“You had ONE job!” both Satan and God scream at you.
Good Omens
If you’ve never read the book Good Omens, let me tell you what you’re missing
-An angel who is so goddamn lazy that he makes a deal with the demon he’s supposed to be thwarting so that neither of them have to do any work and he has more time to spend running his bookshop, and who wants to stop the Apocalypse because he loves sushi
-A demon who pretends to be suave and cool but who really just geeks out over his car and loves James Bond and listens to nothing but Queen and thinks gluing coins to the sidewalk is proper demonic activity
-This angel and demon are probably not gay for each other but I mean they’re holding hands on the cover art.
-This angel and demon try to stop the apocalypse but they fuck up so badly that they do literally nothing useful the whole book and somehow it’s still all about them.
-Technically it was the Satanic Nuns who fucked up, but we don’t really talk about that.
-Death (the horseperson) playing a trivia videogame in a diner.
-The four extra horsepersons that were never mentioned in Revelation.
-The antichrist who almost destroys the world because he wants to save the whales
-The only piece of fiction I have ever seen besides Supernatural that somehow manages to include both the Christian apocalypse and space aliens.
-The context of the phrase “gayer than a tree full of monkeys high on nitrous oxide.”
Who was Adam Young’s infernal mother???? Like was there some demoness who got a really important job or did Satan go to some random human woman like “hey wanna be the evil Mother Mary?”?? Or did he create Adam by like….budding or something?
yeah i’ve been thinking about it a lot too
What’s your fucking problem??
If you don’t like his music, you don’t have to listen.
oh. oh my god. I’m so sorry
I 100% can’t tell if you’re joking or not but we’re not talking about Adam Young the American singer and songwriter behind Owl City
We’re talking about Adam Young the fictional antichrist from the 1990 British absurdist comedy novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
If you’ve never read the book Good Omens, let me tell you what you’re missing
-An angel who is so goddamn lazy that he makes a deal with the demon he’s supposed to be thwarting so that neither of them have to do any work and he has more time to spend running his bookshop, and who wants to stop the Apocalypse because he loves sushi
-A demon who pretends to be suave and cool but who really just geeks out over his car and loves James Bond and listens to nothing but Queen and thinks gluing coins to the sidewalk is proper demonic activity
-This angel and demon are probably not gay for each other but I mean they’re holding hands on the cover art.
-This angel and demon try to stop the apocalypse but they fuck up so badly that they do literally nothing useful the whole book and somehow it’s still all about them.
-Technically it was the Satanic Nuns who fucked up, but we don’t really talk about that.
-Death (the horseperson) playing a trivia videogame in a diner.
-The four extra horsepersons that were never mentioned in Revelation.
-The antichrist who almost destroys the world because he wants to save the whales
-The only piece of fiction I have ever seen besides Supernatural that somehow manages to include both the Judeo-Christian apocalypse and space aliens.
-The context of the phrase “gayer than a tree full of monkeys high on nitrous oxide.”
there are no lies in this post
GO READ THIS MASTERPIECE RIGHT AWAY. The Ghost of Sir Terry Pratchett demands it.
This was my gateway to both Pratchett and Gaiman and OH MY DUDE
@amythe3lder – Same. And I have never laughed so hard reading a book in my life.
what do you mean ‘probably not gay for each other’
FIGHT MEConsidering that “unless they really want to make the effort” line, I think we can extrapolate that they’re a pair of genderfluid demisexuals. I don’t know if that makes them “gay” or not though, angels are kind of in a category all on their own. “Queer” I would say, certainly.
Don’t forget the part where the possibly gay for each other angel and demon get drunk and have a discussion about the intelligence of dolphins.
That’s my favorite part.
