Obsessing over Good Omens

can we PLEASE understand that people sharing their sadness for GO being possibly canceled doesn’t mean they don’t believe the allegations or care about the victims? yes, we care, we are so fucking angry it burns. we want gaiman to rot in jail. and we’ve said so multiple times.

but when someone makes a post about how THEY are feeling about their favorite show on THEIR blog that is purely ABOUT SAID SHOW, we need to respect that they’re just sharing what’s in their heart and that fiction has a huge impact on people’s mental health and lives in general.

one thing DOES NOT exclude the other, as long as you support his removal from production and support the victims and believe their claims. it’s okay to feel how you feel, and it’s not okay to go on other people’s posts and say they’re wrong for feeling how they feel. this is a safe space for us to talk about a show we love, this kind of judgement and superiority complex doesn’t help anyone. please let’s just let people be. we don’t have to comment on everything.

Hear hear

Hey good omens fans. Whatever you're feeling about the whole neil gaiman situation, it's valid.

Angry at him?

Guilty for enjoying his works? Yeah, same here

Hating yourself for hoping it's all false?

In some stage of denial?

Still processing it all?

Whatever you feel, it's ok. We're all in this together

goodness, I really don’t have the words 💔

this whole affair is about how much everybody in this fandom (including Neil, David and Michael) CARES about the story. Everything will be fine.

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

“Do you have any idea,” Crowley said. “How much trouble I’d get into down there if anybody read this?”

Aziraphale pursed his lips. “I don’t think anyone in your part of the world reads Robert Green Ingersoll in this day and age. And besides…”

“The author of modesty. That’s me, that is. What were you going to say, angel?”

“Nothing,” said Aziraphale. “Nothing at all.”

oh this is so true

Wait why is good omens trending? Someone please tell me WHY GOOD OMENS IS TRENDING PLEASE

I mean, if we wanna not swerve and throw out our fave lines, we can totally do that.

I'll start.

The line that consistently cracks me up every single time is "O Lord, heal this bike."

Well, mine is obvious:

"Vavoom, sorted."

I don’t know why I love this one so much:

“They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.”

"Can I be a blue one?"

Obsessed with:

"It was a nice day."

not sure why, just so simple and perfect.

nothing will beat this one for me:

"Fuck!"

Tickets for Neil's lecture in Oxford go on sale today if anyone's up for a hat trick. Michael, David and Neil in the flesh, so to speak, in the same year.

my two favourite guys! for those not able to attend: the lecture will be available on Youtube later.

omfg, yes. we'll be fine.

"uuuh Aziraphale is so stupid for going with Metatron uuhhh"

But do you think

DO. YOU. THINK.

He didn't notice the "he always asked foolish questions" tone? That he didn't realise he got manipulated into this situation. That he didn't have the "you never wanted him back you fucker you wanted to hurt him" kind of rage. That he didn't go from "I will help you make things better 😇" into "You have no idea how fucked you are that I will be in Heaven right now"

Everyone is "uuuhhh why is he smiling at the end??" I know why. I think I know why. I didn't think about it either at first. Remember Aziraphale's "professional" smile when he is angry. Imagine that but with burning rage.

Maybe.

I'm not Neil Gaiman so I don't know, but it would be cool

I have come to a similar conclusion, especially after seeing Michael Sheen perform in Nye at the National Theatre last weekend. In the play, when he's doing his impassioned speech against the rest of the MPs, fighting for the rights of the working class even though he knows none of them give a shit and he's got almost no hope of convincing them to change their policies, he had THE ELEVATOR FACE.

Which tells me this face is determination, its bravery and passion in the face of almost certain defeat.

So I have concluded that our angel is headed to Heaven not to help, but to fight.

He is, at his core, a principality after all, and I think people conveniently forget that because of all the soft jokes and his refusal to join the war - but if there's something he actually wants to defend, wants to fight for???

Let's just say I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

Angry Aziraphale is something I would very much like to see in season 3. Angry, but cool and collected.

Also, I watched an interview with Neil the other day, and he said:

"Michael having just become this cuddly cinnamon roll creature of pure love and joy, and knowing that everybody was just gonna want to cuddle him for 6 episodes until I let him break their hearts."

But I think it wasn't just Michael's acting choice, it was also Neil's intention to make us forget some aspects of this angel's personality. Hidden behind all these boas, and eccles cakes, and domestic fluff, and Jane Austen ball, and 'our car' discussion..

Posting this for the people who think that Tolkien's world-building was something complete and entire and finished before he started to write.

You always learn and discover your story and your world as you write. Sometimes you are just the first reader.

OMG when one of your favourite writers mentions another your favourite writer's letter to your favourite poet 😍

All these brilliant people who create worlds for us to explore, thank you!