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It’s not only the start of Aziraphale’s quote on his page shared earlier today by Good Omens Prime, but also the title of the final piece from the operetta “Trial by Jury” by Gilbert and Sullivan. One that ends with the Judge resolving the entire case by offering to marry the Plaintiff.
Of course, we already had a good inkling that some type of a courtroom drama might make an appearance in the Good Omens Finale due to the general influence of the classic Powell and Pressburger film, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), over the entire adaptation, from literal production posters to character design (Not-Crowley’s curls before the beginning, you will always be famous), to literal sets like the Good Omens Heaven. It also happens to be a favourite of a certain Michael Sheen:
“My favourite film of all time is A Matter of Life and Death, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring David Niven. In the U.S. it was called Stairway to Heaven.”
“For me, it is beautifully shot. It is fantastically acted. It has a quality of strangeness that I always love in the best works of art. It is about two forms of reality, the real world that David Niven inhabits and this fantastical world of Heaven with angels and all that stuff. And you never get asked to choose which one is the real one or not.”
The Heavenly trial happens inside a nebula, with a counsel consisting of souls of those who had died in the British wars across centuries and a RAF pilot as the defendant who had accidentally cheated Death in order to stay longer on Earth and fall in love with the person he met over the radio during his fall from the sky. Just for context.
At the same time, the mention of the Second Coming invites another trial to the discourse, that is the Last Judgment — during which Jesus is supposed to use the Book of Life to separate the righteous from the wicked. If you haven’t yet, you should catch up with the speculation on Aziraphale’s roots and possible role in the upcoming Last Judgment in this meta on angelic names.
The famous deleted British Telekom Tower scene from Good Omens S1, only in LEGO and with more rats and other blanks filled in!
Unfortunately this gemstone of peak Crowley mischief never made it into the show, but I really, really wanted to recreate this scene in LEGO and fill in the missing details, e.g. lots of rats, a (fictional) worksheet to go on the blank clipboard and the sky in the background obviously. Please enjoy my take!
Crowley: "Beautiful job. Thank you all so much, men!"
Rat: *squeaks indignantly*
Crowley: "Oh yeah, obviously, ladies, too! Nice job!"
For more irrelevant BTS fun and a close-up picture of RATAWAY PEST CONTROL Crowley...
First off, let me add the original scene in question for reference...
As one of my moots (you know who you are, lol) put it so eloquently, Crowley definitely serves cunt here. 😉
Yup, definitely! Just look at him! While this scene never made it into the show, we got a great props picture:
So, I took that information to
a) invent a fictional worksheet for Crowley's blank clipboard and
b) waste a lot of time to recreate that ID card in LEGO even if I knew the details would totally get lost in print of that torso. 🤷
I really wanted to get this custom-made silver thermos, but it's been out of stock for ages, so I finally caved and made my own version out of a LEGO baby bottle (of all things) which turned out a lot less shiny, but whatever...
Also yes, I know that the glasses are wrong, but this is still the closest facial match I have. One day I will design the brown frames from that era, too. But that will be a task for future!me.
Anyway I had fun and used this photo shoot as a mental health therapy session. Hopefully I could give you a smile, too! 🥰🥰🥰
Please enjoy, reblog, like, comment,... but please don't reblog this post to any communities. Thank you!
Tagging the usual crowd with the customary addendum to please let me know if you want to be added to or removed from the list! 😘
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happy trans day of visibility to all the trans folks out there. to the dolls. to the trans people of colour. to the fat trans people. to the hairy trans people. to the trans mascs who present feminine and the fems who present masculine. to the trans people opressed by the binary present even within queer culture. to the trans people who feel dysphoria, and those who don’t. to the ones who aren’t out for their own safety. to the ones who aren’t out to themselves. to the trans people in warzones and facing genocide. to the trans people whose basic rights and humanity is constantly up for debate. to the ones that are still alive despite it all. happy trans day of visibility to you
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A fan reached out to me and explained that they’re in Minnesota, part of a parent group that has been escorting children to and from school, protecting them from ICE, who have been parked outside of the local schools like fucking vultures.
They said they’re all scared and tired. The amount of anxiety is through the roof and asked for fan art of Aziraphale and Crowley protecting the kids to help boost morale.
So I did. It’s the very least I can do right now. To all the #goodomens fans across America fighting the good fight, thank you! You are the REAL patriots.
Call your reps. Donate. March. But most importantly, keep showing up whether it’s art, music, baking, writing, coffee with friends, reading books to kindergartners.
Even if Aziraphale and Crowley didn't get their happy ending on screen (but I know they will), they are already my favourite couple and my favourite representation of love in media.
TL;DR:
Aziraphale 'leaving' Crowley wasn’t rejection, it was the hardest, most selfless act of love he could do. Their separation isn’t about each other, it’s about the universe making their love impossible as it is at the moment.
I don’t buy the idea that they 'have much to learn' (which seems to usually mean Aziraphale has to learn), or that their problem is mainly poor communication.
I think they are doing all they possibly can already. They always have. The enemy to their happiness was always their circumstances. Not something in each other.
Now, I want to point a parallel with a film that I think if you have watched, you won't forget:
Yes, Aziraphale and Cooper are my parallels.
When I first saw Interstellar I did wonder why the filmmakers decided to focus on a father-daughter relationship.
And I’ve only recently realised that I think they made a safer choice.
Because making a romantic relationship the emotional core of a story where one half leaves to save the world would not, I think, be seen as justified by many.
In Interstellar Murph's mum is conveniently dead (sorry to be blunt, I do understand they wanted to make a point about the dying planet too). And he leaves his kids to try and create a better world and future for them. And we forgive him and we know Murph will too and she does.
But would we forgive him as easily if he left his beautiful, desperate lover behind?
Because culturally, we accept sacrifice for children as self-evidently noble, but we are far less willing to grant that same grace to romantic love if someone leaves, whatever their reasons.
Leaving not as rejection.
Leaving as sacrifice.
What if, as many fans assume will happen to Aziraphale, Cooper's mission failed immediately or at some point, because the mission proved impossible? What if Cooper never succeeded? Would his sacrifice have been seen as brave or as a failure and foolish from the start?
Cooper and Murph work together across time and space and save the world and meet again only briefly, at the end of her life.
I know Good Omens won't have an ending like this, but even if it did, it would still be my favourite love story.
But I do want Aziraphale and Crowley together forever, I do want them to be safe and I want them to have time to be happy and to heal.
And I hope they will get that in abundance.
Going to Heaven is Not the Same as Choosing Heaven
Final 15 was emotionally devastating yes, but also disproportionately cruel to Aziraphale, regardless of what S3 brings. Even if Aziraphale is shown as undeniably right in his step into that lift. I think that a lot of how he is portrayed by the fandom at the moment will stay ingrained and his motivation will forever be questioned.
If Aziraphale is shown as having been naïve and will seek to escape Heaven once he acknowledges his 'error' and beg Crowley to take him 'back', well then - it won't be story I will stand behind any longer.
My point is - the ending of S2 could have been as emotional as it was without putting so much needless blame on Aziraphale for their separation. But that's perhaps a part of another argument.
As I've said many times, I think Aziraphale left because he was worried for his safety and especially Crowley's safety. And then the safety of the whole world. Yes, he didn't know Second Coming was in immediate plans for sure until Metatron told him this in front of the lift, but he's clever enough to have considered the option already.
He knew Gabriel wasn't running away because of some trifle.
The sides never mattered to Aziraphale. Survival did.
And running away never meant survival. Aziraphale never believed Heaven was 'right.' He knew Heaven is dangerous because it holds all the power.
Aziraphale’s caution was not obedience - it was survival. What Aziraphale opted for in F15 was leverage, not validation.
Aziraphale is not saying:
'Heaven will listen to me.'
He is saying:
'If no one tries, there is no future at all.'
This was the same logic that drove Aziraphale in Season 1 at the bandstand:
He didn't want to kill Adam
He didn't want to run
He wanted to delay destruction long enough to find another way
Crowley wanted to leave because he wanted to protect Aziraphale from Heaven and himself from Hell.
Aziraphale wanted to stay because he wanted to protect everything from Heaven.
Both were acts of love. Just like in F15.
They’re just aimed at different things.
But the fact that Aziraphale's love of everything always includes Crowley does not mean he loves Crowley less than Crowley loves him.
Aziraphale’s way to deal with Heaven has always been delay, interference, or sabotage (weaponised pedantry). Maybe it's not as romantic as running away or as dramatic as falling, but it worked before and will again. He knows that not trying would be worse.
And I don't want either of them to be proven wrong. They both had their reasons (love) for their decision in F15.
If Heaven is going to be stopped, it will (apparently) take:
Crowley outside the system
Aziraphale inside it
And the thing Heaven never counted on:
LOVE
Now, please enjoy my favourite take on the stunning music of Interstellar, played from a distance on Royal Albert Hall's organ:
https://youtu.be/4Q2YBKFDXjQ?si=CP9D-2s7oBCPhIxg
Composed by Hans Zimmer
MIDI Programmed and Arranged by Ashton Gleckman
Suite programmed by ear in Logic Pro X based on the original soundtrack recordings. All organ parts performed by Ashton Gleckman using the Royal Albert Hall Organ library.
All organ sounds from the new Royal Albert Hall Organ library, recorded at the historic hall in London by James Everingham.
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Good Omens & the Existential Art of Not Giving Up (or, When It's All Exhausting)
So many of us love Good Omens, especially Crowley and Aziraphale, with an intensity that our friends and loved ones may not understand. We analyze their choices, their relationship, their future. We cry over them. We speculate, create and enjoy fanfics about them, and await the conclusion of their story with all of our hopes and fears on the line.
For me, one of the biggest reasons I'm so attached to their story is because of the way they constantly fight to figure out how to exist as they are, in a universe that forces them be something they're not. They make mistakes, they get overwhelmed, and sometimes they totally screw it up. But they always come back.
They never give up.
Our world is -- tough -- to say the least. Many of us are struggling to figure out how to exist as we are. So many pressures and expectations, so much conflict and... Well, you already know exactly what I mean! Existential Exhaustion is real, and all too present.
Good Omens provides something much more important than an escape from those harsh realities. I believe it provides HOPE.
I lost hope for a little while. I've been away from Tumblr and my AO3 writing for months because of it. Good Omens was helping me keep my head above water in a chaotic, exhausting world. When the future of GO itself got chaotic, I lost something (for awhile) that helped me make sense of the world's chaos.
But these characters, Crowley and Aziraphale, are beautiful and brave and flawed and So Ineffably HUMAN... They show us what it is to fight and fall and fail and rise to fight again. They remind us that we can mess up and still be lovable, worthy of love. And, when they get it right, they show us what acceptance and fidelity can be.
Stories are usually about how people (and angels and demons!) respond to challenges. We only get to be privy to the story of Our Ineffables when their lives are about to get turned upside down. AntiChrist about to enter the world? Season 1. Their precious, peaceful, fragile existance together about to be threatened by a mysterious Something Terrible from Heaven? Season 2.
I love to imagine what Aziraphale and Crowley's lives together were like in that short time they had together in between. (It's why we love the flashbacks, right? An extra peek at their relationship!) That time was far too short, but they came a long way since that gentle night at the bus stop, and protecting each other's very existence from Hellfire and Holy Water the very next day. "To the World", they said. "To Us," it meant, and how much they love it and strive to protect it.
Like us, Our Ineffables are flawed fellows. They get overwhelmed. Aziraphale gets too anxious, and starts spouting off things he doesn't really mean. Crowley loses his temper, and likewise starts spouting off things he doesn't really mean...
They fight with each other.
They fight for each other.
And life stays hard. They get overwhelmed. Anxiety happens. Anger happens. Bad decisions happen. Existential Exhaustion. Doesn't put any of us at our best, yeh?
But they keep trying to figure it all out and make it right. For the world and for each other...
Maybe I believe in Our Ineffables so much because I need something to believe in that gives me Hope, something that helps me keep fighting. Because I do believe in them, both of them. They mess up, but they don't give up.
Maybe that's not such a weird thing for any of us to believe in.
For the Star Wars Day (May the Fourth / May the Force Be With You) there was shared (with the permission of the Pratchett Estate ) a Terry Pratchett story from the Star Wars Universe that was only published in a newspaper 45 years ago! Very excited to read a new Terry's piece! :)❤ (tweet)
Also, Terry Pratchett writing fanfiction 45 years ago, can I hear a wahoo? :)
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