#// fuck nina they are so good.

[p1x1x]

27mm but in twewy style. as partners… : )

[jay-wasstuff]

Every person's reaction to the H*nd H*lding being different is funny asf

[ahalliance]

crowley perhaps did the bravest thing in his 6000 years of existence and was greeted with his worst nightmare in return. i’m sooo incredibly normal

[silentgrim]

SOMEBODY MATCHED HIS FREAK!

[microclown]

I've been stuck on viewing Maggie as Crowley's mirror, and for most of the show I like that interpretation. But once I started thinking of Nina as Crowley's Mirror in the ball scene specifically, I made a connection....

Aziraphale is playing God here. He has a vision- a happy romantic evening where people speak Victorian English, dress nicely, dance, and fall in love -and he wills everyone present to conform to his plan. But Nina doesn't conform. Nina feels like something isn't right. She asks questions.

She asks Aziraphale what's going on, why she doesn't feel sad when she knows she's sad, and Aziraphale doesn't give her a satisfactory answer. He tells her that the important thing is that she's here. She's here to play a role in his great plan. To dance in his ball.

So she expresses her concerns to Maggie. Maggie hadn't seen the issues at first, but she listens to Nina, and Nina gets her to acknowledge the absurdity of the situation just a little bit. Listen to their conversation at the dance again. It sounds SO MUCH like the conversations we've heard Crowley and Aziraphale have a thousand times during their 6000 year dance. Crowley calling out heaven, asking questions, trying to get Aziraphale to consider the absurdity of it all. Aziraphale mostly defending heaven, but listening, and sometimes acquiescing.

And this all falls in line with a point I've made before - In season 2, Crowley's relationship with Aziraphale begins to mirror his relationship with heaven. Aziraphale shows a pattern of not listening to Crowley the whole season, but especially in this scene. Crowley tries to ask him what is going on, and alert him to very real danger, but Aziraphale is dismissive. He is blinded by his desire to see his plan to fruition.

And just so we're clear, this is not an Aziraphale hate post. Rather, I think it might give us some insight into where God is coming from. Because Aziraphale's actions may be dismissive and controlling, but they are motivated by love. Misguided, certainly, but with all the best intentions. I have a feeling, when we finally meet God, it will be a similar story. And maybe both She and Aziraphale will learn that sometimes to love means to let go.

[actual-changeling]

I hope it turns out that Maggie is "just" a human. I hope it turns out that there is absolutely nothing supernatural or occult or celestial or whatnot about her, fuck, I hope it turns out it's NINA instead.

Fuck, I'm trying very hard not to be frustrated and upset, but I am. I am because it's been over a month and people are still taking Maggie's clearly neurodivergent, and more specifically autistic, behaviour and twist it into "oh look no normal human is like this she's so creepy she must be a demon or an angel" like are you LISTENING to yourselves?

YES she talks differently sometimes, yes she's emotional, yes she did ONE FUCKING SPELLING MISTAKE while she was literally sobbing her eyes out. People are like that, you know. People that don't drink and that didn't go to parties and don't socialize well exist. I'm that person.

I had absolutely ZERO thoughts about Maggie being a celestial because to me, she isn't weird. There is nothing off about her. She's like me, I felt SEEN, I felt recognized and acknowledged.

The worst part is that people LOVE headcanoning Muriel or Aziraphale or Crowley as autistic but as soon as it's not something people can either infantilize or twist into something else, they hate it. Muriel gets praised for the same traits that have people calling Maggie a villain.

Can we stop doing that? Can we stop taking people who are weird or visibly disabled or different and shoving them into the non-human box? Do you have any idea how dehumanizing that is for people who are like those characters?

We had canonically non-binary characters this season that are human, so why, and please fucking tell me WHY, is it impossible in your minds to have disabled humans around? Why does anyone slightly weird have to be a supernatural being?

Just because Maggie's behaviour isn't played off as a joke? Because she is allowed to be a middle-aged, lesbian autistic woman? Because you cannot infantilize her like you can with Muriel?

Please tell me because I don't fucking know.

[clownowo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

[p4nishers]

im gnawing on this interview like a dog on a fucking bone.

[orpheuslament]

(me listening to wildly popular musician) why did no one tell me this shit slaps

[butchmulcahy]

how's your... naked man... friend?

[cultiest]

Based on these two GIFs alone my very lesbian assessment of their relationship is Maggie says something sweet and Nina immediately wants to kiss her

[deankarolina]

Vampire Jackie based on "Whos' That Knocking At My Window? by @staghunters

[thebeautifuldaughter]

Neil Gaiman did something right but so unhinged in recasting actors from good omens s1 as completely different characters in s2 just because uh. he liked them. the show explains in-universe why the prince of hell has a new face due to a recast but offers nothing for several s2 regulars being identical to rando s1 citizens and demonic nuns. are crowley and aziraphale too preoccupied with their mutual crush to notice the jaded lesbian barista recipient of their romantic meddling is the dimwitted satanist who fumbled the antichrist over a decade ago. NG said who cares when i'm having fun

[sluttycinderella]

i feel like we as a society don’t talk about this staged moment enough.

bonus:

[abzania]

So I've seen a lot of people talk about Crowley and his idea of falling in love (getting caught in a sudden rain), but why is no one talking about how Aziraphale only put on that ball so Crowley would realize they were meant for each other????

It's so cute. He was so excited, too. Just look at his face throughout that entire scene. As well as the grin he had when he grabbed Crowley's hand to dance. It's fucking adorable.

[soulless-shakesprood]

seeing how Hozier somehow always has several gut wrenchingly accurate songs towards specific fandoms and based on how we all agree that he's not real, I propose a conclusion that he's actually fictional and travels from one entertainment universe to another to write songs about them.