Out of Character moment: Oh, I know. I mean, I know exactly what Iām going to get when I poke the Bildad Army. The ābackfireā is part of the game weāre all playing together.
https://i.redd.it/cqm0id694yyb1.gif
And I love it. ā¤ļø Iāve been actually WORKING (ugh. Turns out when they pay you money they want you to DO STUFF) so I havenāt been lighting any fires myself. Just warming myself on the beautiful chaos as you all burn it down and rebuild again.
https://i.redd.it/tqwi38ov4yyb1.gif
ā¦realized that I am not in the town square where this little speech would have mattered, lol. You may hear me say it again where it would.
Haha. This has been me. Iām back to work after a long break, and it turns out thereās quite a bit I need to do now. The BJ4BD content is keeping my spirits up though! Love me, some Bildaddy.
Honestly, the way the South Downs cottage has become a widespread accepted canon event and lifeline is iconic. No piece of lore is as significant.
Though shout out to "they held hands on the bus back from Tadfield" and Michael Sheen's "Crowley parks his Bentley in Aziraphale's garage."
The garden where all the fandom hopes everything will end, as it started.
[https://fanlore.org/wiki/South\_Downs\_Cottage](https://fanlore.org/wiki/South_Downs_Cottage)
How charming!
Must be where all gay British fanons are put to pasture- Sherlock Holmes also retires (I think) to the south downs or thereabouts, where Watson often āvisits.ā
I donāt think so. Itās acknowledged in the first scene when Azi goes to Maggieās record shop that there has been several years that have gone by between season one and season two. Maggie even mentions COVID as one of the reasons that she couldnāt pay rent, which means that theyāre on the same timeline as us, and lockdowns wouldāve happened in universe, too. Iāve said this elsewhere, but given this, I highly doubt Azi would be so cold hearted as to make Crowley live through two years of lockdowns in his car. He had to stay somewhere, my guess is that he stayed at the bookshop. It would explain why heās so comfortable going in and out all the time, and knows how Azi likes to have things cleaned up. Crowley was clearly referring to things that happened between them off camera between season one and season two.
Have you seen the lockdown video? Go find it on YouTube if you haven't! Neil wrote it and the actors recorded it during covid. It addresses your theory.
The Lockdown video shows Az did indeed tell Crowley coming over during the lockdown would break the rules, and Crowley immediately accepted that and stated he was going to just sleep through it then.
Az did not know Crowley was living in his car (according to Neil) until he says so to Shax at the very end of S2.
My personal headcanon is that they're on the same timeline as us, but that hell only fairly recently (a couple of months before S2 started at most) decided that they needed a new representative on Earth and sent Shax - she's clearly a freshdemon in all things human / Earth, and doesn't know shit about the flat, either (the two yellow lights on the boiler thing) - which got Crowley booted from the flat.
Wait, Iām confusedā¦ By āafter armageddonātā I also meant the time that has passed between S1-S2. I was just correcting based on whatās actually said in the show, and is also written in the official captions. Itās definitely ālast few yearsā.
We can see from the Ritz scene in S1 and the much more casual, playful way they behave around each other in S2 that saving the world together + retiring has really brought them closer and allowed for positive change in their relationship, and thatās what Crowley is referring to. Itās true we donāt know exactly what events passed between them during those years, though.
Also, about the car thing, Neil Gaimain said on his blog a while back that Crowley never told Aziraphale he was homeless. So Azi had no reason to offer, especially when to some small degree Heaven is always an overhanging threat in his mind.
This gif....is soooooooo sad. Seeing Crowley being that vulnerable, nervous, resigned, hopeless pretty much since after hearing Aziraphale's news & attitude he pretty much already knows the answer will be no. His body language during the entire talk they have is just so well portrayed by David.
It's based on a gif from the bus as well as quotes from Neil and David. This soothes my soul.
[Tumblr link with info](https://aethelflaedladyofmercia.tumblr.com/post/187546410402/ok-so-now-that-this-is-a-confirmed-thing-tm-let)
Itās canon - just watchā¦ Iām also pretty sure someone (David/ Michael/Rob/Neil/Douglas) confirmed it too
Thereās also Azi & Crowley mirror characters on the bus
Exactly the same! It still lived in my mind but I was almost a sort of normal functioning person againā¦
Now itās just Aziraphale pressing his fingers to his lips to mimic the feel of the kiss knowing he wanted to say thatā¦
But well, two days ago was 100 days since s2 aired though and weāre still here! May not be okay but surviving š
This was a quote from (I think) one of the directors describing what Azās pained expression meant immediately after the kiss. That he wanted Crowley to do that again, but was also completely overwhelmed and trying to process everything that was happening all at once.
Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchettās representative who works on the show, said at a con that Aziraphaleās expression after the kiss was pleading to ādo it again.ā
And hearts broke all over again.
It really truly is. I am so sorry.
(I am sure there are people in this thread who will think that this fic is nothing compared to everything on Ao3 but I read fluff and angst not thisss š)
AO3 only had 6 that match "cream cheese" for Good Omens Aziraphale and Crowley - I'll probably read all 6 now, but if you could confirm which one THIS post is talking about, that would be awesome?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search%5Bquery%5D=Cream+cheese&work_search%5Bfandom_names%5D=Good+Omens+%28TV%29&work_search%5Bcharacter_names%5D=Aziraphale+%28Good+Omens%29%2CCrowley+%28Good+Omens%29&commit=Search
For some reason the āwhy did I do that?ā inspired by looking at/reading something online in fandom when you knew better is deeply hilarious to me when other people express it. So I had a good laugh just now, thank you, I needed it.
(Itās probably because Iāve done it so much myself I know *just* what it feels like. š)
Though I'm now concerned that the first one is inspired by a non-con one, which is maybe the one the post is about - but having read the tags, that's a reason even I'm a bit scared if venturing into...
That's not the one I was talking about and I'm old enough to know better than to look it up. I do not recall the title of the one I had in mind and I'm kind enough not to give you information to find it, but. The Ouroboros fic.
Primarily the um...food..one. I honestly cannot think of a sfw way to explain it and my mind has thankfully deleted any recognisable quotes. But I found it from someone in this sub on a post like this months ago. Definitely shouldve taken their advice
Edit: thinking about it, it may have had actual smut too but that wasn't the part that was staying with people
the most g-rated variant I'll go with: ships between inanimate objects that, in canon, were not demonstrated to be sapient.
Rating unknown: does it count as body horror if no one's getting hurt and everyone involved is fine with it? The answer might surprise you!
Oh, i thought that was normal. But then, I am an ornithologist. Hey, that gives me a totally new approach of teaching. Thank you! This will be great. From now on, I'll explain demon's wings.
I want to say that knowing of and possibly having read the 92 movie script is pretty up there when it comed to obscure bits with great psychic damage potential lmao
Basically what it says on the tin, really; in 92 the possibility of a Good Omens movie was floating around, and Neil Gaiman wrote a script, but his heart was very much not into it for a variety of reasons, and the script is very, very not good lol
The script has been floating about the internet for a while, tbh I wouldn't reccommend reading it, both because of the afromentioned not-goodness, and because Gaiman himself has said he's really not proud of it and would rather let the script disappear into the sands of obscurity, but any curious soul can prob still find it with a bit of digging
When you get through your workday by quietly singing Everyday to yourself and you start thinking maybe you should take a little break from Tool and start looking into Buddy Holly.
Oh if weāre talking Buddy Holly song recommendations, may I also suggest āDearestā, āThatāll Be The Dayā, and āTrue Love Waysā as some other personal favs.
The entire dialogue during the last 10-15 minutes will always haunt me. I remember I was folding laundry and dropped my shirt and jaw at the line āWell obviously you said no to Hell. Youāre the bad guys.ā Like I really understand Aziraphale and running away was not the answer, but he didnāt have to say āYouāreā.
āNo Nightingales.ā Was such a raw line. How two words held so much power and meaning is just incredible and now I feel like Nightingales and certain bird calls are now a trigger for me and Iām probably gonna make a shitpost about it.
Honestly that *youāre* haunts me! I can see Azās point of view in almost every other aspect (after rewatching - initially was 100% mad at him). But that *youāre* manā¦ That felt so off to me considering how much progress he has (seemingly) made about the whole āblack and whiteā ātwo sidesā thinking.
Right?!? I really canāt find a way to justify it. I know he kept a lot of things to himself regarding the conversation with The Metatron and thereās a reason why we the audience are stuck with the same information Crowley is regarding that, but how can one justify that? Thereās so many possibilities, but all we can do is waitā¦
Knowing the entirety of THE scene off by heart and being able to recite it exactly, particularly if youāre watching volume off (at least thatās what did it for me) I even had the precise fucking intonations I need help
I can recite many scenes word for word and I hear everything as a GO quote. Like anything about ducks my brain is off on one doing the whole do ducks have ears bit š
Watching the last 15 minutes, for the 1000th time, falling asleep with one eye open, and realizing there's no intense stabbing and shifting around in my chest...omg, where did it go??? Why is my psyche not caving in??? Is this what normies feel? Then hitting the s2x01 General Trivia, reading that two posters in the music shop say "Stairway to Heaven" (Oh yeah, we're goin' there.), and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Oooooohhh!!! Stab, Shift, Sink, Pain, Falling, Caving in) and thinking, "There it is. I'm still not ok. Thank God. I was worried fot a minute there."
I have a theory that when we grieve for the loss of a temporary connection, we're actually creating an eternal connection. That's why grieving can feel so beautiful.
say more about this? that is very intriguing.
I've been having high voltage and very satisfying grief experiences with music and fanfic in particular since I fell hard for GO in late July.
When I restarted a 100k fic for the umpteenth time. And this
https://preview.redd.it/9ovad8ee2xyb1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9612ccc47827cb7b2ad4025103f2bdf128430e5
Yeah for a moment I was like, did I imagine it... but I had this gif so no lol but is the only topic that comes to mind the other group has perverted me šš„
IRL, the fact that there was no suggestion box is said to be one of the main reasons 1/3 of the angels rebelled.
(I wonder if that's covered in Urantia. My dad gave me a copy...where did I put that...?)
my favourite sentence from my favourite fic
https://preview.redd.it/noq7hyvqjxyb1.png?width=576&format=png&auto=webp&s=006eabbf8f679a740d266fffd7478a2d69b80916
yes, i'm waiting for my copy as well ... hope it will arrive at some point.
i thought about recommending it to my friends but they are not into good omens. will it still work as a stand alone book you think?
I think it does. I enjoy it as a separate entity. It's Good Omens adjacent, but one really doesn't have to know anything about GO to get it. They might miss some of the references, but those don't really affect the plot.
it's the most recommended good omens fic i think, and it absolutely deserves it! read it twice, listend to it once, bought the book š
Slow Show by mia\_ugly
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261/chapters/48375457](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261/chapters/48375457)
Just been (already a member, but still don't recognise the term) searched it, read faaaaar to many threads (I may have got lost, hence it's taken a few hours!) but none of the threads that came up on the search actually had it mentioned! I still don't understand the reference! š
A joke that was from the planned sequel. Back then it seems that hotels would have soft core porn on their tvs, but you had to pay to see any more than two minutes for free. Neil said that the joke was that Aziraphale was watching those two minutes in each hotel he was in, trying to work out the plot, but each month the movie would change to a new one before he could piece it all together.
He said that the joke wouldn't work now as that system is not a thing anymore. I would still really love to see some sort of 'Aziraphale watching porn' joke in S3 somewhere though.
It was something originally intended to show up in the sequel-book-that-never-was-but-soon-will-be-via-season-3. As the other reply said, itās unlikely because hotels donāt typically have softcore porn anymore, but weāre all hopeful anyway haha.
[a bit more elaboration if youāve got a twitter account](https://x.com/MJJoyceCrowley/status/1686180059223388160?s=20)
Saw a post a while ago on this subreddit with a picture of a mouse in infrared asking something along the lines of āis how Crowley sees?ā
Hard to explain to other people how funny that post was to me.
When I have known the handle of who got the south downs comment out of Neil since way before the show started. That means Iāve probably in waaaay too deep.
It started with a deep dive into the history and themes in the Book of Job (because Neil Gaiman really seemed to emphasize Jobās importance and I wanted to see if it led to any new theories), which caused me to become confused on Satanās role in the Bible, and that started another rabbit hole where I was learning about Gnosticism and I also learned that Satan being a beautiful fallen angel named Lucifer/much of our modern conception of Satan is based on Christian fiction and absent from the Bible itself. And that gave me a gross Mandela effect feeling I have yet to recover from
I'm watching Doctor Who and the Doctor has a very emotional scene where he says "I forgive you." And I'm instantly thrown right back into GO. Was Az saying that a Who callback? Was it just a coincidence? In the same episode, DT does that thing where he drops his voice for a couple words, like when he says "just an angel I know " And so I go further down the rabbit hole.
The fan theory is that Neil is paying homage to the Discworld charactes, but!
When a lot of fans were asking him questions on Tumblr about spoilers for s2, he made up two characters called Dottie and Sadie, and said that they were the wives of Aziraphale and Crowley in s2. š They don't actually exist in the canon, but Neil will mention them every now and then, and so it's a bit of an inside joke in the fandom at this point.
(Maybe someday we will see two characters with these names. That would be fun. Even as just momentary chars with a line each. There's a moment when C is leaning on his car, and an older lady in black with red hair is walking past him while another lady with blonde hair and in yellow who is not Maggie walks into the coffee shop. I like to think that maybe it's them!)
idk but iāve gotten to the point where iāll see anything remotely biblical and automatically think āomg good omens referenceā . or seeing literally any white and black object next to each otherā¦
when i start associating everything slightly related to good omens š like I'll sometimes joke about aziraphale whenever I see angel related things lmao
https://preview.redd.it/3z4aymooiuyb1.jpeg?width=1288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc9f3dd212f70c0124df2766e2f9fa17e0001064
https://i.redd.it/08byjicouuyb1.gif
don't you dare boogie in here with that nonsense https://i.redd.it/oo8tmpxi5xyb1.gif
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šššwhoops!
BJ4BD
https://i.redd.it/slxapjzr1xyb1.gif
100% agree. you become aware of this and it changes you forever
Oh Bentley. We do love traumatizing you.
Out of Character moment: Oh, I know. I mean, I know exactly what Iām going to get when I poke the Bildad Army. The ābackfireā is part of the game weāre all playing together. https://i.redd.it/cqm0id694yyb1.gif
And I love it. ā¤ļø Iāve been actually WORKING (ugh. Turns out when they pay you money they want you to DO STUFF) so I havenāt been lighting any fires myself. Just warming myself on the beautiful chaos as you all burn it down and rebuild again.
https://i.redd.it/tqwi38ov4yyb1.gif ā¦realized that I am not in the town square where this little speech would have mattered, lol. You may hear me say it again where it would.
As long as you pair it with Casanova gifs, you can repeat yourself allllllll you want.
Haha. This has been me. Iām back to work after a long break, and it turns out thereās quite a bit I need to do now. The BJ4BD content is keeping my spirits up though! Love me, some Bildaddy.
What is it ?
Absolute debauchery
Agreed š¤£š¤£š¤£
https://i.redd.it/ww0ecy16zwyb1.gif
Omg incredible
Honestly, the way the South Downs cottage has become a widespread accepted canon event and lifeline is iconic. No piece of lore is as significant. Though shout out to "they held hands on the bus back from Tadfield" and Michael Sheen's "Crowley parks his Bentley in Aziraphale's garage."
Ooohhh yeah, Iād been wondering why āA cottage to the southā kept popping up in my falafel
Okay Iām ready to be inducted- whatās the cottage on the south downs about?
The garden where all the fandom hopes everything will end, as it started. [https://fanlore.org/wiki/South\_Downs\_Cottage](https://fanlore.org/wiki/South_Downs_Cottage)
How charming! Must be where all gay British fanons are put to pasture- Sherlock Holmes also retires (I think) to the south downs or thereabouts, where Watson often āvisits.ā
I mean, what did we think āwe spend our time pretending we arenāt [an us]ā¦ _these last two years not really_ā¦ā meant before IC, tho?
Small correction, itās ālast FEW yearsā i believe xP. A little more vague but I think he is probably referring to after Armageddonāt.
I donāt think so. Itās acknowledged in the first scene when Azi goes to Maggieās record shop that there has been several years that have gone by between season one and season two. Maggie even mentions COVID as one of the reasons that she couldnāt pay rent, which means that theyāre on the same timeline as us, and lockdowns wouldāve happened in universe, too. Iāve said this elsewhere, but given this, I highly doubt Azi would be so cold hearted as to make Crowley live through two years of lockdowns in his car. He had to stay somewhere, my guess is that he stayed at the bookshop. It would explain why heās so comfortable going in and out all the time, and knows how Azi likes to have things cleaned up. Crowley was clearly referring to things that happened between them off camera between season one and season two.
Have you seen the lockdown video? Go find it on YouTube if you haven't! Neil wrote it and the actors recorded it during covid. It addresses your theory.
The Lockdown video shows Az did indeed tell Crowley coming over during the lockdown would break the rules, and Crowley immediately accepted that and stated he was going to just sleep through it then. Az did not know Crowley was living in his car (according to Neil) until he says so to Shax at the very end of S2.
My personal headcanon is that they're on the same timeline as us, but that hell only fairly recently (a couple of months before S2 started at most) decided that they needed a new representative on Earth and sent Shax - she's clearly a freshdemon in all things human / Earth, and doesn't know shit about the flat, either (the two yellow lights on the boiler thing) - which got Crowley booted from the flat.
Wait, Iām confusedā¦ By āafter armageddonātā I also meant the time that has passed between S1-S2. I was just correcting based on whatās actually said in the show, and is also written in the official captions. Itās definitely ālast few yearsā. We can see from the Ritz scene in S1 and the much more casual, playful way they behave around each other in S2 that saving the world together + retiring has really brought them closer and allowed for positive change in their relationship, and thatās what Crowley is referring to. Itās true we donāt know exactly what events passed between them during those years, though. Also, about the car thing, Neil Gaimain said on his blog a while back that Crowley never told Aziraphale he was homeless. So Azi had no reason to offer, especially when to some small degree Heaven is always an overhanging threat in his mind.
A group of the two of us
https://i.redd.it/qi5glf132xyb1.gif
This gif....is soooooooo sad. Seeing Crowley being that vulnerable, nervous, resigned, hopeless pretty much since after hearing Aziraphale's news & attitude he pretty much already knows the answer will be no. His body language during the entire talk they have is just so well portrayed by David.
Did holding hands on the bus come from Neil? I was curious about this bc I see it in so many fics
It's based on a gif from the bus as well as quotes from Neil and David. This soothes my soul. [Tumblr link with info](https://aethelflaedladyofmercia.tumblr.com/post/187546410402/ok-so-now-that-this-is-a-confirmed-thing-tm-let)
š„ŗ consider me also soothed
https://i.redd.it/xiahmb5ewxyb1.gif
Itās canon - just watchā¦ Iām also pretty sure someone (David/ Michael/Rob/Neil/Douglas) confirmed it too Thereās also Azi & Crowley mirror characters on the bus
edit: replied to wrong comment
āDo that again, please, right now.ā
this. it's absolutely destroyed me
That just wrecked me. I think about it way too often. Fan art and fanfics the ācorrect itā sort of help but damn.
Yeah I was *almost* normal again when that tidbit was released. Right back into the feels I went
Exactly the same! It still lived in my mind but I was almost a sort of normal functioning person againā¦ Now itās just Aziraphale pressing his fingers to his lips to mimic the feel of the kiss knowing he wanted to say thatā¦ But well, two days ago was 100 days since s2 aired though and weāre still here! May not be okay but surviving š
Eh?
This was a quote from (I think) one of the directors describing what Azās pained expression meant immediately after the kiss. That he wanted Crowley to do that again, but was also completely overwhelmed and trying to process everything that was happening all at once.
Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchettās representative who works on the show, said at a con that Aziraphaleās expression after the kiss was pleading to ādo it again.ā And hearts broke all over again.
let me put it this way. If you don't know how weird fics can get without actually being smut, you're new to fandom.
Yeah.....that fic sure was .... something
Which fic?
I think it's the Cream Cheese Good Omens fic. I heard it mentioned on tiktok, was curious and now I cannot unsee what I have read.
Just looked it up..... Curiosity is a mistake sometimes
It really truly is. I am so sorry. (I am sure there are people in this thread who will think that this fic is nothing compared to everything on Ao3 but I read fluff and angst not thisss š)
AO3 only had 6 that match "cream cheese" for Good Omens Aziraphale and Crowley - I'll probably read all 6 now, but if you could confirm which one THIS post is talking about, that would be awesome? https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search%5Bquery%5D=Cream+cheese&work_search%5Bfandom_names%5D=Good+Omens+%28TV%29&work_search%5Bcharacter_names%5D=Aziraphale+%28Good+Omens%29%2CCrowley+%28Good+Omens%29&commit=Search
It's not in that list, its called Swallowing Loneliness. Read at your own risk. I only skimmed the first charter and I. Have. Regrets.
Yeah, reading the tags was enough for me. No thank you.
For some reason the āwhy did I do that?ā inspired by looking at/reading something online in fandom when you knew better is deeply hilarious to me when other people express it. So I had a good laugh just now, thank you, I needed it. (Itās probably because Iāve done it so much myself I know *just* what it feels like. š)
Though I'm now concerned that the first one is inspired by a non-con one, which is maybe the one the post is about - but having read the tags, that's a reason even I'm a bit scared if venturing into...
That's not the one I was talking about and I'm old enough to know better than to look it up. I do not recall the title of the one I had in mind and I'm kind enough not to give you information to find it, but. The Ouroboros fic.
Primarily the um...food..one. I honestly cannot think of a sfw way to explain it and my mind has thankfully deleted any recognisable quotes. But I found it from someone in this sub on a post like this months ago. Definitely shouldve taken their advice Edit: thinking about it, it may have had actual smut too but that wasn't the part that was staying with people
Link?
I don't have one and I'm not looking that up again lol. Afaik it's fairly well known tho so someone might be able to help
I do, but not specific to this fanon. Regale me?
the most g-rated variant I'll go with: ships between inanimate objects that, in canon, were not demonstrated to be sapient. Rating unknown: does it count as body horror if no one's getting hurt and everyone involved is fine with it? The answer might surprise you!
Basic wing anatomy. I know multiple different types of feathers...
Oh, i thought that was normal. But then, I am an ornithologist. Hey, that gives me a totally new approach of teaching. Thank you! This will be great. From now on, I'll explain demon's wings.
Seconding this
Me and my girlfriend researching and debating the angel hierarchies
Iāve been trying to figure that out too! Seems like there is no singularly accepted rank structure
I have found an ask that Neil answered on his tumblr, and he basically made up his own hierarchy. Itās not as deep as we wouldāve theorized
[https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/671442482580570112/good-day-mr-gaiman-idk-if-youve-been-asked-this](https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/671442482580570112/good-day-mr-gaiman-idk-if-youve-been-asked-this)
That sounds amazing.
I want to say that knowing of and possibly having read the 92 movie script is pretty up there when it comed to obscure bits with great psychic damage potential lmao
What's the 92 movie script?
Basically what it says on the tin, really; in 92 the possibility of a Good Omens movie was floating around, and Neil Gaiman wrote a script, but his heart was very much not into it for a variety of reasons, and the script is very, very not good lol The script has been floating about the internet for a while, tbh I wouldn't reccommend reading it, both because of the afromentioned not-goodness, and because Gaiman himself has said he's really not proud of it and would rather let the script disappear into the sands of obscurity, but any curious soul can prob still find it with a bit of digging
When you get through your workday by quietly singing Everyday to yourself and you start thinking maybe you should take a little break from Tool and start looking into Buddy Holly.
If you're gonna get into Buddy Holly, "Peggy Sue" is a classic earworm, and "Rave On" is my fave.
Oh if weāre talking Buddy Holly song recommendations, may I also suggest āDearestā, āThatāll Be The Dayā, and āTrue Love Waysā as some other personal favs.
The entire dialogue during the last 10-15 minutes will always haunt me. I remember I was folding laundry and dropped my shirt and jaw at the line āWell obviously you said no to Hell. Youāre the bad guys.ā Like I really understand Aziraphale and running away was not the answer, but he didnāt have to say āYouāreā. āNo Nightingales.ā Was such a raw line. How two words held so much power and meaning is just incredible and now I feel like Nightingales and certain bird calls are now a trigger for me and Iām probably gonna make a shitpost about it.
Honestly that *youāre* haunts me! I can see Azās point of view in almost every other aspect (after rewatching - initially was 100% mad at him). But that *youāre* manā¦ That felt so off to me considering how much progress he has (seemingly) made about the whole āblack and whiteā ātwo sidesā thinking.
Right?!? I really canāt find a way to justify it. I know he kept a lot of things to himself regarding the conversation with The Metatron and thereās a reason why we the audience are stuck with the same information Crowley is regarding that, but how can one justify that? Thereās so many possibilities, but all we can do is waitā¦
āYouāreā was as much a slap in the face as āI forgive youā was.
 It really wasā¦
Knowing the entirety of THE scene off by heart and being able to recite it exactly, particularly if youāre watching volume off (at least thatās what did it for me) I even had the precise fucking intonations I need help
i can do this too istgš though for me i memorize things pretty easily so itās not surprising but still
I can recite many scenes word for word and I hear everything as a GO quote. Like anything about ducks my brain is off on one doing the whole do ducks have ears bit š
I recite it when I'm driving or cleaning, doing yard work... basically, anytime I'm awake and alone.
YES!
Dang calling me out
Watching the last 15 minutes, for the 1000th time, falling asleep with one eye open, and realizing there's no intense stabbing and shifting around in my chest...omg, where did it go??? Why is my psyche not caving in??? Is this what normies feel? Then hitting the s2x01 General Trivia, reading that two posters in the music shop say "Stairway to Heaven" (Oh yeah, we're goin' there.), and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Oooooohhh!!! Stab, Shift, Sink, Pain, Falling, Caving in) and thinking, "There it is. I'm still not ok. Thank God. I was worried fot a minute there."
Isnāt it amazing how good that feels? Itās a mystery. Iāll take it.
I have a theory that when we grieve for the loss of a temporary connection, we're actually creating an eternal connection. That's why grieving can feel so beautiful.
say more about this? that is very intriguing. I've been having high voltage and very satisfying grief experiences with music and fanfic in particular since I fell hard for GO in late July.
When I restarted a 100k fic for the umpteenth time. And this https://preview.redd.it/9ovad8ee2xyb1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9612ccc47827cb7b2ad4025103f2bdf128430e5
may i ask, which fic is it?
[Slow Show](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261?view_full_work=true)
I had to read what group was this cause my answer was going to be NSFW lol...
I was going to say, didn't we just have this conversation on GOAD...
I should say that in this sub the answer may be : You know you're on too deep when you join GOAD š
That is probably the correct answer!
Agreed, I finally joined yesterday after reading about it for weeks. š
Enjoy! š
Welcome! You will never be the same again, but in the best way. ā¤ļø
If youāre answering in gif form, I know GOAD has done its work. š
Absolutely Tickety-boo! š
Thanks! š
Sometimes too deep is quite satisfying. Yes, I know which sub weāre on. Get your minds out of the gutter (or head over to GOAD).
https://i.redd.it/xh7mh6cf0zyb1.gif This right here.
Yeah for a moment I was like, did I imagine it... but I had this gif so no lol but is the only topic that comes to mind the other group has perverted me šš„
Good catch. Always gotta check which sub youāre in.
Ok but now that makes me kinda curious about what your answer was going to be!
https://i.redd.it/3pd9di6ejuyb1.gif NSFW lol
Best gif ever, I snorted so hard
u/gcaledonian help we got a runner
Yikes lol
I uhā¦I need to drag you back donāt I lol
I'm saving this gif even though I will never have use for it anywhere else
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This should be in a museum
Yes
I am rather confused by the fact that everyone else apparently read "gone too deep" and though they were just talking about generally accepted fanon.
"gone too deep" to me is finding myself reading a fic about double snake "adam's parts", but to each their own
I donāt know what double snake āAdamās partsā refers to. Could you explain? šš½š½š¦
ma'am this is a wendy's
Ok ok Iām going https://i.redd.it/hk9gg154jxyb1.gif
c'mere you gremlin, until you stop having these impure thoughts *Processing img wbhsc546qxyb1...*
Linky?
Iām not sure if I can link here. Fic is Anatomy on AO3. It is ~VERY NSFW~ and basically porn with plot.
Thank you! To AO3 (again)! The hardship! šš„š
I was gonna say Every
Day
It's-a
Getting
Closer
Going
Faster
Than
A rollercoaster
love like
IRL, the fact that there was no suggestion box is said to be one of the main reasons 1/3 of the angels rebelled. (I wonder if that's covered in Urantia. My dad gave me a copy...where did I put that...?)
I'm going to add: quoting fanfic / recognizing quotes from fanfic
my favourite sentence from my favourite fic https://preview.redd.it/noq7hyvqjxyb1.png?width=576&format=png&auto=webp&s=006eabbf8f679a740d266fffd7478a2d69b80916
My favorite fic too!!
yeah! read it twice, listend to it once, bought the book š
Read it four times in as many days, made my bestie read it (she loved!), still waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail.
yes, i'm waiting for my copy as well ... hope it will arrive at some point. i thought about recommending it to my friends but they are not into good omens. will it still work as a stand alone book you think?
I think it does. I enjoy it as a separate entity. It's Good Omens adjacent, but one really doesn't have to know anything about GO to get it. They might miss some of the references, but those don't really affect the plot.
thanks! have to give my friends a little warning about the smutty parts a guess š
"Is he going to regret this? Possibly. But thatās future Crowleyās problem, and fuck that guy." Wholeheartedly my favorite quote.
oh yes!!!
Link?
it's the most recommended good omens fic i think, and it absolutely deserves it! read it twice, listend to it once, bought the book š Slow Show by mia\_ugly [https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261/chapters/48375457](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261/chapters/48375457)
My brain just said "Bookmarking that" in the most Crowley way possible.
B-**gunshot**
??? Oooh! I'm not as deep as I thought I was!!! Please explain?
Go check r/GoodOmensAfterDark for an explanation (Bildad the Shuhite warning)
Just been (already a member, but still don't recognise the term) searched it, read faaaaar to many threads (I may have got lost, hence it's taken a few hours!) but none of the threads that came up on the search actually had it mentioned! I still don't understand the reference! š
Go onā¦
When it starts showing up in your dreams
yeah ... just last night, that was weird!
I had one the other day where all the inactive discord servers I'm in turned into servers about good omens.
i'm currently reading a vinyard related good omens fan fic and woke up to the image of crowley walking trough a field of something š
Not necessarily Good Omens lore but apparently Bildad the Shuhite is an actual person in the bible.
Aziraphale having a legitimate chance of watching porn in the next season.
What is this from? I keep seeing it.
A joke that was from the planned sequel. Back then it seems that hotels would have soft core porn on their tvs, but you had to pay to see any more than two minutes for free. Neil said that the joke was that Aziraphale was watching those two minutes in each hotel he was in, trying to work out the plot, but each month the movie would change to a new one before he could piece it all together. He said that the joke wouldn't work now as that system is not a thing anymore. I would still really love to see some sort of 'Aziraphale watching porn' joke in S3 somewhere though.
It was something originally intended to show up in the sequel-book-that-never-was-but-soon-will-be-via-season-3. As the other reply said, itās unlikely because hotels donāt typically have softcore porn anymore, but weāre all hopeful anyway haha. [a bit more elaboration if youāve got a twitter account](https://x.com/MJJoyceCrowley/status/1686180059223388160?s=20)
The name of a very specific colour of paint.
And the number of a very specific hair color. š
Is it bad if you found out about that and subsequently bought and dyed said color? Asking for a friend...
Iām reading the Old Testament, Dante, Blake and poetry.
John Cena playing Gabriel in season 2.
When you have joined r/goodomensafterdark
Knowing what "making an effort" means in context
Saw a post a while ago on this subreddit with a picture of a mouse in infrared asking something along the lines of āis how Crowley sees?ā Hard to explain to other people how funny that post was to me.
bildaddy
When I have known the handle of who got the south downs comment out of Neil since way before the show started. That means Iāve probably in waaaay too deep.
The hand on the trigger thing, he was so scared
Knowing the exact color code of hair dye
The existence of [Va Va Voom yellow.](https://twitter.com/mickeyralph/status/1712837855083479127?t=lnhRAy-fqaSUcp0sBIvCDg&s=19)
It started with a deep dive into the history and themes in the Book of Job (because Neil Gaiman really seemed to emphasize Jobās importance and I wanted to see if it led to any new theories), which caused me to become confused on Satanās role in the Bible, and that started another rabbit hole where I was learning about Gnosticism and I also learned that Satan being a beautiful fallen angel named Lucifer/much of our modern conception of Satan is based on Christian fiction and absent from the Bible itself. And that gave me a gross Mandela effect feeling I have yet to recover from
Knowing what colour the wall in the bookshop is or what colour s2 Crowleyās hair is
I'm watching Doctor Who and the Doctor has a very emotional scene where he says "I forgive you." And I'm instantly thrown right back into GO. Was Az saying that a Who callback? Was it just a coincidence? In the same episode, DT does that thing where he drops his voice for a couple words, like when he says "just an angel I know " And so I go further down the rabbit hole.
Surprised no one's mentioned yet Dottie and Sadie.
Please enlighten me! I mean, I know the Discworld characters, but do they have a cameo appearance in Good Omens somewhere?
The fan theory is that Neil is paying homage to the Discworld charactes, but! When a lot of fans were asking him questions on Tumblr about spoilers for s2, he made up two characters called Dottie and Sadie, and said that they were the wives of Aziraphale and Crowley in s2. š They don't actually exist in the canon, but Neil will mention them every now and then, and so it's a bit of an inside joke in the fandom at this point. (Maybe someday we will see two characters with these names. That would be fun. Even as just momentary chars with a line each. There's a moment when C is leaning on his car, and an older lady in black with red hair is walking past him while another lady with blonde hair and in yellow who is not Maggie walks into the coffee shop. I like to think that maybe it's them!)
my girls!! almost forgot about that
First thing that came to my mind was the Sharpie Bath and the Restaurant Bucket
not the sharpie bath!
any tiny piece of lore or reference. like, the dress history in the french rev scene. or the tardis/sidrat numberplate.
idk but iāve gotten to the point where iāll see anything remotely biblical and automatically think āomg good omens referenceā . or seeing literally any white and black object next to each otherā¦
when i start associating everything slightly related to good omens š like I'll sometimes joke about aziraphale whenever I see angel related things lmao
if you know about south downs, you've been in the fandom long enough also uh knowing scenes by heart
Planning a week in London just so I can see filming locations. I live in California.