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The Assistant Book Seller
Edit 1 Dec 2023 - added missing information on the "ribbon pattern."
Edit: 3 Dec 2023 - correct information about middle pattern from creator
GABRIEL: Greetings! I'm Jim! It's short for James, but I don't need to keep telling everyone that. I'm an assistant book seller.
I'm sorry. Before I do anything else, I need to apologize for something I need to write further in. I didn't plan to write it, I just kind of bumped into it and, well, I can't ignore it. So...sorry. It's said. Forgive me for what needs to be done.
Although he arrived with nothing but a cardboard box and Rodney the Stunt Fly, Aziraphale made sure Jim was clothed in appropriate raiment while under his protection. We'll forgive him that he took a step back about, oh, fifty years or so to the 1970's, as Jim's overall look is a nod to the famous old sitcom "Open All Hours." So if he looks a little bit out of place, or, a little bit familiar, even, that's why.
While we are used to seeing angels in overcoats, it's Jim's vest that is the particular feature here. But I will take a moment to comment on the overcoat - not just the colour but its lapels. Aziraphale has obviously given him a colour with an earthly connection and one that indicate that he has bought Jim under his protection, but the lapels look quite neutral, with one up and one down. (Muriel is the same in their Inspector uniform, btw) This is the first indication they are between two things at the moment.
Onto the vest.
There is so, so much work and thought put into this vest! It was a one-off commission for the show, and the creator, Sandy Higgins, has said she is not allowed to give away the final design pattern. I have tried to contact her, and I'm waiting for a reply, so in the mean time I thought I would ask my keen knitter of a sister-in-law about one of the patterns I'm not sure about. "Well, that's Fair Isle knitting," she said, but she knew nothing about the individual line pattern I was interested in. Hmm, I kind of know that already, its in the notes that are guiding me for this meta, but hey, why not do a broader search and see what comes up?
So once I got back home I did. "Fair Isle knitting patterns" hmm...Wikipedia page for starters...what on *earth* is that at the bottom of the page...? YOU ARE. FRIKKING. KIDDING ME!!!!!!!
"See also: Gumbys"
oh ffs
I am so sorry that needs must make me mention Monty Python yet again, but here we are. And we must mention them, because this link is just too...unbelievably, deliciously good.
If you aren't familiar with the Monty Python catalogue, and don't recognize the mention of Gumbys, they were a set of characters that dressed and spoke in a certain way but the main points to take away were they wore woolen vests in the Fair Isle knitted style and their catch-phrase was - wait for it - "My brain hurts!"
I think we've heard that somewhere before?
CROWLEY: When you first arrived, you said you were here because they were planning to do 'Something Terrible' to you. So you remembered it then. Remember it now. GABRIEL: It hurts to remember. My head isn't built for that.
Right. Now we've got that out of the way...back to the serious stuff.
The colours used in the vest are not your typical angel colours. There is a base of angelic off-white and there are some bits of purple for his royalty around the shoulder area - sometimes you need to look carefully for it. Otherwise it is dominated by vintage shades of red and green. Well. Who's an agent of change driven by love, then?
The horizontal stripe pattern is partly to remind us of the classic biblical robes with stripes that ran along them, much like the style of Crowley's black and red robe in the Job minisode, but is also part of the traditional Fair Isles pattern work. And each row only has two colours, but up around the shoulder area we do see purple start to sneak in as a third colour.
On to the incorporated symbols! I'm going to go from bottom to top.
On the lowest two we feature Crowley and Aziraphale. We have Crowley's demon satyr tail from the Good Omens logo on the lowest stripe - the double-headed arrow.
The next stripe is Aziraphale, with a variation of the classic OXO pattern ("hugs and kisses.") The X is meant to represent his angel wings, and the O is modified to mimic the "o" with a halo in the Good Omens logo. I've highlighted all three in the image on the right.
The third row up is a Sumerian Star pattern that represents one of the flowers associated with Gabriel, the lily. They are supposed to represent the purity of Mary, mother of Jesus, as he had one in his hand when he visited her during the Annunciation.
The row above that is what I believe to be a Byzantium pattern, and is included to show "an Angel's ability to be timeless."
The next three rows are still under a bit of a question mark as I write this. I plan to come back and edit it in if I find the answer.
The bottom of the three is the Duke of Buccleuch pattern, "to celebrate the long and necessary contribution that the cottage industry of hand knitted items."
The middle one - ? (perhaps you, the reader, know? It looks like a spiralling ribbon if I stand back, but that isn't sparking any connections, either.)
Edit: @noneorother tells me in a reblog (below) that this pattern represents the shoelace from the magic incantation Aziraphale uses "Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace." So it is ribbon-like! This then points to the Second Coming, as it the shoelace references the end of the book, and the last paragraph of the book references Yeats poem "The Second Coming" as well as the novel 1984. To me it is then also telling us there is a cycle occurring, or a cycle that needs to be renewed. This fits in with some other clues other meta-writers have been picking up.
Edit 2: Turns out none of that was correct - I heard back from the creator herself and it's actually the double-ended satyr tail pattern again! It just seems to make a bit of an illusion of a ribbon or shoelace.
The pattern below is a modified OXO pattern.
The top one looks like two rams horns facing each other. A hollowed out rams horn can be used as a trumpet, and is known as a shofar in Jewish religion. Gabriel was traditionally known to carry a trumpet.
The ancient meander pattern would be recognized by most people, included as another classic timeless pattern found all over the world. For some it symbolizes eternity and endless flow.
The wheels here appear to be Michael's ophanim wheels, that would have eyes around the rims.
The hourglass is to remind us that time is running out. Memento mori - "Remember that you die." It is a major theme in both series.
Right up high, just before we lose the rest of the vest inside the overcoat, we get a glimpse of a large diamond-shaped icon. I wonder if this is another stylized set of angel wings, like we saw in the Job minisode on Aziraphale's golden collar.
To finish off the outfit, he is wearing dark gray trousers with sneakers! I'm sure that's so he could keep sneaking up on Aziraphale in the shop, haha. His shirt seems a little too large for him and the tie is knotted too high and is not settled along his centerline. It's all at odds with his previous neat and sharp appearance as Supreme Archangel Gabriel.
I'd like to say a big thank you to @aduckwithears for helping me with information on the vest and finding the creator's other social media sites. You can see their two posts about it here and here.
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens meta#good omens analysis#aziraphale#gabriel#jimbriel#jim's vest#satyr tails#angel wings#halos#lily#meander pattern#rams horn pattern#hourglass#memento mori#open all hours#good omens costume meta#monty python#gumbys#my brain hurts!#fair isle
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Happy Birthday David Jason
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Imagine the kind of Hanna-Barbera characters as could be seen hanging out in an all-night coffee place such as this....
#hanna barbera#photo headcannon#fanfic ideas#coffee#neon lights#open all night#open all hours#who could you picture here?#hannabarberaforever
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midsummer’s night dream redraw/study/whatever but its utenanthy
original reference under cut
#my art#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#utenanthy#arghhhh so happy with this…..#i was fearing rendering the background but it turned out well i think#rendering utena and anthy was also pretty fun :)#procreate canvas info says the time tracked was 6.5 hours but im not sure if tracked time means all the time i had the canvas open or not#bc i did sit with this canvas open and doing nothing quite a few times#so. this took 6.5 hours at most and maybe like… 5 at least? idk#im bad at estimating this#2024
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Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?
#ive been super curious about this because people seem to have really strong opinions on the queue! so many people seem to HATE it#but i love using the queue! i dont really know exactly why i like it so much- i started using in like... 2016 and its a fundamental part of#my tumblr experience now. i think i started off just using it for offline hours so id hit most my american mutuals (/ for aes posts)#but these days basically everything goes in my queue (cept time sensitive things & like. current hype and original posts-#anything 'normal' posting is in the queue)#idk it feels. nice to me! i like to spread out my posting and not rb 30 things in half an hour and then disappear for the rest of the day#esp since my spaces are so circular- the same post runs on my dash a dozen times minimum. and i get to put it on ur dash a week late!!!#and its so nice to have small interactions with mutuals in incompatible timezones; to open up my notifications in the morning#and go: oh! my friends were here <3#its such a Part of the tumblr experience for me i dont think i could ever truly change now. maybe switch to timed queueing#but my availability changes so much i prefer to just. know i guess#but (i am so sorry for all that) im curious about how other people feel!!!!!! itd be so interesting to hear abt why people do/do not like i#i know some people like the experience of spamming and going. some people think it makes this seem to much like influencing or whatever#everyone has their reasons and i want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#nyxtalks#poll#queue#no see answers option because you must fall into one of these
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HMMMMM bakugou being just. the absolute picture of sin.
he works overnight and comes home early in the morning, around 3 or 4 am or so, and you greet him and give him a kissy and ask how it all went. and even though it's still dark outside and he's been working for twelve hours—he's still coming off patrol, right ? so he's still got some energy left, and he eats something and takes a shower and winds down as you fall back to sleep.
and it's not until much later in the day that he wakes up, early afternoon, and you're kind of tiptoeing around so that he can get his much-needed rest. you slip into the closet of your bedroom for something and you think you're gonna get in and out without a sound, but his hearing is so attuned to just about anything and everything at this point.
so rough and raspy, he grunts out, "what're y'lookin' for?" and you whip around real fast and he's just—
half sitting up in bed, bare back leaning against the headboard. an arm behind his head, so that his bicep is tense and round and stone-solid. stretched like that, his obliques are more prominent, taut and rippling up the side of his ribcage. he must have gotten hot while passed out, as he usually does, because the comforter is all askew; one of his legs is bent, the fine hair a dark gold in the waning day; the other is hanging off the bed, lightly swinging as he watches you, and the blanket has come down enough that you can see the bulge of his thigh muscles beneath his stupid tiny black boxer briefs.
and he's just so. man. in every single way.
(his hair is flat on one side, too, and his eyes are still a little puffy from sleep—but you think that adds to it, all in all)
#i have to get this image out of my head you don't understand#please take this from me i'm PLAUGED by him#he's so WAAAAHHH#like. he's always handsome. always. at all times.#but sometimes he opens his big fat mouth enough that you forget just HOW handsome#and then suddenly he's sitting there looking so cozy in your bed and softly blinking at you while looking like THE MOST ENTICING GUY#ON THE PLANET#and you're like............................oh my god.............#please take this image from meeeeeee GET IT OUT I'M SICK#✿ theme: domestic bakugou#✿ thoughts: bakugou#i've been back less than twenty-four hours and already i've had so much to say LMAOO
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🤔.
So when is Gabriel appearing in Open All Hours?
I was getting a bit depressed by the number of Seventh Doctor comments, but this gave me hope.
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Solas and Inquisitor Lavellan
#I call this 'a light study that got out of hand'#Like#I tried to do only a sketch but then the sketch got more and more detailed and suddenly I'm spending hours#On giving Solas the juiciest eyelashes and lips of all of thedas#He's GLOWING#My inquisitor Ellie is looking a bit anxious wondering why her boyfriend is keeping some emotional distance#This whole hot and cold dynamic is getting on her nerves#Which means she becomes a bit clingy during the moments where he is open to her affection#And she might have locked him into her quarters#solasmance#solas dragon age#solas x female lavellan#solas x inquisitor#inquisitor lavellan#Dragon age inquisition#dragon age the veilguard#Dragon age fanart#solas fanart#Datv#dav#Dai#Daze Chroma#Dazechroma#My art#Digital art#illutration#Fantasy#The Dread Wolf#art#Solavellan
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We miss you. Come return to us… Why did you abandon us?
Last night at 1am I read all about @wasyago's trail's gone cold au and the brain rot immediately caused me to stay up until 5am starting this art before sleeping and finishing it today. Now I'm a little sick and got a sore throat, I think the cave is getting to me too
#ethoslab#tangotek#pearlescentmoon#trail's gone cold au#jaxdart#this is actually my first time drawing etho... and tango... and pearl#tried giving tango and pearl different gestures with meaning#tango is reaching out towards etho because he was left behind#while pearl is holding her hand open in invitation to come join them#pearl is also a little lower because she died after tango so she's a bit behind#i can't remember the last time i finished an artwork in less than 24 hours#or finished one at all tbh#both of them are in may i think#sculk colors are so nice btw made for the perfect color palette
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“trans men don’t have any real safety concerns to worry about” i can’t wear a mask when i go into public bathrooms even though i’m higher risk and bathrooms are some of the easiest places to get sick because i don’t reliably pass when my facial hair is covered and i can’t risk not passing when i use the men’s room, but i also can’t just use the women’s room for safety anymore because i don’t reliably pass as either binary gender anymore. so my only options are to risk getting sick, take my chances with the consequences of not passing, or just never use the bathroom in public (which has its own health risks).
and today, it almost didn’t even matter that i was putting myself in danger to ensure that i passed because, thanks to a faulty lock and a man who didn’t think to knock, i came very close to having my half-naked body exposed to a bathroom full of cis men. if i hadn’t been holding my coat on my lap because there was nowhere in the stall to put it, every single guy waiting in the (very crowded) bathroom would’ve seen that i didn’t have a dick. how well do you think that would’ve gone for me? my money’s on Not Well At All.
#it took me a solid hour to stop shaking after#like yeah maybe the guy who opened the door would’ve have done anything but what about all the other guys?#i feel like the chances that None of those guys would’ve had a problem with trans people is pretty low#i’m so fucking lucky it didn’t happen but even coming that close was Terrifying#starting to use the men’s room consistently is…a time#but when i do it right i get less weird looks than in the women’s room so it’s not like there’s a better option#transandrophobia#transandromisia#transmisandry#virilmisia#virilphobia#anti transmasculinity#transmascphobia#trans men#transmascs
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bunch of old patreon sketch requests
#sketches#doodles#sketchdump#body horror#other folks ocs#shoutout to sketchreq tier folks who are always down w me drawing their ocs all bloody and weird#posting at cryptid hours#didnt format this the best for tumblr but you can right click open image in new tab for the full sizes
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My favourite loser scientist (we are legally married)
Handplates!Gaster by @zarla-s (thank you so much for this AU it has given me life for the past 6 years)
#handplates gaster#gaster#undertale#art#wd gaster#I'm sooo in love with him it's not even funny#anybody who can recognise the formulas on his tie gets points <3#and no they aren't random scribbles >:)#I'm picturing either the goatparents or Alphys gifting him with this stupid science tie#And Gaster was like “Why would I need a tie with basic thermodynamic equations a skeleton of my caliber obviously has them memorized”#(he absolutely does not)#Gaster trying to remember what the equation is for the thermodynamic process of work done by an expanding gas : :/#The tie: hold my threads#Tried to draw him as babygirl in a suit but he just ended up looking cripplingly depressed (as always)#promise i'll make him cuntier next time#my stupid skeleton wife#my favourite is the one on the couch he just looks so cute...gah my heart#gushing hours#I had Ukagaster opened while painting all three and it made my entire life if only you knew bbgirl#my art
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fire alone can save our clan. bye! *sound of lps feet clacking away*
#my art#spottedleaf#bluestar#warrior cats#warriors#waca#wc#wc art#hi guys i hope someone gets the hasbro style signature bc if not. thats embarrassing on my behalf AJBDJKGBD#i did 4 hours of hw today that was not fun#OH YEAH i would like to open up lps style comms in the future so keep an eye on that#and i would also like to draw more wc characters#this is for all of the people who would make their own clans or play out canon scenes with lps#I STILL HAVE ALL OF MINE i love them so so so much and one day i wanna pay someone to customize an lps to look like my fursona#i follow a few folks that do customs on instagram and their work is so inspiring to me#BUT YEAH this is in the style of the official stickers+coloring books/activity books#my grandma would always get my sister and i the books or print off individual coloring sheets for us to color in so this was weirdly#nostalgic for me AHBDJFHBDLGHB
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Chat. I may have gone a bit overboard
#I saw somebody draw Hera with a veil#like of COURSE she would have a veil#that person was a genius and I merely elaborated on it#I opened procreate and blacked out for an hour and now I have this#Hera#hera greek mythology#epic the musical#art#digital art#artwork#digital artwork#all my art ☆#sketch#character design#greek gods#greek goddesses
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Little pencil doodles of this post since @pigeonstab’s tags got me inspired again
And a bonus one
#UTDR#UTMV#My Art#Cross Sans#Killer Sans#Kross ship#Too lazy to get my tablet and open my art program so it's pencil scribbles tonight lads#I just love the image of them so comfy cosy in bed#All tucked in and snuggled up together#God I wish that were me#I don't wanna cuddle I get too warm for that I just wanna sleep and not get up for work#After the last picture is Cross flailing and tripping out of bed and running to get dressed#Sweating and panicking that he's gonna be in trouble for being late#Even tho there's nothing to do and Nightmare has probably not even noticed#This guy needs 50 straight hours of sleep to start unwinding#Anyway speaking of sleep goodniiiiight <3
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