she/her - ruminating about good omens, for the time being (who am i kidding? it's good omens 24/7). go3 is NOT canon. in this blog we don't tolerate hate.
i don’t hate series finales because it’s the ending of a show.. i hate them because somehow writers find a way to fuck up the whole show in just one episode
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Welp, it's been about a month, and I finally have the energy to try to convey my thoughts on the Good Omens finale. Yeah, I know, old news at this point, but what's the point of Tumblr other than talking to myself about my feelings?
Anyways, this is coming from someone who isn't a massive, longterm GO fan. I did not wait years for this finale. I am not heavily bound to these characters (though I have developed my usual maternal feelings towards Crowley pretty quickly, so there's that). I didn't go through the emotional upheaval surrounding the news that the writer is a vile sexual predator. Essentially: I don't go here. I'm not an appreciable part of this fandom.
So I feel like it means something kind of negative when the finale had even me - all but an outsider - kind of grimacing at her screen.
Again: I don't have an extensive history with this series. I watched S1 years ago, liked it fine, and promptly forgot about it. Fast forward a few years later, and it's February 2026. I get the sudden urge to rewatch the David Tennant era of Doctor Who from my college days, but I am also cognizant of the fact that I am an emotionally delicate little cupcake and don't really want to sob on my couch for multiple hours. So! For some silly reason, I decide that watching Good Omens will provide me with some Tennant enjoyment without the emotional commitment.
...this was a mistake, obviously. Y'all can see that coming, but I did not at the time. So I went ahead and fired up S1, enjoyed it again, and followed it with S2. S2 was... well. That last bit, eh? What do y'all call it... the Final Fifteen? Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, that was upsetting.
But! Fear not, sad little me, for S3 is just around the corner! I managed to get into this right before the conclusion, escaping years of doubt and longing and potential disappointment.
Aaaaaand then I watched it.
I watched it like... a week or two after it came out. After watching the general reception and just kind of steeling myself for it. I'd become attached to Crowley. I enjoyed Aziraphale as well, and their relationship had grown on me significantly in just a few months. I'd read bits and pieces of the original book, and I enjoyed them there, too. So I was trying to prep myself for the emotional disappointment, y'know?
But when I finally watched it, I was less disappointed and more just... weirded out? I think that's the best way of putting it? Like, the whole thing felt so disjointed, so strange, so thematically removed from the S1 and book that I enjoyed, that my normally canon-focused brain just kind of rejected it. I wasn't sad simply because the whole thing just didn't feel like an actual, in-character, thematic conclusion to the story.
The whole conflict surrounding free will: S1 and the book made it pretty clear that free will existed? I think? Like, that was part of the comedy: Heaven and Hell go through all of these motions to influence things, but at the end of the day, humans are just like "meh, we'll do what we want, thanks." Like, that was funny! Crowley doing dumb, annoying things to try to foment evil while simultaneously sabotaging himself and also never coming up with the level of evil humans came up with was funny! Angels kind of being bureaucratic assholes was funny!
It was funny, and it was wholesome. An angel and a demon forging a longterm bond simply because they felt more understood by one another than by their "sides" was wholesome. The Antichrist telling Satan to fuck off so he could go live a normal kid life with his newly-liberated hellhound was wholesome.
And now, as of S3, those things didn't matter? None of it happened? What? Why? What in the world was the point of *gestures* All Of That? Why even bother?
The whole concept of fighting for your current world, of striving to survive and repair things the best you can, of valuing the people and creatures around you for what they are... all of it is just gone. Everyone is gone. None of it ever happened? What. Why would you write it that way. Why would you essentially destroy the entire everything of the actual, canonical book that had established themes and a satisfying conclusion? Why would you rewrite it as "nah, this whole mess is too far gone, so we have to let it die and also destroy ourselves in the process; give the audience a bunch of body doubles living happily afterwards in a world that means nothing to them"?
And S2! Like, S2 on its own seemed less organized and realized than S1, but I figured that that was because it was to be paired with S3 in completing its arcs and developing its themes. Instead, literally everything that happens in S2 is just... pointless?
Like, what the hell was the point of Gabriel and Beelzebub? Why in the world did we spend six episodes chasing Gabriel's memories around and learning of his relationship with the Duke of Hell only for it to not matter in the slightest?
Then there was the Job flashback: a whole plot making it very clear that killing everyone and replacing them with new versions was not the same. Both Azi and Crowley knew this. It was emphasized heavily. And then S3 comes along and we just... ???
God was changed from a creature I actually kind of liked in S1 (passive, kind of eldritch and unknowable, not actually malicious) to the sort of asshole I interpret (and hate) the actual Christian god being. Callous and vaguely entertained by the trials and sufferings of what were essentially her own children whom she was supposed to love. Her detached amusement over Crowley and Aziraphale's entire relationship was actually infuriating to me. Her children were in such distress, and the way she treated them was repulsive to me. The idea that Azi spent his whole life trying to live up to the expectations of this narcissistic twit was... ugh.
The fact that no human characters even knew anything was going on, let alone were able to have agency in their world's fate felt so, so contrary to the vibes of the original work. And that's coming from someone who generally doesn't care for human characters: I was bothered by their omission because it upset the themes the story had so championed.
Gosh, what else... I feel like this is all so disjointed, but I have issues with basically all of it...
Jesus was pointless. Could have been removed from the plot, and nothing would have changed.
My sweet baby Muriel never had a chance to leave their sheltered existence.
Nina and Maggie are just gone? Anathema and Newt and The Them are gone? None of these people, who witnessed and were involved in supernatural affairs, had any sort of involvement with an attempted second apocalypse? Really?
The relationship between Azi and Crowley was just so sad in the end? Like they realized that there was no point in fighting for their own lives and their own relationship and just... gave up. After spending the whole S3 plot angry and upset and afraid and so unhappy with one another. None of it resolved before they both decide to die.
But CF, you may say, what did you expect to happen?
Jeez, I don't know. I'm not a writer. I'm not even a legit GO fan. I don't even go here. But from the way S1 was written, and the was S2 happened, I had some vague ideas of what would make sense.
I thought that Jesus would be a sort of parallel to Adam. In S1, Hell tried to initiate the End Times by sending their child to Earth. Said child took his free will and said "fuck off." Now in S3, it would have made sense to me if Jesus played a similar role: Heaven's child sent to end the world, only to take charge of his own destiny and tell his mother to fuck off. Would have been poetic for the two of them to come together somehow, y'know? Hell's child and Heaven's child coming together to say no and to save their world. A parallel to one of Hell's demons and Heaven's angels doing the same thing.
I thought that Gabriel and Beelzebub would have some bearing on things. Their love and their own, personal choice to leave and pursue their own freedom would act as proof that Crowley and Aziraphale aren't just weird outliers; all angels and demons have the capacity for free will. All have the capacity for love. All can decide to reject The Establishment and pursue their own happiness.
Oh, and the 25 Lazarii miracle! Dang, I thought it would mean something, that an angel and demon working together could achieve such a feat. I thought... I dunno... if the writers wanted to turn God antagonistic, perhaps it would involve some sort of reveal that the sides of Heaven and Hell were purposely being kept apart so that the angels and demons didn't realize the sort of power they had if they worked together. Power that could defeat their creator.
It may just be years of JRPGs and the enjoyment of His Dark Materials in my youth, but I was expecting them to kill God. Or something similar. Christ and Antichrist, aware humans, angels and demons coming together to wrest control of their freedom and their lives from the capricious asshole who created them. All of the people - mortal and immortal - who were oppressed and controlled and contained by this deity and their supposed plan waking up and realizing that they have the ability to free themselves from it.
I guess that's what I ultimately wanted: for all of these people to just be able to live their own lives. Peacefully. Without the fear of their masters hanging over their heads. The humans. Animals. The angels and the demons. Michael and Muriel and Beelzebub and the Erics. And especially Aziraphale and Crowley. Gosh but I wanted Azi and Crowley to just be able to live as themselves, share their lives with one another, without constantly worrying and fearing that they'd be found out and destroyed. I wanted them to have their cottage and their garden and their peace after millenia of doubt and fear. I wanted Azi to be able to enjoy food without guilt. I wanted Crowley to be able to do something kind without getting all defensive about it. I wanted peace for them, the poor dears.
And that's just after thinking about these characters for a few months. I can't even imagine the pain visited upon people who are Bound to this story and these characters. I am so, so sad for people who waited years and had their hearts broken.
There's more I could say. More plot details that are weird, character details that don't work for me. A lot more, but I think I've reached the limit of my coherence for now. Maybe I'll post more later, if I can organize my thoughts again.
*sigh* The only saving grace for me personally is that it all feels so contrary to the established themes. Even to the general vibe of the characters and story... so much so that I can actually reject it in my brain's understanding of canon. Which is normally incredibly difficult for me to do. I'm normally such a canon purist, but this... this feels so off. To the point that the rejection of it doesn't even feel like coping to me; it just feels like a logical conclusion.
Thank you so much op! It's so comforting to read this from someone from outside the fandom! Obviously you understood the argument, the characters, the point of this book and series much, much better than the actual writers who wrote the go3 script. Because I know that we (the people who have read the book a hundred times, who have watched s1 and s2 for years and can recite passages of them, the ones who have been studying these characters for years and writing about them and for them in fanfics) know these characters, the plot and where the story was going. But if a casual fan can see all of this so clearly I wonder, once more, what were the writers doing? Could they really stick their heads so far up their arses as to do what they did and be ok with it?
I just watched an edit and I'm in the bad place all of a sudden. In the very bad place. It was a very good edit and sweet, but at the end was the finger kiss and ... Their faces in that scene. I can't.
I just want to crawl under (yes, under, not in, under) my bed and cry. For 6000 years.
I swear I was alright. But it all came back and my heart broke again and I'm so pissed with what they did to my boys. And they got away with it. It's so unfair.
The pain is here to stay.
I need help. Send fanfic or something.
I totally understand the people who couldn't rewatch the final 15. Not that I didn't before, I understood them in a rational level. But now I feel their pain. I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch go3 again.
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Quite a few new (or new to the calendar) events this month! There are so many new events popping up that I'm posting a mid-month calendar update to add a pretty big batch of them.
This calendar includes events inspired by Good Omens, across all eras, interpretations, and continuities. Whether you're a creator, participant, or enthusiastic cheerleader, there are plenty of ways to get involved.
Events in green have been newly added! Take a look!
⏰ indicates a submission deadline within the next month
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Creative Events, Challenges, & Prompts: (Events where you make, write, draw, or create)
June 2026
•Time After Time — ⏰ 1st-30th June 2026 (Creation Period), 1st-31st July 2026 (Posting Period)
A Good Omens AU-focused event celebrating the many worlds, timelines, and alternate lives imagined for Crowley and Aziraphale after S3.
⏰•Good Omens 3, Fan Reactions Project—Submission Deadline 21st June 2026
Fan Reactions to S3 Compilation Video Submissions are open for a compilation of fan reactions to Season 3. Information, rules & instructions can be found on the project page.
•Summer of Ineffable Pride Bingo— Posting runs June-1st September 2026
A low-pressure Pride-inspired Good Omens challenge for writers and artists, encouraging seasonal queer-themed fanworks. This event is designed to be flexible and welcoming, allowing participants to join in whenever they like. See link for full details
⏰•The Mischief— Deadline: 30th June 2026
A call to contribute to the Book of Pride (to be displayed at TIC) featuring one-page submissions including writing, artwork, or other content printable on one A5 page (with margins). Contributions should be inspired by the Good Omens universe and Pride. See link above for details.
•The Ineffable Rewrite Challenge—A GOAD challenge encouraging fans to reimagine the finale. Stories should include the events of S1 and S2, Jesus, pizza, and the Book of Life. Beyond those elements, participants are free to take the story in any direction, length, rating, or style. See the link above for details.
July 2026
•The Ineffable Con Vid Show—Submission Deadline 26th July 2026
Video submissions are now open for the convention. Songvids, video essays, crack vids, fan trailers, animatics, dubbed comics, and more are welcome. Both new and existing works may be submitted. Convention attendance is not required.
•Julycious—Summer prompt challenge.
Odd-numbered days 1st-31st July 2026
A summer-inspired creative challenge featuring prompts on every odd-numbered day throughout July. Join in with writing, art, or other fanworks whenever inspiration strikes and add your creations to the collection.
•Monsters and Myths Collaboration— Coming Soon
Announcements are expected in early July, with sign-ups open for approximately two weeks. The event is scheduled to begin in mid-to-late July, with posting dates starting in October.
•Alternative Good Omens Finale Project— A fan-led animation project imagining an alternative ending is seeking artists, writers, and other contributors. See the link above for information and sign-up form.
August 2026
•Rare Omens Each week prompts you to create for different Good Omens canon and feature rare characters/pairs in your fan art and fanfic!
August 2 - 8: TV Omens finale
August 9 - 15: TV Omens series 2
August 16 - 22: TV Omens series 1
August 23 - 29: Book Omens
September 2026
•Good Omens Got True Talents Show 2026–Submission Deadline 27th September 2026
Submissions are open in a variety of categories, including Musical Performance, Non-Musical Performance, Arts and Crafts, Memes and Comics, Cosplay. The showcase video will premiere on 9th October 2026 through Sendarya: Exploring Visual Media Through Analysis
Ongoing/No Fixed Date
•Good Omens Britpicking Library—A community-built resource for Good Omens creators, aimed at gathering accessible guidance on British cultural details. The initiative will also maintain a companion blog for updates, questions, and a list of available britpickers.
•Bildadzine 2—Bildad-themed zine volume 2 is in the very earliest stages of development. Watch for upcoming announcements and participation details.
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Community Events & Meetups: (Events you attend, join, or show up for at a specific time or place)
August 2026
•Good Omens Tour of London—19th August 2026
A wheelchair-accessible walking tour of Good Omens London filming locations in the run up to TIC7. You don’t need to be attending the convention to join the tour.
•The Small Back Room— 21st - 23rd August 2026
A fan-organized weekend at Alton House Hotel, Alton, Hampshire, UK. Where attendees can gather to stream The Ineffable Con 7 together. Tickets are available for full weekend or single day attendance. Cosplay is welcome! For more information, contact @lintilla72
•The Ineffable Con 2026 21st - 23rd August 2026
Cookam, UK (but also virtual attendance options available).
October 2026
•The Ineffable Society Meetup 2026 24th October 2026
Philadelphia, USA. This looks like a great opportunity to meet fellow fans in person.
Ongoing/No Fixed Date
•Sendarya: Exploring Visual Media Through Analysis Following Season 3, Sendarya will continue Good Omens discussions while expanding coverage to additional fandoms.
If you have or know of an event to share, please submit it here or DM the calendar: Event Submission Form
Tag your posts #ineffablegoevents so we can find them and include them in the monthly roundup.
*(This list focuses on events currently open to participants and may not include events that are already closed to new sign-ups.) A huge shout-out to @naturallyteal, our agent-in-the-field. Like a particularly dedicated cryptid, he appears whenever a new Good Omens event is announced. 😉🩵
If you find this calendar useful, reblogs are always appreciated. It helps more GO fans discover events and create community within the fandom 💛
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Let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from the tagging list.
"Didn't you have a flaming sword?"
"Erm..."
"Yes you did, it was flaming like anything, what happened to it?"
"I- uh...."
"Lost it already, have you?"
"I gave it away..."
"You WHAT?!!"
"I gave it away!!!"
It would be one thing if they were portrayed as world weary. As tired of existing from day to day for over 6000 years. As saddened by generations of humans coming and going. As ready for (and deserving of) a rest.
But! They LOVE the world! The restaurants! The wine! The ephemeral but fascinating people! Snuff boxes, the theater, ducks! The amazing (and maddening) new things people invent! 6000 years and still so much left to learn, do, and say.
getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.
but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.
and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.
RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.
the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:
if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."
whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,
it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.
they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.
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Sorry everyone, I’ve had time to think and come to terms with the ending.
I don’t like it.
My reasoning is Aziraphale and Crowley are just completely out of character.
They would never agree to nix the earth and make a new one. They quite liked the old one actually. Even with its flaws. They love the world and the people in it. They would never be martyrs either. In season 1, they were prepared to fight against Satan with only a flaming sword and a hand crank, because the world is worth it. They drank champagne in The Ritz and toasted “to the world”.
On “Our” side. What happened to that?
Crowley loves Aziraphale and Aziraphale loves Crowley. They would never sacrifice themselves. They’d go down fighting. Crowley is protective of Aziraphale, he would never talk him into killing himself. Aziraphale would never let Crowley harm himself either. They’d protect each other, fight together for this world. The one they love.
So that’s why I hate 3. Not because they didn’t kiss or because they died, but because they didn’t even put up a fight.
I know I'm not the only person to find it strange that two woman--one hysterical (Michael), the other simply malevolent (God)--decide to obliterate every living thing in the universe.
knowing NG was at the helm of the finale, in light of his sexual exploitation of women, this feels very sinister indeed. Michael and God are alternately deluded and capricious. they enact the destruction of everything. NG is evil, but he's not stupid. he knew what he was doing, and what it implies: everything goes to shit because some women couldn't leave well enough alone.
what I'm saying is, as an instrument of resentment and reputation, the finale is NG pulling a DARVO.
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Today's hot take is seeing a post that implied Aziraphale and Crowley could only be in a happy relationship outside a world where Heaven and Hell existed. To be fair, I didn't yeet my phone, though it was close.
I want to write something thoughtful but before I do, I need simply say: fuck that noise.
Good Omens is a queer allegory, and if queer people excel at anything it is existing despite the bigotry in the world. We have always been here. We always will be. Despite what religious and corporate over Lords desire. Queer joy is an act of rebellion in our current world, and is one that should be embraced rather than met with the message of the only way we can find happiness is to exist in a perfect world.
Aziraphale and Crowley both know that, too. I cannot believe our guardian angel and demon could co-exist with us for thousands of years and come to the conclusion that utter destruction is the only way to find your joy.
Enjoy the ending if you want. I am happy for you to do so. But don't go spouting destructive nonsense like this is the only path.
Its Pride and our community is worth the fight. And yes, even in oppressive systems you can find your home and your joy, despite what those in power want you to believe. And then we keep working towards a better system, because that is how you make real change.
The other day I read a "they needed to die in order to be happy in another life because as they were they'd never be happy". And I was just. Boy how much did this finale fuck up, so much that now people are trying to tell themselves death is a necessity and not a tragedy? What kind of stories are these people consuming that they think a pointless death is a "necessity"? What a marvelous message this finale sent people.
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