Michael has got the look indeed

I hope they absolutely tear shit up in heaven

Micheal lovers, this one’s for you

From @crown-ov-horns post about Micheal in this dress🖤

I’m not too confident in the wings because I’ve literally never drawn anything like them before and I also couldn’t decide on what I wanted to do with the background for a very long time so try not to pay it much mind

I’ve also never drawn chainmail before so hopefully this looks good enough lol

Edit: fixed some things

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Then bring me luck

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

And notice the potato doesn’t guilt you with “if you don’t, something horrible will happen.” Potato wouldn’t betray you like that, because potato is a refined person of good humor and character, and understands that, sometimes, a visit to your dashboard just isn’t convenient right now. Sometimes you just went on a fandom gif reblogging spree or your energy is low, you do not have the time to make your dashboard suitable to guests, and a polite visit just isn’t in the cards. Potato understands this, and doesn’t get upset, or gods forbid, throws a tantrum and wishes ill on your household. Instead, Potato merely stores away their blessings for a later visit and leaves as a good friend should.

Be like Potato. Be a good friend.

When Aziraphale Comes Back

Why does everyone assume it's going to be to ask Crowley for help?

It's an ongoing assumption I keep seeing: that Aziraphale will come back to Earth to ask Crowley for help with the Second Coming, and we'll get a big dramatic Moment of will they or won't they? How will Crowley react?

But friends, we already saw that. Aziraphale asked Crowley to come with him in the Final Fifteen, and Crowley said no. And I'm not criticizing Crowley for this, I'm not criticizing either of them, it was just the shit situation they were in, but it's clear to Aziraphale as he's riding in the elevator that he's on his own with this one, and this time for real.

And here's why this bothers me and why I'm bringing it up: people offer this scenario in the context of Crowley punishing Aziraphale for leaving. Will he make Aziraphale beg, will he be cold and cruel to him, and it's not even in the context of bring funny and bitchy, people actually want Aziraphale to be hurt as though he isn't already in the worst pain of his existence.

I think I see where the assumption comes from: the FF feels like a reflection of the Bandstand Scene, and after that scene Aziraphale calls Crowley and Crowley rushes to the bookshop. But Aziraphale didn't call Crowley for help. He called to give him information bc he'd given up on getting anywhere with heaven. Aziraphale had no idea when he called Crowley that he was about to be discorporated and his bookshop set on fire. Crowley ran to him as soon as he was free of Hastur without even trying to call him back first. The calls were made while he was already driving.

So if Aziraphale deliberately seeks out Crowley in season three, I don't think it will be to ask for help. It will be either to give him valuable information or offer his help, possibly both. And Crowley will leap into action without being asked bc that's what Crowley does.

Aziraphale is barely trying at this point🙄😂

Inspired by the ao3 fic Petticoat Junction (which is very much of the nsfw variety)

I keep wondering if the double take Aziraphale does when Crowley mentions Alpha Centauri in the last episode is not what we think it is. Because, as far as we know, Crowley has only ever mentioned Alpha Centauri once in six thousand years. And it wasn’t in a romantic, wouldn’t it be lovely to retire there together someday way. It was in a terrified, frantic, the world is ending and the puddle of burning goo is imminent so please get in the car kind of way.

So, if Crowley was trying to casually slip into conversation that the world was ending again in a way that only Aziraphale would understand because they were in a room full of people where they couldn’t talk freely, mentioning Alpha Centauri would probably do the trick. And maybe that little double take was Aziraphale picking up on it.

Crowley would have been in a LOT of trouble with hell if it came out that he hadn't killed Job's kids. He was trusting Aziraphale enormously to let him see that he hadn't killed them.

I'm still thinking through all this, because there's a lot of intertwined threads in this scene and it's very complex to untangle, but I'm convinced that during the confrontation with the angels, Azi was lying as much to protect Crowley as to protect the kids. If the angels found out the truth, then one way or another, word would have absolutely have gotten back to Satan that Crowley had disobeyed him. Azi's lie saved Crowley from death or worse.

Makes the final scene even more poignant and beautiful. :)

I am fascinated by the fact that we never actually hear the angels say they’re there to make sure Job’s kids are dead. All we hear them say is that they’re there to *tell* Job & Sitis that the kids are dead and make sure Sitis has 7 more kids (approximately as quickly as possible lmao).

Whether Azi *thinks* Gabriel or Michael would kill the kids themselves is unclear. I think he doesn’t. They’ve made it quite clear that they’re not willing to get blood on their pretty little hands.

So Azi lies to:

1. Stop Sitis from having an unwanted 7 more pregnancies

2. Stop Satan/hell from finding out that Crowley didn’t kill the kids (and potentially that Crowley stopped Sitis from cursing God, although that’s less of a risk since the angels didn’t recognize him and presumably La Famille Job aren’t gonna rat Crowley out about saving their wife/mom from damnation). I am convinced this was Azi’s primary motivation and the most likely consequence of the angels finding out the kids are still alive.

3. Stop hell from possibly killing the kids— BUT BUT BUT, and here’s the thing, Job didn’t curse God when he thought his kids were dead, so *technically* God’s already won the bet. So I’d argue this is much less of a risk.

Normally I would dismiss this as a plot hole, but John Finnemore is the undisputed world grandmaster of intricately intertwined plots where every little thing comes back around. Watch this space, is all I’m saying. If they don’t make something of this it’ll be a wasted opportunity.

Wait….wait….Good Omens fam. You know how we all have been discussing the lack of ppl in Heaven?! @makewayforbigcrossducks makes an astute observation that the Angels aren’t there to chk if the children are dead (they are assuming they already are) but that they’re going to get more. 1) if Heaven (we are presuming the children are going to Heaven) is expecting 3 of Job’s children how is it going unnoticed that they never showed up? 2) if they’re going to Hell; Hell might not notice because they’re soooo back logged! If everyone is going to Hell and no one is getting into Heaven (a la The Good Place) that makes sense. 2) If Heaven is in charge of releasing new souls; again how did the entities in charge of that not notice they had some extras?! Like hey Job was ordered 7 new children and they haven’t gone out! 3) I feel like Michael is always suspicious of Aziraphale and would have looked into this later since Michael calls out Aziraphale with semantics (“they OUGHT to be but SEEM to be…”). So yeah, how did Heaven not know that Job’s children never died (at least not when they were supposed to) and he never got 7 more?!? Also!!! When Job’s children die and (again if they’re going to Heaven) I feel like whomever is checking them in would be like “uhhhh you should have died x amount of years ago…wtf?!”

I think we're onto something here.

OH SNAP what if the plan was never for the kids to go to heaven? o.O Like here I've been thinking "the angels didn't really understand about death because to them it's just being yoinked up to heaven and nothing really changes" but what if they knew all along the kids were never gonna go to heaven?

What the hey is going on???

I mean…these are Old Testament times. Not that I remember my Orthodoxy classes that well, but people only started going to Heaven after Jesus sacrificed himself and went down to Hell and took all the righteous out of there, right? Before that, all people went to Hell after death by default, even children.

👀.

Hmmm.

Last time they posted their cryptic message in May 3rd*, exactly two weeks ago. Then a reminder that that post exists, today, in May, 17th.

Exactly two weeks from now on will be May, 31st, and also a five year anniversary since the release of GO first season.

I'm probably clowning, but...might it be that something with Peter Anderson studio involved will happen in two weeks?...

Aziraphale wiggles his ear as the Metatron appears.

I think I've never related to anything harder than Aziraphale-as-Crowley calling Michael "DUDE" to look cool

As an elder millennial talking with younger ones, I'm realizing some of our vernacular has shifted. I'm frequently explaining slang like "totally" "for sure" "awesome" and "dude" that have always been staples for me (mostly to my nephew always looking for an excuse to laugh at me). I'm realizing that there is definitely a generation of '80s kids that were raised by ninja turtles and that maybe explains that ongoing surfer lingo that has held on so strong 🐢😆

UPDATE - just went on a fun wiki rabbit hole on the word Dude - while ninja turtles did help popularize the term to mean "a cool guy" - our antiquated angel might have been using the 1880's version:

"A variation of this was a "well-dressed man who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city". In The Home and Farm Manual (1883), author Jonathan Periam used the term "dude" several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant but ostentatious man from the city."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

So Aziraphale-as-Crowley might have been poking fun specifically at Michael for looking out of place in Hell using a hundred year old insult by calling them DUDE and I LOVE THAT SO MUCH

@neil-gaiman can you confirm?

Crowley loves Aziraphale so much that in a dangerous situation he's going to risk his entire existence just for the chance of them being together.

(it doesn't mean Aziraphale is ever going to accept Crowley going through this risk for him; in fact it might be his biggest fear that he's not ready to face)

Aziraphale loves Crowley so much that he can't stand the idea of him getting hurt. So, in a dangerous situation he will try every option he consider safe - even if he's the only one who will consider this option safe and/or even possible, and even if this option will hurt their relationship. Then, if there's no other 'safe' option left, he might do all kind of reckless things to save Crowley (or both of them) - but only after trying everything 'safe'.

(it doesn't mean that any of these 'safe' options would be acceptable for Crowley; in fact many of them might be offensive and hurtful for him)

It's not comparable, and it's definitely not a subject of "who loves who more". It's just...different ways in which people (or angels, or demons) can be simultaneously selfless and selfish in their love.

(but then again, isn't love by nature a fine, almost indistinguishable line between selfishness and selflessness?)

About The Metatron's motivation to promote Aziraphale...

...why people usually dismiss this part?

Unlike other The Metatron’s ‘compliments’ made as an ‘argument’ to why Aziraphale should be a new Supreme Archangel, this one is made in later part of the conversation (not in the French restaurant, but right before the elevator, and right before ‘we call it the Second Coming’ bombshell). Unlike those ‘compliments’ this one isn’t a blatant lie – Aziraphale is familiar with ‘Earth ways’, not perfectly, but better than most angels.

And, unlike The Metatron’s earlier reasoning, this one can be true (or at least part of the truth).

Heaven are preparing a new Armageddon. The last one attempt was prevented mostly by humans, with aziracrow acting as a support at best. If The Metatron researched it properly to avoid mistakes of Hell, he should know about that. So humans of Earth might be considered as a significant threat to a Great Plan* - probably more significant than two defectors, even if these two are somehow powerful (if The Metatron is even aware about their 25 Lazarii miracle).

 (*also, remember: The Big One would be All of Us against all of Them, with Them meaning Humanity)

There might be a reason for The Metatron to start to go on Earth and “blend in”, to the point of understanding how to order coffee and have a small talk with a barista: to understand the enemy in general.

And tell me, isn’t Aziraphale an angel who spent more time on Earth than any other angel - literally all of its 6000 years? Doesn't he have the most experience with humans and their antics? Wasn’t he there when humans ruined Hell’s plans of Armageddon, meaning he should (at least in theory) understand how they did it and for what would a half-human Messiah reject their purpose?

And he is smart. Wouldn’t it be a waste to not use this source of knowledge for the benefit of Heaven? Of course, this one angel won’t just agree to work with Heaven again (we heard him refusing a few times in S2E6), so there must be something that will convince him – this part, how he was convinced, was discussed a lot of times and isn’t the point of this post, though.

I think, it also can lead to Aziraphale’s memories not being wiped in S3 and him having some (if very limited) capacity to act on his own. If The Metatron’s main purpose is just divide aziracrow or something like that, then wiping angel’s memories looks like the most logical action of his part. But if his main purpose is using Aziraphale's knowledge and experience, if angel’s memories are the main reason of why he is needed on Heaven – then memory wiping doesn’t look like a very good idea anymore.