#my good omens essays

[brainwormcity]

I'm absolutely convinced that this is the moment that Crowley fell in love with Aziraphale and you cannot change my mind. He is so pleasantly surprised. I mean, he'd just given away the freaking flaming sword to humans! Not just humans but those cast out for giving into temptation. Aziraphale specifically disregarded God's assignment to do what was for the good of humanity, rather than good for the Great Plan. At that moment, they were much more alike than Aziraphale would realize for a very long time.

After this, if Aziraphale is somewhere, Crowley finds his way to him. I've seen people remark that in the beginning, Crowley was trying to tempt the angel just to see if he could but I think that the questions he puts to Aziraphale and the situations he goes with him through are all spurred from this moment. This unexpected act of genuine kindness, if not good.

He wanted to know his thoughts. He wanted to know what he would do. He wanted to be around someone who made him feel like he truly wasn't alone. Heaven's rigid rules and hell's callous disregard be damned, on this day, he found a kindred spirit. Someone who was genuinely off of the binary of good and evil and damned if he didn't fall in love with him right that second.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #good omens 2 #good omens crowley #crowley good omens #the garden of eden #the flaming sword #my good omens essays

[hattersarts]

wives!

#good omens #ineffable wives #Crowley #aziraphale #i have essays on reasons for their designs but the short ones are: #Crowley said lets play with gender presentation in a gay way #and aziraphale said im gonna do my gender but gay #there are nuainces to the homosexualities 🤌

[mumblers-lobby]

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Original idea from this tweet

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands fanart #ineffable idiots #ineffable husbands #barbie movie #doodle #mumbling #aziracrow #aziraphale good omens #crowley good omens #anthony j crowley #aziraphale x crowley #crowley x arizaphale #I should've done my college essay but here we are

[the-old-man-has-the-phonebox]

NEIL FUCKING GAIMAN I AM IN YOUR GODDAMN WALLS

#you know what? I hope he sees this. #if so: hi king GREAT job with this also you liked my meme essay title on Twitter 3 years ago and it’s the highlight of my life ngl #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens

[sentientsky]

[drops this at your feet like a dog with a bird at your door] here, whatever. have a depressed snek

#not entirely happy w it but I’m tired of futzing with the lineart and rendering and proportions and shit #drew this on study breaks — trying to finish a. fucking essay and my brain isn’t braining #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens #ineffable lovers #go2 #ineffable wives #good omens season 2 #gomens 2 #gomens #ineffable divorce #David tennant #good omens fanart #art #artists on Tumblr #excuse the lineart I’m too tired to fix it #i can’t draw hair apparently lol #can u tell I focused almost entirely on the face and just went fuck it with the rest?? lol #anthony janthony crowley #anthony j crowley #digital art #my art #fuck i forgot to blend the forehead #whatever

[ineffabildaddy]

actually it's totally cool if you don't love aziraphale as much as you love crowley because i love him enough for the both of us

#good omens #ineffabildaddy #could write an essay about how much he means to me but i shan't for the sake of your eyes and my sanity

[nhyhu]

do you dream of the stars

(click for higher quality)

color sketches because i was STRUGGLING with the colors

#good omens #good omens s2 #crowley #good omens fanart #good omens s2 fanart #crowley fanart #aziraphale #aziraphale fanart #ineffable husbands #more like ineffable divorce but yk #aziracrow #ineffable husbands fanart #ive been in an art block for so long WHY IS IT ALWAYS WHEN IM ON SCHOOL BREAKS #:))))) im fine #azicrow fanart #azicrow #? which spelling is it wtf #hopefully the art juice is back that i can get my bazillion events/zines that i signed up for mostly done before school LMAO #< -- literally not going to happen because of a dozen essays that needs to be done rn #my art #i forgot to tag this again :(

[mindfogs]

a brief comparison of compleately different medias that rewired my brain. yes i'm aware the target audience of this post is me only.

It was supposed to be a joke but I can’t do anything casually so a more vaguely detailed analysis under the cut.

spoilers for all three obviously but vague spoilers about themes and not plot points. i could have gone more in the specifics but it's late and i don't want to fall in this rabbit hole right now i need sleep.

If you strip these stories of all the cool visuals and funny jokes, if you take away their narratives with the world about to end, you're left with pure, naked, vulnerable love that is such a core essence of any of these characters. Love is what can destroy or save the world. Love is what drives the heroes forward. Love is what keeps them from dying.

I think all three stories are about being loved and accepted for who you are. Even if you've changed and you don't like yourself, even if you've stayed the same and you don't like yourself.

They're about tearing yourself apart, throw up, slashing yourself open in front of the one you love. Let them see everything, the bad and the gross and asking "do you still love me?".

They're about enduring, sacrificing yourself, everything, sacrificing the world, God, the entire universe for the one you love.

They're about trusting to choose each other over and over again, everytime, in every universe, even if the next time you see me I may not be what you remembered. Even if you don't recognize me.

They're about eating, gnawing, cannibalizing each other over and over and over in a mutual exchange of obsession.

They're about carving your own peace when you don't even know what peace it's supposed to be like

They're about grief and loss and learning to be whole again.

They're about submitting oneself to the horrifying oredeal of being known in order to allowing the reward of being loved.

It's about "it's rotten work" and answering everytime without esitation "not to me, not if it's you"

#also all fanficion are technically canon in each of these lmao #foggy thoughts #the locked tomb #good omens #slay the princess #griddlehark #ineffable husbands #love #it's always about love in the end #go and tlt are more similiar in the sense of superficial similiarities being both bible gays and all #go and stp are similiar in the more worldbuilding and backstory way both eternal beings with a love so eternal we cant even comprehend it #but tlt and stp? #the similiarities are so visceral i feel like they narrate the same exact concept of love #a love so evershifting and multifaced #also obviously where tlt has cannibalism as a love methaphor stp has killing #theres something so beautiful having such vile acts rapresent something so pure as love #insert that south park clip “hope everyone enjoyed that” “no randy only you did” “that was pretty much my target audience anyway” #if i spoke fluent english i'd make a cool 2 hours video essay on youtube about this

[idliketobeatree]

diagnosed with a tragic case of good omens brainrot I mean it. just went through my art history notes and came to the conclusion that in the architectural style prevalent in medieval Europe between the 11th and 16th century Aziraphale is a Romanesque Round Arch and Crowley is a Gothic Pointed Arch. and I will elaborate on that

#clutching my (useless) art school diploma like a madman right now #good omens #good omens brainrot #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #marcela talks #as promised i will elaborate i just need some sleep but it's in the making........ the fuckimg aziracrow architecture essay

[phanchester]

all dan and phil variants exist on a scale

discuss

#okay hear me out #aziraphale/crowley? dnp because they are light and dark dynamic #bert and ernie? dnp because of how they bicker #da vinki twins? dnp because thats what normies THINK dnp are like. two weird dudes. maybe brothers #nick and charlie? dnp because they are sappy romantic gross disgusting ppl #my essay #dan and phil #phan #phil lester #amazingphil #daniel howell #dan howell #danisnotonfire #ineffable husbands #bert and ernie #nick and charlie #heartstopper #narlie #good omens

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

Happy Tennant Tuesday here's a two hour video essay about our favorite silly skinny Scottish slut

#David tennant #video essay #doctor who #good omens #this is the proudest I've been of a video in my entire life #it took over my life for two and a half months and it was worth every second #the video you didn't know you needed #the tenth doctor #the fourteenth doctor #crowley #kilgrave #Alec hardy #broadchurch #bbc casanova #hamlet #benedick #inside man #Youtube

[katy-133]

So after yesterday, it's fully dawning upon me that I will have to take time out of my day that I will never get back (I'm not salty, what are you talking about) and watch James Somerton's video essay on Good Omens (through an archived version of the video--I'm not giving this man a cent), just to make sure that I don't recognise that he's plagiarised or stolen work from any Good Omens metas I know about, or even stolen from my own Good Omens metas. Like, this so-called "director" has stolen from a teenager's Legend of Korra AMV edit. Nothing is off the table. If you've written an essay that's fandom-related, it's a very real possibility it'll show up in one of his videos.

After this, I want people who write essays for fun to stop putting themselves down and viewing their writing as something without value. At the very least, even if you don't believe in its value, don't say that aloud, because it's not true. Whether it's people building AI writing algorithms from AO3, or it's James Somerton, there are people out there who want to steal your work because it does have value.

There are people out there who treat your writing and your art like it's a treasure to be stolen.

#please respect artists #good omens #my text #james somerton #essay #ai #psa #avatar the last airbender #news

[sentientsky]

Prince of Hell Crowley my beloved

(bonus crack fem!SupremeArchangelAziraphale below the cut <3)

#my art #i couldnt rly see him doing this but I’m a lesbian so here we are #i keep futzing with the colours and shading and shit until I went fuck it and just did flat colours #also aziraphale in a dress is something I should definitely one hundred percent draw #(once I finish this essay that’s due very very very very soon) #i swear I’m doing an aziraphale or Beelzebub art piece next #i love Crowley but I can’t keep projecting angst onto her #besides! azi is so pretty and I’m not doing her justice #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #good omens 2 #aziraphale #aziracrow #go2 #ineffable lovers #ineffable wives #good omens season 2 #duke of hell crowley #Prince of hell crowley #gomens #gomens 2 #gomens2 #good omens fanart #good omens art #art #Michael sheen #David tennant #fem!crowley #fem!aziraphale

[quoththemaiden]

Aziraphale: The Sword that Guards the Tree of Life

Looking where the furniture isn't

This post is dedicated to @meatballlady's excellent insistence that if we want to try to predict where season 3 will go, we need to look at where the furniture isn't. That is, what must have been there but wasn't shown?

For this one, my source material is going to be Genesis. That is, in no small part, because it does in fact fuck severely that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett took the angel with the flaming sword and the serpent of Eden and made them kiss (@joycrispy, @ouidamforeman). It's also because Genesis, quite simply, exists, and it seems safe to assume that most everyone in Gaiman and Pratchett's intended audience has been exposed to at least its first few chapters dozens of times.

What does Genesis tell us about Aziraphale's purpose?

3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—  23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.  24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

@joycrispy's analysis above highlights Aziraphale's role as given in the last verse: as the angel chosen to wield the flaming sword, he was sent down after Adam and Eve were expelled to prevent them from returning. Instead, he chose to protect them by giving that sword away. His desire to protect humanity is indeed beautiful (@give-soup-please, @snek-eyes).

But wait, what came right before that? "And take fruit also from the tree of life...?"

2:9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

That's right: What we see in the show is that Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden so that they'd have to deal with the rain and the animals and have to work for their food, but that was never the primary motivation. God planted two special trees, and after Eve and Adam ate from one of them, God was terrified at the prospect of them turning around and eating from the other. And thus, the Garden of Eden was made off-limits and set to be permanently guarded by an angel with a flaming sword.

So, the flaming sword.

Twice now, Aziraphale's sword has helped humanity survive complete and total destruction (@nottobehornyonthemain). The first time, he handed the sword to the first two humans, which protected not just them but the entirety of the human race via Adam and very pregnant Eve.

The second time, he let it be wielded by The Them, who used it to best the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse and save the billions of humans already alive as well as unborn generations.

Perhaps the flaming sword was only intended as a plot point in the first season. However, if its purpose were completed, it could have easily been destroyed. As a narrative piece, it could have broken dramatically at the end of the face-off against the Four Horsepeople. Or, Watsonianly, God could have chosen to break it Herself; after all, it was already used against its intended purpose twice, so why let it keep existing?

Instead, it's carefully taken away to... where? Heaven?

The place Aziraphale is now going?

Or at least a place where he could likely find a record showing where it's being stored?

Whether you call it "rule of threes" or "Chekhov's gun," I think it likely that Aziraphale will be getting his sword back in season 3. He probably doesn't want it (@createserenity, @ineffableigh, @doctorscienceknowsfandom), but he'll need it.

The question, then, is what would Aziraphale do with the flaming sword he was given to prevent humans from reaching the tree of life?

If we're looking at where the furniture isn't, the biggest stretch of an interpretation would be to say that the missing furniture is the tree of life. If anyone knows where Eden is, it would be Aziraphale, Guardian of the Eastern Gate. We know that both Heaven and Hell want to end humanity. The opening credits have humanity walking to their judgment after their deaths; what better way to prevent that than by preventing those deaths?

The most intense version of this theory says that the audience should be familiar with the story of the Garden of Eden and know damn well that there are two special trees there and that Aziraphale was put in place to guard the second one — the one humanity hasn't eaten from yet, the one that grants immortal life. That's where, if I were truly trying to swing for the hills by aiming at where the furniture isn't, I would ideally like to end this post. If that were the case, season 3 could even open with Aziraphale walking towards the Garden of Eden, sword in hand, but this time approaching it from the outside with the intention of tearing the wall down.

But, let's be honest, making individual people immortal doesn't feel like it would fit with the themes of Good Omens, nor with Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett's world views.

So, let's take the tree of life symbolically: Instead of the tree of life granting individual humans immortality, it could instead represent giving humanity immortality. In that case, the thing that's where the furniture isn't is Aziraphale's sword. You know, the sword that's already saved the human race from extinction twice now, with both times being because Aziraphale gave it away.

I suspect that the sword will wind up in Aziraphale's hands again in season 3. I also quite suspect that it won't be staying there. In the end, I expect it will once again be up to humanity to reach out their hand to take the apple from that second tree.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens season 2 #good omens season 3 #aziraphale #the guardian of the eastern gate #the sword #the tree of life #self post #did i overdo it with the citations? #writing this activated Essay Mode and i went all in on crediting my inspirations #if i could draw this post would definitely include a picture of aziraphale stalking towards eden through the desert with sword in hand #because even though i don't think it's likely it would be one heck of an epic scene #with him tiny and small under that great wall but so so so fierce and determined #alas that i cannot even manage stick figures #anyway i've been kicking this post around in my head for two months now so hopefully someone still finds it interesting! #(feel free to make your own guesses as to what parent of unborn generations might take up the flaming sword in season 3)

[theangel-aziraphale]

what’s your favorite thing about Crowley?

Anonymous, there is no greater crime than asking me what one thing I love most about him... to choose is difficult but...

Goodness, this is hardly fair.

How do I choose between the way he's so good to people even though it could have gotten him into trouble in the past or that as much as he thinks he could abandon humanity (and me I suppose) that he can't. Because deep down he knows he cares about all of this. Everything we've tried to protect.

How do I decide that I love the way he lets his guard down around me over the way when he does trust someone he's loyal till the end?

In fact, asking me to choose how much I admire him being himself even after falling, not letting hell or heaven or anyone, really, change who He is or to choose how incredibly divine he is. How beautiful he is on the outside as well. How his looks change with the times, how you never know what fashion statement he goes with every decade or two...

God don't even get me started on his rulebreaking and loophole finding... how do I choose?

The plain and simple fact is... I can't. I can't choose. There's so much more I could choose from...

Actually I just thought of something.

My favourite thing about Crowley is that he's Crowley. Plain and simple. Everything about him, even the parts that annoy me, are my favourite things about him.

#aziraphale posts #good omens #good omens rp #good omens roleplay #good omens asks #good omens askblog #go aziraphale #aziraphale #aziraphaleposting #good omens aziraphale #good omens 2 #I'm afraid asking me anything about Crowley WILL result in an essay #now that I'm no longer concerned with hiding my affections

[tqsg]

theres so many parallels between tenrose and aziracrow dont even get me started ok.

#writing up my essay rn ✍️ #tenth doctor #rose tyler #tenrose #doctor who #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens