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klance redesign :33

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Anyone want to suggest that FanExpo invite Michael Sheen to Dallas?

Would love to see both of them this year!

#good omens #good omens2 #aziraphale #crowley #fan expo #fandom #ineffable husbands

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Something about the fact that Aziraphale canonically bakes 🥰

Inspired by the Lead me to the Banquet Hall fic

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This is your villain? This one, right here?

Okay weirdo.

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This is so good. 🙌 please don’t apologize as I love a good rant and I’m a new fan and I’m kind of

I love your point about Sitis because he also mentioned that she’s 58, showing he understands human life in addition to her personal feelings.

Also I am so astonished by people who think Aziraphale doesn’t love humanity. A shared love of humans and their humanity is what brought Aziraphale and Crowley together! They have been acting as godfathers for humans for millennia, much longer than they decided to be godfathers to Adam.

Tin foil hat on: I think we’re going to see that Aziraphale and Crowley’s care and love of humanity is a lot more aligned with God than heavens.

I also loved Aziraphale’s reaction here because it’s so unangelic. All the angels, even Muriel, seem disgusted by humans and earth and their nasty bodies and matter, the same way they are disgusted by hell and pain and disobedience.

Gabriel makes that awful face when Aziraphale walks into the fire and when he asks about sushi. Metatron and the archangels treat Crowley like dirt under their shoe. Even sweet Muriel can’t drink tea because it’s considered gross matter and beneath an angel.

But Aziraphale loves humans so much that he cradles to his chest all that is left of a child, even if it’s something awful, a preserved tumor, something most humans would cringe at, as that last remnant of the child’s humanity.

And people still believe he doesn’t love humans??

I wish I could draw. I need more art of the Resurrectionist scene where Aziraphale and Crowley are talking with Mr Dalrymple because the moment when Aziraphale realizes the object in the glass is a tumor of a dead child, he pulls it closer to himself, grief-stricken. He just loves humans so much. 😭🥺

#aziraphale loves humanity and crowley so much #good omens #aziraphale #aziraphale is adorable #good omens2 #aziraphale loves humans #Aziraphale is good #godfathers #to the world #ineffable husbands #analysis #aziracrow

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I wish I could draw. I need more art of the Resurrectionist scene where Aziraphale and Crowley are talking with Mr Dalrymple because the moment when Aziraphale realizes the object in the glass is a tumor of a dead child, he pulls it closer to himself, grief-stricken. He just loves humans so much. 😭🥺

#aziraphale #aziraphale is adorable #good omens #good omens2 #analysis #aziraphale loves humans #the Resurrectionist #mr dalrymple #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #ineffable husbands

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This is meant to be a lighthearted blog and it will remain that way.

However, I wanted to address a concern a couple people have raised, and that speaks to why I created this blog.

I want to be very clear that it is not of the smallest concern to me whether people "love" or like Aziraphale. I do not get invested in characters that way.

I frankly felt indifferent about him - he was just there, a well-written character, but not particularly interesting to me one way or the other - until I saw the "criticisms" of him circulating in the fandom and how 99% of them are permeated with ableism, victim-blaming, the female character treatment (as he acts less masculine than Crowley), looksism, and the like. That awoke something in me. Because that has real-world implications, and what I have seen SCARES me.

Critiques of him that aren't connected to any of these (although, to be frank, I can't off the top of my head think of any that aren't) are of no concern to me whatsoever. I'm fine with people having whatever opinion they want to about any fictional character as long as they can express those opinions without descending into bigotry. I will never argue with that. I frankly have far better things to do with my time than debate the relative merits of imaginary people, as, I imagine, we all do.

But I will be here with my flaming sword until the very end ready to smite any bigoted rhetoric about him (or any other character) that I see rearing its ugly head.

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From

To

feat my beloved sketchbook nobody can stop me...

And of course a happy birthday to Michael Sheen 💙

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The South Downs Cottage theme

I'll light the fire

You place the flowers in the vase

That you bought today

Staring at the fire

For hours and hours while I listen to you

Play your love songs all night long

For me, only for me

Come to me now

And rest your head for just five minutes

Everything is done, shit

Such a cozy room

The windows are illuminated by the evening

Sunshine through them, fiery gems

For you, only for you

Our house is a very, very, very fine house

With two cats in the yard

Life used to be so hard

Now еverything is easy 'cause of you

And our—

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Our housе is a very, very, very fine house

With two cats in the yard

Life used to be so hard

Now everything is easy 'cause of you

And our—

I'll light the fire

And you place the flowers in the vase

That you bought today

- Our House, Graham Nash & Joni Mitchell

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me, randomly, with fire in my eyes: I'm going to draw a fanart that is SO niche and self-indulgent

I'm from Rio, and it's almost carnaval soo.... behold: Crowley and Aziraphale in one of our famous street parties/parades (bloquinhos de rua)!! obviously, they did their best to dress the part (or maybe each other's part actually... 😆)

lots of glitter, confetti, and silly costumes appropriate to the infernal summer heat (halloween?! idk her)... I'm sure they would have a blast! 🇧🇷🎉✨

oh, and fun fact: aziraphale unknowingly is really in fashion with his hair, bc as of late it's been really trendy (especially for men/boys) to bleach their hair white in summertime/carnaval! we call it "nevou" (literally "snowed" lol)

so... here's a bonus:

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THEY TRANSLATED YANKII AS AMERICAN

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The Mummy

Art by Stephanie Pepper

Twitter | Patreon

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The sheer amount of guilt Aziraphale experiences is utterly tragic. But what's interesting is he rarely feels guilt for the things humans usually feel guilt for - indulging in food, wine, books, comfort (which is marvelously subversive because it shows none of these things are actually worthy of guilt but, in fact, what make existence worthwhile).

No, he only truly feels guilt when he does the Right Thing.

Or when he realizes too late what the Right Thing is.

All of his guilt is attached to things that are, in fact, Good and Right, but in opposition to the black-and-white doctrine of Heaven.

Which makes the guilt he is so clearly experiencing here:

hit like a goddamn freight train.

Because loving Crowley is Good and Right.

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The Book Of Love inspired by the song with the same name.

some fluff, requested by my lovely friend @bea-n-art who drew me a handsome bathhouse scene in return. Consider my debts paid. ^^

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Alright, there were so many great ideas shared in my other post that I would love to get some input about how we feel about this scene, particularly Aziraphale’s facial reactions. Because even with the 26,749 times I’ve watched this scene, I’m still conflicted about some of the decisions here.

First, we have Crowley starting his confession:

Crowley: I could always rely on you. You could always rely on me. We’re a team, a group. A group of the two of us.

And the camera cuts to Aziraphale seemingly nervously looking towards the window:

What's he looking at fam? My interpretation has always been that he's recognizing where the conversation is going, this forbidden and unspoken thing between them. And he instinctively feels the need to check to see if anyone is watching. *Side question: Did he see Muriel standing there when he looked? Just casually watching their divorce?

But it's the rest of his upcoming facial expressions that bother me deeply. Crowley says the following:

Crowley: And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't.

And we get these expressions from Aziraphale as he says it:

Utter confusion. If anyone has been overly and outwardly smitten post-apocalypse, it's been Aziraphale. And yet when Crowley speaks it aloud, Aziraphale's reaction comes off as pure bafflement and as though he doesn't understand. WHY? I can understand the nervousness of being “caught” but the confused expression confuses me very much. Is he confused that Crowley is choosing now to say these things out loud? Is it that a huge monkey wrench is being thrown into what he thought would happen?

Then we get the heart wrenching part of Crowley's confession, and when he mentions that Gabriel and Beelzebub ran off together he finishes with:

Crowley: Just the two of us. We don't need Heaven. We don't need Hell, they're toxic. We need to get away from them, just be an us. You and me, what do you say?

Here's a video clip for emphasis (no volume) of Aziraphale, as Crowley is saying this:

The head shake. It guts me.

I'd love to know what you make of these choices - the look towards the window, the confused squint, the head shake.

**There is no right or wrong answer here - I think there's a lot of room for interpretation with this scene and one person’s idea doesn’t negate someone else’s**

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Aziraphale is so Winnie the Pooh coded

Which begs the question, who is Crowley in the Winnie the Poohniverse?

#good omens #aziraphale is adorable #aziraphale #good omens shitpost #sillyposting

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I wonder when we will factor in the 25 Lazarii miracle they performed as well….

Metatron seems to have known exactly what to say to break up this defacto partnership and prevent any more tiny miracles that are enormously powerful from happening any time soon. It’s almost like they could stop an apocalypse together if they were still, you know, together…

“I don’t tell you what to do

I don’t tell you what to say

So just let me be myself

That’s all I ask of you”

This has probably been pondered and blogged about but I’m just neck-deep in this epic adventure tale and romance and it’s just so much fun to think about. It seems to me that part of the rupture between Aziraphale and Crowley is happening because neither one was considering the other’s nature in that moment and when it became clear that they were not, in fact, on the same page that they had to really reconcile with each other’s nature and what this means for their future, it was too much for both of them.

This is where a pause, a sit, a longer conversation could have helped but with Metatron looming and the emotional tsunami Crowley unleashed by breaking their silent attraction and tacit agreement to avoid this conversation and giving Aziraphale one hell of a kiss, they didn’t have the opportunity to work through it.

Throughout their relationship, Crowley and Aziraphale accept and grow to love each other despite their differences and different natures. In fact part of their attraction to each other is the way that they defy their nature for the other and their openness to each other.

Aziraphale influences Crowley into saving children and goats and books and the world and helping peoples even former enemies, and being kind. Crowley is already a kinder demon than most, but surely some of that is influenced by the first act of kindness he ever saw, to humanity with Azirphale’s gift of the flaming sword, and to himself, with Azirphale protecting him from the rain.

Crowley, being a demon, tempts Aziraphale into indulgences and pleasure but he also helps Aziraphale understand humanity and Earth through a more realistic lens with shades of grey (Elspeth, anyone?). This isn’t just because Crowley sees the world more realistically or because he views goodness and heaven differently because of his fall, but because he wants Aziraphale to understand humans and heaven better. Aziraphale is better able to do good and love them by seeing them realistically (and probably is safer for it) compared to the harsh, cold chiaroscuro of Heaven’s black and white judgment, one that leads them to deciding that Armageddon and destruction is a good and natural inevitability.

Crowley should have known Aziraphale can’t agree to just run away from doing his duty, he’d asked him before to run to Alpha Centauri together and Aziraphale declined. It’s important to Aziraphale to be doing good, not acting selflessly. And he IS willing to abandon the bookshop if he has a different means to do good, say by reforming heaven. But abandoning the humans they have essentially been godfathers to since Eden is not something Aziraphale wants to do (and the humans are the reason he and Crowley have become an us).

Aziraphale should have known that Crowley wouldn’t want to become an angel again. Crowley had said “the angel you knew is not me” outright, has denied his goodness and kindness over and over. He may be good and kind and nice but it isn’t because of his nature but because of his choices and the empathy he has had to choose his whole existence as a demon.

Aziraphale is conflating because he believes Crowley is good and heaven is good and this is some horrible misunderstanding and he can correct it. He’s not like those other demons. But Beelzebub also makes a choice to abandon their duties and choose to love. After only a few weeks! Aziraphale isn’t ready to accept that heaven is flawed and that it’s Crowley’s choice and actions that make him lovable, not his status as a demon or angel.

Crowley needs Aziraphale to understand that while he may have learned to understand humans, he is still applying a false dichotomy to heaven and hell and angels and demons that will prevent them from being an Us until Aziraphale stops running from that rigid point of view and admits that the whole construct is flawed.

Lastly they were both acting on their impulses and desires. Crowley wanted to run away with Aziraphale and desperately hoped one fantastic kiss would do to convince his angel that he wanted that too. Aziraphale was desperately hoping that Crowley could finally be redeemed and his good nature validated by becoming an angel again, even though Crowley has rejected that validation already.

To reconcile they have to finally address the giant elephant in the room and have the conversation about their natures and their beliefs. Crowley has got to be okay with Aziraphale’s need to do his duty by humans, his need to be doing good.

Aziraphale needs to accept that his demon friend is a demon and not a misunderstood angel and that heaven has got it (and many other things) wrong.

Then, maybe, the nightingales will sing again.

#good omens 3 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #fan theory #spoilers #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #metatron #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman