The lighting in the S1 1941 flashback is so painfully dark I was rewatching it on a 150% brightness and perhaps I am five years late, but how come I've never noticed that this
is how Aziraphale gazes at Crowley before the "little demonic miracle of my own"???
This is him before the love realisation, just after Aziraphale miracled them both safe from the bomb exploding on the church with the Nazis. No heartwarming acts of service yet — best to his knowledge, Crowley was only there for moral support, because he "didn't want him to get embarassed".
And his gaze is— I don't know what to say. Like it would kill him to look away. So fond, so immersed, "oh God, there you are", like hundreds of years have passed, not decades since they saw each other last. Books? What books? What air raid, what war?
Arguably the best part of the scene happens literal seconds after. If you pay close attention to the whole shot, you'll spot the brown satchel on the side. Which Aziraphale would notice earlier too, if he could focus on anything other than Crowley.
"Because, underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist."
"If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times—he thought briefly of the fourteenth century—then it was utter surety that he would come out on top; that the universe would look after him."
"It was all a matter of being in the right place at the right time."
the universe didn't look after you this time Crowley
uwhhh i don't talk about adrian and don much because i have. Complicated feelings on the subject of chapter 2 of the novel (or whatever chapter it is. IT's chapter scheme confuses me). but i do need to cry about how UNWELL it makes me that adrian loved derry. he loved that ass backwards town so much that makes me SICK. don was like no we need to leave this place, it's horrible, it's evil, it's cursed but adrian loved it so much. it gave him so much hurt and it hated him but he loved it and he thought it was beautiful. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!!!!