#this being s2

[nicolegmattos]

Michael “acting choices” Sheen serving as always lol

#I live for Michael being an active part of this fandom #he’s just as much of a David Tennant’s fangirl as the rest of us lol #everyday I get to kiss David Tennant is a good day #any excuse will do #good omens #good omens fandom #ineffable fandom #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #good omens memes #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley

[idliketobeatree]

you're being silley

#good omens #BOOP #this had to be done lmao #april fool's day #ineffable husbands #boop omens #good omens shitpost #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #smitten i believe #you're being silly #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #good omens memes #good omemes #my edits #ineffable boop #good omens fandom #good omens incorrect quotes

[megaawkwardhuman]

ah just another thursday I see

#everything is fiiiiiiine #our flag means death #ofmd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits season 5 #wwdits season 5 spoilers #wwdits s5 #wwdits s5 spoilers #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omen season 2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omen s2 #good omens s2 spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #I know it's not necessary cuz I'm being vague but to be safe I'm going to tag spoilers anyway :] #supernatural #spn #destielgate #wow never thought I'd be using those tags on a post #brought to you by ms paint #never a dull moment on this hellsite #wall of tags go brrrrrrrrr

[kirbyskisses-main-moved]

fun fact: in japan, two people riding on the same bike is explicitly romantic (and highly illegal)!

#they are being gay and committing crimes #gojo daddy #satoru gojo #getou suguru #satoru x suguru #satosugu #stsg #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen 2 #jjk s2 #jjk season 2 #jujutsu kaisen season 2 #geto suguru

[thursdayes]

cannot get enough of these guys (man-shaped ethereal beings)🪦

#good omens #my art!! #gomens #good omens art #good omens book #good omens fanart #fanart #gomens 2 #gomens spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens season two #aziraphale x crowley #crowley x arizaphale #crowley #aziraphale #wip #work in progress #i love being wine drunk #he is me #good omens s2 #gomens season 2 #gabriel #i hate u metatron

[saltpepperbeard]

Stede + Being a Wonderful Dad Captain for @stedebonnets

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD S2 Spoilers #Stede Bonnet #Rhys Darby #The Swede #Buttons #Lucius Spriggs #ofmdedit #ofmd gifs #ofmdgifs #ofmdsource #ofmdblog #ofmddaily #Edit #HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ARRRAAAAA #wanted to give you stede being so supportive and kind because YOU'RE always supportive and kind hey gottem #apologies if i'm a bit late to the party for your time zone but WHABAM HERE WE ARE ANYWAY #stede taking a bit more leadership all the while maintaining his kindness is Stabbing Me. In the Earhole. With a SKEWAH #btw #if you even care #SHDJKLSDJDFD

[inhonoredglory]

Aziraphale’s Choice, the Job Connection, and Michael Sheen’s Morality

Update: Michael Sheen liked this post on Twitter, so I'm fairly certain there is a lot of validity to it.

I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.

Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,

We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and “oh it’s nice.” And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose.

I was looking forward to BAMF!Aziraphale all season long, and I think that’s what we got in the end. Remember Neil said that the Job minisode was important for Aziraphale’s story. Remember how Aziraphale sat on that rock and reconciled to himself that he MUST go to Hell, because he lied and thwarted the will of God. He believed that––truly, honestly, with the faith of a child, but the bravery of a soldier.

Aziraphale, a being of love with more goodness than all of Heaven combined, believed he needed to walk through the Gates of Hell because it was the Right Thing to do. (Like Job, he didn’t understand his sin but believed he needed to sacrifice his happiness to do the Right Thing.)

That’s why we saw Aziraphale as a soldier this season: the bookshop battle, the halo. But yes, the ending as well.

Because Aziraphale never wanted to go to Heaven, and he never wanted to go there without Crowley.

But it was Crowley who taught him that he could, even SHOULD, act when his moral heart told him something was wrong. While Crowley was willing to run away and let the world burn, it was Aziraphale (in that bandstand at the end of the world) who stood his ground and said No. We can make a difference. We can save everyone.

And Aziraphale knew he could not give up the ace up his sleeve (his position as an angel) to talk to God and make them see the truth in his heart.

I was messed up by Ineffable Bureaucracy (Boxfly) getting their happy ending when our Ineffable Husbands didn’t, but I see now that them running away served to prove something to Aziraphale. (And I am fully convinced that Gabriel and Beelzebub saw the example of the Ineffables at the Not-pocalypse and took inspiration from them for choosing to ditch their respective sides)

But my point is that Aziraphale saw them, and in some ways, they looked like him and Crowley. And he saw how Gabriel, the biggest bully in Heaven, was also like him in a way (a being capable of love) and also just a child when he wasn’t influenced by the poison of Heaven. Muriel, too, wasn’t a bad person. The Metatron also seemed to have grown more flexible with his morality (from Aziraphale's perspective). Like Earth, Heaven was shades of (light?) gray.

Aziraphale is too good an angel not to believe in hope. Or forgiveness (something he’s very good at it).

Aziraphale has been scarred by Heaven all his life. But with the cracks in Heaven’s armor (cracks he and Crowley helped create), Aziraphale is seeing something else. A chance to change them. They did terrible things to him, but he is better than them, and because of Crowley, he feels ready to face them.

(Will it work? Can Heaven change, institutionally? Probably not, but I can't blame Aziraphale for trying.)

At the cafe, the Metatron said something big was coming in the Great Plan. Aziraphale knows how trapped he had felt when he didn’t have God’s ear the first time something huge happened in the Big Plan. He can’t take a chance again to risk the world by not having a foot in the door of Heaven. That’s why we saw individual human deaths (or the threat of death) so much more this season: Elspeth, Wee Morag, Job’s children, the 1940s magician. Aziraphale almost killed a child when he couldn’t get through to God, and he’s not going through that again.

“We could make a difference.” We could save everyone.

Remember what Michael Sheen said about courage and doing good––and having to “look the dark in the face to be truly good.” That’s what happened when Aziraphale was willing to go to Hell for his actions. That’s what happened when he decided he had to go to Heaven, where he had been abused and belittled and made to feel small. He decided to willingly go into the Lion’s Den, to face his abusers and his anxiety, to make them better so that they would not try to destroy the world again.

Him, just one angel. He needed Crowley to be there with him, to help him be brave, to ask the questions that Heaven needed to hear, to tell them God was wrong. Crowley is the inspiration that drives Aziraphale’s change, Crowley is the engine that fuels Aziraphale’s courage.

But then Crowley tells him that going to Heaven is stupid. That they don’t need Heaven. And he’s right. Aziraphale knows he’s right.

Aziraphale doesn’t need Heaven; Heaven needs him. They just don’t know how much they need him, or how much humanity needs him there, too. (If everyone who ran for office was corrupt, how can the system change?)

Terry Pratchett (in the Discworld book, Small Gods) is scathing of God, organized religion, and the corrupt people religion empowers, but he is sympathetic to the individual who has real, pure faith and a good heart. In fact, the everyman protagonist of Small Gods is a better person than the god he serves, and in the end, he ends up changing the church to be better, more open-minded, and more humanist than god could ever do alone.

Aziraphale is willing to go to the darkest places to do the Right Thing, and Heaven is no exception. When Crowley says that Heaven is toxic, that’s exactly why Aziraphale knows he needs to go there. “You’re exactly is different from my exactly.”

____

In the aftermath of Trump's election in the US, Brexit happened in 2018. Michael Sheen felt compelled to figure out what was going on in his country after this shock. But he was living in Los Angeles with Sarah Silverman at the time, and she also wanted to become more politically active in the US.

Sheen: “I felt a responsibility to do something, but it [meant] coming back [to Britain] – which was difficult for us, because we were very important to each other. But we both acknowledge that each of us had to do what we needed to do.” In the end, they split up and Michael moved back to the UK.

Sometimes doing the Right Thing means sacrificing your own happiness. Sometimes it means going to Hell. Sometimes it means going to Heaven. Sometimes it means losing a relationship.

And that’s why what happened in the end was so difficult for Aziraphale. Because he loves Crowley desperately. He wants to be together. He wanted that kiss for thousands of years. He knows that taking command of Heaven means they would never again have to bow to the demands of a God they couldn’t understand, or run from a Hell who still came after them. They could change the rules of the game.

And he’s still going to do that. But it hurts him that he has to do that alone.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #it's kinda like capt america: civil war #with Azi as Tony Stark: traumatized and trying to do the right thing #and Crowley being Steve Rogers: fuck the establishment let's go rogue #gos2spoilers #good omens meta #good omens 2 meta #go s2 #michael sheen #go s2 meta #go meta #*mine #*mymeta #ineffables husbands #ineffable soulmates #*mybest

[blewsee]

they make me so sick in the head it’s actually unreal

#photo insp from that one photo in the cnn article on s2! #i flipped the image bc i wanted to draw crowleys little snake tattoo #idk i thought it was cute #anyways. that new season huh? #crying. screaming. throwing up. kicking the shit out of my pillow. #i love being overly invested in my gay little tv shows #go2 #good omens fanart #good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley good omens #aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable husbands #fanart

[soapbubbles511]

Stede Bonnet you absolute bitch. I love you so much.

#i laughed out loud at this line #forever here for stede being a complete bitch to izzy #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet #izzy hands

[galaxgay]

I love the look on Crowley's face when Aziraphale does something bad without any outside influence. And not morally bad, just... definitely not something angelic

The sheer glee in her eyes, he looks like hes falling all over again every time.

#the first time in eden #crowley didnt know Azi well and thought it was crazy an angel disobeyed orders #and said “omg wait who are you?” #in the bookshop #Crowley knows Azi #and is revelling in him doing something bad #because she genuinely believes Azi deserves it #also bc im sure its amusing when the angel is horrible at being just that #good omens #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #good omens s2

[mobius-m-mobius]

Lokius in Loki 2x01 - "Ouroboros"

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #marveledit #lokiedit #loki spoilers #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #oh we're eating SO well!??? like being in a fever dream 🥺💖 #y'all i've NEVER seen two people touch as much or often as they did in this ep or coincidentally had as much fun watching anything #they put their missions on hold for each other could've died saving each other never wanted to let each other go in case more went wrong #it is episode ONE 😳😳 #also it really took me like a year to figure out my s1 coloring only to have this much fun w/ s2 after a couple hours lmao #feel more alive than i have in ages 😅 #marvel #owenwilsonedit #loki s2 spoilers #dianagifs

[astrolavas]

your worst nightmares

#keep brainrotting abt hunter and luz. GAHHHH sillies #the owl house #toh spoilers #hunter toh #luz noceda #hunter noceda #toh #watching and dreaming #toh s3 #toh art #my art #fanart #hunter #luz #toh hunter #wad #wad spoilers #the owl house season 3 #hunter fearing he's going to become like belos in ttt. luz thinking she IS as bad as belos because of all of her guilt and self-blame now... #luz dressed up as belos. the hunter in luz's dream being dressed in his s2 pre-hollow mind outfit....... thoughts #that scene with hunter on the floor in luz's nightmare.... that whole setup in GENERAL.. i know that shit'll be devastating #(i feel like the hunter in luz's dream is not ACTUALLY hunter like maybe the hexsquad is MOSTLY just luz's pigmant of imagination or sth) #(and the real hunter is either having his own dream or y'know. just vibing doing sth in real life) #(but if the dream!hunter thinks luz rly IS belos. if the whole HEXSQUAD thinks she's him... despite her trying to tell them she's not.. agh) #begging for them to have one good day cuz MANXJJSK #need a comeback of their first talk in thanks to them but this time it's truly them comforting each other #reassuring each other. knowing that NONE of them are similar to belos in any way #gah #also thinking of that flapjack-shaped rock in the background and how if it's luz's nightmare then it might be a manifestation of her guilt #which means that she also somewhat blames herself for flapjack's death. man i can't do this

[jay-wasstuff]

THREE EPISODES BACK TO BACK?! (X)

#being spoiled rotten #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd #ofmd s2 #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #rhys darby #taika waititi #david jenkins #max original

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

i'm unwell!!! because in stede's eyes, ned low was right!! ned says "he [ed] only likes you because of your bumbling amateur status" and calls stede blackbeard's "pet" just like izzy did in series 1

so stede steps up as a captain, kills the man who harmed his crew, and suddenly, for once in stede's life, he isn't a joke! the gentleman pirate is taken seriously and welcomed into the pirate community!

and what happens less than 24 hours later? ed calls their night together a mistake, AND LEAVES.

yes, obviously the situation is more nuanced, and these old men are once again struggling to communicate, but i 100% understand why stede went a bit of the rails at the end of episode 7. stede's been so focused on trying to help ed, that he's completely ignored his own ongoing identity crisis and trauma, and after the incident at the academy in series 1, this meltdown was long overdue.

#yes he's being a bitch but it's IN CHARACTER #just because you don't agree with his actions doesn't make it bad writing guys c'mon it's good omens 2 all over again #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #stede bonnet #ed x stede #rhys darby #i'm a stede apologist first and a homie second i'm sorry lmaoo #i got so excited when i saw the flashback to him as a little boy bc finally!!! stede's trauma gets to be addressed!!! #edit: HE SLEPT WITH ED TO TAKE THE POISON AND TURN IT INTO POSITIVITY WAIT A SECOND WAIT A FUCKING SECOND

[asongaboutpirates]

THEY WERE ABOUT TO DANCE TOGETHER! THEY WERE WALKING ONTO THE DANCE FLOOR JUST BEFORE THE ATTACK! WE COULD HAVE SEEN THEM DANCING! DAVID JENKINS I'M IN YOUR WALLS!

#godammit #we are being edged #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ed x stede

[gleafer]

Sometimes you got to grab your Goth and RUN!

#ofmd s2 #ofmd #ofmd fanart #ofmd 2 #ofmd edward teach #ofmd stede #ed and stede #ed x stede #goth aesthetic #goth #gleafer art #gleafer #I like drawing big things being carried by little things #goth and blonde