I just think that the versions with all the trauma, suffering and history deserved a happy ending. I don’t think the take away should be that the only way to get a happy ending is for those things to have never happened to you.
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Here is a brand new Good Omens sleepcast called Heavenly Bookshop.
It's been such a huge day for all of us in the Good Omens fandom, so I wanted to take a moment to share something my partner and I have poured a lot of love into creating...
It's a calming 15 minute sleepcast set inside Aziraphale's bookshop against a soothing soundscape, available with either a female narrator or a male narrator.
If you've found today emotional; happy or sad or anything in between, I really hope this will be a really useful tool for finding a moment's calm or helping get ready to sleep.
We're both neurodivergent and have found sleepcasts really grounding, so as actors we wanted to start making our own inspired by worlds and stories that matter to us.
It's completely free; available on either Spotify or YouTube. We just hope it brings a bit of ineffable joy.
Here is a brand new Good Omens sleepcast called Heavenly Bookshop.
It's been such a huge day for all of us in the Good Omens fandom, so I wanted to take a moment to share something my partner and I have poured a lot of love into creating...
It's a calming 15 minute sleepcast set inside Aziraphale's bookshop against a soothing soundscape, available with either a female narrator or a male narrator.
If you've found today emotional; happy or sad or anything in between, I really hope this will be a really useful tool for finding a moment's calm or helping get ready to sleep.
We're both neurodivergent and have found sleepcasts really grounding, so as actors we wanted to start making our own inspired by worlds and stories that matter to us.
It's completely free; available on either Spotify or YouTube. We just hope it brings a bit of ineffable joy.
Immediate thoughts on the Good Omens finale (and the feelings of ace/complex queerness erasure it caused)
Spoilers below.
This final 90 minute episode arrived with so much baggage, hope, expectations, and the knowledge we nearly didn't get anything at all.
These characters and their story mean so much to all of us - and when something comes with such weight attached, I'm aware it can be hard for it to deliver on the promise of everything that's been theorised and imagined and hoped for.
We're also in a situation where 6 episodes of content needed to be condensed into just 90 minutes and I went in with this firmly in mind. I really did. I told myself side characters and cameos would be missing, there wouldn't be time for many quieter character driven moments or historical flashbacks (my favourite element of the show), and location/scope would be a lot more limited. This proved to be the case but I can definitely live with all that. We still got so many good moments and the 'feel' of the show.
But what I'm really struggling to process is the complete erasure of the meaningful, slow-burn, complex (to me; ace/queer platonic) relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale - these stylish, cool, ridiculous, genderless, gender-fluid, complexly queer characters - leaving us with nothing more than a meet-get-married-settle-down relationship between two vaguely familiar men we know nothing about and have no investment in.
I don't mind that we didn't get another kiss as I think their relationship has always been about so much more than just that, and I don't inherently mind them being turned human either (I was mentally prepared for this) but Crowley and Aziraphale needed to retain their memories of who they were and what they'd experienced and everything it had ever cost them to always come back to each other. And we needed more fall out, realisation and resolution to the final 15. Aziraphale in particular has been working up to this huge realisation - there are no sides, there's only shades of grey, everything's complex and messy - for two whole seasons and it felt we never quite got there, at least not with depth or meaning.
But most importantly...
As an ace person, a probably almost gender fluid person, I was left feeling erased.*
Stories and characters that can be interpreted as asexual or aromantic or demi/grey or queer platonic are very few and far between, especially those that don't sit within YA.
And I just can't embrace the reduction of Crowley and Aziraphale's complex queer relationship (the kind we basically never see represented anywhere), that could be read in so many different ways to different people, down to just two men getting married.
It boxes off something 'other', almost unidentifiable, into a much more run of the mill meet-get-married love story.
All queer stories are hugely underrepresented and at risk - and I'm really glad to have any positive portrayal or ending for LGBTQIA+ characters on my screen right now - but for me, it feels like the erasure of another kind of queerness. The sort that's harder to define - certainly harder to express when you're someone who moves through the world feeling like nothing you see, or watch, or read actually reflects who you are or how you feel. When you feel you want different things to almost everyone else...
"That sounds umm..."
"Lonely? Yeah."
"But you said it wasn't?"
"I'm a demon... I lied."
Aziraphale and Crowley's story was a tiny light that gradually grew brighter and brighter saying, "actually what you feel is valid, there isn't only one way to tread the path through life".
And now it's feels like it's gone, like - dare I say it? - it was all a dream. And I'm tired of ace or aro or queer platonic or gender-fluid or genderless or all those other less represented, less understood identities being reduced to only existing in dream worlds that are far too difficult and messy to ever be allowed to be real.
*(I know that not everyone reads A&C as ace, and I'm definitely not saying it should or must be interpreted as such. That's actually always been the beauty of their relationship to me; its ambiguity. The way it means so many things to so many people.)
For me, Good Omens 2 felt like this complex relationship that grew within the cracks of the world.
Good Omens 3 is erasing that world and that relationship in favor of a world where relationships don't grow between cracks, they just grow. In simple, straightforward ways: a meet cute, a marriage, a cottage.
But the cracks defined the relationship. It wasn't less real and true for having grown in an odd place! The world feels so unfair so much of the time. Having portrayals of relationships that defy that unfairness, defy categorizations and normal scripts, means something. Having that erased for something "better"...fucking hurts like hell.
"But the cracks defined the relationship. It wasn't less real and true for having grown in an odd place! The world feels so unfair so much of the time. Having portrayals of relationships that defy that unfairness, defy categorizations and normal scripts, means something. Having that erased for something "better"...fucking hurts like hell." <<< Yes, this 🖤✨️
Immediate thoughts on the Good Omens finale (and the feelings of ace/complex queerness erasure it caused)
Spoilers below.
This final 90 minute episode arrived with so much baggage, hope, expectations, and the knowledge we nearly didn't get anything at all.
These characters and their story mean so much to all of us - and when something comes with such weight attached, I'm aware it can be hard for it to deliver on the promise of everything that's been theorised and imagined and hoped for.
We're also in a situation where 6 episodes of content needed to be condensed into just 90 minutes and I went in with this firmly in mind. I really did. I told myself side characters and cameos would be missing, there wouldn't be time for many quieter character driven moments or historical flashbacks (my favourite element of the show), and location/scope would be a lot more limited. This proved to be the case but I can definitely live with all that. We still got so many good moments and the 'feel' of the show.
But what I'm really struggling to process is the complete erasure of the meaningful, slow-burn, complex (to me; ace/queer platonic) relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale - these stylish, cool, ridiculous, genderless, gender-fluid, complexly queer characters - leaving us with nothing more than a meet-get-married-settle-down relationship between two vaguely familiar men we know nothing about and have no investment in.
I don't mind that we didn't get another kiss as I think their relationship has always been about so much more than just that, and I don't inherently mind them being turned human either (I was mentally prepared for this) but Crowley and Aziraphale needed to retain their memories of who they were and what they'd experienced and everything it had ever cost them to always come back to each other. And we needed more fall out, realisation and resolution to the final 15. Aziraphale in particular has been working up to this huge realisation - there are no sides, there's only shades of grey, everything's complex and messy - for two whole seasons and it felt we never quite got there, at least not with depth or meaning.
But most importantly...
As an ace person, a probably almost gender fluid person, I was left feeling erased.*
Stories and characters that can be interpreted as asexual or aromantic or demi/grey or queer platonic are very few and far between, especially those that don't sit within YA.
And I just can't embrace the reduction of Crowley and Aziraphale's complex queer relationship (the kind we basically never see represented anywhere), that could be read in so many different ways to different people, down to just two men getting married.
It boxes off something 'other', almost unidentifiable, into a much more run of the mill meet-get-married love story.
All queer stories are hugely underrepresented and at risk - and I'm really glad to have any positive portrayal or ending for LGBTQIA+ characters on my screen right now - but for me, it feels like the erasure of another kind of queerness. The sort that's harder to define - certainly harder to express when you're someone who moves through the world feeling like nothing you see, or watch, or read actually reflects who you are or how you feel. When you feel you want different things to almost everyone else...
"That sounds umm..."
"Lonely? Yeah."
"But you said it wasn't?"
"I'm a demon... I lied."
Aziraphale and Crowley's story was a tiny light that gradually grew brighter and brighter saying, "actually what you feel is valid, there isn't only one way to tread the path through life".
And now it's feels like it's gone, like - dare I say it? - it was all a dream. And I'm tired of ace or aro or queer platonic or gender-fluid or genderless or all those other less represented, less understood identities being reduced to only existing in dream worlds that are far too difficult and messy to ever be allowed to be real.
*(I know that not everyone reads A&C as ace, and I'm definitely not saying it should or must be interpreted as such. That's actually always been the beauty of their relationship to me; its ambiguity. The way it means so many things to so many people.)
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This A5 mini print features a black ink linocut style illustration of two Tudor courtiers waving LGBTQIA+ and Disability Pride flags, along
I drew these last year for the initial sharing of VILE (the new play we're developing about Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford) but I realised I never shared them myself and now feels like an apt time to try and remember people have always been different and diverse throughout history.
I've added in the Disability Pride flag and Neurodivergent Pride flag, alongside the LGBTQIA+ flags that I drew last year 🖤
✨️ They're available as prints on my website and in my Etsy shop ✨️
I think I want to do a series of these flag drawings from different eras (Victorians, Georgians, Medieval etc) to go alongside this Tudor style one.
Probably my favourite moment of any Christmas special ever. The messages around parents, family and found family are just beautiful. It never fails to make me cry my eyes out, and that's exactly what I want from a sitcom 🖤
I would like to thank my one year and three weeks at film school at age 18 for introducing me to my life long love of polyamorous, bisexual masterpiece, Singing In The Rain ☔💕
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In October, I decided to challenge myself to produce a miniature illustrated painting each day of the month inspired by the Tudor court and the medium of portrait miniatures.
Lucas Horenbout was a Flemish artist and founding artist of the tradition of painting miniatures. He moved to England in the mid-1520s and worked as the court miniaturist to King Henry VIII from 1525 until Horenbout's death. He captured many of the iconic figures of the era and also taught the art of illumination to Hans Holbein, who would go on to eclipse him as the most famous court artist of that era.
A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually undertaken in gouache, watercolour, or enamel. Portrait miniatures evolved out of the techniques required to craft the intricate illustrations and borders of illuminated manuscripts, and became popular among 16th century elites. From the middle of the 18th century, the trend spread across the rest of Europe remaining highly popular until the development of photography in the mid 19th century.
For my challenge, I used black ink, water colours, and 300gsm textured watercolour paper. I bought and thrifted some amazing vintage frames, mostly 2 or 3 inches high. Some are over fifty years old, so consequently there are marks and scratches on them but I think it adds to the charm and overall feel of the pieces as historic miniatures.
I'm really proud that I completed the challenge - and all 31 paintings - and wanted to share a few with you here!
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