poise & propriety • he/him

This thread right here. Just all of this. We all need to keep this stuff in mind, along with everybody tagging their hate/love properly, if we're ever gonna get over this stupid divide. Both sides need to stop stalking each other, jumping on each other's posts to insult them and tell them how wrong they are, and firing anons and DMs full of death threats back and forth. We both also need to STOP DENYING the other side is being attacked too. I guarantee you there are assholes on BOTH SIDES attacking the other. If all you see is your own circle of lovers/haters, then all you'll see is the attacks on your own side. That doesn't mean attacks on the other side aren't happening and we ALL need to acknowledge that fact. BOTH SIDES need to start calling out the bad apples their own camps. Even if we don't know who they are, we can ALL still condemn the behavior openly on our blogs and in the main tags and make it clear to whoever is doing it that it's NOT WELCOME HERE. I don't care if you hated the finale or loved it, we ALL need to come together and work TOGETHER to STOP this before it gets even worse.

So nah, I don't actually think that people on any sides should have a duty to do that. Although everyone is free to do that when it suits them, of course.

(Except for the people who have themselves harassed/threatened/etc – imo those people have a duty to stop, apologise, and distance themselves from their previous behaviour.)

I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:

They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.

Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).

So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!

That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.

And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

S1E1

Here’s the thing.

I read a lot of scripts.  A lot.  From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies.  Features and pilots.  Specs and treatments.

And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff.  It’s more inspired.  It’s more compelling.  It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt.  It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful.  It’s smart and thoughtful and good.  It’s novel-quality.  Better than, sometimes.

Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job.  This is what they do on the side.  In their spare time.  For free.

So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good.  You’re good writers and great storytellers.  I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do.  And  because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies.  You’re better than that.  So be better than that.  If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it.   You’ve already started.

The Divine Ecstasy of St. Anthony

Remember when I told you I dreamt of this composition, title and all, well, god said t4t aziracrow and downloaded it directly to my frontal cortex

“So,” Crowley begins. “Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, eh?” He laughs.

Aziraphale smiles. “Yes, quite an interesting pair, I’m sure.”

“And Oscar Wilde and. You.” Crowley picks at the rim of his glass with his nail.

The one where Aziraphale has slept with a lot of poets.

Words: 3,392

Status: Complete

Rating: Mature

Art Credit: Books And Musical Instruments by Jan Vermeulen

@denimsnake

here's a list of things that are still here, that you can access anytime:

the book

the radio adaptation

season 1

season 2 (grab the bits you like and ignore the rest if necessary)

the bits of season 3 you did like (ignoring the rest may feel more difficult here but it is achievable i promise)

all the fanworks that exist already, whether they were created pre-tv adaptation, post-s1, post-s2 or post-s3

all of david and michael's interviews and other promo about the show pre-s3

the fans that are currently active in the fandom

the memories you've made in the fandom

and here's a list of things we can look forward to:

more fanworks/fanwork events, because people are still creating and will continue to do so

getting to know new good omens friends, whether they're new to the fandom or just new to you

in that vein, welcoming new fans to the fandom (it may not seem likely but new people will continue to seek us out!)

the final ineffable con and all the craziness and content that will come from that

people continuing to discover your fanworks, old and new

the moments where you'll start to feel the finale, the show in general and/or the fandom becoming easier to engage with again

I'm wondering if there are fics where the combined miracle phenomenon plays a role. In my imagination, they would use this ability to do the biggest miracle they could, together, to hide or block off earth from heaven and hell. Same ending of earth no longer being messed with, but they're still around, and still themselves. Anything like this would be amazing.

I know with the finale just out, you're probably getting swamped, so I'll be scrolling the wonderful page for things to tide me over.

Thank you!

We have some fics about the 25 lazarii miracle here, as well as #powerful aziraphale and #powerful crowley tags, which may interest you. I can't find many more specifically about joint miracles though...

Secret Mission by Dragonfire42 (G)

Muriel did their best in their new and unexpected role of running a bookshop, with firm instructions from the new Supreme Archangel (strongly reinforced by the demon Mr Crowley) to not actually sell any books. Which left them with quite a bit time to fill. They didn't let that distract them from their original mission: to verify whether the twenty-five lazarii miracle made Nina and Maggie across the road fall in love...

It Ends As It Began by canadiankazz (T)

“Crowley, what if… what if you and I getting together was really Her plan all along?” Aziraphale whispered excitedly. “What if you and I being together really was the right thing to do this whole time?” How I hope the series will end.

Find the Lady by Waspsfire (G)

God may play an ineffable game of chance but Crowley's good at finding the lady. What you think you see, isn't always what you see and a demon with nothing to lose takes a chance on survival away from god and with his angel. Or Crowley uses the very last of their magic to try one last desperate joint miracle as they disintegrate. He's an optimist after all.

The Power of LOVE: Our INEFFABLE Dyad’s Joint Miracle by graywings (T)

God watches Aziraphale and Crowley deal with the aftermath of the joint miracle.

Post S3 fix-it, Transcendental, rated T, 3k.

Nice And Ominous: a reluctant eschatology of the Second Attempt (3 parts, 117k words total, rated E but only in three short, skippable sections, otherwise T) or if you want the quick version, just Part III: Not Single Spies (61k, skippable E), which works fine on its own but does not include Crowley Being Sad™️ (part 1) or Aziraphale trying to rule Heaven (part 2), both of which are also good, I'm told.

Summary (part 1): Aziraphale has gone back to Heaven and Crowley has gone... well, in the direction his bonnet pointed, really; it doesn't matter, as long as it's anywhere but London. His back seat full of plants and his passenger seat full of empty bottles, he starts finding that his bonnet points back towards Soho more often than not and that the music is oddly appropriate. And some of the humans—and angel—on Whickber Street seem to care, for whatever stupid reason, whether he's dead or alive.

Summary (part 2): The new Supreme Archangel is Struggling. He can't stop the Second Coming, the archangels barely take him seriously, and a fog of blissful joy, only controllable by incessant, stone-cold fury, seems set to make his own mind betray him. Aziraphale has never been the one with the plan, but now, he needs to prevent the next apocalypse and keep Crowley safe on Earth, all while that reckless serpent insists on meddling in Heaven's affairs. (At least the new Christ is a good kid, and the Pope has nice tea.)

Summary (part 3): A man with pale hair turns up in Saint Peter's Square, naked and without memory, and Crowley's old sense of Aziraphale's location snaps like a twig.

Heaven is down another Supreme Archangel—but the new Christ is already on Earth (in France, to be precise) and the Second Coming is well underway. And Crowley works for Hell now, but really, he works for the good of humanity; pulling on every friend he has to stop the end of the world.

Everything comes to a head with a delivery van, a flaming sword, a road trip, a prophecy, a wheat field and a miracle of rather significant proportions.

what if they end up in the shop after everything has been erased, only this time crowley thinks: was the place always this big? it’s more of a maze than he remembers, now that he’s properly looking. rows and rows of shelves twisting and turning in a dozen labyrinthine directions. staircases spiraling up to nowhere. hallways branching off the foyer like tree roots, that’s new.

aziraphale emerges from the bowels of the shop, successful in his quest for cocoa. a warm drink at the end of all things, how painfully british. as far as crowley can tell, nothing has survived; not the earth, or alpha centauri, or any distant stars and nebulas clinging to the skin of the universe. not even light, the fastest, most fundamental thing in all of creation. but somehow, fortnum & mason has. somehow, aziraphale’s chintzy mug embossed with the words HOT STUFF in blazing cherry red above a little cartoon devil has.

“don’t ask,” he says, pushing it into crowley’s hands.

crowley opens his mouth, several questions and a taunt or two already lined up in the wings— and that's when he sees it.

oh. 

that’s definitely new.

cw: suicide

You know, Good Omens was an umbrella. It was a safe gathering space, a shelter and a haven for queer and traumatized and outcast folk for more than 30 years. Some of us are survivors of unspeakable horrors, and having to watch our comfort characters suicide onscreen with absolutely no warning, no toll free numbers and no consideration-- after a heavy barrage of seemingly intentional catfishing and misleading-to-outright-false advertisement from literally everyone involved in advance-- was simply devastating.

Coming up against smug, rude bullying, disdain and hate from long-beloved peers inside my own fandom for reacting emotionally to a trauma and continuing to struggle to reconcile the finale has been... fucking ass. Some of you are so nasty, so damn cruel. I'm thrilled it's just a show for you; my inbox is full of people who are having to go/back on psychiatric medications, triple booking therapy they can't afford, enduring fresh bouts of intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation, and self-harm. Several people I know vomited at the end of go3 and were unable to keep food down for days after. I cannot say it strongly enough. It was a savagely cruel thing to endure for many, including those who have experienced loss of loved ones from suicide, for example, like myself.

These fresh-- and old, retraumatized-- wounds require airing out, at a minimum. And sometimes that's uncomfortable for those around us, I know. But for Christ's sake, could you take a swing at a little empathy for us? Block the tags and let us grieve. We have been brutalized newly in a place we believed we were safe, where we had been actively promised and previously shown we were safe-- a place we trusted.

I'm sorry our agony isn't moving along fast enough for you. Personally, I have had three years of intensive healing torn out of me, and have thirty years of wasted love for my ineffables to grieve.