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i-am-married · 1 year

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#talent #arts and crafts #this is dope #sent by husband #curators on tumblr

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joycrispy · 8 months

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Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:

This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...

It. It kind of fucks. Severely.

And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.

I'll explain:

As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.

Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.

(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)

Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:

"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." --Genesis 3:24, KJV

Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.

(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.

...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)

So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.

But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:

The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.

Do you understand?

The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.

The flaming sword was given to be used against them.

So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.

That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.

...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.

They're Crowley and Aziraphale.

(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)

In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.

It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.

...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.

And the Serpent--

(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)

--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.

As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:

"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization." --Robert G. Ingersoll

The first to ask questions.

Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).

And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.

And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--

(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)

--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.

To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.

Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.

It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.

And then you keep writing.

And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.

(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).

It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)

...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:

I love this shot so much.

Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.

You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.

"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.

But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.

Godfathers. Sort of.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #I have no idea if I've made a coherent point here but I'm tired of this being in my drafts; RAW FEELINGS IT IS #it's about being sent to destroy and instead staying to love and protect and nurture I'M CRAZY I'M CRAZY RAAAAAAAGGHHHH #gnu terry pratchett

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sketchy-scribs-n-doods · 9 months

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the four horsemen of Queer Agony

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anarcho-smarmyism · 1 year

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Source (sorry I forgot to find and source the artist when I first posted this)

#team rocket #pokemon #bisexual #my husband sent this to me :)

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lucradiss · 5 months

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Thinking about how Aziraphale invented lying.

Because Crowley did not lie when he tempted Eve— he told her exactly what would happen, if she took a bite of the fruit of knowledge. She would know the difference between good and evil. He did not lie about that.

But Aziraphale gave away the sword appointed to him by God Herself, and then spun the very first lie to protect himself from her wrath.

Regardless of whether it was a small lie, it was a lie all the same, and a lie directly to God. He, an angel, told the very first lie, thereby inventing the act of lying.

Wouldn’t it be funny if I did the good thing and you did the bad one?

#not art #good omens #gomens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziraphale is an angel and therefore should be a beacon of truth and goodness #and yet he invented lying #crowley on the other hand is a demon who was sent up to make trouble #and instead told truths!! and gave humans the opportunity to truly be good!!!#because goodness is not the absence of evil!!!#goodness is only achieved in spite of evil!!!#and crowley gave the gift of goodness to humans!!#oh god. I am so normal

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earlgodwin · 13 days

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I don't want Naples yet. I want my sister.

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its-ate-oclock-somewhere · 3 days

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Futamono Flower Meaning

So you're telling me that the very night after Will whore Graham sent someone to murder Hannibal simp Lecter, the man created this?!

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crawley-fell · 4 months

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If you're alone and you need a friend Someone to make you forget your problems Just come along, baby, take my hand I'll be your lover tonight

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom by Vengaboys - The Brainrot Series

(requested by @thesherrinfordfacility)

#this is so unhinged and perfect for a midnight posting #can't wait for this to get like 5 notes but it was worth it #the small 'in my room' to make that line more palatable absolutely sent me tbh #good omens #good omens edit #good omens 2 #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #gomens #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #brainrot series #my gifs

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extraaa-30 · 2 months

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HI CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW THE METATRON IS THE DEMON ON AZIRAPHALE'S SHOULDER IN THIS SHOT

literally has anyone done a full analysis of the shoulder symbolism in this show yet it's so- 😭

like, s1 we have

And of course my beloved

and now in s2 we have this

and this

does this count?

also THIS from the edinburgh minisode (crowley is the angel on aziraphale's shoulder here)

what does it all MEANNNN

#good omens #go #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #ineffable meta #good omens meta #crowley #aziraphale #the metatron #i know someone sent me a link to some side blocking analysis a while ago #but i don't remember if it was shoulder specific and now it's ass o'clock here i can't go looking for it #please someone am i conspiracy board meme rn or is this on purpose 😭#lol sry for the repost something went wrong w the other ig #extraaa #shoulder shit

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i-am-married · 1 year

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#nourishment #wow @ this #sent by husband #curators on tumblr

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vroomvroomwee · 9 months

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Does anyone have a weird feeling about how angels and demons are falling in love more and more and how that connects to the miracle Crowley and Aziraphale performed.

About how the only celestial pairs we see are between an angel and a demon.

About how angels and demons together are insanely fucking powerful. And about how someone doesn't want that power to be known.

Something about separating angels that love each other.

Something about the real reason for the Fall.

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siriusly-the-best-bi · 10 months

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Actually can we talk about this please

(Posted by the Official amazon prime Portugal account on tiktok)

#like im screaming and crying and laughing hysterically #why are they doing the most #idk this has probably been posted before but someone sent it to me #and i just need to post it idk #like what is this #im sick #bi.f.shit #good omens #good omens 2 #Aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #barbie

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dysfunctionalcreature · 9 months

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Ok but hear me out Aziraphale and Beelzebub with their respective partners are literally the definition of "the hero that would forsake their lover in order to protect the world, versus, the villain who would burn the world to protect their lover"

#like Azi leaves Crowley behind for heaven but Beez literally sent the legions of hell to bring their Gabriel back to them #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 #good omens s2 spoilers #go 2 spoilers #ineffable bureaucracy #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #lord beelzebub #archangel fucking gabriel

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gaycrittercentral · 4 months

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HELLO DEAR if you're still taking prompts i would love to see the gremlins and "kisses to shut them up" LMAO..... i imagine they both do this quite a lot they're idiots supréme ahsgskfgh <33

EEEEEE HI MOON sorry for the long wait for this one!! Now that all the holidays and birthdays at my house are pretty much over I finally have time to sketch up some answers for some asks that have been waiting way too long and I’m so happy to get yours out there first!!! :Dc here it is myehehheeeh this was an extremely fitting prompt

Sam knows exactly what tf he’s doing lmaooooo. Probably it just backfires on Max bc Sam decides to sing something even sappier hhflzjgkhsjdhssbjffhbd

#your honor they’re very important to me 🥺#and they are so so so so sosososoo important to each other. god I'm so normal abt them #more ask responses to come hehe!! so if you sent one a while back and didn't get a response get ready >:)#sam and max #sam and max freelance police #freelance husbands #asks #my art

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cara-carabowditbowdit · 6 months

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you keep putting these two gay old men on my dash who are they. the white haired one and his twink.

do. do you mean these guys

thats crowley and aziraphale from good omens. its a really cool book/show and i think u should check it out

also that is the best and most accurate description of them ive ever seen. ur right, that IS his twink

if u want a more in depth explanation send me like. another ask and ill go bonkers

#this might be the funniest ask youve sent me btw #checked my notifications when i woke up this morning and started giggling #good omen #gomens #aziraphale #crowley #would this be ship? idk but theres not really any platonic way to explain “his twink”#aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley

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mih4nn · 10 months

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Captain!!

Law getting some sunshine on top of the Polar Tang before they have to go back underwater o/ I imagine all of the crew sunbathing whenever they resurface <)c

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#trafalgar law #one piece #op #one piece fanart #trafalgar d water law #reposting here cause im p sure my side act got sent to the shadow realm #fanart #trafalgar one piece #my partner's husband #praying crossing my fingers my other act gets fixed

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