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he just wants to order...

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Heavenly Murder Mysteries

I had A Moment, and I'm not sure if it's a galaxy brain moment, or a 'red string conspiracy ready for a padded cell' moment. Please tell me what you think.

Gaiman said, when season 2 was first announced, that he and Pratchett had conceived of the story as a murder mystery. He also said, several times, that season 2 was not the story they'd planned - it was the necessary prologue in order to be able to tell that story. Which is a big part of the reason he's so desperate to get a season 3, and said that even if it doesn't get renewed, he *will* find a way to publish the story.

This season relies heavily on altered memories - we have the repeated threat of being Unwritten from the Book of Life, Nina comments that 'this isn't right' and she feels like something is playing with her mind, and Gabriel alters his own memories before Heaven has a chance to. Jumping off of @ariaste ‘s awesome theory about Metatron re-writing reality, we have our mechanism for a supremely unreliable narrator. Beelzebub clearly believes the Extreme Sanctions - being Unwritten - are a plausible threat, but Crowley brushes it off as 'something we used to scare the cherubs.' We also have that *quite* intriguing conversation between Gabriel and Crowley - "I feel like an empty house. A house someone lived in for a very long time, but now they’re gone, and the house can sort of tell where the things used to be." That's a metaphor Crowley *gets,* and when Gabriel complains that his head isn't made for those memories anymore and trying to remember hurts, Crowley tells him, "I know. Do it anyway. Look at where the furniture isn't." We have the implication that the memory-altering mechanism is imperfect, and Crowley has at least sort-of learned how to work around it - looking at where the furniture isn't, the tracks left behind where things were removed.

We also have Iain Banks' novel Crow Road featured front and center - to crib notes from the Wikipedia article, 'Prentice becomes obsessed with papers his uncle left behind and sets out to solve the mystery... Prentice's efforts to make sense of Uncle Rory's fragmentary notes and the minimal clues surrounding his disappearance mirror his efforts to understand the world and his place in it. The narrative is nonlinear, leaping back and forth with little or no warning, requiring the reader to piece things together.' We also have the three slightly out-of-place mini-sodes, that establish three physical documents recording Crowley and Aziraphale's involvement: the Book of Job, Aziraphale's diaries, and the photo of the two of them together onstage.

I have my own theory that Aziraphale agreed to the Metatron's terms only because Crowley's existence was suddenly at stake, and he's going to Heaven not to be a good little worker bee, but a murder hornet, to use Crowley's metaphor, and do everything he can to fuck up The Plan. He knows this is probably a suicide run - he makes an offer he knows perfectly well Crowley will refuse, to cut ties and try to get him out of harm's way. He seems less devastated than we'd expect, when Crowley does refuse and storms out. A clinical warning sign of suicidal ideation is giving away treasured possessions, and Aziraphale deliberately chooses not to take any of his precious books with him - "Nothing lasts forever." This, from the same angel who set out to prevent the apocalypse because Heaven didn't have sushi! This would also explain his tight, anxious little smile at the veeeery end of the credits - he's one step closer to the goal he knows is probably going to kill him, but he's going to prevent this second Armageddon, or die trying. But Metatron is far, far more powerful, and can literally rewrite reality. This won't end well for Aziraphale.

This is our setup for season 3. Operating under the assumption that season 3 is going to be a murder mystery... I think the murder victim is probably going to be Aziraphale himself. He's been Unwritten, and even if Crowley can't tell exactly what's gone, he knows something is. Something big, some*one* he structured his life around for millennia. He can see the spaces where the furniture isn't, and enough records to start to piece it together.

We get the quote from Aziraphale, "We aren’t in danger. Crowley will be back in a moment. He will have a plan."Nina: "Why don’t you stand up for yourself? Make your own plan." Aziraphale: "Oh, I am. But rescuing me makes him so happy."

Season 3 will be both. Aziraphale does have his own plan to try and protect Crowley and the world by infiltrating Heaven, but I don't think he'll get away with it. Crowley will have to be the one to solve the mystery. Season 2 was, very much, Aziraphale's. He occasionally narrates, we follow him to Edinburgh, the action follows him and his neighbors and his attempts to get them together. Crowley has a few asides, but this was Aziraphale's season. Next season will be Crowley's, trying to solve this mystery and find a way to undo it.

...we had damn well better get a third season.

#good omens s2 #good omens s2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #good omens season 3 #good omens s3 #good omens theory #metatron #aziraphale and crowley

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Interview with the Demon (2023)

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Do you think Aziraphale inadvertently adopts stray humans often?

Like maybe EVERYONE just gets that feeling about Aziraphale, like some nebulous urge to go to his bookshop when they need help.

Like I can imagine someone coming in, crying and perusing the books because maybe their spouse cheated on them and they're about to lose everything. And Aziraphale (much to his own exasperation) simply cannot help but to offer a brief respite in the back with a cozy blanket and a mug of hot cocoa.

Then Crowley comes barging in and goes, "Aw, angel, another one??"

And Aziraphale goes, "What was I meant to do, Crowley?? They were CRYING all over my BOOKS."

Then Crowley saunters up casually and goes, "Right, who is it and what's he done?"

Then later, on the news, after everyone's gone their separate ways there's some guy being interviewed SWEARING that he's just seen a monster -- a real live horrible monster -- in the middle of London.

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The sheer offense Crowley took just by hearing the unlikely possibility that Aziraphale could ever be just a bit on the side and not loved and paraded openly and proudly.

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I would add on to this - we see Crowley and Elspeth conflated pretty early on; he's all on board with the body-snatching, he takes her side in every argument, he helps her pull the cart. Dalrymple is dismissive and mocking towards Elspeth, and we know the Metatron wasn't happy about the idea of Aziraphale bringing Crowley along for the ride - he only pulled out that offer as a final trump card when Aziraphale kept refusing. Now wondering what it'll mean that Elspeth was on the point of killing herself when before a veeeeery high Crowley stepped in - a good deed that he was subsequently dragged back to Hell for.

We also have Morag - someone Elspeth is fiercely protective of, her ‘Aziraphale,’ if we’re continuing the metaphor. Aziraphale made up his mind to save her, after Morag was shot. He was too late.

Either way, I think it’s probably a bad sign that Aziraphale’s diary entry for that incident very dramatically ends, ‘And I wouldn’t see Crowley again for a very long time.’

Welp, just had a deeply unsettling realisation:

Mr. Dalrymple is an avatar for the Metatron in the human world. He presents himself as Good and Noble and Worthy to the Gentlemen. “I hate to do it”, he says, acting like this is a great and noble sacrifice he’s making for the greater good

But when you see him with Elspeth when she brings Wee Morag to him, he’s the other side of the coin. Cold, dismissive, calculating and ruthless. He shortchanges her the price of a body, even though he knows the going rate. He mocks her and says she’s going to waste the money on alcohol.

The Metatron speaks to Aziraphale the same way Dalrymple does. The same mildly condescending “you’ll understand because we’re on the same page”. Treating him like a peer and an equal for a brief shining moment. And Aziraphale still wants to believe in that and in Heaven and even though he’s dithering wildly, he’s still swayed the same way he was by Dalrymple’s argument.

I am having more thoughts but they are big and I am tired but I will come back to this because Aziraphale only saw the positive side of the Resurrectionist sign (ie. Lazarus raised from the dead by Jesus). He didn’t see the dark and horrible other face of it. Not yet.

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 spoilers #aziraphale and crowley #metatron #coffee or death

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Anyways

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Jkjk, it really be Fujiko 👀👀👀

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Lots of lupin plushies I see aren’t as cute as I want them to be so I decided to design some for reference when I feel confident enough to make some myself!!!!

No don’t turn lupin into marketable plushie

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Jigen now is not the time to ask Goemon on a date to Vegas... holy shit he said yes bwjkg

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SNNNNRRK

Goemon, holding a python: I impulsively bought a snake, what do I name him.

Jigen: You did WHAT–

Lupin, not missing a beat: William Snakespeare!

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Jigen: *pulls out a gun*

Lupin: You can't shoot me. You're so drunk I bet you're seeing double

Jigen: *pulls out another gun* I've got one gun for each of you

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museum date  window shopping

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lupin: well clearly holmes used local demographics, access to narrow roads, and the soil from fujiko’s shoes to find us 

their front yard:

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kinda feel like those “jigen gets a girlfriend” episodes were designed to give the vibes that jigen’s very narrow, specific type of women he’s attracted to are the ones that needed his help / saving, but the truth is that he just. never looked attracted to those women during those episodes. like maybe it can be argued that he just shows it differently from lupin who visibly brightens up at pretty ladies or goemon who visibly blushes, that he’s more, gentlemanly or whatever. but i rather think he just thinks he should be a gentleman who protects the lady. he’s old fashioned like that and he considers this some kind of honor thing. he’s not really attracted or interested in them, he just considers it a duty of a gentleman like him to protect those ladies in danger.

there’s a possibility that he tells himself it’s attraction that he feels, even if deep down he knows it isn’t. he just tries to keep keep her out of danger, but when they’re out of danger,  he doesn’t try to steal a kiss or make any moves like lupin does. he doesn’t fluster like goemon does. it’s like, he likes looking like a knight in shining armor but he’s never actually interested in the princess.

anyway my point is jigen is gay and this is my explanation for the “jigen gets a girlfriend” episodes. the rest of the gang are bi

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He got stuck.

Based on that 1890's headache treatment photo

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Goemon learning to use his smartphone was a journey for everyone involved XD