The ineffable brainrotting

I don't care if this ending was planned last year or 30 years ago. It is still a shit ending for me. Even if we had all 6 episodes, it'd still be shit if what we got in GO3 turns out to be the ending.

That's my stand on this. ✌️ Peace out.

I still think that this is not the ending Terry Pratchett wanted (I've also read a lot of TP). But, even if it was the ending TP intended, this is objectively a shitty ending. I hate it and would hate it the same if it was written by TP word for word.

And I'm absolutely convinced that this is not the ending that TP would have written because he was not stupid and wouldn't have written a book and piss on every part of it in the secuel (he didn't contradicted himself in all of Diskworld, and it's 41 books long. I'm confident he could to manage not contradicting himself in a series for just 2 books).

Because that kiss at the end of Season 2 is basically a callback to the Job episode, specifically the moment when Crowley offers Aziraphale some food.

And after that, Aziraphale just couldn't stop.

Just imagine how terrified Adam must have been when he realized that his act of courage and free will had all been for nothing. Imagine how scared he was when his family disappeared. Or think about Warlock, who never got the chance to live a life free from his father’s control. Or Anathema. Or Newt. Or Mr. Shadwell and Madame Tracy. Imagine them all disappearing, and how terrified they must have been in those moments.

Good Omens has always treated every life as equally valuable. There are no lives that matter more or less than others. It has always shown how even the smallest decisions matter, the smallest details, the seemingly insignificant people (like Elspeth and little Morag). It has always shifted the focus away from something vast and abstract onto something small, personal, and yet no less precious or beautiful.

Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it

Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.

Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist

ft. azi turning it into a yellow scooter 🤧

After agonizing for a short while over the perfect shade of yellow, Aziraphale cut to the chase and asked Crowley to remove his glasses so he could hold the swatches up next to his eyes.

Asa isn't a guardian angel wrapped in self-indulgence who's just enough of a bastard to be perfect.

Anthony's co-workers probably actually like him. He probably drives a perfectly reasonable car and when he turns on the stereo it almost certainly plays music that hasn't been transmuted into Queen.

Asa is excited at the thought of selling books. He offers discounts as a form of flirting. He doesn't own a bookshop with incomprehensible opening hours.

They'll never drive through London at 90 miles an hour while bickering. They'll never show up at the Ritz expecting a table has just miraculously opened up. They'll never reminisce about something that happened thousands of years ago that no one remembers except for them. They'll never talk through their issues. They'll never retire into a peaceful life full of the love that they both saved up over all the years when they had to hide how they really felt.

one of my favorite bits about good omens art is how everyone decides to interpret “gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide” or “dark hair and good cheekbones” differently

S2E2 - Bildad the Shuhite