IT’S HAPPENING!!!!!

This is not a fake!! Good omens prime also confirmed it!

This is LITERALLY FROM THEIR TWITTER.

@stephrc79 I realised it had the official good omens tag at the top of your screen shot after I'd reblogged it 😂 I've seen so many fake ones I went to Instagram and checked there as I don't have twitter then realised I hadn't actually paid attention. I was just so excited!

IT’S HAPPENING!!!!!

This is not a fake!! Good omens prime also confirmed it!

We all hate the words you’re the bad guys and second in command.

First there was the coffee theory and similar theories -> Aziraphale couldn't have said anything like that, he must have been drugged, he wasn't himself.

Now the lie theory -> Aziraphale couldn't have said anything like that, surely he is putting in action a brilliant plan to save Crowley.

Or…

Maybe he's not completely out of the black and white mentality. Maybe there is still a part of him that believes that Heaven is intrinsically good and angels are holier than thou. Maybe he wants to be a good angel. Maybe he feels guilty for having feelings for a demon. Maybe he believes that Crowley would be happy in Heaven, with him, like they were before the beginning. Maybe he believes that the two of them, in Heaven, would be humanity's best chance. Maybe his expression changed between the talk with Metatron and the one with Crowley, because he convinced himself that the Metatron’s offer could be a solution. Maybe he makes a choice. Maybe he is not perfect. Maybe the whole story is about choices. Maybe he'll figure it out on his own. Maybe he'll take action and we’ll see his character development.

This is my preferred take. From a characterisation and story stand point I think it offers the most profound storytelling options.

6,000 Years of Married Bickering

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I'm showing my age here but when I read the title I thought this was a ninja turtles AU 😂😂

This is Roz Kaveney. We've been friends since 1985, and I can attest that she's been on the right side of history. I learned so much from her:

You should read this article. (And if you do, post your favourite quote or thing you learned from it...)

I leaned that as a British neurodivergent queer woman who has rapidly approaching 40 there have been wonderful women fighting this fight much longer than I realised.

I spent most of my adult life feeling I didn't really deserve to be part of the LGBTQ community because I was bi and had mostly had relationships with men.

It's only since good omens season 1 happened, and I've seen the beautiful creative queer souls that form part of it's fandom, that I truly have been able to explore and understand my own queer identity. Even attended my first Pride. Next year I might even march. I don't feel like I don't deserve to be part of the community anymore.

Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship dynamic fascinates me and what fascinates me even more is how people perceive them, partly because I seem to have a much more optimistic view of their dynamic than a lot of what I read suggests they do.

With that in mind I started trying to unpick how I see their dynamic and why and what I ended up with was a series of rambles on various aspects, including confidence, trust, silliness and what they ask of each other. This one is about what they ask of each other and why their relationship isn't some weird one-sided thing where Crowley gives Aziraphale everything he could possibly want or ask for.

Once more, LOUDER

I agree with all of this and I think it's changes the "you're the bad guys" line in the final 15. Even after leaving they both refer to their respective old sides as your sides. Crowley expresses his disbelief in "how your lot of stayed in charge this long". They've always called each others sides "your sides". It's awful timing but it's not meant in the way it lands to Crowley.

I feel like I want to explain to young tumblr users who weren't born yet that MulderxScully was a revolutionary ship. No, it was not queer but that is not the only way to be revolutionary.

In the 90s when The X Files was airing, media was like misogyny soup. Yes, there were exceptions. But casual sexism was so ubiquitous it was like we were all frogs simmering in it and if you dared to say, hey, uh, isn't this joke a little shitty to the wife? Or maybe this female character could do something other than pose and ask questions so the male lead can answer them? Then you were a hairy feminist outcast loser.

Scully was a lot of things but she was not that. All the "You're not going to believe this, Scully!" memes are based on the fact that Mulder, an attractive white dude, wanted nothing more in his entire life than to share his passions with this tiny redhead. Was he nuts? Yes. But on many other shows, he would have talked down to her, would've ignored her, would've mocked her. He didn't.

When you go back and watch The X Files, there's these moments where Mulder and Scully look at each other like, "wait did Jack Black really just say that" and the significance to fan history isn't just the sexual tension. It's that, yeah, and the origin of the word ship, and the 'will-they-won't-they'. But the most important thing about those looks is how they told the audience that Mulder was looking to Scully for something. A man was looking at a woman and asking with his eyes "what do you think about this?" Was he also saying "and do you want to bone about it?" Yeah, yeah he was. But the first thing was sexy as hell.

Respecting a woman's expertise and folding information she provided into his worldview was a revolutionary thing for a man to do on television at the time. Thank you for coming to my MSR ted talk.

I happened to be writing for a TV magazine back in the early 90s, and remember getting the very first tape (VHS! hah!) of The X-Files to review. I watched it about five times, and of all things that hit me and I couldn't stop squawking about in the article that resulted was the complete upending of the usual dynamic between male and female characters. It wasn't just the respect for Scully that Mulder displayed (even in that first episode where he was deeply suspicious and wary of a new partner being forced on him, and before he had the opportunity to fully appreciate her expertise) but it was the inversion of trope of the unreliable, flighty female and the rock solid, dependable man. A tv show that actually allowed the main lead to have EMOTIONS! That allowed the female lead to be analytical, and head-first, and possibly even smarter than him!

You are a very lucky person if you don't realise just how revolutionary this was.

(And I was a women's studies major at the time, so was pretty steeped in a wide range of media, and still I tell you - REVOLUTIONARY.)

(plus they were both so hot it was insane even before Scully was allowed to dress a little less dumpy scully)

looking back, i'm still really happy with izzy's death. a lot of different opinions have been floating around and, hey, this is mine. hell, his death is one of the main reasons i love this season so much

because season 2 is about ed reclaiming his own identity. he has to become the worst version of blackbeard in order to eventually become the best version of ed. ever since the very beginning he's been yearning for blackbeard's death. yet "blackbeard" isn't just ed's dark side-- it's a two-man-team with ed as the face and izzy holding the reins

in his final moments, izzy admits that he saw the façade of "blackbeard" as a shelter for his relationship with ed. a place where he was guaranteed to have control, where someone would always need him. he did everything in his power to protect "blackbeard" so that nothing could get in between what he had with ed

but "blackbeard" was always a ticking time bomb. not only did izzy not listen to ed, he didn't let ed listen to his own self. he used ed's weaknesses to serve his own interests. it was just a loop of izzy hurting ed and ed hurting him back, but izzy desperately needed to maintain this. it was all he had

and here's my favorite detail in this scene: right after he says this line is when stede comes back on deck. the weird fancy man who came out of nowhere and freed ed from the shackles of "blackbeard", who inadvertently destroyed izzy's world, silently walks in the background as izzy says:

he sees it now. as he told stede at jackie'z, he sees that stede is good for ed and that they balance each other out. he sees that loving stede is the best thing that's happened to ed. the darkness in ed that created "blackbeard" died during the storm and ed slowly started finding himself thanks to stede. sure, their relationship is awkward, but it's looking promising. izzy doesn't have a "blackbeard" to guard or to guide anymore. as he lets death drag him away, he's happy to take the last bit of "blackbeard" with him so ed can be completely free. having received so much love from his new family aboard the revenge, izzy is able to give ed and stede his blessing. it's a beautiful declaration of acceptance, repentance and encouragement

izzy, as a character, serves ed, who himself isn't even the main protagonist. for a supporting character to have an entire season build up to his death, all while allowing him to grow into the most comfortable and confident man he's ever been... getting to have closure and make amends... in my opinion, that's the greatest honor

This!! I just re watched the episode where Izzy sells them out to the English and he says to Ed that when he first joined him he made, Ed made him swear loyalty to his captain above all else. This was Izzy's final act. He stood in the way of the bullet that would have otherwise hit Ed and he took the last of Blackbeard to his grave. Serving his captain to the end!

My Take on OFMD Season Two, Which Nobody Asked For:

Hi all, I’m stepping out of my meme posting comfort zone to actually say something. Please be kind.

On my first watch of S2, in real time as the episodes dropped weekly, I had so many criticisms, some on pacing and the flashbacks, some on characters’ arcs not going how I hoped they would, and of course there was that finale – like many of us I spent all day Thursday alternately crying and vaguely numb.

But I sat down Saturday night and did a full season binge rewatch…and I gotta say I liked it a LOT better. I recant most of my former criticisms. I think they actually did a great job (though of course there are still some things I would have personally done differently if it were my show). I highly recommend a full binge watch, skipping the intros and previews, whenever you feel ready for it.

I posted the above in Discord, with a few people agreeing that they also liked it much better on second viewing, a few people saying it didn’t get better for them on second viewing, and a few people basically saying if you have to binge watch a show for it to be good, that’s not a good thing.

To clarify, I don’t necessarily think that you have to binge watch S2 to fully appreciate it (though I loved the binge watch!). It’s just that we are such an intense fandom, and we had a year and a half where we all got SO involved, and had fan fic, and hopes for S2, and clown noses, and cons, and intense connections to the actors and characters. Then when S2 started coming out in weekly chunks we spent each week worrying and speculating and finding the episodes perhaps weren't what we personally wanted for the characters...I just think all of that colored our viewing. I know now that it did mine. So once the season was over, with more time to digest it free of the worry and unrealistic expectations, I realized via a rewatch that the season was much better than I initially gave it credit for. Personally, I've NEVER gone into a second season of ANY show this way. Like I loved Good Omens and WWDITS, but I didn't feel the stakes were so personal or big going into the second seasons that it colored my viewing. I felt a normal way about the shows and the characters, so I was able to just sit back and enjoy what was presented in the second seasons on first viewing, if that makes sense. And people who loved OFMD S1 but felt a normal way about it were probably able to enjoy S2 on first viewing on the same level I enjoyed S2 of GO and WWDITS.

I've seen a few posts that I think help explain some of the reactions to S2, basically reminding us that David Jenkins didn't write the show to heal all our traumas - he just wanted to do a funny little queer pirate romcom with a diverse cast and creative team. I think because the show had so much representation on both sides of the camera, and so many of us saw ourselves in the queer/trans/older/disabled/finding yourself late in life/etc. characters in a positive way we haven't seen before in media, that we had these unrealistic expectations of what S2 would be. Therefore, it felt so hard and so *personal* that things didn't go well for us when the characters most like ourselves, or that we loved the most, didn't get what we thought they deserved. I think that's big part of the visceral reactions to the show. And I'm not invalidating those feelings at all, they're perfectly understandable! And I understand why some people may never forgive the show and want to leave the fandom, and I wish them only the best as they do what's right for themselves to heal.

But for most of us, I think just some time and distance from all the intensity (and this may take more time for some than others), and the reminder that DJ isn't ACTUALLY our lord and savior sent to heal us all through our television screens, will give us a different perspective on season two. 

And I think we'll all have an easier time going into season three after we gain that perspective.

(P.S. Don't forget we're all banding together to @renewasacrew!)

It's interesting you say this. I came into the fandom 5 days before the final episode of S2, so I binge watched S1 and S2 in like 24 hours. And I have really enjoyed all of it and didn't feel any of the criticisms others did and I wondered if it was because I watched it all in one go pretty much

Let's raise our glasses to Izzy and OFMD creators

I just have to get it off my chest, I understand Izzy's death came as a shock and very upsetting event for many, and a lot of people are going on and on about how he deserved a better fate and how he was not just some tool to serve someone else's story. Please try to calm down and see the bigger picture. 

It is now clear that he was always meant to die. It was foreshadowed in the first minute of the second season, a ridiculous, villain's death. Being the symbolic obstacle to Stede and Ed's happiness. 

Of course that was the wrong way for him to go. When he confessed to his crush Blackbeard he got shot by him, almost died, begged to be killed, and then he even tried to kill himself. Still didn't work. It wasn’t his time yet and that was the wrong way for him to go. When he learned that he was loved and cared for after all, just not in the way he expected, he changed. He became positive, he became forgiving. Then he stopped being miserable he started genuinely wishing for the happiness of others as well, instead of being bitter about it. His death might not have a point but his life did. He had the crew's and Ed's and even Stede's back, and they knew it. As David Jenkins stated, he played the role of a wise mentor that was passing along his life experiences to others. Then it was his time. Also, as foreshadowed, he symbolically took away Blackbeard, and opened a way for Stede and Ed as well.

A happy ending is not only walking off to sunset with a lover, taking up a new job or walking into a house of your family and petting your dog before you close the door. A good death, and a life well-lived is a happy ending. Leaving behind people that loved you is a happy ending. This was a happy ending for him. 

He lived the way he wanted, as a pirate, an infamous one that has received respect and recognition. Then he resolved the parts of his life that became problematic and toxic, he repaired the relationships

my favorite x files episodes are when mulder and scully join a taskforce of Normal FBI Agents on a Normal FBI Operation like busting an organized crime ring or smth. Like imagine you're a normal bureaucrat at your federal cop job and there's two insanely attractive people whispering to each other in the corner of the conference room and you're like "hey who's that" and your coworker tells you "oh that's the Bigfoot division" and you're like "but we're busting an organized crime ring" and then the tall guy speaks up and is like "oh yeah this crime ring is being led by bigfoot. btw"

Was this not how the first X-Files movie started? X-Files is shut down, and they're on a task force investigating a bomb threat and Mulder finds the bomb and then it all turns out to be aliens later on?

Did Aziraphale just check out Crowley's arse when he bent over?

Why, yes. Yes, he did.