#Jane Austen x Good Omens

[talkaustentome]

Don’t mind me, just out here creating Jane Austen memes out of Good Omens stills while processing season 2 (Go watch it!). I’m sure Aziraphale would approve.

Pride and Prejudice x Good Omens

Just like Crowley, Elizabeth knows what’s coming, and she wishes she didn’t have to be there.

I wonder what Wickham’s punishment in the Good Omens hell would have looked like.

“Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.” I kinda love how obnoxious married Lydia is.

Truly one of my favourite moments in Austen’s novels, and any love story ever, is Mr. Darcy declaring Elizabeth “tolerable” and looking at her again to confirm his original verdict, only to go: “Daaamn. I was wrong.” (Also, the things I’d do to get a version of Darcy that does the Good Omens apology dance for Elizabeth.)

Thankfully, 10k a year helped Mrs. Bennet to change her mind about Darcy again very quickly.

The biggest change I’ve gone through since first getting into Austen was definitely going from loving Mr. Bennet because of his sarcasm to thinking he’s actually kind of awful.

Caroline Bingley, the original pick-me girl?

[pend4ri]

" - So what do you recommend to encourage affection...?

- Dancing.

Even if one's partner is barely tolerable."

:) 💙

[rumble-bee-art]

It may be a less known fact of her biography that Jane Austen kickstarted both one angel penchant for cotillion and one demon love for spy adventures

[shoemakerobstetrician]

This is the S2 equivalent of sitting on a park bench, trying to not look like you’re having an important conversation. Nina and Maggie do it too. The ‘casual/incredibly significant’ chat while dancing is basically TM Jane Austen.

[beaulesbian]

Good Omens season 2 + Jane Austen

[somewhere-in-wales]

In Season 3 I'd like a flashback with Azirpahale talking to Jane Austen, where she laments the need to marry to secure a prosperous future as a woman, and he inadvertently encourages her into a life of crime whilst gossiping about a hot, red-head criminal mastermind he's currently crushing on...

[lydiablackblade]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune (Mr. Fell), must be in want of a wife (Crowley).

Oh Jane, you bitch. You smartass. You met both of them. You were kinda friends. And you just knew, didn't you.

[vidavalor]

What if Aziraphale wasn't trying to recreate a ball from Jane Austen's novels but a ball like ones thrown *in real life* by *Jane Austen* herself?

*She had* balls. Not that she wrote about balls in her novels (which she did but that's not what Aziraphale is saying here) or that the balls in her novels were full of romance but *she had balls*--

Jane herself had them, in real life.

Aziraphale and Crowley *both* knew Jane Austen herself personally. Timeline and location-wise, this makes sense. Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817. Jane Austen would have been 25 at the time of the bookshop having opened and had already penned Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice just prior to the turn of the century, even if neither would be published for another decade, which might account for why Crowley remembers her more as the brains behind an 1810 diamond robbery, a brandy smuggler and a master spy. (That and that he's clueless lol.) But while Aziraphale knows she became known as a rather famous writer over time but he also probably didn't read too much of her work when they knew her personally, as much of it was published just a few years prior to her death. As a result, he could well be talking about actual balls Jane threw in the Good Omens universe-- where people danced and realized they had misunderstood one another and that they were in love... which means the balls of Jane Austen in the real life of the GO universe were basically the exact opposite of the conflict-ridden ones she wrote in her books.

Since Crowley knew her, too, there's a solid chance he and Aziraphale crossed paths at at least one of these balls and you just know Aziraphale has been waiting since, like, 1809 for a chance for it to be okay to ask Crowley to dance and have him realize that he'd misunderstood Aziraphale at times and that they were actually madly in love. These balls were romantic affairs for the humans and Aziraphale delighted in that but he and Crowley had more of an Austen novel experience during them in the past.

The irony of this then is that since we know that they didn't dance then at one of these balls because of Crowley's "you don't dance" reaction in S2, then Aziraphale ironically spent at least one entire real-life, Jane Austen-thrown ball *as an Austen character* more or less, pining after the dashing gentleman he couldn't have and with whom he had every damn Austen novel-y misunderstanding under the sun and then some... but he knows that for others/the humans, Jane Austen's real-life balls were the complete opposite. And in 2023, he wants to see if now maybe he can have that, too, as he tries to recreate one of Jane's soirees not just for Maggie and Nina but for him and Crowley. Times have changed a bit and our angel has been waiting, like, 200 years for this, so really Shax, did it have to be tonight?

[aziraphale-lookalike]

You have bewitched me body and soul and I Love I Love... I LOVE You

[laiqualaurelote]

no pressure at all but just so you know I personally would be so excited if you wanted to write a regency heist fic 🤍

well-versed in etiquette, extraordinarily nice

Once she had said to him, hoping to probe: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”  To which Mr Crowley had only responded: “What do you know of the universe, Miss Austen?”  Now, as they waited for the jeweller in Hatton Diamonds to return, Jane said: “I have no intention of entering a state of wedlock, Mr Crowley, any more than you do. There are less capricious ways of securing one’s fortune.” Mr Crowley flashed her a toothsome grin. In moments like this, Jane thought he very much resembled a serpent. 

In which Jane Austen, criminal mastermind and aspiring novelist, pulls off the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery, with the help of a certain demon.

[innefableidiot]

Aziraphale definitely planned the Jane Austin style ball as an excuse to dance with Crowley, like sure they had to set it up for Maggie and Nina but come on HE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT LIVING OUT HIS JANE AUSTEN FANTASIES WITH CROWLEY AND NOTHING CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

[dining-and-pining]

May I just say how much I love it that Neil said Persuasion might be Aziraphale's favorite Austen novel. I just finished it and I feel like it has some major hints of how season 3 will go. I can so picture all the regret and longing Azi feels, and Crowley being hurt and bitter but still unable to stop doing nice things for Azi. I can picture them trying to act all cool and aloof towards each other, but their true feelings shining through more and more. And I can see how sweet and joyous their eventual reconciliation will be.

[itsscottiesstark]

Thought I'd make a post including both my fics to pin on the top of my profile now that more people have been following me so here we go:

Bingo card ~ 7.5k, Rating: Teens and Up

Takes place right after the church bombing in 1941, we follow Aziraphale and Crowley to the theatre and peek behind the scenes. Kissing. So. Much. Kissing.

Heaven isn't built to house a love like you and I ~ 37k, Rating: Teens and Up

Starting off right after the night at Crowley's flat, we take a peek into Aziraphale and Crowley's "precious, peaceful, fragile existence" they slowly carve out for themselves after Armage-not. We get to see Aziraphale slowly but surely reach out for the demon time and time again, bringing them closer than ever. Until Jim happens. And it all goes to shit.

SOOOO MUCH KISSING.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed writing them. If you did, there's more where those came from, in the works. 💕

[kasielartist]

Regency era doodles 'cause I was bored

Jane austen thing cracked me up so I had to draw something about it

New commission paper available for anyone who's interested✨️

[ineffableteeth]

I love the fact that Crowley secretly reads books

like I can just imagine him in the bookshop by himself looking around to make sure no one outside is looking then just snatching a book off the shelf to shove in his jacket

Then when aziraphale comes back he just leaves in a hurry so he could go to his flat and read lol

[kikis-worksh0p]

WHAT IF !!!

During the Jane Austen's ball Crowley is so surprise by Aziraphale asking him to dance for a specific reason ! WHAT IF Crowley had ALREADY asked Aziraphale to dance years ago but the angel said no because he couldn't dance by the time. THEN, as we learned in season 1, he learned how to, which makes him a special angel (again yes). Maybe all those years he was just waiting to show Crowley he had learned to dance JUST FOR HIM.

LOOK AT HIM SO STRESSED AND EXCITED IM FUCKING DYING