#Whickber street

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

From Mickey Ralph's (the Good Omens Graphic Designer) website :) <3

[neversam23]

Spent a few happy hours on the Lego Whickber Street project today. The chinese restaurant is done. All the lights are working as well. I used diy-parts from Briksmax - not cheap and a bit fiddly, but it was worth putting them in. Also: Thank you to the person who made a map of the street (I can't remember where I saw it), I tried to figure out what the shop next to the bookshop was, but the sign was never in focus in the show (or my focus was off, that is also a possibility).

[angel-and-the-serpent]

GUYS. GUYS.

[scottishmushroom]

[whickber-shopkeepers]

UPDATE: A.Z Fell and Co. is under new management! Please give a welcome to Whicker Street's newest shopkeeper, Muriel (yes, we checked. Just Muriel, no last name.)

We aren't exactly certain what happened to Mr. Fell, but perhaps his shop will begin to carry some titles from within the past a hundred years. In the meantime, for the next few hours, keep your eyes peeled: until someone has the chance between shifts to go over and stop Muriel, anyone stop into the bookshop for a flash sale of buy none, get some free!

[on-till-morning]

Apparently ‘Crowley gets mistaken for a sex worker’ is a sub genre now and I am here for all of it from the heartbreaking to the hilarious and especially if it involves Mr Brown of Brown’s World of Carpets vying for Aziraphale’s attention. (And this fic where Mr Brown thinks Crowley is in the mafia is great too.) Give me more please internets!

[lookingatacupoftea]

Why do Aziraphale & Crowley go to the pub? 

There’s no obvious reason, right? They could have talked about the 25 Lazarii miracle and the Nina & Maggie love plan in the bookshop. Jim was obviously there for the miracle so he knows about it and its real purpose, and he was there for Aziraphale and the angels discussing the miracle strength and Aziraphale's lie. Later Crowley will do the awning-of-a-new-age plan in front of Jim, even before* he gets wine-drunk and protective and tries to get Jim to out himself as Gabriel. Jim also knows about the song he himself sang that Aziraphale performs for Crowley on the street outside the pub. 

There’s nothing that happens during the pub outing that Jim doesn’t know already except that Crowley is a sap who watches Richard Curtis films and/or fell in love under an awning (I think the latter). 

So why go to the pub, which is apparently not their normal routine? Am I missing something? 

If there’s a reason that doesn’t meet the eye, I’m thinking it’s one of the following: 

To ensure that Mr. Brown asks Aziraphale to host the shopkeepers meeting so everyone on the street will be inside the bookshop/embassy Thursday evening.

To show themselves together acting normally (or as normally as these drama queens get) to anyone watching.

To keep an eye on someone in the pub.

To make sure someone on the street overhears the song. 

This is a different timeline and some details are different enough that it necessitates having this conversation outside the bookshop. 

Am I missing something? Is there another reason for not having this discussion in the bookshop? Is this a ⭐Clue⭐? Or did Neil just want them to go to the pub? Has anyone addressed this? 

*Assuming time is normal (ha!)

Gif by joannakramer

[skiptomyylu]

"She Had Balls!" "Well-"

So we all know the part of Episode two where Crowley and Aziraphale are discussing fictitious ways to try and get Nina and Maggie to fall in love. Aziraphale brings up Jane Austen and says the following: "People would gather..and do some formal dancing. And then realized they had misunderstood eachother and were actually, deeply in love!" Then after Crowley states that sounds unlikely, Aziraphale says "Works everytime apparently"

Then later when the actual ball he plans is happening, we see him gearing up and getting all excited to ask Crowley to dance- and then him quickly swooping him away with a giggle.

Now...maybe I'm overthinking things as per usual... But was our dear Mr. Fell under the hopes that dancing with Crowley would get the demon to recognize Aziraphales feelings for him? He had promised it would be a night to remember after all. I mean, Crowley basically described him and Aziraphales meeting in Eden when he was describing his idea of falling in love (that he ""saw in a Richard Curtis film"") Would it be too out of the blue to wonder if Aziraphale would try and use the lovey dovey ball fantasy he was reenacting to his advantage? Constantly insisting that they're safe, nothing could possibly go wrong, and that Crowley was exaggerating? Maybe he just wanted a night of dancing with his crush without anything going wrong so the Jane Austen magic would work.

Look at the little smiiilee! I dunno- random shower thought!

[xdestinykey]

Ineffable May Day #23- ✨🛍️ Shopkeepers 👥✨

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[i-only-ever-asked-questions]

Map of Soho Good Omens Season 2 - Part 1 (Location and general map)

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Update: Map now identifies Lucky Snake and the coffee shop listed in Aziraphale's clipboard may indeed be Give Me Coffee I think we all have wondered how the GO Soho looks like and where it would be in real London. So using all the screenshots, BTS pictures and videos I could find I did my best to map out where things are. It is not to scale but everything I could see is there. I originally had all the pictures and explanations in this post but soon it became obvious it was going to be too long and impractical so I had to split it in different posts and I hope I got it right. The map has five reference points (circle with two diverging lines); imagine the circle is you, standing in the set, and the lines are your viewpoint if you were taking a picture from there. The left side of Whickber Street (#1 and #2) is in Part 2, the intersecting street (#3 and #4) is in Part 3 and the right half of Whickber Street (#5) is in Part 4.

As to where the bookshop would be in real London. We know that Whickber Street is supposed to be Berwick Street so let's start there. The intersecting street is not obvious from the show. In this post Neil said he imagines the bookshop to be where Gosh! Comics is (Peter Street) while Michael Ralph and Douglas McKinnon probably put it at The Week (on Broadwick Street). Because it is ambiguous and really you can do whatever you want, I just left it as "intersecting street". We know from the book that Crowley takes Wardour Street after the bookshop fire. Wardour is behind Berwick so in our map it would be where the Chinese Buffet Restaurant is, considering they run more or less parallel. On the other side, we have the Windmill Theatre located on Great Windmill Street. From Berwick St. and Peter St. it takes three minutes to walk to the theatre, it is that close! (yes, I know, Crowley was conducting business two blocks from the bookshop while not talking to Aziraphale for 80 years). I have never been in that part of London so I used Google Maps streetview and based only on that, I like the corner of Berwick St. and Broadwick St. better. It has the crooked intersection but the proximity of the theatre matches Peter St. better, so whatever works better for you!

There is one place missing from the set map though: Brown's World of Carpets! It is nowhere to be found, we simply don't know where it is My very personal headcanon is that it is nothing but a desk inside the furniture store. I find that idea of the guy most worried about storefront looks being the one without a storefront very amusing, but don't mind me, it is just my very silly hc XD Now, we know Aziraphale has a list for the shops he needs to visit. And we know he wrote it in alphabetical order which begs the question: Where is the Dirty Donkey?! Are they not invited? And what about the fabric shop? And Bilton Scaggs? Battye and Palm? The News Agency? Is "Mo Coffee? No Coffee?" supposed to be Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death? Or is there another coffee shop somewhere? @crow-bee23 suggested it could be "Me Coffee" which it is entirely possible, the full name is kind of long. So many questions to ask Mr. Brown.

Anyway, I put pictures and details on the shops in parts 2, 3 and 4. Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

[meanwhile-in-hell]

tooday eric took a (reluhtivlee) smawl hellhownd for a short walk in soho. he convinst it to look like a reguler dog, moor or less. thay past a hewman carryeeng a bocks of plants and the hewman stopt to ask to pet the hellhownd. then the hellhownds eyes glowd red and the hewman yelpt and flayld and ran away very fasst, droppeeng a smawl potted plant as thay sped down wickburr street.

[ineffableigh]

Thinking about Whickber street more...

AFTER Aziraphale leaves for Edinburgh but BEFORE Shax interrogates Crowley, the street is FULL AS HELL of extras in bizarre costumes that are anachronistic as hell (pun intended, stick with me...) Two or more recurring extras in this shot alone...

AFTER Shax ostensibly leaves to go interrogate Aziraphale when he's driving back in the Bentley, and as soon as Aziraphale gets back to Whickber street, it's quiet as hell (early morning, yes, but still...) AND the Extras who ARE present are dressed VERY NORMALLY. Almost boring compared to before...

As soon as Aziraphale is back and parks the Bentley, we start to see extras come onto the street from around the corner in incredibly bright colors as before.

Hypothesis:

Either people are right and Aziraphale has been generating the Weirdness (I think this feels less likely given he was in Edinburgh when Crowley was doing the Awning of a New Age and during Shax' interrogation, where we see LOTS of weird extras).

Shax has been behind it to some extent all along. Illusions? Demons? Who knows at this point, maybe Illusions since we see extras teleporting ALL OVER THE PLACE between shots.

Shax is KNOWN to be able to teleport at will, and change her appearance at a moment's notice. She's also CONSTANTLY shown to dress anachronistically, either in her Conspicuous Royal Family And Speaks Like The Queen outfit:

Or in her 70s-vibes-hitchhiker outfit:

Or whatever the fuck this outfit is trying to be lol:

I also feel like it's important that, so far, Shax is the ONLY OTHER DEMON besides Crowley that doesn't have some kind of Gross Feature to her demon self in Hell. She's got her teeth, yes, but she seems to summon those at will as an intimidation tactic rather than as a 'baseline' demon trait.

My brain hurts.

[stvrmaker]

I’m rebuilding my entire Minecraft Whickber Street build at a new angle because I’d realized Aziraphale’s desk didn’t *actually* face east in the context of my world. It’s all in the details 🤌🏻✨ Thank god my mob farm gives me music discs for filling up the record shop 😌

I plan on doing a walkthrough video when it’s done! I’ll also be building the duck pond at St James park, the wall of Eden and the Ritz ⭐️

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Shader: Complimentary Reimagined

[greenthena]

No sleep. Only Good Omens

Today in 3am theories I don't really believe: All the shopkeepers on Whickber street are angels or demons who've had their memories erased.

My evidence: I have none, your honor. They're just all weird, and I like that.

My reasoning: Whenever an ethereal or occult being gets to be too much to handle, their memory gets erased by Heaven or Hell. Some angels and demons are just too much of a liability, so they get their memories SUPER-erased and sent to live as humans. BUT. They are different and have behaviors that can't be easily explained. They believe they're human, so they act human-ish. But it's sketchy.

So one day, oh say maybe one hundred years ago, The Metatron looks down at A.Z. Fell & Co. in the middle of the neighborhood that was growing up into the Soho we know today, and thinks. "Aziraphale, odd little angel that he is, has managed to blend into this bizarre neighborhood. Maybe I can dump the other reject angels here, as well." Hell catches on and starts doing the same thing. Before you know it, Whickber Street is chock-full of angels and demons who were generally too much trouble for Heaven or Hell to bother with them anymore. These sweet babies have all had their memories erased and, like Muriel who thinks humans often live two hundred years, or so, just accept that they are people with long life spans and go about their lives making coffee, selling records, and "hemming" men's "clothes."

And Aziraphale and Crowley, being the most wonderful and absolute dumbasses that they are, haven't noticed a thing.

Flaws in the theory: Maggie says she inherited the record shop, which was originally owned by her great grandmother. Solution? Ummmm....Heaven just gave her another memory wipe. Problem solved. Deus ex machina memoria.

Is this a hill I am willing to die on?: Abso-fucking-lutely not. I just want to read the fanfic, please and thank you.

For the record, Nina does NOT approve of this theory, at all.

[whickber-shopkeepers]

Notice: We are aware that there was an earlier incident that has affected business recently on Whickber Street.

We must assure you that sudden strikes of lighting are a highly uncommon event, and that the chances of being electrocuted or stuck in one of our many shops on the street is highly unlikely. The man circulating online (yes, the one dressed in sunglasses and all black) is completely FINE. He is actually a regular around Whickber street, and has been seen around since the incident. A shockingly nice lad, and is completely unaffected by the incident. Please continue to shop at Whickber without worry, we hope to see you soon!

-Mrs. Sandwich