#fluffmugger

#go put a greek ans a turk in a room together and lock the door you shrieking neophytes#THAT'S a beef 

This is the big like, tragedy of Warlock, because like.

So to tock up:

he gets taken away from a genuinely loving family in the shuffle

he’s given to Mr and Mrs Dowling instead

who in the book canon, hire Nanny and Francis when he’s about three, and in the TV canon, hire Nanny and Francis when he’s about five

who, by all accounts, have enough contact with the child that he can talk casually about destroying the earth and have his parents not notice at all

and I know that kids have weird things to say, but like, the language he uses is very biblical and not the sort of thing your average five year old picks up from cartoons

Nanny also being the one that tucks him in and sings him a lullaby, presumably every night

now I love Nanny and Francis but like. whether it’s the book canon Ashtoreth and Francis or the TV canon Aziraphale and Crowley, tug-of-war isn’t a good way to raise any child, even if you do think he’s the antichrist

and Warlock is taught all these weird things that put him out of joint with his friends, I imagine

So then they swap over and he has Mr Harrison and Mr Cortese, and they’re presumably good tutors, but like... 

Yes, he’s spoilt. Yes, he’s a little rich lad with too much stuff, who’s just a little bit of an ass, because that’s what kids are like when you starve them of attention and try to replace it with money (or with screens... but that’s neither here nor there). 

But what we see specifically laid out in the canon is that Warlock is not an evil boy. He makes mischief, but not enough to harm any animals or hurt anybody without cause; he gets taken away with the excitement, but he doesn’t think about hurting someone and then go out and do it; he’s spoilt and bratty, but compared to all his friends, he actually seems pretty mild.

And it does make me quite sad, actually, to see people talk  about how much they hate Warlock, because his situation, where this whole Apocalypse has actually made him so many times more neglected than he otherwise would have been, isn’t his fault. This isn’t a man going out and choosing to harm people, to be a horrible person - this is a little boy visibly desperate for attention, who due to the unluck of the draw, got tossed into the big, impersonal house of a misogyny-obsessed Republican and his harried, exhausted wife, who comes across as uncertain of how to even talk with her son. That might just be because of the moment we see, where she’s frustrated and worried about upsetting him, and actively she’s a very loving, involved mother, but like...

I personally don’t have that much faith in that. 

Ahahahaha I can’t join you I’m already here! Lurking, at the bottom of...something...the best/worst part of watching the miniseries was realizing I haven’t read Good Omens in like a decade but for 95% of the show, I could tell you with absolute confidence whether it was from the book or written for the series.

My Tumblr Crushes:

betterinthe90s (8%)

finck-you-freeky (6%)

georgesfrigginbrackets (4%)

daddyreznor (4%)

miserychain (4%)

babepuff (3%)

skold (3%)

reznor-gasm (3%)

fluffmugger (2%)

Loki’s probably somewhere right now, watching x files reruns on tv and eating a coconut popsicle