roachleakage
it’s 2019 and i’m using my hard honed skill responsibly - to spruce up the costume department on good omens, bc good lord,
(find more of my art on twitter @ confusedlucifer ! tumblr is dead as an art platform!)
catsbeaversandducks
* slow heavy metal music playing *
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larcenygrand
Neil Gaiman canonically exists in the Good Omens show
And by the same measure so does Terry!
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cliopadra
A week after watching it, here’s my first attempt at Good Omens fanart. It isn’t exactly good (pretty bad actually) but in my defence I painted it at 4 am because I couldn’t sleep and hey, first fanart always deserves to be posted, even if just for you to look back at a few weeks or months later, once you get the hang of drawing the characters, and see how much you’ve improved 🤷
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sparklypinkdragon
“Over the years, a huge number of theological man-hours have been spent debating the question: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” To answer it, we need information.
Firstly, angels don’t dance. It’s one of the distinguishing characteristics that marks an angel. So, none.
At least, nearly none. Aziraphale had learned a dance called the “gavotte” in a discreet gentlemen’s club in Portland Place in the late 1880s. After a while, he had become fairly good at it, and was quite put out when, some decades later, the gavotte went out of style for good. So providing the dance was a gavotte, the answer is a straightforward “one”.
Then again, you might just as well ask how many demons can dance on the head of a pin. They’re of the same original stock, after all. And at least demons dance. Not what you’d call good dancing, though.
For demons or for angels, size and shape are simply options.
So, if you look from really close up, the only problem about dancing on the head of a pin is all those big gaps between electrons.“
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twocandles
Literally everything Aziraphale-as-Crowley says and does during the trial scene is the FUNNIEST SHIT when you think about the fact that it’s Aziraphale actually doing it, like
—he suggests house plants to spruce up Hell because that’s what Crowley has around
—his attempt at Crowley’s Demonic Gay Swagger
—the “can I take off my jacket” line is both very in character for Crowley and somehow EVEN MORE IN CHARACTER for Aziraphale-as-Crowley going “well I know I’m facing imminent destruction if they see through our scheme but I’m not going to RUIN Crowley’s new JACKET”
—sasses Archangel Michael so much that I’m convinced he has definitely been waiting to sass Michael for god knows how many centuries, that was PENT UP
—calls the Archangel Michael “dude”
—gets in the bath without??? Taking his socks off??? How did that even work, like logistically, did he straddle the tub and fall backward into it like the most dramatic bitch possible or???
—just starts casually flicking holy water at the demons while making vaguely menacing threats about how powerful he might be in the most Extra way possible
—listen Crowley has his moment of fun roaring hellfire at the angels but otherwise his trial is relatively subdued, he seems mostly focused on just getting through it and getting out, but Aziraphale goes fucking HAM, I think he’s been waiting all 6000+ years of his existence for the opportunity to cut this loose and he’ll be damned if he wastes even a second of it
—and/or Aziraphale is convinced that being as extra and dramatic as possible is so integral to Crowley’s personality that if he doesn’t milk it for everything it’s worth no one will buy that it’s really him
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daughterofelros
Can we just…
Not be assholes? I’m talking about all the outrage that’s out there about Good Omens and “queerbaiting” right now. Because Neil Gaiman hasn’t said that Crowley and Aziraphale are gay. He’s endorsed and encouraged a queer reading of the text, and he affirms they are in love, and that should be something for us to delight in.
Because frankly, there are a whole lot more ways to be queer than to be two cismen making their dicks interact.
So can we all just remember that a relationship and a loving partnership doesn’t require intercourse to be valid, that not identifying with a gender means that a real person or a fictional character may not, in fact, feel that the identity of “gay” best describes them (cool if they do use that label though!), and that sexual and romantic identities are actually separate things.
I might want to go write some super kinky fan fiction where the two angels use their powers to make their bodies have genitalia, get it on, and then enjoy a different set of genitalia because magic angel sexy fun. I’m certainly happy to read that Fic. But I’m not mad I didn’t see Neil Gaiman write that fanfic on his tumblr.
We should all be capable of recognizing the Decidedly Queer Love Forbidden Between Angels And Demons that Crowley and Aziraphale Canonically Share, without being shitty and claiming that that relationship is less valid because sex isn’t depicted or overmuch implied for characters who don’t hold a human conceptualization of either gender or sexual identity.
Authorial intent only goes so far for me, but it bothers me that segments of fandom have decided to be upset that although the remaining living author has been clear that he views these characters as in love while in bodies that are largely perceived as male and face persecution and death as a result of that love, has endorsed queer readings of the text, and encourages fan fiction that explores further possibilities… folks are making him out to be anti-gay, or not supportive enough.
I’m glad that the world has changed a lot since I first started engaging in fandom. I’m excited that there canonically queer characters starting to be published and filmed as the heroes of the story. My excitement in fact, cannot be contained. But the idea that an author is a bad mean person who should be cancelled for endorsing queerness without using the specific label of “gay” because it would be out of character for the non-human characters to define themselves in terms of human sexuality which their bodies do not automatically experience? That’s some nonsense. I think we can be better than that (and not go about invalidating vast swaths of the Queer community to prioritize the interactions of imaginary penises in our narrative of what defines queerness.)
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froobyboo
“I asked them for a rubber duck!”
I originally wanted him drinking the holy water but i genuinely couldn’t be bothered dealing with the angles and stuff so he’s just staring lovingly at a rubber duck
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flickerghosts
I just realized that Adam/the antichrist literally headed out of hell in a hand basket 😂
I seem to recall that being intentional.
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