I was taking with my friend about good omens and we were wondering how the hell aziraphale-as-crowley managed to get into that bath without getting his socks wet and so I drew this ‘helpful’ guide.
I like to imagine that all the demons had to just awkwardly stand around watching him clamber around getting into this bathtub… @neil-gaiman can you confirm?
This is even better than the people trying to get Good Omens cancelled on Netflix. I might confirm it when I stop laughing.
I have been thinking about this scene a lot and while I appreciate the OP’s version as well as the very fine illustration, I can’t help but slightly disagree. I have always seen Crowley stand at the foot edge of the tub, raise his arms dramatically, falling backward in slow motion with an evil grin on his face, making a massive splash like the dramatic bitch that he is. It took a minor miracle to not get his socks wet, but it was worth it. Now I need an illustration of the entry I described for comparison…. for science of course.
a comparison! (for science, of course)
…okay, but can we consider this option? for arguments sake?
ignore that i ordered it backwards
I imagined a lot of things while we were making Good Omens. I never ever once imagined this thread.
I need to watch this show but I don’t have Netflix Amazon Prime :(
thousands of christians petitioning the wrong company to cancel good omens has the same energy as aziraphale and crowley watching over the wrong kid for 11 years
Remember when the fucking Notre Dame burned down and everyone knew instantly and it was over every single news outlet?
Well there’s been a massacre going on in Sudan for DAYS and NOBODIES COVERING IT!
So there is currently a media blackout in Sudan to try and coverup the horrors taking place:
Stop what you’re doing and please reblog this. Innocent people are being murdered, people are trapped, have no internet access, and are being raped by the dozens on the streets of Sudan.
The death toll is estimated to be over 300 civilians. And the fact that not a single major news outlet is covering this is horrific and disgusting. Please help get the word out about Sudan!
i was contemplating making this post for a while now but anon convinced me to do it so i’m gonna break my rule of not talking too much about things i don’t like because i want to get this out of my system SO.
the doctor who fandom is in a coma. it’s as close to dead as i’ve ever seen it in all my years as a fan. not just on tumblr. on other platforms as well, and notably on gallifreybase. and i think that’s the biggest testament there is to the quality of s11 (or lack thereof). in terms of writing of course. barely no one is discussing the events of s11. barely no one is writing metas or having passionate conversations about the events and characters. barely no one is getting excited about filming news and (the very few) leaked plot details. the amount of gifsets from s11 isn’t really noticeable from the amount of gifsets from previous seasons.
the 3 main reasons to this as i see them are: 1. overall sub-mediocre writing of s11, with only 3 episodes that really stood out out of 10. that’s a terrible percentage and not enough to make the overall impression of the series positive enough. 2. related to #1 - the finale was, in my opinion, the worst in all of new who. and when the finale is bad, it doesn’t serve one of its most important roles - maintaining interest long enough until the next season airs. (the christmas special should also do that, and it also failed at that, even if i do think it was somewhat better than the finale - it still really wasn’t good enough) 3. the insanely long wait between the previous series and the next. we’ve had long waits before, yes, but we’ve also had better writing to make up for that and the fandom was alive with excitement and speculation. when the writing’s quality is down, a long wait between the seasons is a terrible mistake. (but here i must also acknowledge that each series of who takes an insane amount of work and they definitely need the time to get it right. so again the fault goes to the writing quality.)
i’m hardly the only one out there criticizing chib’s writing. so i can only hope we were vocal enough for our voices to be heard by the decision makers. none of this was said out of hatred for the show or the showrunner (unlike voices heard during moffat’s run). i love the show so much. all the fans do, and we all want what’s best for it. and we didn’t get that in s11. and frankly, it’s not just about us the fans; the first female doctor deserved - deserves - better.
i love jon snow. i really, truly do. but if you think that this show is ending with him as the hero for any other reason besides pure misogyny, you are completely ignorant.
jon does not deserve the iron throne, and he does not deserve to be the hero of this story.
is he a good, honorable man? yes. is he a hero? yes.
daenerys targaryen suffered through a childhood of poverty. she suffered through being mentally, physically, and sexually abused by her brother, her only living family. she suffered through years of assassins being sent to kill her, since she was a baby, simply because of her name. she was sold by her brother to a warlord as a sex slave. she was raped and brutalized. she eventually developed feelings of love for her husband as a means to survive. she suffered through the death of her husband and baby, blaming herself for both and actually having to be the one to kill her husband out of mercy. she managed to do the impossible and emerge from fire with three baby dragons, her children. she lead her people through the red waste, suffering with them as they all almost died of starvation and dehydration. she managed to negotiate her people’s safety in qaarth. she was betrayed by one of her best friends, resulting in the murder of her other best friend and the slaughter of her people. she moved on to liberate cities, free slaves, and execute justice on those who enslaved them.
she had the chance to leave slaver’s bay, to have a fleet and an army to take king’s landing, and she refused. she set aside her one goal in life in order to ensure the end of slavery and gain experience as a good ruler. when she was attacked and betrayed at every turn, her soldiers slaughtered, she refused to give in to the masters. when her dragons, her children, killed an innocent, she locked them away. she tried to negotiate a compromise with the people/masters to stop the killings by the sons of the harpy, only to be attacked and have even more of her soldiers killed. she went against the khalasar who kidnapped and whipped her, wanted to gang rape her, and forever enslave her in the dosh khaleen. she freed the dothraki women from the khals and banned them all from raping and killing. she outlawed raping, killing, and pillaging from the iron islands. she sacrificed one of her children to save jon & co. beyond the wall, against the advice of all of her council. she pledged herself and her forces to jon before he bent the knee. she fought alongside the extremely rude, disrespectful, petty, xenophobic northerners at the cost of her most trusted advisor and over half of her armies.
she lost another one of her dragons and had to watch as her best friend was brutally beheaded in front of her eyes.
she was told time and time again that she was nothing. that she would go mad because her father was the “mad king”, because she was a targaryen, despite everything she’s done to prove herself as a good and just ruler.
and then she learned that the man she loved, the only person truly on her side, betrayed her. and now everyone else she has left immediately started conspiring to kill or overthrow her.
you want to say she went mad because “she’s a targaryen” and then argue that jon, who is also a targaryen, is the hero in the same breath?
why? because he has a dick? because he wasn’t raised by the madness, even though neither was dany?
what about aemon targaryen? visenya targaryen? rhaenys targaryen? alysanne targaryen? baelor targaryen? jaeherys targaryen? daeron II? aegon V? viserys I? viserys II? rhaella? what about them? can she not be good, like them?
all daenerys will ever be remembered as is the foreign whore that brought savages to kill your children, the mad queen that burned cities to ashes even after surrender. for revenge. for power.
all daenerys will be remember as is the woman who gave everything, every part of herself because she wanted a home, only to be betrayed and murdered by the only man she has ever truly loved.
the great house targaryen will die with her.
what was it all for? what was the point of revealing jon’s identity if not for any other reason than to use it as a way to tear daenerys down, destroy her confidence, turn her allies against her? what was the point of their relationship? so that it can be so “poetic” and “devastating” when he kills her? so that jon can “feel bad” and wallow in self-pity for the rest of his life?
what was the point of jon snow? if you think the only character destruction i’m mad about is dany, you’re wrong. what was the point of jon? he doesn’t carry on the targaryen house. he doesn’t rule. he isn’t “the prince that was promised”. literally, what was the point if he just goes back to being the bastard of winterfell, living his life on the wall?
what was the point of jaime? jaime who risked everything to kill the mad king, to save innocent lives, that apparently “doesn’t care about innocent lives”. that after years and years of character development, ends up leaving a woman who loves him despite everything he’s done, just to go back to the abusive sister he finally left.
what was the point of cersei? the true mad queen, as it’s been shown time and time again. who would rather die, see millions die, than lose. who killed innocent people in the sept, leading to the death of her own son. you want me to feel sympathy for her? you want to make her the good guy? play sad music and cry while she begs not to die? (not to mention killing a pregnant woman on mother’s day – that’s a whole other thing right there)
what about grey worm? a character who started as a brutalized slave, meant to show no emotion and care about no one. he went through hell and survived to be liberated, to find love, to find his humanity. only for it to be taken away right in front of him. only for him to dishonor missandei’s memory by losing the humanity he worked so hard for, to kill and kill and kill. because hey, that’s what he was always meant to be, right – a killer.
and missandei? a woman who had been through hell, who was freed from chains only to die in chains.
