Ya So I Just Finished Season 2 Of Good Omens And Among The Emotional Distress, Heartbreak And Borderline

WAIT ive just had a Thought. AU where, when they are coming up with a noble alias for Lancelot to use so he can become a knight, they end up stumbling upon Gwaine's family crest/history whatever (yeah i know he's technically from another kingdom so this doesn't totally work, just ignore that for a sec). And they're like, "hey, the son of this one knight mysteriously vanished and no one has heard from him in years, he probably won't mind if we steal his identity". So now Lancelot is going by the name Gwaine, and everyone totally buys it, which means Lancelot gets to stay in Camelot and join Arthur and Merlin on all their adventures.

That is, until season 3, when they meet the real Gwaine. Lancelot panics, bc if there are two Gwaines running around then people will figure out what he did and he'll lose his knighthood. Luckily, Gwaine has a brilliant solution: give him Lancelot's name. So now everyone calls Lancelot "Gwaine" and they call Gwaine "Lancelot", and Gwaine and Merlin are absolutely thriving amidst all this chaos, and Lancelot is very, very confused.

Watching AoT with my mom Part 2

So she's been an Erwin stan from the beginning, right, like he's the only one whose name she actually remembers. And we've just reached the choosing Armin or Erwin episode. Here's a little best of of her comments during the whole ordeal:

"Ah! I knew Erwin was going to show up!" "Of course they're gonna turn him into a titan." "It's so obvious he's a titan shifter already, that's why he told Levi to give it to Armin!!!!"

Boy oh boy will she be disappointed once she realizes he ain't gonna come back

I can absolutely not believe my first ever gay ship is competing against one of my newest favourite gay ships in a final of gay ships.

I don‘t even mind who wins or looses, I‘m just absolutely delighted about who the finalists are lmaooo

(and not to mention - the man, the legend, Neil Gaiman himself commented on this makes this post certified iconic) lol that aged poorly af

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Gwain WOULD

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they were on a dinner date in that episode, right?

If I had a nickle for every time a beige-wearing biblically lesser known angel forsook his gay love to take charge of heaven out of naïve motives I‘d have two nickles. Which isn‘t a lot, but it‘s weird that it happened twice.

Not to mention, Crowley hit rock bottom SO OFTEN. First he fell, which he didn‘t mean to, then he‘s forced to do evil for eternity, but it becomes crystal clear right from the get go that he does not WANT to do evil. The earliest insance of this would be the temptation itself, he doesn‘t see what‘s so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway - I don‘t think he would‘ve done it if he thought it was truly aweful. He goes out of his way to save Job‘s children, although he has no connection to them and they‘re arguably just some spoiled brats. (Heck he even saved the GOATS). He shows Jesus the kingdoms of the world not as a temptation but as a curtesy, because he doesn‘t think he gets around a lot.

I could go on but my point is: Crowley is NOT evil. Like, at all. And for someone with a moral compass it has to be hell (lol) to be forced to do evil until times end. And then he saves that girl in Edinburgh and probably gets tortured for however long Aziraphale didn‘t see him. Rock bottom again.

During Armagediddn‘t Hastur finally finds him out and tries to collect him to be destroyed. He has to pull an entire stunt, killing another demon in the process, to make it out of there - just to be rejected by Aziraphale. Rock bottom.

Sure, Azi has faced difficulties as well, but they‘re just never as grievous as Crowleys. Season two ends with Crowley hitting rock bottom AGAIN.

It wouldn‘t make sense for Crowley to be the one facing despair yet again. You can only kick a character that‘s down so often - at some point the script needs to flip so Aziraphale can grow too.

That‘s why I also think it would make sense for Aziraphale to be the one in desperate trouble during season 3. Be it by disappearing or not. He NEEDS to fall on his face spectacularly so they can be equal. So that they can be at the same point in their emotional journey and ultimately FINALLY get together at the same eye level.

"There will come a tempest" scene & possible S3 Crowley & Aziraphale foreshadowing...

When Gabriel is apparently possessed in the second half of Awning of a New Age, he and the woman who appears to be possessing him say something that is strangely repetitive:

"There will come a tempest and darkness and great storms, and the dead will leave their graves and walk the Earth once more and there will be great lamentations."

There is no actual difference in definition between a "tempest" and a "storm." A tempest *is* a storm-- both are wind and rain together. The usage of them is more of a matter of manner of speaking-- it's situational. "Storm" is the common usage while "tempest" is just the more literary, more poetic way of saying "storm." Your local news station reports on an impending "storm" but a poet might call that same storm a "tempest." As a result, the prophecy is weirdly repetitive at the start, right? It really reads like this:

"There will come a storm and darkness and great storms..."

Ok, why repeat it? Why use "tempest" and "storms" in the same phrase? Why separate them? To Crowley? Maybe because whoever this is is trying to warn Crowley specifically of events, not just warn of them in general. Because the word that triggers the whole thing is "tempest"-- and it's Crowley who said it. It's Crowley who called what he just did in Awning of a New Age "a tempest" and not a storm because he's poetic and dramatic like that.

So... what if the first part of the prophecy is actually already in motion? What would this potentially tell us about S3?

What if it's kind of like Agnes Nutter's first prophecy for Aziraphale was in S1-- "...thy cocoa doth grow cold" being about *that particular moment right then* with a difference of it being unclear right now if Crowley really understands that someone is trying to warn him through Gabriel? If this is the case? Then S3 isn't about *preventing* The Second Coming-- it's about somehow trying to *reverse or fix it*... because it's already happening. The tempest is Crowley's storm in Awning of a New Age... which Crowley thinks he failed at but didn't really entirely. It's his failure, in his estimation, to get Maggie and Nina to fully vavoom that causes him to tell Aziraphale that it's Aziraphale's turn to try-- setting up the meeting/ball to go the way it does, leading directly to the end of S2. What comes next?

Darkness and great storms. The end of the world. The dead rising from their graves and walking the Earth once more. The Second Coming. And there will be great lamentations...

Obviously, The Second Coming sounds horrible in GO. It's The Metatron's plan and he's the main antagonist. It sounds like they're going to destroy Earth and the known universe and only the the chosen few will survive it but what intrigues me about this is why whoever is delivering this prophecy is warning Crowley about great lamentations. Crowley is the one who prophesied in S1 that he thought the real war that was coming was "all of us versus all of them", and he meant he and Aziraphale and humanity versus the system of Heaven and Hell. So far, he seems to be correct on that and given that it was a set up line in the final moments of the season for future plot, it seems likely to be true. This would be how he survives it. Armageddon in its S1 round was supposed to trigger a war between Heaven and Hell that could have resulted in Crowley and Aziraphale being separated for eternity after it. They managed to push it off until the end of S2 and now Round 2 is a different flavor of Armageddon. The Second Coming is what Crowley seemed to predict in S1... but someone here is trying to get a message to Crowley and it sounds as if it might be meant for him directly as much as it is for the world. And what might that prophecy possibly be saying about S3's Crowley & Aziraphale plot, specifically?

That after Crowley's tempest comes darkness, comes great storms, comes the end of the world, comes The Second Coming... comes great lamentations-- great grief, great mourning. I'm not saying that Crowley wouldn't be broken by the end of the world but I am saying that someone warning Crowley that in an era of "the saved" being given eternal life, that will Crowley will be experiencing great lamentations feels very much like Aziraphale is not among them. (I am not saying that the show will end like this-- it will be fine.) It also would be the height of irony if Crowley and Aziraphale spent their time together always thinking that they had the about 6,000 years until Armageddon and that it was probably Crowley who wasn't going to make it beyond then and then it turns out that Aziraphale, who always thought that he was the one who was going to spend eternity alone without Crowley if they couldn't figure out a way out of Armageddon... it's Aziraphale who then doesn't make it.

It might also be worth considering that Crowley is the character who was given information along with us about The Book of Life from Beez-- someone who would know and whose memory isn't damaged. He doesn't need this information if he's the one getting Book of Life'd. He needs it if his plot in the future is to try to un-Book of Life someone.

There is also that while Michael was threatening to Book of Life Aziraphale in the bookshop, they didn't just *do* it-- and then The Metatron said that Michael wasn't qualified to do it. I'm not sure how true that is or if it was just him getting Michael to knock it off and stop giving everyone spoiler alerts for his game plan lol but The Metatron *would* be qualified and is the angel associated with The Book of Life in religious texts and S2 ends, as we all know, with Aziraphale getting in the elevator to Heaven with The Metatron.

You know those unused concept art images of the bookshop that didn't make it into S2 where it's the last thing standing in what looks like some kind of apocalyptic nightmare around it?

Crowley saves the bookshop during The Second Coming? Sends as many from Whickber Street as he can to Muriel in the shop and makes sure it survives because he can't see it destroyed again and, in doing so, he might have preserved evidence of Aziraphale's existence enough for a plot to bring him back when he finds out he's gone? (I'm aware that the idea with The Book of Life is that the person is erased from existence and so never existed at all. I'm a romantic and this show is too, really. Aziraphale can't be fully erased and Crowley can't fully forget him. Fight me on it if you want to lol but I also can't see how a plot to bring him back happens unless Crowley somehow remembers him.) S2 also gave us way too many things Aziraphale has made in a way that kind of foreshadow his disappearance in a way that makes their existences more relevant. His sketch of Gabriel. His diaries. The photo Furfur took of him and Crowley in 1941... Then, there's this line. This bloody line:

...and that one...

...and this bit from S1 when Aziraphale is in a state of semi-existence and what can help them is what Crowley saved from the bookshop...

Every good Disney movie has a himbo.

In Encanto? Oh it‘s definitely Mariano. And because I like me a good himbo I decided to add him to my Dolores drawing.

Just wanted to let the world know I finally watched Merlin for the first time and I am furious at everyone who told me to watch it because now I‘ve been crying for two hours and I want more.

Guess who's fallen in love with yet another eccentric, green dressing man?

That's right! Me!

And I definitely want (and need) to talk about Bruno. (Or as I lovingly call him: The rat man™)

So I‘m rewatching good omens with my mom and I‘m hollering because I just imagined the story of season 1 from Shadwell‘s point of view.

Imagine you scam a dude who you think is mafia into paying your rent for sixty years, to the point where the mafia mans son takes over his place as your sponsor. Parallel to that you convince some naïve old bookseller who you‘re pretty sure is gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide to also send you money every month under the guise of providing him with an army. (What in gods name would the pansy need an army for? Who cares, at least he pays amiright). This carries on for decades. Those two couldn’t be more different people. Until one day you walk in on the southern pansy performing what can only be described as a satanic ritual and promptly exorcise him with nothing but your index finger, then return to your landlady (?) who you‘ve been insulting despite clearly being quite fond of her for the better part of your adult years.

Said woman then suddenly becomes possessed by the gay demon you JUST exorcised with your finger, only it turns out he‘s actually a good guy and while still trying to come to terms with the fact that your finger is capable of expelling demons, the world is ending and the woman of your heart is possessed by an angel, said angel promptly orders you to rush to Tadfield on a flying moped to kill an 11 year old boy with nipples all over using a century old cannon that you cannot possibly be sure actually works.

And then, when the day couldn‘t possibly get any weirder, your other sponsor - the scary mafia dude - shows up IN A BURNING CAR (which admittedly isn’t even the weirdest thing that happened today) and isn‘t only acquainted with the gay bookseller but seems to be unmistakenly, hopelessly, ready-to-jump-him-at-any-moment, head over heals in love with him and now you have to third wheel the mafia dude and his boyfriend who‘s currently stuck in your future wife‘s body, only to witness the boy you were meant to kill make up a whole ass new body for the gay angel out of thin air, then tell off his dad - who seems to be satan in carnate - then get told off by his adoptive dad who has about as much of a clue as to what happened as you do. Also your new recruit dips to a small english village because he fell in love with a witch, despite you telling him to set them on fire on sight.

Like if he hadn‘t been utterly mad before, I‘m sure Shadwell would‘ve been at the very least institutionalised after all this.