David: One of Job's sons is played by a very promising young actor called Ty Tennant. He's got a great future ahead of him, I hope, because I'm hoping he'll pay for my old folks home when I retire. This is my father-in-law, Peter.

Peter: Hello.

David: And this is my son, Ty. And Peter is playing Ty's father in this particular scene.

btw when you're being mean to aziraphale this is who you're being mean to. hope this helps

Right after Aziraphale realises that Bildaddy-Crowley did not kill Job's goats, we have the scene with the children and Crowley sets the house on fire ("I'm a demon, I lied"). We all know he would never kill the kids, so why the charade?

I think he needed to test Aziraphale, to know for certain that the angel sees him for what he is, he needed to know that this tentative connection was real. And Aziraphale immediately proves that he does actually trust him.

The fact that Aziraphale trusts him means he sees the good in him. For a fallen angel who's spent so very long being seen as nothing but evil, just imagine how it must have felt to be truly seen.

This bit in the Job minisode is so, so underrated. Top shelf flirting. The way super smug Aziraphale is comfortable enough to tease Crowley and how Crowley covers up loving it with sarcasm that can only be delivered inches from his face, apparently. 😉 How Aziraphale looks like he wants to climb Crowley like a tree and how Crowley has a whole basement but walks over to be as close to his angel as he can be whenever given such an opportunity. It's Globe Theatre-level flirt and it's all the way back in Whatever B.C.. We aren't flailing over this bit enough.

Job minisode Is everything ❤️

Crowley and Job

I'm sure this has been written before but I haven't read it so here's my thesis:

The Job minisode is a metaphor for Crowley.

The Job minisode shows us that this God is willing to put her favourites through significant pain, to have them lose everything, to carry out the ineffable plan. In fact, God considers their favourites to be the only ones able to endure this and remain "faithful" or "good." Funny that, as we see Crowley - a Demon who has every reason to hate God and do a lot of evil - continually showing himself to have a stronger moral compass than the Archangels.

Job is stripped of absolutely everything he has, one after another. Starting with his livelihood, his possessions, his home and finally his most loved thing - his children (sounding familiar at all?). Crowley loses his status, his identity, his job, his flat and ultimately Aziraphale.

Job is angry but not at God, he's angry at himself. He questions how much he must have done wrong to not even know what it is he did (sound familiar?)

When Job talks to God at the end, the first thing she says to him is "You have questions for me Job?" and then she responds with a series of questions back to him. She isn't angry at him asking questions.

He then returns to Sitis, a broken man, to be saved by an Angel and a Demon who reinstate his children to him, having kept them safe the entire time.

How fortunate for God that a particular Angel and Demon pair have quietly ensured that some of the most disturbing plans of Heaven and Hell have never made it to fruition.

How interesting that we see Crowley going through each of the pains of Job.

At the end of S2, Crowley is metaphorically sitting, head in hands, wondering what he did that was so wrong to deserve this.

What if the answer is nothing? What if the answer is he did everything right?

i have no words

You think you're a demon? With your curly little...and neat white-

Sundays are for thinking about Just Enough of a Bastard Aziraphale and Little Bit of a Good Person Crowley

Reblog with your favourite examples, these are some of mine

the absolutely enormous expanse of loneliness aziraphale and crowley go through during the early years on earth. they don't see one another at all from 3004 to 2500 bc. 500 years. and very possibly the whole thousand years before that.

aziraphale is still trying to fit in with heaven, even knowing, as he must already, that he doesn't quite belong. crowley has long since given up on associating in any meaningful way with other demons.

(there are humans, of course, and the fascination of their creativity and changes, but humans live for such short periods of time. always they die, and aziraphale and crowley continue on.)

this is 1500 years since they started their tenure on earth. 1500 years of wandering around (with not even that many humans to distract them) with aziraphale desperately trying to be what he's supposed to be, despite any inclinations to the contrary. meanwhile crowley is fully aware that he's alone, isolated from all others by curiosity and principles he refuses to compromise on, no matter that things could be easier if he did.

and how lonely must 1500 years be, with no friends or true peers, with no one who understands you at even the most superficial level. how lonely to try and try to squeeze into a box that was never designed to fit. just year after year after year, a millennia of no one who can be trusted, no one to talk to freely, no one they can relax with.

and then, finally, after so very many years alone, they find their way to each other.

(from go twitter :) <3)

when you think of it. Bildad the Shuhite's last 24 hours in the minisode not bloody optimal

getting a combat mission to kill everything his buddy Job owns just because She got into some stupid bet

the kids too??? horrid

right in the middle of growing out his hair awkwardly that angle appears. perfect timing to get thwarted. not like that

oh no he's now legit pissed, like it's HIS fault

good (bad) that Bildad has a plan. bad (good) that Aziraphale follows around like a lost sheep, ready to blow his cover anytime. not like that

cue the mortifying ordeal of being known

angel's smugness visible from alpha centauri and he can't even wipe it off with an angry kiss

the kids remain alive but at the cost of annoyance. human twink has the gall to flirt with Aziraphale right in front of his demonic eyes. is nothing sacred anymore

unsolicited temptation backfires badly ( he didn't sign up for food kink development. Regret)

no let me say it again: sexual awakening through ox ribs what even is his life

angel insinuates being the only demon in existence who tries to go his own way seems lonely -> needs to get wasted immediately

literally so hungover the next day he can barely stand and THIS is the moment he witnesses former Mum talking to a human, probably for the first time since Eden. actually stop here, try to step into his shoes and watch the arrow on a scale for secondhand embarrassment doing a full 360°

magical obstetrics time (he still doesn't know where babies come from)

and to top it off: the devastating vision of Aziraphale almost crying

to conclude, pour one out for Bildad the poor bastard deserves it.

Crowley so rarely says how he feels. Yet one of the few times he does, it's to admit to Aziraphale that he's lonely. They're both so open and vulnerable in this scene. Crowley is being gentle and comforting, but he's also reaching out, longing for connection. He needs that comfort just as much as Aziraphale does <3

Probably everyone else has already realised this but it just hit me now...

At the end of the Job episode Aziraphale is convinced he's going to hell, and is perfectly ready to go there with Crowley and become a demon. It's something that presumably Crowley is capable of doing (Aziraphale seems very sure and he isn't stupid, so let's assume it is true that Crowley could). So from Crowley's point of view he could have taken Aziraphale to hell then and there, changed who Aziraphale was and had a demonic companion who saw the world in the same way he did. They could have spent an eternity together as demons and Crowley had the opportunity right then to make a reality. But he doesn't. Instead he says "I don't think you'd like it," because he understands who Aziraphale is and knows that if he became a demon he wouldn't be him anymore. Instead he promises to keep Aziraphale's secret and indirectly offers him acceptance - "you're just an angel who goes along with heaven as far as he can," he says and then quietly sits with him, offering him companionship and acceptance without trying to change Aziraphale in anyway. This makes the ending so much more heartbreaking, because when there's an opportunity to take Crowley to heaven Aziraphale siezes it with both hands (from Crowley's point of view at least - I'm not getting into Aziraphale's actual motivations here, only the motivation as Crowley sees it). Aziraphale tries desperately to take Crowley somewhere he doesn't want to go and fundamentally change who he is, in complete contrast to Crowley's actions thousands of years before. I mean, I obviously already knew that this was how Crowley probably interpreted that entire conversation, but it was only when I rewatched the end of the Job episode just now that the difference in how those scenarios play out from Crowley's point of view really hit me.

“What am I? You’re just an Angel who goes along with heaven as far as he can”

We did an awesome collab hosted by @nightmarewolf133 ✨

Where we all picked one quote from each of the 6 episodes and drew something with those quotes in mind.

I drew episode 2. ♥️