marauders4evr:

As an avid lover of the ship, I still think this fandom focused way too much on Aziraphale and Crowley and not nearly enough on deep analyses into the core themes of heaven vs. hell vs. humanity.

The idea that the angels in heaven were trying to present themselves as holier-than-thou when aesthetic was the only thing that differentiated them from the demons of hell. The parallels of them both resorting to killing off an insubordinate member. Showing that they’re not opposites but mirrors. Represented by the escalator scene in earlier episodes.

Combined with this idea that Aziraphale and Crowley thought that if they equally influenced the Antichrist, he would have zero temptations, neither of them realizing that if NEITHER of them influenced the Antichrist, he would have zero temptations.

Then you get into the reasons why they wanted to stop Armageddon. How they start by listing trivial things. Sushi. Music. Then they fully realize that what they really want to protect, what they’ve wanted to protect all along, is humanity itself.

And THEN, you realize that they’ve been influencing humanity and the world for six thousand years and that quite literally ever since Adam and Eve, these two have had stakes in humanity. In carrying out their duties in the Garden of Eden, they arguably created humanity. Humanity is theirs and, at the same time, neutral from them.

So you can sort of make the argument that, through a weird butterfly effect, this angel and demon influenced everything that led up to a group of mismatched humans standing on that airbase, making the decisions they made.

And. Then. For the people who are worried about the show being blasphemous (which…yeah…), you have this tongue-and-cheek “I know; I was there” comment that finishes the show, which not only references A Nightengale Sang In Berkeley Square, it implies that all of this may have been God’s intention all along. All of it.

Anyway, I’m writing this all on mobile, but the point is that I get really passionate about the theological debates that Good Omens raises and though I do ship them, I sometimes get bummed that it get reduced to the “gay angel and demon” story when it’s so much MORE.

myoldpseudonym:

westafricanbaby:

They’ve arrested DjSwitch. She live streamed the whole thing. They’ve arrested her and taken her to an unknown location. The soldiers were instructed to shoot her on sight.

westafricanbaby:

The government has turned off the lights and removed all the CCTV cameras, they did this before the military surrounded the protesters. They did it intentionally because they didn’t want the world to see their evil deed. Some people were able to go live on instagram, so we could see, but now the government has shut down all signals to the area so there is no service. All Lagos state emergency lines are off. The soldiers are blocking ambulances from going in to rescue those that have been shot and injured.

westafricanbaby:

I haven’t cried like this is a long time😢. Nigeria is burning.

Today, 10/20/2020 the Nigerian government sent the military to kill unarmed innocent civilians, a bloody massacre.

Every single drop of innocent Nigerian blood spilled will judge Buhari, Sanwo-Olu and Tinubu. They will never know peace. The blood of the innocent will curse them. They will suffer severely before they die.

It is 10pm in Nigeria, these soldiers are still killing civilians.

Please pray for her😭.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/world/africa/Nigeria-protests-shooting.html

the-neon-pineapple:

feynites:

prokopetz:

I just got one of those door-to-door evangelists, and I’ve gotta admit I kind of feel sorry for them - their pitch is, like, hilariously ineffective because they just don’t seem to realise that most folks have no point of reference on what they’re selling. It’s like watching someone try to convince people that they should play Pokémon, except they’re operating under the unexamined assumption that everyone everywhere is already familiar with the basics and just can’t decide which generation is best, so they’re standing there banging on about the finer points of the type matchup grid to an audience whose knowledge of and interest in the franchise begins and ends with “the monster goes in the ball”.

I once completely stumped an evangelist when I was a kid because he asked me if I knew who Jesus was, and I said ‘no’.

“No?” the poor dude repeated, looking dubiously at his companion.

Me being myself, I immediately doubled-down.

“No,” I repeated. “Who’s Jesus?”

This summoned up a long silence, followed by the evangelists asking to speak to my mother or father.

“They’re not here,” I said. Technically also a lie, but my father was sleeping from working nights, and I wasn’t going to wake him up for this.

“Well… um… so Jesus… Jesus Christ? Our Lord and Saviour, Who is the Son of God?” the chatty evangelist tried, looking at me like I was some kind of alien puzzle.

“You mean Hercules?” I responded, for some reason. I still don’t know why.

Another long silence. We were clearly off-script. The chatty evangelist started trying to go through the ‘died for your sins’ spiel, and for some reason, all I could think to do was roll with the angle that I was legitimately unfamiliar with even the concept of Jesus, and had somehow reached the age of nine or ten with only a thorough education on Greek Mythology to serve me in a religious context.

I think the second guy was well aware that I was full of shit, because he kept covering his mouth like he was going to laugh, but the first guy was just caught somewhere between horror and a weird kind of excitement. Like he’d been waiting to finally meet someone who didn’t know ANYTHING about Jesus, just so he could be the first to explain the whole Christianity deal.

Anyways long story short I ended up just trying to tell them all about the Trials of Hercules, like we were just exchanging fun facts we knew about demigods, while the first guy was just adamantly trying to be like ‘no that stuff is made up, but the Jesus stuff is true’, until his friend finally was just like ‘thank you have a good day’ and closed the door and made him leave.

i saw a couple once, clocked ‘em immediately, and said “what’re you boys selling?”

and they set me up for the punchline so obligingly: “oh, we’re not selling anything, ma’am, we’re from the church of—-”

“ah, selling jesus, i gotcha”

their faces. bless their hearts. same deal, one was pure jesus stan 100% of the time, one kept tryna avoid cracking up.

i think it’s Mandatory they send one with a sense of humor and one with a stick up his ass. like a weird evangelical buddy cop set up.

ratliker1917:

i have to admit it’s actually extremely funny how game of thrones completely collapsed as a cultural phenomenon basically overnight due to how fucking bad the last season and ending were, and also how like the showrunners specifically rushed the ending so they could move on to some disney star wars project but the rushed ending was so fucking bad they actually were removed from the star wars thing too.