Good Omens Fic Rec List 12a

War on the battleground

Imperial roman armor

Give me coffee or give me death

Why I believe the coffee is important…but not because it’s been tampered with. The coffee represents exactly how Metatron manipulated Aziraphale to return to heaven.

Let’s take a look back at that painful final episode.

In Nina’s coffee shop, the Metatron makes an interesting remark: “Do people ever ask for death? The name of your establishment is Give me Coffee or Give me Death. I assume they always ask for coffee.” And when Nina replies that they never ask for death, he says “No I don’t suppose they do. So predictable.”

This is an interesting line! And in my experience, interesting lines don’t show up for no reason. My takeaway from this is that it means when given the choice between a mildly pleasant thing (coffee) and an extremely unpleasant one (death), the predictable choice most people will make is to pick coffee. Here’s where things get interesting. The Metatron proceeds to apply this exact logic on Aziraphale.

Let’s fast forward just a little bit, to Aziraphale’s retelling of his talk with the Metatron. After being offered the position of supreme archangel, Aziraphale initially refuses! He says “but I don’t want to go back to heaven. Where would I get my coffee?” In other words, Aziraphle likes earth and is happy here amongst his people and things. To this, the Metatron responds: “As supreme archangel, you would be able to decide who to work with…” and says that he was looking back at his precious exploits and saw his “de facto partnership with the demon Crowley.” And continues “Now if you wanted to work with him again, that might be considered irregular. But it would certainly be within your jurisdiction to restore your friend Crowley to full angelic status.” On my first watching, I didn’t catch the threat — but it absolutely was one! Because here, the Metatron has asked Aziraphale to choose between coffee and death. He’ll have to return to heaven, BUT he’ll be able to be with Crowley! The alternative is the threat of never being able to work with Crowley again. And just as the Metatron has predicted, Aziraphle chooses coffee. Because to Aziraphale, the alternative would be inconceivable.

Could Aziraphle and Crowley have communicated better? Yes. Should Aziraphale probably have explained the bit about the Metatron threatening to keep them from working together. YEP. But as Maggie and Nina said, communication is something for them to work on (next season, ideally).

Aziraphale and Crowley protecting the Earth.

Jukebox Omens is a community event that is open to all!!!

Choose a song. Any song. Could be multiple. Anything that makes you think of Good Omens. Then make something

We're taking anything and everything, it's all love here. Art, fic, gifs, manips, comics, video, headcanons, whatever you might like to create that's inspired by a song we will reblog it and adore it

Please @ this blog in what you post. I will also be checking the #jukebox omens, tag, but Tumblr is notoriously challenging so an @ would be better. You're also welcome to link me in dms if tagging isn't how you want to play, that's all good

The launch date is the 20th of December! Running until the 20th of January

We are accepting old and new work, but I strongly encourage you to make something new! It'll be a joy to have so much music about

Further details and FAQ will be under a readmore on this post

Get dancing!

You are welcome to post before the 20th of December but I will not reblog it until then

Some goes for old work, you're welcome to link it to me in advance but I won't reblog til the 20th. Could be nice if you want to link me ahead of time tho, we can start with a rush!

NSFW is certainly allowed, I will be tagging appropriately so no one is exposed unwillingly

On that note, angst and whump are also welcome. The only line I draw in content allowed will be work that I deem bigoted or designed to be cruel, but I will be surprised if I see anything like that

In terms of content guidelines I'd ask that, if it is not clear in the work itself, you mention or link to the song that inspired you. I'd like everything to stay reasonably on brand, ya know

If you're sending in headcanons you're welcome to submit/ask this blog rather than post on your own if that's what you're more comfortable doing, but I think it'd be nicer to reblog from other people

There is no limit to people involved or gatekeeping due to quality, everyone is welcome

If I don't reblog your work after a couple days, send me a direct link on DMs, it will absolutely be an oversight and I would hate to miss someone's contribution!

All interpretation of the characters are welcome, tv show, book designs, personal headcanons, go for it

Foreign language songs are totally okay! Up to you if you want to provide a translation, or just let the vibes speak for themselves

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Starting with 8 original Good Omens-inspired shirt designs and more coming in the next few weeks!

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shirts are $30 USD for any size/colour

mugs (11 and 15oz) coming soon (listings up approximately mid-November)

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thank you all for your support! ❤❤

Happy holidays and merry Christmas @lady-divine-writes . I'm your secret santa from the event organized by @mabsgatos .

I hope you like it this little moment of softness with the ineffable husbands : Nap time at the cottage

Gift for my best friend, more CatOmens

Hades/Crowley

Writers and artists, it’s time to get a wiggle on!

Submissions for the TIC 3 Zine close on 17th September which is somehow - we blame Crowley - NEXT WEEK 😱

Details and submission here:

Finally! My #dtiys Pride piece is done!

AHHHHH!!! I AM SO EXCITED TO BE DOING MY FIRST DTIYS

(Do This In Your Style)

I worked crazy hard on this, and I hope you like it. It is a love letter to my community. I love you all so much, you are all gorgeous flowers and you mean so much to me. I know it’s not super traditional in terms of Pride presentation, but it comes from a very earnest place. Six flags are represented by the six flower varieties - ace anemones, pan cosmos, trans astilbe, enby irises, genderqueer blue seaholly, and bisexual hydrangeas. All of these are flowers I love dearly and have growing in my gardens. I know I wasn’t able to cover all the flags - and I am sincerely sorry for that. I only had so much space in the frame and time to work on the piece. For those of you participating in the dtiys, feel absolutely free to switch out any of the the colours/flowers/etc to make the piece more you. I can’t do alllll the flags, but between us all we can!! There will be a prize (possibly prizes?). The deadline for the prize draw is July 31st 2021. I’ll draw a name (maybe names) randomly from everyone who enters by that date. Make sure to tag me so I don’t miss it! I can’t wait to see what you do 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜🖤🤍🤎