#omens tidbits

[viscerast]

everything would have been fine in mm14 if they just got mile a blanket send post

[fournets]

evelyn evelyn Jay and Tim Song

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Ball in Good Omens Season 2

(with some photos care of Anna Maryan, Andrew O'Neill, Maggie Service, and Donna Preston)

[milstrim]

@riathedreamer i have not stopped thinking about chapter 32 it actually broke me thank you for this amazing fic it keeps me going

[youryurigoddess]

The angelic (and, by extension, demonic) mating behavior doesn’t differ that much from the intricate courtship displays performed by birds.

[professionalbalbberer]

I have a new dead boy detectives obsession did I tell you that yet lol

[rollforjackass]

okay so i reread the good omens script book trying to look up a quote i remembered and i kept writing down the things that i absolutely loved about it, so here's just a list of all the quotes and moments that rewired my brain chemistry

aziraphale sasses the hell out of crowley about his antichrist birth organization skills

aziraphale saying “oh sugar” instead of oh shit...

first appearance of everyday by buddy holly, we all know how that turned out

aziraphale doesn’t know how an ansaphone works. this was in the book too, but it’s still funny, especially considering how in radio omens he at least knows about caller id

aziraphale brought shortbread for the drive to the convent. did he think it was a date? please say yes

crowley asked aziraphale if heaven wouldn’t give him (crowley) asylum and aziraphale was going to ask him the same about hell

aziraphale says “what the hell” after pointedly not swearing earlier. hypocrite ass

aziraphale is fine with killing the antichrist himself but gets upset about the humans killing each other at tadfield manor....more tasty hypocrisy. he thinks he can only ever do the Right Thing but he knows it's Wrong when anyone else does it

“aziraphale is rather enjoying having the upper hand in the ideas department for once”

crowley says “dude. chill.”

“for a moment his noble better nature rejects the idea out of hand. THEN HE FALLS...”

“aziraphale is softening. they haven’t spoken in a hundred years: he’s realizing they are still friends.” gets me every time i look at it

why was shadwell in prison?? america explain

“i work in soho, i hear things” patron saint of soho confirmed

i still think that the neon halo blinking on and off above aziraphale’s head is the HARDEST that neil gaiman has ever gone and that we deserved to see it in the final cut

"michael: when your cause is just you do not hesitate to smite the foe, aziraphale." i'm thinking thoughts about the s2 finale under this lens; when your cause is just (saving the love of your life) you do not hesitate to suffer for pursuing it

“crowley looks back. he looks at aziraphale. above them, a beautiful starry sky. and crowley softens.”   jesus janthony christ.

“aziraphale is looking for someone. he spies a human statue dressed as an angel, with wings. it’s not him.”   GOD

gabriel about aziraphale: “i’m disappointed in him. not thinking like an angel.”

crowley “looks up, and talks to god, in the classical fashion.” see i really want a script book for s2 because i want to see aziraphale's expressions of faith plucked out a little bit more

crowley in the cinema: “he’s waiting for the end of the world. out of time. out of hope.”

the fact that crowley saw aziraphale walking down the street and left dagon on read is priceless

aziraphale looks hurt after crowley says he won’t even think about him

the music for the gavotte scene was recommended to be “i am a courtier grave and serious” from gilbert and sullivan’s the gondoliers which is PERFECT

“aziraphale is heading down the street, looking harried and as if he is carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. which he is.”

sandalphon says “you know how we treat traitors in wartime?” to aziraphale and there was meant to be blood on aziraphale’s lips after sandalphon punches him. death to sandalphon

“why would you do this? we’re the good guys.”

aziraphale (resolutely not swearing): you. you B…AD angels.

“seducing women to do your evil will!” “i think perhaps you’ve got the wrong shop.” still the campiest line delivery i've ever seen

we don't need to speculate about crowley being in tears in the burning bookshop because according to the script he is canonically right on the verge of it

“right. i’m done. i’ve had it. i don’t care about any bloody angels or humans or anyone. i hate you all. somebody killed my best friend, and i don’t even care who did it. bastards, all of you.”   😭

when aziraphale is discorporated, his heavenly appearance is all his normal clothes but gleaming white

aziraphale: i have no intention of fighting in any war. “all angels on the floor turn and look at the angel who has said the unsayable.”

aziraphale can’t actually see crowley in the bar scene…he has no idea how wrecked his best friend is

aziraphale doesn’t take sugar with his tea. bastard

aziraphale crosses his fingers under the table when answering shadwell’s nipple question

aziraphale is wearing madame tracy’s pink motorbike helmet in the mirror of her scooter

they describe crowley’s suit in the burning bentley as “interestingly ripped”...........we were robbed of a crowley boob window moment and i'll never forget

aziraphale introduces crowley to madame tracy as “he’s…well, we’re sort of business associates.” you know, like a liar

aziraphale was fully about to murder adam. i don’t think i can stress this enough

aziraphale pokes himself to make sure he’s solid once he’s separated from madame tracy

aziraphale isn’t threatening crowley with the sword, “just making his point that he can do dangerous out-of-character things if he needs to.”

crowley: what if the almighty planned it this way all along? from the very beginning aziraphale: takes a drink from the bottle of wine

aziraphale looks like he’s going to cry when crowley reminds him that the bookshop burnt down 😭

aziraphale-as-crowley looks depressed 😭 he still thinks his bookshop is gone

the angels kidnapping crowley-as-aziraphale zip-tied his hands those dickheads

aziraphale-as-crowley: my friend! they’re kidnapping my friend!

the hit hastur gives aziraphale-as-crowley would have killed a human 0/10 wahoos

“the van with [crowley-as-]aziraphale in it drives away, and [aziraphale-as-]crowley tries to crawl after it.”   HEY NEIL I JUST WANT TO TALK

crowley-as-aziraphale says “what fun. i love a barbecue.”

i am literally ENRAGED that sandalphon was like “hell yeah you can hit aziraphale” to the minor demon who brought the hellfire i WILL throw hands

uriel calls it a barbecue too those fuckers

in the script uriel and sandalphon have their flaming swords drawn, so it wasn't going to be as insidious as expecting aziraphale to walk into the flame of his own volition. but they didn’t end up including it in the show, so it is that insidious after all

aziraphale-as-crowley keeping his socks on for the bath was such a choice

“he doesn’t actually have a newspaper and a cigar, but damn, he’s enjoying himself in his bath” 

i've seen so little talk about how absolutely ice cold aziraphale is in the bath scene with the whole “so you’re probably thinking, ‘if he can do this, i wonder what else he can do’? and very, very soon, you’re all going to get the chance to find out.” BECAUSE THAT SHIT IS TERRIFYING

aziraphale-as-crowley: michael. duude.

crowley and aziraphale both get out of their own elevators and meet up to walk out together which is poetic cinema

PIGBOG AND THE OTHER MOTORCYCLE IDIOTS THAT HUNG OUT WITH DEATH WERE GOING TO BE INCLUDED i miss them

[babbelswoofominides]

GOS2 SPOILER BEWARE

Spoiler for the beginning of ep 1 of s2 of good omens

final edit: It’s from an official interview (wheew I can stop feeling bad for having possibly inadvertently posted unofficial spoilers), it’s a very spoilery interview, link for it is under the cut! So really, don’t open unless you’re ready to be spoiled for real, I can’t beware you enough!

CAN I STRESS ENOUGH HOW THIS IS AN ACTUAL SPOILER??? JUST, ARE YOU SURE? THEN SCROLL AT YOUR OWN RISK... .

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH i KNEW IT!!!! Gosh I can’t believe I actually got something right! It’s even in my bingo omens!!! I knew that it couldn’t be the first time they’d met! In that ‘first’ encounter Aziraphale asks for Crowley’s name in a way that is almost like they had actually met before but Azi had forgotten his name, like people usually do (I know I do).  And in the second time they meet in the cold opening, at the ark, Crowley immediately goes “Aziraphale! How did the thing with the sword go”, meaning that was the first time they met again since the wall, but Aziraphale had never told him his name! How did Crawly know Azi’s name? Sure it could have been exchanged after Azi shielded Crawly from the rain, but I had this feeling that it seemed like they were already familiar with each other, what with Azi going “Of course you stirred up trouble, you’re a demon, it’s what you do”. Not “your lot does”, “what a demon does”, what YOU do. Like Azi and Crawly already had some squabble over doing good and evil. And also, let’s be honest, if they had never met before and knew they could kinda trust each other, would they have been so dumb as to confess to each other to not being professional? I mean, if Azi didn’t have a modicum of trust in Crawly already, why would he have told a demon, an enemy, that he had given his sword away, making him vulnerabile to a demonic attack? Nah these two definitely knew each other before the wall, maybe even as angels! And Azi asking for Crawly’s new name is actually because he lost his angelic name and now he goes by Crawly and Azi wasn’t up to date, or kept calling him the angelic name out of routine. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense these two have known and possibly trusted each other well before the wall. I can’t wait to see when was the first time they actually met!

[nasa-is-shaking]

Aziraphale and Crowley are walking somewhere when they pass a snake charmer doing their thing and Crowley’s like oh this would never work on me I’m too tough & strong-willed, but then after a few minutes of staring he starts to sway a bit, Aziraphale’s like ok time to move on and drags him off

[kreinvulon]

i made up my mind to give orivyn a pet raven — a hatchling he originally thought was a crow ( cause the baby rolled a nat20 in deception/j ), and i think it would be funny if it just cursed at people. since corvids can mimic human speech, she probably picked it up from orivyn himself, or companions. which is funny, since he appears quite modest and rarely curses. around others, at least

he’ll be attempting to give instructions, or directions, etc etc, and his raven will just curse at the individual he’s speaking to like “what the fuck”, while vyn gets all flustered. great stuff imo

[natasha-barton]

It has probably been pointed out already but I’d like to say again that i find it very funny that it’s such a popular theory that Crowley was Raphael before he fell because in the German translation Aziraphale is called Erziraphael. „Erzi“ coming from the term „Erzengel“ which means „Archangel“. And, well, „raphael“ meaning „Raphael“. So it’d be Archangel Raphael. Meaning in German Aziraphale basically is Raphael

[viscerast]

i reversed it and i still dont understand it # aud o procnessing disorde rFUCKK

[fournets]

someone remind me after i finish my final today (in like 2 hours) to draw hornet cats again

[agoodomenssideblogiguess]

If David Tennant can't see for shit behind the contacts and the sunglasses, how the FUCK did he catch that coin in the 1601 Globe Theatre scene in Season 1????

[ineffablymanic]

Last Line Challenge

Tagged by @slurpi13

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

I'm awful at keeping with the rules so instead of a line have a whole darn scene idea I wrote yesterday before falling asleep!!!

Crowley turned to leave. “Yeah, I know. Nothing left to say, as per usual.” Aziraphale's voice was silent and frayed. “It never was about changing you, Crowley.” Crowley didn't turn around, but he did pause. “Then what?” For a moment he thought nothing would follow, until he heard a steadying breath. “Do you know what I’ve treasured the most during my stay Upstairs? What has kept me motivated?” He waited. “Your smile.” Somehow Crowley didn't snarl. “You've made that clear.” “You didn’t lose it, my dear.” Aziraphale continued after a puzzled pause. “You’ve kept it hidden. Safe. When you achieve something everyone bet against you– when you successfully defy your predestined conviction and instead of destruction you create something marvellous, the look on your face Crowley–“ The angel’s breath hitched. The rain outside kept on pouring, but some sun rays peeked through the clouds. “I want to free your joy. I want to gift you the freedom to show it, unhindered. It’s... It's the most beautiful thing I know.” Crowley turned in time to see Aziraphale's eyes drop down to his fidgeting hands. His timid smile faltered. “I can’t– I won’t let you leave without knowing that.”

imma tag @veridisquo00 just to see what you come up with! 😁

[youryurigoddess]

Listen. Hear that? The nightingales have returned

And the South Downs National Park authority was so kind to inform us about it on Twitter earlier today.

You can listen to the full audio here.

If you plan to actually visit and hunt them down with your phone, remember that nightingales like to hide in dense scrub and woodland, singing from deep cover — it’s usually much easier to hear them than to see them!

And since only the first birds have just arrived, you may have better luck in a week or two. In the meantime you can read this meta on why it’s such a big deal anyway.