My Love is Like...

Hello Good Omens fandom! I had the pleasure to be commissioned by my good friend @janeway-lover to do a huge illustration of the archangel Uriel in their true angelic form. This piece took a total of 23+ hours in total (many many days of work). I think this is one of the biggest pieces I’ve done in 5 years!! I hope you all enjoy it.

[ID in ALT: An illustration of the archangel Uriel from Good Omens in their true form. Behind them on their right is a golden eagle and on the left is a brown, furry Bull. Behind them are six white wings. Around them are several floating eyes as well as a horizontal metal ring through a vertical metal ring both covered in eyes. The rings also read part of a prayer: “O holy Saint Uriel, intercede for us that our hearts may burn with the fire of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”. All eyes in this illustration are glowing. Uriel holds a scroll out in front of them, with one hand holding the base of the roll, with the other holding the paper out. From that hand it falls down through one of the rings and towards the viewer. The scroll is filled with text from the book of Revelations. The sun shines brightly behind them, lighting up their form. / END ID]

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Yeah, idk what's wrong with me

Many people have written eloquently about how, since the book/radio drama/S1 all end happily with character arcs wrapped up, there is plenty of justification for taking them as one's personal canon. This is probably going to be my approach.

However, I do think there is justification in the structure of the show to consider each season as its own AU. I'm not saying you have to interpret it this way, just offering the possibility.

Season 1 begins with the OG wall meet-cute, which establishes A&C as a pair of slightly befuddled agents from opposing sides who have more in common with each other than head office. Of the three seasons, this one retains the most of the Cold War spy setting from the book, with them meeting in public places and expressing fear about getting into trouble with their head offices. Also, this is the only season that mentions the Arrangement, which is a concept that only makes sense if they both know that angels and demons are the same.

Season 2 introduces a new meet-cute that, to me, can be read as resetting the story into an AU about religious institutional trauma. The two angels are more like church friends, with one about to be ex-churched, and while the fear of their institutions persists, the conflicts between them throughout S2 seem more philosophical than S1's more practical and obvious emergency. In addition, among a number of moments that I find contradictory to S1, there is no hint of the Arrangement and generally A&C seem to lack the common knowledge and experience that I read them as having in S1.

Season 3 doesn't have breathing room for much of this kind of analysis, but the third meet-cute seems to launch us into a war AU with A&C as soldiers on opposite sides of an unbridgeable divide, who will never find more than a moment's peace together, which leads into their final decision. This is a huge reversal from S1, which showed characters successfully building relationships across their differences.

Chronologically, the only way I can make all three meet-cute scenes make sense in order is by assuming external manipulation. Their memories and/or their Book of Life pages must have been altered, or we must be watching them in different timelines or universes.

This is not the only issue I have when trying to consider the story chronologically. To me, the S1 flashbacks show a slowly developing relationship, allies to friends to lovers, over the centuries. The S2 minisodes disrupt that flow, with the Job flashback getting very intimate, then whipping back to a more distanced tone at the Crucifixion. And how do we get from Bastille Aziraphale, who is experiencing in real time what a hungry and oppressed populace will do, to the Aziraphale of Edinburgh 1827?

May I present the best apple:

Adam: but I'm just a kid...

Aziraphale: but that's not a bad thing to be, Adam. You know, I was scared that you'd be hell incarnate, I hoped you to be heaven incarnate. But you're not either of those things. You're much better. You're human incarnate.

Crowley: Adam, reality will listen to you right now, you can change things.

Aziraphale: and whatever happens, for good or for evil, we are beside you.

For me, the meaning is this: we, humans, from the smallest to the greatest, are capable of changing the world. We can refuse to be what others tell us we are. We can choose our own path. It doesn’t matter whether we are children or adults — everything is in our hands. Our destiny, and therefore the destiny of the world, is in our hands. What we are born as does not define us.

Unfortunately, I don’t know how this line originally looked in English, but in the Russian translation of the book there is a sentence like this:

“It’s just like expecting a tailless mouse to give birth to a tailless baby mouse.”

That is the essence of Good Omens. Those who think they mean nothing and have no influence are deeply mistaken. Every person matters; every voice matters. What we are born as does not determine who we truly are.

The Antichrist, whose purpose at birth was to destroy the planet, humanity, and claim his throne, is an ordinary eleven-year-old boy who rejects his predetermined role because he sees no point in ruling or power, he simply doesn’t need it. All he wants is to enjoy life on Earth, to enjoy playing with his friends, the small earthly joys, imagination, his imperfect but loving and loved parents, to go to school, to play with his dog in the garden, to steal apples from the neighbor’s tree, to grow up and love, to love, and love again this imperfect world.

All California sheephead start life as female and move through an array of colors and body shapes as they mature. Some female adults may transition to male as social and environmental factors shift, balancing the delicate ratio of individuals in their population.

While male California sheephead are largest and easiest to identify at a glance, a closer look at the lively waters of our Kelp Forest exhibit reveals a variety of female sheephead swimming through these fascinating life stages. 

It has been since the very beginning.

NG (fuck NG) thought of a book plot where a demon finds himself in The Omen movie. But he screws up the baby switch. And the Antichrist grew up as a character in a Richmal Crompton novel. He didn't know what to do with it next. TP offered to buy the story. He changed the demon into a demon and an angel defying their bosses on the earth they both loved. He added his smart whimsy and gave the story a moral core far beyond a silly spoof. When the story was written, queer kids saw themselves in the angel and demon based on the subtext. Because they lived in subtext. Gender fluid and trans readers created stories about an angel and demon for whom gender was a choice depending on how or whether they decided to make an effort. The strangeness of fitting into a planet dominated by beings the angel and demon differed from spoke to neurodivergent readers.

Religious readers found healing after years of struggling to make sense of doctrine divorced from morality. Some ace and aro readers saw the deep and meaningful relationship beyond romance between a pair together over 6000 years. And tons of horny people from all walks of life poured their hearts into smut that made the most of beings whose bodies allowed for a range of sexual practice that would never be realistic for humans.