zetabrarian
azfellandco
actually tho i wrote up a painfully earnest meta about this several months ago which some of yall made fun of me for so i’m not gonna reblog i’m just gonna summarize here:
book Aziraphale thinks that he kills those dudes and has made his peace with the fact that he’s the kind of person who will prioritize his own self-interest over actual human lives but in fact he has a misunderstanding of how his own magic is working in this instance and they’re perfectly fine because on a fundamental level Aziraphale wants to be a good and kind person and so he is
TV Aziraphale on the other hand definitely left that guard in the Bastille to be executed in his place and in the present day all he can remember about that day is that he and Crowley had crepes so like. cold, tbh
You’re right.
I think book!Az is ruthless in other areas but in this case TV!Az just blows it right out of the water.
zetabrarian
ober-affen-geil
“I waited too long to read the sequel, and now I can’t even remember the characters.”
A novel by me
“I read the whole series in less than two days, and now can’t separate the events of individual books” the thrilling sequel
“I’ve read so much fanfic for this series, I can’t remember what really happened in the books” the stunning conclusion
Romantic moments you had
that you didn’t know were romantic
Or maybe he did a little
we’re not really sure
but most likely not…
O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ooh!
there’s certainly the influence of the lingering Supernatural fandom, and the David Tennantness of it all, and the simple opportunity to giddily and passionately ship two attractive, middle-aged white men(-appearing beings). But I like to think that a non-zero, perhaps even substantial part of Good Omens’ burst of tumblr popularity is due to the fact that this is a website where people regularly pass around posts about elephant-shaped toys from before the written word, and records of people graffiti-ing dick jokes in Ancient Rome, and jokes on unrelated posts that simply reference a Sumerian tablet complaining about a seller’s inferior copper ingots, comfortable in the assumption that enough people have seen that post and will understand the joke…and the thesis of Good Omens is perhaps best summarizable by the line, “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”





