mundosstuff

[adreamoverlife]

the flu has made me deranged so here's something Michael is an animal guy. He'll never admit it but one day Adam catches him putting some in-shell peanuts into their shopping cart and is like ????? and Michael does his little standoffish shrug and by the time Adam gets home he is going over every spell Michael has ever told him about trying to remember if peanuts is an ingredient to anything and he's focusing so hard he almost doesn't notice Michael going over to their window where it has like flower box or something and just sprinkles a little bit of the food there and makes a strange click in the back of his throat that carries the echos of an angels true voice. and now Adams like ?!?!?!?!? What the fuck are you summoning ?!?!??! expecting something like a hell hound or horrific creature that responds only to an angel but it's none of that it's a flock of about 8 crows that descend down to the flower box and chirp at Michael in a way that can almost be described as respectfully. Now Adams never been so confused in his entire life but Michael the bastard just tilts his head in the way only angels do and says "I've known these animals longer than Humans have had names for them Adam. They remember me." and then smiles, a little sad and eyes glossy. "I think I've told that to you once before."

[xx-blueboy-xx]

Day Three: You Crack Me Up! | Goretober 2023 Prompt List!

CW: Body Horror, Violence + Gore  Words: 686

Gabriel hissed as he felt something slide against his grace, attempting to wrap around it and pull it from his vessel. He slashed through the invisible force without a thought, and his eyes blazed with a cold-thunderous wrath. The whiskey color was melting into a molten gold, as he glared at the demon before him. His vessel was already throbbing from all of the softly glowing nicks and cuts in his body. He flips his angel blade around in his grip, the weapon vanishing from sight. He was getting low on grace, and he was fed up with this fight. He could see just out of the corner of his eyes, the two Winchesters finishing off the demons they were fighting against. 

“Do you know how long I have inhabited this vessel?” he snarls at the demon, who basically only replies with an inhuman growl flipping the sharp-bone like dagger they hold in their hand. He can see its writhing true form beneath the flesh of what appeared to be a middle-aged soccer mom. He could see the swirling smoke consistency of it, and how a flickering tail and tall-ugly horn spiraled up. It wasn’t even a fun looking demon. Gabriel has memories, centuries old and the edges crinkled with a soft golden nostalgia as they slide across the front of his mind. His boiling rage mounting further. He was tired and hungry. He hated demons on the best of days, but trying to pull him from his vessel? That crossed a line. The man had been French, and he hadn’t been particularly religious, it just so happened he was descended from a long-long line of vessels. Who were religious nutjobs in their own right. He had hardly ever prayed a single day. It just so happens, that, when Gabriel finally left Heaven - he did. He had begged for something to save his wife and child, she was dying during childbirth, and so was the kid. That he would give anything away. 

And Gabriel answered. They struck a  deal - he kept his end of the bargain, healing his wife and child, who went on to have long-happy lives. Though, she never remarried swearing that she saw her husband - an angel - saving her life. He allowed the man to live out his best life within his own mind, until his soul was burned away from the sheer strength of Gabriel’s grace. For centuries it has just been him. Yet. That was one of the key moments where he fell in love with humanity, and he would not let that be taken from him. Ever. 

He groans and rubs at the bridge of his nose, as the air around him crackles with dangerous energy. “You know, this is getting tiresome. Let’s end this.” 

The demon gives him a wide toothy grin, “Gladly-!” 

They lunge for him and he snaps his fingers. Rather than vanishing into red mist as Sam and Dean expected who were both watching keenly, the demon froze. A strange golden glow began to emit from the center of its chest, and its face contorted with a silent scream. From this light, suddenly, vicious cracks began to form along the body of the demon, blood gushing from them. It was as if they were being carved with a skilled hand, an invisible knife tracing veins. Muscle and bone were revealed as some of these cracks widened, soaking the demon. They writhed with silent agony, tears flowing down their face. Unable to scream, and for that - the hunters were grateful. It looked as if they were made of porcelain and had been dropped, as their clothing was torn to shreds and so was their body. 

Then, the light flickered out and sliding apart, string-and goo like blood between the pieces, the demon fell to the floor. Utterly demolished and nearly unrecognizable. Gabriel closed his eyes and took a deep trembling breath, feeling his wrath slowly ebb away. Satisfied. He claps his hands together shattering the tension in the room with a wide grin, turning to the two pale and stunned humans. 

“Alright! Who is down for burgers?” 

[benthicpressure]

Cassette Beasts is SO so good holy cow

[createserenity]

Does Crowley stay at the bookshop all night?

I'm just putting it out there that I don't think this is talked about enough:

This might not have been filmed, but it's right there in the scriptbook. Crowley leaves Aziraphale's bookshop right before Gabriel and Sandalphon arrive. I'm sure it's implied they are visiting fairly early on Thursday morning, since it's the first scene labelled as Thursday and later on Aziraphale and Crowley have time to drive all the way to Oxford and mess about there. So what? Well the scene before this is Aziraphale and Crowley drinking in the bookshop after Warlock's birthday party on the Wednesday. It must be fairly late in the day by this point because the hell hound was supposed to arrive at 3pm and this scene is happening sometime later. So Aziraphale and Crowley are in the bookshop drinking presumably into the evening on Wednesday whilst Crowley goes on about how he knows what Aziraphale smells like and they both think that the world is about to end in a matter of days. Then the next morning Crowley is noted as leaving the bookshop and has clearly been in there for enough time that Sandalphon can still smell his presence. Are we supposed to buy into the idea that he leaves late Wednesday night, comes back for an unspecified reason really early on Thursday, leaves again when the angels turn up and then comes back later for the trip to Oxford? Well, I'm not buying it. So what were they doing in the bookshop all night? (And also Aziraphale takes the angels into his back room to buy "pornography" - the back room where he was with Crowley not that long before - and frankly Aziraphale loves feeling like he's got one over on the Archangels, especially Gabriel, so yeah, there's that too.) ...just saying.

[plague-of-rats]

Son of God, Son of Man

This is probably my Ultrakill magnum opus; They drive me insane

[divine--intervention]

RISEN V1 AND FALLEN GABRIEL FOR @muzzleroars!!

[tehloserprince]

Some folks asked me to post/share this here because they found it useful, so ...

I was a little surprised by the amount of people who thought Gabriel and Beelzebub literally met only three times before deciding they were in love and running off together. It's true that we see three pivotal moments in Gabriel's memories, and I think @neil-gaiman and co. showed the audience these specific moments for a reason, but the writing and visual cues in each of the scenes seemed to be done in a way that would emphasize the passage of time between meetings and the development of the relationship between Gabriel and Beelzebub to the audience.

First Meeting: I believe this one happened not too long after Armageddon failed to materialize. We're given an immediate visual cue from Gabriel, whose outfit is closer to what he wore in S1; he's wearing the same scarf and jacket that he wore throughout that season, and also when he met Beelzebub on the Tadfield airbase. Could be appropriate attire for the season, since we do see Gabriel wearing the coat again a bit later (sans scarf).

At their meeting, Gabriel is seated on the left and Beelzebub is on the right. Their meeting place seems to be somewhere in Russia (away from their home territories). The table is rather large, creating some distance between the two of them. Their body language is also a lot more guarded: legs and arms crossed at times, and they tend to lean away from each other more throughout the conversation. This meeting is short, but there are some sparks between the two of them: the gentle teasing ("well, you lost"/"so did you"), Beelzebub crossing their arms and trying not to smile at Gabriel's "Arma-bloody-geddon" moment, and the shared understanding over the burdens of being the respective Commanders-in-Chief of Heaven and Hell.

It ends with Gabriel leaving quickly after saying it's a pity they'll never speak again, but ...

Second Meeting: ... obviously, they do end up speaking again. When Gabriel enters this particular meeting, he's wearing an outfit closer to what we see him wearing in S2 prior to him losing his memory. Again, possibly a seasonal cue as well. At the beginning of the Second Meeting, Gabriel sits down across from Beelzebub and immediately proposes the idea of "no Armageddon." He would have no reason to do that unless there had been other meetings that deepened their initial connection and made him realize that hey, a victory for Heaven would mean NO Beelzebub, which would kind of suck because he's grown to enjoy their company and their little "work meetings."

While they've built a sort of rapport over their work lives, there seems to be something else simmering beneath the surface. This is reflected in more visual cues: their body language seems more comfortable/relaxed - they lean towards one another as opposed to leaning back and maintaining distance; the table itself is much smaller (meaning they're seated closer together/with less distance between them); and they've also switched sides - Beelzebub is now seated on the left and Gabriel is on the right. Their meeting place seems to be a bar in America, which might mean they've still been avoiding any meetings in their home territories.

Beelzebub is open to Gabriel's suggestion and agrees to it almost immediately. Instead of rushing off like he did after their first meeting, Gabriel remains seated and Beelzebub seems to get a bit flustered by his gaze. They discuss the music playing on the jukebox, and Beelzebub is so much more patient with Gabriel's lack of knowledge than they would have been with anyone else. There are multiple layers to Gabriel's line, "Then ... I also like it." The little subtleties from Jon Hamm and Shelley Conn add a wonderful depth to these short scenes tbh.

At the end of the meeting, Beelzebub straightens up, fixes their gaze on Gabriel, and very pointedly states that there's "no NEED for them to ever meet again," smiling slightly as they wait for his response ("none whatsoever"). The wording there is important because ...

Third Meeting: ... there IS no "need" for them to ever meet again. From here on out, they're meeting solely because they WANT to be in each other's company. They're no longer pretending that their meetings are strictly business, and they're also not limiting themselves to locations outside their home territories. I get the feeling that the Third Meeting the audience gets to see was more like their "first date." Instead of meeting directly at a public location to discuss "business," Gabriel takes Beelzebub to see something important to him. Of course, this is Gabriel we're talking about, and he's taken Beelzebub to see the statue of him in a local cemetery in Edinburgh. But still! The statue is meaningful to him, and he wanted to share that with Beelzebub. They're even standing right next to each other as the scene begins, with Beelzebub's head cocked to listen as Gabriel speaks. Shelley Conn gives us this awesome moment of Beelzebub looking at Gabriel almost wistfully, and mmm do I have Some Thoughts about that entire scene. I've shared them elsewhere, maybe I'll eventually post them over here, but the TLDR is that yeah, I feel like they're wishing Gabriel would look at them Like That. I also think maybe there was some larger doubt re: whether or not the Archangel Fucking Gabriel, God's Messenger, would ever love a demon over their heavenly duty/station. But I digress.

Following their excursion to see the statue, Beelzebub and Gabriel wind up at The Resurrectionist. Gabriel's been wearing that coat again, which could show another shift in the seasons. Instead of sitting across from each other, Gabriel and Beelzebub are now seated next to each other in a cozy booth. The candles and dim lighting give it a romantic feel. Adding to that clumsy sort of romantic feeling, we see Gabriel and Beelzebub each doing something nice for the other just to see them happy. Gabriel performs a small miracle on the jukebox to have it play what has essentially become "their" song, and Beelzebub gifts a fly in return - essentially, a small piece of themselves, as they are the Lord of the Flies after all. It also happens to be the first thing anyone's ever given to Gabriel, a fact that has quite an impact on Beelzebub.

When Aziraphale is talking to the owner of The Resurrectionist, he learns that the jukebox miracle occurred "last year." So we can deduce (detective word!) that Gabriel and Beelzebub had been "dating" for about a year prior to his "disappearance." A year is a long time for them to develop much deeper feelings and intimacy. Not necessarily talking about sex there either, because folks can imagine whatever they want to in that regard. I mean intimacy in the sense of knowing and feeling comfortable with each other. The way they hold hands and have their arms around each other in the S2 finale indicates that they'd gotten pretty cozy with all of that. I mean, come on, look at how happy Gabriel was to see them once his memories were returned and how immediately his entire demeanor changed.

In the brief moments we see Gabriel prior to his memory loss, he's behaving differently from his S1 counterpart, who was a lot more rigid and laser-focused on Armageddon. Even Beelzebub seems a bit changed; that scene with Demon Josh is a great example. Granted, Beelzebub was more subdued/worried about Gabriel in that moment, but it seems like they'd grown a longer fuse and/or were less quick to anger/annoyance. Daydreaming can do that to a demon, I suppose.

I love this pairing; they're such a great example of how loving someone and being loved in return can bring out the "real"/best version of yourself. I'd totally read an entire novel about them. And can I just add once again that the visual cues were so well done? Not just the acting from Shelley Conn and Jon Hamm, who really brought a lot to the table (see what I did there) with their facial expressions and mannerisms, but the actual visual cues in each of these scenes: the way the two of them were gradually seen to be sitting closer until they were seated right next to each other; the shift in body language between meetings; the way they switched sides during each of the meetings we got to see, as opposed to Aziraphale and Crowley having dominant "sides" that we tend to see them on; etc. I could write an essay on this (more than I already have) so I'll have to stop myself now.

Anyway. Screenplays are neat, and it's fun to see how words and imagery combine to tell a much larger story. Of course, you need great actors to really bring it all home, and thankfully we've been blessed with many in Good Omens. Much love to Jon Hamm and Shelley Conn for their work here.

[hidden-in-heaven]

Are you aware of C.H.E.R.U.B running around earth and being banished there? Are you going to do something about this?

Let’s talk about C.H.E.R.U.B….

[hauntedhotel]

What's interesting about the Ineffable Bureaucracy relationship is that it's so sweet, it's almost wholesome with the song and the fly and the instant agreement to run away together. They should be the real enemies to lovers with the complications and the angst and the centuries to figure things out - they're the bosses! But they find themselves sort of on the same side once and a couple of years later they're running away to the stars together? How is that fair? How come they have it so easy?

From Crowley's perspective, watching all this happen and then being rejected by Aziraphale who wants to go back to Heaven, it looks so much like Gabriel loves Beez more than Aziraphale loves him, but it's not that at all. It's just that Gabriel is selfish. He doesn't care about Earth or humanity, he doesn't care about Heaven or the other angels, he doesn't even care about "good" or "evil" or balance or any of it. He cares about getting what he wants.

I also wonder if Muriel was introduced in this season specifically to show an angel (other than Aziraphale) that we can sympathise with. Not every angel in Heaven is Gabriel/Michael/Metatron - who's to say that after a book and a nice meal and a chat with some humans all the angels wouldn't start questioning the status quo? Who's to say Aziraphale is actually wrong about being able to change things in Heaven?

Heaven isn't just the archangels - a company is more than its board of directors. There are millions of angels in Heaven, you think all of them miss Gabriel? You think they all like Michael? You think they aren't curious about the angel who breathed hellfire at their dickhead boss and then shacked up with a demon? Lucifer was the originally angelic revolutionary but he got kicked out and took his mates down with him - what happens when the angel going "look its a bit shit this isn’t it?" has the majority standing behind him?

[wispcherry]

the metatron was told to bring Aziraphale back actually. then when Archangel Aziraphale was finally pulled in for an audience with God Herself, She had temporarily manifested a physical form and they had girl talk. God had wine for the first time in a while. Aziraphale is draped dramatically over a (God-miracled) settee like he's talking to a psychoanalyst.

[dontasktherain]

I need content that's just ineffable bureaucracy deciding to live on earth and being terrible at it.

[moonlight-blue-rose]

Well, Happy New Year I think and reach chapter 287 of ORV. Everything is just peachy here!

I can just feel my heart wither as this chapter progresses

... This really, really isn't fair. Kim Dokja, you can't just ask this when you know the answer so well...

No, this really isn't fair. *curls up to cry in the corner*

It's just - it's just that despite how cruel kdj is right now, he is also so increadibly gentle. So, so tender as he looks at yjh and breaks his spirit and tries to help at the same time. I'm so sick of this chapter, I hate it here

I'M SO SICK AND READY TO COMMIT UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF VIOLENCE. The bloody rain. Kim Dokja saying "I'll finish your story" to Yoo Joonghyuk who is so, so tired. THE DAMN SCENARIO WINDOW OBSCURING KDJ'S VIEW OF YJH'S FACE. THE DAMNABLE CONDITON ON IT

I hate this chapter, I absolutely hate it. It's a horrible thing to have full context to spoilers, a horrible, horrible thing... Kim Dokja is so, so cruel in his salvation... But then again, considering that Ways of Survival was his salvation, it really isn't that strange...

[magpigment]

thoughts about gabriel w religious trauma? thoughts? thoughts? thoughts?

[quietwingsinthesky]

if anything, sam coming back without a handprint is proof that castiel loves him (or, as i think, that he’s reckoned enough with what heaven’s ownership over dean’s body—especially through castiel when he was supposed to wrangle dean��actually meant for him and how horrible it was to do that to him and name it ‘saving him’.) he wanted sam’s new life to come without cost. he wanted sam, who went into the pit owned by the devil himself, to be freed without a mark on him. no branded loyalty to heaven, not even one from castiel himself.

too bad he couldn’t stick the landing. lucifer handprints on sam’s soul lovers rise up.

[yourlocalseanameduser]

Seeing helluva boss/hazbin hotel and mitski together makes me want to rip someone's throat

[midamspn]

hold on im thinking about the diner scene again. like??? adam and michael affirm that they Want to stay together and they start planning their LIFE together. "WE're gonna have expenses" LIKE??? thats wild shit. If it weren't for the winchesters / chuck GETTING them involved i think they really would've just had themselves a Life. thats wild to me. They were stuck in the worst place in existence and they found Love there. they found companionship. like they could have EASILY came out of the cage gunning for revenge but they weren't!!!!!! they just wanted to live together!!!!!!!!!!!!