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tropes i will never get tired of

fake dating

omniscient narrator who immediately contradicts the characters (“This is fine,” she said. It was, in no way, shape, or form, fine.)

deadpan jokes while swordfighting

the “I FUCKING LOVE MY WIFE” guy

oblivious pining that slowly escalates until A is going on page rants about how pretty B’s eyes are but still doesn’t seem to recognize they’re in love

Strong Leader Type having to physically fall down in order for the other characters to see how exhausted they are

funny villains who talk and make jokes with their heroes while they’re fighting them

the villains presented as the protagonists

*increasingly pulls out bigger and bigger weapons from more unlikely places*

“I said all of your weapons” *pulls out more*

“ALL OF THEM” *pulls out one last tiny dagger*

traumatized character using humor to cover up ptsd

characters going out for a break at a restaurant/movie/whatever and something bad happening

using the “*gasp* what’s that over there???” trick to avert the enemy’s attention and it working

a villain’s weakness being something totally random and nonsensical

a hero duo arguing over who’s the sidekick while fighting a villain

“don’t be silly, we don’t need [important thing]”  “you lost it, didn’t you?”  “yeah”

“what’s the one thing I told you not to do tonight?”  “raise the dead”   “and what did you do?”  “raised the dead”

“I think that went pretty well” *explosion in the distance*

It works both ways

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YOU THINK I’M JOKING BUT I’M DEAD SERIOUS

Just a quick reminder from Aziraphale to let you know that you should drink plenty of water.

If you don't drink enough water, you'll experience very unpleasant headaches, but if you still don't drink water after experiencing those, things will only get worse.

If not for Aziraphale, do it for yourself ❤

Casual reminder that Aziraphale is physically very strong.

My evidence is thus:

That is an effing big rock and he’s carrying it as if it’s made of cardboard. Ergo, Aziraphale looks soft, but can and will carry Crowley if he feels the urge with no visible effort.

I swear if Jon didn't send this to Michael and post it, I'm gonna riot

I don’t see this image posted enough.

Undeniable Proof that Aziraphale is That Bitch™

Over the last couple of nights, I’ve been skimming my copy of Good Omens again, because so many people in the comments of my other post were somehow surprised by the suggestion that Aziraphale might be a garbage angel. But like… He is. He really is.

So here, an itemized list of Aziraphale being absolutely Extra (capital E) with evidence:

1) That time he chose his CD player over Heaven.

“That’s it, then,” said Crowley, with a gleam of triumph. He knew Aziraphale’s weak spot all right. “No more compact discs.”

2) That time he lit a traffic cop’s ticket book on fire because he didn’t want to pay a fine.

As they drove past an astonished traffic warden his notebook spontaneously combusted, to Crowley’s amazement. 

“I’m pretty certain I didn’t mean to do that,” he said.

Aziraphale blushed. “That was me.”

3) That time he collected Bibles, but all of them were evil.

And he had a complete set of the Infamous Bibles… These Bibles included the Unrighteous Bible… the Wicked Bible… the Discharge Bible… the Buggre Alle This Bible…

4) That time even the apocalypse couldn’t dent his manicure or his obsession with occult prophecies.

No one knows what happened to the legions of unsold copies of Agnes Nutter’s book. Certainly none remain in any museums or private collections. Even Aziraphale does not possess a copy, but would go weak in the knees a the thought of actually getting his exquisitely manicured hands on one.

5) That time he may or may not have done… something ominous to the mafia.

Or sometimes, while they were talking, other men in dark glasses would wander around the shop shaking their heads and saying how inflammable paper was, and what a firetrap he had here.

Aziraphale would nod and smile and say that he’d think about it. And they’d go away. And they’d never come back.

Just because you’re an angel doesn’t mean you have to be a fool.

6) That time he was just an absolute mannerless heathen.

“You said it was him!” moaned Aziraphale, abstractedly picking the final lump of cream cake from his lapel. He licked his fingers clean.

7) That time that he actually considered moving to Hell with Crowley.

“I suppose–get off the road you clown–” Crowley said, “your people wouldn’t consider–and the scooter you rode in on!–giving me asylum?”

“I was going to ask you the same thing.”

8) The raw confidence it took to deliver THIS:

“Some Southern pansy,” Shadwell said, “I heard him. He was in here, suggestin’ things to yer. I heard him.”

Madame Tracy’s mouth opened, and a voice said, “Not just A Southern Pansy, Sergeant Shadwell. THE Southern Pansy.”

9) That time the line “You go too fast for me Crowley” was amusing to any book reader who remembers book!Aziraphale beating Crowley’s top speed by over 90mph while driving a scooter:

Look at Crowley, doing 110mph on the M40… …This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scooter. And it probably wasn’t going at more than two hundred miles per hour.

10) That time his sass game was so strong even Crowley had no answer.

“We seem to have survived,” Aziraphale said. “Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.”

“Um,” said Crowley.

And this isn’t even mentioning the time he left a loaded gun in the hands of a sugar-high 11-year-old, was the only main character responsible for actually killing an animal, dropped the book’s one (1) F-bomb, manipulated a human into agreeing to murder a child, performed what looked exactly like a demon summoning ritual, lied to God, and broke the first commandment…

TL;DR: Aziraphale is a L E G E N D and Crowley legitimately wishes he could be this cool.

Crowley smiling because of Aziraphale (requested by anonymous)

Things I’m glad the Good Omens TV show gave us

-A full 2 minute theme song with a rock ‘n roll guitar version

-A script written by Neil Gaiman the Nocturnal Man™️ himself

-Michael Sheen aka the biggest Aziraphale/Crowley shipper ever to walk the surface of this Earth

-David Tennant aka Hips for Days™️

-YOU’LLLLL BELIEVE GOOOOOD IS A WOOOOOOMAN

-Michael Sheen dancing the gavotte (and david’s terrible disco omg)

-“We can go off together” and the sequel “We can run away together”

-The three (3) times people assumed Aziraphale and Crowley were a couple and the zero (0) times they corrected them

-Crowley making a dramatic gay exit from the flaming remains of Aziraphale’s bookshop while “Somebody to Love” blasts in the background

-Queen Queen so much Queen

-Crowley sobbing over aziraphale while wasted in a bar (“I lost my best friend”)

-“Uh... Okay, so, uh... in the beginning, in the Garden, there was.... Well, he was a... wily old serpent, and I was.. technically on apple tree duty...” aka one of the most Married™️ scenes in Good Omens

-When Crowley stopped time simply because Aziraphale threatened to never talk to him again (mAn that scene was gOrgEOus omfG)

-A Benedryl Cambersnatch cameo

-Having a defined gender????? Don’t know her (@ Crowley, Pollution, Beelzebub, the Angels, ect)

-The body swap

-“To the world” aka the SOFTEST scene go ahead and @ me on this one

-Tori Amos with “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”

Humans are obsessed with the idea of angels.

Crowley walks down the street and sees a mural painted on a brick wall. Warm, ethereal light radiates from the being dressed in white. A halo hovers above their hair and white wings spread from their back. Their expression is one of love as they look down at the small orb that is Earth in their hands.

He sits on a bus, on a park bench, in a forgotten little diner, waiting on an old friend, and overhears the conversations.

“Ya got a guardian angel, Rob, I’ll tell ya tha’ right now,” says an older man to his friend. “No way you woulda survived otherwise.”

A woman wearing a symbol of her religion says to the little girl beside her, “Don’t worry, sweetheart. The angels are watching over your mother while you’re not there. We’ll visit her again tomorrow, I promise.”

Again and again. People of all shapes and colors and creeds talking of angels. In the eyes of humans, angels are kind. They are loving. They are gentle.

The cynical part of Crowley–the true demon within his self–wants to laugh cruelly at how naive humanity is. 

Angels are none of the things they think; they are just as cruel as demons, just as self-absorbed as Narcissus, and they care very little about humanity itself. The only real difference between the angels and demons, honestly, is that angels have the backing of God.

But there is a softer side to Crowley, too, and every time he hears talk of angels, it glows warm and bright inside him like the embers of a fire when life is breathed into it anew.

Because humanity did not just make these ideas up itself. No, throughout history, humans have shaped their ideas of angels based on interactions with one angel in particular. An angel who’s been assigned to watch over them, who’s been tasked again and again with showing them God’s power through miracle.

And that angel…that angel is everything that humans think of when they think of angels. That angel is gentle and loving and kind, that angel balks at violence, that angel nurtures and protects.

When humans talk of angels, Crowley doesn’t think of Gabriel or Michael, he doesn’t think of Uriel or Sandalphon. 

When humans talk of angels, Crowley thinks of Aziraphale, and he smiles.

GAY RIGHTS!

(video credit to @glitteryloser on twitter)

Hell: are consorting with an Angel?

Crowley: yes? Are all you slackers not out there seducing any Angels? You got no game, is that it Hastur? You hating on me because you can’t get any Angel to feel an ounce of Temptation? Tell me, how’s it feel to be so unsexy you try and make one of my greatest demonic acts look traitorous?

A demon can get into a lot of trouble for doing the right thing.

“It’s me again. I need someone to be my friend. Maybe send me an Angel. The nicest Angel you have…”

I'M CHOKINGHAHAHSJKDKDJDJEBSUHS

Gabriel’s nose has been broken on at least 27 separate occasions and Crowley has a list of all of the occasions.

In no particular order…

Arrived at Beelzebub’s office without warning. Beez was taken by surprise and hit him. His nose bled for quite a while before they got fed up and willed it to stop.

Once in the 19th century, he showed up, again unannounced, at Aziraphale’s “discreet gentlemen’s club.” He was dumb enough to make some kind of homophobic comment. And was promptly knocked out.

A few were however self inflicted, like the first time he attempted to open a door and hit himself in the face.

And the time he miscalculated his teleportation game and ran smack into a wall.

And the time Aziraphale had moved a few shelves around and he wasn’t aware, and teleported into the shop only to bust his face on a shelf of Dickens first editions.

But most were done by other people. Once he teleported up behind Aziraphale and got hit because Aziraphale happened to be reading a ~scary story~ late at night and wasn’t expecting any visitors.

He tried to touch Beez’s sash or one of their medals once while telling them “how cute and tiny” they are, and they got fed up really quickly.

Touched a pregnant lady’s belly one time without her permission and said some freakish thing about when he went to tell the Virgin Mary she was pregnant.

Touched a NOT pregnant lady’s belly one time without her permission and made the same freakish comment, thinking she was pregnant.

Back in the day, appeared once to Jesus and said something ridiculous that the J man would not stand for and got hit.

Showed up at Sodom and Gomorrah and said a comment very similar to the one he made centuries later at the gentlemen’s club (he doesn’t learn). Of course, got hit.

Touched someone’s shoulder on the train to ask them a question. That person just happened to be having a bad day.

Tried recreating the “The Hills Are Alive” scene from The Sound of Music, and ran into a fucking pole.

Told a guy in the park (not Aziraphale) he should exercise more. Got punched.

Showed up unannounced while Aziraphale was eating, got elbowed in the face by accident when Aziraphale swung around to face him.

Told a guy in the park (Aziraphale this time) he should exercise more. Got ambushed a few minutes later by Crowley, who punched him in the face and ran away before he saw who it was.

Somehow said something so asshole-ish he provoked a Buddhist monk to break his vow of nonviolence and beat the shit out of him.

Also got hit really hard one time by a nun in a convent sometime in the 12th century.

And a Christian monk in a monastery, just a few days after that.

Hit a third time by Beelzebub for trying to kiss them after agreeing to “do some more human stuff, you know, to blend in,” while having their secret meetings. He thought they meant like PDA, they actually meant like drinking or eating food.

Was also once hit by a screaming Hastur who he frightened by appearing in the wrong room in Hell one time.

Was once hit by a Starbucks barista who was just trying to do her job, when he suddenly appeared right next to her. Not only did he have a broken nose, he also got some pretty bad burns from the coffee that went all over him.

Went to Viking age England, was mistaken for a Viking because he was unusually large and unusually clean. Was beaten up by a group of young Anglo Saxon soldiers who weren’t taking any chances. Aziraphale was standing on the other side of the road and saw the whole thing, but of course did nothing.

Appeared to Adam Young and the Them some time after Armageddon. They took it as a sign something was up again and without a second thought, Pepper chucked the skull from their hideout at his head.

Tried to talk to King David of Israel about his questionable relationship with Jonathan. Crowley was there (he was a member of the court, obviously), and got to see the guards take down the archangel as soon as he started to approach the King.

Appeared in the WRONG Soho establishment sometime in the 70s. Got beat up by a stripper who felt threatened by his sudden presence right beside her onstage.

Later appeared in the right Soho establishment. It just so happened that Shadwell was there at the time to pick up a late payment and was not expecting the sudden presence of a tall, obnoxious American behind him.

... Yes, I love men over 45.

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

gabriel: last year, we lost our dear friends Aziraphale and Crowley-

crowley, from the other end of the table: QUIT TELLING EVERYONE WE'RE DEAD!

beelzebub, wiping their eyes: sometimes I can still hear his voice

Fucking bastard

the concept of aziraphale, inhumanly strong and capable of bending reality with a thought

making like a victorian maiden by pretending to have the constitution of those dying of consumption just because he gets a kick out of how he can bat his eyes and have crowley do anything

really just gets me, like, every single time

How strong is Aziraphale?

Let’s estimate how heavy is the rock that Aziraphale is lifting in the garden of eden’ scene. Based on the footage we have, I will approximate its shape to a trapezoidal base prism (more specifically, its base is a trapezoid rectangle).

To discover the base measurements, I will use this scene (because is the one where he is closer to the stone, minimizing camera effects)  and Mr. Sheen height (1,78m) to do some pixel measurements.

Some math later and using the fact that two edges of the rock accompanies the junction of the larger stones I managed to get the height and smaller base of the rock, but I still needed the other side and the bigger  base.

For this, I measured the angle shown. With these informations and trigonometry, I concluded these are the base’s measurements. Now, for its depth (this one was hard and probably the source of possible errors), we need some considerations. 

Based on other scenes from the wall, we can safely say that this stone does not represent its thickness. However, we can see the inside of the wall, which is made of three to five layers of pre cut blocks. 

I am assuming, now, that Aziraphale’s stone has the depth equivalent of the first outside layer that we see, since antique stone constructions don’t use mortar and the piece could fairly “break” in that spot. 

Thanks to our adorable Eve, we have a scene to make some pixel measurement using her hand as reference (an average woman hand has a length of 17,27cm) and I concluded that the stone’s length is 28cm.

Using the right volume formula, the result is V=0,03087m^3.

Now, we need to estimate its density. According to some proposed locations, the garden of eden is  in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Based on the book “Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence”-Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, the primary construction stones of this region is limestone and gypsum. 

The density of limestone (the most probable one) is 2711kg/m^3, which results in a weight of 83,69kg for our little angel to lift.

To sum up, Aziraphale is lifting approximately 83,69kg (184,5 pounds) without using any knee technique and without even looking discomfortable. Maybe the buff angel we see in the storyboards is not so off, after all.

to me, the big divergence between book omens and tv omens in regards to aziraphale and crowley’s relationship is this

tv omens: 6000 years of pining, nerds who can’t communicate but everyone knows they’re in love anyway, paranoid about their respective sides finding out, fuel for a billion confession fics that are all amazing ngl

book omens: have been married since 4003 BC and get married again every couple of centuries for the sake of aesthetic, knows no one is watching them so they take every opportunity to be incredibly married-for-a-million-years in public

Hogwarts au bebeh

I like the idea of Crowley wearing pink funky circular glasses don't @ me oki-

Good Omens ships names

Aziraphale/Crowley: Ineffable Husbands 

Gabriel/Beelzebub: Ineffable Bureaucracy

Anathema/Newton: Ineffable Descendants

Hastur/Ligur: Maggot Husbands

Lucifer/Michael: Ineffable Rivals

Moods

I just really like the idea of Gabriel and Beelzebub going out to get coffee together every week or so. Just to vent about their jobs and subordinates and humanity. 

and like, they go to the same cafe every time and they use this time and place to navigate how to pass as humans.

(under cut because it got a little long)

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I ACCEPT!!!!!

Imagine an AU where: 

It’s post-Armawasn’t, Crowley and Aziraphale are bopping around London when they both suddenly feel a surge of demonic and angelic energy. For a few minutes they’re legit fearing for their lives until they round a corner to find Gabriel and Beelzebub messily* sucking face

*They haven’t quite figured out how everything works with these squishy bodies yet

Cue absolute rage on Crowley’s part. Armageddon aside, everyone knows damn well they were targeted for being friends and now here their bosses are, climbing each other like forbidden apple trees and moaning loud enough to scare off alley cats. They tried to burn Aziraphale and now here they are acting like a couple of love-sick mortal teens? The absolute HYPOCRISY

Crowley’s about to go in swinging with a bat he conjured up when Aziraphale beats him to it. He calmly—but with an air that makes both lord and archangel still—approaches and announces that yes, they saw them. Yes, Aziraphale has photographic proof (he shakes the ancient Nokia that he’d used slyly on the fly and Crowley is suitably impressed). From here on out if you ever approach us with anything other than an apology we will send these to both God and Satan themselves

Zira-Just-Enough-Of-A-Bastard-To-Be-Worth-Knowing-Fell just accomplished his first blackmail and Crowley has never been more turned on in his life

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Hey so I’m not sure why it didn’t post the first time- but uh whatever

I KNOW INEFFABLE HUSBANDS IS MY MAIN SHIP RIGHT NOW

But please consider these two -

They’re quite fucking adorable

10 ways in which fans rewrite their favourite television shows:

1) Recontextualization - the production of vignettes, short stories, and novels that seek to fill in the gaps in broadcast narratives and suggest additional explanations for particular actions.

2) Expanding the series timeline - the production of vignettes, short stories, novels that provide background history of characters, etc., not explored in broadcast narratives or suggestions for future developments beyond the period covered by the broadcast narrative.

3) Refocalization - this occurs when fan writers move the focus of attention from the main protagonists to secondary figures. For example, female or black characters are taken from the margins of a text and given centre stage.

4) Moral realignment - a version of refocalization in which the moral order of the broadcast narrative is inverted (the villains become the good guys). In some versions the moral order remains the same but the story is now told from the point of view of the villains.

5) Genre shifting - characters from broadcast science fiction narratives, say, are relocated in the realms of romance or the Western, for example.

6) Cross-Overs - characters from one television programme are introduced into another. For example, characters from Doctor Who may appear in the same narrative as characters from Star Wars.

7) Character dislocation - characters are relocated in new narrative situations, with new names and new identities. 

8) Personalization - the inserted of the writer into a version of their favourite television programme. For example, I could write a short story in which I am recruited by the Doctor to travel with him in the TARDIS on a mission to explore what has become of the Manchester United in the twenty-fourth century. (However, as Jenkins points out, many in the fan culture discourage this subgenre of fan writing.)

9) Emotional intensification - the production of what are called “hurt-comfort” stories in which favourite characters, for example, experience emotional crisis.

10) Eroticization - stories that explore the erotic side of a character’s life. Perhaps the best known of this subgenre of fan writing is “slash” fiction, so called because it depicts same-sex relationships (as in Kirk/Spock,etc.)

- Henry Jenkins Textual Poachers pg 162-177

Reblog If...

If you’re a fan of something but the fandom is problemaitc 

If you love a series but are unable or too lazy to follow every detail of it 

If you love a series but are sick the fuck tired of discourse 

If you’ve had to step away from a series due to the fandom sucking ass 

If you’re tired of seeing inappropriate fanart of underaged characters

If you’re tired of the creators of a series being bullied by members of a fandom

If you’re so late into a fandom there’s no one your age who likes it

If you’ve ever felt like the only person in the world who loves a series

If you love an abandoned series

If you’ve ever made an OC(original character) for a series but not include anything of the main cast/plot. 

If you have a self insert character and you’re not ashamed of it

If you’re fed up with shipping being more important than story

If you think fandoms should calm the fuck down and just enjoy a series instead of feeling as though they’re entitled to it or own it

GOOD OMENS + Tumblr Year in Review 2019

Good Omens is, at its heart, a cosmic gay rom-com, with bad-boy Crowley tempting Aziraphale to get out of his comfort zone and enjoy life, while Aziraphale simultaneously lures him into being a better, less selfish person.

The duo haltingly come together, fall apart under the strain of the events around them and their conflicting moralities, and inevitably come together again to save the day and each other. The rifts in their relationship are felt far more keenly than any instance of demonic mass murder. Their story is so bright and captivating that it’s well worth watching, even if it makes the rest of the show pale by comparison. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge