A plateful of cookies

Listened to, at the last possible day to do so, the rerun of the Good Omens audio drama, and below is the sort of livetweet I did (Sort of not as I didn't tweet as I listened, just added to a drafted thread. Also sort of as some of this is just... notes for fic I’ll never write)

Barely 10 minutes into the radio drama of Good Omens & I'm glad that Crowley isn't quite so thick to have thought that he needed to get pregnant to deliver the antichrist - it's 'up to him to–' and not 'his scene' and 'tool of that glorious destiny'.
It'd make great fic though

The whole thing with the nun going on about how men shouldn't be involved at all in the process [of giving birth] is SQUARELY why I thought the Order was made of lesbians.

( the not so live tweet continues )

( Final thoughts )

I may be having feels because, as I read and listen up on Polari due to a little headcanon about Aziraphale using it because Soho and ‘discreet gentleman’s club’, there are some words like queen and cruise that have, for 300+ years more or less kept their meaning amongst gay men.

(Also there was enough of a population in places like London that 300 years ago, you could live in a gay community like today.)

And then Polari has bits borrowed from Italian and some school boy French thrown in too and I’m eyeing Crowley’s ciaos very suspiciously because I could very well imagine him saying something like bona nochy or calling police lillies.
There’s also a delightful ‘translation’ of the Bible done into Polari.

So yes, feels because this is part of (British) gay/queer heritage, and yes it should be recorded and noted as such, and yeah it has problematique elements but the delightful thing is that it’s a language and as such it can change and become more inclusive.

( Links below if you too want to read/listen more about it )