i dont care how we have talked this scene to death. i need to bring something up.
stede says to mary "ed. his name is ed."
he doesnt say edward or blackbeard or any of the other more formal names that ed goes by. instead, he chooses the casual, most intimate nickname that stede calls him. stede was so at peace during this conversation with mary thinking about how he really is in love with edward that for nearly the first time in the entire show stede called him ed when talking about him to an outside figure.
Sometimes i forget that Aziraphale literally said 'we can be together' and 'I need you' like holy shit we're talking about the same Aziraphale who constantly denied having 'their own side', who said he didn't need Crowley in s1. yes, Crowley was the one doing the confessing but so was Aziraphale. they both confessed that they want to be together, that they need each other, but the whole universe is conspiring against them. they both said 'i want to be with you' and yet...