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A thing I'd like to see in Season 3
I love depressed angry divorcee Crowley as much as anyone, but have you considered this?
[The Scene: Somewhere Not in the UK. Aziraphale stands with a group of Rather Dubious Sorts, who he has come across by accident while attempting to…well, that’s a long story. They’re detaining him not-quite-forcibly and saying he’ll need to speak to The Boss before they can let him go. He’s clearly nearing the end of his patience.
A moment of silence. Then, music starts to play in the background.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[Aziraphale looks up, frowning slightly.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[The camera focuses on the wheels of a car, dark and menacing and taking a curve at a controlled but much too fast speed.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[The car screeches to a halt. The door opens. We see a dark, snake-skin boot, black with a single line of red circling above the sole like an inverted halo.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[As the chorus of “We Will Rock You” plays we slowly pan up from the boot to dark slim trousers, the edge of a black Burberry trench coat, a familiar oversized snake-head belt buckle. Above that is a Tom Ford-style shirt open to the abdomen, a slender V of skin revealed up to the neck, bracketed by lapels with a subtle paisley design in black thread. A throat, decorated by a silver chain. Jaw, thin lips, a prominent nose. Sunglasses.
The Serpent of Eden grins like the snake he is.]
Crowley: All right, lads. Ready to cause some trouble?
...all right, I just want a dramatic re-entrance with "We Will Rock You" playing in the background, but really can you blame me?
#good omens#crowley#ineffable husbands#scenes I'd like to see#overcompensating who's overcompensating not crowley#he's fine just fine he's FINE he said now bugger off#if Aziraphale expected him to still be moping around Whickber Street too bad#he is the Serpent of Eden and he DOES IT WITH STYLE#also he's fine#just fine#(he's not fine)#(but he does denial with style too)#(especially self-denial)
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Aziraphale: The Sword that Guards the Tree of Life
Looking where the furniture isn't
This post is dedicated to @meatballlady's excellent insistence that if we want to try to predict where season 3 will go, we need to look at where the furniture isn't. That is, what must have been there but wasn't shown?
For this one, my source material is going to be Genesis. That is, in no small part, because it does in fact fuck severely that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett took the angel with the flaming sword and the serpent of Eden and made them kiss (@joycrispy, @ouidamforeman). It's also because Genesis, quite simply, exists, and it seems safe to assume that most everyone in Gaiman and Pratchett's intended audience has been exposed to at least its first few chapters dozens of times.
What does Genesis tell us about Aziraphale's purpose?
3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
@joycrispy's analysis above highlights Aziraphale's role as given in the last verse: as the angel chosen to wield the flaming sword, he was sent down after Adam and Eve were expelled to prevent them from returning. Instead, he chose to protect them by giving that sword away. His desire to protect humanity is indeed beautiful (@give-soup-please, @snek-eyes).
But wait, what came right before that? "And take fruit also from the tree of life...?"
2:9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
That's right: What we see in the show is that Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden so that they'd have to deal with the rain and the animals and have to work for their food, but that was never the primary motivation. God planted two special trees, and after Eve and Adam ate from one of them, God was terrified at the prospect of them turning around and eating from the other. And thus, the Garden of Eden was made off-limits and set to be permanently guarded by an angel with a flaming sword.
So, the flaming sword.
Twice now, Aziraphale's sword has helped humanity survive complete and total destruction (@nottobehornyonthemain). The first time, he handed the sword to the first two humans, which protected not just them but the entirety of the human race via Adam and very pregnant Eve.
The second time, he let it be wielded by The Them, who used it to best the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse and save the billions of humans already alive as well as unborn generations.
Perhaps the flaming sword was only intended as a plot point in the first season. However, if its purpose were completed, it could have easily been destroyed. As a narrative piece, it could have broken dramatically at the end of the face-off against the Four Horsepeople. Or, Watsonianly, God could have chosen to break it Herself; after all, it was already used against its intended purpose twice, so why let it keep existing?
Instead, it's carefully taken away to... where? Heaven?
The place Aziraphale is now going?
Or at least a place where he could likely find a record showing where it's being stored?
Whether you call it "rule of threes" or "Chekhov's gun," I think it likely that Aziraphale will be getting his sword back in season 3. He probably doesn't want it (@createserenity, @ineffableigh, @doctorscienceknowsfandom), but he'll need it.
The question, then, is what would Aziraphale do with the flaming sword he was given to prevent humans from reaching the tree of life?
If we're looking at where the furniture isn't, the biggest stretch of an interpretation would be to say that the missing furniture is the tree of life. If anyone knows where Eden is, it would be Aziraphale, Guardian of the Eastern Gate. We know that both Heaven and Hell want to end humanity. The opening credits have humanity walking to their judgment after their deaths; what better way to prevent that than by preventing those deaths?
The most intense version of this theory says that the audience should be familiar with the story of the Garden of Eden and know damn well that there are two special trees there and that Aziraphale was put in place to guard the second one — the one humanity hasn't eaten from yet, the one that grants immortal life. That's where, if I were truly trying to swing for the hills by aiming at where the furniture isn't, I would ideally like to end this post. If that were the case, season 3 could even open with Aziraphale walking towards the Garden of Eden, sword in hand, but this time approaching it from the outside with the intention of tearing the wall down.
But, let's be honest, making individual people immortal doesn't feel like it would fit with the themes of Good Omens, nor with Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett's world views.
So, let's take the tree of life symbolically: Instead of the tree of life granting individual humans immortality, it could instead represent giving humanity immortality. In that case, the thing that's where the furniture isn't is Aziraphale's sword. You know, the sword that's already saved the human race from extinction twice now, with both times being because Aziraphale gave it away.
I suspect that the sword will wind up in Aziraphale's hands again in season 3. I also quite suspect that it won't be staying there. In the end, I expect it will once again be up to humanity to reach out their hand to take the apple from that second tree.
#good omens#good omens meta#good omens season 2#good omens season 3#aziraphale#the guardian of the eastern gate#the sword#the tree of life#self post#did i overdo it with the citations?#writing this activated Essay Mode and i went all in on crediting my inspirations#if i could draw this post would definitely include a picture of aziraphale stalking towards eden through the desert with sword in hand#because even though i don't think it's likely it would be one heck of an epic scene#with him tiny and small under that great wall but so so so fierce and determined#alas that i cannot even manage stick figures#anyway i've been kicking this post around in my head for two months now so hopefully someone still finds it interesting!#(feel free to make your own guesses as to what parent of unborn generations might take up the flaming sword in season 3)
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Hey everyone 👋 so this is my first time putting any of my somewhat mediocre art on here. (as if I draw all the time, ha)
Yes I know, it's been like over a month, but I SWEAR I started the sketch in October.
This is Day 17/Day 16 of Inktober, probably my first take in participating in inktober. It's not completely drawn with ink like it's supposed to...c'mon guys...let's be real...
Day 17 Demon
Day 16 Angel
I saw the prompt and I knew what I had to do.
What better thing to draw than Aziraphale and Crowley from Good omens right?
These two ineffable idiots have been living rent free in my head since season 2 came out...
This is also my first go at properly doing watercolor, color theory...yk, all that jazz...
Feel free to any advice, or tips (clearly you can tell where I got frustrated with the paint...mind that) it's not perfect but I'd like to think it's somewhere between mediocre....
Hope everyone has a frabjous day!
#inktober#inktober 2023#inktober day 16#Day 16 - Demon#Day 17 - Angel#inktober day 17#watercolor#drawing#art#artwork#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#crowley x aziraphale#ineffable husbands#the wall in eden scene#good omens season 1#go 1
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Era design doodles in no particular order
#goobied gabbad#more of these felloes UHG.#crowley's wings have always looked so thin in the eden scene...#aziraphale really is just moomin in funny clothes. i tend to gravitate more toward moominpapa in his design though#and personality#i also cant decide on whether or not this is an au or they just decided to be in the moomins series one day#ig with these designs definitely an au#good omens#good omens/moomins#aziraphale#crowley#bildad ur the greatest everyone was so wrong abt you.#goes for u too mr gardener (though hes not present)#good omens spoilers#? i suppose
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in the beginning.
#sorry for the repost#crowley#crowley good omens#good omens#aziraphale#aziraphale good omens#good omens fanart#good omens eden#eden crowley#aziracrow#aziracrow fanart#everyone has done this scene#it is MY TURN !!#i just finished my s1 rewatch
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Every fanfic writer after they post a new chapter/fic:
"Is it a bit shit?"
"Will they get the jokes?"
"Does it even make sense?"
"I should have done one more proof read"
Commenters slithering over to do their thing...
IYKYK
#writing fanfic#good omens fanfiction#good omens#ineffable husbands#writing#imposter syndrome#the fear of sharing#comments are life#aziracrow#crowley#aziraphale#snake crowley#garden of eden#this could have also been the 1941 scene#you know the one#the relief on Aziraphale's face when Crowley reassures him speaks to me#blessed are the comment writers#good omens fandom
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vavoom
peep me figuring out how i want to draw them because its always bothered me how small and lonely their wings look
like no offense to the wing animators on the good omens team because the wing animation is scrumptious but i just wish their wings were bigger. or that there were more of them.
also the only reason i drew them with halos is because i enjoy drawing halos. and also so that i could give crowley a halo that looks like the rings of saturn/neptune. whereas aziraphale’s is more like the halos in old medieval painting angel depictions
and yes the eyes on crowley’s wings are made to look like snake eyes. because i love design continuity.
#good omens#good omens season 2 spoilers#after that opening scene i think we can safely assume aziraphale fell first#but crowley definitely figured it out/accepted it first (eden scene)#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#vavoom#doodles
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Ineffable May: Day 1- In the Beginning
event by: @blairamok
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all the ineffable chaos...containted into one sticker sheet.
Coming soon to my store.
#good omens#ineffable spouses#ineffable husbands#aziraphale#crowley#eden scene#bastille scene#anthony j crowley#callus ran#artists on tumblr
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If there's not Hozier song in s3 of Good Omens, I will riot.
#Preferably From Eden#or Take Me To Church#ooor#angel of small death and the codeine scene#Good Omens#Hozier#Good Omens s3#Good Omens season 3
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Give it another week and there will be an angsty Aziracrow edit to every Hozier song
#and im here for it#from eden#all things end#the angel of small death and the codeine scene#sunlight#TAKE ME TO CHURCH#Hozier#good omens#ineffable husbands
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Actually you know what forget ep6
AZIRAPHALE FELL FIRST AND CROWLEY FELL HARDER
#good omens#that first scene has never left my mind#prefall crowley who was gushing about the stars#and aziraphale like 😳#cute baby alert!!!#and immediately falling in love with this sweet little angel#then crowley meeting aziraphale at the gates of eden and falling in love#both of them faling for each others humanity!!!!!#do you think crowley even remembered aziraphale then#do you think aziraphale recognised crowley then
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Hi! It’s empyrealbiscuit, the world’s earliest username. Anyways, it’s more Good Omens scenes! This piece may have been a total pain for me (Crowley has the skin tone of a zombie, when I was sketching Aziraphale’s face he either looked miserable or catatonic, I completely had to redo the shading on Aziraphale’s face because it looked off, at some point I flipped my canvas and Crowley looked like he was melting). Even if this piece was hard to do, I think it turned out okay in the end. Plus, it’s an excuse for me to draw Crowley’s hair as fluffy as possible.
Also, extra art:
I was bored and had nothing else to do. Sue me.
#art#illustration#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable idiots#ineffable husbands#scene: Eden#these beings are so dumb oh my goodness#why is lighting so hard#at least I can make Crowley’s hair ridiculously poofy#and that’s what matters
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I don't know how it would fit into the plot but if I don't get snake charmer Aziraphale trying to do some sort of magic trick with snek!crowley in season 3 then what even is the point of crowley being the serpent of eden?
#I'm joking but also please let crowley be a snake again#the wall scene in eden just wasn't enough#it's too cool not to use it again#good omens#crowley#thoughtsfromthequeen
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hello sir I've noticed you can see the pillars of creation in the scene before the beginning. I've found that it's about 5.5mln years old so I've been wondering if crowley and aziraphale have known each other for this long or is it something the humans have also been wrong about
The Good Omens universe starts in 4004 BC. But they spent a long time building it before they started it. So they knew each other for a long time before Eden.
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Nothing lasts forever...
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ID: Digitially painted Good Omens fanart; a series of one long strip of images cut into smaller images. The first panel reads "Oh Crowley", all subsequent images depict Crowley during a different era. The first is him as we see him at the season 2 finale, the second at the season 1 finale, the third as he appeared in 1967, followed by him in 1941 holding the gun from the bullet catch scene, then we see him as he appeared in 1601, followed by how he appeared in 41 AD, next is him in 33 AD during the crucifixtion, followed by him dressed as Bildad the Shuhite in 2500 BC, second to last is his appearance in 3004 BC before the flood and finally we see him as he appeared on the wall of Eden. The long strip of images is followed by a series of images showing angel Crowley; initially without wings and by himself, before we zoom out to see Aziraphale first looking at him and then glancing away with a worried expression. End ID.
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