[froobyboo]

they’re gay

My trip to London and visiting the Southbank event with Neil, David and Michael

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil said that in his first draft which he then sent to Terry there was one demon who went to the meeting of three demons, and he like couldn’t be bothered that much. What Terry did was that he split the demon into the a demon and an angel. He made the demon a little bit like Neil at that time - wearing dark glasses indoors or leather black jacket and the put the original demon characteristics into the angel. :)Michael Sheen then reacted to that that he feels that Crowley and Aziraphale are two parts of one soul that is trying to get back together :).Neil said that in his first draft which he then sent to Terry there was one demon who went to the meeting of three demons, and he like couldn’t be bothered that much. What Terry did was that he split the demon into the a demon and an angel. He made the demon a little bit like Neil at that time - wearing dark glasses indoors or leather black jacket and the put the original demon characteristics into the angel. :)Michael Sheen then reacted to that that he feels that Crowley and Aziraphale are two parts of one soul that is trying to get back together :).Since the show came out I didn’t have time to properly sit down and write it all down, but I should before I forget it all! :)

Last week I visited London for just one day, like a ninja, to see the Southbank events and the boys.

I arrived to Stansted ad 12:40 and took the train to London Liverpool Street where I went to the tube heading to the Tottenham Court Road. Fortunately for me had I already visited London once before, 8 years ago I think and since I always keep everything, I was able to find the Oyster card from that time, and didn’t have to get another one, yay! :)

At the tube I of course kept my eyes open for GO stuff and I was not dissapointed! I’ve seen posters for both the show and the Script Book!

Why did I was heading to Tottenham Court Road? Well, it’s near Soho, near the bookshop - the one that was going to be opened there as a promo action displaying a lot of stuff from the show. It was supposed to be opened from June 1, but it never hurts to try.

Near the bookshop I met with @sofacrawler and @scatter-of-light. Unfortunately the bookshop was not opened yet, only for the press (tho apparently that day the bookshop was visited by David Tennant and Michael Sheen who suprised some fans there (x), so perhaps some could go there in the morning, or they won it somewhere :(  :)). 

Buuut guess what, the Bentley was parked in front of it!

(yeah it started raining even tho the forecast said it wouldn’t, I had to buy an umbrella later)

The owner (at least I think it was the owner) was so kind and allowed us to sit in it!!! Yaaaaaaaay, that was amazing :). We also met there Satanic Nuns who took pictures with us :))))

From there we went to take a peek at the Ritz :))).

And then made our way to the Waterloo station for the promo action that as there - in the middle there was a mini Garden of Eden

Huh, I found out I forgot to take a picture of the whole thing :/, but at least something: 

And they were giving away Good Omens apples!

Plus, there were two very cute snakes you could take a picture with! :)

Then came the Satanic Nuns and sang a couple of songs (such as Brand New Baby Smell or some Queen ones!), 

also gave us these lovely cards:

We also met there @assssziraphale, @armageddonwithit and others which I unfortunately don’t know the tumblrs of, but hiiiii, sending you love! :)

From there we made our way Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall (again saying hi to all who said hi to me there, such as @leftywhogirl ! :))

Sooo many people there! 

I sat here, so I had lovely view of the boys:

Before the boys came though they asked us not to take any picture or video, which I respected, so no picture of the boys from me :(. But I’ll try to reproduce what they were speaking about, I am sorry if I don’t remember everything correctly.

• They started by showing us a short clip from the video (the end of ep 3 where Crowley says he’s unforgivable, poor snek :(). 
• Later they also acted out right there the scene with drunk Crowley and Aziraphale and it was gloooorious! (btw. David of course couldn’t sit normally on the chair again :D).
• Thorough the whole event I was either smiling or laughing, our boys were incredibly witty and funny - such as, when Michael was telling the story about how he met Neil (you can listen to it in the Podcast David Tennant did with him) and when he mentioned he had been in Twilight he added something like ‘yes, yes, please stopped with the applause, and sit down, sit down‘ :D, or when they were talking about David tight clothes and his swagger walk David joked that the clothes were so tight he couldn’t walk any other way :D. Also very funny was when the interview said something like Crowley is like an old rock star and David was like ‘Whaaaaat?’ to which Michael added that he shouldn’t worry since somebody today asked him if he was in a fat suit during the shooting (later he spoke about it also at The Graham Norton Show (x))
• Neil also spoke about how he go Frances McDormand to play God (x), and that she told him it would only confirm something that her family already suspected :D. Also when he asked the directour Douglas Mackinnon how he would feel about Frances McDormand playing God, he answerd something like, ‘…oh… yes… she will need a lot of directing.’ :)))). 
• There was a question about season 2 and Neil was like, ‘Yes, I would also want to see more of Aziraphale and Crowley, but this has taken five years of my life and the book was already there’.
• The story I absolutely love was when somebody asked if Terry Pratchett ever played any pranks on Neil and he said that no, but what Terry did do sometimes was when a fan came to him with Good Omens for his signature and told him they will now go to Neil to have both of them he told them ‘Could you give him a message from me? Tell him ’ and now he added some cryptic nonsense like ‘tell him “The starcase is not just a starcase” he will know what I mean’. And then of course they found Neil and told him that with ‘Do you know what it means’ and Neil (tiredly) ‘Yeah, I know what it means.’ :D :D :D
• Neil was speaking about two improvised scenes, one of which got into the show (x). :) The other one (spoiler, skip this paragraph if you hadn’t seen the show), was when after the final bench talk they were going through the park and as a camera was taking them from the distance, Neil was only listening and heard some weird stuff Crowley saying bad things about Aziraphale that were not funny, and only then he realized that it was not David who he was hearing, but it was Michael doing pitch perfect Crowley and having fun with it :)). Probably studied him a lot because you-know-what ;).
• Neil said that in his first draft which he then sent to Terry there was one demon who went to the meeting of three demons, and he like couldn’t be bothered that much. What Terry did was that he split the demon into the a demon and an angel. He made the demon a little bit like Neil at that time - wearing dark glasses indoors or leather black jacket and the put the original demon characteristics into the angel. :) Michael Sheen then reacted to that that he feels that Crowley and Aziraphale are two parts of one soul that is trying to get back together :).
  
• There was probably more interesting stuff, but I forgot it. If I remember, I’ll add it here :). 

It was very lovely hour and a half and after it ended me and other fans went to the artist door to wait for the boys to get an autograph or a photo. Unfortunately after about 40 minutes I think somebody came to tell us they did not used this door (fiends! :( :)).

Then I travelled by bus to Stansted to spent a night there and then catch my morning flight. I hoped to doze off a little bit there, but let me tell you Stansted is not sleep friendly! They are a few semi-comfortable chairs, but they were of course all occupied, so I bought hot chocolate and sat on cold uncomforable chair at Costa and and read or listened to music. No sleep :(.

After my plane landed, I took train home and after arriving went immediately to sleep… to wake up May 31 for the show to be out. YAY! :)

It was definitely worth it and will cherish this experience forever! :).

Anonymous asked:

hi i was wondering if you could help me undrstand something. in ep 6, when aziraphel starts talking about the ineffable plan, crowley mutters 'you dont know' and it seems directed at gabriel and bezlebup, but i dont understand why he said that

fuckyeahgoodomens answered:

Because at that moment Crowley realizes that they could talk they way out of it - by making both Heaven and Hell doubt what God actually plans.

They are talking about Great Plan = that it has been written that Earth will be here for 6000 years and then there will be a war between Heaven and Hell with Earth in flames.

Then of course what God is truly planning, as it has been said in the beginning is ineffable, you cannot normally put it into words, so you cannot write it down. Let’s label what God is truly planning as the Ineffable Plan.

So Aziaphale asks is the Great Plan also the Ineffable Plan - like, is it the same thing, or is the Great Plan only part of the Ineffable Plan? Is it only perhaps some test for humans and Heaven and Hell, something that actually does not have to even happen?

By their confused reactions Crowley realizes that they don’t know. They don’t know if it’s one way or the other because God is not talking to anybody. The best that anyone can do is guess.

So he comes up there and makes them doubt if their insisting on a war is not actually against the God’s Ineffable Plan. So they leave, because they don’t know :). 

[ucsdhealthsciences]

Once Upon a Life Upon Life Upon a Life

A bacterium living on a diatom living on an amphipod.

[pearwaldorf]

Younger friends: is there anything similarly iconic for Bohemian Rhapsody in your generation as this?

Originally posted by submersivemedia

[gif: a scene from Wayne’s World of a bunch of people in car jamming to the guitar break in Bohemian Rhapsody]

This feels v specifically Gen X/Xennial to me, but I could be wrong!

[freakinamask]

Originally posted by helpmeout-ineedit

I’ve literally never met a person my age who wouldn’t sing/scream Mr Brightside by the killers at the slightest provocation.

okeedokeepokeylokey asked:

Hey, upon rewatching good omens, when Aziraphale tried returning to Earth, the commander angel said how angels can’t posses a body, yet Aziraphale said “demons can.” What does this mean? Is he saying that Aziraphale is slightly demonic now or has he been spending too much time with one?

fuckyeahgoodomens answered:

In my opinion angels are taught that an angel can’t possess a body, that only demons can. Since they are taught that, they do not doubt it, it’s a fact for them, they do not have an imagination.

But Aziraphale is different. He spent thousands of years in the company of a demon. A demon about whom he had learned was not that different from him. A demon who was still able to perform blessings. And Aziraphale, an angel, could himself perform demonic tempting work.

Aziraphale has honed his immagination and doubts on Earth for thousands of years. He knows that all things the angels were taught do not have to be necessarily true. And since he knows that the angels and demons do not differ that much, when he is presented with the ‘fact’ that angels cannot possess a human, he immediately thinks: oh really? But ‘demons can’, and because demons can and they are not so different, why couldn’t angels, and thus me?

taiteilija asked:

So, as far as I get, the arrangement between Aziraphale and Crowley is: if both of them have job to do in the same place, at the same time, it's only one of them that goes there and does both tempting and blessing. Do you happen to remember, if that deal was the same in the book? I can't check it, cause my copy is currently out of my reach, but wasn't that arrangement in the book about going to different places so they could work separately, instead of one-doing-both thing? It puzzles me.

fuckyeahgoodomens answered:

The Arrangement in the book:

The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long. It was the sort of sensible arrangement that many isolated agents, working in awkward conditions a long way from their superiors, reach with their opposite number when they realize that they have more in common with their immediate opponents than their remote allies. It meant a tacit non-interference in certain of each other’s activities. It made certain that while neither really won, also neither really lost, and both were able to demonstrate to their masters the great strides they were making against a cunning and well-informed adversary.

It meant that Crowley had been allowed to develop Manchester, while Aziraphale had a free hand in the whole of Shropshire. Crowley took Glasgow, Aziraphale had Edinburgh (neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, [Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.] but both reported it as a success).

And then, of course, it had seemed even natural that they should, as it were, hold the fort for one another whenever common sense dictated. Both were of angel stock, after all. If one was going to Hull for a quick temptation, it made sense to nip across the city and carry out a standard brief moment of divine ecstasy. It’d get done anyway, and being sensible about it gave everyone more free time and cut down on expenses.

It’s the same in the book, they both do the blessing and the tempting if they are going to the same place (the last paragraph). Plus they don’t sabotage each other’s activites. :)

[ghostarcherthinks]

That scene where Aziraphale and Crowley get shot with paintballs is even more hilarious in the book because of the way it’s dramatized like these idiots get shot and we immediately cut away to an explanation of how Sister Mary Loquacious came to be a successful entrepreneur and when we get back to the ineffable morons Crowley has sunk to the ground, dramatically leaning against a statue and Aziraphale has straight up fallen over on his ass and stays lying down until Crowley, after a quick contemplation of how inconvenient it is to get discorporated at a time like this, realizes Shenanigans are Afoot, tastes the paint and crawls over to him to be like “hey Shenanigans are Afoot” like the adaptation gives them too much dignity in this scene when they both legit thought they were dying for at least a full minute

[wolfiejimi]

There are, shockingly, only a few scenes that are definitively better in the book, but this is absolutely one of them. In the show the paintballs are a mild, albeit gloriously shippery, inconvenience, swiftly understood and moved on from. As if Crowley and Aziraphale are, you know, in any way competent, non-dramatic, sensible beings. In the book they are like aaaaaahhh I’m DEAD I’m DEAD I’ll just LIE HERE and why is my blood YELLOW? Is it meant to be yellow? *Crowley over-dramatically <i> crawls </i> over to a still prone Aziraphale and is like dude your blood is blue something is up here.

Also, in spite of ADORING whipped Crowley miracle-ing the paint from Aziraphale’s coat, I nonetheless am also Very Much Here for TiredTM Crowley being so not in the mood for this bullshit and dismissively telling him to magic it away himself, before sulkily wandering off.

Ahhhhh Good Omens, what did we ever do to deserve not only an insanely stellar book, but a ridiculously stellar adaptation. YAY

[fuchsimeon]

I dug out my copy to give you a little view of how dramatíque it really was.

Now here is where there are two pages following narrating some other plot, leaving you on that cliffhanger after the two of our heros get shot. And then we get this.

So far, except for the last sentence it pretty much sounds like they got shot. Dark stain, thrown back, on the ground, thinking about getting a nw body etc etc

Boom, drama queens in pain. Also the fucking hilarious line where Aziraphale is called a “fallen angel” because he’s an angel that fell over.

[maximumthrill]

LONDO

[avengersonna]

[tonystark5ever]

i spit out my soda

[tygermama]

That bird’s name is Sam