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thanks for the tag - @your-catfish-friend @carlos-in-glasses @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad @sugdenlovesdingle you're all queued :)
have some sentences from my latest fic i posted? i apologize for being annoying but i really really love this one :)
(also check out this gorgeous art to go along with it by @whatsintheboxmh here 🧡)
“Hi, sweetheart, how was your day?” Carlos kissed his husband’s cheek.
TK shrugged, “It was all right. I’m just tired.”
“Are you hungry? Do you want dinner?” Carlos asked.
“Eh, not yet. I just want to relax with you.” TK placed a hand on each of Carlos’s cheeks and brought him in for a kiss. “I missed you.” TK smiled, sleepily.
“You saw me this morning, but I missed you too.” Carlos took TK's hand and intertwined their fingers and led him to the couch. Carlos laid down first and TK crawled on top of him, laid his head on Carlos’s bare chest, and nuzzled in, and shortly faded into slumber.
read the rest on AO3
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#to anyone who had already read/left kind comments ily <3#911 lone star#seven sentence sunday#tarlos#tk strand#carlos reyes#tk strand x carlos reyes#this snippet is so sappy. but what can i say. i am a sap.#if you saw the typo for before i fixed no you didnt
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with your hand in mine
#ohsama sentai kingohger#kingohger#king ohger#giramie#jeramie brasieri#gira husty#thank you for the recent photos. i am now however fearing for my life this sunday#uuggh i Know jermy is super sappy abt hand holding and just loves looking at his bugnarak hand in giras human hand GAUUAHHH#my art
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being around my best pal and her boyfriend who’ve been together for ten years makes me think like… maybe love is real? because ten years in to being together they’re silly and gross and deeply in love and I can’t wait to have that for myself
#in which i ramble#not to be sappy on a sunday#but love is a beautiful thing#I can’t wait for it to be my turn etc
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So I wrote a tiny buddy daddies ficlet so maybe I’ll post that this week? It was inspired by the newest official art and how soft I am for Rei disabling himself for his family ….
It’s only 4 sentences bc the ficlet is very short, but I hope you enjoy.
Rei didn’t regret it.
Pressing the barrel of his gun to his right arm and pulling the trigger without a second of hesitation.
Permanently disabling himself.
It had saved his family, had saved him, and that was more important than the use of his dominant hand.
#it’s not much but it’s honest work#buddy daddies#rei suwa#six sentence sunday#miri unasaka#have not been able to write at all so I’m happy I was able to do this#it’s pretty sappy for me but it’s cute#I guess I need some kind of title though…#not kuro#snippet#poi writes#fluff
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Seventeeth Day of Gift-Giving: Snow Day
Prompt: tossing someone in a snow pile
In which Aleksi is a struggling dog-daddy, Olli his loving little helper, and Rilla the Queen of the Entire Universe and an Honorary Member of the Trade Union of Dachshunds (TUD) 💖
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“Come on now, Rilla, don’t be like that.”
The look on Rilla’s dark brown eyes as he glared at Aleksi told him she was, no doubt, going to be like that.
“Hey now, I promise it’s not going to be too bad. It’s just a bit of snow. And it’s even plus degrees!”
“I fear that’s exactly what’s concerning her,” Olli offered as he leaned against the kitchen door frame, still munching on his breakfast slice of bread and butter. “I can imagine getting wet snow stuck in one’s fur doesn’t feel nice.”
“So you’d rather she poops on your hallway rug then, huh? Rilla, let’s go!”
Knowing exactly which strings to pull to get her way, Rilla ignored Aleksi’s pleas and padded over to Olli who awwed, his mouth stuffed with rye bread, when Rilla pawed his feet with her furry one.
“Look at her! She just wants to stay in for snuggles.” Olli crouched to scratch Rilla behind her ear. Rilla, in turn, wagged her little tail, over the moon about Olli’s attention and understanding.
“You’re ganging up on me now? She’s barely been outside these past couple of days!”
“You’re one to talk…”
Olli’s remark was justified, Aleksi had to admit, but in his defence, he had had many good reason to stay inside most of the time instead of adventuring in the cold and the snow, such as Olli’s lips kissing his, Olli’s hand caressing him all over, Olli’s eyes looking at him with so much affection Aleksi didn’t know was even possible, and Olli’s cock grinding against his own, to mention some.
Rilla, however? She stayed inside on days like this only because it was encoded in her; Aleksi knew dachshunds in general could be particular about the weather conditions in which they’d be willing to do their walkies, but Rilla was definitely in her own league. Besides, Aleksi was pretty sure there was some kind of Trade Union of Dachshunds (TUD) that sent word to its members about upcoming drizzles and dropping temperatures, reminding them they may be entitled to compensation if their humans as much as suggested they stick their delicate little noses outside in such circumstances.
“Well, maybe it’s high time all of us go get some fresh air for change, for a proper walk to make sure she does her business, instead of just turning back at the end of the street. And perhaps we should go the opposite direction this time, to avoid her getting stuck staring at the hare that’s not even ther…”
While Aleksi talked, Olli kept petting Rilla and feeding her pieces of his bread while Rilla kept wagging her tail and happily accepting the modest treats, neither of them even bothering to pretend they were listening anymore.
They were lucky Aleksi loved them both so much.
~*~
Rilla wriggled in Aleksi’s arms as he tried to brush her stomach free of snow by the front door of Olli’s house. She had only agreed to walk to the nearest bus stop, grudgingly like any self-respecting dachshund would, stopping every five metres to give Aleksi the evil eye for so cold-heartedly forcing her through such a torture. She had done her business, though, so in Aleksi’s books the walk was a success, and turning back home, Rilla had suddenly been dashing through the snow with no worries whatsoever (another model example of typical dachshund behaviour).
“Stop it, Rilla, I’m trying to help you!”
“What if you hold her while I take the snow off?” Olli suggested, his hand already reaching towards Rilla’s snow-covered underside.
“We can try…” Aleksi muttered, not entirely convinced Rilla was up to being manhandled by them both. That was why his surprise was great when almost no lumps of snow remained on the fine fur on her belly after Olli’s gentle brushing (and with only minimal grumbling from Rilla).
“Good girl,” Aleksi praised her. He waited for Rilla give to her fur one last shake of her own before letting her inside. Probably remembering the traumatic event Aleksi had put her through, she rushed to the fluffy blanket she had appropriated as her napping spot and rubbed herself against it for a while, after which she settled down with one last death-glare at Aleksi. Then she closed her eyes.
“Wanna go outside for a bit more? The thaw’s feeling so nice.”
Aleksi was going to say yes anyway, but Olli’s warm, hopeful smile only settled his decision, and as if he needed any more persuasion, Olli pecked him on the cheek for giving an affirmative answer.
They were barely out the door when Olli tackled him to the soft snowdirft and began scooping snow on him, his bright laughter and Aleksi’s own yelps of resistance filling the air. The surprise attack and the shock of cold snow on the exposed parts of his neck left Aleksi breathing heavily once Olli was done terrorising him and settled for just lying on top of Aleksi, his eyes twinkling from the smile hiding behind his woolly scarf.
“What was that for?”
“For being so stubborn sometimes.” Olli leaned in to leave a small kiss on Aleksi’s mouth. “You’re so independent and strong and I respect that, but I hope you’ll also let me help you with stuff every now and then.”
Aleksi looked into Olli’s eyes, so sincere and tender. He had to blink an extra couple of times to keep his own dry.
“Because I want to help you. With Rilla and… with anything I can. I know it won’t be much, with me living here and you…” Olli’s speech trailed off, as if he, too, was already dreading Aleksi’s return to Helsinki looming in just a few days and hoped that if he didn���t say it out loud, it wouldn’t happen and the physical distance between them wouldn’t exist.
Aleksi didn’t want to hear it either, as pointless as it was to ignore it. For now, however, all he wanted to do was cherish the time they still had left.
As he hadn’t really prepared for Olli to say such things while pinning him down on the snow, Aleksi had no means to answer. The best thing he could think of at that moment was to lift his head enough to close the gap between their mouths, hoping it would do the trick in letting Olli know just how much he appreciated his words.
Then, as suddenly as Olli had jumped on him, Aleksi flipped the man off himself and paid him back in his own coin, laughing when Olli laughed, kissing him back when he pulled on Aleksi’s scarf for their mouths to meet halfway.
#blind channel fanfiction#blind channel rpf#24 days of gift-giving by theflyingfeeling#ollixallu#just some domestic and sappy nonsense once again 🥰#posting this a little earlier today to brighten up y'all's sunday#tomorrow's another standalone as per the voting result 👀
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To those followers and moots I never interacted with, but constantly reblogging and liking my posts or reblogs?
Thank you 💋
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Stay for coffee?
#Q'ruhka#art#maybe i should have... saved for sunday?#eh need posting serotonin now#i want sappy/spicy couples art but this will have to do#*gnaws on thigh*
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went out for an early birthday celebration last night
my feet hurt so bad from dancing in heels, got asked to be a third by some hot lesbians, the girl i’m talking to was getting freaky, ended the night with canes
had sm fun, i love partying, i love my friends, i felt all the love last night 🩷
#nini gets sappy#now i’m crawling to work#i got the goddamn alcohol shivers tho fuck me man#happy sunday everyone#<333
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Good morning today I am thinking about Jason Todd and Dick Grayson bruised and bloodied and having filthy life affirming tornado sex about it. Probably there are some intimate things said they may or may not admit to later. Probably their first I love you comes a year or so after they both know it. Probably it takes a near-death experience. Six seventeen a hundred near death experiences. This one wasn't even especially terrible, but in the wake of it is frantic, desperate, violent. Probably Jason says it first, like a threat, with a don't you fucking dare Dick not ever you've got no fucking right to die on me I won't let you, and maybe again grumpier and softer into the rapid pulse in Dick's sweaty neck. Probably Dick says it back, fingers digging into the sharp wing of Jason's hipbone, probably pulling Jason's face from his neck by a tangle of damp hair so he can kiss his bruised mouth again. Again. More. Never stop. Never stop, he never wants this to be over, this is it he can't lose this he won't this is it this is it Jason is it. And it's been true for months or years and it's true out loud now. Nothing's changed, but it's true out loud now.
#jaydick#waffling about#I just love them y'know?#they're just good#have some tiny ultra sappy *blows raspberry* of a Sunday morning
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Extremely blessed and grateful to have a circle of mutuals here who are so so so incredibly talented and wonderful, truly. It's always an absolute delight getting to see how everyone's doing in real life and what they're thinking about regarding their muse[s] and just seeing everyone having a lovely time on writing / talking about who they're passionate of while interacting with those they're content of. We do hope you all hold so much pride in your portrayals and / or original creations because it is always breathtaking to see what people can create and expand on and develop. Even if you may feel like you're not doing good enough or you're doing too much, you will always have many people who enjoys both your blog[s] and your presence so much.
#[ ✨ : it's Sappy Sunday as well oh stars :< ]#[ this is coming on a more personal note now but ]#[ thank you all so so so much for giving us and our original canon and Starwake System the chance ]#[ we've been feeling a lot more happier and comfortable on here lately and it's just ]#[ honestly such a rare feeling when our emotional detachment and ongoing amnesia makes it so hard ]#[ for us to be able to maintain connections and interact with folks consistently ]#[ also it is beyond scary to be openly plural ]#[ given the cautiousness or / and lack of understanding in dissociative disorders ]#[ but it just feels right for us to be so ; hence here we are ; still even with the anon hates ]#[ there's just a lot of factors that'd make us so grateful for being given a chance ]#[ like writing an OC ( many subfactors even for this like them not being white ) or having complex original lore etc ]#[ but you all get it ]#[ so it's just very lovely getting to interact with our mutuals in some ways to some degree and seeing you all thrive ]#[ just thank you so much everyone for being a wonderful friend and person. 💖 ]
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Can I just say how wonderful it is to see so much love/appreciation being shared in the community today? Man, this is the stuff that keeps me writing is all of YOU. I know sometimes people feel like their comment or re-blog or anonymous ask goes unnoticed, but I can promise you it doesn’t. Every single writer on here absolutely loves when people interact with our work, (big or small) I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I get when I post a chapter and immediately wait to see everyone’s reactions 🥺 if I could do this full time and not work in the silly corporate world, I 100% would. I love coming on here after a stressful day and just getting to escape and talk about my fics and all my new ideas. I have made so so so many friends and if I could bundle you all up and give you the biggest hug, I would in a heartbeat.
Thank you thank you all for being here.
Thank you to the veteran writers, and the new.
This little community is growing day by day, and I am so grateful to be a part of it 🤍
-Gi
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Seven Sentence Sunday
Tagged by @spotsandsocks @dickley-buddie and @hippolotamus thank you loves!
Here's a little snippet of Eddie's first meeting with Buck and Chim in my fantasy au.
A man swaggers out, clearly from the Adrein Isles, hands on his hips and a cocky grin plastered across his face.
Tentatively, Eddie reaches out, brushing lightly against his mind, trying to get a sense of him and his intentions. He senses nothing but confidence and amusement, underlined by a deep and haunted weariness.
Why would he be sent to retrieve a royal delegation?
As Eddie ponders over this stranger’s importance, another man stumbles out of the doors, tripping over incredibly long legs. “Godsdammit, Chim,” he mutters under his breath which makes the other man chuckle.
The second man is… well, he is beautiful.
Tagging @ajunerose @prettyboybuckley @lostinabuddiehaze @elvensorceress @monsterrae1 @buddierights @swiftiebuckleys @swiftiediaz @spaceprincessem @shortsighted-owl and anyone else who wants to participate!
#buddie fic#buddie fantasy au#fic: red life might stream again#ive finally gotten to where buck and eddie are interacting and these two such sad sappy idiots#ryan writes#seven sentence sunday
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Sometimes I look at the word count for Nie Wirst Du (104k currently) and I think about how over 150 people have read it and enjoyed it and some of these people have become regulars in my inbox and I look forward to hearing their thoughts every week and I have a slight moment of… what the fuck?
Not helped by the fact that around this time last year I was in the finishing stages of my Master’s thesis, my flat was infested with moths so I had to evacuate and go live with my parents for a few weeks, I had no idea what I was going to do with my life and things were just kind of a mess overall.
And about a year later, I get to look back and realise that the decision to see a random musical in Vienna sparked a chain reaction of positive changes that continue to this day, have led to me forming real and beautiful friendships with people I would never have met otherwise and probably even became the deciding factor for me applying for the job I have now.
I mean. Come on. What the fuck?
The only thing wilder than this would be if I end up doing a PhD on Rebecca and/or it somehow leads to me meeting the love of my life. At this point I’m not ruling out either of those.
#life stuff#my fic#i will not apologise for the sappy post#it is Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting on the balcony writing#in a quiet neighbourhood in a town I quite like#which is a luxury I couldn’t have imagined last year#work may be exhausting and a huge learning curve#but overall I think I’m happy??#it’s nice
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morality in the world of good omens
so i wrote another (admittedly very messy) essay on good omens not long ago right after watching season 2 but after finishing that, rewatching all of both seasons multiple times, and reading through the book, i have a couple more distinct ideas to get out...somewhere...if only for my own sanity. this is me throwing my thoughts into the internet before i pop, if you will. just 3 sections, below the cut.
1. environment, characters, & transformative fandom creations
to start this post off a bit more broadly, i've been thinking a lot recently about transformative fandom and the reasons why we write fanfiction/create semi-original works in the first place, as well as why certain aspects of fandom (writing, art, analysis, etc.) will be more appealing to me for certain shows/series than others. correct me if you have a totally different view of this, but in my experience i've found that i tend to naturally gravitate towards different parts of fandom depending on what the original medium of the story was- podcasts tend to lead to some of the most interesting art trends, for example, since there's more room for interpretation and character design tends to be more of an ongoing community project than something set in stone like for a tv show with live human actors.
in my own observation, i've noticed that a lot of the really big & excitable fandoms, the ones that generate tons & tons of fanworks more naturally (a.k.a. just because of the story itself & not other factors like a pre-existing franchise or hype about new great gay representation, etc.) tend to surround stories that fall into a kind of "sweet spot" that makes the creation of fanworks really appealing. if you've ever wondered why there are so many ravenous artists bending over backwards to draw gorgeous fanart for stuff like homestuck or south park or even minecraft youtubers, it's likely because those stories all fall into a sweet spot for drawing, with character designs that are recognizable at a glance and yet still simple enough that there is plenty of room for personal creative touches. (think also, if you're familiar with such kinds of homestuck terms: hyperflexible mythologies, A4:1524, and/or this archive link cause the official thing is down now for some reason)
the conclusion i've come to is thus that even something as basic as the original medium of a story can dictate a lot about what kinds of fan activities are more common or popular within said story's fandom.
so, back to good omens- for me, this all relates back because of a question i've been messing with in my head recently, about why i've been less interested in fanfiction for good omens than i have been for the last few fandoms i've been, almost all of which have basically broken my ao3 bookmarks.
this question has been fucking with me for a while now, largely because i'm not entirely sure what's motivating it. a lot of times i can figure out pretty easily why i might personally not be interested in some parts of fandom, but that's not really the case here. from what i've seen this fandom seems to be pretty mixed in terms of age, & the writing that i have read is certainly no worse than i've seen elsewhere, perhaps even better in some places- and yet, i can't seem to get entirely into it, even getting frustrated as i can't find something to my tastes for an ao3 bedtime story as i've grown so accustomed. what caught me off guard is that this was an issue that i ran into while watching season 1 as well, back when the series was still quite popular but not blowing up like it is right now.
a lot of this may seem like (and likely is, at least in part) basic overthinking, but i mentioned it all here because the answer i eventually came to is reminiscent of my previous reflections above on the nature of fandom & how/why fanworks are created.
a couple paragraphs above, i used the example of art as an example of how fandoms that generate a lot of original artwork will often do the most when the original story falls into a sweet spot of character design, but notably i think that this sentiment applies to a lot more than just art. if you've ever seen the copious amounts of kpop & hockey rpf fanfiction that lives on ao3, it should be clear that this applies to writing too.
i wrote this essay a while back responding to an observation about the lack of a more extensive symbolic language in fanfiction & i've toyed around with the idea more since, particularly in considering the question of why a lot of what we see as the staples of fanfiction exist in the first place. in that post, my response largely revolved around an argument of why we create fanfiction- namely, that fanfiction is created as in tandem with deeper analysis of the original story/series, as a way of trying to practically apply character analysis to a new context.
the key part of that last sentence to me is how a lot of this revolves around character analysis (and shipping, but really it's the characters that motivate the shipping in most cases so. same difference).
i tend to instinctively separate fanfiction into two separate categories: fanfiction that is based out of the original world/canon of the story (including but not limited to fix-its, deeper analysis fics that take a scene & extrapolate from it, continuations, etc.) and fanfiction that takes the characters from the original story & plops them in an alternate universe/AU. while i separate these out as two distinct categories of fanfiction, i should also clarify that i don't think these two groups are necessarily equal in terms of number of fics- rather, the vast majority of fanfiction tends to be AUs, keeping the original characters & changing any & all aspects of the world around them. again, this may vary depending on the story & Vibe of the fandom at the time, stories like game of thrones or harry potter or homestuck might have a lot more in the canon category by nature of any major dissatisfactions the fandom has with how the original story was told, but in most cases AUs are more popular. this was a lot of the basis behind my argument that fanfiction is created as character analysis in fact, since the characters are the most important part that carries over from original story to fanwork, as well as can end up being one of the most debated/scorned parts when it comes to fandom drift (i.e. "that's out of character"/"he wouldn't do that"/and all other such arguments about fanon vs. canon characterization).
basically, my conclusion in this case was that i was a lot less interested in gomens fic largely because i have a really hard time separating the characters from the world in the case of this particular story. aziraphale & crowley being an angel & a demon and dealing with all of the bullshit of their world when it comes to heaven & hell are such integral parts of their characters in my mind that i have a much harder time getting behind AU fanfiction that plops them in a totally different context. it's just a much harder sell for keeping the characters in character for me. (i also tend to not like s2 fix-its just cause, idk they're just not my style, which is where a lot of the recent blast of energy has led us.) to clarify, this is not a judgement, just a matter of personal preference and a reflection of why, even if a lot of fandoms will look the same from the outside/involve the same things like art, fic, etc., an individual's mileage can vary wildly when it comes to how they interact with different things online.
*additional note, also for clarification: i do want to acknowledge that a lot of this depends on pure popularity as well, popular fandoms will often end up with basically everything in terms of fanworks just by nature of how many people are interacting with & thinking deeply about the story. my point here is more along the lines of the fact that even within the more well-populated fandoms, certain types of fanwork will often Stick Out more to me than others, or even be visibly much more common than in other fandoms, due largely to the original medium/structure of how the story.
so, speaking of aziraphale & crowley in more depth now- why does the world of good omens feel like such an integral part of their personalities when it comes to characterization? up next, let's talk about morality within the context of good omens' perhaps surprisingly secular take on heaven & hell.
2. the amorality of heaven & hell (ft. the crowley quote apples you know the one)
(warning in advance that this section may be a bit limited since i'm not going to get super far (or very far at all, really) into the whole religious-analysis aspect of good omens.)
i've been binge-reading the original pterry & gaiman book for good omens over the last few days and it's been very fun seeing all the slight changes between the tv show & the original. you can really see the hand of the original creators in how the tv show was translated, even just by looking at which parts made it and which parts were deemed worth cutting out. i suppose having one of the original creators right there helping build everything really helps make a book -> show translation work, since the ASOUE tv series was also pretty well received- something about knowing what's the core of the series & truly important to keep in, and having more time to tell the story itself?
anyways, i have a short list of notes that i've been taking as i read, conversations that stand out to me or footnotes that particularly amused me, but i keep coming back to one line that stood out to me quite early on. in context, this line comes from crowley during the conversation where he is first attempting to fully convince aziraphale about stopping armageddon, specifically when they're talking about exerting equal forces on warlock to make him normal:
"You're saying the child isn't evil of itself?" [Aziraphale] said slowly.
"Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality, waiting to be shaped," said Crowley. He shrugged. "Anyway, why're we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that."
(pg. 67)
"They're just names for sides." if i had to pick one line to sum up the view on religious morality of this series, this would likely be it.
on the one hand, i tend to interpret a lot gomens' take on heaven & hell within the context of its political stance, something that is particularly obvious through a line from gabriel in s2e2 where he tries to clarify to aziraphale that heaven isn't trying to hurt job directly, but instead is just not stopping hell from doing horrible things to him. while there may be some additional nuance to add to this take within the context of british politics that i don't really know well enough to add about, i'm inclined to see this from the side of my own familiar american politics, which might hold some weight considering how long mr. gaiman's lived around here. point is, my current interpretation of that line is that it helps in more clearly establishing the analogy of heaven & hell as the story moves forward into newer seasons and thus more contemporary politics, equating heaven with mainstream liberal politics & politicians and hell with conservatives.
this stance seems to be emphasized even more in the tv show than the book which makes sense considering its been coming out more recently, and especially in season 2 which is still quite caught up in a lot of quarantine-based reflection. (the tv show puts a lot more emphasis on heaven & hell in general, actually, perhaps initially a byproduct of actually being able to see those environments in their entirety and all the angels & demons that populate them- but we'll get to that.)
the book takes a slightly different stance that, fittingly, seems more reflective of the time it came out. in particular, i was struck a lot more when reading the book by adam's rise (fall?) to power, and how much of it was motivated by a burgeoning nervousness/pessimism about climate change and the anxieties of younger generations that comes with inheriting an earth that feels so fucked up. honestly if anything it's only gotten more relevant in that respect, what with the current vibe on the internet & the hopelessness of the doomer gen z gang, but it also has a distinctly different flavor to me from the tv show, which i think is largely because it's less connected to Formal politics since again we see a whole lot less of heaven & hell as such distinct, bureaucratic entities.
instead, there is a very distinctly amoral aspect to heaven & hell that we get through lines like the one above and especially from characters like crowley. this is why i argue that good omens, despite having so many religious elements, is such a deeply secular take, especially when it comes to its ethics & morality- Good and Evil, notably with the capital letters in this case, has very little to do with actual actions and much more to do with the name that you stamp on top of said actions. heaven & hell and the angels & demons that we see directing and watching and generally fucking with aziraphale & crowley throughout the story are distinctly separate from humanity, and as we see even more as the story progresses, distinctly unaware about what it even means to be a human, in both a deeper philosophical & very basic and literal sense. Good and Evil is simply another name for the sides- and thus the true ethics is something separate, and based in a deeply human experience.
in my opinion this is also why aziraphale & crowley, lovers of humanity and also to some degree spokespersons of it from how much they've "gone native," tend to be so deeply at odds with both heaven & hell and always end up agreeing with each other over their own supposed sides. what makes aziraphale & crowley so distinctly different is that they ascribe to the same ethics & morality that humanity does, or at the very least are trying to figure out ethics & morality & How to Be a Good Person in the same horribly messy way that humans do, separating them from the black & white "this side Good & this side Bad," logic that the rest of heaven & hell instinctively ascribe to.
there's a lot of nuance here, which is also why i think there is such an emphasis on moral ambiguity (and love, but we'll get to that) throughout season 2. the story of job, grave robbing, & questionable attempts at matchmaking- aziraphale is working through a lot of Shit right now when it comes to trying to figure out what the Good thing actually fucking is, and i think it's key that a lot of that is motivated by crowley himself. crowley might'e been cast out of heaven for asking too many questions, but aziraphale is there & listening to them & giving them the serious thought they deserve, and that can't be overlooked.
sidenote: i couldn't figure out a place to shove this in, but i also wanna point out that a lot of this is tied to the idea of growing over time too. on the same page as the quote transcribed above is another line from crowley leading up to aziraphale's question that puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that warlock is going to be a product of nurture, not nature. again, this is an argument against basic black & white assigned-at-birth morality for the ability of humans to grow & change over time and be influenced by the people around them.
it's notable that despite adam's supposed origin as a Son of Satan, what really gets him to stop the apocalypse in the end is the fact that he doesn't really give a shit about all this big plans but instead just wants to hang around his friends. there's a lot of emphasis in the book placed on how beautiful & nice tadfield is as a place for a young kid to grow up, how well loved & fiercely protected it as as something beloved to adam. while he might be overwhelmed when faced with the full picture of how horrible the world can be, ultimately what he cares about is loving & taking care of the people & places that he grew up learning were precious, and the only way to do that is to keep growing & changing yourself within that world and trying to help it also grow into something better, not throw it all away just for the slightest chance that you could restart. a message worth taking the time to think about, at the absolute very least.
3. finding morality w/in humanity: crowley & aziraphale and speculation for s3
i have complicated feelings about both aziraphale & crowley throughout a lot of the show and especially in season 2. i think a lot of people, myself included, are inclined to see crowley as the voice of reason in this season, and for good reason- as i mentioned before, a lot of aziraphale's deeper questioning of the status quo and goodness (Goodness) as a whole is motivated by questions from crowley.
i kiiind of mentioned this in my previous essay, but to state it more clearly, my take on crowley is that he's arriving at the right answer for the wrong reasons, and, conversely, aziraphale is arriving at the wrong answer for... kind of also the wrong reasons but also slightly for the right reasons. let me explain.
crowley is clearly much more aware of the flaws in both heaven & hell than aziraphale is, which seems to be the basis behind a lot of his motivation in asking aziraphale so many questions in the first place. he's also, as maggie & nina point out in s2e6, deeply lonely, often running away or getting ready to fight literally anyone that isn't aziraphale (or humans, but that's a little more complicated). from his reaction to beelz & gabriel getting together, i think it's pretty clear that he still hasn't entirely given up on the whole alpha centauri idea, and it makes sense- as i said in that last essay, crowley basically won the argument at the end of the previous season when it comes to aziraphale & crowley, "making [their] own side," so he doesn't have much reason to face any of his personal fears until maggie & nina basically point out that they exist directly to his face. once they do point it out, however, he's very motivated to act & does so almost immediately, even after hearing what aziraphale has to tell him and being pretty thoroughly devastated by it.
my point here is that crowley is correct in seeing the toxicity of both heaven & hell, he's just flawed and largely motivated by fear (up for debate if that's all it is, but i certainly think it's a big part of it) in his desire to run away from it all. it's not quite armageddon, again he's going more flight > fight here, but he's still ultimately giving up and that's not a great conclusion.
on the other hand, as some others on this site have pointed out, aziraphale is certainly showing a lot of strength in his willingness to keep fighting & try to change things for the better, but it's not hard to see how that belief has been twisted. one of aziraphale's biggest flaw in motivation at this point imo is that he doesn't just believe in goodness but Goodness, the kind that's tied to heaven always being right & all actions being morally Good so long as they're done under the name of heaven, and that clearly also isn't great.
thus what i think the both of these two really need ultimately is that deeper connection to humanity, and the ethics born from humans interacting with humans. we can already see how strong these two are when they collaborate, even when they're doing their absolute best to be as subtle as possible, but what i think they need is to once again be grounded by humanity, not to get so caught up in the bullshittery of heaven & hell and Good & Evil, but once again find a goodness defined by the world that they mutually love so much and stick with it.
i keep tossing a question around in my head about whether or not aziraphale & crowley are going to end up human by the end of this series. it feels natural that they would, they're already so at home and in love with earth & around humanity, but i'm also not entirely sure if that would be a happy ending for them considering how long they've watched & loved the world as it's changed. perhaps taking this post into account is another push towards humanity as a happy ending, not running away to a cottage to get away from the world (i just can't see running away to a cottage to be together as as happy ending, sorry- it might work for beelz & gabriel but not for aziraphale & crowley), but choosing to settle down within that world that is so dear.
#'just three sections' LAFFS. YEAH#astronaut rambles#good omens#gomens#no but i like this one a lot better than the last attempt at a gomens essay#this one feels a lot cleaner. more focused?#got a bit sappy at the end but i don't mind humanity is always worth loving#also off topic but i read this really interesting paper at work the other day#about pratchett’s writing in discworld & zizek & religion#forget what it’s called now but it was an interesting take on how fiction/fantasy can allow for deeper insights/reflection of reality#got some discworld books today so looking forward to reading those once i slurp up the last hundred or so pages of good omens#also thanks to my dad for having some interesting commentary on the job interpretation in s2e2 today#i all but literally slept through sunday school so i think a lot of the more noteworthy religion takes in this show go over my head =3=‘’#man i am so very much looking forward to how season 3 continues this story#i feel like a lot of the big conclusions there are really gonna be important for the direction of the story’s main message#season 2 is just. such a transition season it’s hard to get super distinct conclusions sometimes#like it’s still going somewhere there’s shit developing#it’s not like sherlock where it just teases deeper meaning forever but gives you nothing#but. it’s just so obviously Not Over Yet and I Need More#anyways much love i need to go to bed now arghfjdkd lots of shit to do in the future but all i wanna do is keep writing gomens essays. sigh#brainrot central#oh yay my phone’s at 69% now ☺️ wheeee#good omens meta
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look anyone that knows me and is familiar with my specific brand of audhd knows i'm usually so bad when it comes to writing consistently. like i write one thing then go through months long breaks because i can't rouse my brain into sitting still in one place with one piece and doing it all over again. <- also a reason i don't have any multi-chapt fics (apart from the one i'm working on now).
so the fact that i'm so consistent about wanting to write clegan/MOTA stuff says a lot. also about how cool the fandom/community is, y'all are great! luv u all and thank you for all the support you've shown me since i rocked up here!
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#im not gonna ramble on n on rn lol esp since i get so nervous posting anything personal but!!!#we’re just sitting around watching the game & im just🥹 this is a regular sunday occurrence with them but every time it’s🥹#being around C n his family is just so heartwarming like agshsjs just juxtaposition b/w them vs my parents…its wild its hard getting used to#it’s just easy here I don’t have to say certain things or act a certain way or refrain from speaking at all it’s just easy. I feel light<3#I just love love I love them I love being around them im getting sappy as fawk!! rn but yeah#I don’t get to see my extended family as much as I’d like I cherish all the time I get with them but im glad I have C&co in the meantime#okay im done😭#mine#🌊
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