#From Eve’s Rib

[majestativa]

I wander your entire being trail after trail, unlacing my love.

— Gioconda Belli, From Eve’s Rib, transl by Steven F. White, (1999)

[completelymindfucked]

[aeriondripflame]

deeply troubled by the lack of frankenstein themes with maegor and visenya. you don’t know them like i do.

[starry-bite]

will is so pathetic wet cat in love with his wife this man would do anything for her

[vintage-bentley]

How in the fuck are you going to be anti trans and a Good Omens fan as if both the book and the show don’t explicitly establish the existence of several nonbinary characters and both Aziraphale and Crowley themselves are genderless beings

Not to mention both David and Michael’s staunch support of the LGBT (really emphasizing the T here, since you love to drop it) community as a whole, and David literally has a trans child

Part of me is even asking this in good faith because how do you see a series that is so incredibly queer and like it considering how much you shit-talk trans people on your lackluster TERF blog

There’s many reasons, actually! I’ll explain them in good faith, because I think that people who ask questions like this don’t understand the perspective of so-called “terfs” and assume we think like you do.

Firstly, I’m a feminist, so I’m used to media not aligning with my politics. I expect it, actually. Down to very simple things, like knowing I’m never going to go into a show and see a woman just existing with body hair like men do in shows all the time. But I’m comfortable and confident enough in my beliefs that I can consume media that doesn’t align with them. This extends to my feelings regarding gender. A they/them character doesn’t make my head explode, it’s just the same for me as seeing a Christian character (like Ella from Netlix’s Lucifer) or a female character who’s pro-beauty culture (like Elinor from First Kill). It’s a representation of a belief I don’t agree with and personally don’t believe in, that’s all.

Secondly, Good Omens is set in a made up universe with fantasy themes. I can easily get behind the idea that the true forms of angels and demons are genderless, because that makes sense to me in the same way God being genderless makes sense to me. This doesn’t have to carry over to me believing that humans can be genderless (I don’t believe in the concept of internal gender identity, because I don’t believe in souls. So I guess the better way to put this is that I don’t believe humans can be sexless unless we’re using gender and sex as synonyms). In the same way that it makes sense to me that angels and demons have souls that are put into bodies issued to them…but I don’t have to believe that also applies to humans. Or how it makes sense to me that Aziraphale and Crowley could survive without food, water, and sleep…but I don’t have to believe that also applies to humans. Etc. etc.

Basically, just because something is in a fantasy show, doesn’t mean I have to believe it’s real.

Thirdly, what the actors do in their own lives is none of my business. I don’t agree with supporting the TQ+ especially in relation to LGB (considering they’ve made it a primary goal to harass lesbians into pretending we can like penis, and to take every chance they get to express their hatred for homosexuality. I love to drop the T because they dropped me and my fellow homosexuals years ago). If two straight male actors want to do that, whatever. I also don’t agree with Sheen having a baby with a woman his daughter’s age, but that hasn’t stopped me from watching the show or appreciating his talent.

This all takes me back to what I said about believing you don’t truly understand the perspective of those you call “terfs”. Just because you might not be able to comprehend watching and enjoying something that doesn’t perfectly align with your worldview, doesn’t mean others feel the same. For example, many radical and rad-leaning feminists enjoyed the Barbie movie, despite it not being radical feminist. We’re capable of watching and enjoying things we don’t agree with, and of having discussions about why we don’t agree with it.

A much simpler answer to your question would be: I’ve always loved angels and demons and all things supernatural. I’ve always loved old cars. I love Queen. Religious/moral commentary and critique interest me. I love lighthearted comedies. I’m gay and starved for representation of healthy gay relationships. I love gay star-crossed lovers stories (go watch First Kill). Naturally, I’m going to love Good Omens, even if it doesn’t perfectly align with my worldview.

[fem-lit]

To a child being socialized into Western culture, [the story of Prometheus] teaches that a great man risks all for intellectual daring, for progress and for the public good. But as a future woman, the little girl learns that the most beautiful woman in the world (Pandora) was man-made, and that her intellectual daring brought the first sickness and death onto men. The myth makes a reading girl skeptical of the moral coherence of her culture’s stories.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

[bil-daddy]

happy new year! :)

Thanks, kid! Have some fireworks (platonic)

[nulfidelfi]

Isn't Good Omens orgin so biblical tho?

Because I feel like the story of creation of Good Omens is so much like the Genesis from Bible.

There was a one person (a character) created by God (Neil Gaiman). But then the God (Terry Pratchett) too this person and turned them into 2 separate, equal people - Adam and Eve (Crowley and Aziraphale).

Or maybe I'm just overthinking this...

[rush-the-stars]

cielo i want u to utter a word !!! i want u to utter many many words about choso actually !!!

here’s the thing with him and inc*st to me..,,..,,

i think to him, it is almost godly. it’s something else entirely.

did zeus feel bad about taking hera as a wife? isis and osiris? izanagi and izanami?

then why should he? you are both new creatures entirely; half cursed spirit, half human. he doesn’t really think human norms apply to either of you. you’re not human.

mostly, you’re just his. he’s just yours.

[edenpoise]

the rib of adam.

[majestativa]

Those words like a serpent, slithering in silence, threatening; denied once, twice, so many times, dismissed like an evil thought, a weakness, a mistake, something we can’t allow — a shudder so basic that it takes us to the beginning of the world, to the elemental language of touch, the cave’s darkness.

— Gioconda Belli, From Eve’s Rib, transl by Steven F. White, (1999)

[bonelessbabe21]

Babygirl can i take one of your ribs to create the adam of my creation. I will use it to make my children, the next sentient species to overtake humanity once they are wiped out

[annaofaza]

Wolfwood is called to officiate a wedding.

[castratedvader]

he literally Willed her into existence

[lightheaded-dullahan]

Actually no it’s gonna bother me if I don’t type this out

I seriously swear I will start biting on sight if she is revealed to be Lilith. I will. There is no reason for her to be here. Fate doesn’t even really acknowledge Jewish Mythicism outside of using Golems. They don’t even list the fucking literally Jewish servants and figures as Jewish.

And if she’s an **Alter EGO** of all things that just completely messes up the entire purpose of “putting order in extra classes” because guess who made the Alter Egos?

BB.

The Sakura Five are literally the most pure form of Alter Ego you can go.

[whump-softie]

Monster

“Why aren’t you looking?” Adam asks incredulously. His posture shifts from excitement to curiousity. “Why?”

Evan no longer has the nerves to speak. Flattened against the wall in fear, he glances in every direction but in front of him, where his companion stands.

Except, it wasn’t really his companion anymore. Once a friend, the thing in front of him was unrecognizable as human. Flesh ripped from muscle, nails torn from bleeding fingers, knotted hair falling out in clumps.

Evan didn’t even know what it was anymore.

Adam crouches down next to him, and they look at the monster together.

Neither of them speak. Then, Adam reaches out and touches the monster’s stomach. Evan feels it on his own abdomen.

Terrified eyes slowly drag their way down, until he can see Adam’s finger tugging loosely on bloodied skin, tearing away from his own torso.

Transfixed, Evan doesn’t move. His mind won’t accept this, it won’t. What happened to his friend? Why was he wearing the monster’s body? Why can he feel it?

Adam chuckles. “You’re having a hard time with this, which is cute, admittedly, but a little annoying.”

Evan doesn’t move. He can’t. His back is flush against the wall, and only now can he feel stinging from the torn skin rubbing against the brick behind him. No…

“Oh yes,” Adam grins. “Let’s do a long-awaited reveal, shall we? I worked hard on you, you know.”

He reaches and taps the mirror standing in front of them, and the monster’s image shakes from the touch. Slowly tilting it upwards, Evan can almost recognize the face staring him down.

He almost… it kind of… reminds him of… his own.

“Oh my god,” Evan whispers. This can’t be happening.

Adam laughs loud and stands back up, eye to eye with Evan’s wild, panicked eyes filled with horror, soaking in the emotion.

“There it is.”