#people coming out of the WOODWORK to defend this man. the urge to clown is almost irresistable.

[mincedpeaches]

Hey, can I offer an alternative viewpoint for Good Omens? Personally speaking, I'm ace, and I actually really like the way the love story played out in the show (and I, personally speaking, would have been disappointed if they'd actually kissed etc). The book was one of the few canons that spawned a lot of ace content and now the show has as well. Neil's said they love each other - they're just not male humans. That's not homophobic, and I'm personally quite happy the way their love was shown.

HI OH MY GOD HI

Good Omens discourse? On my blog? It’s more likely than you think.

Other tumblr users have definitely said this far more eloquently than me and I wish I had the forethought to reblog some of those posts at some point. But as far as I’m concerned it boils down to this:

Them being ace is a perfectly valid reading and I know that a lot of people online find that affirming. If someone on tumblr dot com says this, I believe them.

THAT BEING SAID, for people outside the sphere of tumblr and its ever fragmenting lgbtq discourse, they are not going watch the show with their first reaction being “oh wow, good ace representation, ey?” The war on male friendship or whatever is a discourse invented ENTIRELY by the terminally online. A lot of people who are NOT terminally online watching the show will read it as neither gay NOR ace. There are plenty of people that are not going to watch it and read it as a love story, and in fact would be very uncomfortable if that were made unavoidably unambiguous. (With say, for example, a kiss on the mouth. Or even like, be still my heart, holding hands.)

(Also side note, destiel experience tells me that a love confession is NOT enough for some people. They can and still will no homo that.)

So when Neil Gaiman, the man who is being bankrolled to make his show by noted malevolent corporate conglomerate Amazon dot com, says “teehee it’s a love story” but ONLY online where the terminally online live, and also with the caveat that they are not human so it’s not like that, you ever think about why that could be? You ever think about how that seems a little more like him and Amazon want to have their cake and eat it too?

I know the ace reading, I see the ace reading, but for Neil to validate the ace reading over others does not seem like an act of kindness to the ace community, only a happy side effect and silver lining of playing the field to keep as many viewers as possible.

They are not being homophobic and nobody on my reblogged post said they were, they are simply taking the easiest and most monetarily beneficial path. They did not do this for you. They did it because they want no backlash that could actually affect people watching the show.

And so while I am happy that someone found happiness in it, I will still be asking for more. While it DOES count as a love story for me and you and a lot of people online and probably even Neil himself if I’m not being cynical, I know that it easily didn’t for many others, and that is by design. And after destiel and it’s backlash, I just want everyone to be forced to see it. I want Neil and Amazon to prove me and my cynicism wrong.

Also like not to get into the REAL MINUTE of the lgbtq discourse but they could still kiss right. They could still touch lips and be ace. For me personally it is NOT about them having sex or expressing their sexual attraction. They are SO unsexy it’s embarrassing, I would probably die before I read a fic of them having sex or think about them having sex. It is literally about their love story being acknowledged in the canon text in a way that cannot be countered. THAT’S IT.