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My fanart I made of Good Omens Crowley and Aziraphale :)

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I'm a firm believer that Aziracrow will make up, HOWEVER I think Aziraphale will NEVER hear the end of it.

*500 years later: Aziraphale doing something accidentally* "Oops, sorry"

*Crowley, mockingly* "I fOrGiVe yOu"

*Sigh* "Crowley, I said I was sorry! Will you let it go, please?"

*Crowley, dramatically falling back on his chair, still doing the mocking voice* "cOmE wItH mE tO hEaVeN"

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Rewatching The Pain — Aziraphale so clearly doesn’t want to go back to Heaven. He refuses the Metatron point blank. He doesn’t waver until he tells him he can bring Crowley; he can make Crowley safe. (And Earth! All the people! But Aziraphale doesn’t ask for any details on that! He wants to know what they can do for Crowley.)

And then when Crowley won’t go, Aziraphale comes within half a stammer of refusing to go too. And it makes me remember that Crowley immediately abandoning his plan of running to Alpha Centauri once he thought Aziraphale was dead. He didn’t care about saving his own skin. They don’t really want to leave Earth, either of them; but they very, very badly want to keep each other safe.

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I just finished this abomination

bonus

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🪽🐍 lost rembrandt portraits

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my favorite role of David Tennant’s? Obv Scrooge McDuck🔥‼️

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“We are not friends! We are an angel. And a demon!”

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I saw someone on tiktok get a mug that looks like Aziraphale’s. I want one. But I want mine to say Jim.

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Hi Mr Gaiman! Part 3 of my eternal apologies for making your inbox count larger than my vet school loan amount.

I’ve noticed multiple scenes where Aziraphale gazed longingly upon Crowley in a way we all very much wish to but I’m curious on the intentions behind that outside of the character context. The most notable I can recall is in series 2 when discussing the past tense of ‘smite’ and Aziraphale says “Smitten,” with a grin. Of course, this IS an accurate past tense of ‘smite’ but also contains a double-meaning and I’m certain Aziraphale is aware of that when saying it (especially while looking at Crowley). Was his loving gaze in this scene and others intentional within the relationship development of A&C, either by script or by design of one Mr Michael Sheen, or was it simply an artifact of Michael Sheen gazing upon David Tennant?

Incredibly grateful for all you do,

-M

It's Aziraphale looking at Crowley.

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why do the sex bots keep following me I just want to be sad about two old gay men >:(

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Silver and gold Aziraphale inspired earrings!!! I’m a gold gal myself but the silver fits Aziraphale so much more.

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just watched s2e6 again! bc I like being in pain!

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the moment Aziraphale takes after Crowley suggests Alpha Centurai to Gabriel and Beelzebub tears me apart

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Good Omens + Parallels

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I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they're Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

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I want to hang out with Muriel they seem like so much fun