#exhausted aziraphale

[ezura-knightshade]

Where is the 50k (minimum) miscommunication crack fic where Crowley basically goes through all 6 stages of grief when he sees Michael naked in his husbands bookshop?? I need it like I need air to breathe.

Like just imagine him just driving around the car playing pop music (I don’t know much about old English music, so just deal with the modern stuff).

Denial - How to disappear completely, Better than me

Anger - Bad Blood, 10 things I hate about you,

Bargaining - Blue

Depression - Somebady I fucked once, Missing you,

Acceptance - Getaway car, we are never getting back together, Since you’ve been gone, What doesn’t kill you,

And the best of all

Revenge - Vigilante shit, Fuck you,

Uncategorised but they have to be there: Drivers License, Mr. Perfectly Fine, I can’t decide, Lo maan liya (I tried not including Hindi songs but damn it would fit!),

I can’t think of more rn, you can make that your job.

[sic-vita]

GOOD OMENS + Aziraphale being relatable to me

[sentientsky]

hey do u ever think about how crowley's eyes (a feature he's worked to hide nearly his entire time on earth) were fixated so so so firmly on aziraphale during the final fifteen, to the point where he followed the tiniest of movements, even as tears began to form in his waterline? even as his not-quite-human-heart was splintering in his chest?

CAUSE I DO

how was this permitted to be aired???? knowing full well that angsty queers like me would be sliding down the wall sobbing about it???? (also, if u want to read more about crowley and his eyes, i am once again recommending one of alex's metas: x)

anyway! full gif below the cut!

yippee!

[vonnawithav]

I don’t like romance in movies

Now, this is totally personal opinion and preference, so please keep that in mind when reading.

“I don’t like romance plots in movies”

That sounds so weird I know. Especially when this entire blog I dedicated to one ineffable couple I’ve hyper fixated on ever since I offhandedly watched a random show on prime when I was bored.

There’s lots of things I don’t like about the idea of stereotypical *ahem, usually heterosexual* romance, and one of those things is the perceived intensity of attraction.

While I understand it to an extent, I also don’t. On the few occasions I’ve been romantically interested in someone I’ve never had the urge to rip their clothes off and jump their skin, or marry them that afternoon.

I do however, want to show them my book collection, send them obscure memes, talk about that one scene in that one show I can’t move on from yet, listen to them talk about their passions, share romantic but subtle moments, and just generally enjoy each other’s company.

Maybe this is because my lack of neurotypical tendencies, my demisexuality, or just my queerness in general, I don’t know.

But this type of romance is rarely shown in media, (again, in my personal viewing experience), especially in straight media.

You’re probably wondering what the fuck this has to do with movies. Same honestly I lost my train of thought one sec-

Ah yes.

Romance in movies feels immensely rushed to me. There is no time to sit and talk while you watch the sunrise, there cannot be an entire episode where the entire plot line is your traumatic childhood and how you two can bond over the fact both of your dads left for milk and never came back, or your wooden frog collection.

Noooo, instead, there must be this instant inexplicable attraction that causes both of your hormones to go haywire, because the plot only has two hours to not only get through this plot line BUT the other three in the background.

For romance to work in my head, 👏🏾I 👏🏾 Need 👏🏾 Bonding 👏🏾 time 👏🏾.

That’s one of the many reasons I love OFMD and Good Omens so much, we get to see that bonding time.

Ed and Stede chilling while having breakfast in bed while they look at each other lovingly?

Goals.

Azira and Crowley sitting and enjoying a good bottle of wine while talking about the end of the world?

Never seen anything better.

I think romance is at its best when subtle and calming, not frantic and unnerving.

Don’t get me wrong, I think franticness has its place in romance, especially once sexual tension has begun, but there needs to be large spaces of comfort and safety in between. (In my personal opinion)

Alrighty then, I’ll be off.

Lmk if you see where I’m coming from, or if I’m just posting insane ramblings because I’m sleep deprived and recovering from a cold 🥲.

[topaziraphale]

"Stop saying Crowley won't help Aziraphale in S3 he'd go back to him in a HEARTBEAT and nothing would stop him" I get it no one likes the idea of Crowley being bitter after what happened for a long period of time but like can we at least acknowledge that he's currently going through probably the most emotional pain in his life since falling? Can we agree that he's opened his heart entirely - something you couldn't pay him to do unless the world is literally ending and he's desperate - to Aziraphale, and got shot down? Can we understand that he did it AGAIN only to lose Aziraphale again? Not that what Aziraphale did isn't without Crowley's own shortcomings (hiding the truth of Heaven's cruelty from him) but like,,,,

The appeal here isn't Scorned Crowley Doesn't Love Aziraphale Anymore, or Never Wants To Help Him Again, the appeal here is Crowley learning enough self respect to not just walk back right to Aziraphale like nothing happened after Aziraphale has had a pattern of consistently refusing him. Going years ping-ponging between "We're not friends I don't even know him" to "That's what friends are for right?" and "We're friends, why would you even say anything?" and "Friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon!"

Like I get it, Crowley is a heartbreakingly forgiving person. Of course he's gonna forgive Aziraphale, I'll be surprised if he didn't forgive him by the time he walked out the bookshop door, but gdi he could at least grant himself the luxury of being at least a little irritated for longer than however long it takes to make a globe and some books float and angrily cry out to God in his flat. But due to the change of pace and dynamic that is establishing part of the conflict for Season 3, I just really like the idea of him for ONCE prioritizing himself and being like "Okay, fine. We'll get back at it when you're ready, then," instead of just taking Aziraphale back like his words and actions meant nothing to him, when clearly they have an effect on him.

What is Aziraphale going to learn if Crowley just accepts what he did so quickly, like he always has the entire time they've been friends? Idk maybe I'm just projecting too much darkness on their dynamic but I mean, if the pattern of Aziraphale pushing Crowley away/disrespecting him one day and then being fine with his friendship the next + Crowley never stopping to be like "Hey, that's not cool, at least give me a little credit" or smth was fine all along and will continue to be fine in the future, then why, after 6,000 years of being friends and loving this demon, can Aziraphale still not accept that Crowley is just fine the way he is, and instead got excited to promote him to an angel in a heartbeat once the opportunity presented itself? You can't blame all of it on Heaven when Aziraphale has demonstrated his free will/defiance to Heaven so many times. Or, I don't know, I guess maybe we can? Maybe I'm just craving too much angst to the point where I'm letting it cloud my analysis of canon. Idk.

[the-apology-dance]

Post Armageddon Headcanon

I refuse to believe that Aziraphale, Crowley, or both DIDN’T get thrown into a breakdown from how mentally and emotionally exhausted they were after the fight against the four horsemen and Satan himself. Combined with their executions.

Honestly so much emotionally charged events happened leading up to what very well could’ve been the end of the world that they both just suppressed because they didn’t have the time to dwell on it.

The bandstand conversation. The bookshop fire. Aziraphale discorporated himself. Crowley seriously drove through fire. Saw how the other would die. Could’ve very well have gotten themselves killed on multiple occasions.

I wouldn’t be surprised if one (or both) of them just started sobbing on that bench in St. James’ Park as everything caught up with them.

[tardxsblues]

This is the last time I'm asking you...

[acheemient]

You guys will never guess what I'm making with Legos!

Well, okay. You might guess.

[crocwork-clockodile]

Recently I've been wanting to write a fantasy novel wherein the two main characters are in a very dedicated, very loving aromantic asexual partnership. Because I can't just keep rereading Mercedes Lackey's Vows and Honor trilogy (I mean, I'm gonna, I love Tarma and Kethry so so much) and I think it's important for fellow aroace people to have stories unambiguously about us.

My question for tumblr, then, is how best to go about this. How would y'all suggest I write a qpp/platonic oath-siblingship and portray that these characters' love for one another isn't romantic or sexual? Ideally without explicitly saying the term "aroace" because my wheelhouse is second-world fantasy and really modern-sounding language I always feel is jarring in such a medium...

Thanks, writeblr!

[saddybildaddy]

something about this is so deeply relatable

[jonimitchellangelo]

Save me, angel Crowley!

[gaymingintrovert]

I hate Muriel being infantilized I hope they get to say fuck in season three

[sentientsky]

“Day after tomorrow,” Phoebe Bridgers

save me phoebe bridgers save me

[canarybell]

Crowley loves Aziraphale so much that in a dangerous situation he's going to risk his entire existence just for the chance of them being together.

(it doesn't mean Aziraphale is ever going to accept Crowley going through this risk for him; in fact it might be his biggest fear that he's not ready to face)

Aziraphale loves Crowley so much that he can't stand the idea of him getting hurt. So, in a dangerous situation he will try every option he consider safe - even if he's the only one who will consider this option safe and/or even possible, and even if this option will hurt their relationship. Then, if there's no other 'safe' option left, he might do all kind of reckless things to save Crowley (or both of them) - but only after trying everything 'safe'.

(it doesn't mean that any of these 'safe' options would be acceptable for Crowley; in fact many of them might be offensive and hurtful for him)

It's not comparable, and it's definitely not a subject of "who loves who more". It's just...different ways in which people (or angels, or demons) can be simultaneously selfless and selfish in their love.

(but then again, isn't love by nature a fine, almost indistinguishable line between selfishness and selflessness?)

[notobsessediswear]

Okay I’ve seen a lot of discourse over the kiss and wether or not it was forced or unnecessary and I think first, most obviously, these beings have never kissed anyone of course it’s not gonna be great and look a little awkward . But I think the most importantly no, we do not need a kiss to know they’re in love but that was crowleys way of saying it “out loud.” Solidifying that for aziraphale. The wonderful thing about it is that kissing isn’t a thing that angels and demons do (even ineffable bureaucracy didn’t kiss but we all understood their love). Kissing is a distinctly human thing to do and Crowley and aziraphales relationship is so centered around their mutual love of humanity. It makes sense that Crowley would choose the human method to express her love.

[azariah-z-fell]

Apparently today is not the the day for tumblr. Saw like 10 post about Aziraphale and Crowley being toxic or super weird unhealthy or intentionally willfully hurting each other.

Like just ugh… did we watch the same show?