#artpocrypha

[thedemonraym]

'cause where's the joy in this self-delusion?

[thedemonraym]

"...and there’s the smell of death, and violet-pink dusk backing a beloved silhouette, and—where is—? Is that a whale? It’s all happening consecutively and at once, and Gabriel had said ‘my head isn’t big enough’ years and years and moments ago and Aziraphale knows everything and nothing and he sees Crowley, Crowley, Crowley and his voice begins to bubble up his throat like magma until— AZIRAPHALE. IT IS TIME."

— how do we turn on the light? (by @moonyinpisces)

one of the few post-s2 fics that still has me invested :) and the contest was a neat opportunity to draw something that's more stylized than my usual stuff

[thedemonraym]

tender is the touch of someone that you love too much tender is the day the demons go away Lord, I need to find someone who can heal my mind

— Tender – blur

[solo portraits under the cut]

[thedemonraym]

Sodom and Gomorrah. You were doing a lot of smiting, and turning people into salt. Hard to forget.

s2's focus on (Aziraphale's) morality and heaven's actions got me thinking about this short exchange from the novel. it's not in the show - but did it still happen, off-screen?

[more thoughts under the cut]

the conversation might not have happened after they discovered they raised the wrong child, but perhaps it did, after Armageddidn't. on a quiet evening, feeling like they could be just a little more open with each other, when it seemed like they might've won an existence free from their respective head offices.

how willing would show!Aziraphale be to liken Heaven to Hell?

he certainly knows about Heaven's capacity to be cruel, but that's just misguided angels. isn't it? it's not institutional, because god can't do Wrong.

did he accept the position as Supreme Archangel because he really thought Heaven was still morally better than Hell? or is he so painfully aware of how awful angels can be that he felt like he had to seize the one chance he'd get to change things?

i'd like to think it's the latter. crowley aside, he's seen so much divine cruelty on Earth. and unlike the other angels, he knows the consequences. how could he turn down the opportunity to fix things? for crowley and for humankind.

[thedemonraym]

like magic, like magic, like magic, gone new magic, new magic, new magic wand

— NEW MAGIC WAND - Tyler, the Creator