#team crowley

[musingsofmaisie]

Oh, good Lord

[iantoharkness-jones]

The fact that he said YOU'RE the bad guys instead of THEY'RE. 🤯🤯🤯

Wait... How did that happen? Crowley is lying to his boss. He helps Aziraphale hide the archangel. He's lending him a car. He tolerates his moods. He goes to Heaven for him. He cleans his bookshop. He wants to take him to breakfast at the Ritz. He cares about him more than he cares about himself. I just... I mean... How did that happen again?!? 🤯

[yowlthinks]

I am just rewatching elisode 4, and apart from the question of why not perform a simple miracle and restore the bottles (we know they can do that!), the way Aziraphale so BADLY wants to perform on the West End stage and Crowley so gently, so kindly and at the same time with a very good foresight guides him to prepare is just so precious!

And of course, Aziraphale highlighting that they are friends several times. He really feels awful and knows he needs to make up for that fight and for Crowley coming through for him still.

But I am still shocked he does not reflect on or realise that Crowley asked for Holy Water after the story with the resurrectionists. Like, come on, Aziraphale, put two and two together already!

[paunchsalazar]

I want to make Supernatural stickers or something…

[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

[guardian-of-soho]

Thinking again about the very first scene, and how Aziraphale was fascinated and besotted by the Starmaker. Not-yet-Crowley is so full of light, and joy, and innocent intent — and Aziraphale is already afraid. He already knows not to ask questions. Whoever he’s been with, they aren’t like the Starmaker. Heaven already isn’t safe; they don’t love what they’ve made. They’re blithely planning its destruction. But the Starmaker loves his stars. He wants them to live. And even though Aziraphale doesn’t have words yet for what is wrong in Heaven, he feels the fear of it — and he sees the Starmaker hasn’t gone wrong yet, and he loves him for it. He loves him for loving the world.

[laniakea314]

This gets me every time. He must’ve been so happy 🥹

Afterwards it’s like he can’t help using the term, even though he seems careful when he says it.

Perhaps, after Crowley saved his books he wasn’t so sure if what he felt for him was just friendship.

But whatever they are, he trusts Crowley completely.

Even with his life.

“You said ‘trust me’” “And you did”

[420technoblazeit]

[limeykaa]

I know the second Crowley will think Aziraphale is in trouble, he'll break into Heaven and get his husband back (and Muriel will help).

[kotdish]

[musingsofmaisie]

The Magic Trick You Didn't See

@ariaste I just finished reading your analysis. Interesting. Not sure I'm completely on board with your primary hypothesis, but you raise some very interesting points. Kudos for doing it.

Link to @ariaste piece here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/edit

I do have a few places where my thinking diverges from yours though.

First, on Aziraphale and Angel now-Crowley's meeting in Before the Beginning: I think the primary purpose of this scene was to establish that Crowley still possesses a Tool of Creation (that in S1 we assumed was merely a part of his exploded Bentley) and that this will be important in the denouement. He KISSES it, for goodness' sake. That, and of course that Angel now-Crowley was a joyful and precious innocent who didn't deserve his fate.

Go back to S1E5 when he mentions Alpha Centauri and "I worked on that." We are also given the distinct impression that Crowley was an angel of considerable rank and power. Seeing Crowley in Heaven with Muriel and the way he was treated by the leadership-can I get a "deferentially" here?-is a setup for the reveal of his identity. There are files! Aziraphale can request them! Aziraphale finding out the truth is to me the macguffin that will 1) make him realize that heaven is not the place of "truth, light and good" and 2) catalyze whatever action that brings the tale to its conclusion.

When Crowley interrogates Jim-the "It hurts!" "I KNOW! Do it anyway!" and "Yeah, like the places where the furniture used to be" both strongly indicated to me that Crowley was speaking from experience-that he had had his memory wiped when he Fell-and has recovered some, but not all of it. Hence the offer of a hot chocolate. Empathy. (I think this what he meant by "Ask him properly.")

Later, when he tries to explain Gravity to Jim, I got the feeling that that was one of the places where the furniture used to be. (And also not remembering Saraquiel and Furfur).

Second, in the story of Job, it's being told directly from Aziraphale's point of view, that's why I assumed, in his recollection, that Crowley Bildad the Shuhite was wearing cool shades. And this is also where Aziraphale makes reference that he knew the angel Crowley used to be. Before the Garden of Eden. And Crowley says "the angel you knew is not me". Rather harshly, I thought.

Currently rereading "the Crow Road" and annotating it. There do seem to be some compelling parallels so far. Makes me wonder when Muriel will get to Aziraphale's journals. Like you, I suspect that's where we're going next. I can't figure out the timeline, though. It seems like the next scene has to take place many years from now.

This is getting too long so I'll wrap up by saying that I'm convinced that NG would not foist on us a plot device that wraps up S3 like Bobby "It was all a dream" Ewing from the last season of Dallas. It would be a violation of his own writing ethos and his commitment to doing something that would make Terry proud. The Metatron is literally a Deus ex Machina, but I don't think that NG would rely solely on him-or that technique-to conclude the story.

We all want our heroes to get their happy ending. But knowing Neil's knack for the twist in the storyline, I' don't think I'm not sure that it will look like what we think it will.

Cheers,

Maisie

[daily-crowley]

Crowley Of The Day: Let’s start the year with me finally posting this scene 🙂 let’s hope this year brings more angst for them, I would like that.

[extraaa-30]

how crowley reacts when people on this site shit talk aziraphale

just a reminder 😊✨

[thepunkmuppet]

# i know what you are

[ship-my-pants]

ROUND TWO part one