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From the DVD commentary, episode 1:
Neil: The wonderful thing about Good Omens all the way through was the amount of goodwill. There was love for the book, and people came in because they wanted to do it. You know, Danny [Daniel Mays - Arthur Young] is amazing. There's Nick Offerman [Thaddeus Dowling] who offered to fly himself to South Africa to be in it, and we turned him down and we flew him, but he came to South Africa for two days of shooting in a tiny part, because he loved Good Omens, because he wanted to do it.
Douglas: And our first AD [assistant director] said to him in South Africa, 'You've come a long way for only a few lines.', and he said, 'I would have come twice as far for half the lines.'
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Warlock to Thaddeus: When you die, can I have your head to use it to strike fear in the heart of my enemies?
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June 26, 2023
Happy 53 Birthday to Nick Offerman.
#Nick Offerman#Happy Birthday#Thaddeus Dowling#Ambassador Dowling#Ambassador Thaddeus Dowling#Good Omens#Jack Whitman#Monk#Monk USA#Adrian Monk#June#2023
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Everyone talking about how the Metatron is the most upsetting and wretched character as if this fucker doesn't exist
Worst husband ever
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We named him Thaddeus after his dad and his dad's dad 🥰
(not my boat)
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we don't talk enough about how perfect the casting of Neil Offerman was for the American Politician in GO1. Or John Hamm as Gabriel. They're the only Americans we really see (besides Harriet and Warlock), and they're just the worst. Thaddeus is a bad father, Harriet is [probably] not a great mom, as a result Warlock is kind of a shitty kid, and Gabriel is so ineffably infuriating. (Shocked the Metatron didn't have an American accent tbh, but I will say, no one else but Derek Jacobi could've pulled off the entire Final Fifteen manipulation)
EXCEPT - God! She has an American accent...curious as to if this has Meaning to the story, or if it just means that the perfect actor happened to be an American. Obsessed with the implication of the former, and in love with either.
As an American, Neil Gaiman is absolutely correct that we just embody corporate corruption and evil in a way that is so consistently and accurately portrayed.
#good omens#good omens 2#crowley#aziraphale#gabriel#thaddeus#dowling#warlock#ineffable idiots#neil gaiman#ineffable husbands#ineffable bureaucracy
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
#resentful reads#good omens#terry pratchett#neil gaiman#good omens book#bookblr#book quotes#Thaddeus J. Dowling
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Part Four of Rating Good Omens Characters based on whether I would employ them or not in my IRL cafe
I'm eventually going to run out of characters that I can find GIFS for, in the meantime, let's keep this going.
Part One Part Two Part Three
Agnes Nutter
Holy fuck Agnes could be a liability. I'm not employing anyone with a history of terrorism. I think she has some kind of relationship with the milkman's wife, though.
Death
No, but I'd install a trivia game machine to keep him happy. That'd be fun, playing trivia with Death
Michael
Nope, there's snark and then there's just rudeness. Michael would be rude to everyone- customers, co workers, me, and that wouldn't cut it.
Having said that, the way she pours the holy water into the bath in hell is as elegant as fuck, so I don't know, maybe she could pour a wicked latte too?
Mr Brown
His energy (and by the looks of his personality, his willingless to do all the actual work) would be appreciated by our local Chamber of Commerce but he's too busy running his fancy rug shop than come work for us.
Pollution
They makes a lot of mess but idc because I am too busy staring at them adoringly
Sandalphon
No, that dude is even more irritating than Furfur. That's a hard no.
Captain Rose Montgomery
She comes with the most impressive list of qualifications and awards from barista competitions but turns out she's a plant from the other local cafe and takes down our very expensive coffee machine from the inside. She goes back to work with the other cafe but they suddenly and quite unexpectantly get closed down by the food inspector.
Shadwell
No, but he comes in for exactly one piece of raisin toast plus a small long black once a week. He always forgets his wallet so he's racked up a massive tab and is about to get banned from the cafe.
Thaddeus Dowling
No, but we are in a bit of legal trouble with him trying to get him to pay for the massive amount of damages his son Warlock caused on his one shift with Ennon Son of Job.
That's it... that's all I got. Unless- prompt me a character I haven't addressed and I will continue the series. And at some point my partner- who actually runs the business- is going to come and share his thoughts.
#good omens#good omens 2#ineffable husbands#good omens au#aziracrow#gomens#anthony j crowley#aziraphale#cafe
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Rare Omens Comment Fest 2024 continues! Day 25-27, we’re asking you to leave comments on fanworks that feature: Series 1 + Series 2 Characters!
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Pick 1 character from each list to search!
Series 1 Only:
Adam Young, Brian, Wensleydale, Pepper, Dog, Warlock, Hastur, Ligur, Sandalphon, Anathema Device, Newton Pulsifer, Sergeant Shadwell, Madame Tracy, Death, Pollution, Famine, War, Lucifer/Satan, Agnes Nutter, Witchfinder General Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer, Sister Mary Loquacious, Sister Theresa Garrulous, Mother Superior, The Chattering Order of St. Beryl, Lesley the International Express Man, Maud, Arthur Young, Deirdre Young, Harriet Dowling, Thaddeus Dowling, RP Tyler, Mr. Scroggie, Beryl Ormerod, Ron Ormerod, Julia Petley, Giles Baddicombe, Spike, Sally, Adam, Eve, Hell’s Usher, Quartermaster Angel
Series 2 Only:
Nina, Maggie, Muriel, Saraqael, Shax, Furfur, Job, Sitis, Jemima, Keziah, Ennon, Elspeth, Wee Morag, Mr. Dalrymple, Mrs. Henderson, The Ladies of Camelot, Pat the Magician, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Sandwich, Mutt, Mutt’s Spouse, Justine, Mrs. Cheng, Mr. Arnold
Feel free to check out our AO3 collection, Rare_Omens: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Rare_Omens
#good omens#good omens 2#rare omens#rare omens 2024#comment fest#rare pairs#rare pairings#rare characters#good omens fanart#good omens fanfic#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale
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Can I hear a WAHOO for Nick Offerman? :) (He played Thaddeus Dowling in the first season of Good Omens). If you haven't seen Last Of Us at least watch the episode with him, he's fucking excellent! :D <3
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GO au where Nanny Ashtoreth Miss Vida Boheme’s her way into Harriet Dowling’s life after finding out she’s being abused and the elaborate multi-national-nanny-situation is to keep Warlock out of it and they become really good friends because of it. After Warlock gets too old for a nanny, Crowley and Harriet stay in touch because Crowley really did love that bratty kid and Ashtoreth (her first name is Marjorie) was Harriet’s only real friend. They eventually even made a pact that when Harriet decided to leave Thaddeus, Marjorie would help her with all of it, and they could even live together if it came down to it.
Only for post-divorce Crowley to get a call that he thinks is going to be the fated “i’m taking the end tables and the kid” conversation but it’s actually a sobbing eighteen-year-old Warlock telling him that Harriet’s dead, she’s dead, Nanny, shes dead, i don’t know what to-“
and Marjorie comes back to mourn her only real human friend with her pseudo-son who’s much too old to be sitting in her lap bawling, but he’s doing it anyway and she’s holding him and keeping it together because that’s what he needs and after the funeral she takes him back to her flat so he doesn’t have to grieve alone and only then, when Warlock is asleep in the other room, taken care of and fairly contented, that she’ll find herself on the floor of the shower, shaking, rinsing away the trails of mascara and eyeliner that pooled at the bottom of her glasses and the horrendous pink lipstick and the semi-permanent curl to her hair and it’ll just be Crowley, who doesn’t have the love of his life OR his best friend and everything feels too heavy to bear and there’s tears he didn’t know he had left streaming down his face and the next thing he knows, the water shuts off and it’s just him and his wheezy breath but there’s a warm hand on his back, and look at that.
It’s Aziraphale, kneeling just next to the tub, looking at him with the solidarity of perfect understanding. All he says is, “I heard about Harriet,” and Crowley relapses instantly into sobs, leaning into him for support and Aziraphale accepts the whole soaking armful of him and holds him until he’s got nothing left and eventually, he’ll haul him out of tub and dry him off and get him to bed and hold him still while he sleeps of the emotional exhaustion that is grief, but for now…
For now, there was just them, and there may have been love between them once and it may or may not still be there now, but they don’t have the time to look into that, and it doesn’t matter anyway because there is something and it might just be the intimacy of empathy or the silent, complete understanding but there’s comfort and safety in familiarity so every guarded cell in Crowley’s body won’t fight the way Aziraphale’s breath feels on his temples
And when Warlock wakes up to breakfast made by a familiar man with white curls and blue eyes, he’ll burst into tears all over again at the softness and safety and he won’t have time to question the fact that Marjorie is also Anthony because all he knows is the both of them are sitting at the table sobbing over the same woman and it’s the very, well
It’s very Human.
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all good omens flashbacks in chronological order
put this together hastily using this screenrant article and the wikipedia page. while this list has all the aziraphale+crowley flashbacks in chronological order, i may have missed a few that don't involve them. season 2 flashbacks in green.
"Before the beginning" - Crowley creates the universe.
4004 B.C., Sunday, October 21, 9:13 a.m. - The creation of the universe, according to God.
4004 B.C., "just after the beginning" - Eve plucks the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden; Crowley and Aziraphale have their first on-screen interaction.
3004 B.C., Mesopotamia - Crowley and Aziraphale witness the events of Noah's Ark, revealing that unicorns once existed.
2500 B.C., Land of Uz - Crowley is sent to torment Job.
33 A.D., Golgotha - Crowley and Aziraphale watch as Jesus gets crucified.
41 A.D., Rome - Crowley and Aziraphale get drinks together.
537 A.D., Kingdom of West Essex - Crowley and Aziraphale discuss the possibility of playing a less active role in the Apocalypse.
1601, Globe Theatre, London - Crowley and Aziraphale meet William Shakespeare. Shakespeare steals a line of dialogue from Crowley that he'll eventually use in Antony and Cleopatra; Crowley performs a miracle by making Hamlet popular.
1656, Lancashire, England - England's last witch burning. The witch named Agnes Nutter thwarts Witchfinder Major Pulsifer when he attempts to burn her at the stake.
1793, Paris - Aziraphale escapes prison during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1824, Edinburgh - Aziraphale and Crowley encounter a poor grave robber and find the line between good and bad deeds on Earth isn’t always clear.
1862, St. James Park, London - Crowley requests holy water from Aziraphale for assurance in case anything goes wrong.
1941, London – (S1) Aziraphale meets Nazis in a church, bringing books of prophecy for Hitler, only to double-cross them. Despite the pain of standing on consecrated ground, Crowley comes to Aziraphale's rescue. (S2) The three Nazis are resurrected as zombies. Aziraphale and Crowley perform their magic trick.
1967, Soho, London - Crowley meets Lance Corporal Shadwell. Crowley attempts to steal holy water from a church; Aziraphale is worried, so he gets Crowley holy water himself.
"Eleven Years Ago" (circa 2008) - Dukes of Hell, Hastur and Ligur, hand over the Antichrist to Crowley, who then delivers the baby to The Chattering Order of St. Beryl. The Antichrist is then misplaced, being sent to live with Deirdre and Arthur Young, while their actual child, Warlock, is sent to live with Thaddeus and Harriet Dowling. Unaware of the mistake, Crowley and Aziraphale agree to attempt preventing Armageddon from behind the scenes by coaching the boy they assume is the Antichrist.
Five Years Later, Six Years Before the End of the World (circa 2013) - Crowley disguises himself as Warlock's nanny, while Aziraphale disguises himself as the Dowlings' gardener.
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Transangelicism, a meta on allegory and gender in Good Omens
One of the wonderful things about SF and fantasy is that representation can be coupled to allegory in a way that allows it say different things and take on different resonances.
For instance, in Discworld the undead are a very straightforward allegory for the queer community, but as the series progresses there are specifically queer undead characters like Maladict and Sally von Humpeding who are breaking away from the norms of vampire society, so the allegory becomes two-fold and the reflection of queerness three-fold.
In Good Omens, when the idea of gender as humans understand it exists in Heaven, it exists because humans thought of it — except, perhaps, in the case of Gabriel* —and when the idea of gender exists for demons in Hell it exists under the swelter, crush and proximity to millions of souls and is taken up by entities who know the degrees of freedom that they have**. The angels are institutional and polished and neutral and the demons are messy and convoluted and decisive.
So most of the angels in Good Omens could be considered, in human terms, nonbinary by default, or belonging to a unary. The fallen angels who no longer belong to this unary could be considered trans by default, but they have implemented their own structures that are enforced as social norms.
Crowley’s approach to naming himself and being repeatedly referred to by a previous name is trans-coded. The fallen angels recieved new names but to change those names is considered repugnant. In the book Furfur looks at, he’s circled Crowley’s name and written “changed his name..? Yuck!”
Crowley is a post-structuralist and a relativist. A demon the same way you or I might be a member of a political party. But he no longer considers himself to be the same person that he was before he fell. That person doesn’t exist anymore and he needs Aziraphale to to understand that, because otherwise Aziraphale cannot see who Crowley really is. Crowley is defining themself both away from Heaven and away from Hell.
At the same time Crowley is also genderfluid the way a human might be. Sometimes quiet, subtle, sometimes won’t correct people, sometimes will. Sometimes she dresses like a human woman. She covers her hair in the first century CE. Very often they’re combining and mixing gender expression.
Thaddeus Dowling is suggested to be sexist and transphobic, but he likely was not around when Crowley was hired as Warlock’s nanny.
Crowley’s not like the angels, nothing is neat or simple, and Crowley’s not like the other demons, he’s out from under the pressure and defining himself on his own terms.
Aziraphale is essentially ‘in uniform’ until after he realizes that it would be possible for him to fall and that he has a different relationship to heaven than he thought he did — one similar to the relationship Crowley has with Hell.
After this point Aziraphale starts dressing more human, if eccentrically, in a perpetually old-fashioned way.
As Michael Sheen says, “Aziraphale is just a little country girl, she’s tending her sheep.” She wants to take care of things and not worry about what’s beyond her purview. She believes she knows exactly what to do to make things better. Aziraphale doesn’t want anything to be complicated unless it’s complicated in a pleasurable way. They’ve been living out as much of a pastoral dream as is possible in central London. But he has a job to do and knows the truth is rarely pure and never simple, as much as he wants to pretend that it can be.
Aziraphale repeatedly gets in trouble presenting himself as an upper-class gay Englishman. The carrick coat in 1827 is perhaps the most sartorial androgyny we see from Aziraphale and that’s because Aziraphale in 1827 is the most fashionable girl from 1810.
Aziraphale’s queer masculinity is defined away from heavenly strictures and he might even admit it from time to time. Perhaps he has no gender. Perhaps he thinks of his gender as ‘angel.’ But either way Aziraphale is not following the path of least resistance.
*Gabriel’s masculinity is likely human-like by design. Although this may be following the Small Gods rules — humans expect to see the Archangel Gabriel as a man, so they do.
**By contrast, Beelzebub’s nonbinary masculinity is human-like through a much greater proximity to and knowledge of humans. They’re Prince of Hell and zir way of being is informed by that.
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June 26, 2022
Happy 52 Birthday to Nick Offerman.
#Nick Offerman#Happy Birthday#Thaddeus Dowling#Ambassador Dowling#Mr Dowling#Human#Good Omens#June#2022
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holy shit i forgot agent powers was voiced by thaddeus dowling i cant believe this
#a very specific net of people will understand#gravity falls#good omens#also. CAIN? sister mary please. no
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