#david tennant has my soul

[thefrogking0-0]

dalek spotting

[nipuni]

🤭 I would have liked to see this in between

[almalvo]

Entering: GOOD OMENS | CROWLEY

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[firstofficerkittycat]

Has anyone got interesting doctor who fix it fic recs or just any fics that read like eccleston-tennant era episodes tbh. I'm sad

[ingravinoveritas]

"This closeness feels entirely genuine..."

It’s the way they finish each other’s sentences. The way their back-and-forth chemistry feels like watching an old movie. The way they gently tease one another. It's as if you’re seeing two halves of the same whole...

This interview that goes back to the premiere of season 1 just details how even reporters feel the chemistry of Michael and David in the room.

This receptiveness is clear when we meet. Sounds of approval from one punctuate answers given by the other, and appreciative laughter meets every quip. Occasionally they bypass me altogether, directing their responses to each other. They re terrific actors, so you never know, but this closeness feels entirely genuine.

[wednesdaywarriorswc]

so 13s final episode my flatmates all went to the cinema to watch a horror film and i stayed behind to watch the episode by myself so as the tears were forming pools in the last few minutes and i was excited to see ncuti gatwa and there was a surprise david tennant in my face i just slowly closed my laptop and sat in complete and utter silence for 45 minutes until they came home and found me in a state of shock

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

On David Tennant and Aging

So, I’ve seen a lot of posts in response to Tumblr users’ habit of affectionately calling their favorite middle aged dudes “old men”, David Tennant in particular, saying things like “clearly you’ve never met an actual old person”, “omg you talk about these guys like they’re 80”, “please be normal about people aging”, etc. And on one hand, all of these statements are objectively right and true! But as someone who’s always been really fascinated by and found a lot of beauty in getting older (which I’ve explored in some of my writing on A03 because nobody else is going to do it for me), I’d like to provide a bit more nuance on how I think this label applies to David in particular.

David, obviously, in literal terms, is not “old”, at least not to me- I don’t personally consider people old until they get past 60. 52 is middle aged, simple as that. And yet, when I see David stuck with the “old man” label, it still somehow feels weirdly right, for a number of reasons.

It annoys me so much when people say David “hasn’t aged a day since Doctor Who”, because, well…

He clearly has. A lot. He’s got forehead creases, deep crows’ feet and eyebags, and I think that post-Fourteen we’re gonna see him rocking the grey temples a LOT more. He also has the voice of an older man now, his upper range is still there but the default is much more deep and rich, with a gravelly, rumbling quality that just goes straight through you. I personally think Broadchurch was when David finally started to embrace looking his age- Alec Hardy just wouldn’t have been served by Ten’s fresh-faced boyishness.

Obviously, these are the kinds of changes you’d expect any 52-year-old man to have, but something about David just makes it all seem a bit more… intense? The expressiveness of his face combined with his almost gaunt frame makes his wrinkles very prominent, and when he works his voice to its emotional extremes, his lower register can sound positively ancient, to devastating effect.

David, I think, is someone with an old soul- I don’t think he could be as good as he is at playing ancient characters like Crowley and The Doctor if he weren’t. He has lived so many lives, given so much of himself to so many characters, often incredibly tragic ones, and I think it wears on him. David also has five kids. FIVE. Do you know how exhausting it is to be one of the hardest working actors alive and be a present, loving father to even ONE child? But David somehow does it anyway! Nowadays I see him and my heart breaks because he looks so tired, so weary and fragile. But he’s all the more beautiful for it to me because I know that that is because he is kind. He’s a deeply empathetic person who feels and lives to the absolute fullest, and that story is written so clearly on his face, along with every other story he has ever been a part of.

There’s other things about David that make the label endearingly fitting- his utter hopelessness when it comes to technology, for instance. And he’s just got that warm, wise, grandpa energy too sometimes- look at that above Fourteen picture and tell me I’m wrong!

I once showed my friend who’d only seen David in Doctor Who and Harry Potter a picture of David from Around The World in 80 Days. It was a particularly emotional scene, and his face had just the most beautiful expression of compassion and sadness, every wrinkle on full display. And she said, in a less than complimentary fashion, “he looks so old!” Which, of course, offended me quite a bit at first. But to me, referring to David as old almost feels like a badge of honor, something he’s earned by living fully and selflessly, working hard and being wise and compassionate beyond his years. I think David himself is secretly more than a little insecure about the fact that he’s getting older. There’s sadness behind every jovially self-depreciating remark he’s made about his age in the past year, particularly in comparing himself to Ncuti Gatwa. I know how much David struggles with his impostor syndrome and how people perceive him, and I can clearly see in his eyes the fear of being discarded, the anxiety he feels about if he’ll still be as loved as he was back in 2007 now that he’s closer in age to King Lear than he is to Romeo. So I hope David knows it’s a privilege to watch him grow older, to watch his soul and talents deepen with the crinkles around his eyes. If I, in my silly goofy tumblr girl-ness, call David Tennant an old man, it’s because it’s a label that suits him beautifully- even if it isn’t TECHNICALLY an accurate one yet.

[tyxaar]

SCAR CRIMES LIGHTING ROUND!!!

I've been getting a lot of asks in my inbox about this post relating to Scar's crimes lol.

Indeed they are.

@numbah-7-knd and @david-tennants-left-ear I've already talked about the cannibalism here, but the soul trading comes from Last Life! He made soul contracts in order to trade Lives with other players. Also he might've sold his soul to the Vex? I dunno the lore is weird so that's mostly my own headcanon lol.

@zev-the-traveler Possesion and patricide, the perfect pair! So possession is also in the weird hazy Convex lore zone, but for a while the Vex masks possessed Cub and Scar to do their shenanigans. With that context they they end up possessing False by giving her one when she helps with a prank. Source As for the patricide, that's simple! Etho is Scar's dad in the Life Series and he murdered him all three times in Secret Life. Same for Cleo's final death! :P

@welsknightenjoyer @mocah @neurotic-sinkhole and @fuck-edfrugs Ah yes, this. The Geneva Convention violation is the only crime on the list that was committed by real life content creator Scar! He used the Red Cross symbol in the Scarland medical office. However, that symbol is protected by the Geneva Convention and it's very much a crime to use it outside real Red Cross operations.

@weirdocritter Here we go!

Well, the war profiteering in S6 was kinda iconic lol. Concorp made SO many diamonds off the civil war that Scar and Cub were actually giving them away basically to stimulate the economy by the end of the season.

The cannibalism is also a fucked up favourite, that one part where he talks FAR to enthusiastically about eating the NHO is so on-brand lol.

Trading of souls is really spooky if you take it out of its original context!

Now, the one I'm most uncertain about is Oathbreaking. That happened in Third Life with the no-kill pass, especially with the Bdubs situation. That's a bit of a toss-up but considering how much they both care about keeping promises, yeah, I'd count it.

Ritual sacrifice!!!! Actually has happened like, four times on count lol. This man can NOT stop joining cults. There's the Convex Cathedral with blood on the offering altars, there's the constant boatem hole sacrifices, there's sacrificing Bdubs to the Moon, and most recently he's tried to sacrifice his friends to the Magic Mountain Bell!!! Or, well, told them they have to at least.

Ah yes, sale of human remains!!! He tried to sell Lizzie's spine (although it was prolly Jim or Mumbo cause she died in the void lol) to Joel. It's really wild when you look at it lmao.

Identity fraud is a littttle abstract, but he's worn so many random disguises and various characters that I'm almost certain there's some in there somewhere. Also, it seems pretty damn likely that Pirates Scar "murdered" S8 Tycoon Scar in order to get off the hook (pun intended) for all of his crimes.

That's a typo I swear!!! AJKSHDsfkjhfdkjsd. Anyways, I've replaced it with Treason on the OG post now.

[inhonoredglory]

THIS INTERVIEW. HAS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING I COULD EVER HOPE FOR––

"we get some incredibly emotional places and seeing what David's doing and what Crowley is doing definitely pushes me and Aziraphale into places that you... wouldn't necessarily think that that character would go to"

IM EATING ROCKS. WHAT PLACES MICHAEL WHAT???

"there's a creature [Azi] who's existed for millennia who seems constantly surprised about everything, there's a sort of a sweetness to that a sort of purity to that which is also a sort of… has a wisdom to it''

THIS RIGHT HERE. THIS!!! the kindness that comes off an naivety but is really just blazing compassion and kindness which is bolstered by the depth of wisdom because of how long he's lived and how much he hasn't let the darkness of the world taint the hope and joy he sees in humanity. THAT is truly uncommon and THAT is what we need to see more of in characters and people. WISE AND GLORIOUS COMPASSION.

"big philosophical questions being asked but ultimately everything comes down to people being a bit rubbish of things... and there's something sort of glorious about that"

I fell in love with Doctor Who because it combined the profound with the so terribly human, and said all the little things, the dumb little human things we do, that's what makes life worth living and that's what makes us wonderful.

And Good Omens, precious GO, asking really important questions and telling us, SO LOUDLY, that binaries are dangerous and vacuous and that like Michaels says, "absolutism is dangerous." Like one of my fave Neil Gaiman quotes,

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous."

(NO SPOILERS)

Movieweb video interview with Michael and David :)❤

Question: How do your perfomances impact each other?

David: Tthat's two difficult questions rolled into one there, isn't it. I mean, I I think that we very much enjoy working together right and I we've often said that... or certainly I feel that Crowley doesn't really exist without Aziraphale-

Michael: Likewise.

David: -and therefore any performance that one gives doesn't really exist without the other performance and that's what creates the whole, really, that's if there's a sort of heart of the show it's where these two characters meet and that's always a sort of joy and a and a thrill to play.

Michael: Yeah. I mean I love watching what David does with Crowley around the idea of someone who underneath everything on the surface there is a kind of decency and a love there and being able to see how he expresses that through a kind of a mask of Crowley I find that endlessly enjoyable and fascinating to watch and I think that's me Michael but as Aziraphale I think that's also what um what pushes Aziraphale as well so in scenes where... that are very emotional I think you're right I think in Season Two we get some incredibly emotional places and seeing what David's doing and what Crowley is doing definitely pushes me and Aziraphale into places that you would, you know, wouldn't necessarily think that that character would go to.

David: Yes. And I think the thing that sort of sums up Aziraphale and Michael does beautifully there's a sort of learned naivety there's a there's these two sort of apparently opposing to those that there's a creature who's existed for millennia who seems constantly surprised about everything ,there's a sort of a sweetness to that a sort of purity to that which is also a sort of... has a wisdom to it and the two things shouldn't really exist at the same time but there's something in that Michael captures that is just sort of that you couldn't really bottle, that is also I think what pulls Crowley in - and infuriates Crowley at the same time, but I think they are both infuriated and drawn to each other irrepressibly

Question: What does this series say about good and evil?

Michael: Well, I mean, for me what I keep rediscovering with this story and these characters is that absolutism is dangerous and that, you know, the window dressing of religions and philosophies and that kind of stuff can be the stuff that people kill for and it's the stuff that's at the heart of it which is always about loving that is, you know, that's what you need to get to, and that through the gray areas and the flaws, you know, the it's... it is our flaws that makes us aware that we need each other and that, you know, through embracing your flaws you reach out to someone else and that's what connects us and I think that ultimately is what I keep finding in this story all the time.

David: It's that good and evil are not simplistic concepts, that they all exist within within a variety of shades of gray and that what trumps all of that is meeting somewhere in the middle for some sort of tolerance and kindness and understanding I think that's the sort of at the heart of what Terry and Neil were saying, I'll be dressed up in this wonderful fantasy hilarious glorious story.

Michael: And why I think there's such a great recipe in this story where you have these huge epic apocalyptic, you know, massive backdrops and contexts and and big philosophical questions being asked but ultimately everything comes down to people being a bit rubbish of things, bit inept and you know and that's ultimately what everything keeps being reduced to and there's something sort of glorious about that.

'we get some incredibly emotional places' 👀

[ineffable-xenanigans]

Unraveled

I hereby present you my contribution to week 6 of the Ineffable Prompt-A-Thon by @ineffablyruined: a digital painting that has consumed my soul for the past week like the bookshop fire consumed Crowley's hopes and dreams:

I tried my best with the facial expression, but I wasn't able to capture the same level of heartbrokenness as David Tennant, lol:

I spent an absolutely ungodly amount of time making this beast; I lost track at some point, but it was for sure over 100 hours. Thank you @snognes for bearing with me and cheering me on every time I shared progress pics via DM:

Also, kudos (and Eccles cakes) to @confusedtoadsworld and @ineffably-queer-book-lover who were able to identify the scene just from the angle in this earlier WIP post.

This is the most complex piece I've ever attempted, and what blows my mind the most is that this is a 100% vector illustration. No brushes were used. It's all a bunch of shapes and blobs with colors and gradients and the occasional Gaussian blur. Don't believe me? I'll add a slightly cursed image as proof below the cut:

Speaking of curses, I might have uttered one or two during the 20 hours it took me to figure out the bookshop perspective alone...

Reference image

Source: quiteunlikely.net/screencaps/displayimage.php?album=656&pid=417412

[nat-20s]

God GOD okay okay okay okay okay I'm having thoughts I'm having FEELINGS im having a Moment SO

I waanna talk about Ten and Donna (shocker I know) but SPECIFCALLY I wanna talk about like. Them and being besties and soulmatism and red string of fates and what not. Also this post is long as rambly as hell so I'm putting it under a readmore for my non-tendonna girlies <3

So like. The Runaway Bride really does establish them as future besties so so well and some of it is the writing but I do think that some of it is that Catherine Tate and David Tennant, by all available accounts, ALSO immediately got on like a house on fire. Like genuinely i know Acting TM is a thing but I think them getting on is part of why their on screen chemistry is SO electric and dazzling to the point where Donna went from a one off one episode character to *checks notes* a character that came back TWICE and also fundamentally changed the structure and DNA of Doctor Who as a whole so. You know. Pretty impressive. Plus Donna gets to have her first adventure with The Doctor as their absolute worst: Ten is grieving from a FRESH wound of losing Rose, he's incredibly cruel and incredibly cold and straight up murders the Racknoss without a flinch or hint of remorse, and even before that he accidentally kidnaps her and then insults her as someone to dismiss. That's not to say that she doesn't also see The Doctor at their brightest: he ends up treating her with incredible kindness, and he's dazzling and brilliant and cares so much and shows her the creation of the earth itself to provide comfort. However it IS to say that because of the nature of his first interaction with Donna he CAN'T put up a facade she already knows the truth!! She is walking into their dynamic with completely open eyes and at first it fucking scares her! She doesn't dislike him in fact they already are friends after less than a day but

Then partners in crime happens. And she's realized okay no actually I CAN take the bad with the good and I WANT to participate in all of it and I DO want this friendship. The Red Strings of Fate (or maybe the TARDIS being like lmaoo you need this girlie <3) bring them back together and they are Officially Tethered from that point on which is so so so delicious. It's also so so so delicious that Ten's still at an incredibly low point and she's still going into this friendship without any ruses in place. Like oh shit yeah they are Bound together even if they did separate now they would almost certainly find each other again.

AND THEN AND THEN!!! We've already established The Doctor and Donna as fast best friends but holllllyyyy shit I think Fires of Pompeii is what establishes them as forever Soulmates. I meant canonically the ending of Fires of Pompeii where she has him save the family fundamentally changed The Doctor for the rest of their lives and gave them a guiding moral compass long after she wasn't there so yeah that's pretty fuckin soulmates of them. But I actually think them as a concept of two people sharing one soul (for the better!!) happens earlier in the episode. The exact moment in fact is THIS ONE:

The Doctor has to make a choice. There are no good options: both are mass destruction and death. And it's SUCH a Doctor choice to have to make: actively destroy Pompeii and everyone in it, or allow the entire world to be destroyed. Not only that but it will likely kill both him and Donna as well. It's a mix of self sacrifice and other sacrifice to save the world and it's a horrific situation to be in.

It is a narrative that parallels the choice he made in the Time War. It is an archetypical Burden of the Doctor.

And then she looks into his eyes, sees his fear and hesitation and remorse and guilt, and wordlessly puts her hands on his. They push the lever to destroy Pompeii together. And it becomes the burden of the DoctorDonna.

[thetisming]

dash simulator

mutual 1: YES!! I love him so much!!!!

mutual 2: i have this au where blorbo 1 dies and blorbo 2 has to live without them but blorbo 1 is a ghost. this is how his ghost works *500 words of pure insanity over his own au*

mutual 3 that i only just became mutuals with: having a crush is so absolutely soul crushing and soul destroying and i'm going to die if this happens any longer

mutual 3: look at this hot guy i love him so much i need to have sex with him but in an asexual way like where the vibes are the same but it's not actual sex (not about the aforementioned crush)

mutual 4: i NEED to fuck this old white man

mutual 4 (reblog of old man post): please stop tagging this with David Tennant THAT IS A MIDDLE AGED MAN!!!! if you saw the old men i want to fuck you'd hurl

mutual 5: I LOVE WOMEN SO MUCH

mutual 6: hehe i am an olive do you get tje joke

mutual 1: I love my boyfriend so much :3

mutual 5: (10 million reblogs of my post about a musical he likes)

mutual 7: i kind of rushed this edit so it's not great but i hope you like it!! (the most beautiful edit you've ever seen in your life)

mutual 4: please dont forget about the comedian harmonists please

mutual 6: (8 reblogs of mutual 4's comedian harmonists post)

mutual 4: hot take but (says something about a sitcom from the 90s nobody on here has heard of)

mutual 5: please don't forget about Tamara de Lempicka please pleasenpleade

mutual 4: (60 reblogs of art of an obscure 90s sitcom)

mutual 4: (81 reblogs of a textpost that literally just says 'i love the main character of (obscure 90s sitcom) so much'. it's his own post)

[mutual 4 asked: i hit the post limit :(]

my own roleplay blog: I love my beautiful fiance so much 💙

mutual 8: has anyone here seen supernatural

mutual 8: (destialposting)

mutual 9: I LOVE MY GIRLFRIEND

mutual 9: my girlfriend is so lamenim better than her :/

mutual 3: having a crush is okay actually :)

mutual 3: AHHHHHH AGONYYYYY IM DYING I HATE HAVING A CRUSH

mutual 3: (silly post about obscure 90s sitcom)

mutual 10: (dead boy detectives)

mutual 10: (dead boy detectives)

mutual 10: (dead boy detectives)

mutual 10 is not seen again for 3 days

[almalvo]

Deposit | Good Omens

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[consanguinitatum]

And Now For Something Completely Different: I look for an early 1993 Michael Sheen project!

As everyone who reads me regularly knows, I'm a David Tennant researcher/archivist (it's what I do!) and write A Tennantcy To Act, a Substack about his career. But last night at an ungodly hour, a question from a MS fan on Twitter got me amped to find a missing Michael Sheen project...so that's what I did. My body might be pissed I stayed up til 2 am (I'm an OLD!) but my soul and spirit are cleansed. I found it! So if you're a Sheen fan, buckle up. Let's take a ride on the Sheen side (and oh yeah, I just learned Michael's mum has retweeted all my research. So there's that!) The question was about a 1993 episode of a 1991-1996 ITV series, narrated by Edward Woodward, called In Suspicious Circumstances. Michael's Wiki had the series listed, but no further info on the title of the episode Michael appeared in, nor any date but 1993. Last night this fan asked Michael himself if he could remember the name of the episode (as apparently it's a bit of a mystery for his fans). Michael couldn't recall. So I went on the hunt. Luckily a tiny clip of the episode was featured on Twitter, so I could use it as a reference. And boy did it end up to be important!

The smart researcher analyzes what they've got. We see men in mustaches, bowl hats and sack coats using wagons instead of cars, so 1890s? Early 1900s? Michael plays "William Wright" and looks like he's fixing a wagon wheel. He reads his bible, and has an accent. Keep these details in mind. They'll be important. Okay - some background on the series: In Suspicious Circumstances was an anthology series which re-enacted historical crimes. Beginning on 16 March 1993, it broadcast three one-hour episodes, each of which contained two thirty-minute stories. Okay, so that means there are nine possible mini-episodes Michael could've been in. But which one? Let's narrow them down! The series' first episode aired 16 March 1993. It was called "Laugh Baby Laugh" and was about Elvira Barney, acquitted of murdering her lover in 1932. The second mini-episode was called "Shadows of Doubt" and was about Robert Hoolhouse, a laborer hanged for murdering a farmer's wife in 1938. Here are some newspaper articles about this broadcast:

I felt pretty comfortable ruling these two out immediately - mostly because both crimes were set in the 1930s, and our clip tells us Michael's episode was way before then. Moving on! Now let's talk about the third episode, which aired 30 March 1993. (I'm deliberately skipping over the second episode because I think that's the one Michael's in. Back to that in a second.) Anyway...the two mini-episodes from the third episode were called "Falling Starr" and "Good as Gold", and were about two very different women found dead on beaches...one in 1931, the other in 1900. Here are a few newspaper articles about these episodes:

The 1931 one we could rule out. But the 1900? Hmmm, it's a possibility, sure, though the clip we have sure doesn't look like it's anywhere near a beach town with sand dunes like Great Yarmouth, right? So that also seems improbable. Now let's examine that second episode, which was broadcast 23 March 1993. The first of the two mini- episodes was entitled "Dancing With Death" and was about the 1960s Glaswegian serial killer known only as Bible John.

Um, the 1960s certainly doesn't sound like it fits the clip Michael's in, right? So what's the second mini-episode, then?

Well, it's set in Suffolk in 1902 and is about a murder of a servant girl in "a scandalous affair in a Suffolk village which may have led to murder." Sounds promising! The time period certainly seems like it would fit. But what is it called? After all, no one was sure what the episode was entitled, because if they had, they would've known which episode Michael was in.

It's called "Candle In The Window!" So now we have to switch gears here to find the final proof. There are two possibilities, time period-wise, so we have to go to the source to find out if we can determine which one is the right episode. And by that, I mean newspapers of the period. After all, In Suspicious Circumstances was a historical series about real-life crimes. So I started with the Suffolk one, which I thought the most likely.

Remember we talked about Michael's character's name, and how he was working on a wagon wheel? Well, here are a few articles printed at the time about the scandal, the murder, and the resulting trial. From the Hull Morning Telegraph and the Nottingham Evening Post, both 6 November 1902:

This is a LOT of text - and newspapers at the time loved to print drama and florid language and up the scandal (they didn't have television to satisfy that urge, I guess?) But here are the relevant parts.

Notice the name of one of the witnesses: William George Wright. And gee.....he's a wheelwright! Ya know, a maker and repairer of wagon wheels!

Bingo! The circumstances of this case, Michael's character's name and occupation, and the descriptions in newspaper blurbs about the 23 March 1993 broadcast of In Suspicious Circumstances all line up.

"Candle In The Window" is the episode Michael was in. I published this earlier today on Twitter and within an hour, industrious Sheenies collated all my work (with my blessing and permission!) and updated Michael's Wikipedia entry to include this new information. I'm just out here doing what I do - for the fandoms. I wish David-bloody-Time-Lord Tennant was this easy to find *harumph*! Anywaaaaaay...... Peace out!

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

pt IV the wedding dress: crowley's cufflinks

Fuck me the brainrot is UNREAL. As is the amount of time I spent on these buggers. Also, if Arthur asks any of you, you never saw this post, okay? I was off tumblr doing "resting" and "not working" and all those things he told me to do.

Sooo in the previous posts we discussed (I infodumped) the overall top half of the dress, the shirt and the ruffles of said shirt. So now as is the natural pipeline we are discussing the cufflinks of the shirt.

Above is the scrawling I did, I don't know if you remember the day, but I was on a lot of caffeine and crying about the cufflinks while you all told me to go the FUCK to sleep.

VERSION 1 SYMBOLISM: So the first one which we shall call Version 1 (creatively) has the traditional Celtic triquetra knot. I'd looked up Celtic symbols and asked you maggots as well because Scotland has Celtic history and well, Edinburgh episode, David Tennant etc. The triquetra knot had a lot of symbolism of three's: past present future, body mind soul, maiden mother crone, youth adult old age etc.

ALPHA CENTAURI ALLUSION: Also, the three diamonds, one at each tip of the knot: this is because Alpha Centauri, where Crowley wanted to take Aziraphale to and live there together, is a triple star system. Alpha A and Alpha B, the main stars, orbit each other, with Proxima Centauri (so named because it's the closest star to our Sun) orbiting both of them. So the knot does give a kind of orbital path notion, even if not accurate, and the diamonds are the stars. It would probably be in silver, with the underlying base being black.

PROBLEMS WITH VERSION 1: However, there are issues with Version 1. For one thing, the triquetra knot is more common in present day Ireland and England than in Scotland. For another, early Christians adopted (appropriated) the triquetra to symbolise the Holy Trinity. So. Perhaps not.

And clearly we can't have issues with the intricate detail of the fictional cufflink's fictional symbolism in a fictional wedding of a fictional character that is not canon. So then I made changes:

VERSION 2 SYMBOLISM: Version 2, while retaining the Alpha Centauri diamonds and orbit symbolism, has a different Celtic symbol. This is the triskele, a symbol that is more popular in Scotland than the triquetra, as you maggots told me. It has three interlocking spirals, representing the three domains of material existence (earth, water, sky), the cycles of life and reincarnation, and movement of time and the universe. All of which feels exactly like Starmaker's journey to becoming Crowley. The Alpha Centauri stars are now nestled in the spirals of the triskele, with a more rose-like base that could be emerald under the silver.

So. Yes. Those are the cufflinks that I am sure were very highly anticipated /s. Idk why I do this. But I love you Crowley.

Have a wonderful day maggots <3 If you do happen to be interested in the wedding dress, all the wedding posts are tagged on my blog with weirdly the nightingales wed.

[wrengrif]

Are we ready? It's Time...

For more GOOD OMENS WILD META.

I have been chewing on this one for awhile. Like, really ruminating on it. Probably because it's so far-reaching. For me, for others. It's a matter of the Journey From The Final Fifteen.

I will openly admit it, when I first came off the Final Fifteen, sometime in August/September (yeah, I was so worried about Season 2 I didn't watch it for a month after it came out and I realized I was right to do so.). I was, and still am, heartbroken. I was angry, despairing and wondering what the point of an ending like that was. I was angry at Neil Gaiman, I was angry at all the creators behind Good Omens. I was angry at Aziraphale, first, and then after about five minutes, I was angry at Crowley too.

Note, I was never mad at David Tennant or Michael Sheen. I respected their acting choices so much in the Final Fifteen. It was beautiful. It ripped my soul out through my chest. They are both brilliant. I know everyone has their favorite GO counterparts - they are mine.

Then a funny thing happened. A few weeks passed. I started fumbling around Good Omens Tumblr again. I'd been a big contributor during Detroit: Become Human (of which I am still a HUGE FAN, god I love that game.), and until Good Omens 2 came out, I was on the side of Good Omens fandom. Reading, mostly, but at the time I was very deep into my Wangxian fixation (haaaaah, I say, like I have ever left it. My dream AU is Aziraphale and Crowley in the Sunshot Campaign, causing trouble with Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian.). That changed after Final Fifteen. Now I was hurt, I was looking for comfort. I was looking for my fellow fans.

Clearly, I found you, you gorgeous bastards (saying nothing about your moms, unless you want me to). I started to read more meta, started having my own thoughts and carefully posting them. Reading fanfiction, and ... becoming less angry. Stepping back, to really look at the story. I was swallowing content like Aziraphale swallowed ox ribs. In the midst of this, I realized this wasn't The End of Good Omens, but merely the second part of a Trilogy. I'm a writer, I know what the second part of a trilogy is. It's where your heart breaks, it's the cliffhanger episode. I stopped being mad, and started loving the craft. I started to actually look at the scenes instead of just watching.

With that, I started to realize I had been missing so much. I realized I had been wrong, about a lot of things. My perspectives, and thoughts changed. Aziraphale wasn't at fault, he was a victim of the situation as much as Crowley was. Crowley left the bookshop, but he never left Aziraphale. He waited. He's still waiting. As more time passed, the more my thoughts evolved. Changed, formed anew, and I felt better for it. I decided to be hopeful about the whole thing. Yes, it was bad now, but there were enough signs and easter eggs to say this wasn't the ending we were going to get.

I healed, in short. I forgave. I'm waiting for our next chapter, because I know this story isn't done, not by a long shot. I'm waiting to see how our heroes will cope.

Rather like, I think, Aziraphale and Crowley will. The initial pain is going to fade, the anger, the feeling of rejection (whereas they will some day realize neither one of them were in fact, rejected.). The longing is going to kick in. They're going to miss one another more than they will ever be angry. There's going to be moments of grace, of forgiveness, partnered with sadness. What I think we forget, sometimes, is that Aziraphale and Crowley are 6000 years old. They've fought before. They'll fight again. With the fullness of time though, they'll come back to one another. They'll talk again.

Right now though, they've had time. Time to hopefully process (I really, really hope Aziraphale has had SOME time to process), time let the anger fade a little. Maybe not enough time - some of us here still need time - but enough to let them wonder ... is it really over? Maybe to realize, no. No it's not.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, but time does allow you to find equilibrium. I hope time will do the same for our angel and our demon. I know time helped me. I hope time will help us all.