#also the dancing husbands

[ninacarstairss]

this episode is going straight into my favorites list. not only was it full of little domestic tarlos moments because you cannot tell me carlos didn’t design the napkins and obsessed over every little detail from the menu to the music, but also the top tier owen and tk moments. there’s this layered relationship that is unfolding little by little and now we’ve gotten a new piece of it, small glimpses in the life of a young tk and the trauma that those years were for both tk and owen, the difficulty in admitting that people are not only good or bad and they can sometimes make mistakes that weigh on other people, how owen struggles with seeing enzo and tk together knowing well that he was absent for many years and also being grateful that someone was present for tk when he couldn’t be, and tk having to face the fact that maybe enzo isn’t who he thought he was but also that person who was with him for ten years was good to him back then. and then nancy becoming captain. i cannot wait to see our bisexual icon nancy become captain. and the 126 will be so happy and proud. but also destroyed at the same time. getting to see that journey these last few episodes with nancy and tommy was very healing and very heavy at the same time. it felt like a punch in the guts and a hug at the same time. and again lone star has this really great way of showing different traumas and responses to it that somehow come to a common closure even when they come from very different sources.

[edwardbonnets]

how to ask the demon you've been smitten over for 6000 years to dance: an angel's guide

bonus:

[azfellschild]

he is half of my soul, as the poets say ♡

[unhingedpirates]

Aziraphale with other people:

Aziraphale with his husband, ON THE SAME FUCKING DAY:

[idliketobeatree]

thought about charles and edwin doing their own version of the "I was wrong" apology dance from good omens. 16 dead 134 injured

[seefasters]

blinded by the light

[p4nishers]

there's something i need to say and yall can boo me for it but deep in my heart i'll always know i'm correct: crowley already forgave aziraphale. like already would take him back at one flutter of his eyelashes. that's all.

[microclown]

I've been stuck on viewing Maggie as Crowley's mirror, and for most of the show I like that interpretation. But once I started thinking of Nina as Crowley's Mirror in the ball scene specifically, I made a connection....

Aziraphale is playing God here. He has a vision- a happy romantic evening where people speak Victorian English, dress nicely, dance, and fall in love -and he wills everyone present to conform to his plan. But Nina doesn't conform. Nina feels like something isn't right. She asks questions.

She asks Aziraphale what's going on, why she doesn't feel sad when she knows she's sad, and Aziraphale doesn't give her a satisfactory answer. He tells her that the important thing is that she's here. She's here to play a role in his great plan. To dance in his ball.

So she expresses her concerns to Maggie. Maggie hadn't seen the issues at first, but she listens to Nina, and Nina gets her to acknowledge the absurdity of the situation just a little bit. Listen to their conversation at the dance again. It sounds SO MUCH like the conversations we've heard Crowley and Aziraphale have a thousand times during their 6000 year dance. Crowley calling out heaven, asking questions, trying to get Aziraphale to consider the absurdity of it all. Aziraphale mostly defending heaven, but listening, and sometimes acquiescing.

And this all falls in line with a point I've made before - In season 2, Crowley's relationship with Aziraphale begins to mirror his relationship with heaven. Aziraphale shows a pattern of not listening to Crowley the whole season, but especially in this scene. Crowley tries to ask him what is going on, and alert him to very real danger, but Aziraphale is dismissive. He is blinded by his desire to see his plan to fruition.

And just so we're clear, this is not an Aziraphale hate post. Rather, I think it might give us some insight into where God is coming from. Because Aziraphale's actions may be dismissive and controlling, but they are motivated by love. Misguided, certainly, but with all the best intentions. I have a feeling, when we finally meet God, it will be a similar story. And maybe both She and Aziraphale will learn that sometimes to love means to let go.

[my-name-is-apollo]

One of the best parts of rereading the Homeric hymn to Apollo is that I get to read these moments again:

"But Leto alone stays by the side of Zeus who delights in thunder...and the Father gives him nectar in a golden cup welcoming his dear son, while the other gods make him sit down there, and queenly Leto rejoices because she bare a mighty son and an archer."

– Homeric hymn to Delian Apollo (trans. Evelyn-White)

"And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great hearts as they watch their dear son playing among the undying gods."

– Homeric hymn to Pythian Apollo (trans. Evelyn-White)

It seems so domestic and mundane. Zeus has plenty of moments where he dotes on his children, but it's really rare to see him do that alongside his lover. He is relishing these moments with Leto, who stands beside him. This is more of a family moment than just a father - son moment.

[aspotoflunch]

Hey did anyone else notice in episode 5 when Aziraphale and Crowley are talking about the past tense of smite and Crowley says “smote”

Aziraphale would definitely know that that’s definitely a correct answer

And yet he says “smitten” anyway, staring at Crowley with his eyes lit up with love as gently as sunbeams streaming through your window in the morning, looking as though his heart is beating so fast it’s going to run away from him the moment he opens his mouth again.

Dunno I’ve just been thinking about it.

[cogcltrcorn]

look. I may be delusional. but I think stewy would love to marry kendall. he has very solid reasons:

- it would be funny

- tax writeoff

- legally binding document that lets stewy sleep soundly knowing he will never have to testify against kendall in court

- the secret horrible corner of stewy's heart that he will never admit to having that makes him want to have a big wedding and serve cunt in a tasteful pastel tux and eat fukcing cake and dance and make out with kendall on the dancefloor and then fuck off to greece for a month and do nothing but fuck and feed each other fruit

[spyglahass]

a little thing I did for a friend I got for a secret santa 👉👈

something something, they signed a treaty and have to take part in an official celebration

issue:

fwhip has no idea how to dance AND is a gay mess about it

[i-ran-into-a-lampost]

Going through this atm

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

time // place // frame 421 // original // title

made a little collage for my frame from @gowhilewedance

[widgits]

“Go with them,” she commanded Ser Jorah.

“As you command.” The knight gave her a curious look. “You are your brother’s sister, in truth.” 

“Viserys?” She did not understand. 

“No,” he answered. “Rhaegar.” He galloped off.

incredibly messy drawing but the few times the rhaegar and dany dynamic/parallels are discussed are so interesting to me!!

[where-our-stories-start]