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Saw this while walking in Paris............ I can't be the only one.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s Happy New Year 2024 Year of the Dragon illustration

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december???? what next??? 2024?????

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i'll stop talking about gos2 soon, but i was thinking about why the eating scene irks me so much and it comes down to

it robs aziraphale of agency and makes him more of a canvas for crowley's influence rather than an actor on his own impulses

it's just funnier the other way around

there's a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam and Eve have the angel Raphael over for dinner and ask him awkward questions about angel sex, and I'm really attached to my funny headcanon idea that Adam and Eve fed Aziraphale in the Garden and he kept coming back like a raccoon trying to get into the trash.

the now somewhat non-canonical rules-lawyering bookverse bastard aziraphale that lives in my head would incline more towards the following

not only because it makes sense to me, but because it's funny. It's funny to have those inversions, an angel who'd look at the menu and say, "idc if it's shellfish wrapped in bacon. It's called 'Angels on Horseback.' I can't not eat it." But I also like to draw him smoking weed. So.

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...are you certain that they're wrestling?💭

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childe getting accused of the serial disappearances, which started over twenty years ago, like

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I lost control somewhere in the middle

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finally pinned down exactly how i imagine crowley’s dumb face

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VAVOOM

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We are Job

Mini-meta because I had a galaxy brain take moment while writing my actual meta:

We (the fandom) are Job.

We had a fantastic life, great times, everything was going super (Season 1), we trusted in the Creator (Neil). And then, to test us, the Creator took away everything we love and destroyed it in front of our eyes (Season 2, particularly Ep6) and so if we CONTINUE to trust in him and believe in him, he will fix it and we will GET BACK TWICE AS MUCH as we had before (Season 3, happily ever after for the Ineffable Husbands).

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. And thank you, Neil.

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Season 3 Opening Scene Nightingale 1941 Theory

So, season 2 opened with a flashback that had us totally reevaluating Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s relationship. I think the same will be true of season 3.

I think we will return to the night in 1941, to find out that they kissed, danced, or more that night.

1 - Why are they sitting at a table in the bookshop just drinking, no food on the table? When they’re drinking they don’t use a table. I think it’s to clue us in that there is more to the scene than what we are seeing - at some point before or after they had dinner.

2 - We know that Aziraphale did the apology dance in 1941 - again an indication that there is probably more to that evening than what we have seen so far.

3 - When Crowley says ‘no nightingales’ in S2E6 we now think he’s referring to the scene at the end of S1E6 in the Ritz, but it does seem a bit of a reach. It was a very nice moment, but I don’t think a relationship defining one that would cause both of them to think of it as their song.

4 - A Nightingale Sang was released in 1940, first charting at the end of December 1940. It would have been a hit in 1941 (according to Wikipedia it got up to #2).

5 - I think they had dinner, they danced, or perhaps even kissed to Nightingale as it was playing on the radio, and it became their song in a much more significant moment in 1941.

6 - When Aziraphale says to Crowley “Perhaps one day we could…dine at the Ritz” after “You go too fast for me Crowley” he would then be directly referring to their song from 1941.

7 - When it plays at the Ritz at the end of season 1, it’s because the pianist finds themselves mysteriously compelled to perform it, like the Oxford bus driver taking them to London.

8 - And finally, when Crowley says “no nightingales” at the end of S2 it is just devastating, it’s him saying there is no us.

And another thing: in the lyrics to Nightingale: That Certain night, the night we met/There was MAGIC abroad in the air. 😁

One more thing: I can certainly see Neil gleefully being like “Psych, it WASN’T their first kiss.”, and the scene would be just as heartbreaking if not more so if it was what Crowley thought was their last kiss.

ETA I just rewatched the bookshop table scene for like the 17th time. Holy 💩 is the dialogue strange and very loaded. The “trust me” bit, and the “shades of grey”. Throughout the whole scene Aziraphale is sideways eye fucking Crowley. There is simply no way we’re not going to see more of this scene in Season 3.

I very much like this whole idea, it probably won’t happen. Maybe someone will write a fanfic at least.

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Was rewatching an episode and saw the list for the meeting of shopkeepers, Who's the Lucky Snake ???

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Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

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Yoshitaka Amano