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I've not come across this yet and I really want to put it out there.

Listen. Hear that?

I don't hear anything.

That's the point.

No Nightingales.

Now. We all assumed it's a call back to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. And I do think it still is (and why that song plays later).

However. I think there's more to the use of Nightingales than that.

There is a certain bit of literature out there, a very RELEVANT bit of literature actually, that uses Nightingales or, more specifically, the lack thereof, as a warning.

A bit of literature that both of them are probably quite familiar with as they canonically have attended this particular bard's performances.

The tale of the most well known literary star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.

Act 3, scene 5. Dawn is approaching after the newly wed lovers have spent the night together.

Romeo must leave Juliet's room and get out of dodge before daybreak or risk being killed. Juliet, desperate for more time together, tries to convince him it is not yet morning and he should stay with her a bit longer.

Here is the scene:

Juliet tries to convince him the birdsong is that of the nightingale, a night-bird, and that they still have time to be together. Romeo replies that it is "no nightingale", but a lark, a bird of the morning, and that he must "be gone and live, or stay and die".

They tarry a bit longer as the scene continues until Juliet realizes the actual danger of him staying with her, and urges him to go. He does, but first :

Romeo: "Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll descend!"

A bit on the nose, that.

Now, i am a die hard believer that there was more going on in that last 15 than meets the eye, and I eventually plan to post about that, as well. The possibility that there was some non verbal communication going on between the lines. I am also very solidly of the belief that the Metatron story we (and Crowley) heard from Aziraphale was that of an Unreliable Narrator. Something was said or implied in that conversation that we don't know about. Something Not Good.

But, the No Nightingales line, which at first seemed like just a heavy hitting angst-hammer and call back to the end of s1, on rewatches seems...odd. A bit 4th wall, even.

Unless...there was a different intent with the use of the phrase. Specifically 'Listen. No Nightingales.'

And then we get the Nightingale song playing in the Bentley right after Aziraphale gets in that lift.

We know that Satan, other demons, and Crowley himself can speak through the radio.

And we know from s1 (Aziraphale's escape back to Earth when discorporated and his possession of Mdm. Tracy) that if demons can do something...angels can, too.

The song playing right then, I believe, was Aziraphale's attempt at comfort.

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passing that single brain cell back and forth between them

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A little domestic fluff morning <3

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“You can’t leave this bookshop.”

“Oh Crowley,”

“… Nothing lasts forever.”

Happy (late) GO2 Anniversary ‼️😄

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Me: I'm writing for myself, I started this fanfic for myself, and because I have a passion for writing

Also me: *doesn't get new comments in a week* Fuck, I should just quit right now

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cannot get over this lighting

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it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

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actually the entire season could have been solved in 1 episode if either of them bothered to check the bottom of the box. like. just flip the box. the entire time the answer to their mystery was there with them if only they didn't follow the status quo of this way up -- just like the entire time throughout their years their love was there staring them in their faces but couldn't be resolved because of all their rules about heaven and hell and which way was up

they start out the season trying to solve the mystery of an empty box (that sounds... // lonely? // yeah) and by the end of the season, the box has been filled up with books (the weight of everything they've put into their relationship). gabriel and beelzebub's relationship only needed the fly to go out (think out) of the box, but crowley and aziraphale were still trying to figure out what was in the box and what was in their feelings

and the mystery wasn't solved by them running around all over the place: it was solved by turning the box the wrong way up and emptying all the books they'd piled up in the box to read the writing on it, and actually aziraphale and crowley's relationship could only be resolved by turning it upside down -- aziraphale still needs to grapple with which way is up and crowley still has a lot of books baggage to empty, and all this time that's also been staring us in our faces

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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “All Good Things…” (7.25/7.26)

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what a line

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Can’t explain it but they’re really cunty in this photo

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a War || M*A*S*H 10x17 Original Airdate: February 22, 1982 written by David Pollock, Elias Davis story editing by Karen Hall directed by Alan Alda