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Brandi 🌜she/her🌞I'm SLIGHTLY obsessed with Good Omens and I make art/write about it. I make a little OFMD art, too.

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Oh, hello! Nothing to see here, just another victim of Good Omens. Crowley and Aziraphale have me in a damn chokehold and I'm here to add to the brain rot further by gobbling up all of your beautiful art, poetry, fics and thoughts about our divorced dads and sharing mine as well. Once in a while I make art that is not GO-related, but it's mostly OFMD because Ed and Stede are my other dads and I love them so much.

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I categorized and linked my Good Omens fics from AO3 below so you don't have to scroll through all of my shit. If you want to scroll through all of my shit, click the master link below.

Sad/Hurt/No comfort 🥺☹️😥

Smut-Free/Angst/Happiness 🧼😩☺️

Letters Unsent (5,244 words)

War of Hearts (7,086 words)

Again? (881 words)

Trust Me (1,085 words)

SMUT/Angst/Happiness 🫦😩☺️

Send Me An Angel (3,327 words)

Who Looks After You? (2,309 words)

A Novel Idea (2,350 words)

Be well. ❤️

Love, Beet
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After the Good Omens finale airs:

I am hoping that they give us an ending with potential for many more fanfics, fanart and creative endeavours, so that the fandom may live on for many years yet. This fandom is like home to me. I’m not ready to lose it.

Fandom granny here, with a little primer on the lifecycle of a fandom.

After the finale:

  1. There will be two simultaneous explosions - one of fic, one of flouncing, the same two things that greeted the first two seasons. (Remember the whole “It wasn’t gay ENOUGH in the ways I wanted their relationship to be depicted!” tempest after S1?) There’s probably also going to be A. Lot. of meta speculation on what was planned in the original 6 scripts v how the Pratchett estate handled it. Expect many references to Discworld.
  2. The overall fandom will continue hot and strong for at least 5 years, at this level of feverish participation. It may even pick up a few people who weren’t going to join mid-story.
  3. Around years 6-7, things will cool off as fans start to migrate to a new show that scratches the same itch. (I’m sure you’ve already noticed the huge overlap between Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death fandom.) Conventions will quietly end their runs.
  4. Around year 8 the fandom will have contracted to whatever it’s going to be and - take heart in this - that is where it will stay. For decades.

I’m going through the final contractions of BBC Sherlock fandom right now, and still mourning that I won’t be able to attend the final 221B Con and give the fandom a last farewell. But the fandom is still going. AO3 shows 18 fics have been posted/updated in the last 3 days. (Yes, once it was 18 an hour, but still. Fic is being actively written.)

And HOW LONG has Star Trek, The Original Series been chugging?

Fandoms do not die, my dears. They get smaller, but they Do. Not. Die. In 10 years, 20 years, there will still be fic, new fic. As long as the phrase “GNU Terry Pratchett” holds meaning, the lights in a bookshop that doesn’t sell books will never go out, and the door will always be open for anyone who wants to be inside.

Some fantastic insights, and you made me cry 😭😭😭 thank you Fandom Granny!! 🥹🙏

- Fandom Mom ❤️

I often call myself a fandom Nanna but considering we have Granny and Mum taken care of, perhaps I can self appoint as a fandom Aunty (yes the oddball one but I'll spoil you rotten) for the sake of adding:

Yes to all these wonderful points and also, as long as these stories live on, new people will discover them and be as excited as we were when Good Omens first hooked us and they will seek out all the fics and the art and the blogs.

There will be little resurgences every time something happens to inject new interest in the series.

One of the loveliest things about fandom is that yes, it will eventually contract to a new "normal", however any time something happens- it might be the anniversary of the finale or the release of new bts footage or an interview or anything-even those whose focus is now primarily elsewhere will jump back in and it's honestly like a joyous reunion.

I have fandom friends on here from multiple fandoms and I adore seeing how passionate they are about shows and ships and ppl I don't know anything about but as soon as anything relating to our old fandom pops up, it's like a party on my dash.

And the other thing is, this fandom has taken Good Omens and these characters and through the incredible fanworks and metas, made them into something so much bigger than the source material. I truly believe that because of this, their stories and the choice to continue to engage in new and exciting versions through all the works that will continue to be produced, will mean we are never left wanting for content.

Fandom spans so much more than the show or the original source material, as I think we've seen. So while it may look and feel different after a while, it's not going anywhere 💛

I just don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Like, most of the GO fics I've written were fix-its for the end of season 2. I don't write AU fics. I write about THEM—Crowley and Aziraphale—as they are. I think it's awesome that other people write AU, I just feel like I'm not creative enough to come up with a good one. I'm assuming that the end of season 3 will be satisfactory because PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF FRANCES MCDORMAND IT HAS TO BE. I'm sad thinking about it being over. Will I feel less inspired? I suppose I'll still want to draw/paint their lovely faces.

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Sexiest Old Man Tournament: FINALS!

It all comes down to this... Who is hotter!?

Well it’s time. The final round. Unfortunately I think it’s obvious who is going to win. And I. Do not. Care. For it.

In any case, Michael Sheen fans, get your votes out!

Don't get me wrong, Mads is sexy. Sexier than Michael Sheen though? That's gonna be a nyet from me, dawg.

So, apparently there are certain things you can do as an author that will get AI flagged and I did not know this. I wasn't even aware that people were using AI to write fanfic. Drawing, painting, writing, and just generally being creative keeps me sane. Based on what I was reading, I use a lot of the things that would get me flagged, such as the Oxford comma, semicolons, and dashes. What??? Here is me telling you that, if you have ever read anything I've written, I have never and would never use AI to write fanfic. Every last shitty, stupid word I've written came from ME. From my heart. You have my word on that.

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🔥 Nounou en feu 🔥

There once was a nanny on fire who dressed in haute couture attire. If you come out to play in the garden she may fulfill all your burning desires.

A few days ago I started working on this illustration of Nanny Ashtoreth wearing the iconic Dauphine en feu ("Dauphine on fire") outfit by Thierry Mugler (design details and references under the cut).

Yesterday I realized that the Ineffable Kinktober prompt of the day was "role play", so... that limerick just poured out of me.

Oh, and I wasn't originally planning to draw what's under the outfit, that's also something that kinda just... happened 😳

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Let's try this again! This week's GOetry Monday prompt for Good Omens Poetry calls for a monotetra and the theme is adventure. I decided to go on an adventure of my own and not even read the theme when I wrote the first one, but more Good Omens poetry out in the world isn't really a bad thing, right? Anyway, I think I got it right this time. As always, thanks to @isiaiowin for the prompt!

Just You and I

Adventure awaits in the sky

Let's stretch our wings, it's time to fly

We'll dance on Alpha Centauri

Just you and I, just you and I

It doesn't matter when or where

As long as it's us, I don't care

There's always magic in the air

If you are there, if you are there

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Hi! I see your art often on my dash, and it's simply put just amazing. I like your style. They bring so much joy to me. This is my first time with this, so not sure how to do it...but could I request Crowley and Azi either hugging (I hc that Crowley gives the tightest hugs...) and he's got his face buried in Azi's shoulder OR them with their foreheads together. I had this idea because I wanna write a fix it fic, and I'd be in love with this sort of art. If not, no worries. Thank you so much for sharing your art!! ❤️

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thank you very much! have fun writing!! :3 ❤️

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In typical "Beet does not fully read the directions" fashion, I wrote a poem in the correct style (monotetra) for the Good Omens Poetry GOetry Monday prompt led by @isiaiowin but did not even look at the theme. I just wrote a sad one about the end of season 2. Here it is. Now I'm going to actually write one with the correct theme which is adventure.

What Have You Done?

There is nothing that compares to

All the pain you put my heart through

When you whispered as you withdrew

“I forgive you, I forgive you”

I don't want your absolution

Death, War, Famine and Pollution

Couldn't stand up to our union

What have you done? What have you done?

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