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Listen i love Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death both with my whole heart but. BUT.

Now that OFMD is out and gave us many different types of queer representation everyones acting like Good Omens isnt good enough for them anymore. Yall forgeting that the ineffable husbands r canonically queer and in love. Yes we would all love to see them kiss or show their love for each other in a similar way, but thats not all that love is about.

They're not even humans, they're spiritual beings - angel and a demon if you will - they dont have to follow and live by societal norms set for humans seeing as they arent ones.

Also, we're getting a S2 so who knows what will that bring.

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Okay, I’ve seen a lot of posts calling Good Omens a “queer bait” and I’ve got to shut that shit down.

Yes, Our Flag Means Death had two same sex couples have on screen kisses. They also had a non-binary character with correctly used pronouns in a relationship and that is excellent, it is revolutionary for television even, however that shouldn’t devalue Good Omens queerness. Not only does it undermine the 6000 year-long pining that can only be described as love, it adds to the stigma that asexual relationships aren’t as valid as “traditional”, sexual relationships.

Aziraphale and Crowley in particular seem to be under scrutiny in particular. Most people see them as a male and a male and that they are gay. Just gay. Neil Gaiman was even asked if they were gay and he said no. He specifically stated that they weren’t gay BECAUSE they weren’t male, however they are in love. They could’ve easily been passed as a singular label, but instead Neil Gaiman went out of his way to bring not only just 2, but numerous queer, labeless characters.

The up-for-interpretation-ness of the relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale wasn't for the comfortability straight people and it was definitely not for the ability to market without "offending" homophobic viewers. (clearly, anyone who's seen the show could observe that) It's for queer people. There's a lack of LGBTQIA+ representation in the media, however there's even less in the TQIA+ genre. The ambiguity was for us.

Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death are uniquely great, but they shouldn't be compared to each other in terms of how canon each "main" couple is, because both of them give much needed representation to different parts of our community.

#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable lovers#ofmd#edward teach#stede bonnet#blackbonnet#sorry if this comes off aggressive im very passionate about this#queer

On the topic of queer media, I think one of the unfortunate consequence history of the lack of it is that there is an obvious preference for very explicit queer characters and representation (ie they snog) and I completely understand why and the need for this but it has also lead to a preference for a certain type of story. One is the requirement for romance where even if a character explicitly states their queerness they are looked down upon as representation if they don't have a relationship. (Yay amatonormativity)

The other is a disregard for less explicit relationships like good omens where you have two characters for whom every aspect of the story is saying that they're queer and in love but is left deliberately implicit and vague. Aziraphale and Crowley aren't characters for whom it would make sense to neatly label. They don't need to say I love you because they say it to each other again and again in their own words and I personally think it would be more than a little contrived to have them kiss. And there are going to be more stories like that where explicit labels and romance don't make sense and those are good queer stories and good queer rep because we should be able to have those types of stories.

I get it, we are so used to a buffer of plausible deniability that is liberally employed but the answer is to make more queer stories of all kinds not try to narrowly define what is and isn't good queer rep. Also get better media analysis skills, a romantic soundtrack as your two characters stare into each others eyes is pretty fucking obvious.

#queer representation#queer media#amatonormativity#good omens
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