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Lets kiss in the cozy window bench thing

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I'm so excited to finally share my pic from @theantichristmaszine with y'all!

I hope that all your holidays are cozy and warm 💗

#tv omens can have little a valid

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Crowley // Good Omens 

A redraw of a work from 2 years ago to celebrate the series premiere! 

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...Both of them are dressed in MENA typical clothing. Dye and embroidery were status symbols in the MENA. It's more accurate to just say that Aziraphale is dressed according to older standards and Crowley is dressed to newer ones. While the dye thing could be influenced by Rome, we developed our own modes of fashion outside of it, and we used similar dyes (including expensive ones) because we live around the same ocean.

In fact Crowley is dressed really weird if they were going for a Roman look: his veil is smaller than typically seen and as such is draped more similar to a modern Iranian woman might drape it (I've seen women with this EXACT kind of scarf in modern Iranian photography) than a Roman woman. For a Roman her veil is basically a large cape/shawl that could theoretically be used as a blanket. He's wearing a long garment that reaches his feet, which in Rome is an indication of high status and femininity. In southwest Asia and North Africa that's just practical- even poor people typically have had a garment with long sleeves and long hem just for the sake of protection from the elements.

He's also not wearing a Roman over dress, which would be very common for a wealthy woman because it indicated citizenship. Naturally if you subscribe to the theory that he's meant to be Magdalena in this scene, that's fine, but I'm pretty sure a lot of sex workers didn't wear a palla. Technically nothing stopped them, but it was connected to ones "virtue" iirc, just like the over dress.

His garment is also very similar to his Mesopotamian one, and might be the same one or a copy meant to show time has passed and it's been modified. That garment was also Black. Crowley always wears black as his main color in the series, which makes me heavily doubt the costumers thought about dye cost. If they did then he should also be wearing other colors, like purple (fancy person color but not actually restricted to royalty I think), possibly tapestry woven into medallions and trim and stitched onto his clothes, though that's later Roman and specifically became its peak in beauty in the hands of Copts who made it their own thing. They could've also just had it be red or orange since he wears those accents more often, and it would make sense as yellowy colors were somewhat associated with West Asia in Rome and madder is common there too. There should be stripes, patterns, and/or embroidery- that definitely symbolized wealth if it was up to a certain quality, and did in the SWANA region for awhile but that is also due to Indian influence from imported fabrics.

TD:LR; Rome isn't a big influence here and I hate that a certain breed of classicists have influenced people to mistake so many SWANA clothes as being Greco-Roman. Apologies FYI for not using Roman terms, I'm only familiar with their fashions in passing abd in relation to Egyptian fashion history, and I had to double check to make sure I wasn't saying anything horribly inaccurate.

Edit: as an aside there are plenty of poor people today who wear black traditional clothes in the MENA. I know the industrial revolution probably impacted that but at first glance crowley looks like he's lazy for not embroidering his clothes.

#for example its pretty likely the dye for tzizit comes from a snail related to the one you get imperial purple from #though karaites argue itd be a blue plant dye bc snails arent kosher #crowley also is dressed just like. decently here #fancy would include jewelry tapestry woven trim etc #logically the rzn theres no tapestry trim is bc theyd have to MAKE IT THEMSELVES or pay someone for that and weaving is a pain #just decorating the bottom of his clothes woukd take two yards probably #also currently? theres a lot of poor/rural clothing thats traditionally deep black like crowley is wearing here #he looks like a broke rural woman as far as the past several centuries are concerned

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i was listening to the eagles and witchy woman came on and i just had to throw together a lil sketchy thing of the original witchy woman herself. what can i say, she’s got the moon in her eyes  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[image description: drawing of crowley and aziraphale from good omens, mimicking a scene from parks and rec. crowley looks towards the scene grumpily and says “someone will die”, which zira, who’s smiling, but glaring slightly at crowley, arm round him, butts in “-OF FUN”]

nothing makes me happier than sitcom redraws

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I like to think that Agnes Nutter had to know that Anathema would burn the second coming of her book, and I’d bet good money those pages weren’t filled at all. They were Agnes’ last gift to her descendant - a chance to be free to choose her own life.

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anyway Crowley wiping away Aziraphale’s holy tears but it has the exact same energy as him hopping around in the church mixed with a bit of “stop hitting yourself” vibe

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this playlist is called 6,000 Slutty Slutty Years:

take a byte—janelle monae. the system only dreams in total darkness—the national. from eden— hozier. wanna be yours—arctic monkeys. take me to church—hozier. every other freckle—alt-j. don’t swallow the cap—the national. come away with me—nora jones. better man—leon bridges. we are never ever getting back together—taylor swift. need somebody to love—ady suleiman. I should live in salt—the national. me & my husband—mitski.

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old doodle phone wallpapers

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I kind of miss the Devices from the book. that is to say, I miss them not being a quasi-cult that puts immense pressure on one single daughter to save the world and lives and dies by the Word of Agnes as if she’s a deity

In the book, being professional descendants is more like. “well, we’ve been doing this for centuries and it’s worked out okay, so we might as well keep doing it in addition to whatever else we want to do.” Anathema hasn’t been in training her entire life to save the world. she has a PhD in something totally unrelated (history, possibly, but it’s never specified). the introduction to her as a child isn’t her mother forcing her to memorize every single prophecy; it’s her reading the Book under the covers with a flashlight because it has her name in it and she thinks that’s cool

I don’t know. the way it is in the show makes the stakes higher for her and gives her more of a narrative arc in terms of personal development, but I kind of like the idea that she’s just doing this because she figured it out herself and she independently wants to. that the Book is more like a family hobby than the One Holy Text that rules every Device’s life and something she has to break free from

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dawn revelations

(crowley&aziraphale—>good omens)

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got thinking about crowley and aziraphale’s relationships with mortality and the physical body because they’re emotionally attached to earth but their bodies are a renewable resource they can shape however they like while retaining the memory of their old bodies, and it came out as this

#BOG BODY CROWLEY

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sometimes i find out about 19th century “health tonics” that were pumped full of what we now consider recreational drugs and i have to stop myself from making another meme about aziraphale and cocaine. it’s not that i think the jokes are bad, but i feel like they requires you to understand my headcanons about aziraphale and hedonism as well as the landscape of victorian drug culture. it’s not drug use as DARE campaigns would depict it, as addiction that destroys your life (although it should be said that plenty of victorians did wind up with addictions that ruined their lives because of how cavalierly these drugs were sold and marketed and how little education there was about safe drug use), but drug use that i think held a similar cultural place to what marijuana is now—sometimes medical, sometimes recreational, and for a lot of people a part of both daily life and special social settings like parties. the queer scene in particular was associated with opium and absinthe, and if we think of aziraphale as someone heavily involved in the victorian queer scene then it stands to reason he would participate in that drug culture. based on his love of fine camel coats, good wine, good food, and rare books, he probably enjoyed that culture with as much gusto as he enjoys anything else

ANYWAY coca cola was invented to be a nonalcoholic alternative to vin mariani, which was literally just wine infused with cocaine. the pope literally endorsed it and was featured in advertisements for it. the inventor died in 1914 without passing the recipe on to his successors and you bet your ass aziraphale hoarded cases of the stuff when he learned it was going out of production

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on the same topic, we've talked about Crowley and his action hero, bond-esque, very sleek presentation of masculinity, but the thing that gets me most of all is actually Aziraphale's

the oscar wilde first editions, the manicured hands, the clubbing, the way he walks and talks and breathes is queer, to the point where we as the audience can pick it up, but so can the other characters (think of all the homophobic slurs he's been called throughout the novel).

and it's not just that he's an angel and therefore wasn't made to have a gender. it's that aziraphale is a non-believer in denial. oh he drapes himself in the flag of heaven, he will follow direct orders, alright, and he will cockily parrot as much heavenly propaganda as he can fit in a dinner at the Ritz at 20:00 on a Friday night, but he does doubt. maybe when he's on his third bottle of Chianti. maybe when he doesn't voice it out loud. maybe when it's crowley who points out the hypocrisy, so if he's right he's right and if he's wrong... oh well, temptation is his business after all. He's an angel wavering on the thin line between What Is Written and What Should Be, repressing the need to step forward because the uncertainty of doubting scares him more than the hypocrisy of the system.

But when he came to earth and chose a way to present himself as human (already differentiating himself from other angels), he saw the masculinity that was gay, that was queer, the one that directly challenges traditional gender comformity and the norms of What Is Right and he said this is the one i resonate with, this is who i am.

that's the thing that gets me