These are hard times for dreamers

I'm cool with ppl defending GO3 by talking about what they liked or disagreeing with criticisms. I even agree with some points, and if I don't, no biggie. Different opinions won't kill me.

What I can't stick is the it's a bad idea to say that, or they're married what more do you want, or even you're damaging the fandom stuff, and not just because I don't like being told to shut up. These arguments come from the same place as what I hated about the end of GO3.

When Crowley said just be an us it's not just be a couple it also means be ourselves. They weren't together because they weren't free. For Aziraphale and Crowley, just like irl queer people, the freedom to be with the person they love is intrinsically linked to the freedom to be their authentic selves. Who we love is part of who we are.

The Finale gave us a remix of Crowley and Aziraphale who got to be together only when they gave up being themselves. Asa and Anthony are literally pale imitations. Turning a supernatural entity into a human can be a celebration of ordinariness, of humanity (Michael getting a human life the Good Place was a TREAT) but GO3 goes out of its way to make AU Crowley and Aziraphale lesser. Alt!Crowley could've been an artist, or an engineer, or a gardener but that wouldn't have demoted him from starmaker to stargazer. Why demote Aziraphale from bookshop owner to shop assistant other that to take him down a peg or two?

It feels pointed, a put down. No happiness while you're loud, and vibrant, powerful, and defiant. Be smaller, be quieter, be lesser, know your place and you might be allowed a happy ending. Behave.

And whatever the politics of the people saying it, the voices telling us to be grateful so see a married queer couple, to not complain, being annoyed at us for wanting more are giving me the same vibe. It's respectability politics, no kink at pride, assimilate, don't be angry or shrill or weird and don't be ungrateful.