#ineffable beaurocracy

[bwlkins]

If you think Aziraphale only asked Gabriel and Beelzebub what they wanted.

There is confirmation that he asked Crowley as well.

[mistorose]

just saw a big-ass fly and my automatic reaction was “aww 🥺” instead of trying to murder it without a second thought.

good omens 2 has done a number on me apparently

[crisalidaseason]

All I can think of is domestic Ineffable bureaucracy

Domestic IB is Gabriel and Beelzebub moving into a cottage in a paradisiac place (in whatever planet and galaxy, but there is a cottage there I won't hear otherwise)

Domestic IB is Beelzebub quickly realizing that napping is one of the best feelings for a formerly overworked demon. They don't need it, but it's a small comfort just like hot chocolate is for Gabriel. Also, if Gabriel joins the nap, he is the little spoon.

Domestic IB is Gabriel building a dedicated section of their cottage just for Beelzebub's flies to hang around and thrive. It's a full ecossistem the angel builds there. The flies might not be ordinary ones, but they sure enjoy behaving as a fly.

Domestic IB is Beelzebub teaching the angel how to dance even thought they're not an expert dancer. The couple stumbles, constantly sway out rythm and yet they smile.

Domestic IB is Gabriel laying on a hammock, on the porch, and watching as the day goes by with Beelzebub snuggling next to them.

Domestic IB is Beelzebub agressively loving the angel and wanting to squeeze him until Gabriel pops like a baloon. Gabriel enjoys every second.

Domestic IB is Gabriel singing to Beelzebub until they sleep on their hammock. The angel has all the demon's favorite songs memorized.

Domestic IB is Gabriel gifting Beelzebub clothes with the sofest fabric and cutest prints, he gifted the demon a silk pajama set with a flower fly print. The angel also constantly cares for Beelzebub's collections of hats.

Domestic IB is Beelzebub returning the favor by miracling their angel the biggest fluffy robes in many colors because they find cute how Gabriel likes to twirl with the fabric.

Domestic IB is them being disgustingly in love and constantly calling each other pet names, declaring their love, cuddling and kissing.

Domestic IB in which they like to decorate their home with zero sense of design and their home is just na amalgamation of colors, shapes and textures.

Domestic IB is Gabriel revealing that he knows how to draw by gifting Beelzebub a handmade sketchbook with a huge catalogue of flies and bees inside. He has little facts written on the pages and even got the little fly Beelzebub gifted him to sign with their little legs.

Domestic IB is all I can think about.

[janerart]

Oh Gabriel whaddayakno

Also side note when I was young I used to wish really hard that humans could lay eggs

[agent-snowflake]

Opening tumblr immediately after reading the comment below the picture the good omens instagram account posted

✨Duke of Hell✨

Do I need to say anything else ??!!

Where are my good omens people, we need to talk !

[thatlonelycactus]

I will always die in the hill that the issue with heaven (and hell) is not with the angels/demons but with the Metatron and the Almighty or whoever created the system.

Because of Muriel, Eric, and Gabriel and Beelzebub. Because of Aziraphale and Crowley.

Sure Gabriel is pretty terrible in the first season but his arc shows us one thing: change is possible. Gabriel changed.

If the issue was with the members of the system then Gabriel wouldn’t have fallen in love with Beez, Beez wouldnt have fallen in love with him.

We know angels and demons know next to nothing about Earth and humanity. They have essentially been put into a binary of good and evil and binaries like that are often hard to escape.

Angels aren’t naturally self-entitled pricks, Aziraphale and Muriel and Gabriel show us that. Demons aren’t necessarily evil, Beelzebub, Eric and Crowley exemplify back.

The issue is the system because angels and demons are the same stock. Because the whole point of Good Omens is that good and evil don’t exist.

Because if Aziraphale fails in heaven it’s not because angels don’t want to be better, it’s because the system or whoever controls the system won’t let him.

[baru-ska]

📦🪰💕

[felicitywilds]

not gabriel and beelzebub going directly to aziraphale and crowley for help because they BOTH knew that if ANYONE could sympathize with helping reunite a demon and an angel who fell in love its them 💀💀💀💀

[zzzzzzir]

Finally got around to see season 2 and although my heart broke at the ineffable divorce, INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY IS NOW CANON and I need to fan myself.

As a side note, I have mixed feelings about the face change. On one hand, Shelley Conn does a smashing job playing Beelzebub, but… it’s the attitude for me. I loved the dry, no nonsense, absolutely-DONE-with-everything-in-sight-and-you-in-particular attitude of season 1 Beelzebub. That’s the Beelzebub I’d like to have fallen in love with Gabriel.

Season 2 Beelzebub has their own charm of course. The smirky trickster type is hard to pass up.

I’ll change the face on this blog, but I’ll keep the season 1 attitude.

Except with Gabriel. Because for Gabriel, Beelzebub can be soft.

[slurping-up-grass]

HES CALLED BIRDFORD; BIRDFOR D THE BEAUROCRAT

DO YOU LIKE MY CREEPYPASTA

[hobohobgoblim]

Things I am allowed to submit as . pdf online for my citizenship application:

Scans of my passport

Scan of my tax returns

Scan of my paychecks

Scan of my birth certificate

Scan of my residency

Basically ALL the things.

Accept one. One thing I have to go into a secure office and get a physical stamped copy of:

Proof that I've never received welfare.

Priorities I guess.

[descent-into-savagery]

Does anybody have any gabriel/beelzebub fic recs that do not involve sex? I've only managed to find a couple on ao3. Can be fluff/angst/whatever, I just don't want smut

[internerdionality]

I mean, yes that's a hilarious thought but also.

Gabriel's role is vastly expanded in Season 1 of Good Omens compared to the book.

(In the sense that he's not a character in the book at all, he's just like, mentioned briefly as someone Aziraphale pretty clearly doesn't have a great relationship with)

And like, a lot of that can be accounted for by the change of media; with the screen, you have to show rather than tell. The book has long stretches of expositional narration that can't all be changed into Godly voiceovers, and having Gabriel and Aziraphale interact is much better way of showing the general attitude of Heaven toward things, and the relationship that Aziraphale has with them.

But. One scene that Gabriel showing up during in the show, that he's doesn't take part in during the book, is the final showdown with Adam (and Lucifer, but Lucifer doesn't actually make it up to Earth in the book—Adam twists reality so that his human father shows up instead. Again, they chose to show rather than tell as part of the transition to the screen).

But the scene where representatives of Heaven and Hell come to try to talk Adam into going ahead with the Apocalypse is very much in the book, only in the book, it's Beelzebub and the Metatron. And that little moment where Gabriel and Beelzebub commiserate about their respective plights is also not in the novel, not in any form.

So, this was a really longwinded way of saying—I think that Neil was planning Beelzebub/Gabriel when he wrote Season 1, long before he actually saw his two characters interact on screen. And the people who started shipping it back in 2019 picked up on some of the way he was setting that up way back then.

neil gaiman being the original ineffable bureaucracy shipper is so funny because imagine watching a show and thinking 'i really want those two characters who had 5minutes of screen time together to kiss' and then realising 'wait i have the power to do that'

[crisalidaseason]

If I, theoretically, being the weird fucking historian that I am, wrote a fic set in ancient times -kinda have it half written in my drafts- representing Beelzebub as a deity and their encounters with a certain archangel, would you read it?

It would be a one shot only, but I am open to doing more parts in the future.

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[thatlonelycactus]

I’m going to sound literally insane but I have a theory about what the “ineffable plan” might be. Is it right? Probably not but my fevered brain feels like it has some merit to it.

Anyway, in the book Crowley suggests that “Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything. Some great big test to see if what you've built all works properly, eh? You start thinking: it can’t be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire.” and it is a quote that I’m quite sad didn’t make it into the show (I’m pretty sure). But back onto todays nonsensical rant: my proposal is- what if the Almightys plan is to try to make people/celestial/occult beings realize they need to work together and move away from the binary of being right or wrong. It links two of the major (imo) themes of the story in that a) it’s about connection and love and that and b) there’s no such thing as “good” or “bad” on a moral scale, there’s only shades of grey. What if the Almighty let the fall happen (as Crowley says earlier in the exchange mentioned earlier: “why did it happen, eh? I mean, it didn’t have to, did it?… Anyone who could build a universe in six days isn’t going to let a little thing like that happen. Unless they want it to, of course.”) to not only let the angels experience free will but to also let them learn, to work together, to love, to grow. What if they laced humans on earth with their range of morals beliefs, etc and showed how they, even when they are self declared enemies, can still work together? The most prominent point for the second idea is the bonds between Newt and Anathema, Shadwell and Madame Tracey, Beez and Gabriel, and obviously, Aziraphale and Crowley. I’ll talk about the witch/witch-hunter pairs first because I think the big thing here is that it all starts with humanity. Newt was essentially pulled into being a witch-hunter through circumstance, he never had any hatred for Anathema or any witch for that matter, it all just kinda happened (remind you of anyone sauntering vaguely downward???) but they’re both quick to accept the other for who they are. Shadwell took a little bit more time to realize that Madame Tracey was neither a witch nor evil. He just had to realize that they were both human and that she was, well, that she was kind. After realizing this, Shadwell began to change (def for the better), he left an order he had been with since the 60s because he realsied it was outdated and pretty much pointless in the scheme of everything, of humanity. I bring these two pairs because they remind me slightly of Aziraphale and Crowley, and Beez and Gabriel respectively. I won’t go into too much more detail but these relationships show that the hatred between heaven and hell is arbitrary, angels and demons aren’t hereditary enemies, they don’t even have to be enemies, they just decided that’s what they needed to be. These relationships prove that there’s more than just good and evil because I don’t think that any of us would refer to either Crowley or Beelzebub as “evil” nor Aziraphale or Gabriel as purely “good”. That’s what the Almighty is trying to get everyone to understand that there is no good, there is no evil, there’s just US and that’s the only side worth fighting for.

I have so many reasons why this can’t be the ineffable plan but yeah. Anyway that leaves me with one question: why did they do any of it? Whats the point of starting a 6000 year long conflict to show that the way you’d started it all out was best even though you were the one who ruined it? Whats the point of creating an entire universe and then planning to destroy it to prove this point?

Unless the universe was the apple in Eden.

Thats what makes it ineffable