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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

it's like a spidey sense, but for ~decadence~

"Season 3 kiss" no you don't understand. I want a hug. A little kiss on the forehead. Hands holding tight. Tender lips on scorched knuckles. Faces hidden in the crook of ones neck. Fingers tracing gently over cheekbones.

Show me slow, and intimate, and devastating.

Neil Gaiman is so funny like. "The whole of creation is about to end but the only two beings who can save it are caught up in a nasty divorce" nobody is doing it like him.

Y'know, Jiang Cheng in the sixteen years alone I think truly tried so very hard to not be his parents. He still hadn’t reached that point before Wei Wuxian and Jiang Yanli died- he hadn’t mastered Yu Ziyuan’s sharp tongue, or managed to get around the inaction he learned from Jiang Fengmian- and to be honest, even afterward he still hasn’t completely resolved these things (Jiang Cheng is so much his mother’s son). But he does manage to rein himself in, in a way that doesn’t directly hurt his family the way those traits from his parents hurt him and his siblings. I cannot stress how much I marvel that Jin Ling isn’t afraid of him. Scared of disappointing Jiang Cheng? Sure. But all of his uncle’s threats land empty and it’s clear that despite the chiding and scolding that echoes Yu Ziyuan, it’s all worn into a regular pattern for Jin Ling. Jiang Cheng absolutely did not get it all right in his parenting and I think that goes for everyone in MDZS. But there was change, there was effort he put into not repeating the same mistakes, and to that I say good for him

Crowley's first line is "well that went down like a lead balloon" after all.

I like to think that as one of the Angels who was directly involved in the Creation of Time and Space his experience of them is less linear than most. (After all, that's why he could stop it in 1x06!). And whilst Aziraphale is often stuck in the past, Crowley has a tendency to speed ahead ("you go too fast for me!") and across and in every direction.

“[Crowley’s] watch gave the time in twenty world capitals and in a capital city in Another Place, where it was always one time, and that was Too Late”

He's always in motion, always obliviously experiencing something that Has Not Yet Been, and yet always too late. Chasing and jumping ahead, mercurial, and Aziraphale is not just his North Star: he's been his anchor to time itself.

Hi Mr. Gaiman! My boyfriend (who does not have social media) asked me to ask you how Crowley, in his Bildad Era, knew what sunglasses were.

Thank you for answering (if you do)!! And thank you for working so hard to bring us such lovely content either way :)

The same way he knew what helicopters were in Leonardo Da Vinci's day.

God this brief hand touch says so much and it’s so loud in the best way

Hear me out, Do you notice how Crowleys hand is comfortably slack against Aziraphales? And how Aziraphales hand is stiff but still pressed firmly against Crowleys?

It’s literally them. Crowley being completely comfortable and unafraid of being with Aziraphale and Aziraphale being hesitant and afraid but still having absolutely no doubt in his mind that he loves Crowley

if all the flashbacks are from Aziraphale's POV as he's reminiscing to the point of disassociation, then he spent this season reflecting on:

God punishing Crowley for wanting to protect the universe he helped create.

Hell punishing Crowley for saving the life of a starving, grieving girl.

Hell threatening to destroy Crowley for associating with Aziraphale, after he saved him and his books.

God playing with the lives of innocents and Crowley protecting him from her wrath after Aziraphale defied Her to save three children.

Aziraphale didn't accept the Metatron's offer until he threatened Crowley. Threatened the life they had. After a night spent realising they have no protection, when Crowley is always, always, the one in the most immediate danger. He never really had a choice - and he is still an Angel who goes along with Heaven as far as he can. Which is how he knows he can make a difference still.

I want to point out that Aziraphale tries to stay. His first response to the Metatron's offer is, "I don't want to go back to Heaven."

I feel like people think he's going into this somewhat enthusiastically, but that's just not true. You can see the weight of his actions on his face, especially on the elevator at the end. He's not as ignorant or naive as people think. He's just in too deep.

He tries to say he doesn't want to go. That he's made a mistake (right before they leave, he says, "I think I--"), but he cuts himself off. I think this is because of two reasons.

Aziraphale is too scared to say no to an angel who outranks him (both because of who he's talking to, and his overall behavior when talking with other angels). Speaking to the Metatron is literally tantamount to speaking to God. Aziraphale is fully aware of this. He doesn't want to say no. Both out of fear, and because now, he has to save the world again.

He has it in his head that he has to fix Heaven. Not for the world, the other angels, or even for himself, but for Crowley. Even though Crowley said no and rejected him, Aziraphale doesn't know the real reason. He probably thinks that if things change, Crowley will be willing to join him again. But it isn't Heaven or Crowley that really stops Crowley from joining him. It's what already happened. Coming back to Heaven wouldn't erase God's mistake. It would only cover it up. This is what Aziraphale needs to learn. As well as the story of Crowley's fall and what it truly did to him.

But I don't think he really wanted to go. I think he knows exactly what this means, and I think the implications will be very interesting to see when season 3 comes out.

I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

i cant get over the ball being so CLEARLY all for crowley i can't get over aziraphale trying to woo him with a WHOLE FUCKING BALL because that's what he knows that's what romance IS for him because he's been wanting to dance with crowley ever since dancing was invented and he's so stuck in time with the way he dresses and talks and he still thinks a dance is the high of romance AND HE MADE A WHOLE ENTIRE FUCKING BALL FOR CROWLEY JUST SO HE COULD DANCE WITH HIM like now it's so fucking obvious he gave away his BOOKS without a second thought and it was all for crowley he organised a whole JANE AUSTEN THEME BALL just so he could have an excuse to finally dance with the love of his life and i can't get over this i'm shaking my fists and pacing up and down he did not give a single fuck about anything other than dancing with crowley and HE BARELY TOUCHED OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS WHILE HIS WHOLE FUCKING PALM WAS PRESSED TO CROWLEY'S AND i need to lie down

"I think I understand a whole lot better than you."

No but listen! Before the Beginning, Crowley was the naive optimist who thought he could just ... knock on God's door and say "Hey Boss, maybe destroying everything after a mere 6k years is a Really Bad Idea!"

And Aziraphale, Aziraphale, understands the danger even then - that fear of Heaven, of God, has already taken root inside him before there was ever a Fall, ever a War. He understands more than Crowley that questioning is unwise, that even a suggestion of mercy is heretic.

Aziraphale has always understood what the stakes were and gambled his soul on them anyway. He lies to God to protect Eve's unborn child. He lies to the Archangels to spare Job's children. And like Crowley did 6000 years prior, he knocks on God's door to tell Her hey maybe the end of the world is Not a Really Good Idea.

In S1 we think it's because Aziraphale doesn't believe this is what God wants, but he'd seen Her plans from the Beginning. He knows that's what She wanted. And yet, when all is lost, he does what Crowley did, Before: tries to suggest a better solution to the Almighty Herself. He takes the risk. He knows Crowley fell for it. He does it anyway.

He understands what Heaven is offering him, maybe better than Crowley does. But he's lived in fear of retribution since before there was ever a retribution, and maybe what he's learned from Crowley is that sometimes taking a leap is worth it. Even when the impact of the fall hurts, getting the chance to try, to ask, to suggest - is brave, and beautiful, and what Made the one thing he loves most in the world, for the world.

Worth having a gun pointed at his head.

(Trust me, he whispers)

(And this time, he didn't)

prayer to whichever dead catholic person is most appropriate: may I not have to run a whole week of surprise camps on crutches. in a knee brace.

Crowley walking like his hips have something to prove

Let's look how in season 1 his walk has a lot more "cool rockstar" vibes, while in season 2 he has the same swagger but it tends towards being bouncier and carefree. It's fascinating that there is a big change in Crowley between seasons, probably because he doesn't have to do bad things anymore. He's not proving himself to Hell. He's free to do whatever he wants and he's definitely happier. (INSP)

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I think Crowley and Aziraphale (and the show!) have been telling us all along: Heaven and Hell's involvement in human matters is unnecessary and ultimately obsolete.

The moment Crowley persuaded Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge human life and Earth should've broken off ties with Angels, Demons, and God.

The secret third thing lives in humanity's shades of grey. God has retired, all Angels and Demons should stop playing Sims with Earth, and we're to be left to our own chaotic devices. Nobody wins. Everybody lives. Neither good nor bad, but free will for all planes of existence.