#&;// The Garden of Eden

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from "The Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in The Garden of Eden because it apparently existed in the modern day. It was isolated and the water was dirty and there was graffiti and abandoned construction everywhere. Poetic?

[moondust-artz]

Shenanigans

[brainwormcity]

I'm absolutely convinced that this is the moment that Crowley fell in love with Aziraphale and you cannot change my mind. He is so pleasantly surprised. I mean, he'd just given away the freaking flaming sword to humans! Not just humans but those cast out for giving into temptation. Aziraphale specifically disregarded God's assignment to do what was for the good of humanity, rather than good for the Great Plan. At that moment, they were much more alike than Aziraphale would realize for a very long time.

After this, if Aziraphale is somewhere, Crowley finds his way to him. I've seen people remark that in the beginning, Crowley was trying to tempt the angel just to see if he could but I think that the questions he puts to Aziraphale and the situations he goes with him through are all spurred from this moment. This unexpected act of genuine kindness, if not good.

He wanted to know his thoughts. He wanted to know what he would do. He wanted to be around someone who made him feel like he truly wasn't alone. Heaven's rigid rules and hell's callous disregard be damned, on this day, he found a kindred spirit. Someone who was genuinely off of the binary of good and evil and damned if he didn't fall in love with him right that second.

[fanofstuff01]

Okay, so I have a theory. Lucifer didn't hate Adam, sure Adam probably hated him because of the whole apple thing but Lucifer didn't seem like he hated him in the final battle.

He's smiling, flying around like it's a game and doesn't even seem angry to see him.

And in the book of Hell Adam doesn't seem controlling or domineering, he's smiling and pointing over his shoulder at something like it's a suggestion.

Idk, just feeling a little ranty.

OOHH Interesting interesting.

I do like the theory, but you see I think that Lucifer does hate Adam, he’s just.. Way more mature about it yknow? He wouldn’t throw a hissy fit like him whenever he sees him or can definitely take sly remarks coming, but instead he picks on him and mocks him to show his hatred, to shove it in his face that he is in fact in control.

WITH THAT SAID, the thought of Lucifer just playing and fucking around with Adam like back in Eden and never planning to actually kill him is a wonderful hc lmao. Thank you

About the book of hell, weelll the book tries to portray that scene as Adam controlling Lilith giving her orders and shit and it did manage to do that with me I’ll give it that, but then there’s the issue I keep mouthing again and again.

The story of hell has no proof of being %100 legit. Taking what it says as facts is a tad bit stupid, because -Either if it’s true or not- it’s clearly written by one side, and trust me no one likes to be fully honest about their history. So who’s to say that it’s not a coverup and a slight exaggeration? Especially since it’s made for children and specifically Charlie?

I do think that Adam was a bit controlling in Eden, but it wasn’t his fault. The guy was literally born yesterday and didn’t even know good or bad, he was doing what the angels were telling him and Lilith took it the bad way and then it got piled up and up until the blowup.

I think that they were both not innocent back then, but also not guilty. Best way I can describe it is that when those concepts are not even known by the two you can never fully blame them for the shit they did. Key word, fully.

WOWWW I got even longer and off topic LMAO anyway hope that was what you were talking about lol

[7pleiades7]

Eve (1885) by Anna Lea Merritt (American, 1844-1930), signed and dated 'Anna Lea Merritt/1885.' (lower left), oil on canvas, 30 x 43 in. (76.8 x 109.2 cm.), Private Collection

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[kailysander]

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

celestial surveillance + some garden of eden parallels

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. - Luke 8:17 (NIV)

Over and over, we see how the bookshop feels safe/private while simultaneously being sort of a fishbowl, leaving its inhabitants quite exposed to onlookers. *garden of eden vibes*

Similarly, Aziraphale and Crowley tried to conduct a class-A surreptitious 6000+ year agreement/slowburn romance and yet their 25 Lazarii relationship is fairly obvious to others.

Reminiscent of how Crowley is painfully aware that nothing is certain and time is horribly finite, Aziraphale lives with the knowledge that anything he does or says can be used against him—or much worse, used against Crowley or others our little guardian cares about. Unlike his emotional support demon, however, Aziraphale was afraid Before the Beginning, before The Fall.

While Upstairs aren't the only ones watching, they have the potential to be the most dangerous threat (emphasis on potential bc they have to take an interest and also maybe stumble into important clues): The heavenly office overlooks the entire world. Where Hell had to send Furfur to the theatre with a camera, Heaven's got Earth Observation Files they can pull up to see what someone was doing at any point in history—not even St. James Park can keep you anonymous in the face of thirty-seven classes of scriveners/recording angels!

Aziraphale may tend to underestimate danger in general because of his misplaced hope that Heaven is truly Good, but in the same way that he can be both clever and stupid, I think he trusts Heaven and fears it at the same time. Why else would he be so worried about breaking their rules even when he knows they are wrong?

Of course, Aziraphale is also a courageous little bastard with a deity-defying protective streak! Despite Heaven's indoctrination, we see him navigating all sorts of grey area as he learns to 'blur the edges'. But he knows it isn’t safe to do that openly. He keeps this more human side hidden and tries not to think too hard about why doing good is wrong in heavens eyes. (lol other people's aziraphale metas are my main food group rn)

At the end of S2, we see him leave A.Z. Garden & Co. after tasting the forbidden fruit large oat milk latte, armed with his naïve/misguided 'knowledge of Good and Evil'. (and perhaps he knows he can't 'let the sun can’t go down' on him in Soho lest the the Metatron mete out death instead of coffees?) When Adam and Eve left Eden, Aziraphale and Crowley observed from above. When the angel and demon leave their own garden, we get the sense that they are also being watched.

(also idk if this is anything but Adam facing off against the lion while Eve looks on in the bg seemed a bit like Crowley watching Aziraphale walk into danger w the Metatron. could be a good sign since the lion gets turned into salami)

There are hints at the end of S2 that the watching is getting a little a spicier (at least I think they are hints haha): the bookshop windows are still broken during the last part of E6, further decreasing privacy; the zombies used binoculars to watch A&C from the Dirty Donkey under cover of darkness in 1941 but the Metatron just looks across the road in the light of day. And then there's the whole 'hefty jigger of almond syrup'.

[memoriesofthingspast]

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[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from "The Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

[arisupshlya]

my old aziracrow fanart based on......the painting of jesus and judas......for some reason

[momokeen]

"In Paradise" by Max Švabinský. Woodcut print. 1918.

[melanovia]

It's wild how much "classic literature" was basically just queer fanfiction. Almost like feeling out of place in society lends itself to introspection

[leoreadss]

My brain made a connection and now I have to share it so we can have it in our mind forever.

I was watching a video of Trixie and Katya (if you don't know who they are, bitch are you even gay?) in which they are watching The Sandman. I have seen the series before but the revelation never came to me. Now it did and it better get out of my mind for good and haunt others. On the screen appears Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer and Trixie mentions (about the hair) 'I think they're trying to do CHERUB shit' and then

stars going red, sfgkszg, stars crashing down, and what are they putting in bananas these days,

kinda moment.

What if Aziraphale, in Heaven, as a Supreme Archangel, got long hair, like Gwendoline Christie?

I know I wrote the rumble upon Aziraphale barber who gets up in Heaven three times a week, BUT I thought it was funny, and the mental image now will haunt you.

Here you go, flaming sword, don't thank me.

bye :)