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skelligiri · 7 months ago
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Sorry I'm posting previews out of order, couldn't make up my mind which video I should finish first! There's so much stuff coming this year and I can't wait to share it!
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wasleichtesart · 9 months ago
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Another quick sketch for @rareomens ! Today it's Shadwell and Crowley day! Wahoo.
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rareomens · 9 months ago
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Rare Omens 2024 Day 14
Crowley + Shadwell!
Happy Valentines to the good ship Shadley! What have they been up to in and since 1967? Share your Good Omens fanworks with them and tag us.
Post to the AO3 collection Rare_Omens, which we'll check regularly throughout the prompt month.
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thoughtsofafruit · 1 year ago
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Just rewatching good omens in preparation for s2, and can I just say
Young Shadwell is so hot, and for what?? Like damn young Shadwell
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snarky-synesthete · 2 months ago
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Okay so...the tags...
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So I have this fic...(twirling my hair) https://archiveofourown.org/works/54842371...it's locked to AO3 users so you'll have to copy-paste it yourself...but just for clarity's sake, it is NOT this super cute actors AU. In fact, it isn't an AU at all, even though it looks like pure crack on the tin. It's fully canon-compliant (although I've been calling it "canon-complicit" because it feels like a crime and I'm declared guilty by the repeated comments of "Oh my god, how did you make me have these feelings about goddamn Shadwell of all people?!"
But. If you're into the young version of Shadwell from the SoHo Holy Water scene...young Witchfinder Lance-Corporal Shadwell...may I offer the above fic for your consumption? I'm actually quite proud of it.
(And if anyone happened to be inspired to do art for it, blanket consent is given for all my fics...)
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I'm just crazy about the actors AUs...
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abczine · 6 months ago
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It's here! 🌍 The Above, Below, and Common Ground Zine, featuring our fave cast of Good Omens characters, is now available!
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ineffablyruined · 1 year ago
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Good Omens + Text Posts
Bonus: The Earth is a Libra
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fellthemarvelous · 11 months ago
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What if we get to Good Omens 3 and realize that Good Omens 2 just deadass happened in the middle of the Second Coming and everyone has been waiting for Aziraphale and Crowley to catch up with the program?
And just when they think they might actually be getting somewhere, Az and Crowley hurt each others' feelings and go their separate ways while everyone is facepalming in the background because these two lovesick dumbasses still aren't paying attention.
The Them and Adam are just standing there pacing or tapping and Anathema and Newt and Madame Tracy and Shadwell are all like "well someone is going to have to personally drag them over here kicking and screaming and it's not going to be me" and Jesus is like "can someone please explain the zombies to me?!?" 😱
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suzypfonne · 10 months ago
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Oooh, young Shadwell... You are so pretty.
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Good Omens | 1.03 Hard Times
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rareomens · 11 months ago
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Is there a rare pairing that you'd like to see most during Rare Omens month? 👀
Oh yes!
This event was built initially bc I not-so-secretly wanted more '60s Crowley + Young Shadwell! (Or 70s, 80s, etc lol) I thought it was lovely, this idea Crowley might enjoy time with this young man. Enough time that he left an impression where, in 2019, the Sergeant is sitting there telling modern Crowley, "How's your father? You resemble him very much." He asks after the presumed Elder Crowley, and remembers what he looks like enough to see the clear similarities (🤣) of the Younger Crowley. How long did they work together before Crowley had to cut ties!? How did that go? When he and Aziraphale are talking about reaching out to their own "agents", he mentions the Witchfinder group as though he is in regular enough contact to have them get on finding the boy with ease, and indeed Shadwell is there the next day for him. So were there phone calls and letters for other assignments?!?
*brain runs away with all the questions and possibilities*
And that's just canon curiosity. Long before the fanon shipping possibilities haha
Anyway.
I love them.
But, the event is absolutely here for any possible combo of characters who don't get nearly as much as they deserve.
One pairing I was sad I couldn't fit in the final list but I hope we'll see in "Pairing Not Listed" day is Shax + Muriel. I think in a less Second Coming plotline, those two as the new Earthly Representatives of Hell and Heaven would enjoy similar chats together like A and C did, about how their progress is going. Comparing notes! Finding what they each like about Earth and don't want to see destroyed! 😊
Thanks for the question. I really love rare pairs and will happily talk and talk and talk. 😅 I hope others get inspired this month! There's so many fun characters across both series!
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humbledragon669 · 5 months ago
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S1E5 – The Doomsday Option Write Up P1 - Saturday (The last day of the World) up to "the wiggle on"
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Let’s just get stuck straight in with this episode, shall we? Because that’s exactly what the episode itself does – we’re not really given any clues to remember where it is we’re picking up from (and given the way the previous episode’s events were stitched together, that’s a little surprising). So what do we have? Crowley, looking stony faced, driving in his usual fashion. Oh, and the Bentley has chosen to play Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend�� as he speeds around London’s crowded roads. Maybe there is a little clue there after all. And when things are made more explicit for us, we’re shown that Crowley is trying to reach Aziraphale:
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Aside from the fact that the number has been labelled as Aziraphale’s “work” number (which makes me wonder if there’s also a “home” contact somewhere in Crowley’s phone), the picture in the background is one of flames. I’m pretty sure Crowley wouldn’t have done that himself – it’s my thinking that this is foreshadowing for him, so it’s no wonder he’s driving as fast as he possibly can to get to the book shop.
Moving on, to Crowley’s entrance into the bookshop. There are two things I’d like to pick up on from his actual entrance. The first is that we see him miracle the door both open and closed, but for the first time there is no accompanying miracle noise, of any variety. There’s the noise of the bell on the door ringing, but no miracle sound effect. This is perhaps simply because there’s a lot of other noise and music going on at the same time, but it just struck me as odd because it’s different. The other thing I want to pick up on, which is still to do with the soundtrack, is that the Bentley’s choice of music follows Crowley into the bookshop, now playing in an off-kilter way via a warped record on Aziraphale’s gramophone. I think this opens up a really interesting can of worms about the reason behind pieces of music transforming into something else, but I want to give it some proper thought and time so I think I’ll write a dedicated post about it.
Now, the collective heart of the fandom breaks more than a little bit when Crowley storms into the bookshop screaming Aziraphale’s name without considering his own safety, right? How about when, for the first time in the season, refers to Aziraphale as his best friend in an angry tirade of abuse once he realises he’s not there in the shop anymore? The fact that he somehow senses that Aziraphale isn’t there is one thing, but have a little think about this: if it hasn’t already occurred to you, this will be the first time in 6000 years that Crowley has rushed to Aziraphale’s rescue and been too late. That particular gem of understanding came to me as I was writing this, and honestly it destroyed me more than a little bit. Crowley’s ability to sense Aziraphale’s absence however allows him to move straight from denial to anger in the stages of grief, and boy is he pissed.
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Right before we go into the opening credits for this episode (is this the shortest opening sequence for the series? It’s less than 2 minutes long!), we see Adam again, and there is no doubt that the Hellish powers that reside within him are taking control. If the glowing red eyes weren’t enough (I’m sure his eyes would have matched Dog’s if he hadn’t already eroded all the evil away from the Hellhound), the colour has all been washed out of this scene. It feels really grey and quite lifeless, in contrast to the bright and natural tones from previous scenes in the same place.
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Now, Crowley’s exit from the book shop. As with his entrance, there’s no miracle sound as the doors open or close. Perhaps more importantly, it doesn’t actually look like Crowley does anything to close the doors as he leaves the shop. There’s no clicking of the fingers as we’re used to seeing – those doors close entirely on their own. Forcefully. There’s maybe a slightly forceful shoulder movement that coincides with the doors slamming, but that could just be Crowley’s signature swagger. Food for thought I think, it might be something I’ll look into in a bit more detail when I explore the music stuff I mentioned earlier. And speaking of music, how truly appropriate it is that we’re now treated to Queen’s “Somebody To Love”? Because with Aziraphale gone, Crowley has nobody to love anymore does he? And he is devastated about it. So devastated he takes his glasses off in public (which I think is the only time we ever see this happen).
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As an aside, I noticed a couple of frames during this rewatch where the sign above the door of the bookshop is slightly obscured, and you can only really make out the “C” of the “Co”.
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I’ve known the sign says “A.Z. Fell and Co” for a while, and wondered what the purpose of the “and Co” part of the title was (because of course we know that there are no other business partners involved in the running of the book shop), but it was only on this rewatch that the penny dropped. Having an “and Co” at the end, if you shorten the title to its component parts, gives you “A and C”. And didn’t I feel like a dumbass when I realised that one. It’s been staring us in the face the whole time, written above the bookshop entrance – a declaration of the partnership. I do not believe it to be a coincidence that the name written on the sheet for the telemarketer later in the episode is Cowwley, providing a further connection to the “and Co” reference. And did you notice the response Crowley gave the firefighter when asked he was the owner of the bookshop?
Do I look like I run a bookshop?
Oh Crowley. He didn’t ask you if you ran it, he asked you if you owned it. More food for thought.
I don’t have a lot to say about the next scene with Shadwell and Madame Tracy, other than to point out that we have another instance of the episode title being referred to within the scene itself – Shadwell refers to himself as “the Doomsday Option”. And although we have a direct reference to the lurid pink whip that he finds buried within the mountain of soft toys (and you have to love the whipcrack sound we hear on exiting this scene to go with this discovery), nothing is ever said about the fluffy pink handcuffs equally hidden in plain sight:
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Quick question about Aziraphale’s arrival in Heaven. What’s the issue with his leg? As soon as he tries to walk on it, he calls attention to it in what appears to be pain. Not only did we not see anything happen to his leg in his discorporation scene, but technically he no longer possesses a body and in theory shouldn’t feel pain at all.
Do you remember all the way back in episode 3 when I mentioned that Aziraphale was the only one of the angels to be wearing any sort of colour or pattern, indicating that it was perhaps his own personal touch rather than part of a Heavenly uniform? No? Well, let me refresh your memory:
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Well, now that he has arrived in Heaven without his human body or clothing and somewhat against his will, his trademark tartan touches have disappeared. His clothes are all varying shades or white and cream, with no colours or patterns, further strengthening the point I made when I brought it up previously. And regardless of how unwillingly he arrived in Heaven, it appears that his superiors were always adamant that he was going to be turning up – they’ve allocated him a platoon. As much as I know that Aziraphale can be an absolute kickass when he needs to be, the idea of him being in charge of soldiers at war at this point just feels laughable to me. And his confused expression would suggest he feels the same way.
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And perhaps the reason Aziraphale was limping towards the dispensing table after his arrival was because he doesn’t seem to know he is no longer in possession of an actual human body?
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We’re about to get something we’ve been waiting for for quite a while. Aziraphale has finally come to terms with the fact that he isn’t on one particular side just because that’s where other beings expect him to be.
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These couple of lines say so much to me about where Aziraphale’s morality lies at this moment in the timeline. He cannot renounce his angelic nature – it’s what he is after all – but he can reject what other beings believe that nature should consist of. It must hurt him to declare himself a pathetic example of what he is, particularly when he has always prided himself in actually being a very good example of a Heavenly being, of being “Good”. And we as the audience know that his nature is more in keeping with what we would like to believe Heavenly beings would be like – compassionate, caring, and kind. But really it’s Aziraphale’s free will that makes him all of these things – the one thing he told the archangels in the previous episode was something that wasn’t for angels, only for humans.
One last thing about this scene, and I’m sorry (not sorry), but it’s sound related again. There’s a little harp glissando and accompanying noise (two in fact) in the soundtrack to signify that Aziraphale has had an idea. It’s not dissimilar to the noise we hear when he does a miracle. I don’t think there’s anything important about it, I just like to draw attention to the little details sometimes.
What I do think is important is that Aziraphale’s realisation is that the powers of angels and demons are not actually very dissimilar, and may even be the same. It’s not really highlighted too much, but ultimately I think the main difference between the powers that angels and demons have isn’t capability but intent.
I’m going to skip quickly over the next scene in the woods because… well, see, here’s the thing. I don’t like it when things… don’t look right. I know, I know, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Let me try and phrase it a bit better. The shots of The Them when they either don’t have a mouth or where their smiles are stretched too far for their faces FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT. Like, remember when people had those filters for Snapchat where they switched faces? That was a dreadful time for me. They didn’t look right. So I don’t like this scene in the woods. Let’s move on. Quickly.
Now we all know how much love birds get in this series. Ducks, swans, nightingales, even the occasional lark. Which is why my attention was drawn to the singular bird singing in the background during the scene in Anathema’s bedroom. It stood out to me because it wasn’t that long ago that a tornado was blowing right outside the window, and now you can hear a bird singing (if you listen really carefully). I am no birdsong expert, and I can barely hear it as it is, but if anybody can figure out what kind of bird it is, I’d be interested to know. It might be nothing, just some ambient noise from filming, but birds offer such prominent subtextual meaning in this series I’m not sure. Birdsong aside, the discussion between Anathema and Newt raises an interesting point for discussion around Aziraphale’s perception of humans having free will because it would appear that Anathema doesn’t have any – her entire life is lived by writings put down by a descendant hundreds of years previously. I suppose we could argue that she has free will in her choice to follow her pre-destined destiny instead of fighting it and making her own decisions, but I think it’s pretty clear that Anathema doesn’t feel like she has a choice, and that’s really what’s important.
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Alright, let’s go find what Crowley’s up to, shall we? Well first off, he’s just ordering his third bottle of Talisker. Not glass; bottle. Which the landlord appears to be very happy to serve him despite the fact that he is absolutely shitfaced. And that he’s ordering it by the bottle. We see Crowley at his most vulnerable in this scene, only really equalled in the Final 15, but at least here his vulnerability is cushioned with a big cloud of drunkenness. We do learn a few things about Crowley’s fall in his drunken ramblings, not least that he was bored in Heaven. The way he sees it, he just joined up with a couple of the cool kids to ask some questions about his job. There’s actually a little bit of extra dialogue in the script book about this:
They say, hey, Crowley, my man, we’re just on our way to discuss the whole job conditions and career advancements thing.
That’s not quite how Heaven tells their side of the story – according to them it was a rebellion with an accompanying war. I’d quite like to know which side has a more accurate memory of the events. Either way, Crowley’s verbal spewing at this point shows us how genuinely destroyed he is at what happened to him as a result of his questioning. Hearing his voice crack during “sulphur” tears me to pieces every time – it’s genuinely devastating. And the way he says Aziraphale’s name when he sees him “sitting” right across the table from him (his arrival announced with one of those stock miracle noises you’ll notice)? How much joy and hope (and love)? Something you can see mirrored in Aziraphale’s expression in the reflection in Crowley’s glasses.
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It's pretty obvious that Aziraphale can’t see Crowley in this scene, which just makes the angst run that little bit higher. But at least they can hear each other, and the first thing the angel says sounds almost like an apology:
I’m afraid I’ve rather made a mess of things.
His next thought, despite being extremely short on time to avert Armageddon at this point, is to determine whether Crowley has left without him or not. It’s pretty clear he doesn’t really want to ask the question, fearful of the answer I suspect, and what it would mean for them. Crowley’s got this handled though: a bit of nonchalance to try to cancel out the grief he’s really feeling.
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Good job Aziraphale can’t see his face crumple at that point isn’t it? Can’t do much about the voice thick with tears though. I’m not ashamed to say that I misheard Crowley’s line the first time I watched this scene, and when I listened back I’m not surprised I misheard, because to me “lost” in this line doesn’t sound a million miles away from “love”. Deliberately contentious or not, Aziraphale definitely clocks the use of the phrase “best friend”, and you can see (and hear) how touched he is, because Crowley really can only be talking about him.
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The angel deals with this revelation in the only way we Brits know how – by putting on a stiff upper lip, ignoring the sentimentality, and getting down to business (well, he is trying to prevent the end of the World I suppose). Poor Crowley is having a genuinely terrible day at this point isn’t he? First his attempt to rescue Aziraphale failed for the first time in 6000 years and now he has to tell the angel that his beloved book shop is burned down. The expression on his face shows how sorry he is to have give Aziraphale the bad news:
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Oh, it’s genuinely awful watching Crowley trying to avoid saying the words that he knows Aziraphale will be destroyed by. Hardly surprising when you consider the look of utter devastation on Aziraphale’s face when he asks if it’s all gone.
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Crowley tries to find a positive to balance the negative out with, desperate to satisfy Aziraphale’s pleading, but knows there isn’t one. It takes him three attempts to give a simple “yes” answer. And just as we’re all about to start sobbing uncontrollably at this uncharacteristic display of emotional availability from both the angel and demon, spurred on by the horrible injustice of it all that Aziraphale can’t see Crowley and the world being about to end, the mood is lifted at exactly the right moment by the demon’s uncontrollable joy that he, somewhat miraculously, took the one book that he needed as a “souvenir”.
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Happy as Aziraphale is that Crowley has the book, it’s pretty obvious that he wants Crowley to be proud of him for working everything out, but Crowley is so desperate to get to the angel that he misses his prompt. It’s very reassuring for us to see that they settle back into their old dynamic of not really listening to each other, and feeling mutually very comfortable with that, regardless of the pressing circumstances and the painful encounters that they’ve been through together in the last 24 hours.
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate that Crowley doesn’t wait to be asked to help Aziraphale, or hesitate to pick up his mantle as knight in shining armour? He tells the angel that “wherever” he is, he’ll go to him. That is one devoted demon right there.
And so we arrive at what I think is probably my favourite exchange in the whole of this season. I’m actually not going to delve deep into this interaction because I don’t really think anybody needs me to spell out the double entendres screaming from the subtext here. I tried, multiple times, to put into writing what exactly it was about this little handful of lines that I love so much, and every time I tried I just felt like I was devaluing the whole thing, so I’m just going to put a GIF here instead and you can watch it on a loop as many times as you like (I certainly have). Obviously, there’s no sound, but if you’re anything like me, you can probably hear the soundtrack in your head anyway.
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That feels like a pretty good place to stop for this part to me. As always, questions, comments, discussion, all welcome. See you next time 😊
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seedsofwinter · 2 years ago
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This is what Lance Corporal Shadwell wants us all to believe. Oh sure, he's got the skills. Keeps them sharp throughout his life, clearly, 'cause it's hard to get work with his record. And burglary was certainly part of it, the harassment from the cops, the targeting. Very good cover, that.
But he was absolutely in jail for gay crimes.
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom (citation 1967 c. 60). It legalised homosexual acts in England and Wales, on the condition that they were consensual, in private and between two men who had attained the age of 21. 
Only got oot a wee bit ago. Sorry, he told me himself.
(/jk. Or am I? That scene. That timing. Everything is meant. You decide your own headcanon, mates!)
(forgive me, Neil.)
Hello Mr Gaiman,
I was rewatching Good Omens for the 1000th time and I eventually noticed that in episode 3, when Crowley is organising the mission to steal holy water, Shadwell speaks about a jail's mate. I was wondering, for what charge Shadwell was in prison?
Burglary.
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ineffablelvrs · 1 year ago
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mommyashtoreth · 7 months ago
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good omens characters reacting to you asking for their pronouns Go
Best ask I've ever gotten. Anon I love you
Crowley: Is a she/him and KNOWS she's a she/him, but when asked will always vaguely wave a hand and say something to the effect of "oh, y'know, whatever," regardless of his current gender presentation, and will always judge the person asking based on what pronouns they use after that. I know this because we are very much alike in this regard
Aziraphale: Is also a she/him but is more precise about "matching" pronouns to presentation. Says he/him in guymode and she/her in girlmode
Every single other angel and demon character (Gabriel, Beelzebub, Michael, Uriel, Muriel, Furfur, Shax, whoever): Do not understand that pronouns, even neutral or neopronouns, are something that needs to be asked about and not immediately intuited. Mostly because they haven't really interacted with too many new people in a couple thousand years
Anathema: Has she/her/hers in her email signature
Newt: Doesn't really think about it and would say something like "um. the male ones? I guess?" which is your sign to POUNCE and turn that boy into a he/they
Shadwell: Would kill you, quite frankly
The shitty British children: Pepper would say she/her and none of the others would answer
Maggie: Has she/they on her workplace nametag, which she would proudly point to
Nina: Would go like "Huh? Oh, like, whatever." For character foil purposes
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judgeverse · 2 years ago
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the humans have some suggestions
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local-apollo-kid · 11 months ago
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Was reading back through the copy of Good Omens I annotated and some of this shit I wrote was UNHINGED
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THIS IS FROM ABOUT 15 PAGES ONLY
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