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captainfantasticalright · 14 days

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You’ve probably seen this newspaper-style ad for Good Omens around! The Nice and Accurate News!

It features a series of headlines that tie in with the story from the book:

ANGELS AND DEMONS WALK THE EARTH!

Top Psychic Tells You How to Spot Them!

"I SURVIVED RAIN OF FISH!" -Trout tells of miracle getaway.

And just about everything else you can read.

Also a witty conundrum about its authors:

WORLD'S FUNNIEST BOOK WRITTEN BY TWO PEOPLE WITH ONE HEAD EACH!

Top scientists have declared themselves baffled by the astounding case of these two one-headed men. Not only do they not have any limbs or vital organs in common, but they have been separated since birth-which for Terry Pratchett occurred an amazing 12 years before the birth of Neil Gaiman! Even more astonish-ingly, they have written a book together.

"The Apocalypse has never been funnier," says Clive Barker, director, author, and famed celebrity of the Gaiman and Pratchett collaboration GOOD OMENS. "Their partnership has produced a riotous romp through Revelations, brimming with blissful daftness and wry one-liners." Incredibly, while they have between them two heads, four arms, four legs, and two torsos, these medical marvels don't look anything alike! (Full story and pictures inside.)

Someone who was selling their copy said this:

“I have never seen another of these, nor can I find any information on this very, very cool addition to the book. The book itself was given to me as a gift many year[s] ago and the paper was folded inside it. The paper is in perfect shape.As I said, this was given to me many years ago and I hate to part with it”.

This ad was apparently included during the first U.S. printing of Good Omens back in 1990 (by Workman Publishing Co.) as a promotional item!

I would love to know more about it. Perhaps someone here has more of these that they’d like to share!

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #good omens fun facts #good omens newspaper #workman #the nice and accurate news #clive barker #good omens first edition #good omens ephemera

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hansoeii · 9 months

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we go just right.

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dingledraw · 2 months

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Do you have any fanart you're willing to share? Love ur art btw :)

Thank you 🤗🩷I have some silly 1960s ineffable wives, that that I made months ago. I worked too long on it and ended up not really liking it 😅 but there are still fun elements to the drawings I think 😊

#asks🗣️#I will always love the newspapers I made tho 😂#my fanart #doodles #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #fem!aziraphale #fem!crowley #ineffable wives #aziracrow

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i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky · 8 months

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they love newspapers

+ snake vision bonus:

#couples that read newspapers together stay together; also no celestial observer/infernal times in s2 #good omens #goodomensedit #good omens edit #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #david tennant #michael sheen

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sentientsky · 5 months

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(oh newspaper archives my beloved)

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sighed-the-snake · 6 months

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Soul Music, literally.

From Kindle page 229, just after Crowley tried and failed to contact Shadwell, and now he's trying to distract himself in his flat.

Image text: Crowley gave up. He tried to read a novel, but couldn't concentrate. He tried to sort his CDs into alphabetical order, but gave up when he discovered they already were in alphabetical order, as was his bookcase, and his collection of Soul Music. Footnote: He was very proud of his collection. It had taken him ages to put together. This was real Soul Music. James Brown wasn't in it.

Image text: INFERNAL TIMES. SOUL MUSIC: Catalogue your collection of Souls?

My first reaction was awwwww babygirl is so bad at being a demon, look at his collection of SOUL MUSIC where other demons collect REAL SOULS.

But then -- Soul Music is capitalized. And listed separately from his music CDs. And it's emphasized that it is real Soul Music. And that James Brown is not in it.

Now I'm like...C-Crowley, is...is the Soul Music people. Did you put people in records like you put Hastur in a cassette tape.

CROWLEY. LOOK AT ME IN THE EYES WHEN YOU ANSWER ME, CROWLEY.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens analysis #crowley #music with literal soul #WHAT DID THE SOULS DO TO DESERVE IT #did they make passes at Aziraphale #did they make his angel baby feel bad #the other newspaper headline says Domination on a Low Budget #this is why I'm obsessed I just keep FINDING THINGS

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metatronhateblog · 5 months

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Duck Duck what the Fuck pt. 2, Featuring Not to Be a Bearer of News

Okay in my previous post [link here] we talked about the appearance of ducks and ducks with accordions in the opening sequence. Now I didn't really have too much to say except fucking weird, right? But now I'm going to start digging around in this a bit more.

Welcome back to what is the big deal with ducks.

To start off, ducks are verbally mentioned in this show... 4 times. (I'm pretty sure it's 4 but it's highly possible I'm missing something.)

Our first case is in Season 1 episode 1. At approximately 26:45 we see a transition to the park where Crowley and Aziraphale are having a meeting. The quote here is stated by none other than our narrator God. She states...

"Everyone knows the best place for a clandestine meeting in London is and always has been Saint James' Park. They say the ducks are so used to being fed by secret agents that they've developed Pavlovian reactions to them. The Russian cultural attaché's black bread is particularly sought after by the more discerning duck. Crowley and Aziraphale have been meeting here for quite some time."

This quote has always been...a little sus to me. Now if you aren't entirely sure what Pavlovian effect is, I direct you to a situation that you quite possibly experience yourself. Have you ever heard the sound of an alarm clock, or the sound you set your own alarm clock as playing outside of a setting that isn't meant to wake you up? Have you had this knee jerk reaction where you feel yourself tense and need the sound to stop and maybe even feel a little bit more awake because of it? No? If not you are beyond lucky.

A Pavlovian reaction is a conditioned response to something, in my known knowledge I think it's generally accompanied by a sound (apologies for explaining this so poorly, if anyone wants to hop in the comments and explain better I will love you so much.) For example, some farmers ring a bell or something to let their cows know it's time to eat. The cows then associate that noise with food and will probably expect to be fed upon any point of hearing that bell.

So in this case...ducks hear the whisperings of secret agents and know that it means they get fed. The more recognizable the noise, the better the bread. Hence the line that the more discerning ducks go towards the Russian cultural attaché. Kinda fascinating right? And also a weird way to describe the ducks...

Moving on the second time ducks are mentioned is by Crowley in season 1 episode 2. He makes a comment in regards to suspicions about him saying something along the lines of suspicions slide off him 'like water slides off of....what does water slide off of?" And then later on at some random point (pretty sure it's in the same episode) yells 'DUCKS! That's what water slides off of.' (I'm paraphrasing here because this isn't a quote I needed to look up cause I knew it in my soul.)

Now the phrase 'Like water slides off a duck's back' generally tends to mean that someone is unaffected by something. Whatever it is, they are unperturbed. Okay...another interesting way to look at ducks.

Our third quote is in season 1 episode 3. Crowley once again speaks to us about ducks when he's talking to Aziraphale about ✨insurance.✨ No not that kind of insurance I'm talking about the Holy Water. When Crowley and Aziraphale meet in the park in their little top hats in 1862 the conversation goes something like this...

Crowley - "If it all goes wrong, I want insurance."

Aziraphale - "What?"

Crowley, handing Aziraphale a piece of paper - "I wrote it down. Walls have ears. Well ,not walls. Trees have ears. Ducks have ears. Do ducks have ears? Must do. That's how they hear other ducks."

That's...and interesting little throw away line right there that Aziraphale ignores to tell him no. And maybe it is a little throw away line...or maybe we're meant to pay attention to it. Why else would they continue talking about something if they don't want to emphasize it. Twice is a coincidence but threes a pattern.

Which leads me to our fourth quote (continuing our pattern) being from Season 2 this time in which Crowley (I'm slowly seeing a pattern of how it's almost always Crowley talking about ducks, and who's the one who tells Aziraphale when they're being watched???) yells at some agents not to feed the ducks bread. Shax then asks him what you're supposed to feed ducks, and once again it isn't until later on in the conversation that Crowley says 'Peas. You give ducks peas.'

Feeding ducks bread is not good. But I'm not sure there's any other little meaning in here.

Now that we've got that out of the way. I want to mention The Other times ducks are mentioned, and to me it only seems to get weirder.

The first appearance of a mention of ducks in season 2...is the first time we meet Mr. Brown (of Brown's world of carpets.)

In our second episode, Crowley and Aziraphale have a meeting at the PuB in which we meet Mr. Brown (of Brown's world of carpets) who corners Aziraphale about holding the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association monthly? meeting. Buuuuuuut. We actually first see him BEFORE he comes over to Aziraphale. (Don't even get me started on the weird shit in the PuB)

Even here we can see he's got a something in his arm, which we quickly find out is a newspaper.

But notice how....whatever angle we're seeing him from, we can see the front of his newspaper? It's like a big flashing sign that says 'HEY LOOK AT ME!'

We even see him right here, moving towards Aziraphale while Crowley orders drinks. And what do we see? The front of the newspaper.

And he

spends

every

moment

showing us that newspaper.

And even better, tell me why it appears that Aziraphale is looking at the paper and not him?

And I know this shot is blurry but even as he leaves the PuB, he's still holding that newspaper towards the camera.

And then he's literally holding it in front of his face

Even when we see him days later!

So for starters. Why...why does he have the same newspaper over a span of multiple days. And more importantly. Why on Earth does it say 'Nebraskan Woman Taught Duck to Play Accordion.'

Now you might say it's dumb and unimportant. And normally I'd agree...if he wasn't flashing that newspaper around like a billboard.

It leads me to believe it's really important, but why I don't know. @lady-of-the-puddle and I are still agonizing over ducks and have yet to really figure out what significance there might be.

The only thought I have had....which seems so far-fetched I'm embarrassed to say it almost, is who, off the top of your head is the one person you can think of that would have the power to teach a duck to play an accordion considering they don't have posable thumbs....or hands for that matter?

If you said God then I feel a little less ridiculous...but also why would God teach a duck to play accordion. So not having anything to back that up or anything to further explore it with....But I feel like that might be thinking of the duck thing from the wrong angle since our most common discussion point about ducks seems to be them hearing things and all around being suspicious little feathered friends.

I have to say I am quite clueless on the matters of ducks but I feel they have to be important....

And don't get me started on newspapers...

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #good omens season 2 #good omens meta #accordion ducks #guess what though #the next part of this post series is ALL about the newspapers #because theres some fucky shit going around

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aduckwithears · 8 months

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That Mr. Brown's newspaper features the accordion playing duck mentioned in the novel.

Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (7/?) - Masterpost

#also #ducks!!#i would also dearly love to know what that other newspaper says #it is lit so clearly but i can't find a screen shot with high enough res #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #go s2 #little things #a duck talks #or plays the accordion in this case

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azirapherale · 6 months

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Check this out, in the Dirty Donkey behind Brown there's a man (is he though?) holding a news paper called "The Newspaper." That seems like a stupid name for newspaper.

Irrelevant side note, I kinda like how the weird shadow looks like a shadow puppet of a dog's head. Anyway, back to the paper, I'm not sure the "the" is even spelled right. Kind of looks like "th newspaper." Maybe it's to avoid using an IRL paper, but if that's the case, why's brown got a copy of the Metro?

Here's a list of UK papers

Despite "newspaper" appearing 187 times in the article, not one of them is called Th(e) Newspaper. There's just the now defunct "The Children's Newspaper" and The Torbay Times Community Newspaper that use(d) the word "newspaper" in their titles

Let's be more specific. Here's a break down of London specific papers:

"Newspaper" appears 22 times. No "th(e) newspaper." The closest we get is The Art Newspaper

So idk what's going on in this pub, but that seemingly fake paper seems pretty fake

#the newspaper #good omens 2 #good omens meta #the dirty donkey #lady bracknell's sherry times #observation

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iolatheviola · 11 months

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reading

#anthony j crowley #crowley #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley good omens #newspaper #digital drawing #drawing #procreate drawing #illustration

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theangel-aziraphale · 25 days

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i think you might need this. in case you need to whack someone. here.

🗞️

Thank you, sincerely. But only in extreme circumstances.

#And perhaps the lightest tap of a rolled up newspaper.#aziraphale posts #good omens #good omens rp #good omens roleplay #good omens asks #good omens askblog #go aziraphale #aziraphale #aziraphaleposting #good omens aziraphale #good omens 2

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ineffectualdemon · 9 months

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Is there anything as quietly beautiful as someone saving something because it made them think about another person and they want to share it with them?

"I saw this and I thought you would like it"

The most beautiful thing a person can say

#brought to you by my father in law sending us a newspaper review of Good Omens 2 #love #platonic #human connection #kindness #relationships

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littlenim · 9 months

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Aziraphale: I’m just here to get the ~skinny lowdown~ on that mysterious song that played itself on your establishment’s jukebox.

Crowley: I think I hauve Covid

#good omens #Aziraphale in that scene was just hitting us with banger after banger in this scene.. im what’s known as a Newspaper man #godddddd

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honeysunspots · 9 months

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“But you said it wasn’t [lonely].”

“I’m a demon. I lied.”

— @neil-gaiman Good Omens 2

A collage for Crowley and his emotions post season 2.

#art #collage #collage art #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #go2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #fan art #fanart #images collected from magazines newspapers books and occasionally things found online #writing is a mixture of things found on line and snippets cut out from my own work #aziraphales collage will be coming soon

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fuckyeahgoodomens · 11 months

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hello! first of all, thank you for being such a wonder in this community, I wouldn't know half of the GO news if it weren't for you :)

secondly, I transcribed the newspaper that Aziraphale is reading in the trailer, if that's of interest to you? (the question marks are where words are covered or cut off by the screen)

A strange phenomenon has got the locals of The Resurrectionist pub in Edinburgh scratching their heads and tapping their feet. For no matter what song they put in in the pub's jukebox, it will only play one tune: Buddy Holly's Everyday. Proprietor Mr Tulloch is at a loss to explain it.

"I took over The Resurrectionist over twenty years ago and the jukebox was installed by the previous landlord, and it has never given us a moment's trouble until recently. my regulars noticed that all the records seem to have changed into this Buddy Holly song? I'm quite partial to a bit of Buddy Holly myself but everyone in the pub is getting a bit scunnered of it, to be honest with you.

Asked what he thinks could be behind the phenomenon, Mr Telloch is completely stumped. "Of course, I naturally imagined that this was a prankster at first, but I've taken to sitting up all night and watching over the (???) whenever i put new singles (???) honestly swear that no-one(???) pub and yet in

Next column:

... 'Everyday'. I've had the engineer out umpteen times, but he says it's never been tampered with and can't explain it either. It’s cost me a fortune in visits."

News of the strange occurrence is beginning to spread and Mr Tulloch admits that people are starting to turn up at the pub to check it out for themselves. "I was worried at first that people (???) off. There is only so much

Next column:

of one song that (???). But now we're getting (???) wanting to (???) Maybe (???) for business (???)

Hiya! :) Thank you, yeah :)! Also had it in my todo list but there is so much wonderful things today! :)

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #the resurrectionist #everyday #buddy holly #newspaper #edinburgh #👀

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junoshusband · 2 months

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wow i love the baftas look at this dog david tennant had to pet sit

#HWY DOES IT LOOK LIKE A FUKING MUPPET #i dont evengive a shit about the baftas i just check the good omens tag like its my morning newspaper and saw it and i was like OH my god.#baftas #ramblings #i say this with unbridled affection btw i love the muppets. its a cute dog

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