Good Omens Minisode Minibang: Reverse Bang Edition

This collaborative event invites artists to create your own historical minisode artwork--or put your own spin on one of the existing canonical ‘sodes.

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Artists will create an art piece revolving around the theme of Good Omens historical minisodes. Then, in May, all artists will be anonymously paired with an author who will create a short story of at least 3k words based on the artist's piece.

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I hate you AI, I hate you sites making deals with souless corporations that think creativity can be replicated by an unthinking machine, I hate you money-hungry investors and ceos, I hate you opt-out models, I hate you tech bros, I hate you having to spend precious free time having to scramble our art in a desperate attempt not to getting stolen from, I hate you minimization of the hard work we put into our craft, I hate ''''machine learning''''' being compared to a very human person putting in the hours to better themselves, I hate you commodification of the very core of human's expression, I hate you scams being helped along by uber plagiarism, I hate you AI, I hate you AI, I hate you AI, I HATE YOU AI

BTW this also applies to chatGPT and that character-chat thingy I've seen people in fandom use.

Stop.

Stop using that shit.

"But it's fun!" I don't care. Writing AI have been trained on stolen content just as much as art AI.

"But I'm not hurting anybody!" I don't care, and you are. Even if you are just using those AIs for your own entertainment without gaining anything monetary from it, it doesn't delete the plagiarism that its built upon.

"But I'm just one person doing one little thing, how much could it hurt?" And like you hundreds upon thousand of other people have this exact same thought, and it's not just 'one person' anymore. By using AI in any way, shape or form you are feeding the exec and investors numbers that make them think there's money to be made upon the theft of real people's effort.

STOP. USING. AI. PERIOD.

Anonymous submission:

There's a lot that's wrong here that I don't feel like explaining. Most of it should be fairly obvious.

The main thing I want to point out, though, is that presumably whoever did that to whoever wrote the post was not being pressured and intimidated by an all-powerful being who's been ab*sing him for centuries and who now knows he cares about Crowley and has the power to destroy either or both of them if he doesn't do as he asks.

And probably they didn't have the concern that said all-powerful being might be eavesdropping on their conversation.

Also also, I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think Aziraphale has a cruel bone in his body. I don't think Crowley would love him if he did.

The end.

You know, I've seen a wealth of bad takes about Aziraphale, Crowley and the break-up(tm) every since S2 dropped, so let me be absolutely clear that I don't say it lightly when I declare this might be one of the worst ones I've seen yet.

At this point in my mind I can't call the bad Aziraphale takes just Aziraphale's, because there's been an ongoing huge disservice done to Crowley's character as well, although in a less direct way. This is a set, do not separate and all that. These characters are so profoundly interwoven and informed in their decisions by the mere existence of the other that if you shit on one of them you are shitting on both of them, full stop.

I'm sorry but if you truly think the last fifteen broke their bond to the point that Crowley not only will not trust Aziraphale ever again no matter what, but that it'd also fundamentally change him to the point he won't love Aziraphale the same... I'm sorry, that's pure delusion and at this point I wonder whoever truly thinks this stuff up actually watched Good Omens or if they watched 'Crowley's magical whumpy adventures'.

Crowley doesn't love Aziraphale in spite of the angel's flaws. He loves him flaws and all, and if Aziraphale turned into the servile puppet whose only existence is to be Crowley's Perfect Love Interest as so many in this fandom seem to want... Well, that would truly be the moment he'd might rethink his love for Aziraphale.

The angel Crowley loves is imperfect, and silly and bitchy and selfish and selfless and stupidly optimistic and idiotically brave. The angel he loves gave a God-given sword away because he didn't want the humans to be cold and defenseless and lied about it right to Her face; the angel Crowley loves was ready to fall for the sake of three mortal children, he makes decisions and takes risks and plays it safe and, most of all, for 6000 bloody years he walked the thin, sharp edge of the knife that is their friendship, and he did it because he cares for Crowley, and Crowley knows it.

That doesn't mean that Aziraphale's decision to go back to Heaven doesn't still hurt him. Of course it does. It hurt both of them and they'll both have to put in the work to truly come together as they've wished to do for so, so long, come together fully and finally free to love one another without reserves.

But as much as I'm tired of seeing Aziraphale painted as this selfish, thoughtless and cold being who apparently only thinks about himself and his own needs and wants and is oh-so mean, ignoring Crowley's (apparently far more important than Aziraphale's own, according to some) needs and wants, I'm also equally as tired to see Crowley painted as this wheepy, needy thing who is just going to go to pieces because that big meany angel had the gall of making a decision Crowley disagrees with.

I'm sorry but whoever this utterly emotionally unstable demon I see floating in GO fanon is NOT the Crowley I've seen on screen, who is smart and resourceful and kind but not without a mean streak; a demon who doesn't enjoyed violence for violence's sake but who, nonetheless, is really pretty darn good at his job. This fangless, sanded down Crowley who is reduced to the qualities most appealing to us -ie being really quite nice for a demon, and "not up to killing kids"- and whose less palatable characteristics get sort of swept under a rug and forgotten until all that's left is this flat, one note wet paper bag of a man with none of the complexity of the original character... Well, hasgtag Not My Crowley, I can tell you that much.

The one thing that's keeping me strong in all this is the fact that Mr. Gaiman set up a very interesting, nuanced and thought provoking conflict between our favorite ineffables, and I trust that the resolution will be jus as much, and will be satisfying and fullfilling all the while not flattening our duo to The-demon-whose-emotional-needs-trump-all and The-angel-whose-only-role-is-to-be-the-demon's-perfect-love-interest-without-any-thoughts-of-his-own.

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I recently posted This sorta crossover between Tha Magnus Archives and Good Omens; I recently started listening to MAG and I couldn't resist the temptation to try reframe the events of GO S1 in the style of the podcast. The result isn't half bad, if I dare say so myself (⁠◕⁠દ⁠◕⁠)

Do not ever tell me that Aziraphale is being selfish here.

Never. Not once. If you try to even start, shut your fucking mouth.

Do you know how hard it is to admit something like this when you're not even supposed to want anything?

Gabriel was surprised the first time he was given a gift.

Aziraphale is telling Crowley he wants to make things better, but he doesn't think he can do it without Crowley.

He is pouring his heart out right here. He doesn't think he can do enough good without Crowley. He wants to make Heaven better, but he thinks he needs Crowley to make it happen.

This is the one time that Crowley cannot help him, but that doesn't mean that what Aziraphale is doing is wrong.

Me saying that Aziraphale isn't doing anything wrong by going back to Heaven doesn't mean I'm saying Crowley is wrong for the choice he made either. Neither of them is wrong. This is not a black and white situation.

Aziraphale told Crowley he needed him while the Metatron was within hearing distance.

Let me say this as loudly as possible for you, m'kay?

AN ANGEL JUST TOLD A DEMON HE NEEDS HIM.

We all remember how that's a no-no, right?? That's exactly the kind of language Aziraphale always avoided because even ducks have ears. And the one time he used that kind of language was when the Metatron was waiting to take him back to Heaven because the Metatron knows about their history.

The last time Heaven implied that Aziraphale and Crowley were together, Sandalphon punched him in the stomach.

But go off with how Aziraphale is so selfish and only ever thinks about his own wants and needs after he bared his heart to Crowley in front of the fucking Metatron. Go off with how you keep proving you didn't understand the first thing about Aziraphale and Crowley's shades of grey discussion from 1941.

Be mad at Aziraphale if it helps you heal, but don't assassinate his character by turning him into someone he's not just because you're desperate for your villainized version of him to be real.

Crowley wouldn't stand for that shit because he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself.

I can't believe we still have to say this. Keep saying this.

Crowley couldn't go to Heaven with Aziraphale. Aziraphale couldn't stay on Earth for Crowley. Being who they both are, neither of them could have done anything different. No matter how much they love each other. That was the whole tragedy of the situation.

This this this a hundred times this. Iswtg the "I need you!" just absolutely destroys my heart, and I feel like sometimes it is a bit of an overlooked line? Like we've seen plenty of posts about the "I would like to spend--" and "we could've been us" and rightfully so because those lines are heart wrenching, but idk, I don't think I've seen as much quoting of the "I need you!" as I expected to see.

I guess in a way this does go hand in hand with my impression that a lot of people in the fandom have a harder time reading Aziraphale's inner thoughts and motivation due to the fact that he hides himself behind three hundred layers of misdirection and denial (I wrote a whole post about this, lol), but really, that "I need you!" manages to cram so much into three words, and the way Michael 'I'm going to give this angel all of the intricate layers' Sheen delivers the line is also absolutely soul crushing.

Can you imagine how much sheer desperation-fueled strength Aziraphale managed to deploy to say that? This angel feels so guilty about everything, all the goddamn time.

He feels guilty about the things he enjoy, always having an excuse ready to explain why does he need to eat food or read books or do any activity that brings enrichment and fun and happiness to his existence. But there's one thing where those flimsy excuses are constantly threatening to crumble on him, and that thing is loving Crowley.

Can you imagine? Feeling so guilty all the time for loving? They both know how dangerous their relationship is for both of them. They both know that they are constantly one misstep away from risking their very existence just to spend time together. And Aziraphale feels so guilty about loving Crowley, about wanting him, wanting to be with him always, wanting to spend their eternity together just as much as Crowley does.

Crowley is the one thing Aziraphale desperately wants and feels like he can't have without putting the both of them at risk of extinction. Crowley is the one thing that Aziraphale is willing to sacrifice everything for, the one thing he'd give up every single possession and joy in his existence if it meant that they could be together safely once and for all. He's ready to sacrifice everything for the infinitesimal chance that, one day, he might be able to take Crowley's hand, and dance with him, and hold him, and tell him openly and without fear that he loves him more than anything.

Ready to sacrifice it all to make sure that Crowley and humanity will still have a safe place to continue existing without having to worry.

There's so much Aziraphale doesn't say, because to say certain things openly would mean to risk it all, to put so much at stake. I wonder how many times those words have been just on the tip of Aziraphale's tongue, and he had to swallow them. How many times has he gone this close to tell Crowley how much he wants and needs him and just... Couldn't.

And when you spend you whole existence putting those barricades in your own soul to keep those words at bay, to then go ahead and openly admit such a thing...

"I need you!"

I need you.

Idk if I'm going to get crucified or blocked, I hope not, but... Imho he's both, in this scene specifically. That's part of what a character being so complex means.

Yes, he's wrenching his heart out. Yes, he feels guilty for everything and especially for loving Crowley. Yes, he wants to go to Heaven because he wants to fix it! Yes, being who he is, he couldn't have stayed, as heartbreaking as it is. Of course those things are true.

But wanting to turn Crowley into an angel again is selfish. Wanting to drag Crowley back to his abusers is selfish (would he have done/wanted the second thing if Crowley had been more open about his pain? I've no idea, I hope not, I believe not. He can be very oblivious to the people around him when he's focused, including Crowley, and processing that his people hurt Crowley as much or more than Hell ever did would mean processing his own trauma, which he obviously hasn't done and isn't ready to do, and Crowley didn't spell it out for him like he did other things; he's still on the mindset of "us vs them", as evidenced by the fact that he tells Crowley that "of course you said no to them [Hell]. You're the bad guys!" You, not them, btw, which is another meta for another time).

He's being selfish in the way Crowley is selfish when he kisses him glasses-on to share the hurt just as much as to say goodbye, after it's all said and done.

Aziraphale thinks that for the first time since literally ever he'll be allowed to have both Heaven and Crowley. Of course he wants that, how could he not? He doesn't expect Crowley to say no, because he never has. And he's never really talked about how bad his trauma is, really. But he's still asking him to change a fundamental part of himself. It's selfish, but not in a terrible villainous way. In a very multifaceted, very human way.

Aziraphale does have more layers than an onion, and imho acting like some of those layers aren't flawed is also doing him a disservice. Of course he's flawed, and that means he's selfish sometimes. Who isn't?

They're both like us.

Edit: to be even clearer, I'm saying he's being selfish at the same time he's being a thousand other things, including selflessness, because that's how complex this whole situation is, and that this scene doesn't boil down to him being selfish but there is a (very understandable) element of that.

Oh man, no, of course there's no need for blocking here--- The thing is, I've seen a very specific (small) crowd of people in this fandom who constantly accuse us quote-unquote 'Aziraphale defenders' of acting like we think Aziraphale is a perfect and wholly innocent being, but the truth is that our own pushback against the excessive criticism of him is exactly because of that: excessive criticism.

I haven't seen a single post trying to dwell in the character's motivations and the reasons why he's made the choice he made who either ignores the fact that Aziraphale is a flawed being who makes mistakes, nor wholly shifting the blame of the Divorce(tm) on Crowley. All of the meta posts trying to say "Look, Aziraphale isn't the selfish, stupid, downright villanous individual y'all are trying to paint him as" that I've read always come down to the same conclusion, AKA that there is no inherent right nor wrong side in the breakup, and that both Aziraphale and Crowley are equally right about certain things and wrong about others.

Shades of gray is the whole point of Good Omens, and that is the point we are trying to reiterate in the face of what ranges from a more 'shallow' interpretations of Aziraphale's actions all the way to pinpointing on him such a wealth of negative traits the it makes you wonder why these fans even like to ship the ineffables together in the first place.

So no, reasonably pointing out Aziraphale's mistakes certainly won't win you a block on my part, and I a 100% agree with you on the fact that Aziraphale is a complex, multifaceted and ultimately flawed character who made, and makes, mistakes. Because both his and Crowley's core is that: they are as human as they can get while being who they are, and humans are fallible.

That said I have to admit I also take umbrage with the "Aziraphale is selfish for trying to drag Crowley back to his abusers" argument. Not in the way you personally presented it, because your version of it takes in consideration the fact that Crowley has withheld a lot of information from Aziraphale that we, as the audience, can instead garner. Your version is wholly fair and I have no objections to it-- But since the topic came up I might as well vent about other, far more unfair versions of this particular argument that I've seen floating about lol

I think a lot of people truly do not realize just how much more insight we have into Crowley's mind, as the audience, much more than Aziraphale himself does by Crowley's own design.

Aziraphale was wrong in even considering the idea of reinstating Crowley as an angel, that is undeniable-- But at the same time I also understand why, in his manic desperation trying to find a way to keep them both safe AND together as they wished to be for so long, Aziraphale fell into that specific pitfall.

Let's be real, what is he supposed to think? He met an angel who looked so happy and carefree, who, like Aziraphale, seemingly had no qualms in showing their unbridled joy in ways that, perhaps, aren't as common between angels as we might think. It's clear that that first meeting left an impression on Aziraphale, that he liked seeing such a happy angel and, to fall in the realm of speculation, perhaps he might have even felt a kinship with the angel who Crowley was that he hadn't ever felt before.

And then that angel was gone, and who Aziraphale met after all was said and done was a demon who, yes, retained that playful core, but was also a lot more barbed, guarded, jaded.

Crowley spent an eternity telling him not so subtle terms that being a demon kinda sucks. He tells Aziraphale "my lot does not send rude notes", and he convinces him to slack off when it comes to their jobs and do much more fun things like enjoying earth and humanity, and says "I didn't fall, I just sauntered vaguely downward", and asks Aziraphale for something that could risk destroy his very existence as "insurance".

In the face of this, what is Aziraphale supposed to think? We as an audience have a lot more insight when it comes to how Crowley doesn't really like working for Hell, but he also despises Heaven just as much. It is obvious, for us, that Crowley has a lot of intricate feelings and arguably a certain amount of trauma when it comes to the Fall and the way Heaven operates. Obviously Crowley very much despises both sides and wants nothing to do with either of them, but... Does he show this to Aziraphale? Or does he communicate to him in both subtle and less unsubtle terms that he really doesn't want to be a demon?

When you put together these elements, imo reinstating Crowley as an angel seems kind of the inevitable and only conclusion Aziraphale could possibly arrive at.

To be clear I also don't want to ignore those times Crowley teases Aziraphale for the decisions made by God and Heaven, like the Flood, obviously pointing out that Heaven and Hell are truly two sides of the same coin, but I think this is where Aziraphale's cognitive dissonance comes into play in disastrous ways.

I think that, deep down, under all those layers of denial and double thinking Aziraphale deploys to not fall into some sort of crisis of identity/faith and lose his marbles, Aziraphale knows just how hurtful the suggestion of making Crowley an angel again was, just as much as he deep down knows that Heaven is bullshit and that there's really no good guy nor bad guy, here. But to accept those concept, to fully shed the denial and internalize those ideas, well... He's got some work to do, and I truly think his character arc in S3 will very much focus on him finally accepting the 'shades of gray' concept fully, letting go of the good/bad dichotomy and finally free himself of those shackles he's both been forced into and then kept on himself as a coping mechanism.

And I, for one, can't wait to see that happen <3

Do not ever tell me that Aziraphale is being selfish here.

Never. Not once. If you try to even start, shut your fucking mouth.

Do you know how hard it is to admit something like this when you're not even supposed to want anything?

Gabriel was surprised the first time he was given a gift.

Aziraphale is telling Crowley he wants to make things better, but he doesn't think he can do it without Crowley.

He is pouring his heart out right here. He doesn't think he can do enough good without Crowley. He wants to make Heaven better, but he thinks he needs Crowley to make it happen.

This is the one time that Crowley cannot help him, but that doesn't mean that what Aziraphale is doing is wrong.

Me saying that Aziraphale isn't doing anything wrong by going back to Heaven doesn't mean I'm saying Crowley is wrong for the choice he made either. Neither of them is wrong. This is not a black and white situation.

Aziraphale told Crowley he needed him while the Metatron was within hearing distance.

Let me say this as loudly as possible for you, m'kay?

AN ANGEL JUST TOLD A DEMON HE NEEDS HIM.

We all remember how that's a no-no, right?? That's exactly the kind of language Aziraphale always avoided because even ducks have ears. And the one time he used that kind of language was when the Metatron was waiting to take him back to Heaven because the Metatron knows about their history.

The last time Heaven implied that Aziraphale and Crowley were together, Sandalphon punched him in the stomach.

But go off with how Aziraphale is so selfish and only ever thinks about his own wants and needs after he bared his heart to Crowley in front of the fucking Metatron. Go off with how you keep proving you didn't understand the first thing about Aziraphale and Crowley's shades of grey discussion from 1941.

Be mad at Aziraphale if it helps you heal, but don't assassinate his character by turning him into someone he's not just because you're desperate for your villainized version of him to be real.

Crowley wouldn't stand for that shit because he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself.

I can't believe we still have to say this. Keep saying this.

Crowley couldn't go to Heaven with Aziraphale. Aziraphale couldn't stay on Earth for Crowley. Being who they both are, neither of them could have done anything different. No matter how much they love each other. That was the whole tragedy of the situation.

This this this a hundred times this. Iswtg the "I need you!" just absolutely destroys my heart, and I feel like sometimes it is a bit of an overlooked line? Like we've seen plenty of posts about the "I would like to spend--" and "we could've been us" and rightfully so because those lines are heart wrenching, but idk, I don't think I've seen as much quoting of the "I need you!" as I expected to see.

I guess in a way this does go hand in hand with my impression that a lot of people in the fandom have a harder time reading Aziraphale's inner thoughts and motivation due to the fact that he hides himself behind three hundred layers of misdirection and denial (I wrote a whole post about this, lol), but really, that "I need you!" manages to cram so much into three words, and the way Michael 'I'm going to give this angel all of the intricate layers' Sheen delivers the line is also absolutely soul crushing.

Can you imagine how much sheer desperation-fueled strength Aziraphale managed to deploy to say that? This angel feels so guilty about everything, all the goddamn time.

He feels guilty about the things he enjoy, always having an excuse ready to explain why does he need to eat food or read books or do any activity that brings enrichment and fun and happiness to his existence. But there's one thing where those flimsy excuses are constantly threatening to crumble on him, and that thing is loving Crowley.

Can you imagine? Feeling so guilty all the time for loving? They both know how dangerous their relationship is for both of them. They both know that they are constantly one misstep away from risking their very existence just to spend time together. And Aziraphale feels so guilty about loving Crowley, about wanting him, wanting to be with him always, wanting to spend their eternity together just as much as Crowley does.

Crowley is the one thing Aziraphale desperately wants and feels like he can't have without putting the both of them at risk of extinction. Crowley is the one thing that Aziraphale is willing to sacrifice everything for, the one thing he'd give up every single possession and joy in his existence if it meant that they could be together safely once and for all. He's ready to sacrifice everything for the infinitesimal chance that, one day, he might be able to take Crowley's hand, and dance with him, and hold him, and tell him openly and without fear that he loves him more than anything.

Ready to sacrifice it all to make sure that Crowley and humanity will still have a safe place to continue existing without having to worry.

There's so much Aziraphale doesn't say, because to say certain things openly would mean to risk it all, to put so much at stake. I wonder how many times those words have been just on the tip of Aziraphale's tongue, and he had to swallow them. How many times has he gone this close to tell Crowley how much he wants and needs him and just... Couldn't.

And when you spend you whole existence putting those barricades in your own soul to keep those words at bay, to then go ahead and openly admit such a thing...

"I need you!"

I need you.

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