid was over and sent his alarm for July… of 2023(?)

BABES!! AZIRAPHALE WAS SALTY, WHERE DID CROWLEY GO TO?

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 2 trailer #CURRENTLY GOING BONKERS

[cottagecore-raccoon]

for the ask game: 2, 5, 8, 22!!!

Hi friend! Thanks for the ask!

2. Do you have any merch?

My aunt bought me Aziraphale's winged mug when she heard I was obsessed with Good Omens! I don't drink out of it all the time (cause it's a pain to wash), but it's the best way to drink hot chocolate :)

5. What is you favorite good omens one-shot?

A fun fact about me is I love stories that deal with intense feelings of guilt and the way other characters interact with that (and hopefully make it better). So if you wanna deal with some delicious guilt complexes, Be a Friend to Your Friend by WitherAndDecay is excellent!

A happier (and smuttier) option is Unexpected, But Long-Awaited by KitCat_Italica! It's a beautiful story of Aziraphale and Crowley's first time together, complete with laughter and a tickle fight!

8. Do you prefer season one or season two and why?

Season one will always have a special place in my heart because I first watched it over lockdown and completely obsessed over the ineffable husbands (back when I thought I was straight and wasn't on Tumblr). It was just such a source of comfort for me during a terrible time, and it had the happy ending I so desperately needed

Season two is delightful, but my goodness does it give me anxiety! Embarrassingly, I have really struggled to watch it all the way through and have had to resort to chunks at a time. I'm sure I'll grow to love it just as much, but something about the interpersonal conflict just makes it way more stressful for me than the literal end of the world in season one

22. What's your favourite Crowley hairstyle through the ages?

Oh absolutely the chin length with the little bun! It's a classic for a reason! (Although any time Crowley presents as a woman my brain fries a little bit)

#good omens #cottagecore-raccoon #ineffable husbands #asks #tumblr asks #ask game #good omens fanfiction #good omens fanfic #good omens fanfic rec #ineffabildaddy

[pengychan]

Good Omens fic list

Was starting to have more than a couple of Good Omens fics, so I figured it was time to give them their own post to put some order in my main masterlist.

[Full fic masterlist here]

Title: Come What May Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Summary: While completely improvised, Gabriel’s plan to transfer his memories in the container fly before erasure was rather solid. It came very close to working, too. But ‘close’ was not enough. [What-if set during Season 2] Characters: Gabriel, Beelzebub, Crowley, Aziraphale, the Archangels. Ineffable Bureaucracy with Ineffable Husbands on the side. Rating: T Status: In progress

Title: Everyday Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Summary: "Well, it's good to know there's someone who understands. Thank you. It's a pity we'll never speak again." Like many other times before, Gabriel was wrong. Characters: Gabriel, Beelzebub. Rating: K Status: Oneshot, complete

Title: Renunciation Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Summary: Beelzebub's monotonous day in Hell takes a turn when a naked, amnesiac Archangel shows up with a cardboard box and no idea where he is. [Or: Gabriel actually takes the elevator all the way down to Hell at the first try.] Characters: Gabriel, Beelzebub. Rating: K Status: Oneshot, complete

Title: Winging It Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Summary: Shockingly, attempting to destroy an angel without consulting God first comes with consequences. There is more than one way to fall, and a thousand more ways to inconvenience an angel and a demon who just wanted to be left in peace. [Written prior to Season 2] Characters: Gabriel, Beelzebub, Crowley, Aziraphale, the Archangels. Ineffable Bureaucracy with Ineffable Husbands on the side. Rating: T   Status: Complete

Title: Lockdowns and Phone Lines Link: Ao3, Tumblr Summary: Crowley remembers he can move through the phone lines exactly fifty-three seconds after ending the call. [Oneshot, based on the 30th anniversary special.] Characters: Crowley, Aziraphale. Rating: K Status: Complete

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable bureaucracy #ineffable husbands #go2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers

[aziraphales-library]

Hi there thank you so much for your hard work guys we all appreciate it very much

Please can you give a big big fluff fic I mean a fic that's cute and very cute as you (that's not a flirt ) and have a cute words like "my dear" again thanks for your work

Hello. Pleeeeeeease please please check our #fluff tag where we have oodles of fluffy fics already recommended. Here are yet more to add to the collection...

A Picnic Proposal by Carimes_treehouse (G)

One year after they got together, they finally go on their long-awaited picnic. It had to be perfect. Crowley had a plan, after all.

---

The movement caught Aziraphale’s gaze and he tilted his head in interest, locking eyes with him. “It’s um… a present. Anniversary present.”

Dance with me, my old friend by amerande (T)

During the taxi ride back to the bookshop, Aziraphale considered the many ways in which he’d left the Ritz over the years. The first time: contented and excited to tell Crowley about it, to perhaps share it with him. Several subsequent times: alone, but with the delightful memory of an afternoon or evening basking in Crowley’s company and attention. After that: with Crowley, walking through London, to the bookshop or to a museum, talking and sharing time. Once, eleven years ago: in Crowley’s Bentley for a night of drinking and plotting to avert the apocalypse.

This was the first time they’d taken a cab together.

a simple harmony by shoebox_addict (T)

“I can’t believe you’ve kept that stored away all this time.”

“I’ve kept it all, angel,” said Crowley.

At that, Aziraphale’s heart caught in his throat. He had no idea how to respond to something so kind, so sweet. He searched for the right words, but all he found was, “Oh, Crowley.”

Cupcakes and Camellias by CallipygianGoldfish (T)

It’s not quite a mid-life crisis that lands him in the middle of the countryside with a bakery on his hands, but on the other hand, it most definitely is. Kicked out of his bookshop by an irate but well-meaning friend, Aziraphale attempts negotiating life in a small village, baking piña colada bread, and duckpond dates.

When the new bakery owner moves in opposite his flower shop, Crowley doesn’t give it another thought, until he’s forced to go searching for his missing devil-cat. And well, if he spends the rest of the day in shock, can you blame him? Nobody said the new baker was positively gorgeous.

Do you have any idea by Enven (T)

He was hungry for anything he could get. Every tiniest scrap of attention Aziraphale gave him, everything that could at least potentially indicate that he enjoyed his company – Crowley would take it all, and shove it deep into the dimness of his mind to hopelessly reminisce about it later.

or: 5 times they pined like crazy, and 1 time they didn't

I could....hunker down at your place by Angelica_Tree (G)

Inspired by the Good Omens: Lockdown special from 2020. It takes less than an hour after the phone call for Aziraphale to realize that he can't spend lockdown apart from Crowley. Crowley is more than happy to hunker down at the bookshop. Spending this much time together, they finally find the words that have escaped them for too long. And clear one very important misunderstanding out of the way.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #fluff #mod d

[kyokyo866]

You know, with this new info in Good Omens Season 2 about Crowley's been living out of his car the entire time... that makes the Lock Down special a little sadder of he's been going through lockdown and his pandemic naps.... in his car. Asked to come over and Aziraphales like nah but it's not like he knows

Crowley, please...

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #crowley #aziraphale

[du9on9]

Thoughts on Season 2 of Good Omens

I’m writing this little post to explain why I’m so crazy because if you’ve been following my tweets for a few days, you’re probably wondering why this person is so crazy.

I am not an atheist, nor am I a theist. In general, I reserve the idea of God because I recognize that it is a very meaningless exercise. If I had to choose a strict position on God, I would follow the opinion of the recently deceased Jean-Luc Nancy.

“Theism and atheism are just metaphysical symmetrical presuppositions about existence.”

From this premise, I like the phrase “Good Omens” because I think the writers who created them are certainly showing the best humor that people living in a monotheistic-Christian culture are capable of. The Christian dichotomy of the world they created, good and bad, is just a symmetry premise, like the Nancy quote above. Whether a symmetrical premise necessarily establishes an antithesis requires a bit more thought, but in this worldview, there is a strange antithesis. And they express it as bureaucracy. This is a very funny point because by its very nature, bureaucracy is a necessary condition for conflict and a sufficient condition for cooperation. And season 2 completely fulfills this proposition. So bureaucracy is a pretty fun environment and premise to be in, where there is a symmetrical premise of good and bad.

In this symmetry, humans are either marginalized or excluded. And there is an angel, and a former angel, who is confused between these symmetries. Two beings who see the symmetrical premise as a matter of choice…

The reason I thought this series was so unique is because it really speaks to the isolation we’ve been through over the last few years, and how it’s affected people (and why the hell we’ve been so understaffed). From the people who couldn’t pay their rent because the lockdown had just been lifted, to the hellish (dental) masks they wore in case they looked grotesque to others, to the relentless set photography that props up the series, to the actors who were willing to put in the work. I thought it was a (rather blatant) satire like Don’t Look Up until about halfway through (despite the presence of the final sequence in S2E6, all of these attempts stand up pretty well). As I said above, the series uses the symmetrical premise of the time-honored Christian tradition and the entanglement of “bureaucracy” in our reality to create a narrative, which makes it an appropriate series to show the situation and tragedy of our inevitable (or self-imposed) “isolation”. At least, that’s how I felt halfway through.

In the past few years, despite the harshness of the environment, there have been countless works, and the OTT industry has become a strange speciality. The rise of the dual (post-)apocalyptic genre (normal apocalypse is inevitably SF) has been interesting — it’s a great option that has a genre grammar that can be used to express the isolation we’re experiencing (and hopefully make it last), and people have found a lot of empathy and comfort in it. The kind of reassurance that we will be reunited and live and love again. (A number of factors lend themselves to thinking of Season 2 as sci-fi, and Season 1 was a quasi-apocalyptic show.) No other show, at least that I’ve seen, has made the pandemic so tangible.

Recent events aside, isolation is still a valid factor in the pandemic, and in that sense, love has always been effective. How many people and works have screamed over the years that it’s the sense of connection that can break the isolation (whether this message has worked in the real world… I’m not sure). Season 1, released in 2019, was about maximizing the benefits of “visualizing” the original. Everyone was delighted with the (belated) visualization of the Good Omens. At the time, I saw it as a tribute to the work and to the author who passed away. But now season 2 has taken a different turn (*not really a turn, more of a new opportunity to move away from the tribute aspect), pointing to a story about isolation, and a different look at what led to that isolation, which is probably why the pandemic was invoked.

I don’t know what Neil Gaiman intended (it’s a lie, and it’s painfully obvious), but I suspect he has a similar idea to mine: that what matters to humans is not whether there is a God or not, but how religion is practised. The result of the conventionality of religion is not (maybe) blindness, but “unawareness” itself. From beginning to end, (really fucking end!!!!!!) the work provides symmetry, and symmetry is derived from this symmetrical premise.

The repetition of the same group of figures (I wouldn’t go so far as to say they are surrogat of Aziraphael and Crowley), the angelic device of ‘Gabriel’ (ha-ha) and Beelzebub with his ‘face’ switched, the antics of God and Satan over God’s favorite ‘Job’, and the choice of Crowley and Aziraphael to stand between them. Or, the resurrectionist.

The superimposition of seemingly obvious elements all builds to a final moment: at a time when Crowley is feeling ashamed of Gabriel’s oblivion of his interest in the face-swapped Beelzebub (we don’t know why), the impact of the romance between the Archduke of Hell and Heaven’s Supreme fucking Arc Angel Gabriel on Crowley is enormous. This former angel, also the negligent demon was as cunning as a snake. While everyone else was looking on in disbelief at their respective bosses’ bluster, the clever snake saw a definite possibility. Just as they realize the possibility, the two humans they’ve been trying to unite come and whisper to them, “Speak”. There are countless self-replications of the same behavior in the series, such as this one. Like that moment when you fall unconditionally in love when you take shelter from the rain under the eaves, or the voice in Eden that whispered to you, “Desire”. Finally, demons can make up their minds. In fact, listening to the human story probably didn’t make Crowley the demon decide. It was the angel who helped him decide.

“They loved each other so much, and that love blinded them, that they never asked each other how they wanted to be loved.”

I think this is a euphemism because here I already think the power game (discussion) between them is never established in the first place. (More precisely, they can’t ask each other about love.) I re-watched the last sequence many times because I couldn’t believe my eyes. I couldn’t believe my eyes: the loose set-up, elements, and reasoning eventually culminate in the ultimate conflict. It’s not an Armageddon kind of conflict.

The conflict between the two manifests as “bureaucracy” because, by their very nature, they “must” be systems. They are born out of the symmetry premise, they are inevitably part of the system, and by virtue of being part of the system, they are pillars of the ‘structure’. The difference here goes back to the symmetry premise, as one is inherently and necessarily the defender of the system and the other is inherently and again, inherently the questioner/doubter of the system. As I said above, it’s not the presence or absence of a god that matters, but how religion conventionalizes people. In other words, whether or not we are able to recognize the structure itself, and whether or not we are able to detach from it and recognize the whole.

The ‘conventionalization’ of religion is not, strictly speaking, blindness, but ‘unconsciousness’. Therefore, the angel is a structure in itself, in its ‘unconscious’ and ‘unquestionable’ conventionality, and the ‘system’ that recognized the ‘structure’ has gone to hell. Therefore, the crawl is an anomalous system. And this relationship is the expression of bureaucracy. Including the union of the two. Those angels who were there when the pillars of structure created the universe, those angels who saw the possibilities of the universe and thought of other alternatives. But sadly, we know the truth: they are representations of bureaucracy itself, at the end of its symmetry.

When the angel hears Metatron’s offer, he is pleased. If he accepts Metatron’s offer, he can clear the name of the anomaly, the “doubting being,” and reinstate it as a “being” in its own right. That’s a level of authority, a conscious authority. All of this is again anomalous, and according to Metatron, Crowley, who disrupts the “order” with unnecessary questions, is unable to determine Aziraphael’s true intentions. This is true of Aziraphael as well. Whether or not Aziraphael can actually do it, it is not easy to change the structure within a bureaucracy represented by a structure. A witness to this is Crowley. But the ‘unsuspecting’ angel dares to change the structure because he loves him so much, and because that love can never be ‘wrong’. There is a wall here. An insurmountable wall between the seemingly romantic phrase “they love each other so much that it blinds them, so they never ask how they want to be loved”… Actually, this proposition is derived from the symmetry premise above. A wall between those who cannot be wrong and those who are made to be wrong. It is therefore (I dare say) inevitable that they should fall in love. For combinations of signs become ‘symbols’, and they manifest themselves in certain ‘omens’.

It was a very long story. The reason I have to tell this story so long is because I have seen possibilities in the faces of angels and in the faces of devils. If I had to name the greatest discovery or invention since the beginning of the history of video, I’d say it’s the close-up. Without having to explain the word close-up, the greatest thinkers have rallied around a concept that fills everyone’s minds. We can record human trembling!

After hearing Metatron’s proposal, the angel can’t contain his excitement. Metatron says, “Tell this story to your friends”. Aziraphael runs (emotionally). Crowley has been preparing the ‘confession’. Before the confession can take place, Aziraphael spits out an excited, almost confessional, praise of God. “Only, even nicer!” says Aziraphael in exultation. The matter of the unquestioning lottery. Was Crowley “conscious” of authority here? He asks again and again if The angel said no to Metatron’s offer.

We could have been us.

Crowley has a momentary flashback. Tears well up in his eyes… He’s in tears. At this point, Aziraphael falls into chaos. The close-up is an achievement, as we can see his fluttering pupils and quivering eyelids.

The confession is torn between disappointment and impossibility. Crowley ‘revisits’ the possibility that he has long sought but (ironically) never reached, only now, in the face of complete impossibility. Like their bosses, we can do it too. Like their bosses, we can do it too. Even when the love in front of him has taught him that ‘nothing lasts forever’, the desire never dies, but it surrenders (approaches) to a certain authority, an unconscious authority. All of Crowley’s acts, then, are trapped in a symmetry that can never be reconciled, even though he loves above all else. He cannot refute the angel who speaks of the impossible, so all he can say is ‘good luck’.

In fact, it is Aziraphael’s antithesis: ‘You don’t understand, no, I understand much better than you do.” I’m doing this for you, so why don’t you understand, and since there can be no such thing as angelic cries, I can only dismiss you as offended. Turning around and saying, “No nightingales,” Crowley puts an end to this love. There are no witnesses to the love, who witness the angels dining at the Ritz. (Despite my dislike of Michael Sheen, this scene is exquisite; it’s one of the few times we see Sheen’s face.) The angel’s confusion is beyond comprehension. Crowley’s “We could have been us” is a cry and a testimony. ‘We are both exceptional situations(conditions)’.

He grabs him by the scruff of the neck. Lips collide. We witness a clenched fist. The hands of an angel with nowhere to go. The lost hand cannot reach out to embrace its lover, because it is literally lost in all of this.

The lips part and the surprised angel says, “I forgive you.”

Forgive for what?

There’s a lot of thought going on here. Is it forgiveness for an unauthorized kiss? What makes forgiveness possible when there is nothing to forgive? If this constitutes forgiveness, what is next? But the devil says, “Don’t bother.” The devil stopped crying. There was the sound of a bell closing the bookshop door. Where the devil left off, the angel stares in surprise and confusion, breathing heavily and pursing his lips. His gaze is unfocused.

What I have seen, right here, is the beginning of sin. In other words, it’s the first anxiety that occurs to the angel. It is not merely a surprise, but the germination of another possibility. What is conceived here is the existence of a sexuality that was not possible (or necessary) for the angel. Søren Kierkegaard once spoke of “anxiety as the result of sin without guilt”. Surprisingly, this scene echoes Kierkegaard’s theology and philosophy of religion, as it is the moment of conception of original sin beyond Eve. “With the sinful nature, sexuality was established. At that moment, human history begins (…) The presence of original sin is anxiety.”

You don’t need to know what this means. To be honest, I don’t. But the moment of original sin was so intense that these words immediately came to mind. This can’t have been the first time Crowley and Aziraphael had touched. Crowley was forced to “give up” being with his one and only love because of his prior understanding that he could not “be an angel,” and he could not be made to understand that point. The system cannot persuade the structure.

But always, ‘events’ create a series of exceptional circumstances. The pebble that fell on the surface of the water created a ripple, and this ripple was the event that awakened the angel’s sexuality. Thus, Crowley had never before touched the angel in such a way. By not transmitting the trembling itself as an overt object of desire, the angel was transmitting overt sexual desire, and upon realizing this, the angel (being an angel, of course) must ‘forgive’ Crowley, for it was the harboring of desire that caused original sin, and with this original sin, sexual desire was born, and it was this that pushed Adam and Eve out of the Garden. For six thousand years, the fire-fist Aziraphael, the gatekeeper of Eden, has worn original sin! Along with sexuality. No wonder the angel was surprised by the demon’s touch, not because it was daredevil, but because it felt so “sexual,” and with it the understanding of “sexuality.” But in order for original sin to be established here, it must be the result of something happening within the individual that is not recognized as sin. The ‘consequence of sin without a consciousness of sin’, and therefore the point at which this emotion that I perceive as an expression of an order that can do no wrong, cannot be sin, is at the same time the sign of anxiety in Aziraphael’s eyes that proves that this is lust.

I talked about close-ups earlier. From the bust shot to the close-up, we hear the angel’s breath after the demon exits. Shaky vision, lips pressed against fingertips. (Even if I don't like Michael Sheen that much… the actor’s set-up for this entire sequence was so subtle that I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed.)

The aforementioned symmetry premise is rippled. Derived from the symmetry premise, the two Signs were determined (already in Season 1) to be anomalies to each other, but at least the incumbent Angel probably didn’t expect his anomaly to elicit this level of anomalous emotion, because he was a bureaucratic good (and a Sign) who couldn’t truly be an anomaly. That the two signs that saw the expulsion of Adam and Eve would result in this ‘repetition’ thousands of years later was unthinkable for an angel, much less a ‘demon’ who already had a sinful nature. I mentioned self-repetition earlier, and this is also self-repetition. If there is a variable here, it is that the angel was already an anomaly, and only he himself was unaware of it (not religiousizing, customizing, or conscious of goodness), and only the devil, who already knew of the presence of the demiurge in goodness (‘You really are a bastard’), gave the angel original sin by giving him a kiss of lust, by transmitting its tremors with his breath. I thought to myself. The only one who knows what he’s doing here is Crowley, the questioner/doubter. The lowly devil, at the moment of renouncing love, leaves having instilled a minimum of corruption, and therefore only the possibility of corruption. There is no more evil than this.

The angel breathes in, hard and fast, and sweeps a hand across his startled chest. It’s hard to tell why he’s crying, because there are so many assumptions involved, but here’s what’s happening. The devil cried, the angel cried, only the nightingales didn’t, because there was an abandonment of not only the opposition of the symmetry premise but of symmetry itself, which is to say, there was an abandonment of the ‘possibility of events’.

Funnily enough, however, I saw new possibilities right here, because the conventionalization of religion was shaken by the very moment when two people who loved each other too much that they never asked each other how they wanted to be loved, especially after the angel first recognized individuality, were infused with sexuality and acquired a sense of guilt. Here, religion would indeed become possible. And it can give birth to a new order and discipline. And I’ve replayed this scene dozens of times over the past few days because it’s so compelling and amazing. I don’t actually think Crowley has given up on loving Aziraphael. (I really don’t.)

It’s not an abandonment of love, it’s an abandonment of symmetry.

So I take this as confirmation that the story will no longer be told without sexuality between these two. This was a clear departure from season one.

All of this lust, angst, and potential sinfulness aside, Gaiman and the show’s intentions are clear. It’s a “bureaucracy” critique. It’s a critique of bureaucracy. Therefore, the series does not shy away from the “pandemic. Well, I don’t really need to make any predictions about what season 3 will be like, but let’s do it anyway: Crowley will probably run away from the problem (assuming there is a problem). Aziraphael will confront the problem… but not solve it.

But there is always an alternative. Ah, it would be love. So Crowley will personally (slink) down to heaven to rescue the troubled (trapped) angel. Such are the actions of those whose existence is a possibility.

I don't think I've ever analyzed a sequence with this much excitement. I've watched the series over and over again in the four days I've been writing this. I've seen it in other languages, not my mother language, too. It reminded me of my past life when I sat through Kierkegaard's seminar and said I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. Alas, Mr Kierkegaard, this is what it sounds like: the genesis of anxiety is clearly tied to guilt.

I honestly don't know why I wrote this post, but I wanted to excuse myself for having to buy and study the BL love scene. Honestly, I cried during the opening sequence of season 2. Because the stinging critique of 'a representative system' and 'bureaucracy', where the birth of the universe has been reduced to wallpaper for humanity, hurt. Here's the difference between Aziraphael and the other angels. For he recognizes that to doubt is to be 'risky', but the risk always includes 'adventure'.

The nameless angel at Aziraphael's side then could not love him 'yet', because he was (at least) then in a state of unconscious convention. But as a possibility, always as a seed, there was always the possibility of original sin, like Eve and Pandora in desire. The possibility of subversion.

Whether original sin is bad, whether guilt is bad, is another story, because, as the title of Good Omens suggests, all of these things (like the command to love because not to be sinful) are only premises, and humans live in the present.

("Anxiety is an expression of the fact that we are fully human.")

There are a lot of stories I wanted to tell but didn't. In fact, Gabriel and Beelzebub are the play's most important devices: they're the driving force behind the story, they're proof that their respective factions require cooperation, and they're Good Omens.

There's also the story of Nina and Maggie. They've been tossed around between the angel and demon, but because they're human, they're also descendants of Eve, and so they've learned desire from the beginning of time. They throw stones back at the one who awakens their desire, causing ripples. These are also Good Omens.

I didn't even tell the story of Metatron. Angels are better than anyone at emulating human emotions the higher up they get, and they're also better at erasing that humanity. I'd like to talk more about this point another time.

As I said at the outset, I'm neither a theist nor an atheist; I'm not ignorant of Christianity, but I know very little about it, and I'm sure I'll get a lot wrong, so bear with me. Thank you for reading this long post.

**English is not my primary language, so there will be a lot of errors, so please forgive me.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands

[darthbreezy]

The FUTURE of Good Omens...

I don't mean Season 3... I mean, post Series. Unlike American series which go on year after year after year before fading into inglorious shark jumping, British series tend to have very finite endings. The Young Ones had Clifff!!!!!!! Black Adder ended each season/series pretty definitively (and the end of Season 4 is like one of THOSE perfect moments of television). Even Doctor Who 'ends' every season - you can't tell me Jodi's Doctor was the same as say Hartnell's Doctor... The thing is, we have all of human history to play with. Sure we get Minisodes, and have the Lockdown special, and of course 'Staged' which is kind of a Kitty-Cornered Alternate-Universe thing for our 'boys', so obviously it can be done. Also, both David and especially Micheal adore the characters (and each other - Morcome and Wise, the Two Ronnies. Sheen and Tennant...) Nothing 'huge' or high pressure. Just once in a while, 10, 20 minute 'bits'... Though I'd give a bottle of Talisker and some Eccles cakes for a 'Good Omens Christmas Carol'...

#good omens #good omemes #what's next?

[forfuckssakejim]

How was writing From Eden and Halo, Hiding My Obsession challenging for you? What aspect of your writing style from them did you discover? They are truly masterpieces.

Ahhhhhh thank you so much!!!!!

They were challenging in ways that not only were they taken from the lockdown special and the deleted scene script (respectively) so I had a base to work with and had to work with it and write lt in a way that stayed true to canon.

I put a lot of work into them and constantly went back and rewrote scenes, scraped some dialogue and added context to where I thought it lacked. (Honestly thought of doing extended versions of those fics as well.)

From Eden was really a pivotal moment for myself and really establishing and cementing myself into the fandom; it was the first fic I wrote that I was truly really proud of and really made me feel as if I had a place in the fandom. I absolutely loved working on it and the fic is literally my baby when it came to the good omens fandom. I don’t think I would have wrote much else for them if I hadn’t written From Eden.

Halo, meanwhile, was really a turning point in getting me excited for season 2. I hadn’t thought much of the series since From Eden and I had so much fun diving back into the fandom and being met with such a wonderful response to the story I wrote. If I hadn’t written Halo, I probably would have glossed over season 2 and not written much.

#ask #anon #good omens #that was a longer response than I thought I would do lol #good omens fic #ineffable husbands #gomens

[angelsnuffbox]

Hello dear!

For the ask game:

An Inducement to Marry.

1-15? If you don't mind?

And if you see this then I want you to know that I love every single one of your fics! ❤

Ask me about any of my fics x

Omg thank you so much! It boggles my mind to think that you actually read all of them goshhh all my good words as well as my weird ones. Seriously thank you for putting up with them.

An Inducement to Marry isn't a fic that I usually get asked about, but I remember I had a blast writing it! I'm flattered you'd bring it up <3 It's been a while though, so forgive me if my memory lapses a little on this.

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Iirc this was my second Regency AU so at the time I was just getting into writing regencyAU fics for Good Omens and it was pandemic lockdowns and I was at the height of my Jane Austen obsession. I was reading so many books on Regency era customs and culture and I wanted to read regency AUs of A/C so badly but there weren't any of them at the time, so I wrote my own.

2: What scene did you first put down?

I write all the scenes in all my fics in the same order they occur in the story! (With the exception of Strictly Business, which I have had to wrestle with for a bit for various reasons).

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

I remember really liking all the parts where I went into great detail about how attractive Aziraphale was lmao here's one of them in the opening scene:

Mr Fell was also a right stunner, with eyes bright as Tadfield's perfect summer skies and hair soft as its perfect winter's snow. His countenance was strong. He had a stable, stocky build blanketed by the comfortable, if a bit old-fashioned, textiles of his clothing... A perfectly pleasing man, he was, though one who lived only with his mind in his books even when his hands were completely devoid of them.

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

From Chapter 9 there's a part where Aziraphale gives Crowley a kiss on the cheek for good luck in his gambling which he says was "In the spirit of keeping you within marriageable conditions" idk why but I thought it's such a funny thing for him to say at the time. Just the most Aziraphale excuse to kiss Crowley ever.

5: What part was hardest to write?

The confession scene with the illumination! It was so emotionally charged and one of the few scenes that made me actually cry as I wrote them.

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

I think it's the most Georgette Heyer-ish thing I ever wrote. The plot is a bit more complex than my usual no frills fluff (romance, comedy, banter, adventure). If I ever fulfil my (totally unrealistic) dream of being a published historical romance fiction writer one day I imagine the story would have these exact vibes.

7: Where did the title come from?

It was remixed from a line that Emma Woodhouse says in the beginning part of Jane Austen's 'Emma'. In the novel she says something like "My being charming is not quite enough to induce me to marry". In the 2020 film the line goes "I have none of the usual inducements to marry. Fortune I do not want. Consequence I do not want."

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

The part where Aziraphale talks about a romance book he likes with the line that goes something like 'For the heart has always bested the mind in performance', I made up the novel title and quotations myself but the themes were based off of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion'. I also mentioned "The Beau" in one part I think, which refers to Beau Brummell, a major arbiter of English mens fashion around the 1810s.

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

None! I plotted it out on a discord chat from start to finish one lazy afternoon and it behaved exactly like I plotted, thankfully.

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

Do I even write about any other pairings lmao

11: What do you like best about this fic?

See answer for no. 6!

12: What do you like least about this fic?

The opening scene is pretty hefty, and some comments did mention that they had a hard time getting past it. I was new to Regency style writing at the time and got too enthusiastic with trying it out. If I were to write that fic now I probably would be more concise about it. Also would try to make it funnier.

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

I wrote almost all my Regency AUs while listening to the Pride & Prejudice 2005 and the Emma 2020 OSTs to get me in the old timey mood.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

Cheese ice cream is valid and it's hella fuckin delicious and also coming from an Asian perspective, it's far far from being the weirdest ice cream flavour out there.

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

That gambling culture in the Regency era was wild

#ask #ask meme #my fics #thank you #anon #anon ask