SonKitty

I started this picture in June ‘24 and I picked it now up again. It was forgotten in my procreate gallery, lineart done, waiting for some colour. So I did finish it finally.

Great White: a type of shark. White Lie: a harmless and, often, even beneficial untruth or deception. Fishy business: suspicious happenings.

“And you will be a tool of that glorious destiny.”

“Tool. Yeah.”

yeah

i just want to grab his face and give him a big smooch. I want to brush his hair. i want to plant kisses all over his freckled cheekies. I want to read him a bedtime story. I want to fuck him until hes crying i want to wrap him up like a demon burrito and feed him soup. I want to wrap my arms around him and cradle his head to my chest and stroke his hair and rock him like a baby. I want him to shag me silly on the hood of the bentley I want to kiss his hands and paint his nails black i want to snuggle up to him at night and hold him and hear his heartbeat i want to tie him up and make him beg i want-

my sweet snake demon baby boy princess queen blorbo pathetic wet cat sweet cheese good time boy

id die for him. id die a million times over. id live for him. id kill for him. id bleed for him.

crowley you magnificent beautiful gorgeous stunning perfect handsome pretty precious cute adorable lovely kind gentle compassionate caring loyal funny silly creature.

did i mention i love him?

I only recently saw this one, so it was rare to me:

And I agree! Sort of. Meaning, I agree with the idea that people aren't entitled to a story working out the way they personally want.

BUT.

In my admittedly limited time hanging out in this fandom, I don't think that's what I've seen. It's certainly not what I personally experienced in my own viewing of the finale.

While it's perfectly reasonable to say that people aren't entitled to stories working out the way they want, I think it's just as reasonable to say that they are allowed to expect a story to function and resolve following its own internal rules. They are allowed to assume a story will maintain its genre, follow through with its message, address loose threads in a way that makes sense within its established logic.

It's not "entitled" to be weirded out and disappointed when your whimsical, fun, satirical comedy-with-a-dash-of-romance suddenly veers wildly off-course and ends up awkwardly metamorphosing into a nihilistic tragedy. It's not petty or whiny to be sad about characters you've known and loved for years being destroyed so suddenly and unexpectedly. Falling in love with a story that - for decades - has had a specific, uplifting, accepted thematic message, only to be upset when that message is abruptly tossed out and replaced with something wildly different isn't the same as demanding writers bend to your will.

Isn't that the point of choosing a genre, or an established fiction? If I want to watch something scary, I'll seek out horror. If I want something heartwarming, I'll go for... I dunno... a Pixar movie or whatever. That's not me demanding things or being entitled; it's me making a choice about what I want to see based upon the established characteristics of specific bits of media.

People aren't upset just because they didn't get the kiss they wanted; they're upset because they decided to watch GO3 with the understanding that this piece of fiction was built around a specific sort of theme and vibe and wholesome message - based upon an established canon - and then they were smacked upside the head with something entirely different.

I was not a fan after the book. I read it in October 2018. I liked it well enough. I can see that since I don't read many books, a lot of it stuck with me in my own fanfic writing not long after I read it. I read it at least once and then probably either re-read it or re-read some passages because it's such a big ensemble piece. I have re-read it twice since watching the show.

I didn't walk away from that book thinking that a big theme was "Read between the lines, and figure it out for yourself," or "discernment" as another Tumblr user put it. I grasped that more when reading meta information on Tumblr years later after watching the show (October 2023). I didn't think of the book and season 1 as a Mystery. I usually call it a Fantasy, but I do think Fantasy Comedy is a good descriptor as well.

Like many, I took the themes to be about free will, friendship, people do good things and bad things and are basically people, people matter, the world one has is worth loving and saving, those types of things.

A big thing that changed in GO1, the first season of the show, and the end of the book is the face swap, what many call the body swap. They showed us the clues, then revealed the trick, and then we could go back and see the clues were already there. They allowed us to see the prestige. But also...don't take things at face value.

For GO2, the Final Fifteen sends up some massive red flags that things aren't right, like not just the argument, but the actual structure of the story, the directorial choices, and such. I didn't like how it ended, but I liked David Tennant as Crowley and wanted to make the best of that. I read meta information, liked some theories, found some really interesting things through trying to figure out his sideburns, and so on.

Simply put, the GO2 story repeatedly lied to its audience. There were a lot of documented continuity issues that the fandom had with the recognition these things were intentional. GO2 gave clues that further suggested...don't take things at face value.

With GO3, Michael says the Metatron used to just fiddle with things in the Book of Life, which was a theory I worked from as a starting point while not quite fitting my own theories on GO2. But if you watch after he's gone in GO3, the story still has intentional continuity issues and a nonsensical plot.

The story kept lying. Even at the South Downs cottage, there is a continuity error with Asa's right hand.

It is still going with...don't take things at face value.

Basically, GO2 and GO3 are a complex puzzle where the audience is left to figure out what happened. Parts of GO3 are contradictory to the characters and themes of the book and season 1 on purpose to challenge the audience.

The story references deception and games plenty, and it is playing games with the audience. This play is given in a very challenging way that many people find off-putting. A big part of that is because of yes, this major genre shift if you take things at face value.

I've read that Aziraphale's Nightmare theory, and while it's certainly creative, I honestly can't see it or anything similar actually being the true plot.

That would just be bizarre. "The whole plot of these two seasons is the protagonist's dream, but we're never actually going to reveal that, or confirm it, or address it, or have any character react to it, or anything; the only way you'll know is if you manage to guess it or read this specific meta on Tumblr."

It just seems way more likely that Gaiman and friends wrote a poor-quality set of followup seasons to a story that really resolved itself quite neatly in the first season, with no need to continue. Likely for the money.

Seems a far more likely explanation than "seasons two and three are poorly written and bizarre and off-theme because they're challenging the audience to figure out... something; something that they ultimately never reveal, so who knows if anyone guessed it."

"…I mean, if that's the case, then what exactly was the point? What's the resolution? What's the actual answer to the challenge?"

Something like that is really up to you. I can't answer that, sorry.

That would just be bizarre. "The whole plot of these two seasons is the protagonist's dream, but we're never actually going to reveal that, or confirm it, or address it, or have any character react to it, or anything; the only way you'll know is if you manage to guess it or read this specific meta on Tumblr.

There is a lot I wouldn't know about Good Omens if I didn't read meta on Tumblr. I agree, it is bizarre.

Would be cool to be proven wrong, mind. Would make for really cool meta. But the show is over, isn't it? With nothing revealed save for a disappointing ending that we have no indication is anything but the actual ending.

For Good Omens 2, I went back and studied it a lot. I didn't like the ending, and read up other meta posts to get some grasp of what was going on (between just looking at pictures of David Tennant as Crowley). Eventually, I found out Crowley's sideburns change length in weird ways. I used it as an excuse to direct my obsessive energy with David Tennant being a perfect Crowley. It looked like fun.

And it was fun. And interesting. I got a lot more than I bargained for in that adventure. I've watched it a lot. I've listened to it a lot. I've studied things frame by frame in parts or cut by cut in parts. I made two transcripts with realizing the official subtitles repeatedly lie on purpose.

So, I can't prove anything to you, just say that I've spent a lot of time and effort on studying GO2 especially and can use what I learned there to connect with the nightmare idea. The nightmare stuff connects more strongly for me in GO3 because of what I found in GO2, but I can still see it because of how much I worked on things myself.

When Vida brings up that the last shot has the "eye" opening, I can see what she means. She was looking exactly where I was looking, but my own mind wasn't connecting those dots of waking up or slowing down the clip long enough to see that part. For me, the work she has put in, the work I have put in, and the meta we've both done, is enough for me to then grasp it once she pointed it out.

And I agree! Sort of. Meaning, I agree with the idea that people aren't entitled to a story working out the way they personally want.

BUT.

In my admittedly limited time hanging out in this fandom, I don't think that's what I've seen. It's certainly not what I personally experienced in my own viewing of the finale.

While it's perfectly reasonable to say that people aren't entitled to stories working out the way they want, I think it's just as reasonable to say that they are allowed to expect a story to function and resolve following its own internal rules. They are allowed to assume a story will maintain its genre, follow through with its message, address loose threads in a way that makes sense within its established logic.

It's not "entitled" to be weirded out and disappointed when your whimsical, fun, satirical comedy-with-a-dash-of-romance suddenly veers wildly off-course and ends up awkwardly metamorphosing into a nihilistic tragedy. It's not petty or whiny to be sad about characters you've known and loved for years being destroyed so suddenly and unexpectedly. Falling in love with a story that - for decades - has had a specific, uplifting, accepted thematic message, only to be upset when that message is abruptly tossed out and replaced with something wildly different isn't the same as demanding writers bend to your will.

Isn't that the point of choosing a genre, or an established fiction? If I want to watch something scary, I'll seek out horror. If I want something heartwarming, I'll go for... I dunno... a Pixar movie or whatever. That's not me demanding things or being entitled; it's me making a choice about what I want to see based upon the established characteristics of specific bits of media.

People aren't upset just because they didn't get the kiss they wanted; they're upset because they decided to watch GO3 with the understanding that this piece of fiction was built around a specific sort of theme and vibe and wholesome message - based upon an established canon - and then they were smacked upside the head with something entirely different.

I was not a fan after the book. I read it in October 2018. I liked it well enough. I can see that since I don't read many books, a lot of it stuck with me in my own fanfic writing not long after I read it. I read it at least once and then probably either re-read it or re-read some passages because it's such a big ensemble piece. I have re-read it twice since watching the show.

I didn't walk away from that book thinking that a big theme was "Read between the lines, and figure it out for yourself," or "discernment" as another Tumblr user put it. I grasped that more when reading meta information on Tumblr years later after watching the show (October 2023). I didn't think of the book and season 1 as a Mystery. I usually call it a Fantasy, but I do think Fantasy Comedy is a good descriptor as well.

Like many, I took the themes to be about free will, friendship, people do good things and bad things and are basically people, people matter, the world one has is worth loving and saving, those types of things.

A big thing that changed in GO1, the first season of the show, and the end of the book is the face swap, what many call the body swap. They showed us the clues, then revealed the trick, and then we could go back and see the clues were already there. They allowed us to see the prestige. But also...don't take things at face value.

For GO2, the Final Fifteen sends up some massive red flags that things aren't right, like not just the argument, but the actual structure of the story, the directorial choices, and such. I didn't like how it ended, but I liked David Tennant as Crowley and wanted to make the best of that. I read meta information, liked some theories, found some really interesting things through trying to figure out his sideburns, and so on.

Simply put, the GO2 story repeatedly lied to its audience. There were a lot of documented continuity issues that the fandom had with the recognition these things were intentional. GO2 gave clues that further suggested...don't take things at face value.

With GO3, Michael says the Metatron used to just fiddle with things in the Book of Life, which was a theory I worked from as a starting point while not quite fitting my own theories on GO2. But if you watch after he's gone in GO3, the story still has intentional continuity issues and a nonsensical plot.

The story kept lying. Even at the South Downs cottage, there is a continuity error with Asa's right hand.

It is still going with...don't take things at face value.

Basically, GO2 and GO3 are a complex puzzle where the audience is left to figure out what happened. Parts of GO3 are contradictory to the characters and themes of the book and season 1 on purpose to challenge the audience.

The story references deception and games plenty, and it is playing games with the audience. This play is given in a very challenging way that many people find off-putting. A big part of that is because of yes, this major genre shift if you take things at face value.