[phlintandsteel-ao3]

When The End comes for real, it’s just as Crowley supposed, with Heaven and Hell united against humanity.  There are a lot of people who don’t believe what’s happening, but about half earth’s inhabitants do.  And they show up for the fight.  

The army humans have guns, there are doctors wielding baseball bats and taxi drivers with tire irons.  Masses of youths are forming up with nothing but broken bottles and spite to defend themselves with.  

Lucifer scoffs at them, his beauty already luring some people from their posts.  

Not too many of them, though.  Aziraphale has to believe that…

There may be millions of angels and demons among the ranks, united for a common goal, but there are billions of humans.

Crowley and Aziraphale are in the thick of it, of course.  Of course.  Aziraphale has come into the possession of his flaming sword again, through a series of events that Crowley really doesn’t want to think too hard about.  

They stare down the Morning Star across the open expanse of the soon to be battlefield, humanity behind them, as much of it sheltered beneath their wings as they can manage.  

And then the Heavenly forces begin to sing.  

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[cleowho]

“The radio telescope!”

Terror of the Autons - season 08 - 1971

[mickmercury]

potentially controversial opinion incoming

sam vimes’s natural anti-drunkenness (being knurd) is described as seeing the world the way it actually is, without all the comforting illusions people have for themselves. having a witch’s First Sight means that “you can see what really is there.” granny weatherwax says that evil starts with treating people as things, and, often but especially vividly in Feet of Clay, sam demonstrates repeatedly that he will not stand for the golems being treated as less than people, for the poor being treated as disposable by the rich and powerful, for anyone thinking that anyone else doesn’t matter. the hiver gets inside tiffany aching and reveals the Chalk in her soul. the summoning dark gets inside sam vimes and finds a city in there. and sam vimes knows how to be selfish, to claim his city and his people as his, to protect them. witches watch over people who are frequently small-minded and ungrateful and stubborn and they do it anyway because it’s what you do, because it needs to be done; and sam vimes says pretty much the same thing every time he considers the people of ankh-morpork. and you can call him mister vimes, but only if you’ve earned it.

doylist conclusion: terry pratchett knew what his taste in protagonists was

watsonian conclusion: vimes is an urban witch and ankh-morpork is his steading gods damn it

[leahelizabeth89]

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[tygermama]

There’s an entire anthology of essays here on the symbolism of witch’s hats and copper’s badges and the power of sheer bloody-mindedness in the face of the banality of evil and

Like, Carrot has Charisma

But Sam Vimes has so much Law Is For Protecting People and Who Watches The Watchman, he’s headologied himself and I think Granny would have been impressed and his stubbornness spread out and there are Sammies everywhere

Just like there’s a lot of witches everywhere

Doing the dirty jobs that need doing and watching over their people

I’m not sure I’m making sense

It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: ‘Kings. What a good idea.’ Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
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[alicerovai]

There is no “our side”, Crowley. It’s over.

Right.

[roman-kun]

im gomens trash

denofgeek.com

Good Omens: Casting Jon Hamm and Why His Character Was Expanded From The Book

Jon Hamm plays a new-ish character in Good Omens. We also learned how he signs off his emails in this riveting report.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Gaiman met Hamm at a dinner party several years before Good Omens went into production. They hit it off. When Gaiman needed another angel to be the boss to Sheen’s Aziraphale, he remembered that Hamm was a fan of the novel.

“We stayed loosely and lazily in touch,” Gaiman tells Den of Geek. “We would see each other and it was just lovely. Then one day I knew that I needed to cast Gabriel. I didn’t have a short list, I had Jon. I wrote him an email. I don’t even think I begged pityingly. I think I sort of said, ‘this is the thing and I know you like the book and will you do it?’ And got this great email back that just said, ‘Yes. HAMM.’”

Confirms Hamm: “I sign my emails with all caps, my last name.”

…

“I needed to give Aziraphale a home office,” Gaiman says. “We needed to get an idea of what heaven was like, we needed to get an idea of who he’s working for. He needed a boss who was everything that he isn’t. He needed to be taller, he needed to be better looking, he needed to be much better dressed. He needed to be absolutely on top of things and he needed to care nothing about humanity and the earth. And all of these things except one, Jon already has!”

Adds Hamm: “Well I mean they put me in nice clothes, that was pretty much it.”

[leafaske]

i binged good omens, novel and series

9/10 needs more angel-demon shenanigans ♥

[whatsdifferentincanada]