Finally! My #dtiys Pride Piece Is Done!

🩵💛 5000 Follower Celebration & Draw this in your style Challenge! 💛🩵

This blog vavoomed from 0 to 5000 in less than a month! If that‘s not ineffable, I don‘t know what is. Thank you for all the love and support you showed my silly, smutty, angsty brainrot corner, for every reblog, comment, incomprehensible scream in the tags (yes I read them all). This community means so much to me.

So, to celebrate, we are having a Draw This In Your Style Challenge!

🩵 The Rules:

Recreate this image in your style! Interpret it however you see fit! 💛🩵 (I will love every single one of them)

Post it with the #vavoomdtiys (and @ me if you like, so I don’t miss it!) OR send it to me in a DM or an ask if you're not comfortable posting it in your account. (Let me know if you're okay with me sharing it or not. I will treasure every entry!)

The deadline is the 25th of december! I will pick two winners, the first place will be one I like best and the second place will be a randomly selected one.

The first place gets to request a full comic page!

The second place gets to request a sketch drawing!

Have fun!!!

I will of course reblog every entry and make a compilation post at the end!!

💛 Bonus Gift!

As a little bonus, I am releasing the procreate brushes I use for free! (Now, you should draw this in YOUR style, but feel free to use them for your submission!)

Here‘s the download on Gumroad (just put $0 to download it for free!) :)

You are all amazing! I‘m so excited to see what you come up with!

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:

Folks let me talk about Crowley and sunglasses, because I have a lot of emotions about when he wears them and when he doesn’t, and Hiding versus Being Seen.

We’re introduced to the concept of Crowley wearing glasses even before we’re introduced to Crowley, by Hastur: “If you ask me he’s been up here too long. Gone native. Enjoying himself too much. Wearing sunglasses even when he doesn’t need them.”

Honestly Crowley’s whole introduction is a fantastic; we learn so much about his character in a tiny amount of time. The fact that he’s late, the Queen playing as the Bentley approaches, the “Hi, guys” in response to Hastur and Ligur’s “Hail Satan”. I like this intro much better than the one originally scripted with the rats at the phone company, but I digress.

Crowley wears sunglasses when he doesn’t need them. Specifically, he still wears them around the demons, and when he’s in hell.

You know where Crowley doesn’t wear glasses? At home.

We never once see him wearing glasses in his flat, except for when he knows Hastur and Ligur are coming. That’s an emotional kick to the gut for me. Here’s one of the only places Crowley’s comfortable enough to be sans glasses, and when he knows it’s going to be invaded he prepares not just physically with the holy water, but by putting up that emotional barrier in a place where he wasn’t supposed to need it.

An argument could be made that Crowley actually never needs glasses. We’re shown that it’s well within the angels’ and demons’ powers to pass unnoticed by humans. Crowley and Aziraphale waltz out of the manor in the middle of a police raid, and going unnoticed by the police takes so little effort that they can keep up a conversation while they stroll through. Even an unimaginative demon like Hastur apparently doesn’t have trouble with the humans losing it over his demonic eyes. The humans in the scene at Megiddo are acting like “this guy is a little weird” and not “holy shit his entire eyeballs are black jelly”

That means that Crowley’s glasses are a choice, just like Aziraphale’s softness. Sure, he could arrange matters so that nobody ever noticed his eyes, but he doesn’t want to. Crowley wants acceptance, and he wants to belong, and he’s never, ever had that. He didn’t fit in before the Fall in Heaven, he doesn’t fit in with the demons in Hell. With the glasses, and with the Bentley and his plants and with the barely-bad-enough-to-be-evil nuisance temptations, he’s choosing Earth. This is where he wants to fit in, perhaps not with the humans, but amongst them.

Even after Crowley is at his absolute lowest, when he thinks Aziraphale’s dead and he’s on his way to drink until the world ends, he takes the time to put a new pair on when the old ones are damaged. He needs that emotional crutch right now, even with everything about to turn into a pile of puddling goo he’s not ready for the world to see his eyes.

Which is why I swore out loud when Hastur forcibly takes them off.

It’s about the worst thing that Hastur could have done. Rather than leading with a physical threat, his first act is to strip away Crowley’s emotional defences. It’s a great writing choice because god it made me hate Hastur, even more than all the physical violence we see him do.

It’s also the moment that Crowley really truly gets his shit together, and focuses all of his considerable imagination on getting to Tadfield and Aziraphale to help save the world. He’s wielding the terrifyingly unimaginable power of someone who’s hit rock bottom and realised it literally could not get any worse than this. He doesn’t put another pair of glasses on after discorporating Hastur, and he spends the majority of the airbase sequence without them.

He puts them back on again, I think, at the moment that he really lets himself hope. When he thinks ‘shit, there may be a real chance that we get through this to a future that I don’t want to lose’.

The vulnerability is back, and he needs Adam to trust him. In Crowley’s mind being accepted by a human means he needs to have his eyes hidden. Someone give the demon a hug, please.

Interestingly, there’s only one time in the whole series that we see Crowley willingly choose to take his glasses off around another person. Only one person he’ll take down that barrier for, and even then he’s drunk before he does it.

Dear God/Satan/Someone that makes my heart ache. Crowley’s chosen Earth, but he’s also chosen Aziraphale. He’s been looking for somewhere to belong his entire existence, and it’s with the angel that he finally feels it.

When the dust settles and the world is saved and they finally have space to be themselves unguarded, I like to imagine Crowley takes off the glasses when it’s just the two of them; the idea of being known doesn’t scare him quite so much anymore.  

I love it, the movements are so nice.

Hey so here is a cute cat omens video I’ve been working on the past few weeks…

“I’m the f***** archangel Gabriel!”

Older drawings, Hogwart and mountains at night

Rare Omens - Prompt Event (Feb 2021)

Many of my GO friends ship A/C (…I don’t think any of my fan friends don’t….?) but also many of us ship two characters (or more) who aren’t exactly the go-to with fan creation. This is for them!

Running the month of February 2021. Fill as many or as few of these prompts as you like. Fan fic, art, cosplay, whatever makes you happy! You’re welcome to create sweet fluff or friendship dynamic for any pairing!

**Everyone needs to be adults if there’s smut involved.**

Don’t like a pair? Show a friendship rather than relationship OR JUST SKIP IT. There’s no need to dump on someone’s enjoyment. DO NOT say “I don’t like this pair” or “I don’t usually like this pair BUT…” Trust us, we know. It’s probably rare for a reason. Anyone who starts trouble, don’t hesitate to block or mute them.

Tag on twitter #RareOmens.

Ao3 Collection: Rare_Omens

Details also at the collection profile here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Rare_Omens/profile

Hello hello!

What an adventure it was to get these done!!!!! But finally, I present you my 2022 Good Omens calendar!

Here the details: 💙

1) The calendars are A3 size and cost £27 + shipping (more on it in a sec)

2) You can order one or more by sending an email to wisesnail.art@gmail.com (until the 15th November).

3) In your email, please provide your full name and address, and your PayPal email address. Please state clearly that your order is for a Good Omens calendar.

4) All payments must be done via PayPal, by the 15th of November (so that I have the time to coordinate the shipping). I will send a PayPal invoice to the email address provided in your order.

5) Please note that I ship from the UK and there might be extra charges if you live in Europe, compared to how things worked in the past.

6) I will ship the calendars using Royal Mail, with the trackable option. According to their website, the difference in costs between tracked and untracked shipping is around £2, and I don't think it's worth to risk it for such a small amount. Sorry if this causes any problems.

Shipping to the UK £7.65

Shipping to Europe £11.70

Shipping to the USA / Japan/ Canada /rest of the world £18.10

Speaking of the bookshop, theories on what could be upstairs?

ooooo the BIG QUESTION.

so we can see a bit of the second floor in all these pics:

basically all we know for sure is there are A LOT MORE BOOKS, both stacked around the railing and on the circle of shelves. neil has decided not to comment on what else might be there (YET 👀) but he’s confirmed that much.

apart from that, we can see from the outside that there are six windows on the second floor:

i’m going to assume they’re part of the shop because they’re Very On Fire when the rest of the shop is on fire. SO. taking all that into account, you end up with something like this:

where the thin grey circle is the railing and the brown one is the bookshelves (as you can see in the first pic, it doesn’t circle all the way around!)

the rest is a complete mystery. i mean i’m sure the actual set was empty because they didn’t need to fill it, but in theory there’s room for some interesting stuff! with the first floor for scale i can imagine a whole flat built around that circle of shelves — a bed aziraphale never sleeps in, comfy chairs, every other angel knick-knack he’s encountered in his life. in my personal headcanon it’s all books and hoarded items covered in dust, which he leaves for authenticity.

thank you for asking!! i’d love to hear other people’s thoughts if they want to share :)

Been working on this for a while and if I don't post it now I never will so here you go <3 enjoy the most self-indulgent thing I've ever spent time on - I just really needed them to hug...