suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it
I get lost thinking about the journey Crowley makes from Eden to the Apocalypse. I completely adore pre-Flood Crawly, the way that he’s still gleeful and curious about the world. He’s such a wily mischief fluff.
In praise of terrific and deliberate costume design: I can’t believe it took me this long to notice the way he gradually covers up his eyes more and more. After the Flood, she has her head covered. The next time we see him, post-Crucifixion, the sunglasses have arrived. And the specs get progressively larger over time, hiding more and more.
(I particularly love the L-shaped lenses in 1862.)
By the time we reach the Apocalypse, the glasses are opaque and completely closed off. Solid, armored protection on all sides.
(I know I didn’t catch every era, don’t @ me, tumblr gif search is the worst and the general progression seems fairly obvious, especially because of where it ends.)
You can see the progression on Crowley’s face too, of course. Watching Humans being Humans for so long starts to get to a demon. The glasses have to be impenetrable when this is where time and the Ineffable Plan have brought you.
(Got to be careful who gets to see you with the glasses off.)
(Got to have a whole glove box filled with extras so as never to be caught without them.)
There is something carefree about Crowley’s very first park bench scene with Aziraphale, in ep1. But it’s such a different kind of carefree than we used to see before the Flood. It’s world-weary, resigned, cool. He’s seen it all and he knows how the game is played.
This contrast, to me, is so perfect: he’s still Crowley. He’s just been around the block a few times by now.
And even after all of this, he wants to save the world.
OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS POSTCARD FROM 1880 IN THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM ARCHIVES
“festive image of Pleistocene mammals”
“a rink in the glacial period”
THIS IMAGE HAS SINGLE-HANDEDLY PUT ME IN THE FESTIVE MOOD
MERRY CHRISTMAS
I've got so many things to tell you.
七夕快乐!Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!🥳🥳🥳
(well half an hour late but fine)
actually can i have 5 more of these little red head bitches?
#SouthernPansyDIIYS ‘handcuffs’
I just wanted to draw frills, really.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [x]
Added an extra gif now that the DVD has been released to show just how long this kiss was. And because I like seeing all the audience members clapping. Slightly annoyed that the DVD gif doesn’t match the quality of the 1080p trailer gifs but what can you do…
The Good Omens crew had, for the first time in history, received permission to film at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The scene was originally supposed to be the successful first week of Hamlet, with over 500 extras in costume, but the Good Omens team were only given 5 hours to film. They realised it was impossible to shoot, and so Douglas Mackinnon Neil Gaiman rewrote the entire scene and both agree it’s one of the best scenes in the series.