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modern day who’s on second

“me saw who! me saw who!!!”

I cannot stop watching this video. It’s fucking hilarious and I’ve watching it’s approximately 20 times already

I love this so much honestly. I can't stop giggling at the utter chaos.

AZIRABIRB HAS HAD ENOUGH OF YA'LLS SHENANIGANS!!!

AND DON'T TOUCH HIS HUSBAND!!!!

I thought I was done with the shenanigans but @nik-knight's reblog made me giggle so here we are!

See the Saga Here: 1 - 2 - 3

me, a grown man with a full-time job and a relatively masculine image to acquaintances, realising seconds after ushering my very conservative 60 year old landlord into my bedroom to have a quick look round that he’s about to witness 30 plush toys on the bed, a cardboard cutout of timothee chalament, and framed art prints of crowley and aziraphale kissing

"You can stay at my place, if you like."

Remember this?

I was wondering today, why do (some) people still think that Aziraphale said this (and many other things he does/says) meaning that he doesn't want to stay at Crowley's place because he's still beholden to Heaven, it would be wrong etc etc.

Just as (some) people say he says I forgive you after Crowley kisses him because the kiss was a sin, a temptation and Aziraphale is offended by Crowley for doing this to him... I'm genuinely perplexed.

He's not saying, Oh, I don't think I should, Oh that would be wrong, Oh, are you out of your mind demon? He's saying: 'I don't think my side would like that.'

He spent 6000+ years worrying Crowley will get punished if their friendship/partnership/Arrangement/love was discovered. His first instinct here is the usual - I couldn't possibly, it would put you at risk.

We've seen how Heaven treats him. We have seen how he lies and deceives them repeatedly; S2 even starts with Aziraphale hiding his former boss from Heaven cos he knows he must be in BIG trouble to show up in his shop and he'll be damned (literally) before he gets them to do as they like with someone asking him for help without knowing what happened.

So why do (some) people assume he's helping Gabe out of some duty TO Heaven?

It's not that Aziraphale is not scared. He is. He knows Gabriel wanted to kill him a few short years before. He is not an idiot (this is a line I seem to be repeating in most of my posts).

He's not as dramatic about it as Crowley, but of course he's afraid. He is not missing Heaven in S2.

He's still terrified of them.

And that's why he's going there. That's why he's going to face his fears and save his life and his love or die trying.

Muriel still has a lot to learn...

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here

Yes, who, Crowley?

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here

Husbands

C: "Did you just shush me?" A: "You shushed me first!" C: "When did I ever...ahh"

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A: "What do you mean I'm being ridiculous with my hand gestures?

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A: 'I wonder how long it will take him to praise me for something for once.'

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'On a scale from one to million, how married are we?'

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'Darling, when did you first realise you might actually fall in love with me?'

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'Hmm, and when did you realise I obviously love you?'

Just a silly lil' parallel thingy cos who actually really works on a Friday afternoon.

I've been rolling around in Good Omens thoughts again and a gifset made something jump out at me.

This is where the Metatron is going to come undone. He's got the same binary thinking as Heaven. Good or bad. Heaven or hell. Coffee or death. So predictable.

It reminded me of the scene in S1 when Aziraphale is confronted by the angels and they tell him "it's time to choose a side" and this is where it gets chewy and delicious.

Aziraphale points out "there obviously has to be two sides. That's the whole point, so people can make choices. That's what being human means - choices, but that's for them. Our job as angels should be to keep all this working so they can make choices".

He's already arguing for humanity all the way through S1, which is a problem, but it's something he's done consistently. Not questioning. Very much, not questioning. Just... offering suggestions. So this isn't news. He's even made these kind of suggestions to the Metatron before, so not new.

At the end of S1, Crowley points out that he thinks the real 'big one' is coming "Heaven and Hell against humanity". Aziraphale has been sitting with that knowledge for years. He and Crowley have been dancing on the edge of disaster with Heaven and Hell turning up whenever they wanted, invading their space, demanding their time and compliance even though they are seen as rogue agents.

Everything in S2 is Aziraphale trying to maintain the veneer of everything is fine while still dealing with the terror of it all falling apart. The "or death" has been hanging over them the whole time. He saw the attempted execution. He's been told by Heaven that Crowley is under threat.

But the thing about Aziraphale is that he never ever does the predictable thing. Yes, he agreed to go back to Heaven. Yes, the Metatron leveraged Crowley's safety against him to guarantee it. The statement of "I don't want to go back to Heaven" turning around as soon as Crowley's safety is brought into it. Yes, he'll be the Archangel.

But this is the angel who gave away his flaming sword and lied to God's face. This is the angel who interfered in a bet between God and Satan to save the lives of three children. This is the angel who collaborated with a demon so they could have more down time. This is the angel who was swayed towards saving the world because he loves his life there and all his favourite foods and music and indulgences. This is the angel who flipped the bird and dive-bombed out of Heaven to possess a medium and fly a scooter to the end of the world.

Whatever the Metatron thinks he's done by separating Crowley and Aziraphale, he has no idea what he's unleashed. Crowley's bee metaphor comes to mind here. Angels are fiercely protective of Heaven but once you're inside? Well, that's another story. Aziraphale may look like a bee, but he hasn't been a bee for a long, long time. They knew it at his trial.

And Aziraphale can't say he didn't warn them:

Heaven's got a big storm coming and they let it right in through the front door.

Good Omens | 2.05 The Ball

Uriel: "Don't think your boyfriend in the dark glasses will get you special treatment in hell."

Aziraphale: boyfriend!

Uriel: "He's in trouble too."

Aziraphale: Oh fuck

oh my god i finally thought of a vampire au that i'm completely unhinged for. i am about to be so insufferable about this

vampire aziraphale x vampire hunter crowley. and no, neither of them realise they're hereditary enemies when they hook up. they're dorks and idiots your honour.

I'm seeing a buncha theories saying that Aziraphale and Crowley have been having sex the whole time. May I please present to you my rebuttal? Here it is:

6000 year old virgins acting like they know what the fuck they're doing would be hysterical.

I wrote this for me. Please be nice.

I love it, it’s so very ineffable idiots

I adore this.

@that-ineffable-devil is my kind of people!

Together?

Aziraphale's desire to be together is so strong it hurts

Ah yes my daily gut punch

Mad Sweeney through the ages

Or, as Bilquis put it: the leprechaun, the hill spirit, the pagan warrior, the madman, and the great and golden king.

I felt like putting together a little quick-ref guide to all the different forms of Mad Sweeney we have seen as of American Gods 2.07, arranged in the order in which he lived them. Because I think it’s a hugely interesting progression and wanted to kind of organize everything we know! My primary source is the show canon, but I’ve supplemented the outline it sketches using additional names, dates, etc., from sources such as the Buile Suibhne, the Irish annals, and the AG novel to clarify details and fill in some gaps.

Of course, details vary between sources. The mutable, inconsistent nature of mythology is a key theme of Sweeney’s journey, and even within the series, the accounts of his backstory repeatedly contradict each other. So ultimately, these are my personal interpretations of what the series has shown us thus far and how I think it fits in with traditional literary/folkloric sources (or at least with particular versions of them).

Lugh, god of the sun, of luck, of the arts, and of kingship; a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann several thousand years ago. (The Annals of the Four Masters put his reign from 1870 BCE to 1830 BCE, making him at least ~4,000 years old, though Pablo Schreiber has mentioned the figure 6,000 in interviews.) Called Lámfada (“long hand”) for his skill with his yew-wood spear; also called the Shining One. Grandson of the giant, one-eyed Fomorian tyrant Balor, who tried to drown him and the rest of his grandchildren in a lake to avoid a prophesized death. Lugh survived, however, and later slays him in the course of driving out the Fomorians at the second Battle of Mag Tuireadh, during which High King Nuada is killed by Balor and after which Lugh becomes king. Sweeney believes Balor to be the source of his predilection for madness. 

Suibhne mac Colmain, son of Colmán Cuar and pagan warrior-king of the Dál nAraidi in Ulaid during the early Christianization of Ireland, circa the 7th century CE. Husband to Eorann, daughter of Conn of Ciannacht. When St. Ronan Finn dared try to build a church, Cell Luinne, on Suibhne’s lands, Suibhne retaliated to the sound of the bells by throwing Ronan’s psalter into the lake and spearing one of his priests. For this, Ronan cursed him to madness, wandering, and death by the spear: “May it be thus that he will ever be, naked, wandering and flying throughout the world; may it be death from a spear-point that will carry him off.” Flees the Battle of Magh Rath after foreseeing his death the night before (as he claimed in 1.07), or after hearing banshees wailing upon his arrival at the field (as claimed in 2.07), or, according to the Buile Suibhne, simply after being driven out of his senses by the frenzy of the battle itself. The Annals of Ulster place this battle in the year 637; the Annals of Tigernach, however, place it in 639 and, intriguingly, record that Suibhne was indeed among those slain.

Suibhne Geilt (“Mad Sweeney”), husband to Eorann and father to Moira. Unlike the other forms we see of Sweeney, which are more separated by time and more significantly transformed, this is still Suibhne mac Colmain. Bereft of his lands and status as a result of his desertion at Magh Rath, where his allies were defeated without his aid, he’s now a madman suffering under Ronan’s curse. In his madness, he is often compared to a bird, living unclothed and “among branches” like one and flying across the world so swiftly that his feet seldom touched the ground. Interestingly, Eorann claims in 2.07 that Ronan cursed him after Magh Rath, as a punishment for his desertion, which contradicts the story about the priest and the psalter that Sweeney recalls elsewhere in this episode.

One of the Fair Folk, in the last twilight days as Christianity was securing its hold on the land and transforming the myths about his kind. One night, he lies with a seer who tells him he will be undone and abandoned west of the sunrise, his fate sealed by a dead woman’s bauble. In some versions of the tale, however, he is murdered that very night in or near the refuge of St. Moling, either on the saint’s order or by his swineherd or cook. Though Sweeney as we see him here is now a fairy rather than a human, the inclusion of Moling links this era of Sweeney’s evolution to the traditional tale of Suibhne mac Colmain and thus illustrates the way in which people’s changing beliefs were in the process of transforming Sweeney from a legendary king into one of the fae. As there’s no mention of him being considered specifically a leprechaun at this point, I wonder whether this might be the “hill spirit” Bilquis refers to, or perhaps, per the novel, the guardian of a sacred rock in a glade.

A leprechaun of the aos sí, the people of the mounds, who live beneath hills. Beyond general fairy folklore, we know little about what Sweeney’s life was like at this specific time, as we glimpse him only on the periphery of the life of Essie McGowan, a resourceful 18th century woman from Bantry Bay who leaves him tribute throughout her life, keeps the traditional beliefs alive, and ultimately brings him with her to the New World. No longer a god, no longer a king, he’s very much being left behind by the world by now and feels even more lost in America. Nonetheless, the fact that he takes it upon himself to collect Essie personally at the time of her death demonstrates his gratitude and affection toward her and reflects his nature as a creature who is simultaneously loyal and fickle, reciprocating what he’s given for good and for ill.

Last but very much not least: Mad Sweeney as we know him today, a jaded, bellicose, fast-living alcoholic leprechaun whose memory of his own past has become incoherent and whose heart and code of honor are buried under a great deal of disillusionment and pain. Lately in the employ of Odin, known to Sweeney as Grimnir, who has promised to give Sweeney a chance to redeem himself in battle for his desertion at Magh Rath.

And as for where he goes from here… who knows? But I very much hope that we haven’t seen the last of this journey, and if we’re lucky enough to see more of him, I look forward to seeing who he becomes next.