#c: anthonys

[kaison07]

Fell and falling

[jbaileyedits]

"[...] he always dances with her one more time than is considered de rigeur." — The Viscount Who Loved Me, by Julia Quinn.

Some things really change.

[pommegrantaire]

well, heaven knows

that without you is how i disappear

[atomic-chronoscaph]

C-3PO's cereal TV commercial - Kellogg's (1984)

[wisesnail]

Just because I'm chilling at Lucca Comics & Games doesn't mean that I can't finish what I started! <;

I hope you like this humble offering 💙

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless

[jbaileyfansite]

New BTS photos of Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley on the set of Bridgerton s2

[purenonsens]

Hands up everyone who thought about this after watching season 2

[heartandflowerball]

They are so cute. I don't know why but this picture gives just a comforting vibe.

[brainwormcity]

I will never get over how inherently tied to the lgbtq community Crowley's canonical music tastes are. Both Queen and Velvet Underground had visibly queer leads who weren't afraid to step out of typical societal gender presentation. Not to mention that Lou Reed openly dated trans folks. You can pry Crowley's queerness from my cold dead hands.

[variousqueerthings]

something very aromantic coded in s2 of good omens is that crowley and aziraphale canonically take their cues of what a certain kind of relationship ought to look like from books and films. firstly, very relatable, I did much the same thing throughout my teens (and in some ways still do although I'm not trying to make myself "fit" by taking cues that I've been studying to be the correct way to do a relationship, I just enjoy performing them in the same way all life is performance when you're not-doing-body-and-relationship-to-other-bodies correctly inherently)

secondly, how it plays out in them messing unintentionally with nina and maggie. they don't understand the structure of nina's and maggie's whole thing as it applies to the reality of relationship structures in the world they're in; that nina is initially in a romantic relationship and wouldn't just jump from it -- no matter how bad -- straight into another one that was presented as "more" correct. because of course standing under an awning or dancing at a ball makes people "fall in love" (whatever that is) because... well, that's how it happens in the stories all the time, that's what these sorts of relationships are all about, "one fabulous kiss and we're good" -- it's a shock to crowley that he misread all the cues "you were crying and she was..." isn't that what this romance thing is that humans are always talking about????

thirdly it of course eventually circles around to be about what in the world their relationship is, but when they're trying to figure out what's going on between the two of them, there aren't any words that can neatly sum it up beyond "us" -- whatever it is, it's "us" against "them" (although aziraphale isn't quite ready for that) -- the them being heaven and hell of course, but to be honest, from an aro perspective, the "them" takes on certain human connotations to me as well, because it's all about how these two don't fit into structures and are punished for this not-fitting-in, and while they're not punished by the humans around them, they also aren't... human. they still operate somewhat from the outside of everyone else, even though aziraphale manages throughout history to create a fair few connections from the sounds of things

similarly to how they do it to nina and maggie, they try on these tropes with one another: aziraphale invites crowley to dance, crowley kisses aziraphale, and it doesn't fit quite right (the first because crowley is concerned with all the demons outside and so isn't paying as much attention to the dancing part of the whole thing, and the second because [insert another bunch of analysis here that's its own post]), but they've already been us the whole time. their attempts at explaining using alloromantic shorthand fall short, because they're hampered by needing to define themselves and their relationship with terminology that's suitably correct for whatever dominant structures they're in

fourthly, the fact that their cues for what their relationship needs to be shouldn't even really be coming from movies/books and humanity in the first place, it should be coming from gabriel and beelzebub. gabriel and beelzebub don't even try all of that "this is what romance is," they don't call one another romantic or kiss or even say words like partner, they're not interested in doing human-based customs or "fitting in." their language for one another is based around that song, and that's as much defining as it needs. whatever aziraphale and crowley are to one another is equally all their own thing, but aziraphale and crowley struggle with definitions constantly. they don't fit into heaven, they don't fit into hell, and humanity -- while more the place they've adopted for all its wild wonders -- isn't quite right either, because they're still being put in a box

it was fun to look out for as I was rewatching, because the way they interacted with alloromanticism really did read like two people who have exactly zero idea of how this applies irl, but that's okay, the fiction's got it handled, all they have to do is copy-paste = result, but then the stuff that actually is the romance in those texts becomes a series of contextless tropes, kind of like how amatonormativity often has those exact same tropes recycled in story after story that can't figure out why it worked the first time but not the next hundred times, except in this story it's on purpose. one fabulous kiss did not in fact solve things at all (nor was it fabulous)

[jbaileyedits]

"I shall not be anywhere near that dance floor. At least not if I have a say in it."

Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) in every episode of Bridgerton : 2/∞

Season 1, episode 8 “After the rain”

[dosa-sambhar]

Charlotte and George having their little meet-cute in a garden .

When me goddddd?????!!!!!!!

[thedeathdeelers]

thank u and goodnight

(shoutout to @pearlcaddy for lending me these excellently edited screenshots)

[pedroam-bang]

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi (1983)

[jbaileyfansite]

Jonathan Bailey and Luke Thompson in new BTS from Bridgerton s2

[aberfaeth]

lockwood & the two idiots he’s learning to live for