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...en el jardín del Edén

🤍🖤🥂

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Dark Stork

Inspired by this poem by Space Giraffe, and with the crucial (Palpatine-style) moral support of @isiaiowin of course!

I've discovered in the process of finding ref pics for this that black storks freak me out - don't ask me why, they're just creepy.

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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Season 1 - Aziraphale’s present-day introduction

Season 2 - Crowley’s present day introduction

So in season 1, Heaven informs Aziraphale that something’s going on with Hell. In season 2, Hell tells Crowley something’s going on with Heaven. Is there a third version of this for the finale? (And why was the POV shot in the mirror important to show again in s2?)

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Checks hotel prices for one weekend in London:

One does not simply walk into the City.

> Unchallenged evil empire conquering nations all over the world

> Get driven back to small, dark region with terrible weather

> Build ominous tower with horrifying name and fiery glowing peak

This is "The Shard" in London right now boys. England is literally Mordor.

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chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

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Current role model.

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(Sorry if you were waiting for Aziraphale, I got sidetracked by an unexpected challenge - here's an unsolicited Shax)

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I don't think that The Kiss is the big reveal in The Final 15.

Neither is Aziraphale getting into the lift/elevator.

The very last thing we hear-- Tori Amos' cover of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"-- being the song Crowley hears in The Bentley?

That's actually the biggest thing in 2.06.

It's arguably one of the biggest reveals in the series to date. How so?

Because this moment canonizes that "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is not only a song that the show chose to play over the end of S1 for only the audience to hear... it is, indisputably, Crowley and Aziraphale's song.

This moment says that they have a song.

This moment says that their song contains lyrics about being "so in love" that "the whole world seemed upside down."

This moment says, without any doubt, that they're already a couple.

It exists in a way that completely undercuts any idea that the kiss that occurred a few moments prior was their first one-- even as the story is also designed in such a way as to lead some viewers to think that it might be.

This moment takes the heavily-evidenced-but-still-kinda-theoretical and makes it clear to the audience that they were correct about what they put together about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship to this song in S1.

It says that when we heard the pianist in The Ritz scene in 1.06 playing an instrumental version of this song? As we suspected, it wasn't a coincidence. As of 2.06, we can go ahead and see that bit of S1 for what it was-- that she was playing it because Crowley and Aziraphale had requested it, wanting to hear their song.

It says that those of us whose ideas that this song might have meaning to Crowley and Aziraphale based off of Aziraphale's "dine at The Ritz" in 1967 and the song containing the lyrics about angels dining at The Ritz, along with how much of a relationship conversation 1967 is, were correct.

It says that Crowley and Aziraphale have a song. A romantic one, with unambiguous lyrics about being in love. A song they already had prior to S1 because they requested it at The Ritz in the S1 finale. A song they already had prior to 1967, when Aziraphale was using its lyrics as shorthand between them.

In S1, Tori Amos' cover of their song was used non-diegetically over the end of the season-- meaning, only we could hear it. The characters could not. Clues existed that the song had meaning to them but we didn't have overt proof of that in S1.

We do now.

We do as of the end of S2, where the same cover of the song was used diegetically. It's now one that Crowley can hear as well as we can, as The Bentley plays it for him. Likely because Aziraphale asked it to. It now exists within the characters' story-- not just as music playing for our benefit over their story.

I think that this ten or so seconds of the song playing when Crowley gets into The Bentley are given to us so we can reframe our ideas of what is going on-- especially what was happening in The Kiss scene-- around this knowledge.

Like most of Good Omens' important things, it's a narrative magic trick. It's information relevant to what came before it that is only received later. Its existence then changes the context of the prior scenes and recontextualizes our understanding of what we were watching.

Right now, the audience is looking mostly here:

And, if they're not, they're looking over here:

And there's certainly much to look at in those both of those moments, for sure, but... the actual last moment of S2 is the big thing. It's the one that says that this isn't a story about a couple that has never gotten together; this is a story about a forbidden, secret romance.

They're a couple who has spent their existence pretending they're not one-- not to one another but to the world. The last few years? Not really, as Crowley said... but, also, not really openly, either. There's a South Downs Cottage with their name on it in The Finale, though...

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Hi,

Would it be ok for me to have a tattoo done of one of your inktober (day 28) drawings?

I've been searching for the perfect good omens tattoo for me and I just absolutely adore your drawing of their hands.

I will, however, completely understand and respect if you do not wish for me to use your drawing.

Thank you for your consideration.

Hi!

Omg, I am so honored, I cannot even articulate - to have someone put one of my drawings on their body, this is the most incredible compliment I've ever received in my entire life!

Please, go ahead and let me know if you think you would like a higher resolution of the image or something else that I can provide.

Thank you so much for this moment, you made my day. ❤️

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Man, why is it that every time I get a new fanart idea it starts as "this can be a simple smaller one, just to capture this concept" and immediately my alien brain takes over and now I need the freaking ceiling of the Sistine chapel to fit every single detail or I will have no peace ever again?

Help.

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Now one thing about me is that my absolute favourite part of Dante's Comedy is the relationship between Dante and Virgil, and the absolute most heartbreaking moment for me is when Dante is at the top of mount Purgatory, among the delights of the original Eden, and suddenly a celestial parade comes forward singing and Beatrice's soul appears, and he turns around to Virgil "like a little boy runs towards his mom when he is scared or sad" to tell him how he feels:

"But Virgil had left us deprived of himself, Virgil the sweetest father, Virgil to whom I had given myself for my salvation"

And Dante is so, so, so sad because Virgil - who had been with him since the start and had always been by his side every time he was afraid, or curious, or sad, or excited - left without saying goodbye, while he was distracted by the heavenly parade, and now it's too late - he is so devastated that "all the delights tha Eve's sin had lost us were not marvellous enough to keep me from crying".

And I mean, consider for a second the theological implication: at this point Dante has gone through literal Hell and Purgatory and has been "purged" of all his sins to be ready to finally visit Heaven, and he doesn't care anymore because Virgil is more important than everything else. Even Beatrice herself. Even Heaven and the possibility to finally see literal God.

And now.

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Guys I'm jumping on the mystery bus - I don't think I have the right ticket but the driver has a big smile and seems nice, I'm sure they're offering to give me a lift home (although I don't quite recognize the language, it must be a local dialect). See you later!

It cracks me up every single time that the announce for the replacement bus (for when the train doesn't work) says:

"The replacement bus is expected to depart from the expected departure point."

Like: yes? I guess? Can you maybe be a little bit more precise? Where's the "expected departure point"??

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It cracks me up every single time that the announce for the replacement bus (for when the train doesn't work) says:

"The replacement bus is expected to depart from the expected departure point."

Like: yes? I guess? Can you maybe be a little bit more precise? Where's the "expected departure point"??

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And the gift it's the proof copy of your paper with a ton of corrections since you didn't follow the style guide. Please return it by the end of the week. 😈

(100% authentic peek into my acrual real life in this very moment)

Thanks for the tag @crowleys-bentley-and-plants this is so cute!

No pressure tags: @hikarry @haemey @lickthecowhappy @unidentifiedlyingobject and whoever feels like playing along!

Found a picrew and I think it’s pretty cute.

Tagging a few people, idk.

@buried-in-the-archives @catatowastaken @silly-lil-scribbles @indelible-waltz @humanteethmarksonhumanbone

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So, apparently the Oxford word of the year is brain rot. I think we as fandom are 99% responsible for that.

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Yaaaaaay! Spooky issue y'all: go take a look if you dare...

Thank you for trusting me with the cover, my beloved @goodomensafterdark people, it's been an honor!!!

It's that time again! Wingz is finally here! Fall 24 - Hornz edition, comin' at ya.

Written by SaucySmutPigeon

Hi all!

Your dutiful Wingz magazine staff has once again put out (lol) another fabulous issue - Hornz!

It's got lots more of what you're looking for but this time with a devilish twist, cause you're into that sorta thing, apparently.

Huge thanks to those who stepped up to contribute to this issue. A handy list of contributors and where you can find more of their great work is here: https://wingzmag.com/fall24

Instead of listening to me yap, go read Hornz! Portable/mobile friendly version: https://wingzmag.com/issues/wingz-fall24-to-go.pdf

And as always, the full monty: https://wingzmag.com/issues/wingz-fall24-the-full-monty.pdf

Cheers, all! ❤️❤️❤️

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