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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.

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!!!!!!!

"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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

The wheels here appear to be Michael's ophanim wheels, that would have eyes around the rims.

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.

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.

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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crowberri · 3 months

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[In Stars and Time] some siffrins some loops…

#the outfit sifs wearing… id like to think isa made them that after post game #like i dont think sif cares enough about himself to like go out of their way to find smth fancy to wear #they wore the same cloak for a decade+#also hear me out. satyr loop. little hoppidy bastard (affectionate #with a tail and all to be extra annoying to sif <3 #isat #in stats and time #siffrin #isat loop #art #crowberri.png

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siliconcat · 1 year

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animal 2hu designs

(More designs here)

#touhou #東方project #satori komeiji #koishi komeiji #utsuho reiuji #mamizou futatsuiwa #tewi inaba #reisen udongein inaba #my art #ok for the komeijis having tails ik satoris are more like apes than monkeys but I also wanted a place to put satori’s 6th heart thing #since zun’s illustration is straight up like. missing the 6th cord ending #also all animal youkai touhous I like to imagine as a satyr/mermaid type deal where top half is human looking and bottom is animal #touhou project

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blujaynoodles · 7 months

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big lady, big kisses 😌💕

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #fantasy art #centaur #satyr #faun #character art #illustration #nudity #blows kisses to everyone who's commented on nyssa's lil tail going :3 #the centaur's coat color is based on mongolian wild horses because that's what her overall size is based on (and also it looks cool)#I was only putting nyssa in centaur sketches to help with the sense of scale and proportion #but one thing about nyssa is that she wants to be kissing (etc) all of the time and it's hard not to follow that impulse lol #in other news this is the best horse I have EVER drawn in my LIFE #apparently the secret to drawing horses is that trying to draw the head sets the tone for the whole thing to be weird and hard and bad lol #my OCs #nyssa

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kopimoss · 10 months

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appendages.

hi yes this is my fevered (literally) attempt to make a lil mini story edit kgfhgkfhgkfhg. it's the silliest premise ever but :') it took me awh ile

featuring @druidberries' Fiora (dottie) and my sarys! for the guild amakiir

transcript:

fiora *minding her own business picking flowers* : you're staring

sarys : mm? oh. Jus' wondering where your tail is.

fiora : you do know satyrs don't have long tails like you do, right?

sarys : ha! that seems like a bit of a flaw. how do they keep their balance? what does a small tail do?

fiora : *silent*

fiora : well.... I don't know why. I don't have anyone to ask.

sarys : hey I didn't mean to make you all gloomy.

fiora : *silent*

sarys : besides, you... have... *mumbled* bigger horns

*pause*

fiora : ....... thanks

#hi!!! so !12 #I was really intrigued by the idea that sarys a tiefling with similar traits to a satyr but has never SEEN ONE #thinks that #fiora is also a tiefling #so she wonders if she lost her tail or was born without one!!!#and fiora being raised not around satyrs and losing her family :(( this maybe would be a sore spot......#druidsims I hope u like it!!! I hope I did dottie justice gkffkh and didn't deviate too far from her character #im sickk so if theres grammar mistakes Im sorry :')

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cetitan · 1 month

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I don't know what I was thinking trying to make my 'truesona' something other than my classic 'circle-tube' little dragonoid creature. It's so easy and fun to draw which is what a sona should be

#🏠#Traffic 🛣 is definitely the one I'm most proud of of the two though I love it's #Body shape so much. Gives it such fun kinetics I love imagining it walking around #Having to kind of half hobble and hunch over and sway it's tail and hips because it's satyr style legs are so short

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art-of-axel-lyhrs · 10 months

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the Art of Axel Lyhrs

Axel Lyhrs

#axel lyhrs #xxxalexxx #bath #morning routine #satyr #male #muscle #tail

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subsequentibis · 1 year

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john's still learning the glamour that makes him not a goatman anymore and sometimes he gets in some funky inbetween states which are very fun to draw

#ibis art #underbelly #john doe #sal cereza #im gonna draw him with a lil tail more often cos it's cute #i also have had a lot of fun scribbling satyr john recently. it's fun to make a guy half a goat

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kaneidae · 11 months

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New Rachel Rotkey reference

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red-eft · 5 months

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ordered some supplies for the next renfaire costume i want to make..... drakonian from my story world (but also doubles as a dragonborn cosplay from dnd ig)

#txt #been watching too much face off (costume + makeup + special effects show) and. i'm making my own creature now LOL #i 'made' a satyr costume a few years ago by buying the legs n putting them with a cool outfit from my past renfaires #but this time i'll be making it all from scratch hopefully. mask base + air dry foam + other stuff for the head rn #eventually an outfit (either barbarian fur armor or bard padded armor depending on the oc i pick)#and then a tail. maybe claws too? idk. depends how much time n $ i have #i have a paid mini-internship for 2-3 weeks during winter break so i'll definitely have some $ i can set aside for costume shenanigans. hee

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distantmedium · 7 months

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