GOOD OMENS SPOILERS !!!!

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Okay but I genuinely can't get over how important it was for Crowley to kiss Aziraphale. Like it was so important.

Yes, of course, important from the real-world perspective: after countless years of queer-coding in TV shows and then inevitably being greeted by judgement and disgust from others as well as the people who have worked on the show (looking at you, BBC Sherlock). I'm pretty sure tumblr users from back a good 10 years ago (myself included) have come flooding back to tumblr following these canon kisses because we're so used to being gaslight into thinking two same-sex characters in a TV show will never express their love on-screen. This show, alongside OFMD, is attracting the same mainstream demographic as those other shows and making our main characters kiss. Because, no matter how queer the relationship was in those shows back in 2015(ish), it wouldn't be accepted as canon unless there was a kiss.

BUT putting that aside, it was SO important in the universe of Good Omens too. For these characters to truly demonstrate where they each are in their heads, and where they want to be.

This was the first kiss, possibly ever, where a demon and an angel kiss. I kept thinking we never saw Beelzebub and Gabriel kiss, despite canonically running away together. They are a couple. And at first, I was like, okay great, this is the writer's making sure that the first kiss we see IS between Aziraphale and Crowley. The show is pretty much their relationship through time, it's good to make them the focus point. But it's not just that, not at all.

Gabriel and Beelzebub experience and demonstrate their love and their joy at the end through singing. Stereotypically, this is very much what angels are known for. People literally use the phrase, "voice of an angel". It's kind of an angel's thing -and seeing as all demons have been angels at some point or another, it makes sense.

But Crowley and Aziraphale's experience of love, of witnessing it and seeing it themselves, is always through humans. Their expression of love is always so human (acts of service, eating food together, quality time) Their relationship isn't heavenly, nor is it hellish. It's human.

Crowley choosing to declare his love and then kiss Aziraphale is so innately human, and is something that neither demons nor angels ever do. It is truly showing that he has left behind any demonic or heavenly desire and simply wishes to exist in his human life with Aziraphale. It furthers his expression of wanting Aziraphale to stay with him, for them, where they can just be themselves. To be an "us".

It's not an angelic or a demonic act, to kiss someone. It's human.