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The only thing more endearing than his angel keeping track of their kisses (organized by location and type, of course) was how quickly he’d abandoned it as impractical.

Sir Terry Pratchett had nothing to do with this!

Hey, guys! Did you know there's a 1992 version of the Good Omens script that Neil Gaiman DESPERATELY does not want people to see? Apparently, it's SO BAD that people universally refer to it as the "SHITSCRIPT". Here's how Neil feels about it:

Notice the vague legal threats---which I believe was the same abuse tactic he used against his RAPE VICTIMS! Interesting! (Man has a pattern.)

Anyway, it's on the fucking Internet Archive. You can read it here:

I also found this Google Drive link (thank you, people of tumblr!). You can download it if you are so inclined:

oh and ALSO, Terry Pratchett left the 1992 project out of principle (I suspect because he could tell the company they were working with was going to make it a shit show). Meanwhile, NG stayed and wrote the entire script himself (presumably just for the money, except the company eventually went bankrupt and seems to have paid him nothing for it LOL). Soooooo, makes us wonder why NG wrote a season 2 and 3 at all, huh??? 🤡

Anyway. If you for some reason still believe NG has any competence as a writer, go ahead and take a look at this. Imo it belongs in the flaming trash can, right next to the GO finale.

On the one hand, some of it is lovely. It looks thoughtful and aware of GO's queer audience and our enthusiasm. They're also donating all profits to queer charities. That's nice.

But this is all now tied to a show that killed its queer-coded protagonists, that never let them so much as hug even as human shadows of themselves. A show that gave us no answers about Maggie and Nina except that they lost the businesses they loved. A show that killed a queer man between seasons and left his spouse thinking he'd committed suicide. A show that took a fan-favorite nonbinary character and had them die while cheerfully insisting that they had always been an idiot.

Does the store have the right to sell pride merch after that finale?

The store is run by Terry Pratchett's estate and has no financial or business affiliation with Neil Gaiman. Can I take it enough on faith that they didn't endorse how the queer characters were treated in the end?

I did buy these pins, despite my qualms. They're the most overt acknowledgement we've ever gotten of Crowley and Aziraphale connecting with human queer identities. I found that, for all my heartbreak, I couldn't say no to that.

The package also came with a note.

What does it mean that a package that sold me a pin of Aziraphale with rainbow wings also includes a note that says he has no idea what those colors mean? What Pride is? "Aziraphale" thanks me for being me and tells me to love bravely, but can't say the word gay (let alone any of the other words).

Is this the intersection of good intentions and fear of corporate punishment? Or just an empty attempt to maintain ally points?

With a show that concluded with the death of every single character and an attempt to say that our real, nonmagical world was the real happy ending, why include this note that takes place in some whimsical non-time during season two? Maybe Rob Wilkins and the rest of the Terry Pratchett estate are sending little cues that we should ignore the finale. Maybe it isn't that deep and they just thought it would be cute.

My package also included a free bookmark.

And I think this is the best symbol of how Good Omens failed its fans. Saying "Love is Love" with romantic leads who aren't even touching.

Also, Aziraphale is dead and never existed, Jim is dead and never existed even as Gabriel, all the queer people Aziraphale is wishing happiness to are dead and never existed, Crowley decided they didn't deserve to live because he preferred hypothetical people, so holy tonedeaf genocide Batman.

But if it’s something that is Relevant to His Interests, he has no problems adapting to it fairly quickly. Compact Discs were modern technology when Book Omens takes place, and they made it near the top of Crowley’s list of things Aziraphale will miss after Armageddon. Because Aziraphale likes music, so he whole-heartedly adopted this new convenient human tech for storing and owning music.

Book!Aziraphale was ‘the first Angel to own a computer’! It’s clearly not as modern and up-to-date as the one in Crowley’s flat that he upgrades every few months, but still, in 1990/the late 80’s, Aziraphale was still kinda ahead of the curve on the widespread adoption of computers!

Because it helps him do his taxes and manage his “”business””. He probably has no interest in upgrading it or keeping up with evolving computer technology… unless Humans invent some improvement that’s also Relevant to His Interests. And Aziraphale almost definitely actually uses his computer on a regular way more than Crowley, who, at least in 1990, was only buying computers as a status symbol.

(That being said, seeing as Crowley had become addicted to Googling Himself by the 2005 New Year Resolutions, he probably figured out things he likes to do on the computer eventually.)

And at the same time, yeah, he has does have little experience with answering machines…

Probably not technology he would really care about. If anyone calls him while he’s not home or not available , they could just kinda… fuck off, probably. Although I won’t say he’s totally unfamiliar with what they are, pretty quickly after the ‘stop making noises!’ bit he realizes that he should try Crowley’s other number. That’s why I think he just doesn’t have a lot of experience with them and forgot due to the stress he was under at the time.

I thought i was doing that already. remedied this great mistake posthaste.

I LOVE YOUR INEFFABLES ART, THE MEDIEVAL WIVES GIVE ME LIVE!!

On the one hand, some of it is lovely. It looks thoughtful and aware of GO's queer audience and our enthusiasm. They're also donating all profits to queer charities. That's nice.

But this is all now tied to a show that killed its queer-coded protagonists, that never let them so much as hug even as human shadows of themselves. A show that gave us no answers about Maggie and Nina except that they lost the businesses they loved. A show that killed a queer man between seasons and left his spouse thinking he'd committed suicide. A show that took a fan-favorite nonbinary character and had them die while cheerfully insisting that they had always been an idiot.

Does the store have the right to sell pride merch after that finale?

The store is run by Terry Pratchett's estate and has no financial or business affiliation with Neil Gaiman. Can I take it enough on faith that they didn't endorse how the queer characters were treated in the end?

I did buy these pins, despite my qualms. They're the most overt acknowledgement we've ever gotten of Crowley and Aziraphale connecting with human queer identities. I found that, for all my heartbreak, I couldn't say no to that.

The package also came with a note.

What does it mean that a package that sold me a pin of Aziraphale with rainbow wings also includes a note that says he has no idea what those colors mean? What Pride is? "Aziraphale" thanks me for being me and tells me to love bravely, but can't say the word gay (let alone any of the other words).

Is this the intersection of good intentions and fear of corporate punishment? Or just an empty attempt to maintain ally points?

With a show that concluded with the death of every single character and an attempt to say that our real, nonmagical world was the real happy ending, why include this note that takes place in some whimsical non-time during season two? Maybe Rob Wilkins and the rest of the Terry Pratchett estate are sending little cues that we should ignore the finale. Maybe it isn't that deep and they just thought it would be cute.

My package also included a free bookmark.

And I think this is the best symbol of how Good Omens failed its fans. Saying "Love is Love" with romantic leads who aren't even touching.

On the one hand, some of it is lovely. It looks thoughtful and aware of GO's queer audience and our enthusiasm. They're also donating all profits to queer charities. That's nice.

But this is all now tied to a show that killed its queer-coded protagonists, that never let them so much as hug even as human shadows of themselves. A show that gave us no answers about Maggie and Nina except that they lost the businesses they loved. A show that killed a queer man between seasons and left his spouse thinking he'd committed suicide. A show that took a fan-favorite nonbinary character and had them die while cheerfully insisting that they had always been an idiot.

Does the store have the right to sell pride merch after that finale?

The store is run by Terry Pratchett's estate and has no financial or business affiliation with Neil Gaiman. Can I take it enough on faith that they didn't endorse how the queer characters were treated in the end?

I did buy these pins, despite my qualms. They're the most overt acknowledgement we've ever gotten of Crowley and Aziraphale connecting with human queer identities. I found that, for all my heartbreak, I couldn't say no to that.

The package also came with a note.

What does it mean that a package that sold me a pin of Aziraphale with rainbow wings also includes a note that says he has no idea what those colors mean? What Pride is? "Aziraphale" thanks me for being me and tells me to love bravely, but can't say the word gay (let alone any of the other words).

Is this the intersection of good intentions and fear of corporate punishment? Or just an empty attempt to maintain ally points?

With a show that concluded with the death of every single character and an attempt to say that our real, nonmagical world was the real happy ending, why include this note that takes place in some whimsical non-time during season two? Maybe Rob Wilkins and the rest of the Terry Pratchett estate are sending little cues that we should ignore the finale. Maybe it isn't that deep and they just thought it would be cute.

My package also included a free bookmark.

And I think this is the best symbol of how Good Omens failed its fans. Saying "Love is Love" with romantic leads who aren't even touching.

"Love is not a sin" - Inspired by the song "AppleTree" by Aurora

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

During one of Crowley’s brief windows of consciousness Aziraphale made a bit of a show of conjuring a large, shallow basket, lining it with soft tartan wool and one of his own vests, and then making a place for it in a miraculous little spot of sunshine on his desk.