From Mickey Ralph's (the Good Omens Graphic Designer) website :) <3

I printed the GO labels I made and put them on actual matchboxes. They look way better than expected :'D SO CUTE! The original designs posts HERE and HERE.

Most underrated joke in Good Omens S2 is that Michael participated in a plot to kill Aziraphale with fire but she doesn't know what a matchbox is.

Trying to explain the inexplicable

Sherlock wouldn’t very likely admit that something is inexplicable, would he? His usual MO is to investigate and investigate further, until he has it all cleared, so admitting that something is ‘inexplicable’ would be much more like John than Sherlock any day of the week. This thought struck me after trying to make sense of John’s blog post “The Inexplicable Matchbox”, which he published during the hiatus before Sherlock’s return in TEH.

There’s a number of things with this post that make me curious.

First of all is the fact that the whole case is so top secret that John apparently isn’t allowed to write anything about the solution to the case, just that “we solved it” and found out “who’d killed who and how and why”. 

If Sherlock had been able to comment at this point, I think he would probably have questioned why John decided to write it down in the first place, just like he did before, when John hinted something about Irene Adler (X). According to John, that “adds context. Gives people an idea about the real you”. Which Sherlock also questions. And still, in TSoT, he does mention this ‘frustrating’ case in his best man speech at John’s wedding…

…which means that Sherlock - contrary to his usual opinion of this behaviour - did choose to share a glimpse of this case with the wedding guests in spite of it being, apparently, either ‘inexplicable’ or a top secret case of international importance (”We’re talking about Every Official Secrets Act”, according to John’s blog post). So here we have a clear teaser, in my opinion; a whole case that is merely hinted at, but it still appears in both the show and in John’s blog. But in neither of them are we actually told the solution.

So, parting from the conviction that nothing is inexplicable to Sherlock (which is confirmed by John’s blog telling us they did actually solve it), let’s dissect this blog post, pice for piece! :) There’s a number of objects and phenomena mentioned in this post that pop up frequently in the show, so let’s see what they might mean:

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This is a case on which my mind always returns and I never see enough treatment. We have already seen that the small scenes are the most important. Like you said @possiblyimbiassed, because on earth John would have to talk on the blog about a case he could not say anything about. More than inexplicable for us it becomes frustrating. With the addition that it is not just a bizarre case, but that the most bizarre things happen in it. John insists that Sherlock disguises himself as Clown, ok, funny, from a wizard of disguise, I imagine that this is kind of level 0. In the light of S4 probably disturbing, but ms Hdson falling from a helicopter? It is even more unlikely than John and Sherlock who fly out of the windows of the exploded 221b. Not to mention that thing that John would never have thought to do, that teases my curiosity much more than a bright box of matches. A bright box of matches that is the cause of one of the most sincere, warm and full smiles of Sherlock ever. And we return to the fire as a metaphor of burning love. After all, every person we meet in the world could potentially be our matchbox, it could ignite our love, but it does not work. There are those who must open thousands of boxes to find one that burns. And Sherlock seems to have found his, while in his heart he fell from above.

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oh, i love that image, opening matchboxes till you find the right one! :)