Talking about their Bosses

OK I am a little sorry about the Brother Francis one but not no. 6

#My Various Moods

Every person's reaction to the H*nd H*lding being different is funny asf

[banging pots and pans] 6 DAYS!! 6 DAYS LEFT!!!!

Shax: “I’m a little bemused as to why Crowley should risk destruction for you. You don’t seem his type at all”

Aziraphale: *slight raise of eyebrows*

[Crowley] rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow.

Thinking about the weird camaraderie that exists between demons but not angels in GO.

Have we ever seen two angels who are actually friends? Or even friendly to one another? We have met angels with a capacity to be friendly in general, but I think the closest we've come to two angels actually getting along would be Gabriel making a point to laugh at Sandalphon's terrible "can't have a war without War" line in S1.

Most scenes between the angels actually seem to have an undercurrent of absolute hostility. Teeth-clenched teamwork. No wonder it took them so long to notice that Aziraphale wasn't on the same page as the rest of them! The rest of them are barely on the same page as one another, either! When Gabriel goes against the majority vote, no one bats an eye at demoting him and wiping his memory. Michael and Uriel immediately begin vying for his job. The only times we've seen angels team up is when they're working together to bully someone else, like when they're trying to intimidate Aziraphale in S1 or going to the aftermath of the bookshop raid in S2.

Saraqael's overall neutrality towards Muriel is the closest we get to two angels in Heaven getting along, and it's more a lack of hostility than any kind of friendliness. At least until Gabriel loses his memories and Muriel shows up to spy on Aziraphale, and Aziraphale decides to be kind to both of them.

Demons, on the other hand, actually seem to form alliances and even friendships among one another. Hastur and Ligur are awful, but Hastur seems genuinely distraught over Ligur's death, not just fearful of suffering the same fate. Shax and Furfur conspire together and even though the 1940's investigation into Crowley's fraternizing doesn't work out for Furfur, it's not due to any double-crossing on Shax's part. Unlike the angels, who stick almost exclusively to making threats until the Metatron decides to try dangling a carrot at the end of the season, demons actually offer rewards to other demons when trying to work together. Beelzebub offers Crowley a promotion if he can bring them Gabriel, Furfur offers to back Shax up politically if she goes for the Duke position opening, and Crowley successfully stalls Hastur in S1 by pretending everything was a test and he's going to be put in charge of a legion as a reward for passing. They're still not great at socializing, but they're significantly ahead of the angels.

Of course, it's a fact that demons are awful to one another (Eric's treatment is really bad, they throw that random demon into holy water just to test it, "it'd be a funny world if demons went around trusting one another", etc) but they still seem more capable of forming friendships than the angels do.

I think that's because Hell cramps and crowds everyone together to try and increase their suffering and hostility, whereas Heaven isolates angels to decrease the odds of questioning or rebellion. Hell's methods are unpleasant, but it still ends up putting demons together, and some of those demons inevitably forge alliances and make friendships. Because as Crowley and Beelzebub demonstrate, demons are still social creatures with the capacity for love and affection, even if it's strongly discouraged and buried under nine million layers of trauma and a cultural mandate against kindness.

Angels are the same, but isolation makes is harder to form connections than overcrowding. Muriel and Jimbriel are both so eager to make friends, but Muriel's spent the past millennia shut in an empty office, and Gabriel has been distanced from his peers both through his position and also through Heaven's culture of fear and surveillance. He only breaks away from it when he finds something that's stronger than "choosing sides" (stronger than the fear of being rejected by Heaven and Falling, in fact strong enough that Falling seems worth it if he gets to be with someone he loves). Both Muriel and Gabriel are only able to start forming connections when they're away from Heaven.

I just think it's interesting that demons, despite being supposedly devoid of love, have an advantage in forming relationships compared to angels. Angels are supposed to love, but have far fewer opportunities to actually do so. Demons aren't supposed to love, but they make connections anyway.

“Nobody’s at war. You ✨idiots✨ sent an ✨idiot✨ to lead a gang of ✨idiots✨ to attacK a BoOkShOp. Those ✨idiots✨ there want their archangel back so that they can fire him.” *frustrated demon noises*

Good Omens s2e6 | Every Day

Girl the SASSINESS Aziraphael has in this scene always makes me laugh!

“You were right, you were right, I was wrong, and you were right."

been drawing a bunch of doodles on one page and it’s taking longer than i thought so here’s a few in the meantime so far :D

The Bentley’s Hit list

just incase you were wondering:

The Metatron - self explanatory

Shax - strongly implied, to my face, that I was outdated. What a bitch.

Demons - obviously not my one (or Eric), but ones in general that show up via flies, forced entry, or interrupting Freddie Mercury - I HATE IT

Michael Bay - he killed 532 cars for his stupid movie and I’ll never forgive him.

Elon Musk - this isn’t about Teslas, I know plenty of Teslas who are really nice (even if they sound stupid as they go by). He once hit his own truck with a hammer on purpose - and also he’s a bigot.

Jeremy Clarkson - self explanatory

Anish Kapoor - yeah that fine artist who copyrighted Vanta black. No, not because of that. Him and his trucks full of giant art are the car smashers of Camberwell AND NO ANISH I WON’T TAKE IT BACK FOR LEGAL REASONS!

Towtrucks - how dare you in general, (made me have the most humiliating day of my life).

Tories - self explanatory

shax decides to chat with dagon and at some point the convo lead to this.