"Great! Do a little miracle, wiggle your fingers about, Nina falls for Maggie, problem solved." "Miracles don't work like that."

I have always wondered about this exchange. Why is Aziraphale the only one who knows that miracles don't work like that? Because Crowley doesn't know or he wouldn't have suggested it, and the archangels obviously don't know either or it wouldn't have even gotten to the point of them sending someone to verify the miracle.

I don't know, it just seems odd and I can't think of an explanation that makes sense.

Doylist explanation: author doesn't like love spells and would not want Aziraphale mucking around with them, either for "ew consent issues" reasons or for "boring plot device" reasons.

Watsonian explanation: Aziraphale knows that miracles are about choices and that love works the same way as other feelings: you can inspire but you can't force. Crowley doesn't know this because Crowley hasn't stopped to consider love as a feeling. To him it's something you do, not something you feel.

I've always had a thought that there is a difference between what sort of "miracles" are available to angels vs demons. The only evidence I have for this is the 1941 church scene where Crowley says, about the bombs, "It would take a last minute demonic intervention to throw them off course" and then "it would take a REAL miracle for my friend and I to survive it."

So perhaps Crowley doesn't know that you can't miracle people to fall in love because, as a demon, he doesn't have the ability to do "real" miracles and therefore doesn't know what sort are available to angels.

I get this, and that dialogue has always been faintly off to me too (including grammatically, argh), at least as delivered. But Crowley's had to do angelic miracles for The Arrangement, surely?

"Great! Do a little miracle, wiggle your fingers about, Nina falls for Maggie, problem solved." "Miracles don't work like that."

I have always wondered about this exchange. Why is Aziraphale the only one who knows that miracles don't work like that? Because Crowley doesn't know or he wouldn't have suggested it, and the archangels obviously don't know either or it wouldn't have even gotten to the point of them sending someone to verify the miracle.

I don't know, it just seems odd and I can't think of an explanation that makes sense.

Doylist explanation: author doesn't like love spells and would not want Aziraphale mucking around with them, either for "ew consent issues" reasons or for "boring plot device" reasons.

Watsonian explanation: Aziraphale knows that miracles are about choices and that love works the same way as other feelings: you can inspire but you can't force. Crowley doesn't know this because Crowley hasn't stopped to consider love as a feeling. To him it's something you do, not something you feel.

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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So glad I watched good omens

She was a Bentley, he was a Reliant Robin…

The Bentley and Dick Turpin as humans!

Cranking Up The Heat - now on Ao3!

By the very nature of it, this series very quickly became too spicy for tumblr, but I want to share all these awesome drawings with you guys!

the first five parts of it are online already - best viewed in full work mode so you can just scroll through. :)

tagging @goodomensafterdark for good measure!

"Very much the Doctor of the modern age."

# finish your sentences

Saturday Morning Funtime

I just realized I forgot to post this month’s monthly work here! “Saturday Morning Funtime” based on moments from episode 4. The dynamic duo don’t spend a lot of time together in this episode so I opted to show them inversely dealing with their colleagues: here Crowley sticks his tongue out before escaping through his phone and in the flip, Aziraphale calls his crew “bad angels!”

Crowley saying "LEAVE IT TO ME" in his super suave watch-me-do-something-impressive voice to Aziraphale, only to saunter up to the security guard and confidently address him as "army human."

One of my favorite moments. Look, I love all your "Crowley was totally friends with ___ scientist/astronomer/engineer/artist/Leonardo but this is a demon who barely recognizes people have identities beyond their jobs or even personal belongings ("book girl").

So on my last rewatch I noticed how Aziraphale is gently amused (though never condescending) to Muriel and their "I'm a human police officer" routine.

But then, in the very same episode, without a trace of irony or self-awareness, our sweet angel dons his very best 1949 journalist cosplay and announces "I'm what's known as a newspaper man!"

He is just as excited, and almost as naive, as Muriel here -- down to not reading the big THE RESURRECTIONIST sign on the wall of the pub. "Gimme the facts!" He quips giddily. Might as well be saying "Wot's all this then?"

He's been here six thousand years but he is still an Eldritch being in a human suit and a giant goofball with no interest in keeping up with the times and it is fascinating and lovable that he can recognize Muriel's ridiculousness and not see his own.

How very like all of us.

Earth is basically a celestial's comic con and they love cosplaying. Muriel is new to fandom and Aziraphale has been making costumes for a while, but they are both equally cringe in their own ineffable way. 🥰🥰

You might be joking but the interaction reads exactly as when a, very excited yet a bit nervous , friend tried playing DND for the first time and our entire group were soo supportive.

“Good morning Bard!”

“Yes! I am an halfling bard!”

“Would you like some free cheese from the barmaid?”

“Eer…”

*stage whisper* “A halfling would generally accept a bit of cheese”

“Then so shall I!”

That. Is. The. CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE OMG!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

i can see that read, but i kind of think that aziraphle knows & embraces the ridiculousness of an angel trying to pass as a human more than any other angel. but he's read books and seen plays & shows (movies? tv?) and by GOLLY, he'll give it his all and both delight and revel in it! & all that's why he's so gentle with muriel -- he knows she's likely on earth the first time and nervous; probably heaven sent her down and she's scared of messing up. but she's giving it her all, and she's making him smile with his dimples. or maybe that's just me!

This is marvelous too! If it is a choice, if he's having a grand time and knows full well he's not fooling anyone and he'll get away with it all miraculously anyway, well, you go, angel. Get your freak on.

having love in your heart will literally save you from the otherwise cataclysmic experience of being a human being

When my cat lays down in loaf position, is she leavened or unleavened? Is my cat kosher for Passover?

My experience tells me that catloaves do not wish to rise, which makes them unleavened and kosher.

The above-mentioned loaf:

@coloredink

@animatedamerican

If your cat is not made from one of the five grains, she cannot technically be leavened.  However, since it is clear that she can be made into something that resembles bread, it may be worth asking your local rabbi if she is kitteniot.

If your cat is made from the five grains, be careful about getting the cat wet, it could be purrbrochts.

Ok so first of all, I wanted to thank you all for your warm welcome here on tumblr !! Y’all are so sweet fr 😭💖 I read all your sweet comments and hashtag, and I’m happy to join the madhouse ❤️‍🔥 still trying to understand how tumblr works, I come from Twitter and instagram it’s very different haha, but love you 🫶

Then, I gotta say, it’s not the first time I’m pretty quick to draw Crowley in DT’s outfit, actually did this one an hour after seeing the outfit for Comic Releif 😤 it was so Crowley coded I couldn’t resist-

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