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Finally made a tumblr! Enjoy this painting of Elizabethan era Aziraphale I made a while ago :)

Oil on 11x14” canvas

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It's been months since my last portrait, and I did yet another portrait of Michael Sheen!! I expected it would take longer to finish this portrait, but it only took me 4 days this time. 🎉

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Thank you lululovesmsdt on Twitter for letting me use your photo as a reference ---- I really love how soft his expression is here. Also, those glorious white hairs look so lovely on him...

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new macbeth clip!!

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Is this time of the year again!

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Very cool and meta how the GO Team averted the apocalypse cancellation

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There are so many good points here. A list of excellent reasons showing us why a 90-minute movie can be a very good thing. We can both experience disappointment at the loss of a 6-episode season 3, and be very happy at the possibility of a tighter story, and with the knowledge that we’ll get the end to A&C’s story. A story that was fought for by Terry Pratchett’s Estate.

And remember,

“It starts, as it will end, with a garden.”

If I could inject just a little positivity to the news...

Season 2 has a lot of filler and stretches out a pretty simple mystery to six episodes. That's the appeal to some, I get it. But tightness and focus was not its strong suit. I remember feeling like it wasted a ton of time on side characters and it's possible shaving the story down to 90 minutes will skim things down to its most essential beats and be stronger for it. Basically, S2 got a lot of time given to it, and this is obviously my personal opinion but I don't think it used all of it well. I think S2 itself could have been half the length simply by employing more efficient storytelling and we'd not mourn too much.

A lot of S2's weaker plotlines feel built around people that Neil wanted to work with again, with so many recurring actors (I'm thinking of the zombies specifically, when that minisode could have easily been tighter without them). A lot of s2 to me feels like Neil just making work for the people he likes and wants to work with and a movie has to be more accountable to things like that.

Lots of entire fandoms exist around single movies. 90 minutes is not nothing. It's enough for many, many films to tell a complete story with cute character interactions and satisfying emotional arcs, especially when A&C are the only real significant connecting threads between both seasons thus far.

I don't think there are as many loose threads that absolutely need resolving as people may be thinking. Would I like to know why Aziraphale did the '40s apology dance? Would I like to see his bookshop gun? Sure. Are either of those necessarily essential to closing out the story? I don't think so. Really, what needs resolving is the second coming and, directly connected to that, Aziraphale and Crowley's rift. To me, not knowing the story obviously, that seems super reasonable to do in 90 minutes?

I don't think anyone involved in the final season can possibly be blind to the appeal of the show being Aziraphale and Crowley over anything else. That's certainly the reason why their roles were expanded to begin with from the book and why the second season was, nominally, all about them. They also now have to pay MS and DT for appearing in a movie rather than an ensemble show, there's no way they won't be front and center. Amazon wants a show that will make money and market itself; there's a reason why all the promo material for S2 was of Crowley and Aziraphale, because people engage with that stuff, reblog it, make art that promotes the show, etc. It makes no artistic or financial sense to make a movie that sidelines them.

GO is at its best when it has Terry's voice most strongly in it. That's why to me, S2 was a weaker, more meandering season overall (that, and I think the minisodes, while fun, just make the season feel comprised of different voices not always working in tandem towards a common goal). If I was a writer hired to condense a season into a film, and one of the authors had been rightfully disgraced, I would go out of my way to ensure the clearly Terry stuff is most significantly emphasized. It's telling to me that the Pratchett estate is producing and it's possible that the end result will result in more Terry, less Neil.

Think of it this way: everything we've gotten after S1 has always been extra. Imagine telling a fan of the book in the 90s that not only will you get a six episode adaptation, you also get a totally new second season, AND a movie?

Basically: I know this is disappointing but I think a lot of the pleasure of the Good Omens fandom was ALWAYS people picking up on and expanding on details, and y'all managed to do that just fine when A&C were only ensemble members in S1. You can and will do that with a movie too. And this solution both a) ensures first and foremost that Neil won't be involved or the allegations swept under the rug, and b) gives an opportunity for the heart of the story to be emphasized with greater focus, clarity and less filler.

Will we lose good stuff? Probably. But it's also possible we will get a tighter, more condensed, focused version of the best bits, the Terry Pratchett-est bits. I can easily see a 90 minute movie that, knowing they HAVE to focus on the important stuff now, is more Crowley and Aziraphale centric than ever.

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And they lived and laughed happily ever after!

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Hell's Bad Books

From the Good Omens book :):

He'd taken the opportunity to reread Aziraphale's notes, and to thumb through Agnes Nutter's prophecies, and to do some serious thinking.

His conclusions could be summarized as follows:

Armageddon was under way.

There was nothing Crowley could do about this.

It was going to happen in Tadfield. Or to begin there, at any rate. After that it was going to happen everywhere.

Crowley was in Hell's bad books. *Not that Hell has any other kind.

Aziraphale was—as far as could be estimated—out of the equation.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel—or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

He might just as well find a nice little restaurant and get completely and utterly pissed out of his mind while he waited for the world to end.

And yet . . .

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@ingravinoveritas

*that couple who managed to buy the last pumpkin in town right before you

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So, I heard the news (90 minutes...) BUT, rather than keep mourning all day, I decided to give you all a scottish gift to cheer you up🤭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨

• That night in Edimburgh •

I just want them to be together. No matter the costs (or the screening time). So, fingers crossed~

ps. I'm so ✨proud✨ of the light here, especially on their feet~

Bonus: close-ups!

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Lovely article from Radio Times. Seen on X

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There are more details about Good Omens season 3 now on the website for Terry Pratchett.

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings regarding all of this, but perhaps what strikes me the most is how everything about Good Omens goes so far beyond the book.

Reading about Rob Wilkins' involvement particularly--and knowing as well how he has felt about Michael and David in the show--tells me that so many more people than Neil care about Good Omens. That he is not the end-all, be-all of Good Omens, no matter how much his ego might suggest otherwise. I also know we can only guess at Amazon's reasons for truncating the season in this way, and I hold them responsible at least in part for this decision, but it seems clear that outside of the corporate side of things, there are people who love this damn show and want to see it done justice.

Right now, doing it justice may not look the way that we expected, or hoped for. But if doing the third season like this is the only way possible, then I am glad to at least have that. To have people like Rob and Rhianna Pratchett caring about Terry's legacy and the proposed plot for a GO sequel, and seeing to it that the story gets an ending, with as minimal involvement from Neil as possible.

More than anything, I am grateful for Michael and David, whom I still feel are the reason we are even talking about Good Omens at all five years after the first season's release. I can't imagine how devastating all of these recent events have been for them, both professionally and personally, and how there is a good chance they've also been waiting with bated breath to know the fate of the final season. I'm grateful that being a part of Good Omens has changed their lives and brought them so much closer together.

And I think that no matter what, they will give us an ending for Aziraphale and Crowley that fulfills that original vision but is also fitting for what Michael and David have given to the characters, and everything they have done to make them their own...

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I gotta say, y’all, it makes me feel connected on a spiritual level every time somebody reblogs a gifset of Aziraphale with some tag along the lines of “I didn’t expect to love him as much as I did but holy shit”  because seriously that is the biggest mood.

Like, I was expecting to love Crowley. He was my favorite character in the book, I knew David Tennant would be perfect for him (and he was, GOD he was fantastic), I was 100% solidly prepared for that.

I was not

at all

prepared

for this soft smiley motherfucking N E R D.

LOOK AT HIM.

HE’S SO PRECIOUS????

He’s so excited? About everything?? Food, books, wine, learning the gavotte, double-crossing Nazis, you name it. He’s like a literal ray of sunshine every time he’s on screen, which is partly because he’s an angel and they deliberately dress him in white, and partly because Michael Sheen cranks every single emotion up to 11 and makes sure we see every single bit of it. (And that is the best acting choice e v e r.)

Like good lord, no wonder Crowley loves him after knowing him all of 5 minutes. How could you not?!

Crowley: I’ve had this angel for less than an hour but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself. Literally everybody watching Good Omens: HARD SAME.

I just. Guys. Aziraphale. I can’t. I love him so much, and I’m so happy so many other people feel the same way.

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Michael Sheen at the Pride of Britain Awards on Monday with the beautiful Florrie - I'm also linking her GoFundMe to which this beautiful soul has donated too 💙

https://www.gofundme.com/f/surprise-fundraiser-for-superstar-florrie

Do your thing, Tumblr

#MichaelSheenIsAnAngelInRealLife

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Crowley