#good omens s3 bingo

[aceingonthecake]

I was finalising my GO s3 Bingo card and my dad wanted to make some predictions of his own. Here are the most...interesting ones:

Crowley trips while he's walking

Aziraphale destroys a book

The Metatron explodes (don't ask)

Aziraphale steals the Bentley

And lastly, my personal favourite:

Aziraphale intentionally spills hot tea on Crowley's pants

[lalalunamoth]

I like this one. Especially Jesus and Crowley are exes and Crowley does not know this. It just makes sense.

putting this out 3 years in advance (i Have More). yknow as insurance.

[currentlyraining]

manifesting good stuff

[firephoenix2305]

GOOD OMENS FILM WEEK CELEBRATION DAY 8!! Happy production start everybody!!

Now, according to @mckiwi's prompt challenge, today is free topic! So, I thought, to celebrate, I'd share this Good Omens "season" 3 bingo card I made! I had lots of fun with it! (pardon the different tones of the letters, my drawing app went slightly crazy)

And I do apologize for the couple of typos that are in there, I don't know how I missed them 😅

Super fun prompt week!! Thank you @mckiwi for all the fun prompts!!

-Nix🧡

[froggyliciouz]

Me and my best friend made a good omens predictions/hopes bingo

Can‘t wait to play it when we watched s3

[littlelodell]

Just putting this here for, um, you know, later.

did i already make a season 3 bingo? yes. but i have reasons.

[meerlichtz]

Btw here’s the Good Omens S3 Bingo me and @pissmanredacted created based on popular theories as well as things we find funny. See you all in like 4 years

[mitski-leaked]

good omens bingo

just thought ab that one post on how the ineffables never look at eo in any of the promo photos, only away/past eo,,,, makes my tummy hurt so bad i hope s3 promo makes them look in the EYE. THAT is my go3 bingo entry for today.

like helloo!!!! this isnt even all iof them im just clawing at mhy face about it at this point,,,

[2bearsinatrenchcoat]

here’s my good omens s3 bingo!!

and here’s a blank template if anybody else wants to make one :)

[drconstellation]

Re "the grapevine that obviously doesn't exist," I thought the flirty little look Dagon gave Michael in the book shop which Michael quickly shut down with a shake of the head indicated it was Dagon who was Michael's new "back channel" in Hell now Ligur was destroyed. That was my reading of it, anyway.

I thought it was interesting that Michael had kept up this grapevine or back channel or connection to Hell, even reaching out to another of the Dukes to so. And yet they aren't a traitor? And neither is Dagon? But we're clearly told in no uncertain terms that both Aziraphale and Crowley are traitors to their respective (former) head offices. Double standards again.

Re: Beez and Gabe turning up in S3 - yes, I will definitely reserving a space on my bingo card for them! No reason to count them out just yet. No idea in what capacity they will serve, however.

SO. I had a month rest from rewatching GO2, but I missed them so much so I rewatched it again and just finished ep. 6. I don't know how many times I need to rewatch it before I stop noticing new things.

New thoughts:

How did Shax know about Maggie that she can't pay her rent, that she is desperately in love with Nina?

How did she know about the sushi thing about Aziraphale, when this was even in s1?

Is there anyone really close (like living on Wickber street) that is giving all this information?

Second thought: Did anyone notice how when the Metatrash is in the bookshop the lamps are trembling? And you can hear their crystals rattling.

Third: Beelzebub is Michael's grapevine. Michael told her about the Book of Life. Why did they share the info to Crowley? Am I the only one thinking she kind of wanted to protect him and Aziraphale? They said "Aziraphale took much better care of you" to Gabriel. I think they probably knew Gabriel is in the bookshop. When they sent Shax, they knew that Shax will fail.

Perhaps in S3 Bee and Gabriel will help Crowley and Aziraphale as they helped them. 🤔

[indigovigilance]

Lament of the Metatron

I did not have "become an amateur biblical apocrypha scholar" on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are, and I’m going to make you feel bad for hating the Metatron. No, really. A lot of different ✨clues ✨in S2 lead us to the Book of Enoch, which describes how the Metatron came to be. (If you would like to read what the Books of Enoch have to say about maybe-Crowley and maybe-Aziraphale, read this meta.)

There are three books of Enoch: 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and 3 Enoch, and after reading them I’ve concluded that they are almost certainly a major source text for Good Omens, at very least with respect to the Metatron. The translation that I used is 116 pages and quite dense, so there will be multiple metas about it (I should also note that I’ve taken great liberties with reorganizing the source text, for brevity). This one addresses the origin of the Metatron and his likely S1 and S3 motivations.

The Story

To quickly summarize the backstory: after Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden, a bunch of angels go to Earth, transgress against God (by having children with humans) and piss Her off. So She decides She must flood the Earth to wipe them and all their children and human associates out.

During this age of angelic iniquity, Enoch, a righteous man, the 7th generation from Adam and great-grandfather of Noah, receives visions of the coming flood.

Later, Enoch is lifted up to Heaven by a whirlwind. He gets an angel-guided tour of Heaven and visits what I will call The Mountain of Souls. He sees a mountain with four chambers and asks what they are for. Raphael states that they are for the souls of the dead, where they will be kept until Judgment Day. Enoch asks why they are separated. Raphael answers:

One for the souls of the righteous

One for the souls of sinners, who are buried in the earth, to await judgment, and on that day they will be punished

One for those who complain to, or petition, God (including Abel, who was slain by Cain)

One for the souls of those who are not righteous, “but their souls will not be killed on the day of judgment, nor will they rise from here.” (so perhaps a permanent purgatory?)

Later in his journey, Enoch sees the Valley of Judgment. Again, Raphael answers Enoch’s questions, describing “this accursed valley, is for those who are cursed for ever… [for] all those who speak with their mouths against the Lord… and here will be their place of Judgment.” Enoch comments that it would be better for the sinners if they had never been born.

Enoch also sees where the righteous will go after Judgment: “And in those days my eyes saw the Place of the Chosen Ones of Righteousness and Faith… And I saw their dwelling, under the Wings of the Lord of Spirits, and all the righteous and chosen shone in front of him, like the light of fire…. There I wished to dwell.”

The Second Parable of 1 Enoch describes how God will open the Book of the Living when the Chosen One arrives, and so Judgment Day will begin.

Enoch is taken before God and violently transformed from a human into the Metatron, a celestial being: “And I fell upon my face, and my whole body melted, and my spirit was transformed; and I cried out in a loud voice, in the spirit of power.” After Enoch is transfigured into Metatron, he is made to write 366 volumes of what I will call the Book of Deeds, wherein he writes the name of all men, everything they have done, and what afterlife they are destined for.

After sixty days spent in Heaven, angels return the Metatron to Earth to dwell with his sons for… and this is where the different books of Enoch seem to disagree whether it was for one year or thirty days, but either way, he goes back to Earth with an explicit time limit to explain to his children everything he has seen and to teach them the ways of righteousness. Which he does. The fifth book of 1 Enoch, the Epistle, describes Enoch badgering his children to be not just pretendy-good but properly good, and advising them to suffer and turn the other cheek, etc., so that they are found righteous before God on Judgment Day. He knows that at the end of this visit, he will return to Heaven, will never speak to his sons or the rest of his family for the rest of their lives, and that a Great Flood is coming to wipe out everyone on Earth except for his great-grandson Noah and Noah’s three sons, and that whatever is written in the books by then is what his other sons and grandsons and great-grandsons will be judged by on Judgment Day.

It is worth noting here that a separate scholarly analysis points out that once Enoch is transformed into Metatron, he never eats again: “Since the time when the Lord anointed me with the ointment of his glory, food has not come into me, and earthly pleasure my soul does not remember…” This is meant to show how his journey from human to celestial is opposite that of Adam and Eve, who were nourished by celestial food until they left the Garden, and from then on had to sate themselves with “nourishment for the beasts.”

At the end of this visit to Earth, he issues a final warning to his children and neighbors about the coming Judgment Day, then ascends to Heaven to rule over all the angels and to keep the Book of Deeds.

So what should we take from this?

Enoch, a good man, God’s favorite, is given visions of the destruction of Earth, abducted and taken to Heaven where he is shown the Mountain of Souls, the Valley of Damnation, and the Place of the Chosen Ones of Righteousness, he is transformed into an angel so that he may never enjoy Earthly delights again, he is told that everyone he knows, including all of his children and their children, except for one great-grandson and three great-great-grandsons, will die, and that he has limited time to coach them on how to avoid being punished, tortured, and destroyed forever, and even if he succeeds, they will be trapped in the Mountain of Souls until Judgment Day, and then he is taken from them, and given the responsibility of maintaining the records by which souls will be judged. 

So let's talk about motivation.

Here we find an incredibly powerful, incredibly lonely human-turned-angel (because the other angels are both afraid and disrespectful of him), whose entire family was destroyed before his eyes and who are as of right now, as they have been for *checks watch* 5,000 years, trapped in a celestial mountain of purgatory, and the only way he can ever see them again is to bring about the Second Coming, for only on Judgment Day may they be released from the Mountain of Souls and join him before the Throne of Glory, if they heeded his warnings and are found worthy in the sight of God.

This is a highly motivated, highly traumatized anti-villain. Which is possibly the worst thing to happen to Aziraphale because if Azi has a soft spot for anyone, it’s someone whose children were taken from them by God.

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For evidence of why we can selectively ignore/reinterpret Neil's statement re: the Metatron's human past, please read this meta

I read the Book of Enoch from front to back, twice, but if you want to check my work (or write a response meta!) you can find the source material here and here.

If you would like to read what the Books of Enoch have to say about maybe-Crowley and maybe-Aziraphale, read this meta.

[starmaker-astral]

Good omens s3 Bingo : very likely edition

(I need to see eveything I wrote, please pretty please Neil, hear my prayers)

[stillsurfacequietpond]

Good Omens S3 bingo card (credit for the template to Lex on BlueSky)

Is this what I think we'll see? Or what I want to see...

[holylulusworld]

2024 Tony Stark Bingo Mark VIII masterlist

Preview for the upcoming fics to fill the squares.

Please consider none of the stories are available yet.

Stories written for: @tonystarkbingo​

S1: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Watching helplessly

S2: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): 1980's

S3: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): AU: Dragon Rider

S4: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Seeing Red

S5: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Hedonism

T1: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): "Can't take my eyes off you."

T2: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): AU: Noir Detective

T3: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Stolen

T4: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Sentient Armor

T5: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Kink A/B/O Society

A1: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Tentacles

A2: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Mafia AU (AU of your choice)

A3: (Tony Stark x Reader): Free Space

A4: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Drunk Dialing/Wrong Number

A5: Strip Poker (Tony Stark x Reader): Poker Night

R1: Creamed pants (work title) (Tony Stark x Reader): Kink: Non-Penetatrive

R2: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): AU: Regency

R3: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Kink: Aliens made them do it

R4: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): AU: Good Omens

R5: (Tony Stark x Reader): Kink: Shibari

K1: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Hugs

K2: ??? (Tony Stark x Reader): Kink: Masturbation

K3: Knitting (Tony Stark x Reader): Secret Hobby

K4: (Tony Stark x Reader): Gravity

K5: (Tony Stark x Reader): No Powers

Find all other Bingos and Special Events here: Special Events

[asoulwithadream]

[x] Good Omens Script Updates and News by Sendarya on YT

I recommend checking out this video for more information and also news on other Neil Gaiman projects, however what I deduced to be the most relevant Gomens updates have been:

The Great War between Heaven and Hell (before the Beginning) will not be featured in Season 3. This is most probably because a battle scene would just "eat up the budget without advancing the plot". This presumably does NOT include the Fall, and I believe it still to be on the table.

Neil has not yet finished the script and speculates that completion will take a few more months, meaning that late or mid-2024 is the best case scenario. However, this probably means that pre-production isn't due tills sometime next year, hopefully.

There is a "Thing He's Writing" which he was convinced was the worst thing in the world, but later revised, sent in, and told us that everybody including him loved it.

There is presumably NEW CHARACTER in the Thing He's Writing's episode, who either is such a good character or has such a nice name that an executive staff was thinking about naming his unborn child after them.

And last, but certainly not least,,,,

5. WE MAY GET THE SEASON 1 CAST, or AT LEAST SOME OF THEM BACK FOR SEASON 3! Neil Gaiman confirmed that if Michael McKean (the actor for Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell) was available, he'd probably be in Season 3.

This alludes to the involvement of the S1 cast in S3, which I think is probable because I remember Neil saying that S2 was merely a bridge between the two exterior seasons, and that the overarching plot (about an Armageddon-like event) is to be continued in S3.

This means that we may get The Them, Newton, Anathema, and the Witchfinder Army inclusions, cameos, or at the very best mentions for the next season, so be sure to put it on your bingo cards!

[ftuvfuhgz]

GOOD OMENS S3 BINGO