This post is less Good Omens- related and more personal, but there's been a lot of arguing over "representation" in the fandom the past few days. The strong feelings people express are awesome but ALSO I really want us in the community to appreciate and listen to one another.
People want to KILL queer people. There are still many, many places where it is not safe to have any identity other than cis het. Fighting that means sticking together, not tearing each OTHER apart. Allosexual, asexual, lesbian, gay, cis, trans, nonbinary, gender queer, GNC... we're all part of this community and we're stronger together.
In Good Omens, Neil Gaiman gave us a glimpse of what a world could be if people got to decide for themselves how to present and who to love without the hate and prejudice that inevitably comes along with that in the real world. I know people are questioning exactly what Crowley and Aziraphale are and how they identify, which is fine (honestly I don't know that we'll ever find out for sure. It may be something private between the two of them). But saying things like "it's homophobic" (for them to be ace), or "it's acephobic" (for them to be gay) sort of defeats the purpose of "it's a love story", doesn't it? At the end of the day, maybe it doesn't matter what EXACTLY they are. They're unapologetically QUEER and their story is for and about all of us.
It's okay to disagree. It's okay to ask questions. I mean, that's the moral of Good Omens, isn't it? We don't have to be the same; we SHOULDN'T all be the same... there's strength and beauty in our differences. But even if we don't all agree with one another, let's support each other.
I see them as gay male coded beings who have chosen that identity for themselves and would enjoy sexual pleasure as much as any other earthly pleasure. If YOU see them as agender or nonbinary sexless entities who are QPR or ace or aroace and would never have sex, I SUPPORT THE HELL OUT OF YOUR RIGHT TO DO SO. I'm in your corner and I will fight for you.
Love you all. Love that we love the ineffable love story of Good Omens, whatever form that takes, and let's lift each other up rather than tearing each other down.
as much as i looove old man yaoi, there's something so fun abt the idea of growing at the similar rate of your favs as u live your youthful but so different but lovingly similar lives
With the whole theme of abandonment, I think MK so far is the only one who returned of his own volition?
I mean, when Mei left with the Samadhi fire she didn‘t come back. MK was just lucky that Macaque graciously dropped him off close enough for him to find Mei and run after her.
Same with Monkey King. He just ran off by himself and MK followed. Fully intent on dragging him back to their friends.
(If I wanna reach like I‘m the long armed gibbon; there was also this reoccurring issue of the gang getting incapacitated, MK feeling abandoned, and having to fix the problem by himself in order to reunite with them. Not sure that it counts though since that obviously wasn‘t voluntary. But MK felt alone so it gets a mention.)
Yeah, he started isolating himself, but Macaque nipped that in the bud before it could blow out of proportion.
And while when MK flew away he once again got a small push to act instead of isolating himself from Macaque, in the end, the choice to return to his friends was all his own.
Macaque out here making sure to beat Wukongs worst habits out of MK before they can fully form, real MVP
I KNOW. The more we learn about Wukong's past the more I'm worried about MK's future.
I think with people returning of their own volition, there are at least another 2 examples: Wukong coming back in 2x10, and Wukong rushing to MK who was with a self-destructing Azure in 4x14. I think maybe we could count Mei crashing into MK's Monkey Mech in 3x14 if we really wanted too. It's very interesting to me watching all the times Wukong chooses to leave MK and then come back, because something something "the Warrior was abandoned by the Hero" something something, you know. This perpetual cycle of leaving and returning and leaving and returning is something that I love watching play out in lmk.
One thing 4x11 helped me to realize is that the Warrior also abandons the Hero. Wukong feels just as abandoned by Macaque as Macaque feels abandoned by Wukong. They leave each other. Who left first? Does it matter? So Mei left MK in 3x10 (and multiple times in s2 if we count the times that were involuntary), and MK left in 4x08, which goes against his "I won't abandon them when they need me" mentality. So, going into this next season I think it's gonna be a real guessing game of who leaves who.
since nonbinary has had its claws and teeth and wings clipped by people who've turned it into the third gender of whats now a trinary, i think we should expand its definition; what if nonbinary means you dont subscribe to any binary
Screaming crying throwing up curled up on yhe floor sobbing weeping ect ect I miss them SO much (PNGs with voice lines that live in my phone that I can look at any time)
sometimes I go into western fandom spaces for chinese webnovels and I feel like I'm going insane is chinese racism/ableism really that different from western racism that western fans don't notice them the way I do it can't be can it it feels so blatantly obvious to me but no one talks about it??????
not to say that folks can't enjoy them still I just start feeling like the person in horror movies that's the only person that sees ghosts
set in a bungou stray dogs au my friend made where dazai never left the port mafia, thus leading to a butterfly effect that culminated in her joining the mafia, and myself getting promoted to hired muscle, rather than getting scouted at the armed detective agency.
affectionately called the black sugar verse, it's basically the worst version of our self inserts lmao
here's a crazy and unhinged theory neil gaiman has probably considered:
so with two (2) angel&demon couples who fell in love and went "against" the ineffable plan, and both thought of/planned to run away from their duties to love the other unconditionally,
and with the incredibly loud and heavy absence of God in season 2,
my theory is that all these love stories are foreshadowing what God is truly up to... hear me out: God and Satan fell in love. maybe a long time ago (the Beginning of Time, perhaps). They had ups and downs just like the ineffable husbands, did bets, had a few disagreements as well (i.e. Armageddon, the antichrist, the war, etc.) and now they're at that staged where they don't give a fuck anymore and prefer to fuck off and leave Earth, the mess that is Heaven and Hell, the bureaucraty, angels and demons fighting and fucking, yada yada.
plus, the line from s2 "for it to happen twice, makes it look like there is an institutional problem" can be applied to good and evil being an ingredient for the creation of a love story, or angels and demons falling for eachother despite everything they believe in. and it WOULD be an institutional problem bc the creator of these angels and demons, the system itself, God, fell in love as well.
you see if i was there during the first contact war it would have ended much sooner because i would have been sending the turian hierarchy videos like this