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My Secret Santa gift for @saglaophonos! A comic for her post-s2 fic you do something to my patience

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I love that I discovered fandom at my age (68). I’m retired after 40+ years of working full time. My kids are grown and my grandkids are young adults. I finally have the time to follow interesting people on sites like this, who broaden my perspectives and stimulate thought. I’ve immersed myself into the world of fan fiction where I’ve discovered extraordinary authors who so generously share their talent and creativity. This is truly a rich and delightful time in my life. I’m so grateful for Good Omens, the show that introduced me to this fandom that means so much to me.

#Never too old for fandom

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The wine is the secret ingredient of the crêpes recommended by the chef.

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Good Omens Ao3 wrapped is here! It's a bit of a long post but it goes quick:)

Drumroll please!!!

Shoutout to @feiandart for all her work on this piece!

But of course, there's more! It's been a long year for the fandom, and we all processed a lot of feelings about things. Here's how we coped:

Reminder that as a reader, your comments often mean the world to writers! Fandom is a community first and foremost<3

You can click here for a more in depth explanation of the math and the raw data! This assessment is pulled by hand from the Good Omens (TV) fandom category on Archive of Our Own.

Image credits: Unsplash free images for the art and Canva stock images. Image credits in order where available:

Photo by Cassi Josh on Unsplash

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Average adult reading rate as cited is 240 wpm found on ScienceDirect.

Please reblog rather than repost, but you're welcome to share to other platforms as long as you credit me!

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A quick kiss under the mistletoe and suddenly all the grumbling about the ‘horrible’ jumper stops.

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Crowley gave his some extra Effort while Aziraphale wasn’t looking.

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Some winter coziness

If you need

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Ratziraphale & Snake Crowley having a virtual date :D

Inspired by this post by @spicymochi !!

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Here is a little step by step for my Good Omens fanart The Braid^^

you can also find it in my print shop!

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them lol

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this is an older drawing from about 1-2 years ago. Crowley / Nanny Ashtoreth from Good Omens

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When you think about it Crowley and Aziraphale must have experienced all of those ancient rituals of kinship and affection throughout History. Like. When people kissed and held one another without a second thought. When it was overall easier to express affection between family, friends, or lovers, regardless of gender, to the point that they must be pretty confused--and disheartened--by modern days' general prudishness

Like. Imagine them in 5th century BCE Persia, where men kissing each other on the mouth was a sign of respect, of being equal to one another ; imagine them wordlessly kissing for the first time like that, instead of their usual colder, disrespectful kiss on the cheek ; because they've accepted that they're not enemies anymore, that they're the same in many ways, but they can't articulate that openly, so they seal the knowledge of their growing respect and affection with a kiss of equals

Imagine them in ancient Rome, where kissing was like shaking hands, only with a million little rules and customs ; imagine them practicing the osculum (close-mouthed platonic kiss between acquaintances and friends) for the longest time, until crowley says something infinitely sweet and impossibly good one night after one too many cups of wine, and in his surprised happiness, aziraphale grabs him by the ears and gives him a basium (open-mouthed kiss of strong affection on the lips, sometimes erotic), making crowley promptly fall over his bench and into the Tiber ; they keep saluting one another with a basium from then on, along with affectionate then-platonic kisses on closed eyelids, brows, necks- up until the practice falls out of fashion along with the empire

Imagine them exchanging kisses of peace when the first Christians start greeting one another with them, as the apostles once did ; Crowley vehemently refusing to call them 'holy kisses' in case his mouth spontaneously melts whenever it meets the angel's, and Aziraphale always indulging him, laughing on his lips while they chastely kiss hello and goodbye

Imagine them during the middle ages, when kisses are not so freely-given anymore, having become so much more important in their symbolism ; crowley kissing aziraphale's hand like a vassal or knight does his lord or lady, reverently, fervently, chastely, with all the wordless loyalty he already feels for him, refusing to admit that all the romance of courtly love has gone to his head but being perfectly aware of it nonetheless ; and it's with a kiss on the lips that contracts are signed at this point of History, and so that's how they seal their Arrangement, finally reaching for each other as one for a long-missed embrace that feels too much like a reunion after the sobering Crusades

Imagine them post-renaissance, during the georgian/regency Era even, in Europe where affection and love between men have become heavily guarded and codified : when they feel their bond and affection the most ardently after millenia of learning to know and love each other, but unable to express any of it ; when suspicions of homosexual love is punishable by death in England, so they have to act distant and stiff and pretend they don't remember what it felt like to sit in each other's laps in Persian courts or taste wine through the other's lips during Bacchus feasts. There are hidden places where they could meet, Molly houses and ungentlemanly balls and back gardens, but somehow it seems like the English ways got to Aziraphale, because it doesn't seem proper anymore to say 'please, I'm begging you, come to a place of ill-repute and risk discorporation with me, because in these desperate times, I'm terrified I'll forget how good it felt to kiss you'. Instead, he doesn't say anything, and hides himself in secret clubs, silently waiting for crowley to stop likewise hiding in his century-long sleep.

Imagine them during a summer of love, catching a glimpse of the other among thousands of bodies dancing and singing, being driven together like orbiting moons until they crash into one another, embracing and laughing and yes, kissing in relief, two mouths who have been parted for far too many centuries, holding each other, rocking into each other's arms while the music plays on, aziraphale laughing against crowley's beatifically smiling lips that he never knew how much he had missed the Adamites before this moment ; the both of them not knowing of the riots coming soon in Stonewall, but wordlessly, desperately hoping, hoping, hoping.

Imagine them now, a lifetime later, finally learning all over again what the other feels like, now free to express the love they've been feeling for ever, with kisses, with touches, with words ; not just because humanity is finally starting to get over itself, but because heaven and hell are as well ; there are no more self-imposed inane rules, no more weight on their shoulders, and they know they can't--won't be judged ; neither on this plane nor the next. And they can learn how to kiss, like it's that first time in Persia, all over again.

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procreate doodle inspired by recently finishing Good Omens. Trying to cope with the end of S2

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Rosa Angeli

WAHOO. IT'S DONE!

This painting is for @ukcalico's LOVELY, fantastic, wonderful fic, Rosa Angeli (AO3, Explicit, if you couldn't tell). This painting accompanies Chapter 4 which is up RIGHT NOW and you should all go read it. Seriously. It's one of my favorite ongoing series.

If you haven't read the rest of the Rosae series, you should start here first.

Here we have Roman!Crowley and Aziraphale with Angel!Crowley (aka Raphael) in the lads' bath.

You can see the full sized (and very explicit) piece in Chapter 4 of Rosa Angeli, here!

QUONA ON PATREON

@goodomensafterdark

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Don't look so disappointed. Perhaps one day we could, I don't know, go for a picnic...

If 88 minutes of that hour and a half of the last season isn't them enjoying a picnic in a warm afternoon, I swear-

let them be happy for once please 😭

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Good Omentober drawing challenge Day 31 - Do it again

* Shrug 2.0 *

Happy Halloween! As an obvious companion piece to this one, so I wanted it to be tonally opposite, so it's a bit more angsty. If you have thoughts about when this happens leave it in the tags I'd love to know <3

Following these prompts (sometimes) My other drawings in this challenge

I made it!! 31 days of drawing good omens. I will do a recap post one of these days most likely. But I am very glad to be done.

Thank you all for those who have joined me on this journey, you're all very sweet <3 I am happy to make art for all of you

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It was an honor and privilege to have done art for a very sweet but spicy fanfic by the amazing @silvernightwalker!! Thank you! 💗

🔞Please check out the fic! Full art in the ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60392653 🔞

Happy birthday @avadoingart-imus!!