The Boy:

Sam offhand using, “well I’m older, so what I say goes,” during an argument and Quorra immediately disagreeing with him. Because yeah, Sam was technically “born” first and he’s older in the real world sense. But Quorra’s lived thousands of cycles on the grid, so in that sense she’s existed for longer than Sam has. They argue about it constantly, to the point that even Alan’s heard the discourse. So to shut them up one day Alan just says, “you’re twins. Now cut it out.” And it’s kind of stuck.

It became such a thing that Alan bought them ‘thing 1’ and ‘thing 2’ shirts for Christmas one year. They wore them in the Bradley family Christmas card.

And when someone at work asks Sam, “Who’s the girl?”, motioning to the picture of Quorra on his phone.

He always shrugs and says, “Oh that’s my sister. We’re twins.”

Y'know this has actually been bugging me for a while now. Because in the Bible, the antichrist, the four horsemen, the Second Coming, it's all part of the same apocalypse. Maybe they didn't really stop Armageddon so much as delay it or slow it down a bit.

Watching Good Omens while working on Lilith's dress (nap time! Yay!) and something jumped out at me;

Aziraphale: Is there some other way of locating him?

Crowley: How the Heaven should I know? Armageddon only happens once, you know.

Except, that's not true. Now we're dealing with the Second Coming.

Strings tangled up in strings and I'm not sure exactly what they mean, but it is interesting.

The Two Crow Roads and Second Death

Neil Gaiman “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.” They also look at you funny when you request 2 copies of the same book through the inter-library loan. Even funnier looks when you insist on a hardback and paperback copy.

My quest inspired by @crowleysbookshop for the differences between versions of The Crow Road ended with: 1) two different publishers (Scribner vs. Abacus) and 2) different cover work artists. So not allot. If there is a difference, I missed it.

But there's double-meaning of Crow Road.

Crow Road is a street in Glasgow.

Crow Road is also a metaphor for death.

Two Crow Roads. Two Deaths. A second death.

Photo credit: @daria-meoi

Second Death

The phrase "second death" appears 4 times in the Bible, specifically the Book of Revelation. The one Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis read to Warlock.

There's a first physical death. You've shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to meet your maker.

The second death is a reference to an eternal separation from God for non-believers and a swim in the Lake of Fire. Where bad folks go when they die.

A traditional interpretation is that the "lake of fire" and the "second death" are symbolic of eternal pain, pain of loss and perhaps pain of the senses, as punishment for wickedness.

Revelation 20:11-15

“Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

If I read that right those who experience this death are all those whose names have been removed from the Book of Life.

There's Hemingway's quote, "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." Is that also a Book of Life reference? The power of a name.

I don't understand the Book of Life yet. It's just something you scare cherubs with. I've seen some great meta from @beebopboom on it and the Guardian of the Eastern Gate.

Photo credit @fuckyeahgoodomens

I'm still wondering about these seats. Left Crow Road has rabbit seated. Rabbits are a Fibonacci reference. Then the empty seat. Then second Crow Road with Elspeth's hat over the back.

Why is there an empty seat?

Is it for Death?

A missing book? A book between two deaths. That seat is for the Book of Life.

When people ask me what cut of meat they should get for a specific recipe and I recommend a thing and they go with something completely different and probably wrong because what do I know about meat it’s not like I work at a meat market

retail though

Initial Ares reaction.

"Then God forgive you"

This is my favorite moment from Aziraphale.

Notably one of the few times he invokes the Almighty's name. One of the only, if not the only time he doesn't say "I" when forgiving.

Aziraphale, who's terrified of his bosses but cares so much about humans that he's willing to take a chance and believe that he should be protecting these innocent kids no matter what the paperwork says.

He says this to his only friend(sort of), who he just learned(supposedly) is super cool with child murder, who could destroy him too for all he knows with no consequences given the circumstances and again, the paperwork giving him the freedom to do so.

Forgiveness, his favorite thing, something he's really good at.

He's about to walk away from the only person who has really been nice to him at all, if ever. The only person who might be a bit like him.

He's 100% saying that he's not gonna overlook this.

"Then God forgive you because I won't."

He's so brave.

Another Clu request from the livestream and AIM chat. Thanks, guys!

This is one part of a pair of painting that I'm working on. You Good Omens fans probably already know who's on the other part.

Please click on it to see it in better resolution 😅.

This portrait took me almost a week to finish, but I had a lot of fun working on this. I'm both glad and kinda sad it's finished already.

Surprisingly the hardest part to draw is that damned phone cord and it's many coils.

After 2 years I can finally draw his face