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"Passing curiosity", a Good Omens very silly comic.
I regret nothing.
cinnamoncandycanes reblogged
"Passing curiosity", a Good Omens very silly comic.
I regret nothing.
RIP Aziraphale, who brought that on himself XD
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Neil, are Crowley's wings black or white? In the book it says 'the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels', but in lots of illustrations in the books Crowley's feathered wings are black. I'm taking into account this could just be an artistic liberty, but I wanted to know for sure.
In the book it says “Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they’re often better groomed.” It doesn’t talk about feather colour, so I think anyone could argue their position with enthusiasm on the matter of wing feathers.
On TV, Aziraphale’s wings are white and beautiful, and Crowley’s are grey and a bit ragged.
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I always read that sentence as if it were demon wings that were better groomed, did I misinterpret it? So I’ve always imagined that Aziraphale was the one with the unkempt wings, haha. (Ahh, I can’t wait to see! Thanks again, Neil.)
No, you didn’t misunderstand it at all. In the book, demons definitely have better-groomed wings than angels.
On TV, we will do things we didn’t get to do in the book: we spend time with angels in their offices, and we visit Hell. Which meant we needed a visual shorthand for angels, and for Hell.
When, a month or so after the book was published, Terry and I talked about how we would do Heaven and Hell in a Good Omens film or TV adaptation, we decided we wanted it to be a skyscraper, with Heaven on the beautiful floors on the top with the amazing view of the whole world, and Hell in the dank basements that nobody would ever want to work in. (They did lose, after all.)
So when it came to actually having to make that a reality, that was the way I went. And so our Angels are (except for Aziraphale) very smartly dressed, and our demons are (except for Crowley) rather shabby.
And it was probably unfair to describe Crowley’s wings as “ragged”. They just aren’t as pretty as Aziraphale’s wings, probably because Crowley is a lot less interested in wings than he is in things like Bentleys or clothes.
The image of Aziraphale with ruffled, unkempt wings somehow extended in my mind and became “Aziraphale with trichotillomania as an anxiety thing, but with feathers instead of hair”
(I looked on Wikipedia and found out the word is “pterotillomania“ for feather-pulling in birds so, that I guess)
and I like that idea, maybe I should write fic of it sometime.
I guess I have nothing to lose by tossing this out in the void, right?
I have just finished Good Omens S2 (amazing and also OW), and went looking for a fanfic I read sometime after S1. Unfortunately, while I found lots and lots of awesome new fanfiction on AO3, I seem to have neglected to bookmark the specific fic I was looking for and I can't find it amidst the sea of new content. So I'm gonna describe it and throw myself on the fandom's mercy in hopes that somebody recognizes it!
It was after the body swap and trials at the end of S1. Aziraphale-as-Crowley was released or else escaped, but Heaven hung on to Crowley-as-Aziraphale and tried to kill him in a different way, something involving a circle of power that was slowly draining him. (I think there was a line like "but there are other ways to kill an angel.) Aziraphale, still looking like Crowley, broke into Heaven to get him back and was PISSED. I think he threatened a junior angel and nearly something decidedly un-angelic to Gabriel in vengeance (throw him into the circle maybe?) once he found Crowley, except Crowley who was barely conscious whispered "angel" and stopped him, and then they escaped and Crowley turned back into a snake and was unconscious for a while, and Aziraphale looked at a ray of light in the sky and thought I'm sorry I lost my way (see: nearly-un-angelic-murder), and the implication was that God Herself then gave the two of them a little nudge of help, and they hid out in a cottage someplace and Aziraphale was avoiding using miracles so as not to draw notice, and that's about all I remember.
Apparently, this stuck in my head hard enough to resurface after S2. (Congratulations, fic author, whoever you are. You did good!) But I can't remember the title or author or tags. Anyone remember this and know where it's hiding??
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Me? Finding excuses to give them new costumes? Naaaaaah :D