#that kiss

[iwasthenightingale]

I will never be over the fact that for all the confusion and fear and panic and anger that goes through Aziraphale's face in the seconds after the kiss, for all the repressed feelings and the idiocy of his 'I forgive you', when Crowley walks away from him for what he thinks could be the last time he stutters out the softest, most desperately pleading '...no...'

[blueeyesfilledwithpassion]

That Look - The Desire

Mmmm That Look When Desire & Release Meet

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[walloruss]

Marichat doodles 

[pseudonymphomania]

Hello. Imagine DiaLuci.

Thank you.

[respectthepetty]

Not to rehash the kiss discourse but if you look at the the official twitter account they posted BTS pics of ep 6 and it looks like the first take of that kiss scene was better.

https://twitter.com/Dangerous_Rom/status/1705230453761036623

So I wonder why they reshot the scene later. I know PerthChimon can do better so that’s giving me a little bit more faith that the next kisses won’t be as awkward.

I'm going to believe that the kiss we got in the show was intentional because the length of that scene was too long for Lit Phadung, the director, to think "Oh, yeah, that's sooooo amazing." Mostly when this is the same man who directed these kisses in Love Mechanics and Love in Translation.

He was also the director for SOTUS, so he knows how to film kisses without them being intrusive.

Yet he was all up in the actors' business for Dangerous Romance.

So I'm taking a leap of faith in Director Lit that he decided whatever kiss he filmed the first time around was not right for the moment

So we got a reshoot.

About that kiss, @kessthenorthface perfectly summed up in the tags of a post how I feel about it.

I'm sure they reshot several scenes (from the trailer and previews) which tends to happen because Chimon's hair is longer in some scenes than what we got in the official trailer and the romantic trailer. I mentioned this in my other post about the possibility of a kiss happening in episode 7 as well because I think this scene

is now this scene (which thank goodness because Chimon with wavy longer hair is the glow up we all deserve to witness).

Be My Favorite taught me to have faith because I was skeptical of Krist and Fluke kissing, yet the kisses were soft and sweet, so since we KNOW Perth can kiss, and even though my OG Slut for Christ Chimon hasn't kissed a guy yet been in several BLs and even the lead in Sweet Boy (@twig-tea, this is for you!), I'm going to believe they will pull it off.

But even if they don't, I'm going to place it in the "Grand Scheme of Things" pile - the show is still giving me everything I need, I watched enough awful Korean BL kisses to be okay with it, EarthMix only kiss in the last episode of their series, and Cherry Magic didn't even give us a kiss until the movie, so . . . in the Grand Scheme of Things, this kiss isn't a biggie.

Even though I'm absolutely 100% totally obsessed with it.

[gooeglop]

content for my fanfic 😈

[mel-on-cat]

WE ARE SO BACK!!! :)

Kiss bonus ;)

[mrsfitzgerald]

coventry <3

[survivalistghost]

they really put their whole coochies into ep 8 huh

[moonlights-tears]

Tracing that curve of your jaw with needy kisses. Tilting your head up to expose that neck. Letting my hot breathe send ripples to your core before absolutely just ruining that neck with such a raw hunger and devour you.

[thethingaboutnapkinman]

Jean clone!

Scott gets a Jean! Wolverine gets a Jean! Magneto-verse gets a Jean!

This is all working out so well.—oop

[blueeyesfilledwithpassion]

The Release

The Slow Burn As It Builds Within.

Sensations Grow & The Desire Strenthens.

Your Body Moves In A Seductive Dance I Can't Take My Eyes From.

Breath Quickens & The Trembles Begin.

The Moans Begin To Escape Your Sweet Mouth.

The Release Takes Over & Wave After Wave Of Ecstasy Washes Over You.

Your Fist Grip The Sheets Tightly.

Then A Smile Crosses Your Face.

[weebleroxanne]

Y'all when I tell you I screamed last night during that kiss.... My throat is sore this morning and I'm hoarse. Like thw dog next door for real started barking

[jac-is-procrastinating-again]

Guys. We need to talk about THAT KISS and Jane Austen.

No, we do - bear with me.

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." (Mr Knightley, hero of Emma by Jane Austen)

So. That Kiss. It's SOOOO messed up, yeah? And Az's expression in the lift veers all over the place, and it's really complex. But WTAF is going on there?

I just had a bit of an epiphany that i thought you might like to share.

So; consider the context.

Aziraphale knows Crowley loves him, yeah? He can FEEL when things are loved (like Tadfield). He considers himself C's partner for life (see that glorious little eyebrow raise when Shax tells him he's not C's type). But he kinda knows that C hasn't quantified it yet, so he does all the things he can to make C think about him as a romantic partner.

He dresses up with some care and puts himself in danger (see how pretty he looks in the French Revolution), then basically arranges himself in a ray of sunlight in picturesque chains till C turns up because he knows how happy it makes C to rescue him (and by the joy on his little face, that's a two way street).

He does nice things for him (where do you think C got the book with all the pics including Alpha Centauri from in S1? He doesn't read books).

He's got all these jolly japes and escapades that he initiates either to bring C joy or to get his attention or whatever. And every damn time C just fails to even consider that there's anything to it other than some sort of accidental humour.

Az doesn't stop there. He does the touchy-feely thing (you almost expect him to say "La, sir!" and hit him with a fan coquettishly) (off topic, I would give actual genuine money to see a C17th genderswapped Az try this). He does every damn thing he can think of to get C to really *see* him...

BUT

HIS DATING MANUAL IS JANE AUSTEN

Bless his angelic cotton socks.

Now in some ways this works quite well. Often the protag's journey in JA culminates in the realisation that though they thought they were unworthy of love, that they actually aren't. Then they get together and it's a whole happy ending.

To Az, this would be absolutely spot on - it would speak to his very heart, yeah?? The "bad" demon who isn't bad would end up with the "good" angel, all's well with the world. They often cock up the first attempt at a proposal, so the fact that it didn't work at the end of S1 is fine because Az is trying to trigger a proposal in S2 with the ball and helping the girls like Emma tries to help Harriet in JA (only thankfully, with better results thanks to a legion of demons).

Az LOVES C, and he knows C loves him but kinda hasn't realised what that means, and he's going all out to find actual romantic love.

BUT let's face it, Az is a total innocent. He'd never read erotica in a month of Sundays, just in case that counts as impure thoughts or something. so the SUM TOTAL of what he knows about how love works, what love is AND CAN BE.... is what's in Jane Austen.

You know what ISN'T in any Jane Austen novel??

Kisses. Yep, you read that right - according to JSTOR (website where academic researchers post stuff) there are ZERO kisses in JA.

There is maybe possibly the implication that someone was kissing before the scene begins in one book, and in Emma there is a shocking and outrageous moment when Mr Elton grabs her hand when proposing (at the time this would have been physically so overfamiliar as to be almost indecent.)

And this is Az's playbook, bless him.

So how does that alter thing?

As far as he's concerned, grabbing C for a dance is the most forward thing he could have done--just look at his face in the moments before, and the whole thing about how his whole hand is intertwined with C, whereas he barely touches the fingertips of the others when dancing (JA etiquette again).

Crowley on the other hand, has been hanging out next to a striptease club in the 70s, and in all sorts of clubs. He's probably a bit Az-centric to have bothered with any shaggery but he has an interested mind and I can absolutely see him reading erotica and chuckling at the lengths humans will go to in search of pleasure. But it wouldn't occur to him that love and sex are that linked, probably, or if it did, only for humans.

So when he gets a talking to by Nina and Maggie, you see Crowley.exe stop working as he starts realising that the whole concept of ROMANTIC LOVE might be applicable to the feeling between himself and Az...

He's absolutely flabbergasted. And then thoughtful. Then a little bit quiet and tentative and it's all set up to be the most beautiful, tender exploration of what could exist between them.... (yeah, thanks for that, Neil).

Then in comes the Metatron like a wrecking ball, and deftly fucks them up.

His proposal is designed to split them apart (which it does) and because he gets in first, that leaves Crowley desperate. He knows that his chance has been lost, so he grabs Az in one horrible, desperate, brutal kiss.

And Az DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT KISSES.

Az is thinking in terms of a picnic on Box Hill (he tentatively suggests a future picnic when he gives C the holy water in the 70s actually). He thinks it will be a series of lengthy but delicate conversations about how C was perhaps a little too emphatic last time. He's ticked the boxes; there's been the dance, there's been "la sir" and all that malarkey.

He's a little vague on what a proposal actually is if it isn't in a letter (another of JA's irritating habits is to skate over the vital moment) but he thinks that maybe with a little careful curation, he can bring them to this point of happy understanding.

And then, what he gets is THAT KISS.

he doesn't have a fucking clue what it is or what it means, guys, not at first, and he's so SO shocked

He knows how much C loves him; he was expecting/ wanting gentle togetherness (unspecified)but what he got was angry desperation and he doesn't know what to do with that.

Remember in S1 when Crowley goes nose to nose with him in the not-kiss ("I AM NOT NICE!!")? Look at his face when Sister Mary turns up and they don't immediately move. He isn't at all frightened - he does his coy face. Then he spends the next five minutes straightening his clothes, apparently unmoved, and as if he actually rather enjoyed it.

This time he does look scared. He trusts C implicitly but the emotional intensity of the kiss just overloads him totally and so he automatically goes into "i forgive you" mode and it all goes downhill from there. The hand to his lips is part "WTAF was that???" and maybe a little realisation that if it hadn't shocked him so much he might have been open to doing something of the sort again. But he's absolutely floored.

The slightly heartbreaking addition to this is that they both hang around so they can sort it out after the initial shock, but Metatron is wise to that and whisks Az away before he can catch his breath.

Crowley knows how badly he messed up, and he's probably a bit freaked out as well. But when we see Az in the lift, trying not to cry and looking stunned, there's a moment where he suddenly looks deliriously happy. For my money, that's where he realises that the bits Jane Austen left out were probably along these lines, and that Crowley just left out the niceties and cut to the chase (and isn't that so like Crowley??)

And then he has that look of incredulous euphoria he tries to hide from Metatron, as he realises that Crowley wants to kiss him. And that (perhaps in a gentler, kinder way) that he wants to be kissed with that much passion again.

He's just had his whole life handed to him on a plate and simultaneously taken away in the same moment. Yeah, there's stuff he has to do and complications along the way, but God help us when these two get back together. If their love doesn't save the actual universe, I'm gonna be really surprised.

There's a great line at the end of Princess Bride that keeps running through my brain. "“Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

How do you one-up that? Not with THAT kiss, certainly, it was nothing of the sort. The NEXT one though... oh my God. It'll be so good that we're starting to melt now from three years in the past.

I guess we'll find out in a couple of years time in any case- but for now, that's what I'm choosing to look forward to.

:)

[ladybender]

I was a little nervous about the premise of all the way down at first. I’ve seen a rise in “simulation” conspiracy theories that get bad enough to genuinely believe other people are just extras and not real. People use that theory as a reason to treat other people badly because nothing is real and it doesn’t matter. But Fry’s revolution that it doesn’t matter, that our emotions are real enough and they matter. That shit had me absolutely sobbing.

Same 😭😭😭💙💙💙

the subversion to "I feel therfore I am" hits hard. Futurama always was great at combating the view that the universe is cold and uncaring by saying no, it's happy and warm because there is love in it, and loves can go so far. Fry found a family, and that family found him, and they get to experience life together and isn't that beautiful 😭

[purplenimsicle]

NO THEY JUST DID NOT! WHAT A TEASE!

They did us dirty!!! They know we thirsty and did that to us!! I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, this show out here trying to kill us.

I mean that kiss though. 🥵 They practically swallowed each other. Their tongues danced, I don't care what anyone says.