#but crowley oh poor crowley

[densewentz]

do i think crowley has been filling the bookshop with fire extinguishers as a way to sooth what is probably a wild case of celestial ptsd in regards to the trauma of running into the burning bookshop and thinking his husband best friend had been killed in season 1? yes i do

[mizgnomer]

Good Omens 2 - Glasses On

See also: [ Good Omens 2 - Glasses Off ]

[fluffy-ami]

they squishy they cuddly (i am dying inside so here have some random quick silly doodles and don't forget to click for better quality lmao) ✨🌸

[lazulibundtcake]

"Crowley, there's something urgent that I need to talk to you about."

not my man Crowley having a heart attack against a pillar while Aziraphale pulls down every blind in his shop

[lillotte17]

Okay, you know what, I need to channel certain anxiety goth demon here for a moment and hype certain angel who happens to be abysmal at human magic tricks and likes collecting old books, because I feel like even the people defending Aziraphale are not giving him nearly enough credit or agency.

You know who actually came up with the idea (on the fly, I might add) that saved Job's children?

The Marvelous Mr. Fell, that's who.

Sure, Crawly/Crowley was always planning to spare them, but Aziraphale is the one who suggests that maybe Bildad the Shuite is an expert on human births. You know. Like the one that happened in the Garden of Eden. *wink wink nudge nudge*

He's the one who sneaks the salamander children into Job's robes.

He's the one who changes them back at the right moment.

He's the one who lies to Gabriel to seal the deal.

Between the two of them, during the bullet catch sequence, Aziraphale is the calm one. He's actually more calm about Crowley pointing a gun at his face than he is when he initially walks onto the stage by himself. And he continues to be calm even when Furfur directly threatens both Crowley and himself. He stays calm, and he switches the picture and saves them both.

Aziraphale read all of Agnes Nutter's 4000 prophecies in less than a day, annotated everything, figured out where Adam was, who he was, where Armeggedon was happening, and even charted things out on maps, entirely on his own.

He also researches the rumors about Everyday showing up on the Jukebox in the Resurrectionist Pub, and figures out that Gabriel was on Earth preforming a miracle in company with someone else. He runs out of time to connect the rest of the dots, but really, his sleuthing skills with newspapers and books are off the charts.

Edit (I forgot one and it's one of my faves): We also see how competent he is when he's getting ready to host the ball. He knows how to get what he wants from people. If he can't win them over by just being nice, he knows exactly what to tempt offer in order to get them to agree. Crowley is just following him around like :O!!! Because watching the bae actually being good at stuff is attractive entertaining!

AND perhaps most tellingly of all, when Crowley plays the part of Aziraphale during the switch, he's so SO brave. He's collected. He's polite. He holds his head up and walks into the fire.

Aziraphale is so smart! He's courageous! He keeps his cool under pressure! That is the way that Crowley sees him, and Crowley is the person who knows him best!!

We don't know why Aziraphale chose to leave with the Metatron, yet. But even if he was completely tricked (which I personally sort of doubt), it definitely wasn't because he's dumb and doesn't know what's going on around him.

[mommyashtoreth]

I am Not someone who thinks that like, character traits change significantly with different gender presentations for Any character, but I think fundamentally Aziraphale and Crowley are both switches, but Crowley is more dommy when she's in girlmode and more subby when he's in guymode, and vice versa for Az, more dommy when he's in guymode and more subby when she's in girlmode. I won't even pretend this is a legitimate intellectual character analysis I literally just think this is the hottest way to do it. Really just says a lot about me and my tastes I think

[poisoned-pearls]

Azul wasn’t quite sure what exactly he and Jamil had become. One day, he’d been getting continuously blown off by Jamil, the next, Jamil is making out with him in the Scarabia common room in the middle of the night. And it was seriously starting to stress him out.

Crowley had started making (forcing) them to go to group therapy after Idias overblot. (Really, what would it take for the man to hire an actual crisis counselor instead of doing whatever you’d call this??) After a while, Kalim had thrown some kind of surprise party for the six of them (when later pressed, he’d admitted it was cater’s idea, out of concern for riddle and Idia.) Despite Kalim jumping it on Jamil at the last second, it was weirdly chill.

Eventually, everyone except for Azul and Jamil had filtered out. Kalim had gone to bed in an attempt to not be a burden, Riddle had curfew, Vil had his beauty sleep, and to be completely honestly, Idia and Leona were probably both looking for an out the moment they arrived. Of course, that left Azul, who was always willing to push the boundaries of social rules when it came to Jamil.

then it had happened. They’d ended up watching something on the TV, where Azul had ended up next to Jamil in an attempt to steal some of the blanket he was using.

They’d drifted closer, and closer, until Azul’s legs were brushing against Jamil’s. And Jamil’s hand was on it. On Azul’s thigh. He doesn’t even know when it happened, except for the fact that one moment he was fine, he was chill, he was in control, and then the next Jamil’s hand was on his leg and his brain was a jellyfish, floating around in his head with no thoughts.

So Azul did what he did best. He pushed. He leaned his head on Jamil’s shoulder, waiting for the inevitable shove.

Except it never came. And slowly, Azul stopped paying attention to the show and shifted it to the way Jamil’s thumb kept rubbing slowly. Azul wasn’t even sure he was aware of just exactly he was doing to him.

”can I kiss you?”

Oh. Never mind. Jamil had to know just what exactly he was doing.

He had nodded so quickly, all but dragging Jamil on him. Show be damned, he could care less, because now he had Jamil Viper kissing him. The hottest man in their whole school.

The kiss was lazy, slow and methodical. It went on well into the night, and honestly, Azul could care less about what time he stumbled back into Octavinelle, because he got to make out with the boy he’d had a crush on since the first day of school.

”well, you look like hell.” Jade joked, eagerly awaiting Azul’s return. “How’d it go, lover boy?”

Ah. Shit. He’d forgotten the most important part.

Asking Jamil what the hell that just meant.

[chocolatepot]

I enjoy the way we call characters who make mistakes "stupid" because we love them, but ftlog everyone, please stop forgetting that they aren't actually idiots ...

[quietwingsinthesky]

if there was a torchwood/spn crossover, jack would get shot in the head so much. i know he already dies a lot, but he’s going to die so many times during this crossover. keeps getting bullets unloaded into him. they stab him with silver and steel and copper and none of it keeps him down. he’s gonna get squirted with borax and that one’s not gonna kill him but it is going to ruin his coat, which is materially worse for him.

[shallowseeker]

Since you like talking about the MacLeod family so much, I was wondering what you think about the fact that Crowley kept his mother's name? It was implied that Rowena was never married and MacLeod was her family name. And even though she abandoned him, Crowley kept the name and even gave it to his son.

Ohhhhh myyyyy--

I've never thought about that. YOU'RE MAKING ME EMOTIONAL! ON A FRIDAY NIGHT!

Maybe little Fergus always thought she'd come back, right up until he drunk himself to death and died in a back alleyway

OUGH maybe it was only upon becoming a demon that he threw off the MacLeod name.

Alternatively, maybe Rowena's father (the one who Gavin MacLeod allegedly resembles) was in Fergus's life for a short while.

[the-patrex]

Man what makes Aziraphale even more of a damn fool is that he like believes he can pick himself by his bootstraps, he believes in the system, HE could fix things if only the Right People were at the command. Not that it's well, systemic shit all the way up. The whole shebang just doesn't work.

[legjames]

right. WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THE GAVOTTE (the dance aziraphale learns in s1) IS KNOWN AS THE “LIVELY PEASANTS’ KISSING DANCE”??????? it’s a kissing dance.

you kiss at the end of the dance (sometimes replaced with presenting your partner with flowers)!!?!???? it’s a fucking kissing dance. aziraphale learnt a fucking KISSING DANCE in the gentleman’s club.

of course he was rather upset when it went out of fashion; he couldn’t teach crowley the dance anymore…

perhaps the ball was his way of trying to do something similar with crowley (i am so sick… have mercy)

[minervas-hand]

Ineffable May Day 9: Turtleneck

Day 9 for @blairamok's Ineffable May 2024

AO3 link here

[S2 Ep 2. Aziraphale invites Crowley to the pub to chat.]

Crowley stood by the Bentley, confused by the call he'd just had from Aziraphale. 

Why the pub? We never go to the pub. 

If he'd wanted to talk about Gabriel, they could do it in the coffee shop. Or in the bookshop, really, it wasn't as if ol' Jim was all there anyway.

He brushed down the sleeves of his jacket. Miracled some extra shine to the ribbon stripe down his trousers. Checked his hair in the Bentley's side mirror.

Maybe it was time for the turtleneck?

He dug into the case in the Bentley's boot and lifted it up reverently. Most of his clothes were miracled but this - well, it was the finest cashmere that could be had in 1967 London. Because Aziraphale had made an offhand remark once about how nothing less would do. 

He thumbed the soft material. A light miracle kept it as good as new. 

Aziraphale had said "you go to fast for me." But he'd also said they could go to the Ritz sometime. Or a picnic. 

There was a someday, now. Which was more than he'd ever hoped in the six millennia previous.

That someday had kept him fighting. The Apocalypse, ennui, his own cursed impulses to push the angel too far as he watched him ravish a dinner or they sat up too late, drinking. 

But now hope flickered again, a twist of gold in his burnt-out depths. 

He invited you didn't he?

He glanced around the deserted street, then miracled the turtleneck on. 

[itsjustlux]

50% Crowley theory 50% Crowley Angst

Let's talk Crowley and religious trauma because I just got done rewatching s2, this time with the company of my mother (the absolute icon that she is).

Side note, this is 50% theory and 50% character speculation, so enjoy this behemoth of a post.

After we finished e6, my mom and I had a lovely little discussion about the roles of both the Metronome (yes, she actually called him this) and God. Much of the discussion revolved around wether or not God was a malicious/cruel force in the Good Omens universe. While my mom had made the argument that yes, God in this universe is not a sympathetic character, I ended up arguing the opposite.

And I can easily see how she would come to that conclusion. Heaven, after all, has been shown to be pretty morally dubious. But that's just the thing. Heaven and God are two completely separate entities. And that's a really, really, really important distinction (especially for Crowley's character). Crowley hates Heaven, yeah, but does he hate God? I would make the case that he doesn't. In fact, I think he might actually still love Her.

In s1 he literally talks to God about his fall. Obviously, he doesn't get any sort of reply, but he doesn't seem angry here in the slightest. He's just sad. Sad and literally begging God not to destroy humanity. That does not seem like hate to me. And if he resented God for his Fall, why would he still be talking with Her? Why would he be trying to reason with Her? But let's keep going. In season 2 when he sees God talking to Job, I don't get any anger here either. Unlike the scene in s1, I don't get sadness either. I get wonder, and just a hint of envy. He wants to be able to ask these big questions, to speak with God even if he doesn't get a proper answer. That means something to him.

But why would he still love God if She cast him out? Well, I actually don't think She was the one to do it. I think it was the Metronome (yes, I'm calling him that until the end of time). I mean, Crowley recognizes him immediately and Metronome over here recognizes him right back. And even more that that, the Metronome was the one at Gabriel's trial, not God herself. If the trial of the Supreme Archangel Gabriel doesn't warrant the appearance of God, why would Crowley's Fall? Crowley got in trouble for asking God too many questions. And what happened when Aziraphale tried asking questions in s1? He spoke with the Metronome. It's pretty reasonable to assume the same thing happened to Crowley.

So what does this do for his character? Well, it gives some additional context to his conversation with Aziraphale, especially that second "tell me you didn't". Because I get some genuine fear from David Tennant's performance in that moment, and this would definitely explain why. It also gives him some delicious internal conflict and adds to his whole wanting-to-be-a-good-person-but-that-puts-him-in-immortal-danger thing. Because loving God would be like, the ultimate demon no-no. Loving in general is pretty unacceptable, but loving God???? And that would just make his isolation among the demons that much more significant. Of course he became so set on helping Aziraphale. Aziraphale was (is?) all he had (has?) in so many ways, this is just another one of them. And adding onto all of that, knowing that a God, his God, would sit there and allow him to feel all these immensely painful feelings and then not even finding it in himself to be hateful or angry at Her...Just hateful of the systems build around Her 'ineffable plan'...There's something deeply compelling and deeply human about that, which I find very relatable.

[thateldribitch]

Wow Chapter Six really comes for your kneecaps and tear ducts huh?

[rragnaroks]

FUCK

ME

i've watched the FIRST. SCENE. of good omens 2 and i'm crying