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fuckyeahgoodomens · 3 months
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Subliminal Message of Stealing Halos 👀
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Fun fact: The comic strip seen in the background was created by Louis Ralph - Michael Ralph's son - who worked on Good Omens as the concept artist. Michael Ralph, Good Omens Season 2 production designer, commented, “I wanted something in the background that was colorfully loud, dynamic and to contain a message. We take great care in creating subliminal subject matters and meanings for everything on screen so it weaves into the visual fabric of the story we are telling. I asked Louis to have the comic revolve around the horrible crime of stealing halos”.
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drconstellation · 5 months
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The Assistant Book Seller
Edit 1 Dec 2023 - added missing information on the "ribbon pattern."
Edit: 3 Dec 2023 - correct information about middle pattern from creator
GABRIEL: Greetings! I'm Jim! It's short for James, but I don't need to keep telling everyone that. I'm an assistant book seller.
I'm sorry. Before I do anything else, I need to apologize for something I need to write further in. I didn't plan to write it, I just kind of bumped into it and, well, I can't ignore it. So...sorry. It's said. Forgive me for what needs to be done.
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Although he arrived with nothing but a cardboard box and Rodney the Stunt Fly, Aziraphale made sure Jim was clothed in appropriate raiment while under his protection. We'll forgive him that he took a step back about, oh, fifty years or so to the 1970's, as Jim's overall look is a nod to the famous old sitcom "Open All Hours." So if he looks a little bit out of place, or, a little bit familiar, even, that's why.
While we are used to seeing angels in overcoats, it's Jim's vest that is the particular feature here. But I will take a moment to comment on the overcoat - not just the colour but its lapels. Aziraphale has obviously given him a colour with an earthly connection and one that indicate that he has bought Jim under his protection, but the lapels look quite neutral, with one up and one down. (Muriel is the same in their Inspector uniform, btw) This is the first indication they are between two things at the moment.
Onto the vest.
There is so, so much work and thought put into this vest! It was a one-off commission for the show, and the creator, Sandy Higgins, has said she is not allowed to give away the final design pattern. I have tried to contact her, and I'm waiting for a reply, so in the mean time I thought I would ask my keen knitter of a sister-in-law about one of the patterns I'm not sure about. "Well, that's Fair Isle knitting," she said, but she knew nothing about the individual line pattern I was interested in. Hmm, I kind of know that already, its in the notes that are guiding me for this meta, but hey, why not do a broader search and see what comes up?
So once I got back home I did. "Fair Isle knitting patterns" hmm...Wikipedia page for starters...what on *earth* is that at the bottom of the page...? YOU ARE. FRIKKING. KIDDING ME!!!!!!!
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"See also: Gumbys"
oh ffs
I am so sorry that needs must make me mention Monty Python yet again, but here we are. And we must mention them, because this link is just too...unbelievably, deliciously good.
If you aren't familiar with the Monty Python catalogue, and don't recognize the mention of Gumbys, they were a set of characters that dressed and spoke in a certain way but the main points to take away were they wore woolen vests in the Fair Isle knitted style and their catch-phrase was - wait for it - "My brain hurts!"
I think we've heard that somewhere before?
CROWLEY: When you first arrived, you said you were here because they were planning to do 'Something Terrible' to you. So you remembered it then. Remember it now. GABRIEL: It hurts to remember. My head isn't built for that.
Right. Now we've got that out of the way...back to the serious stuff.
The colours used in the vest are not your typical angel colours. There is a base of angelic off-white and there are some bits of purple for his royalty around the shoulder area - sometimes you need to look carefully for it. Otherwise it is dominated by vintage shades of red and green. Well. Who's an agent of change driven by love, then?
The horizontal stripe pattern is partly to remind us of the classic biblical robes with stripes that ran along them, much like the style of Crowley's black and red robe in the Job minisode, but is also part of the traditional Fair Isles pattern work. And each row only has two colours, but up around the shoulder area we do see purple start to sneak in as a third colour.
On to the incorporated symbols! I'm going to go from bottom to top.
On the lowest two we feature Crowley and Aziraphale. We have Crowley's demon satyr tail from the Good Omens logo on the lowest stripe - the double-headed arrow.
The next stripe is Aziraphale, with a variation of the classic OXO pattern ("hugs and kisses.") The X is meant to represent his angel wings, and the O is modified to mimic the "o" with a halo in the Good Omens logo. I've highlighted all three in the image on the right.
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The third row up is a Sumerian Star pattern that represents one of the flowers associated with Gabriel, the lily. They are supposed to represent the purity of Mary, mother of Jesus, as he had one in his hand when he visited her during the Annunciation.
The row above that is what I believe to be a Byzantium pattern, and is included to show "an Angel's ability to be timeless."
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The next three rows are still under a bit of a question mark as I write this. I plan to come back and edit it in if I find the answer.
The bottom of the three is the Duke of Buccleuch pattern, "to celebrate the long and necessary contribution that the cottage industry of hand knitted items."
The middle one - ? (perhaps you, the reader, know? It looks like a spiralling ribbon if I stand back, but that isn't sparking any connections, either.)
Edit: @noneorother tells me in a reblog (below) that this pattern represents the shoelace from the magic incantation Aziraphale uses "Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace." So it is ribbon-like! This then points to the Second Coming, as it the shoelace references the end of the book, and the last paragraph of the book references Yeats poem "The Second Coming" as well as the novel 1984. To me it is then also telling us there is a cycle occurring, or a cycle that needs to be renewed. This fits in with some other clues other meta-writers have been picking up.
Edit 2: Turns out none of that was correct - I heard back from the creator herself and it's actually the double-ended satyr tail pattern again! It just seems to make a bit of an illusion of a ribbon or shoelace.
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The pattern below is a modified OXO pattern.
The top one looks like two rams horns facing each other. A hollowed out rams horn can be used as a trumpet, and is known as a shofar in Jewish religion. Gabriel was traditionally known to carry a trumpet.
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The ancient meander pattern would be recognized by most people, included as another classic timeless pattern found all over the world. For some it symbolizes eternity and endless flow.
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The wheels here appear to be Michael's ophanim wheels, that would have eyes around the rims.
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The hourglass is to remind us that time is running out. Memento mori - "Remember that you die." It is a major theme in both series.
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Right up high, just before we lose the rest of the vest inside the overcoat, we get a glimpse of a large diamond-shaped icon. I wonder if this is another stylized set of angel wings, like we saw in the Job minisode on Aziraphale's golden collar.
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To finish off the outfit, he is wearing dark gray trousers with sneakers! I'm sure that's so he could keep sneaking up on Aziraphale in the shop, haha. His shirt seems a little too large for him and the tie is knotted too high and is not settled along his centerline. It's all at odds with his previous neat and sharp appearance as Supreme Archangel Gabriel.
I'd like to say a big thank you to @aduckwithears for helping me with information on the vest and finding the creator's other social media sites. You can see their two posts about it here and here.
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I didn't choose to tear my wings off
I didn't choose to have my halo ripped from me over, and over, and over again
I didn't choose to watch from the sidelines as it chose someone else over, and over again
Everyone thinks it's my fault that it left, that I somehow wasn't worthy of it or that I didn't truly give everything I had to it
It took everything I had, it stole any sense of self-worth, Purpose, and decency from me
I gave it everything, I burned away my own soul so it would keep burning just a little longer
The last thing I did for it was make sure it wouldn't try to tear itself apart again
After it stabilized it realized I was finally completely empty, and it found someone else
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For overlord Vaggie's halo, what if she had a pair of horns that curved above her head to resemble a halo, rather than a halo directly?
Ooooo that's also an option, horns that ar eontop of her head that curl forward like this
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The halos could also happen, something like these:
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mordenandmerry · 18 days
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Having niche interests is cool and all until you actually want to talk to people about it. Like, would anyone want to hear about the Scottish folktale about the man who was tricked into eating his son and the son’s bones turned into doves? No? What if we just talked about how cool the golden halo is in art and the significance of it? Damn, really? Alright let’s talk about dungeons and dragons I guess
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scytheral · 10 months
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✦ㅤINGELUSEㅤA gender Related to being A fallen Angel whose Entrance on Heaven was Corrupted. Broken wings , Halos , Lost Pieces of Holiness && Yearning for Purity and A redeemed Spirit.
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✦ㅤAETERLUMㅤA gender Related to Heaven being A place for Eternal peace. A place Where one ' s Soul is Freed and Let content , Where one Can rest For eternity , Seal one ' s fate At the White essence Above.
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[ PT / Ingeluse: a gender related to being a fallen angel whose entrance on heaven was corrupted. broken wings, halos, lost pieces of holiness and yearning for purity and a redeemed spirit. / END PT. ]
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[ PT / Aeterlum: a gender related to heaven being a place for eternal peace. a place where one's soul is freed and let content, where one can rest for eternity, seal one's fate at the white essence above. / END PT. ]
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── ✦⟡✦ ──ㅤCoined by The Prince.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ── ✦⟡✦ ──ㅤDay 06 of lovesse ' s Coining event.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ── ✦⟡✦ ──ㅤ꒰ㅤTag : @lovesseㅤ꒱
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[ PT / coined by the prince. day 6 of lovesse's coining event (link). tag: @/lovesse. / END PT. ]
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broheaven · 10 months
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TFW you find the Pearly Gates
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ashleydoesartstuff · 1 year
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“I didn’t bother about the meat.”
Prints on sale and available HERE.
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bloomics · 29 days
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ossian94 · 3 months
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TSBT - Rosomil and his Demon - Lineart
Felt like drawing them again as I'm currently revise their story and write on the continuation of it. I also wanted to do a coloured piece again as I kind of miss doing those.
You can read the story here
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illustratus · 1 year
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mrvelocipede · 9 months
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Occult & Ethereal, 2019
I made these after the Good Omens TV series happened, as halos for Aziraphale and Crowley. I'm not sure I ever posted the plain versions, but here they are, in case anybody wants to stick their own picture on instead.
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lemony-lemonsquare · 3 months
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thelostfrequency · 5 months
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Figured it was time to introduce Banzai’s boyfriend!
Hound is a hybrid between Halos and the Halo descendant, the Wrei. Wrei are typically considered to be merciless soul devourers who have very few moral principals when it comes to the lives of others. This disposition is mostly due to Wrei lacking souls and always starving after the souls of others. Halos, on the other hand, possess half a soul. They still crave the souls of other living beings, but supplement it by forming soul bonds between one another or a host.
Now I don’t know why Hound’s mother ended up falling for his soul munching father but it happened… seriously I’m open to ideas-
Anywho, Hound himself is rather docile, though rendered mute in terms of the ability to speak in an English tongue. He speaks a pretty mean beast along side sign language though. Hound is what balances out Banzai’s crazy, whether it be calming him down from a chaotic rampage or holding the angry spiky critter off the ground when he’s threatening people again.
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doeyedangel · 1 year
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“pearl jewelry heart with angel wings with white background”
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geeko198 · 11 months
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Dnd Monodrone
I redesigned it to be more like a biblically accurate angel rather than some robot
https://www.deviantart.com/geeko1968/art/Monodrone-967154530
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