#we could have been us

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I good omens but i've never watched it

i've never seen good omens but it's all over my tumblr dash so this is what I've gathered can someone please confirm if i've got it right

there's a demon named crowley

there's a biblically inaccurate angel named aziraphale but like it's very sexy when the demon calls him 'angel'

the demon and angel have been married for 6000 years and they still keep looking at each other all sappily

Neil Gaiman is somehow involved, I think he's the writer but also he's on tumblr (uh, @neil-gaiman) and people keep questioning if he's real

is neil gaiman like a fandom inside joke why is everyone asking if he's real

there actors are called michael and david and amazon prime thought they were the same

there is a bookstore and crowley is sad

they kiss and it is very nice and desperate and crowley says we could have been us. i have no context for this. someone is going to heaven i think.

there is a god, i'm not sure if they're good or evil though

the demon wears sunglasses

it's a comedy but for some reason everyone's crying after whatever the last season was, are you guys okay

things are on fire

they are very gay

there was a book and at one point they switch bodies

more fire and crowley screaming

they are called ineffable husbands i dont know what that means

they fight crime or they do crime or they fight crime by doing crime i really cannot remember which

gay

[koboldkind]

I cried at a park yesterday. I'm sure the secret agent reading his newspaper on the bench next to The Bench appreciated it.

[haemey]

"We could have been... us."

What if "us" wasn't only "us together" but also "ourselves?" What if Crowley was telling Aziraphale that they could have had a chance at not having to hide not only their relationship anymore, but also their being "just a little bit a good person" and "just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing?" What if that's the whole point? They weren't doing a great job hiding their relationship before, but they both still guarded their true selves very closely.

With Gabriel and Beelzebub gone, with Heaven and Hell without leaders, no one to care about them anymore - they could have been... them.

[shades-o-grey]

"I got carried away..."

[thekingofspin]

Where have I seen this before???

oh yeah:

[procrastiel]

Stolen from twitter (x)

[yallimasnake]

was feeling angsty and decided to rewatch the kiss scene, and somehow forgot that I had my speed set on 0.25x.

was NOT prepared to be hit with slow mo Crowley slurring "weEE COuuLD HAaVE beEEENn......... ........ ............. uuuUUSSS."

[kinoritik13]

Messing with the Book of Life?.. It’s not tickety-boo at all, Metatron. Obviously.

[xrequiemm]

Idiot…

[el-cheung]

We need to get away from them, just be an us.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt III good omens but i STILL SOMEHOW haven't watched it (and i'm increasingly passive aggressive)

i'm now basically held hostage adopted as mascot by this fandom. it's fine i'm fine *SIGNALS FOR HELP DESPERATELY*

Alright fuckers I swear this time I'm going to get some shit right. Without further ado, here's my third attempt at a good omens summary:

Everything everywhere is queer all at once

Angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley on earth likey each other

The car is a bentley and it is BLACK not silver and everyone is very upset about this. my bad yall it was reflecting light therefore i guessed more silver than black but I'm not Anish Kapoor take your black.

Then it is yellow, and aziraphale likes it. crowley preferred the black because he's a flamboyant emo.

God is a deadbeat absentee parent and you are all children of divorce.

There's a naked archangel and they cause problems for the husbands somehow. By being naked? By being an archangel? By being at their doorstep? Who knows not me

They were actually married for 6000 years, they just are the last to know about it.

Crowley is on fire. Like, he's slaying for sure, but also he is literally on fire, like Aziraphale's bookstore.

The actors like I said before are Michael Sheen and David Tennant but this is the place where I finally admit that I don't actually know who is whom. I'm going to assume Michael is Aziraphale because Michael sounds angel-y and David is Crowley because uh Michaelangelo made David and was gay for him.

Terry Pratchett is not fictional.

He co-wrote the book with @neil-gaiman, who IS fictional, because he does not have social media. Several of you have assured me that he is in fact a fandom inside joke. I like to think he would be proud of me.

They adopt a preteen and Crowley gives him bad advice.

At some point a baby was delivered to someone and was exchanged for the son of Satan. Idk if the baby is the preteen, or the son of satan is the preteen, or neither. This could be a fanfic, I have no way of differentiating the fanfic from canon on tumblr, except that the canon is weirder.

Crowley does not go down a chute. He goes down a telephone cord after making himself microscopic to pole dance on a pin with shroom-induced backgrounds.

During this his stage name is Disco Tony. Get it king go slay you're making better life choices than I am tbh.

Aziraphale is a biblically accurate angel, and you have all gone to extensive lengths to prove this to me. I understood nothing, but there you go.

It's all very queer, just like the fandom.

Crowley is a retired demon but he still sins by breaking the speed limit.

They eat at fancy restaurants and bicker but like in a sexual undercurrent way.

Crowley gives Aziraphale a private dance that is not a lap dance, it is an apology dance, but not in a kinky way, until it is.

Their haircuts keep changing and range from 'this is acceptable and gay' to 'i let a drunk chimpanzee take gardening shears and a blowtorch to my hair'

It's all ineffably queer my good fellows

Everyone keeps trying to convince me Neil Gaiman is the villain yeah no guys I know it's really you. Y'all be like 'SEASON TWO BROKE ME' and then you're making headcanons to make it sadder yeah I see you mmhm.

There is a final fifteen. It is sad. What is it? No one told me.

The demon turns goats into crows and the angel turns them back and then children are turned into newts (does the angel turn them back? who cares not yall) and the demon was the snake in the Eden garden and everyone's furry game seems to be on point.

There are a rather lot of children. I have not seen them. But I am assured they are there. They are, guys. I assume they were turned into the alcohol Aziraphale and Crowley drink or something.

There was an apocalypse plotline. It was averted. It is not important. You don't talk about plotlines in this fandom, no sir.

Crowley doesn't want to go to heaven. Aziraphale is sad.

The kiss is not nice, just like this fandom. It is queer, just like this fandom. It is sad and desperate and masochistic, just like this fandom.

Aziraphale doesn't want to stay back with Crowley. Crowley is sad.

Season 2 ends. Fandom is sad.

Everyone's sanity is hinging on the promise of a happy ending in season 3. Good luck guys.

Y'all better appreciate this. I can't even boast to my mother about this legacy of mine, hey mum your son has been held hostage kidnapped inducted into a cult adopted by a fandom he's not part of look he's winning at life.

[xuugu]

"I missed you"

[impala-in-gotham]

Good Omen S2 Thoughts

Meant to post this much sooner but here goes...

This entire season has been chocked full of the geography of Whickber Street. From having Gabriel walk down it, meeting Crowley at "the coffee shop over the road" from the bookshop, where the Bentley is parked multiple times, the Street Association Meeting, Crowley making it rain scene, etc etc. The map is established. Now in this part right here:

The WHOLE time Aziraphale is second-guessing and physically backing away from the offer, he continuously looks out the window. When he's trying to think of what he needs to bring with him, he is looking out the window. When he decides he has everything and starts to walk away, he doubles back again. And why does he look out the window the whole time instead of the bookshop?? Cause he's looking at Crowley!

We see in the next scene, Crowley is by the Bentley in front of the coffee shop, waiting for him. That is what he wants to bring with him. That is what he doesn't want to leave behind. CROWLEY. It doesn't show us what he's looking at cause its already been thoroughly established what view those windows have.

[kinglet1963]

I'm obsessed that Crowley says "us". "We could have been...us"

He's not saying "we could have been together" because they have been for millennia. He's not saying "we could have been in love" because they both know they already are. He's not saying saying "we could have been happy" because - firstly, Crowley is realistic and doesn't believe in happily ever afters - right now, he doesn't know if they could be; not when he believes Aziraphale, the man he's finally admitting is the love of his life, is abandoning him after everything they've been through

He says "us". "We could have been US" because he knows they are already everything they need to be; they're already perfect. They're already together, they're already in love, and they have been happy for centuries. He isn't asking for them to change their relationship, he's asking for everything to stay the same.....except that they FINALLY be honest with one another.

He says "us" because it implies an established relationship, one he doesn't want to lose. One he thinks he's about to. I don't think he would have used that word if Aziraphale hadn't just announced he was leaving, he would have said all those other things they already are; this is his plea, his desperate begging for his love to reconsider.

"You idiot! We could have been... us!" He's not stumbling over his words, he didn't hesitate because he didn't know what to say.

He's begging

[uukipi]

Staples this on my forehead bc!!! Holy shit dude!!!!

[kitoblob]

Got a little emotional at Chilis