I bet Aziraphale wasn’t surprised at all. He was awake the whole time listening to Crowley cook, but he knows how happy it makes his demon to so little nice thing for him, so he pretended to be surprised.🥰🥰🥰

Today Crowley surprised Aziraphale by making him breakfast in bed– a full English, with a steaming hot cup of tea. He even sliced some fresh fruits into little hearts for Aziraphale to delight in.

me, posting stuff for over 7 different fandoms at random all on the same blog:

For @theladydrgn and @sylwritesstuff, editions of their wonderful Heyer inspired Sunday’s Child. I had trouble deciding on colors, and was originally going to go with blue and pink for ladydragona’s, but I liked the dark blue on blue much better. Hope you like it.

Should be “onus” but I kinda like your spelling better.

Here is version 1 in gif form.

show, don't tell:

anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking

frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps - hot flush - narrowed eyes - pointing fingers - pacing / stomping

sadness - eyes filling up with tears - blinking quickly - hiccuped breaths - face turned away - red / burning cheeks - short sentences with gulps

happiness - smiling / cheeks hurting - animated - chest hurts from laughing - rapid movements - eye contact - quick speaking

boredom - complaining - sighing - grumbling - pacing - leg bouncing - picking at nails

fear - quick heartbeat - shaking / clammy hands - pinching self - tuck away - closing eyes - clenched hands

disappointment - no eye contact - hard swallow - clenched hands - tears, occasionally - mhm-hmm

tiredness - spacing out - eyes closing - nodding head absently - long sighs - no eye contact - grim smile

confidence - prolonged eye contact - appreciates instead of apologizing - active listening - shoulders back - micro reactions

At the ball:

Crowley: Something really bad is happening

Aziraphale: SHUT UP I NEED TO TELL YOU I LOVE YOU

In the final fifteen:

Aziraphale: Something really bad is happening

Crowley: SHUT UP I NEED TO TELL YOU I LOVE YOU

In Love's Secret Domain

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My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

Puzzle. I love drawing them being domestic

Honestly, as heart-wrenching as "I lost my best friend" is, the looks on both their faces as Crowley breaks it to Aziraphale that the bookshop burned down are somehow a thousand times sadder to me. Crowley is so sad and so sorry and Aziraphale is obviously gutted by the news but only allowing himself a moment to have a shadow of a feeling about it before getting back to business because they have an Armageddon to stop and just akdfjghdslkfgs

Aziraphale is very Crowley-esque in this scene. He briefly lets himself be vulnerable and then immediately hides behind his glasses.

Good Omens | 2.04 The Hitchhiker

Good Omens | 2.02 Chapter 2: The Clue

Good Omens | 2.03 I Know Where I'm Going

Oh yeah- that’s a great moment. Aziraphale won’t even let himself process that. Crowley is so emotional about getting his angel back and he has to break the news to him that he’s lost everything. . . and Aziraphale is just “Time to get to Tadfield Airbase.”

Then afterwards when Crowley has to remind Aziraphale that his shop burned down and says “you can stay at my place”. You’ve lost everything you own, but you still got me. It’s really the softest and sweetest we see Crowley in season one.

In season 2, we see that soft side of Crowley when he tells Aziraphale “I’m not taking you to hell, angel.” Crowley keeps his soft side so well hidden that it’s such a treat when he lets it show.

Honestly, as heart-wrenching as "I lost my best friend" is, the looks on both their faces as Crowley breaks it to Aziraphale that the bookshop burned down are somehow a thousand times sadder to me. Crowley is so sad and so sorry and Aziraphale is obviously gutted by the news but only allowing himself a moment to have a shadow of a feeling about it before getting back to business because they have an Armageddon to stop and just akdfjghdslkfgs

Whoah. Preach!

I as thinking about the first episode- Aziraphale was right in that case- helping Gabriel turned out to be the right thing to do. And he wanted Crowley to help “I’d love you to help! I asked for your help.” He was going to stand up to heaven and hell to protect his former boss, and even though he badly wanted Crowley to help, he was willing to do it alone.

And how does fandom react? “How dare Aziraphale chose Gabriel over Crowley!“ (he didn’t). It’s like, how dare Aziraphale not go along with Crowley’s plans every single time!

And you know what? For 6000 years, Crowley has more or less taken the lead. The arrangement was Crowley’s idea, the Holy Water, stopping the apocalypse-Aziraphale always comes around to Crowley’s point of view in the end.

Yet in season two, when Aziraphale is taking the initiative most of the time , fans are like “look how bossy he’s being.”

God forbid an angel do anything, right?

i saw a very interesting post recently from @fellthemarvelous about how Aziraphale is often treated the way female love interests are— likely because his hobbies and emotions are more traditionally feminine whereas crowley’s style and anger are more traditionally masculine despite the fact that neither of them are gendered. the thesis of the post was essentially that because crowley is the one who fell, fans have decided that aziraphale only exists to comfort and protect and bring peace to crowley rather than be his own person with his own emotions and ambitions. i’d never been able to put this into words, but it’s like this person stole what i was feeling right from my brain and i am so thankful to their eloquence.

but it did get me thinking about the end of season 2— specifically how many fans, even people who defend aziraphale for what he did, believe that the “only” way for his choices in the finale to be valid are if he did them for crowley’s safety/well-being. i’ve seen so many arguments along the lines of “oh, he has to go back so he can fix Heaven for Crowley and make him heal from falling” or “oh, he has to go back to Heaven because if he doesn’t, Metatron could go after crowley and he needs to keep him safe”. and while both of these very popular aziraphale-defenses are valid (this is not an attack on anyone’s opinion!) and i wouldn’t be surprised if they played into his reasoning for leaving, i can’t help but think of that lovely person’s female-love-interest argument.

i don’t actually think aziraphale leaving for heaven needs to be related to crowley at all. it can, of course— and likely does— but aziraphale has gone through just as much Heaven-induced trauma as crowley has, something that many fans (and even the characters themselves, sometimes) like to forget. aziraphale knows first-hand how abusive Heaven is to young angels and humans who they deem unworthy of being saved. and so to me, it is just as valid if it turns out aziraphale going back to Heaven wasn’t “for” crowley at all, but rather a way to protect these other generations from the abuse of Heaven that aziraphale has witnessed and been victim to. is it so hard or unacceptable to think that aziraphale could make a choice that doesn’t have to do with his love life? he is not obligated—nor is crowley!— to live entirely as though he’s making something up/repaying/protecting his love interest. that kind codependency is not something to idolize. i guess what i’m trying to say here is that there are other reasons to go back to Heaven having nothing to do with keeping crowley safe, and while that is a perfectly valid interpretation, i’m not personally a fan of the widespread belief that it’s the only interpretation that makes what aziraphale did “forgivable”.

EDIT/ADDITION: i ALSO think that this is why i’m so bothered by the argument that while Crowley being “selfish” and choosing his own path at the end of s2 is perfectly valid, aziraphale doing the exact same thing is not. i do not blame either one of them for making a different choice, but in my opinion far too many people believe that crowley had a right to his own autonomy and do what he thought was best for himself, whereas somehow it was Aziraphale’s job to choose the same thing in accordance to what was most healthy for CROWLEY and not for himself/his own ambitions as regards to Heaven. people think that crowley has an obligation to do what is best for crowley, but that aziraphale’s subsequent obligation is to also do what’s best for crowley. no one seems to particularly care what may be best for aziraphale. at the end of the day, if one of them can make a self-prioritizing choice, the other can, too. aziraphale is his own person, not a love interest!!!!