Cassandraic

Look, that so-called finale was just not it. You're welcome to like it if you like, but you can't — cannot — make me like genocide and annihilation. No shade on the cast or crew; the no-prize lands squarely in the laps of the writers. I can't fix anything about it. I can't fix the fandom falling apart over it. I also can't possibly make everyone's dreams for the end of Good Omens come true — not least because the fandom's dreams are as contradictory as the nearest Eric. I don't know what I can do, honestly... except "better than whatever the fuck that was." Low bar, don't you know. This will update as I have time to outline and write it. I know what the three scenes after this are; after that, we'll just have to see. I won't be bothered in the least if you wait to read until I'm finished. If you see anything in it that you'd like to rewrite, riff off, expand, illustrate, or otherwise play with, please feel free. I'd love a link, but that's up to you. Parts of the description of the cave man (whom I will tag, eventually, but I wouldn't deprive the first readers of the smug feeling of figuring out who he is) are owed to my favorite GO fic writer, @copperplatebeech.

I also partially tagged the caveman from Chapter 1. I was quite delighted to find there are other fics with him tagged!

It's about Motivation, darling...

Where's Waldo Jesus?

Here's the thing: I'm happy to offer emergency extensions. Like many of my colleagues, I'm also perfectly happy to offer non-emergency extensions, as long as they're requested in advance. If students are managing their time well enough to ask for an extension before the deadline, I will distribute extensions like Oprah distributing cars. But surfacing from a period of non-submission of work to inform your professor -- who is probably managing a minimum of 100 students across their courses -- that you will be submitting late work, because fuck their rules and fuck their workload... this is not likely to win their goodwill.

Ghosts are the hardest students to help. Don't ghost me.

In a way, I feel framing it as denial might sort of...give GO3 more power than it deserves in our heads. It's an abstraction with an "authority" based in money (production value) and legal contracts (copyright laws), not in the things that give our experiences meaning. We're having the real experiences. We define our own experiences. People can say there's something wrong with rejecting a portion of canon, but who are they and what authority do they have over what goes on in our heads? Are these people we'd trust to judge other aspects of our lives? It's entirely reasonable to make a choice about what you will allow a fictional work to mean to you. The finale doesn't need to be denied, because it can be chopped up and used as mulch instead.

S3 happened, I'm not denying any of what was on screen. I just think it's wildly OOC, badly written crap and so I am ignoring it. That is a thing fans have been doing with media for ages.

The original, free-range, locally sourced leg.

So, thinking about what’s up with Book Crowley in the current day, and if he's maybe trying to update to fit our current image of what a Yuppie-like Rich Douchebag is.... So, like, I’m not making a statement on whatever or not Book Crowley would use Crypto in the 2020’s, even for one of his schemes, but... I think there is an argument to be made that if you met Book Crowley in the current day, you’d take one look at the guy (gender neutral) and immediately get the Vibe that he uses Crypto. And Crowley would just be like “Great! I am getting a good grade in seeming like an absolute sleazebag, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve! :D”

Crowley threw back his head and cackled. Aziraphale eyed him, from the side. Some things were simply too absurd to be considered.

He was a glasshole before glassholes were cool. (Because glassholes have never been cool.)

you know what to do

Keep the pressure on -- looks like Flock's getting desperate. No company with rhetoric this odious deserves to survive.