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Good Omens Gifs Masterlist

!!! Because Tumblr has a link limit in one posts, the list is divided into two.

This is part 1, part 2 with Collections, BTS, Promos, Interviews and other is here.

Show:

(general tag for show gifs is goodomensedit)

Episode 1

Earth creation

Crowley tempts Eve

Didn’t you have a flaming sword?

I do hope I didn’t do the wrong thing.

It’d be funny if we both got it wrong, eh?

The first rain starts and Aziraphale shields Crowley

Hastur and Ligur meet Crowley at the cemetery

Crowley signs the contract

Crowley cursing after learning about Arrmageddon

It’s sushi

It’s miracle he hasn’t spotted you yet

Crowley’s ‘Yup’

Sister Mary Loquacious examines the Antichrist

We need to talk

Celessstial harmoniesss

Aziraphale saying no

Aziraphale is invited to lunch and remembers 1793 crêpes

That was scrumptious

Get thee behind me, foul fiend

My point is… dolphins

What are they putting in bananas these days?

Eternityyy

The Sound of Music

Crowley and Aziraphale become undrunk

See a wile, ya’ thwart, am I right?

We’d be godfathers

Godfathers, I’ll be damned

The Nanny

A and C entering the Heaven/Hell office building

They don’t suspect a thing

A and C meet very inconspicuously on a bus

AC on the bus - what if he comes into his full power

Michael’s fluffy hair detail

Aziraphale’s coin trick 

Harry the Rabbit

Crowley complaining about memos

Episode 2

Pornography

Sandalphon - Sodom and Gomorrah

I didn’t mean to fall

Agnes - Thou art tardy

Anathema arrives to Tadfield

Crowley and the plants

Crowley’s hips in his flat

Crowley and Aziraphale bicker about driving speed

Bebop

For my money it was just an ordinary cock-up

Big spooky fan, me

A and C are shot

Crowley scares the paintball guy

Crowley removes the stain on Aziraphale’s coat

Don’t your lot disapprove of guns?

Crowley changes the painball guns into real ones

The wall slam

Crowley uses a miracle on Mary Hodges

Let there be light

Oh Lord, heal this bike

Whatever water slides off + ducks

Crowley glaring glarefully

Aziraphale’s shortbread tin

Mind how you go

Episode 3  

Eden - God asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Noah Ark - The animals

Noah Ark - Crowley’s eyebrow

Noah Ark - Not the kids, you can’t kill kids

Noah Ark - How kind

Noah Ark - Are you going to say ‘ineffable’?

Noah Ark - Oy, Shem! 

Crucifixion - Crawley changed to Crowley

Rome - What else I’m going to be, an aardvark?

Rome - Aziraphale tempts Crowley

Shakespeare - Crowley pushing the pull door

Shakespeare - What does your friend think?

Shakespeare - Come on, Hamlet, buck up

Shakespeare - Toss you for Edinburgh

Shakespeare - Hamlet needs a miracle

Bastille - Aziraphale sees Crowley

Bastille - Aziraphale was peckish and has standards

Bastille - I was reprimanded last month

Bastille - Crowley removes Aziraphale’s chains

Bastille - What about if I buy you lunch?

Victiorian - I like pears

Victorian - Do ducks have ears?

Victorian - Obviously

Church - Aziraphale finds out he’s been played

Church - Aziraphale’s surprised face detail 

Church - Sorry, consecrated ground

Church - Aziraphale finds out about ‘Anthony’

Church - The famous Mr. Crowley?

Church - What does the ‘J’ stand for?

Church - You won’t enjoy dying or what comes after

Church - It’d take a real miracle for my friend and I to survive it

Church - Crowley saves the books

60s - Young Shadwell asking Crowley if he’s a witch

60s - You go too fast for me, Crowley

60s - Aziraphale’s tartan cravat detail

Anxious Aziraphale rehearsing what he’ll say to Heaven

The Witchfinder Army

Crowley and Shadwell

Gabriel’s eyes detail

Elvis

I don’t even like you

We’re on opposite sides

Bandstand breakup

Nuclear reactor acting weird

Episode 4  

Gabriel insists about the War - otherwise how would we win it

I’m soft

Gabriel asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Michael shows Gabriel the Earth observation files

Michael’s conversation with Ligur

I only ever asked questions

Newt sees the UFO

Pepper muses about whales

Newt faints

One big avocado

Crowley invented selfies

Warlock - You smell like poo

Hastur - He said that I smelled of poo

So long, sucker!

Aziraphale dancing

Demons dancing

Oh… fuck

Episode 5 

Do I look like I run a bookshop?

Crowley in the burning bookshop p1

Crowley in the burning bookshop p2

Aziraphale appears in Heaven

Aziraphale in Heaven realizes that he can posses people

Crowley in the pub - Aziraphale appears

I lost my best friend

Look, souvenir!

Aziraphale waves at Tracy in a mirror

The southern pansy

If you’ve got to go, then go with style!

Aziraphale, Tracy, Shadwell flying

Dog in the basket

Episode 6

Nice dress, suits you

Army human

Bentley explodes

I’m having a moment here

Lick some serious butt

Aziraphale tries to shoot Adam

Dagon encouraging the troops

Book girl, catch

Aziraphale starts telling everybody how he met Crowley

Gabriel and Beelzebub appear at the airfield

Lord Beelzebub, what an honour

God does not play games with the universe

Gabriel and Beelzebub compaining to each other

A and C’s cheeky grin detail and separate details

We are fucked! + detail

Come up with something or I’ll never talk to you again

Aziraphale and Crowley with wings in the time bubble

Aziraphale, Adam, Crowley hand holding

Adam rejects Satan

Anathema asking about Dick Turpin

Hastur calling Michael wank-wings

I’m the Archangel Fucking Gabriel

Shut your stupid mouth and die already

A in Hell asks for a rubber duck

C enjoys the Hellfire in Heaven

Adorable nose scrunch detail

Swap back

Let me tempt you to a spot of lunch?

Aziraphale’s wiggle

Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing

To the world

Ritz ending

Opening title

Dining and flying

Good Omens logo

The flying saucer

Deleted scenes

Crowley being cool and throwing his jacket on the railing

Disposable Demon wants to hit the angel

Crowley thanking the rats in the BT Tower

Aziraphale saves a baby

Parallels and annotations

Subtle clues about the switch

Miracles gesture system and wings

The Them vs. the Four Horsemen - sword, crown, scales

Crowley cuts across the lawn

The empty flower pot

Aziraphale’s raised wing vs. piano raised lid

Wing cover - AC vs. Eve and Adam

Gardener vs. Nanny - Don’t listen to her/him, listen to me

Eve and Adam vs, Aziraphale and Crowley - Leaving the garden

Neil Gaiman at the cinema

Bentley’s broken door

Aziraphale vs. Crowley dancing

MS face at church - is he trying not to laugh?

Mary Poppins vs. Nanny

AC vs. Victorian swans

Crowley and Aziraphale travelling mirror reflections

David Tennant and Daniel Mays in Good Omens vs. Des

Manips

Crowley realizes that he can’t call Aziraphale

Crowley taps Aziraphale’s shoulder

Janthony

Can I hear a wahoo?

Get this demon a wahoo

Gabriel is a wanker

Heart

If you make a vow to shield someone

Boop Crowley

Fixed dove scene

Crowley angel flashback

I smell someone spending too much time on social media

Continue to part 2 :).

(last updated 1.11.2020)

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Ever since Neil Gaiman posted this ask, it’s been living in my mind rent-free. So let’s discuss: what language do Aziraphale and Crowley speak to one another? 

At first, I always thought that Aziraphale and Crowley would speak the language of the place where they were, because there was really no telling whether angels and demons still speak the same language.

But with Neil Gaiman’s post, consider: angels speaking the actual angelic tongue, and demons speaking a “dialect” of this angelic tongue. For reference, the Wiki definition of dialect is “a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group… dialects of a language are closely related and, despite their differences, are most often largely mutually intelligible.”

Coming from the same original stock, they would speak the same language initially, but demons would have to develop this language into something they could use (I suppose there are some words demons regularly use that angels would not, and vice versa). Plus, as time went on, presumably the angelic tongue that was spoken before the Fall would also change from what it originally was, as language does to accommodate the new context of the times.

But it could also be entirely possible that despite the deviations from the original angelic tongue, the angelic/demonic languages are still more or less the same, the way Heaven and Hell are depicted as being mirror images of each other, two sides of the same coin. In the same vein that good cannot exist without evil, the language they speak must contain elements of both for the language to have any meaning at all.

I imagine Crowley and Aziraphale speaking this angelic/demonic tongue throughout the years interspersed with bits from various human languages, because humans have concepts that would not occur to angels and demons and therefore would not exist in their language. For example: humor, sarcasm, metaphors - these things escape them, for the most part.

Imagine Crowley and Aziraphale speaking the angelic tongue with a hodgepodge of the languages they’ve learned over 6,000 years. They probably have words from ancient Sumerian back from when they were in Mesopotamia in their inside language that no human has heard in millennia. 

(It reminds me of how sometimes, multilingual people speak English and their mother tongue all in one breath. Sometimes, one word has a more appropriate meaning in one language, or maybe a word has no direct translation in the other. Or frankly, from personal experience, sometimes the brain is just stupid and can’t remember words – I use words from one language or the other to fill in the gaps.)

In the beginning when they first met, Crowley and Aziraphale spoke two different dialects of the original angelic tongue. They sort of understand more or less what the other is saying, but they’re not quite on the same page all the time. 

Today, they speak a language that makes sense only to the two of them, the angelic tongue with bits of French and Spanish and ancient Sumerian and ancient Greek and probably a bit of Chinese and a sprinkling of Filipino thrown in for good measure. A language totally incomprehensible to everyone except the two of them. They evolved their own language just from the sheer amount of time they’ve spent with each other on Earth. JUST IMAGINE.

One last note: Language is also nonverbal, and it is entirely possible that this nonverbal language also makes sense only to them. Makes you wonder… WHAT DOES ALL THIS PASSIONATE GAZING MEAN TO THEM? HMMM WHO KNOWS. WHAT A MYSTERY.

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The sun begins to down, and love ripens.

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I really hope most people are aware of why Amok Time was made in the first place

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I drew this and then completely forgot about it. 

Anyway, would anyone like some serotonin in this trying time. 

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Unmute !

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what is a Star Trek?

Star Trek is about people being sexy and overly dramatic in space. After solving all their problems, humans of the future flew out into the stars to find more problems and have ethical conundrums about them while tricking the audience into thinking about real-world issues.

Earth doesn’t have war, famine or Jeff Bezos anymore so humans formed a club with their alien friends where everybody can just chill and be cool (humans are best friends with a bunch of space elves who have bowl cuts and pretend they don’t feel emotions). Sometimes the club gets into fights with space orcs or cyborg zombies trying to strip everyone of their individuality but it’s usually resolved pretty quickly so they can go back to chilling and exploring space.

Every time they Boldly Go into space they find Weird Shit™ and People Who Are Very Different but this is resolved by doing technology stuff or making dramatic speeches. The elves also have imperialist cousins (dark elves) who sneak around in invisible ships and pop up every once in awhile to try and trick us into getting in a fight with them, but this never works and they end up taking their football and going home.

Star Trek comes in six flavours:

Star Trek TOS (Original Flavour): made in the Sixties. A feminist captain with a weird speech pattern, a charming redneck doctor and a space elf go to space and run into all sorts of crazy things like sentient rocks, Cold War allegories, pouty gods and evil doppelgangers. The captain is gay for the elf, who is half human but very much in denial about it. A Scottish guy fixes the ship. There are lots of fistfights and miniskirts. It also got adapted into a very trippy cartoon in the Seventies! And six movies.

The Next Generation (Sequel Flavour): made in the Eighties/Nineties. Same concept as TOS but there’s more of it. The captain is a bald guy who talks like he’s in a Shakespeare play all the time. There’s also a bearded guy who’s always DTF, a robot who loves to cosplay Sherlock Holmes, and a psychologist (but they mostly just use her as a lie detector). The orcs are our friends now and one of them works on the ship. They spend a lot of time getting stuck in their cosplay machine, dealing with Time Fuckery and the dark elves being sneaky again, and getting kidnapped by a trickster god who has a crush on the captain. Also has four movies that are mostly about the captain and the robot.

(Bald captain has his own show now where he is friends with Space Legolas and they try to figure out if robots are evil. It is a very Different Flavour.)

Deep Space Nine (Story Arc Flavour): made in the Nineties. Instead of flying a ship around they’re on a space station guarding a wormhole to the other end of space (but sometimes they still fly around). This one has plotlines! The captain is a single dad who meets gods in the wormhole and accidentally becomes Jesus to a race of aliens that survived space lizard fascism. His 2nd in command is a terrorist who fought the lizards, his best friend is a trans lady with an immortal worm in her stomach that carries memories of her past lives, and their mechanic is a grumpy Irishman who accidentally becomes best friends with a very annoying doctor. Head of security is a grumpy blob of Jello who can turn into anything he wants. He’s always trying to arrest the bartender, a space goblin who worships capitalism. They end up in a big fight with Nazis from the wormhole. One of the lizards who thinks he is Very Handsome won’t leave them alone. There is also a bi lizard assassin who is so gay for the doctor he turns into a good guy, plus a mean lady Pope and literal demons.

Voyager (Action Adventure Flavour): also Nineties. A lady captain is chasing some dissidents and her whole ship gets thrown to the opposite end of space (not the one with the wormhole). She tries to get them home while dealing with cabin fever, the time police, aliens who try to kill them for trespassing, and a tragic lack of coffee. Her best friend is an elf but is not so Dramatic about it. Later she adopts one of the cyberzombies, and they spend a lot of time flipping the double bird at the cyborg zombie queen. Their Doctor is a hologram who wants to be an opera singer.

Enterprise (Prequel Flavour): early 2000s. Humans are flying around in space for the first time, trying to make new friends (like the blue antenna people) so they can form their club, which doesn’t exist yet. The elves are kind of dicks about it, but they start to come around. The captain is a big lovable dork who gets beat up a lot. His best friend is a redneck and their doctor is a polyamorous puffer fish with a zillion weird pets. After being constantly pestered by the time police for awhile, they then have to stop some zoo people who want to make Earth kasplode. Sadly gets cancelled just as they get down to business.

Kelvin Timeline (Reboot Flavour): there are also three movies with new actors playing younger versions of the TOS characters. An angry miner kills the space elf planet and makes a new timeline where the feminist captain is a horny frat boy and his elf boyfriend is Straight™ and has temper tantrums all the time. Everyone is Cool and there are lots of big spaceships and explosions. Also Benedict Cumberbatch.

Discovery (Modern Flavour): now with Canon Gays™! A grumpy fungus expert figures out how to make the ship fly around the universe with mushrooms. The main character was adopted by elves (the elf guy from TOS is her brother). She’s friends with an adorable girl who never shuts up and a space gazelle man with Anxiety. She gets arrested for awhile but then falls in love with a walking spoiler and they try to stop the space orcs from being such huge assholes. Later they chase an angel around the galaxy and get a new captain whose cheekbones are so sexy they have to save themselves with time travel. This one is still going!

There are lots of people on the internet who will try to tell you which of these flavours is the Good Star Trek and which ones are Bad. Some of them will even say this or that flavour is Not Star Trek. Those people are wrong and you should enjoy whatever flavour you think is the most fun! Some of the flavours start out kind of bland at first but they grow on you, others are too spicy for some people and that’s ok. You might enjoy all the flavours or just one (or even none at all) but the important thing is you get to decide! There are even flavours that don’t exist in the shows or movies! Because the best thing about Star Trek is there’s a lot of it.

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Tonight Chromie was outwitted by her greatest enemy: The invisible rat containment force field

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Why is Data’s hair brown but his eyebrows are white, wrong answers only

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I really don’t know how my brain works…

Have some Good Omens characters spelling a totally random word… (Crowley didn’t want to face away from his angel and RUINED THE COMPOSITION bless him)

Swipe and zoom in please c;

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Aziraphale couldn’t help but laugh at his husband.

“Whaaat?” Crowley pouts. “I am dangerous predator!”

Aziraphale tries to stifle his laughter- and fails miserably. “Yes my dear, you are the most dangerous predator to walk the planet.”

“Ngk! I’ll show you!” Crowley cried indignantly as he tightens his hold on Aziraphale’s finger and bites down on his prey.

“Oh dear!” Aziraphale cries out and dramatically falls into a near by chair. “I’ve been mortally wounded! How can I go on? Who will run my book shop now that I am to die from an apex predator such as you!?!”

This only causes Crowley to pout even more. “I get it. I’m not the snake I once was.”

Aziraphale gently places a kiss on his snake’s head. “I think you’re perfect, just as you are now, my love.”

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It’s time for you to bloom.

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Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

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Happy Valentine’s Day, lovers. Take care of each other and yourselves.

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Do ducks have ears? Must do. That’s how they hear other ducks.

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Crowley’s Truth and Aziraphale’s Lies (A 3-part series) Part 1: Crowley’s Heartbreaking Honesty

So I could do a whole series about why Crowley (in all his piety) is fallen and Aziraphale (in all his temptations) is not. However, I wanted to focus this series strictly on the use of honesty and lies throughout Good Omens. I argue that honesty (and the irony of an honest Demon and a lying Angel) is a tool for establishing their place in-between Heaven and Hell.  They serve as hybrids, a liminal space between holy and hellish, allowing for their supposed “flaws” to shine, and enable them to form their own side.  

Crowley’s Motivation:

One of Crowley’s defining traits is his imagination. Unlike any other celestial entity, he can create ideas, questions, and fabrications at a moment’s notice.  Crowley’s no Saint, he lies to Hastur easily (about calling the demonic counsel), he impersonates Aziraphale stunningly, and (if Aziraphale recalls correctly) he takes credit for all of the horrendous things humanity has done throughout the years (even earning himself some commendations along the way).  So he CAN lie, quite well actually, so long as he has the proper motivation.

And, without fail what IS his motivation? Who (or what) inspires him and allows him to focus his thoughts even when he’s panicking (and possibly trying his best to cope with his piles of trauma)?  Certainly not humanity alone, and certainly not because he has any sense of self-preservation. The man ran into a burning building head first without a second thought; he drove his beloved car through literal hellfire; he walked across consecrated ground despite being burned simply because he told himself he could.  No, he there’s only 1 thing that motivates him.

Aziraphale (of course) 

Crowley: Would I Lie To You?

Crowley lies at least 5 notable times throughout the series.

His reports about the ill-deeds he’s responsible for are riddled with lies and half-truths (which is a general fuck you Hell kind of lie)

He fails to tell the higher-ups in Hell about his knowledge about the Anti-Christ, the location of the Anti-Christ and neglected to correct Hell about it (a Fuck you Satan kind of lie)

He hides and ignores the agreement he’s made with Aziraphale from Hell (A Fuck you Heaven and Hell kind of lie) 

He deceives Hastur, several times but most notably after Ligur’s death (a fuck you Hastur kind of lie, and he’s murderous so he deserves it sorta)

He Impersonates Aziraphale (An F to the U to Heaven kind of lie) 

The notable exemption from this list is Aziraphale. 

Unlike the demons who he deceives at any given moment (particularly in defense of Aziraphale), he refuses to lie to Aziraphale. 

Are you Satan and have just “blessed” Crowley with the staring role in the Apocalypse?  Yeah, great (lies through his teeth about wanting to partake). 

 Are you a Duke of Hell inquiring about where the Anti-Christ is and trying to confront Crowley about his relationship with Aziraphale? “So Longggg Suckaaas” I’m gonna lie lie lie and possibly kill you for coming towards me. 

Are you heaven trying to torture my best friend >lover< with hellfire that will surely kill him? Not today motherfucker, because guess what? Now I’m him and I’ll lie my ass off to protect him. 

Are you an Angel who shows free will and loves humanity as much as he does? 404 Error lies not found. 

This is not to say he’s always straightforward with Aziraphale. because God, Satan, Someone knows he’s got a flair for the dramatic. But not even does he lie through omission.  Whenever Aziraphale asks a question, no matter how light-hearted or series Crowley’s being, he will always give an honest answer, even if it sometimes goes over the angel’s head. >see: Crowley being a blubbering mess because his best friend died and Aziraphale not quite understanding that the best friend is him< 

He’s also oddly cryptic when he’s asking for holy water, but never once does Crowley lie. Sure, he’s trying to speak in code “because the trees have ears”, but when he says it’s for insurance, not a suicide pill, it is for insurance. 

He can tell that his relationship with Aziraphale has morphed in such a way that it would put him and Aziraphale in danger if Hell ever found out about it.  Aziraphale, simply, does not believe him that his only motivation is protection because it is too close to his own fears about Crowley being destroyed. 

Which is why I think he’s so upset about the word “fraternize”. First, there is a class element involved with the Victorian use of the word (usually referring to someone of a higher class interacting friendly to a lower class member). Where Aziraphale may have meant comradery (and brotherhood, which also not how Crowley views their relationship) Crowley certainly acts as if he took it to mean Aziraphale was speaking to him like an enemy or an “inferior” species. 

This is only further supported by Aziraphale’s accusatory “we may have both started out as Angels, but YOU are fallen”, placing (in my opinion) too much emphasis on Crowley’s fall (a huge trauma trigger for him). But this whole characterization of their relationship is a lie Aziraphale tells himself to repress his fears about Heaven’s traumatic treatment of him. By this point in their partnership (as we’ve seen) both he and Crowley go out of their ways to treat each other as equals. To deny it, to repress their feeling is a slap. in. the. face. 

Further, the audience for lying clearly matters to Crowley.  In the relative privacy of the park, Aziraphale says “fraternize”, which doesn’t do enough justice for the kind of intimacy the uniquely share. It implies they could be enemies or strangers (which they aren’t, they’re at least friends). Crowley is so intimately aware that even now, in the 1800′s, it’s them (and humanity) against divinity.  And, Crowley refuses to lie to Aziraphale, especially about the sort of relationship they share. Sure he won’t tell the other demons, and sure as hell won’t tell the angels how deep their relationship goes, but in this private moment, where he’s approaching as a partner (not an adversary)? It would be the worst kind of lie. It would ignore or erase the new space they’ve created for themselves where they can be equals. 

In the above gif, we see Crowley angry and lash out. He says harsh words and insists that he doesn’t need Aziraphale. Since we’re counting, I don’t think this is a lie. Now no, he clearly does need Aziraphale in his life, but he’s just been smacked in the face with the insinuation that they are not equals, they are not friends, they are enemies, and I believe him at this moment, a very hurt Crowley, decides if that’s how Aziraphale is going to treat him, then he will treat him like all his other enemies. At the moment he says I think it he means it because Crowley cannot make time for someone who won’t take his concerns seriously and thinks so little of their relationship.  If he can’t be seen as an equal, he’d prefer not to be seen at all. 

Although, this is a temporary truth, and one Crowley is willing to correct Aziraphale about in a way he never does for his hellish counterparts. Crowley cares too deeply to wish Aziraphale any real harm, even if Aziraphale can’t call a spade a spade. Crowley sure as Hell would move heaven and earth to demonstrate the extent of his love. He shows as much in his rescue in 1941, and again when Aziraphale once again lies and says “we’re not friends…I don’t even like you” in the bandstand. These lies actively hurt Crowley but not once does he retaliate with.  Instead, he meets Aziraphale with blunt honesty. Saying “yes you do” doing everything he can to get Aziraphale on the same page, and share their truth. 

Look at the above gif. Not only does Crowley KNOW Aziraphale is lying, but Aziraphale knows it too. While he clearly loves Crowley and has loved Crowley for some time, his inability to work through his anxieties and rely on Crowley as a support system, as a partner, he can’t come to terms with his own trauma. 

So, he lies. 

He lies and he hurts Crowley. He lies and he dismisses Crowley’s honesty. He lies and he harms himself because they both know this is a facade he can’t keep up much longer. He lies, and Crowley still meets him with honesty and forgiveness. 

And honestly, it breaks his heart to be lied to, but he knows the alternative solution would be no best friend at all. Under normal circumstances, Crowley could be patient. He could wait for Aziraphale to come to terms with their relationship almost for forever. But, shit hits the fan, and he needs to show Aziraphale that two of them need to stop dancing, stop being cryptic, and cut through the bullshit for once. 

Which brings me to the first Gif of this section. Take a moment, scroll the ridiculous amount up, and just look at the indignation on his face. in the earlier gif “Would I lie to you?”, he clearly consciously makes a point to never lie to Aziraphale, despite it supposedly being “the demon’s way”. Not in anger (like at the bandstand) not even if it’s uncomfortable (like when he’s criticizing Aziraphale for being so clever and so stupid), not even if the angel is (knowingly or unknowingly) hurting him with his lies. 

Crowley draws the line at tainting his relationship with the kind of lies Heaven tells, and the kind of disregard Hell tells.  Because despite the lies he’s told by Aziraphale, Crowley knows who he can trust, who he needs on his side, who he wants to spend the end of the world with, and it sure as hell isn’t Hastur or Beelzebub.  

Because at the end of the day, Crowley knows what the two of them share together.  One great way to see this comparison is to checkout @theladyzephyr ‘s meta on Crowley and his glasses. Because while he does let his guard down for Aziraphale (even if only drunk), his autonomy, his consent to wear/not wear his glasses is taken from in by Hastur in the above gif’s scene.  Aziraphale, for all his lies, does not cross the same boundaries as Hell does, and genuinely cares for Crowley. He shows remorse for his actions and is clearly just as hurt by his own lies as Crowley is. 

A Very Crowley’s Conclusion

But what does this mean in terms of his Honesty? Well, for starters, demonstrates that while he has the power to lie, and could lie to Aziraphale (functionally I mean) he chooses not to.

He might, every now and then poke him and partake in some friendly banter, but never is it mean spirited, not even when they’re both at their breaking points. His ability to lie but restraint from lying; his ability to deceive, but his choice to trust, sets him apart from the rest of the demonic mold.  

Quite honestly, He probably could tempt (like really tempt) Aziraphale to his side. He could manipulate and push the Angel into situations they both know he would be uncomfortable with. But, he doesn’t. He doesn’t become the abusive force Heaven and Hell have pushed on the two of them because that’s not how he wants or needs to cope with his loss. No, he needs an equal, not a lackey. He needs an equal, not a boss. He needs love, not control. 

It becomes clear that his loyalties have never (at least not in the series) been with Hell. Crowley doesn’t trust or care about his fellow demons. He kills one (permanently) and another (not so permanently) without hesitation. He defies (actively and with little regard for the safety of other celestial creatures) the desires of Hell, working with his bestie to ensure the world breaks even. 

Consequently, he’s creating a “third” option with Aziraphale. It is distinctly not a human space (neither of them is human). It’s is not heavenly or hellish, but space for them to be who they are, fight for what they love and feel safe knowing they are a team (romantic or otherwise). And it’s clear based on who he lies to and how he lies, that he’s not cut out for the Demon frenzy or the demon.

Their third space is what Crowley’s been working for since day one because Aziraphale is worth lying to others to protect and worth telling the truth to love. 

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

[theroadyouchose]

goodbye 2019 and happy thousandth wedding anniversary to aziraphale and crowley