fucking. help me

If Crowley can change size in his human form, then he can do it too with the snakey one 😤 and he has wings too, he told me so! 😌

"We were supposed to have our own side..."

I'm thinking about making prints of this drawing 👀

first time drawing Aziraphale digitally!

Aziraphale Of The Day: he invented silliness

I'm having some thoughts about the meaning within the ox rib scene in Good Omens season 2, and the whole Job minisode and what it means for their relationship.

It is the first time Aziraphale consumes human food, importantly, tempted by Crowley. And - stay with me for a second - I think this is symbolically the first time they consummate their relationship, which is thus forever changed.

There's, of course, the obvious hedonism of Aziraphale in this scene, where he's absolutely going to town on that ox and discovering carnal desire for the first time. It is reminiscent of the feeling of discovering what true desire feels like when you let yourself lean into it for the first time.

I think it's significant that they're ox ribs, of all things. Ribs are literally involved in the creation of human life in the bible. A fact we're reminded of multiple times in this episode.

After Aziraphale really goes to town on the ox ribs - which both he and Crowley thoroughly enjoy - they use the ribs in (re)creating life together. Job's children are (re)born from those very ribs that Crowley and Aziraphale enjoyed together.

You can view the ox rib scene sexually or not, but there's a clear connection between their physical desire and acting on that desire with the later childbirth scene.

It was in this whole experience that they both saw much more deeply into each other and were vulnerable with each other. They realize they're both more similar to each other than they fully knew before and that they can trust each other.

It's here that they really became a group of the two of them, a couple, on their own sides, but together.

it is so sweet how the bookshop is crowley's safe place, not only because no other demon can get in, and the angels are never there, but also because crowley likes it. he feels comfortable there,

he has this sense of protection and caring for it,

and the bookshop holds good memories for him

historians will they they were partners in magic!

So I was watching this old video again because the new Good Omens season triggered my obsession with Neil Gaiman's stories that creeps up periodically ( and his voice is soothing to listen to while I draw) And at about 1:25:30 there's a part that really made me giggle, cause this is what he says when asked about themes in his work:

"I remember once somebody asked me about the kiss that would occur in my books three quarters of the way through, to indicate that we were now moving into act three. And I said 'what'. And they said 'well you must be conscious of it, you do it every time.'"

And I mean...

It's never planned. It's always there...

have an ox rib 😏😁 <— clueless voice of a demon about to create his own greatest temptation

The good omens confession/divorce is still so insane to me.

They're both saying "I love you, I need you, please come with me" and somehow they both walk away from that conversation feeling completely and utterly rejected.... absolutely amazing lmao

#dear god what are you asking here? (neil's tag)

good omens heritage post

I've never tried posting my art on here. Should I make this a thing?

Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:

This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...

It. It kind of fucks. Severely.

And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.

I'll explain:

As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.

Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.

(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)

Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:

Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.

(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.

...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)

So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.

But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:

The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.

Do you understand?

The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.

The flaming sword was given to be used against them.

So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.

That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.

...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.

They're Crowley and Aziraphale.

(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)

thinking about how annoyed crowley is with jimbriel the whole season and yet when hes curious about gravity crowley just. explains it. jim asks ‘why’ and crowley doesn’t act annoyed at all and actually tries to remember. and then he answers honestly when he’s not sure. thinkin about that a whole lot