#aziraphale is just a being full of so much love i really adore that about him :(
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aziraphale looking at humans in love vs. aziraphale looking at his love
#aziraphale is just a being full of so much love i really adore that about him :(#good omens#good omens 2#go2#aziraphale#crowley#aziraphale good omens#good omens aziraphale#crowley good omens#good omens crowley#aziraphale x crowley#ineffable spouses#ineffable husbands#ineffable wives#aziracrow#aziracrow good omens#good omens aziracrow#vee rambles
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Reunions and the sound of glass
I don't often analyse scenes in Good Omens, I much prefer talking about their character dynamics, like I do here (and I have several other posts in the works along similar themes) but there’s a scene in episode 4 that I really want to talk about because it has both relationship stuff and a mystery – specifically the sound of breaking glass (that's not really glass breaking as such).
So let's talk about the scene when Aziraphale arrives back from Edinburgh. How adorable is Aziraphale’s face when he sees Crowley? They’ve literally been apart for a day and he’s so flippin’ delighted to see him. He’s missed him. He had fun investigating, but it wasn’t nearly so much fun without Crowley there. Now he’s back, he’s so very happy about it and he can’t wait to see Crowley. See how excited his face is? And he’s literally leaning forward to peer around the door columns as he approaches the shop.
Then Crowley appears and Aziraphale beams, he literally lights up with so much joy the moment he sees him and hears his voice. There’s even this split second when he sees Crowley where he opens his arms like he really wants to embrace him.
Then he gets a face full of plants and my goodness the look of absolute dejection is heartbreaking. I just want to shake Crowley for being so ridiculous here. Just show your angel some love, you silly demon!
Also I think the disappointment is partly why Aziraphale tells such a silly lie about the journey being uneventful. Crowley has just smacked him in the face literally and figuratively. Literally with a bunch of plants and figuratively with the message, “I’m not really that bothered whether you’re here or not.” Unsurprisingly Aziraphale doesn’t feel like sharing anything with someone who has just done that.
Now let’s take a detour here and talk about the weird sound we hear as they go towards the car. That’s not a pure breaking glass sound as such (like you’d get from a smashed window), it’s the sound of the pub doing its recycling. It’s the noise you get when someone takes out the internal glass bottle bin and empties it into the outside glass recycling bin. It’s why Crowley doesn’t react and Aziraphale simply looks around and then turns back looking unconcerned. They’ll hear that noise all the time, it’s not the noise of something bad happening.
So why is that sound used here? I have no idea. Presumably it’s not just ambiance, although since it’s a noise that could serve that purpose it could very well be that it’s a red herring. It also happens at an odd moment. One thing breaking glass signals is the breaking of trust. Aziraphale has just told a lie, but by the time we hear the noise Crowley is several seconds into his description of ‘Jim’ singing and sleeping. It seems too far removed to be to do with Aziraphale’s lie specifically. So that leaves us with three possibilities – we should ignore the noise because it’s only ambiance, it’s to do with something other than lies, or Crowley is lying about what he and Jim have been up to. I have no idea why this last one might be or what might have happened. Anyone want to speculate? To be honest he doesn’t look or sound like he’s lying to me and Crowley actually lies very very rarely, especially not to Aziraphale (when he does it tends to be by omission rather than a direct lie) so I’m inclined to think the sound is supposed to clue us into something else. But what? And if so why not actual glass breaking, why the weird recycling sound?
Anyway back to Aziraphale and Crowley’s interaction. Crowley manages to piss Aziraphale off even more by being all lovey-dovey towards his car. After checking out Crowley’s arse (!) as he bends over to put the plants in the car Aziraphale then seems to become anxious as they talk about whether he has anymore clues, even glancing over his shoulder nervously as he talks. Why? No idea. Maybe he just knows that he didn’t really find out all that much on his trip and is worried Crowley is expecting more of him?
What’s quite sweet is that he only completely regains his balance and perkiness after Crowley shuts the car door and Aziraphale is able to step up close to him again. There’s no real need for him to step forward, they’re already at conversation distance, but Aziraphale feels most comfortable when he’s right up in Crowley’s space. Also Crowley admits to his own failure and doesn’t seem inclined to say anything about Aziraphale’s lack of information, so that probably helps too. Symbollically speaking a barrier between them (the car door) has been removed.
Anyway the scene ends with them heading back to the bookshop and I really hope Aziraphale finally gets that hug he wants. I mean, I know he doesn’t, but I feel so bad for him in this scene and it would be nice for the poor lovestruck angel if he did.
#good omens 2#good omens analysis#good omens meta#good omens fandom#ineffable husbands#ineffable fandom#aziraphale loves crowley#crowley#aziraphale#the hitchhiker episode#good omens
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Crowley and Aziraphale Wholesomeness
Thinking about the part in the show when Aziraphale and Crowley swap bodies and there are so many little details. I didn't notice them the first time I watched the show but going back and seeing them with the context of knowing what's happening there's some really great but subtle stuff there.
Like that moment when Gabriel said "shut up and die already" and there was that sneer on Aziraphale's face. It makes so much sense knowing that it's actually Crowley's reaction to the way Aziraphale was being treated.
But can we talk about their impersonations of each other for a sec?
Aziraphale, who can normally be quite anxious and skittish, is rather composed. He's pulled himself together and he's going to meet his fate with bravery, honour, and acceptance.
And then there's Crowley, who, bless him, is actually an awkward moron most of the time. But at that moment he's so calm, and collected, and suave. Sassy, flirtatious Crowley is out in full swing.
And it's so funny because in both cases it's actually the other person.
Crowley and Aziraphale both know each other well enough that they can pull off a convincing impersonation. But at the same time, they've enhanced their "positive" traits because that's how they see each other.
Crowley see's Aziraphale as brave and honourable. Aziraphale sees Crowley as sassy, and sarcastic, and cool. This is not just them playing a perfect carbon copy of each other, this is them acting how they view them, what they love about them.
And it's adorable.
#they're too cute#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale#crowley x aziraphale#good omens#good omens season 1#good omens season 2#david tennant#michael sheen#terry pratchett#neil gaiman
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Radio Omens time!! Strap in for my subjective personal opinions made by one person about the full-cast radio adaptation of Good Omens.
We're gonna begin with: I am blowing kisses to the scripting/editing/production team. This thing is an impeccable adaptation. Im-pecc-a-ble. The voice talent is fantastic, the energy is stellar, the pacing is excellent, and the sheer amount of atmospheric info they managed to translate into radio-friendly format? Mwah mwah mwah. I think it's the kind of listening format that's not for everyone, but it is SO for me.
Time for some specific highlights! It was a long day so we're a little extra silly this time. It's also long and not in a reasonable order.
(Ok good my page cut is working this time.)
- Good GOD I forgot the primary voices were Like That. I shrieked (happily) as soon as Aziraphale's mouth opened. This is why I travel alone /hj
-- (Incidentally, I said "oh fuck holy shit I can't do this" when Crowley started talking, but I did it anyway *sighs in bisexual*)
- Hheeeennghsh the opening scene in Eden is. The way it's written successfully sets up who Aziraphale and Crowley are, who they're supposed to be to each other, and a hint at who they're going to be to each other later because they are SO delightfully snippy at one another in this scene. Aziraphale's "oh, it's you" and Crowley's "mmhm, yeah, well done on keeping demons away. Bravo" (heavily paraphrased) will be living rent-free in my head until I have time to write a fic about it.
- So, having Aziraphale do the early narration is an excellent way of setting the tone. What I need you to do, if you've only done tv omens (which is so so valid and I think really is another excellent adaptation), is remember Aziraphale's magician persona. And then imagine him being that for the entire story. The pitch, the rate of speech, the slightly frantic energy, the drama: it's all just part of his overarching character in radio omens, and it's SO good for storytelling.
- Radio Crowley knows what's in all of Aziraphale's infamous Bibles so well that he can quote them. I love this detail, I love it as a means of establishing their relationship during their "let's be godfathers" scene, and I love how hard he's ribbing poor Aziraphale about the extra verses in Genesis.
- Radio Crowley is SO like... tender? I mean, all Crowleys are to some extent Soft but something about this one has just a little extra something. I love the way he talks about his temptations and shenanigans. He's so proud. It eases what could feel like needless exposition because he really seems to like explaining his process.
- That's a bit of the same of what I mean about Aziraphale's personality. Since he's very obviously inclined to dramatize a story, exposition just fades neatly into his character rather than grating on the nerves.
- They reference The Arrangement a lot and usually with a great deal of affection. There's one particular time when they even acknowledge something about wanting to protect each other.
- I adore the way Anathema and her ties to Agnes are introduced. It's so concise but meaningful, and it's just the right amount of setup for her character appearing later.
- The baby swap scene in other iterations relies so much on descriptive narrative or visual language, but you know what? The heavily trimmed down version also works surprisingly well.
- Crowley knows about the hellhound way beforehand (and, of course, he tells Aziraphale. They plan their roles for the party years in advance, which is an extremely efficient way of communicating about that scene to the listener).
- At Warlock's party in the book, Crowley gets all suspicious about a gerbil being gifted to him. In the radio drama, Aziraphale wonders aloud if the gerbil might be suspicious and Crowley tells him not to be stupid. Just struck me as a funny thing to shuffle around.
- Adult radio Anathema is everything to me actually.
- Poor Newt's childhood gets skipped over (unless I missed it, which is possible), but I liked his adult introduction as well; it brings in the whole Witchfinder-adjacent cast at once and makes it super clear how they all know each other without lingering.
- Shadwell. Just. The actor's voicework is so evocative of someone who is very gesturally expressive. There's no way he wasn't swinging his hands around in the recording space.
- The Them are all 100% perfect. Shout-out to Adam for that mind-rending scream that I was not expecting to go on for so long. Interestingly, in chapter credits, the Them are not grouped with the humans! This makes sense, but it also made my brain go !!!
- The horsepeople (both original and extra) were also so good, and that chunk of the cast gave the impression of good chemistry, so the scenes were really fun.
- Crowley says Aziraphale's name a lot. A lot a lot. Actually, most people do; probably for simplicity's sake, there's no "Mr. Fell," or "Nanny Ashtoreth," just "Mr. Aziraphale" and "Mr. Crowley."
- Well, Shadwell does say "Mr. A," and there is a Brother Francis.
- One of Nanny's rules for Warlock is "don't talk to the creepy gardener" rkahjdjs Crowley what is wrong with you
- I did in fact let out another sound when the Nanny voice happened. We're not talking about it.
- When applying for the jobs, Aziraphale just straight up calls dibs on gardener and Crowley complains and says something like "can you see me in a skirt?" and Aziraphale just pulls a date at random on which he'd seen Crowley in a skirt. This was probably also in the book, but I noticed it here and didn't there.
- Crowley's idea of something calming to listen to was a radio gardening talk show ;~; and he likes listening to televangelists for the lulz (I have never used that phrase before in my life but I'm keeping it)
- Having him hear Aziraphale possessing the televangelist was absolute genius for keeping the plot cohesive.
- Seance scene continues to be painful ahahaha...
- Hell's emissaries know that Aziraphale was discorporated and they're mean to Crowley about it in a way that implies Hell has long been aware that they're working together. Intriguing...
- There's mention at some point about how no homes in Tadfield have PlayStations or Xboxes, and I think that's a cool bit of writing to establish the time period (along with Newt bricking smartphones, which I think was said at least in breadcrumbs).
- Almost forgot, but Mr. Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett being the policemen trying to book Crowley for speeding in the beginning is so cute.
- When Satan is about to show up, Aziraphale worrying about everyone else and Crowley going "and me!" like hello, I am also in danger, that's my boss?? if u even care?? was SO funny in this version to me.
- Look, there were a lot more things, but it's already been several hours since it ended, so I'm sure I'm forgetting many.
- Oh! Pepper's backstory being transformed into her speech to Adam was SO good on so many levels. It really drove home that Adam does love his friends, it deepened their lore gradually, it made Adam's role and decisions very clear, and it also struck me as "Pepper says trans rights" even if that wasn't the intention, so hell yeah.
- The gag reel leads me to believe that Peter Serafinowicz is A) probably the funniest person alive to work with and B) extremely relatable due to the amount of time spent on the struggle bus. Also whoever put the breaking glass sound over all the accidental swears, I love you forever.
#good omens#radio omens#reading notes#cactus chatter#maybe i just need a new tag like “dran being unreasonably feral about good omens for way too many words”#suggestive#maybe?
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hi, can you recommend some pics with first kisses? 🫶🏻
Hey. You can check out our #kissing and #first kiss tags for fics you'll enjoy. Here are some more first kiss fics...
Floatin’ like a feather by Lilyofthevalley26 (T)
Crowley sat back in his seat, listening to Aziraphale rant on and on and thought this was one of his better ideas this century. There was a fondness in his gaze that he couldn’t quite hide, and was once again glad for his sunglasses. He leaned forward to pick up the teacup in front of him, absentmindedly turning it into scotch and settled in for another night of indulging his favorite person.
It was his favorite pastime after all, making Aziraphale happy.
run across the river (just to hold you tonight) by hope_in_the_dark (T)
In which their first kiss happens differently (and they have five percent better communication.)
Based on that one ask where Neil said he meant to give us a Wild West flashback but couldn’t because of budget reasons.
Not A Bang, But A Kiss by elviscossiet (M)
In which Crowley kisses Aziraphale goodbye like a good husband should. Despite not being good. Or a husband. Or even in a relationship.
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It was, in fact, the perfect kiss for beings who had kissed countless times before and knew there would be countless more kisses to come.
Which was why Aziraphale was so shocked. For as much as he'd wanted them to, they had never kissed before.
Budding Romance by Raven_with_a_Pocketwatch (G)
In which Crowley starts growing flowers in his garden and giving them to Aziraphale.
I’m Berry Fond of You by IneffableDoll (T)
Aziraphale and Crowley go blackberry picking and are fucking adorable about it. Honestly, just send me your dentist bill now, I take full responsibility.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better by elf_on_the_shelf (T)
Armageddon came and went and Crowley is trying his hardest to get whatever it was that he had hoped and dreamed for millennia to have with Aziraphale going.
Unfortunately for him, the angel is not there yet.
Unfortunately for both of them, Crowley, despite him being a darn optimist, really can't wait any longer.
This is a fic that explores all of their inner turmoil and means to address as much as it can of their past trauma.
It's a fic about healing old wounds and the both of them getting to be better supernatural entities all on their own before they try their hand at any type of relationship.
Or: Crowley gets therapy by means of tough love. Aziraphale has a long - and I do mean long - talk with himself.
- Mod D
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Good Omens Fic Rec: Of Fire and Falcons
Since they met at a Florida Renaissance faire a year and a half ago, fire spinner Crowley and falconer Aziraphale have been a great deal more than friends, but they've never quite admitted what they really feel about each other. Now Crowley has fallen in love, and he has five weeks at the Catskill Mountains Renaissance Faire during the most romantic season of the year to convince Aziraphale to see the light.
A Good Omens Human AU set on the American Renaissance faire circuit.
Length: 54,201 words
AO3 Rating: Explicit / Spice Level 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Best for: After Dark, Romance, Human AU, Pick-me-up
Triggers: None
Read it here, fic by CemeteryAngel725
*Minor Spoilers* God, I know this is a particularly adaptable pairing but how does every AU just work with them? This setting is so far removed from canon and yet unmistakably them. Except hornier, much more horny. Like complete sluts they are in this.
So in this AU Crowley and Aziraphale are both Renaissance Faire performers. Ren Faires aren't exactly my thing, but when I was a senior in high school they filmed a (awful) movie at the Ren Faire near us and we spent weeks there as extras, during public hours and after. It was such a neat experience going slightly behind scenes (also because we got to meet Matthew Lillard and Christina Ricci). So I have a normie soft spot for them. This perfectly captured the atmosphere. Even down to the rainy days! The camaraderie and community was wonderful. It's not just a flimsy backdrop for the AU, it's a full fleshed out and lived in world. I don't want to spoil the ending, but something brings the entire group together and it was a wonderful scene. I love the Faire family they have made.
More than that, Aziraphale being a falconer and Crowley being a fire performer was thrilling and unique. They are both so competent at what they do and each have such an awe of each other's skills. Which just makes them even more horny for each other. Truly this is the one time where going to a haunted house as foreplay makes sense for them. I'm like, yep, that tracks. They have a wonderful relationship here, with real life problems. This story doesn't make up villains to create a Heaven/Hell type of separation for them, it's just normal life that keeps them apart. Eventually they will become each other's anchor and home. A safe place to land. Also thank you for giving them tattoos!!! I adore them tattooed
Lots of fun and lightly kinky sex here, so not one to read out and about. It's such a fun, lighthearted romance. The setting is such a wonder to explore. And now I'm craving a bread bowl....
Read it here, fic by CemeteryAngel725
#good omens#good omens fanfiction#good omens fanfic#fanfic rec#aziracrow#good omens fic rec#aziraphale x crowley#Of Fire and Falcons#CemeteryAngel725#after dark#romance#pick me up#five flames#wedding#human au#performer au#artist au
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GO Fanfiction list
This contains part 1 and 2 of my list of recommendations. There are 12 on here now. Some are about 9000 words and others are almost 250,000, and I have read every single word. Three of my favorites are Stitch me up, Slow show, and Or Be Nice
******Stitch Me Up (medical au)*****
If you read any of the fics from this list this is the one. I was literally distracted at work last week because I was thinking about it. There is angst, fluff, spice (like really spicy), comfort, ughhhhh it has it all.
This is the fic that started my medical field au binge.
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23157691
Pretend for Me (fake dating)
Fake dating in order to trick the Archangels. This one is so beautiful and the ending makes me tear up (happy tears) every time
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20535329
Their tumblr: @obsessivelollipoplalala
In Plain Sight (fake dating)
This is the companion piece to Pretend for Me. I 100% this should be read after the first one, it makes it feel so much more complete
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21741256
Tumblr: @obsessivelollipoplalala
*******Slow Show (tv show costars)*****
They are co-stars on a TV show. The backstories on this one are so beautiful. I forgot this was a fanfiction at multiple points and thought it was a work in and of itself.
10/10 I will recommend this to anyone who will listen
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20395261
Tumblr: @mia-ugly
Give me a title, I’ll give you my heart (single dad)
Aziraphale is a single dad to an adorable and mischievous Adam, Crowley just moved into the neighborhood. This had me kicking my feet and giggling.
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21160262
Tumblr: @nohaijiachi
Ink Blots and Forget-Me-Nots (tattoo and flower shop)
Literally all of the best tropes in one well written fic. Tattoo shop and flower shop. Friends to lovers to enemies to lovers
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19455634
The Crime Boys AU (mafia bosses)
This was so dark and beautiful. If you like dark themes and dark romance these are the fics for you!! Make sure to read the tags on this one, but it’s so so good.
I read Dark Angels, Golden Serpents first and then Dark Angels, Darker Serpents. It can be read either way.
Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1924780
START OF PART 2
******Or Be Nice (musician and bookseller) ******
Author description:
Crowley and Aziraphale are neighbours. And...it does not go at all well, until it does.
A human AU in which Aziraphale is a bookseller, Crowley is a drummer, and they are both petty disasters in the worst/best way.
My thoughts: If you read anything on this list make sure it is this one. This fic had me up until 4:45 in the morning because I could not put it down. The characterization here is absolutely perfect. I was giggling and kicking my feet at it. Also there are in text images that push this fic over the edge to be one of my all time favorites.
Tumblr: @charlottemadison42
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28427940/chapters/69660750
In Knowing, In Silence (they are angels)
Author description: After being punished in Heaven for being in love as angels, Aziraphale and Crowley spend the next 6,000 pretending their relationship never happened.
My thoughts: The naivety of both characters is beautiful. They are just both full of so much love and don’t know how to deal with anything. It is cute and fluffy and then it kinda rips your heart out in the best way possible. It is one of the fics that make you feel something when you read it.
Tumblr: @obsessivelollipoplalala
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50313406/chapters/127105990
Epiclesis (Aziraphale can hear Crowley’s prayers)
Author description: Prompt: Angels can hear it when you pray to them. Crowley has been praying for 6000 years.
My thoughts: A very beautiful representation of the idiots to lovers tag. I want to give both boys a hug and also tell them how stupid they are. I can 100% see this fic happening and I really enjoyed it.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27836200/chapters/68148130
What Angels Want (Crowley can hear Aziraphale’s thoughts)
Author description: Set post-s1. Aziraphale finds a "communication spell" in one of the books in his shop. He decides to try a modified version of it in hopes of finding out if Crowley feels the same way about him. Nothing seems to happen, and Aziraphale assumes the spell is a dud.
Unfortunately, Aziraphale is bad at magic and through the kind of silly logic only fan-fiction can provide, it turns out Crowley can now read all of Aziraphale's thoughts about his favorite demon!
Join these two silly heads in a silly mini-adventure featuring some very un-angelic thoughts and one very scandalized Demon. Please do not take this seriously, this is just for fun and not representative of how I view the canon characters!
My thoughts: If you like dirty talk then this is the fic for you!!! This fic was a lot of fun to read. It gets very dirty but I absolutely loved it.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47184475/chapters/118884859
#i sacrificed a lot of sleep for this#good omens fanfiction#good omens fanfic#good omens fanfic rec#good omens human au#good omens ao3#ao3 recs#good omens makes me emotional#ineffable husbands#ineffable idiots#aziracrow#crowley x aziraphale
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I've been thinking on this for a while now, and I decided to rework the beginning of the sea monster wives au.
Especially with the new ideas I have for it.
So, here's a new, updated version of how Aziraphale and Crowley meet.
On with the fic!
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The letters creased in the tight hold of Aziraphale's fingers as she read them over a fifth time.
They still said the same thing as they had the previous four times, in the two familiar scripts and words of her brothers. It was the same message, one more friendly and apologetic than the one, which was more stern and to-the-point.
'We will not be arriving back to England like we had promised.'
Jim had been kinder in his letter, but Gabriel had written to her as if she were an associate from a partnering company that he worked with.
Her eldest brothers, Gabriel James and James Gabriel (Jim, as he preferred), were in charge of their family's shipping and trading companies, currently doing business in America. They had been over there for over a year now, and had promised they'd return by the time Aziraphale would be reaching the age of twenty-six, which was in a few months.
But Aziraphale should have known better, promises are just words that can easily be broken with the twins. Jim was so sorry, having said that while he would love to return to see his dearly loved sister, Gabriel was not letting him return home for something like this. Business was booming in America, Jim had to be there to help!
And... well... from what he had written in his letter, Jim had met someone. The heir to a very successful meat processing venture, Bea Prince, apparently things were going well with the courting. Aziraphale could not fault her brother for staying not just because Gabriel told him to, but because his heart was full of love.
She was herself a hopeless romantic, she adored romance and such. However, she only really experienced it through the characters in the books of her shop. She had never really felt anything for anyone.
Well.
While love wasn't really in the picture, attraction was. Attraction that her family was very much against. The youngest child, the only daughter, in the Eastgate family, could not prefer the company of women over men!
It was bad enough that Aziraphale was pushing her luck with wearing trousers and clothing more inclined for gentlemen than ladies, if she were even to feed her appetite for the fairer sex, she'd be sent to a nunnery!
Or she'd be forced to marry someone her brothers picked. Michael had threatened her with this when he had spotted her being a bit too friendly to a young woman in town some years ago. And Michael's threats had the power of a military captain behind them, considering that was his rank.
Even if she didn't have feelings for women, the thought of arranged marriage was always looming over her head. Gabriel and Michael had been talking before the eldest Eastgate had left for the United States. They had been discussing Aziraphale's age, and how she was practically a spinster.
They had talked about marrying her off to someone.
She had nearly burst into the drawing room of the family's estate home, nearly screamed and shouted and acted like a child.
But she held her tongue, and continued to eavesdrop.
Until she heard a name of a potential suitor and she left.
Mr. Salt, her brother's main business partner, after Jim. He was smarmy man with gold teeth who liked to be a little too close to Aziraphale's seat whenever he came over for dinner. She hated him more than she had ever hated a person.
He was a constant in her life, especially right now, with her brothers away. He was running the business from its main base here on Tadfield Isle, and he was constantly over at the family home. Practically moved in the day her brothers left the port! Michael and his wife, Uriel, were not thrilled, but put up with it due to Gabriel saying it was perfectly fine.
Aziraphale stopped living at home two months after this, and had been living in the flat above her bookshop just to avoid him. Except for Wednesdays and Sundays, when she was required to attend family dinners at the estate.
Mr. Salt did not like her living at the bookshop, in fact, he was quite vocal about how she shouldn't even own the place.
'A young lady has no need for a job! Her place is at home!' He had told Gabriel, who nearly agreed, especially to the idea of selling it. But Jim had put his foot down, saying that it was Aziraphale's, left to her by their grandfather, who loved books just as much as she did. It was in her name, it was hers.
Jim was always in her corner, he was a good man, even if he could sometimes be a dim as a dying oil lamp.
With a sigh, Aziraphale pocketed his letter. The one from Gabriel was held between her fingers before she let it go, watching it fly away with the wind.
She stood silently on the beach, watching the piece of paper move through the air, as if it were dancing.
The beach was her quiet place, like her shop. Only it didn't have the occasional annoyance of a customer, it just had birds that sometimes tried to eat her nibbles she'd bring. It was a small cove a distance from town, a private place that no one ever came to because it was hidden away, ugly and rocky, but it had a charm to it that Aziraphale liked.
Like the cave hidden in the cliff side nearby, the tide pools, the cute crabs she liked watching.
And the quiet, peacefulness of it, where no one could bother her.
She watched the paper as it landed on the water's surface, near the end of the line of weather-worn rocks that reached into the sea.
And that's when she saw it.
Something red and black, right at the furthest rock. Curiously, she watched it, what was it? Debris? An article of clothing floating on the water? A fish of some sort?
No... it looked like hair, with some sort of strange, black plant coming out of the tangles.
The black things fluttered as the paper drifted closer to it, and then something grabbed a paper.
A hand.
Aziraphale's eyes widened and she found herself moving close to the shore.
"H-hello?" She called out.
She watched as the red thing tore into the paper, then suddenly made a harsh sound. Paper was spat out, and what was still grasped was snarled at.
"Hello?!" Aziraphale called out again, now worried, but her curious nature was getting the better of her.
Could this be someone in danger? The hand certainly looks human, even if the skin seems... strange. And the red stuff does look like hair...
But there was a rumor going around town, told by the salty, old sea captain with a weird hatred and fascination with witches, Shadwell, that he had seen and captured a mermaid. Until this 'mermaid' fought back and escaped his fishing boat some weeks ago when they had that massive storm.
Adam Young and his little group of friends had even claimed to have seen the 'mermaid', but they could just be messing with Shadwell, as they tended to enjoy getting him riled up.
Aziraphale was open minded to the wonders of the world, there was always a kernel of truth to folklore and myths, but a mermaid sounded so... outlandish.
And yet...
The strange thing in the water moved fast when it finally heard her, hiding behind the rock.
"Oh, oh please, don't hide! It's... it's okay!" She said, removing her shoes and her stockings, moving to climb up on the rocks. They were a long line, a bit jagged, but flat enough that she could, carefully move across them. She'd done it tons of times over the years, she'd be fine.
Aziraphale got near the last rock, watching as the red stuff drifted through the water, it was hair, beautiful, bright red hair, darkened by the waters. A hand grabbed the rock, long, black claw-like nails scratched as it. She could see a strange thing between the fingers, a blushing red, it looks like very thin skin.
"It's alright, I won't hurt you." She said softly over the waved, though she felt ridiculous, sounded like she was talking to a scared dog.
Aziraphale got down to sit on the stone, looking at the hand and the hair, hearing something that sounded oddly like clicking and chirping.
The figure then slowly moved, letting Aziraphale see their face.
The figure was a deathly pale, with freckles scattered over their cheeks and nose, a mouth that was frowning, but the thin lips parted just enough to show unusually sharp teeth.
The black things from before were thin, like the skin between the figures, fluttering around what had to be ears hidden behind them and the red hair.
And eyes, golden and snake-like, stared at her in a way Aziraphale had never been stared at before.
Then they moved, and Aziraphale suddenly found herself on her back, staring up at the slightly gray sky, and the stranger.
The beautiful, frightening stranger, who continued to look at her with large, golden eyes.
And the frown became a smile.
A smile of shark teeth.
Aziraphale had found the so-called mermaid.
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Aziraphale, meet your future wife, Crowley. :)
Yes, Jim is now a character in this, the only brother that actually likes Aziraphale. He'll be in support of his sister being in love with a monster, because Crowley makes her happy. And yes, Jim and Beelzebub are a couple in this.
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You Asked For It
*sighs* Okay... Okay.
I have now been asked nearly 2 dozen times if I might consider writing a more explicit version of Born of Starlight. Apparently, y'all are not happy with my only hinting at the sex.
Normally, I don't write explicit. As a demi/ace person, writing full-on sex scenes makes me uncomfortable, most of the time. It's not an "ick" factor (I'm not sex-repulsed), but it always feels kind of creepy to me. But I can do it.
So, for those of you who are interested, I will (once I get the applicable scenes finished) be posting on AO3 an explicit version of Born of Starlight. The original version will stay up as well (don't worry, my ace peeps who don't want the sex... I'm not about to forget you), but there will be a new entry on my works page entitled "Born of Starlight (Explicit)" as soon as the scenes are written and I'm ready to put it up.
Meanwhile, here's a little piece of what I've started working on for the explicit offering (it's below the cut because it's already NSFW, really, and I haven't even got it done, yet.
Aziraphale sank back in his seat with a small sigh, then, taking a drink of his wine, let his eyes fall closed as he murmured, "I was worried things were so much worse than they are. We can manage this. We averted the end of the world, twice, after all."
Crowley hummed in agreement, reaching across his husband to snag the wine bottle on the reading stand beside the settee. They'd both worried enough for the day. Today wasn't supposed to be about worrying. With a wicked smirk as he recalled what happened at the playgroup, he topped off their glasses and his voice dropped to a seductive murmur. "You know, angel... I still owe you a demonstration."
Aziraphale flushed, took a gulp of his wine, then looked up at Crowley through his lashes with a shy little smile that, as far as the demon was concerned, was capable of toppling empires. "Is that why you're trying to get me tipsy?"
Crowley just laughed, taking the angel's wine glass from him and setting both glasses next to the bottle, before slithering his body over his beautiful angel's and down, until he knelt between his husband's splayed thighs. A wicked grin slid over his face as he traced long fingers up the insides of thick, sensitive thighs encased in soft cotton, his serpentine gaze fixed on his angel's face. As far as the demon was concerned, there was no sight in any world more beautiful than his angel's as he slowly gave in to his lust.
Crowley's heart slammed against the inside of his ribs as his fingers reached their destination, and his ears filled with the small, gasping moans of his name in Aziraphale's shaky-with-lust voice even as the angel's hips flexed toward his touch. Looking up along the flexing, quivering dips and rolls of his husband's body, Crowley could think of no place more sacred than where he knelt. Every moment in his angel's grace, his angel's loving aura, was life-giving, holy in a way no damned creature deserved. And yet, this beautiful angel gifted himself to one so damned neither Heaven nor Hell would have him.
But Aziraphale did. Aziraphale loved him, even at his most damned.
With a groan of need that transcended want or lust or even love, Crowley surged up over his angel, crushing soft, trembling lips beneath his own as he devoured the whimpered words of love and want and need -- the broken whisper of his own name -- from his angel's mouth. The subtle ticking of the clock, the grinding of its gears, faded away as time ground to a halt around them, allowing Crowley space beyond time's limitations, to worship the only being who never cast him away.
"I adore you without measure," he rasped as he finally disengaged his mouth from Aziraphale's, tracing nipping kisses along the folds of his angel's jaw. "Don't ever be jealous, angel. I'd choose you, over and over, no matter what was offered or how many lifetimes we lived. I live and breathe for you, and only you."
"A-Anthony..." Aziraphale's soft, thick fingers stroked his face and neck, and then down his body, slipping up under the demon's shirt. Crowley hissed in pleasure so deep he wasn't sure he could endure it, as those warm hands explored his bare skin. "I... I l-love you, too. P-please..."
Restraint snapped, evaporating on the heated air around them. Crowley surged to his feet, pulling Aziraphale along with him. He nuzzled his face into the subtle folds of the angel's neck, nipping at the exposed flesh normally covered by the high collar and bowtie. Wrapping his arms securely around his angel, he snapped his fingers, moving them instantly from the sitting area upstairs to their bedroom, already working at the buttons of Aziraphale's waistcoat.
"Anthony," the angel whispered, busy pressing heated kisses all over his face and neck, "time... You need to..."
"Not tonight." Crowley released the last button of the waistcoat and peeled it off his husband's body and sank back to his knees, already working the closure of the angel's trousers as he murmured, "The world can lose one day. It's my gift to you. Happy anniversary, angel."
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Good Omens Headcanons
Crowley
Aziraphale
Muriel
Beelzebub
Crowley’s literally always cold. He’s cold-blooded, and so unless it’s really hot (and they live in London, so this is rare), she’s just kind of freezing.
Aziraphale, on the other hand, is always warm. He radiates heat, almost. This just makes Crowley love cuddling with him more.
Muriel would grow out their hair a bit and dye the ends of it dark blue with the help of Maggie and Nina as a way to declare independence from Heaven. They really love the look and decide that dark blue is their favorite color.
Beelzebub really, really did not want to execute Crowley. Though they’d never admit it, they grew to see Crowley as a really good friend amongst demons who couldn’t think for themselves to save their lives.
You know those projectors that project night skies onto ceilings? Crowley would absolutely get one just so that they could see the stars again, even if the projector was incredibly low quality and crappy. She tells no one.
Aziraphale published a book under a pen name featuring a gay romance entirely based on his relationship with Crowley while gay people were first really protesting for their rights (using a few miracles, of course. It wouldn’t have been published otherwise).
Muriel would take up drawing. They like to doodle little cartoons, and their art style is constantly changing. They show Crowley and Aziraphale their art sometimes, and they always praise them for it.
Beelzebub loves pop music. When people see them, it’s generally accepted that they would like rock or metal or alternative, but nope. They literally adore Taylor Swift’s music and would hum it under their ‘breath’ (they don’t breathe but whatever) constantly.
Crowley is strangely good with kids. She’s like a magnet- they all love him for whatever odd reason. They love them too, but he would never say it out loud. (I mean, those braids back when she had long hair had to come from someone, and it probably wasn’t Aziraphale).
The Metatron didn’t drug Aziraphale or anything, but Aziraphale avoids any similar drinks to the one the Metatron gave him because he associates them with being manipulated.
Muriel LOVES cats. They find stray cats on the street and take them in, and they have to be stopped after five. They don’t know why they adore cats so much, but they love booping their noses. They have full conversations with them.
Beelzebub regularly makes changes to their appearance. The face shift was a pretty big one, but they like making smaller ones too. They like the change, the freshness that comes with it.
When Crowley is female presenting, she gets cat called a lot. She responds by scaring the daylights out of whoever did it, using their worst fear against them in a way that they could definitely explain but nobody would believe.
Aziraphale’s favorite feature on people generally are their eyes. Not in a window to the soul way, but just because he firmly believes that it’s impossible to have eyes that aren’t beautiful or interesting or pleasant. (He especially believes in this rule when it comes to Crowley).
Muriel loves to flip people off. They’re blissfully unaware of what it actually means, and Aziraphale is too kind (and also mischievous) to rid them of the joy that accompanies it. They get confused about the fact that Crowley cackles whenever they do it, though.
If you want someone to advocate body positivity, it’s Beelzebub. They genuinely believe that nobody is better or worse looking than anyone else. Except for most demons. Most demons are uglier in Beelzebub’s mind than everyone else (*cough cough* Hastur) and Beelzebub is not quiet about it.
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What is your favorite thing about the Eric x Muriel situation?
Oooh, there’s so many reasons I love them and ship them. The first and simplest is that they’re great characters on their own. They’ve both been around since time immemorial, but they both bring such an intense energy to any new thing they’re allowed to do, no matter how unappealing it might seem on the surface. Getting to talk to a higher-ranking angel or demon, even if it results in them being dissolved in acid a few times, is such a rare opportunity that they fling themselves into it full-force. I’d love to get to see them experience some actually nice things together, and to learn for themselves what things are actually wonderful and how to create wonderfulness and niceness themselves. It would be such a scary journey, but I’d like to see them support each other through it!
The next layer is that they actually aren’t perfect people at the moment. We don’t get enough scenes with them to see much darkness, but they aren’t just fully sweetness and light. Muriel was perfectly chipper in the Job minisode about the people and animals dying and they didn’t seem to have any moral hesitation about reporting on Aziraphale and Crowley. Now, they were completely incompetent as a spy so we don’t know what they would have done if they’d actually had real proof to present, but at this point they’re clearly not tuned into the stakes and they could easily cause a lot of collateral damage. Plop them down at the crucifixion and would they even know enough to wince at Jesus’s pain or understand why anyone was mourning?
And for Eric’s part, the first thing that springs to mind is that deleted scene where he wants to punch “Aziraphale” while he’s tied up. “I’ve always wanted to hit an angel!” And, really, why not? He’s a demon. Why wouldn’t he want to hurt an angel? It reminds you that Eric Fell. Regardless of why Eric Fell or how he felt about his fellow angels before the Fall, he very likely fought against them, he had no apparent qualms about helping to kill one now, and he might well hold a totally reasonable amount of bitterness for his siblings who never got punished like he did. So, yeah, why not take the opportunity to sock one when the opportunity arises?
So how would that play out in their relationship, if Muriel is unknowingly callous and Eric has spent six thousand years in a workplace built around cruelty? They’ll learn and grow after they’re finally able to experience new things — of course they will — but how will that play out for them as individuals or as a couple? There are so many potential pitfalls. Just like the highs of Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship are sweeter because they do have the lows where their jokes don’t land, they say totally the wrong thing, or they fail a moral test in the other’s eyes, there would surely be stumbling blocks for Eric and Muriel as well. And that makes it so much more interesting.
(The layer after that is that they’re so freakin’ adorable. Absolute cutie-pies. @strophalosx3's fanart of Eric twirling Muriel around in a dance kills me every time because I cannot handle the cuteness. That takes a lower layer because of course it’s just superficial, and also because they have a lot of competition for attractiveness and charisma — our Ineffable Husbands whose love shines through in every scene, Uriel who’s so confident and drop-dead gorgeous, Dagon who manages to be adorable in a mature office lady kind of way despite the make-up, Saraqael who brings such an intense aura of competence to every scene… so many great actors and character designs! But if I had to rank them specifically for adorability, Eric and Muriel are both definitely up there at the top and that certainly adds to the fun of shipping them.)
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I really, really need to update my national park au on ao3 again.
I adore that au so much, I get to write about Aziraphale being a giant, spooky angel, and how much he loves his tiny human who went all conspiracy theorist trying to figure out if he was real or not.
And also I love writing about the horrors of American forests and parks because horrible things happen in them. (did you know that there is a chance you’ll go missing in the woods because you fell through a very well hidden hole in the ground and landed in an underground cave system because America is full of them? I didn’t know this until a year or two ago and I never want to go camping again! :D)
The only problem is that I have a big chunk of story that I have no idea what to write for, and it’s between where I’ve currently stopped and where my one-shot where Crowley accidentally finds out about where the secret door in Aziraphale’s impossible cabin leads to. How do I get from point A to point B, and have these idiots fall in love, when it’s just easier to write silly one-shots for it?
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Good Omens
By Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
A little note beforehand:
@neil-gaiman has been my favorite author since I read The Graveyard Book as a kid. Reading Good Omens as an adult really made the whole experience feel like it was coming full circle. Twice now, he has inspired my reading hyper-fixation. So, thank you for giving your work to the world.
I finished this book before I started this blog, but I felt it deserves to be here. I almost immediately let my coworker borrow it so I can’t give direct quotes and page numbers.
Onto the review!
⚠️Warning! Contains spoilers for Season One of the show and the book! ⚠️
Overall this book is amazing! There were so many times I found myself smiling like an idiot in the airport reading this story. Reading lines in the book at are used verbatim in the show made me feel like I was in on some little secret. I’m gonna get into more detail, separated by the three storylines.
Adam Young & Them
So in the book, there is a long running joke that Elvis Presley isn’t dead and works at a little burger joint in Des Moines. Death even says during his run in the trivia game that he never touched Elvis. I found this absolutely hilarious and sometimes wished the line was in the show. It made me kinda happy to read about a fat Elvis just lovin’ life flippin’ burgers.
Now Greasy Johnson isn’t in the show at all. He’s apparently the extra baby from the Chattering Order that was adopted (Which was kinda relieving). So in the book Johnson is the leader of the rival gang of children to The Them. I loved this motif in the book, comparing the childhood scuffles between the two groups of kids to the war of heaven and hell. It gave a level of pettiness to the armageddon debacle. Having Adam explain to his friends the never ending struggle between Them and Greasy Johnson in equivalence to the literal world-ending war that is heaven and hell was kinda brilliant. I understand this part of the story not being in the show, but at the same time I think the added complexity of the rival gang would’ve been interesting to see on screen.
Ok in the book, we get a lot more of Dog’s thoughts, and they’re kinda adorable. Dog just loves being a dog! And I love reading about it. By the time armageddon is at their doorstep, he doesn’t want it either. Dog’s whole journey kinda added this extra layer of charm to the story.
The Witchfinder & The Witch
I love the descriptions for this storyline. Pulsfier and Anathema have such wonderful and dare I say accurate descriptions of their characters in the book. If you read this book in 1990 when it came out, you could picture these two perfectly.
During the scene where Anathema meets Crowley and Aziraphale via car crash Anathema has the best thought. She’s at fist kinda wary of these two strange men in the dark, but when Crowley calls Aziraphale “angel” she’s immediately like “oh! They’re gay!🏳️🌈”. Of course this book did come out in the 90’s so she didn’t say that explicitly.
An added difference between the show and the book that was for the better, was changing Madam Tracy’s spirit guide. In the book her spirit guide is Geronimo, an indigenous American man. I definitely think Geronimo was written with some stereotypes but I can’t comment too much on that. Colleen (the spirit guide in Good Omens the show), was definitely a better addition for the series.
Crowley & Aziraphale
They’re so in love, and no one can tell me otherwise. Just reading it without the context of the show, they so love each other.
In the show, we get a scene of Crowley pushing Aziraphale into a wall at the old Satanic Nunnery. That little moment doesn’t happen in the book.
A lot of the ending in the season was much more bulked out. For example, the series adds the entire Crowley and Aziraphale swapping bodies to trick their respective bosses. I actually love this addition though. This ending made their story arc feel so much more complete.
I think that’s all I’ve got for now! Please recommend more books!
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Good Omens Re-Watch pt.1
I'm rewatching Good Omens with some friends (some have seen it already some have not) and I thought I would share my thoughts as they come because I am dying.
EPISODE 1:
The scene where Maggie calls Aziraphale to her record shop because she cannot pay rent could potentially be seen as a foreshadowing of the downfall of Crowley and Aziraphales relationship. I believe that Maggie represents Crowley even though I initially thought otherwise. Running with that thought though Maggie feels like she's run out of time, and is unable to afford the shop (and in turn her lifestyle). Instead of Aziraphale addressing Maggie's concerns he brushes it off and makes an unfair trade to allow her to stay without paying rent. While on the surface it feels like a typical angel move, it stems from a place of selfishness. He does not want things to change, and he wants his music, so he’ll make it happen without ever addressing the root problem. Sound familiar :)
In the scene of Crowley and Shax in the park, Shax says that she has been trying to do elaborate plans to spread pain and misery but the humans get to it first. This feels a lot like Aziraphales and Crowley's relationship with heaven and hell. Both parties have inadvertently worked against them and their hopeful relationship.
I have seen so many people talk about the coffee shop scene where Crowley says “You only have three reasons to call me” and how that shows how much he gets used in the relationship. And while I entirely agree that Crowley is not valued enough Aziraphale responding with “its nice to tell someone the good things you’ve done” is really heartbreaking. You just know that Crowley wants to have normal domestic conversations and that Aziraphale desperately wants validation. PLEASE COMMUNICATE BETTER!
I could be looking into things WAY too much but when Nina says “hard choices, mint tea or chamomile” there has to be some purpose.
Can I just say that I love and adore Muriel.
Beelzebub is willing to give Crowley SO MUCH to get Gabriel back. Lowkey Aziraphale vibes? Also, Beelzebub saying “You could have whatever your nasty little heart desires” and Crowley not taking that as an opportunity to get him and Aziraphale safe shows his entirely different perspective. In Crowley's mind, the only way that they are truly safe is if there is no heaven and hell to interfere. If Aziraphale had gotten that offer (which he basically does in ep6) he would have taken it in a heartbeat. They are not in the same place mentally at all this season.
EPISODE 2:
I think the book of Job is such an interesting setting and I do not remember enough from my Catholic days to give a full review and so I will leave that to others. But may I say that there is something very telling about biblically focusing on the section of the bible where god screws over someone who believes and worships him so purely. Aziraphale idealizes god and all the “good” that comes with him, but ultimately is emotionally destroyed by his “teachings”.
Also, the Job section of the episode points out that god and satan talk on the regular. Timestamp around 3:40 Muriel says something like “And then Satan said” like it was just a normal afternoon chat. I do not know how significant or how insignificant it is but I thought that was silly!
Aziraphale holds himself back from correcting even Jim (Gabriel). When Jim is organizing the books in alphabetical order by the first word of the first sentence Aziraphale almost snaps at him before holding back. I know it's entirely different than correcting the almighty (as seen in ep1 with the creation of the universe) but it still feels significant.
The metaphor of Maggie being Crowley and Nina being Aziraphale is so perfect. Nina and her controlling partner (heaven) and Maggie watching from across the street pining over her but knowing it won't work. It won't work BECAUSE of the controlling partner and the mindset Nina has about it. I was unaware something so small could make my head and heart hurt so much.
“The big ones can be used as fly swats! I know what you’re thinking, but it is okay, it never works!” Gabriel basically saying that he likes flies and does not want to kill them is so sweet. He is delirious, confused, and unaware but still has some sort of love for Beezelebub :)))))))
I do not think it can be said enough how adorable and heartbreaking it is that Crowley wants to get Nina and Maggie together by being hit with a sudden rainstorm and sharing a canopy. No further explanation is needed.
The pain that is Crowley forcing Gabriel to remember even though it's painful because Crowley has done it. Crowley has been cast out and had his memory altered and broken up. His brain entirely shrunken and scattered. That theory just hurts my heart.
Back in Job times, Aziraphale tries to make assumptions about what god wants. Crowley has a better understanding of heaven and god because of his rebellion. We all know he is a decently high-up angel thanks to episode 6 so I trust his perspective on heaven decently enough. Aziraphale is so sunken in his desire to see the good and perfection in heaven and god that he is so utterly blind to heaven and HIS imperfections.
“Angels can't be tempted, can you?” says a lot. First of it is interesting that they don’t seem to entirely know if it's possible. Second of all while Aziraphale entirely denies it he then immediately is tempted. Once again highlighting the flaws of his perception of a perfect heaven. Heaven cannot be perfect if Angels can be so easily tempted.
All you wonderful intelligent people that analyzed what/how/why the angels do not see or recognize Crowley as a demon in the ? childbirth? scene during Job times I respect you. So much to unpack there.
Nina associates people entirely with the coffee they order. She even judges people on that, despite that being only a fraction of their personality. Aziraphale obviously does the same and focuses on people and their sins rather than their entire situation. His moral code is so strict that he cannot even recognize that someone might have an unfair advantage or disadvantage that requires sin.
In the next immediate scene, he even views himself in such a tiny view. He did one thing against heaven and immediately assumes he was going to hell. Even calls himself a fallen angel.
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A more in-depth unpacking of Season 2 below!!
Perhaps one of the nicest things was that this still felt like Good Omens. I think that was one of my worries. And I think that Season 3 will feel even more Good Omens-ish given Neil and Terry planned it together.
I loved the little nods toward the novel - Milton Keynes paper headline, the conversation in Edinburgh about Aziraphale believing that starting lower gives you more opportunities, the secret service agents meeting in St James’ park. I’m so glad I re-read the book recently.
Shax is excellent and I enjoyed her interactions with Crowley on Earth greatly. Miranda Richardson is supremely talented.
The minisode about Job was the best by far, in my opinion. It had everything - Crowley pretending to be worse that he is, questions about morality, origin story for Aziraphale’s love of food, angels being fucking clueless about how humans work but pretending they get it. Excellent content!
Loved the conflict between Michael and Uriel, and the introduction of Saraqael. I do hope we can get Sandalphon back in Season 3.
Crowley’s plan for Maggie and Nina in the rain.......... you disaster demon. But also, it was absolutely on the way to working. Can I get a vavoom?
I really wanted to like the new Beelzebub, but I just couldn’t get into them. It might have been different if we had Shelley Conn from the start, but I just found myself wanting to know how Anna Maxwell Martin would have handled this storyline in all her glorious weirdness.
Muriel is utter perfection, as we all predicted. I do hope there’s something for her in Season 3.
The ball was so silly. That’s not a criticism. It was meant to be. I adored the swap to Austen-esque dialogue, which must have been so much fun to write.
Aziraphale not using real candles in his shop anymore is such a great detail. I wonder if Crowley was the one to suggest it, given that he actually saw it burning.
I am really happy with how Nina and Maggie’s storyline ended. The importance of not rushing into a relationship was a wonderful message to come out of it.
I think that Gabriel is being faded out to make Metatron the big villain of Heaven. This makes sense - Gabriel wasn’t in the book and took some of the role of Metatron (eg. appearing at the airbase at the end). Therefore, it’s likely that the sequel Terry and Neil planned involves Metatron more heavily, so Season 2 has set us up nicely for that.
Nina and Maggie suggesting that Crowley is like Nina and Aziraphale is like Maggie is such good misdirection. On the surface, sure. But Crowley has never had a problem trusting Aziraphale, and in some way is more excited by the world than Aziraphale is. When you swap the roles and realise that Aziraphale is more alike to Nina, and that he isn’t done with his toxic relationship with Heaven yet, it makes his decision at the end of episode 6 much more understandable.
I am firmly of the belief that Metatron has manipulated Aziraphale, likely with some coffee related miracles. He ordered Muriel to stay before even offering the role to Aziraphale. He knew he’d say yes. The look he gives Crowley before leaving the bookstore... nothing about his offer for Aziraphale to work with Crowley was sincere, but he knew that suggesting it would be the selling point for Aziraphale, who perhaps was more susceptible because of the coffee.
Everything about the heartbreak from the end of episode 6 was masterful. The lines. The delivery. The call backs. I am in pain in the best way possible.
As crushed as I am for Crowley... I think this makes sense. Crowley has ALWAYS been all in with Aziraphale, who still keeps him at arm’s length when it suits him. I don’t think them getting together would have worked as this point of their relationship - Aziraphale has work to do. He needs to be the one to choose Crowley, and fight for him, and I have full faith that that is where Season 3 is going to take us.
Also, the allegory to religious trauma is glorious, as somebody who went to a religious school. Hats off to you, Neil.
Crowley cleaning up the bookshop while waiting for Aziraphale to come back just broke me when I rewatched it last night, knowing what was about to come.
I feel like the part about Crowley living from his car was under-explored. I wondered if it was just that Aziraphale didn’t know, and that he’d offer for Crowley to stay with him upon finding out, but it’s clear that by the end, Aziraphale does know! Perhaps this is intentionally unresolved, further proof that Aziraphale is just a bit too self-centered at this stage and not yet willing to put in the same effort that Crowley puts in.
I feel immensely relieved that @neil-gaiman has indicated that if Season 3 can’t get made on television, the story will be ended in another way. Thank you, sir, for that and everything else.
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If You Fall, I Will Catch You
@flashfictionfridayofficial prompt - "Pride before the fall"
Crowley had loved his work as an angel, adored the act of Creation. Heaven itself was incredibly dull, but his stars and nebulae were anything but. They exploded with beauty, with excitement. Bringing each one into being made him feel like he was about to burst with pride.
Well. The humans said that pride came before a fall, and Fall he had.
In some ways, Crowley felt like he’d never stopped Falling. Not even after he plunged into a pool of boiling sulfur.
Because no matter how much he preferred Earth to Heaven, he had next-to-no job satisfaction. Nothing that measured up to the joy of sculpting a nebula. Instead, he had an eternity of making humans a little more miserable than they made each other.
He had good times, yeah, especially where Aziraphale was involved. But the humiliation, misery, and despair of being Fallen, of being a demon, brought him lower and lower. Tumbling down, just waiting for impact. For Armageddon.
And then during Armageddon, he somehow fell even lower. To the bandstand, where he’d lost his hope for a future. To a bookshop floor, surrounded by flames, destroyed by the loss of his best friend. Into the depths of a bottle of scotch, drowning his sorrows.
But then, as he gave up on everything, as he neared the end of his six thousand year tumble…
Aziraphale had caught him, eased him to a soft landing, and given him hope again.
And then, even more remarkable, he’d repeated the feat the next time Crowley fell. When Satan’s anger jerked Crowley to the ground, when all hope had failed, there was Aziraphale. Standing firm, refusing to let him drown in despair.
The angel had a firm grip on Crowley’s arm now, steadying him as they walked through Tadfield. Crowley could barely stay on his feet, exhausted, sore. Without help, he might have needed to just sit on the tarmac for a while before moving.
“Well, that was…a lot,” he managed, giving Aziraphale a faint smile.
“It was, rather.” As the last rays of daylight died on the horizon, Aziraphale headed to a bench and gently eased Crowley to sit. “And we have quite a lot to talk about, I think.”
“Nnh, yeah.” They’d already bounced back from their recent fights, so no need to dig into those. But Aziraphale’s discorporation, the shop, the Bentley…
“It’s okay,” Aziraphale said softly, and Crowley realized he was trembling. The angel must be rattled too, but he was a Principality, and that gave him a certain ability to put off his own breakdowns. Crowley wasn’t quite that sturdy. “Oh, my dear boy. Here, we’ll just rest for a bit while we wait for the bus.”
“I think we should drink for a bit.” A snap of the fingers miracled wine, bottle already uncorked. Crowley took a swig, then offered it to his companion.
With a shy little smile, Aziraphale accepted the bottle and drank straight from it. He closed his eyes, and his hand tightened on Crowley’s arm. “Mmmm. Wonderful.”
“Yep. Wonderful. That’s me.” Crowley couldn’t quite keep the bitterness out of his voice. Aziraphale made a soft, wordless noise of inquiry, and Crowley shrugged. “I…really let you down today, angel, more than once. I didn’t think I could fall much lower, but…guess that was just my pride again.”
“Crowley.” Aziraphale leaned to catch his gaze, expression full of compassion. “You got back up, hmm? That’s what’s important.”
“Only because you helped me.” He hadn’t planned to talk about this now, but the words just tumbled from his lips. “I gave up. Earlier, too, while you were discorporated. If you hadn’t found me, I woulda just let the world end. You’re the only reason we all made it.”
“That’s hardly fair.” Aziraphale reached up, fingers brushing against Crowley’s cheek. “We both had our own falls today, but we helped each other get back up. I had faith in you, Crowley, and you had faith in me.”
The utter conviction in his voice eased Crowley’s distress, and he let out a long breath. “You’re doing it again, angel. I’m gonna owe you big time.”
“Hardly. After how many times you’ve rescued me?” The corners of Aziraphale’s eyes crinkled with fond amusement. “I think we’re more than even.”
“Okay, fair.” Crowley raised the bottle of wine in a toast. “Here’s to catching each other, hm?”
The soft joy on Aziraphale’s face intensified as he brought his hand to rest across Crowley’s. They gazed at each other, and it felt like making a vow. “To catching each other, always.”
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