promethia

(The Eden Disorder, by Naumaxia on YouTube.)

I love everything about Good Omens, but if I had to choose one thing, one single thing, it would be that Crowley is the Serpent of Eden. The show means nothing without it.

Do you ever think about how Aziraphale is a huge fan of Crowley's work? The collective output of knowledge and creativity of the human race is the direct result of the Fall from Eden.

( On the subject of the bookshop. )

I know nobody in the Good Omens fandom is at a loss for fic to read, but elisi has just posted a story:

Thou Knowest Us Happy

Summary: ‘Not going to war because they're still in bed at two in the afternoon, with the sheets coiled about their knees, lying there, smoking a Gauloises inside a Gitanes, and sweating Nice Sancerre.’ x

Or: Heaven goes to check on their errant angel. They do not like what they find. Also contains the complexities of an evolving relationship, nice helpings of poetry and 14th century angst.

I do happen to think it perfect, and that's only partially because I've spent the last several weeks of my life attempting to punctuate it. It manages to encompass both Dylan Moran and Catholic mysticism, with all the tonal range that implies. The structure has a kind of eclectic, time-hopping, Moffat-y quality to it. Most importantly, however, is that it is a proper established relationship fic, set several years after the apocalypse, and therefore does things with the relationship dynamics that I've see very few other fics attempt. Aziraphale and Crowley are my favorite 'good and evil' ship by . . . just ridiculous amounts, and this fic explores why in a really beautiful way.

I dearly wish I could wipe it from my brain just so I could have the chance to read it again for the first time. Alas, I've no way to do that, so I need to live vicariously through others. Go and read.

Title: Bring it Home (Sugar Daddy)
Fandom: Good Omens, Aziraphale, Aziraphale/Crowley
Music: ‘Sugar Daddy,’ from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as sung by that other gay angel, Neil Patrick Harris
Length: 4:19
Warnings: It’s a Good Omens vid to ‘Sugar Daddy’ from Hedwig and the Angry Inch . . . YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. (Also some very quick cuts starting at 3:58.)
Summary: “I suddenly recognized the flavor in my mouth: it's the taste of power.”

On Tumblr, On AO3

UPDATE: elisi has written an utterly massive and brilliant commentary for this vid, which also devolves into a general meta about the show and a look at purplefringe's gorgeous Hallelujah vid.

A/N: So, this vid would not exist at all without owlboy. ( Thoughts )

A million thanks to both elisi and owlboy for beta-ing and EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND APPRECIATED flailing.

And last but not least, I do rather consider this vid a companion piece to my Crowley vid Read My Mind.



( Lyrics )

Good Omens is basically just Steven Universe in Judeo-Christian trappings, isn't it?

Corporeally malleable immortal gays from space defying abusive and authoritarian power structures to side with humanity.