#aziraphale can sense love

[aziraphales-library]

Hi! I was wondering if you got any fics in which Aziraphale can't feel/detect Crowley's love? Thank you in advance 🙇‍♂️

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what the fuss is all about by chisaron (T)

about food, love stored in said food, selfishness stored in said love, and kissing

Your Beauty Never, Ever Scared Me by midnightdragons (G)

“You – you are an idiot, angel,” Crowley rasped, his lips trembling as he spoke. “I am the farthest from beautiful that any being could ever be." “You’re wrong,” Aziraphale insisted almost angrily, his eyes glistening with tears of sorrow, sorrow that Crowley thought such things about himself. “Oh, my darling, I wish so dearly that you could see yourself through my eyes, for all you would see then is every single beauty that Creation has to offer.”

Made With a Little Something Extra by SparkKeyper (G)

One week after the world doesn't end, Crowley brings Aziraphale a blueberry muffin. ------ In which two immortals settle into a new normal, Aziraphale can taste love in the food Crowley brings him, and both of them really should have figured out what this meant a lot sooner.

Made with Love by Dancer_in_the_rain (G)

“It’s something about how the food is made, it’s… special. And I need to know more about it from the cook himself.” ”Special in what way?”, Crowley inquired, frowning again. ”You really haven’t noticed?”, asked Aziraphale softly. ”Noticed what?” ”The uhm… the love.” ”The uh… wha- ng… wha- what do you mean by that, angel?” Aziraphale took a deep breath. “The food. It’s made with a great deal of love. I could sense it from the first bite I took… No, I’m lying, I really noticed from the moment I first smelled it. Whoever prepared it… they did so with an incredible amount of love and care. And it was dedicated to somebody in particular, I could feel it. A-and I need to ask the cook about it.” Or: Crowley keeps bringing Aziraphale delicious food from a mysterious new restaurant. Not only is the food excellently made, it also reeks of love. Aziraphale wants to know more about the person who made it but can’t get the details out of Crowley.

Trust in My Love-spoons by CookieCatSU (T)

"What am I supposed to do with it?" "It's a soup spoon, Crowley" Aziraphale says, somewhat facetiously. "You eat soup with it" Or; Aziraphale pines, falls in love, and gifts Crowley many, many spoons.

No Nightingales by Doodling_Dork3562 (T)

Aziraphale’s wings appear after his fight with Crowley but when feathers start to fall out, more and more progressively over time, he is devastated when his pure white feathers have all started to diminish. What he didn’t know was that his loss of feathers was simply making room for a new pair of wings that seemed more appropriate for the angel. The only challenge? How long will he be able to hide his little, yet unbelievably huge problem from the demon he was at odds with?

- Mod D

[sayuri-of-the-valley]

I just realised something. Angels can't sense Love, otherwise verifying if Nina and Maggie were in love would have been easy. Apparently they don't even know what Love is.

Aziraphale can, from what we see in season 1. It's something unique to him, just like stopping time appears to be for Crowley.

I wonder why, Aziraphale... Interesting.

something something Aziraphale was the first being ever to fall in love so he knows what Love is that's why he can sense it something something Crowley and Aziraphale invented Love

[felicitywilds]

how many licenses do you think aziraphale has? hes got one for possession of a firearm, and made them give him a test so he could get one to drive a car. what else has he done in order get a silly little slip of paper that says he can do something cool with a Human Invention? like i know hes a literal angel of heaven but do you think hes ordained

[freerangewhales]

I have many reasons why I like Aziraphale and Crowleys relationship, but the one reason it's my favorite is because it is bigger than them.

It's not human. It isn't bound by sex, gender, race, place of birth, or nonsense like that. It isn't bound by mortality. It isn't forced or made or found. It just exists within them.

It's human. It's raw and unyielding. It breaks their heart and fixes it back up all neat and tidy. It's blunt when it stabs and sharp when it hurts. It's euphoric when it's domestic and blissful when they survive it.

It transcends humanity, it has survived through all the eras that humans haven't. But it has also flickered and waxed and waned like the most humane love ever seen.

It's pure. It's tainted by authority, but it's still pure.

It's them. It's them who should hate each other but can never bring themselves to. It's clinging on to tiny moments till they're free to not hold back. It's coffee and bentleys and books and Queen. It's so them.

It's almost like it's ineffable.

[judasisgayriot]

Aziraphale when he’s back in heaven and he realises it’s still shit and he misses crowley and he fucked everything up

[starryemeralds]

do you ever think about how aziraphale fell in love with crowley because of his love for the earth; and crowley falls in love with the earth because of his love for aziraphale?

i think about it often actually.

[itsnotacostume]

yeah <3

[aziraphales-library]

Hello! I’m looking for a fic where Crowley learns to cook for Aziraphale. I remember each chapter was a different dish (maybe around seven chapters?) and the first and last dishes were angel and devils food cake. I remember he even learned to make sushi from the guy that works at Aziraphales favorite sushi restaurant and he got a recipe recommendation from Anathema. Normally I write down fics I like but for some reason I didn’t write this one down and I remember it being really nice, so if I couldn’t have some help finding it that would be much appreciated!

Hi. This is the lovely fic...

a picnic plan for you and me by Anonymous (G)

“It’s angel food cake,” he said. He waited. When Aziraphale did nothing but nod politely: “It’s funny, see, ‘cause-” “No, no, I get it.” Aziraphale nodded again. “Very funny.” “Oh, shut up, it is-” “May I ask what brought this on?” Crowley paused. “Can’t a guy just want to try baking?” (Or, Crowley makes Aziraphale food after the world doesn't end. It has absolutely nothing to do with how much he wants to make Aziraphale smile.)

- Mod D

[thebasementgirl]

Are we still allowed to not see Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship as romantic?

[lloyddelvalle]

May I suggest an animatic or edit of Aziraphale and Crowley to the song "Animal" by Maroon 5?? 👀

[bullagit]

i think a not-insignificant amount of the heartbreak crowley’s feeling in the end is  because he’s finally truly understanding that what’s happening with aziraphale (as he perceives it) isn’t something that he can save him from.

[abastardworthknowing]

I am doing an autism btw and putting my media studies degree to the test by trying to use what we know about cinematography in season 1 and carrying that knowledge over to season 2

For example, Aziraphale and Crowley being put on the left and right respectively ON PURPOSE for most scenes (except for in the Bentley). Because then, when they're on the wrong sides, there must be a reason or a purpose to it.

Because we see them so much more this season, I want to try and figure out why some scenes feel so off... and why some things (contextually) make no sense at all.

It could be that they're on the wrong sides for reasons we don't know yet, too. There could be things that don't make sense that don't make sense if you don't pick up what the go team has specifically put down for us. I'm going to post about it bit by bit tbh. And donit in sections.

Starting with their positions in scenes. I'll mostly be noting when they're on the wrong sides and what we can pick up from the scene there.

[fridaywormteeth]

I think there should be more fics where Aziraphale thinks they’re married but Crowley doesn’t even know if Aziraphale likes him back

[snootflake]

Don’t mind me, I’m still thinking about how Aziraphale can sense love.

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[aziraphales-library]

hiya! i love the work you guys do here, so thank you so much for that :) i was just wondering if you had any recommendations for fics that deal heavily with crowley's supposed inability to love as a demon, or just generally fics that deal with crowley coming to grips (in a kind of angsty way) with loving aziraphale? thanks!! <3

Hello! You will find plenty of fics along these lines on our #aziraphale can sense love tag. Here are some more for you...

Love Flashes by azfell (G)

In which Heaven insists demons can't feel love, and Aziraphale doesn't know better and feels his love for Crowley will never be returned.

Demons Can't Love by zerodaryls (T)

Aziraphale is quite convinced that Crowley does not, can not love him back, seeing as he's a demon and all. Crowley is becoming quite convinced he's in love with an idiot.

Crowley, When The Walls Fell by ineffablefool (T)

Aziraphale looked around again, a thoughtful frown pulling at his lips. “I know what human love feels like, and this is… as I said, out of focus. Sideways, somehow. It doesn’t flow the same way.” He tilted his head, almost as if he was listening for a moment, then continued. “And now I think of it, it’s almost familiar somehow, too.” (Crowley keeps working to hide his love from Aziraphale. Aziraphale keeps sensing it anyway. Aziraphale just doesn't know what it is, until...)

That's Not Funny by cyankelpie (G)

Aziraphale has never sensed even a shred of love from Crowley, which is perfectly alright. It isn't Crowley's fault demons can't love. But then Crowley makes what must be a cruel joke at his expense, and Aziraphale can't control his emotions as well while drunk. Luckily, he doesn't remember the confession in the morning. Crowley doesn't see why the angel was so upset over something he probably knew all along, but he'll make sure it stays forgotten.

A Brief History of Angelic Love by triedunture (E)

Unfortunately Aziraphale has fallen in love with a demon, and as we all know, demons can't love. Related: Aziraphale finds that wearing sweet, soft, lacy things can be quite soothing.

Dark Symmetry by destieljunkie (E)

Aziraphale and Crowley have been smitten with each other since they met in the Garden of Eden but both are too scared to make a move in the slowest burn romance in history. After six thousand years in the making Crowley's sexual frustration is at critical. So when an angel and a demon join forces to stay the apocalypse, he decides to go all out to win his angel's heart. Aziraphale has been waiting for that moment for centuries but he thinks demons can't love and comes up with a little scheme of his own. Maybe they're a lot more alike than they thought.

- Mod D

[wordsinhaled]

i’m so totally normal about the fact that aziraphale’s last (known) deliberate foray into the queer community was when he learned the gavotte at the fictionalized hundred guineas club (!!!) in the 1800s and now in the 2020s he’s like “grindr? what’s that?”

many are talking about his repression which is very valid… and yet the thing to me that stands out about aziraphale is that he’s actually… incredibly stable in his identity and that identity IS incredibly queer. queer by the standards of heaven AND by human standards as well

metatron describes his “de facto partnership” with crowley as “irregular.” and in fact aziraphale in his entirety is irregular. he likes and makes it his business not only to understand but to be a connoisseur of all manner of things angels aren’t supposed to even remotely care about. food. music. books. theatre. sleight of hand. and more.

it’s the sort of behavior that would’ve gotten him othered, treated as a bit odd, in heaven even if he hadn’t chosen to consort all across the earth with a literal demon. and it IS treated that way - the fact is aziraphale even as an angel has got proclivities that set him apart from the rest of the host (even after offering him the highest position in heaven, metatron still acts deeply dismissive of him… like aziraphale’s bookshop is merely a quaint little hobby of his that can be easily transferred to another custodian, and not a literal extension of who aziraphale has become, full of his tartan and unique bibles and special vintages of wine and the books arranged in a very specific way)

so. aziraphale is a queer angel but of course he’s also queer to other humans. but in such a way that… he had his realization a LONG time ago, and put the matter very much to rest after that. aziraphale is perpetually something like several centuries behind schedule. he owns an ancient computer that probably continues to run windows 98 simply because aziraphale’s decided it should. he wears the same waistcoat and coat for generations because he simply likes them precisely the way they are and sees no reason to change them. but the idea that he doesn’t know how he comes across to others - of course he does. he knows he looks like your prim and proper grandfather and he prefers it that way

aziraphale looked around at humans in the 1880s and said: ah yes. this is where i fit. and promptly ensconced himself in that queer subculture. learned the gavotte. read his austen. loved crowley from afar. aziraphale is fiercely and vibrantly queer. just with the sort of assurance of someone who lives with his lover in a commonlaw marriage for decades and then shows up at city hall for the certificate once society decides it’s ‘allowed.’ like… he hasn’t had any need to know what grindr is because aziraphale’s ‘scene’ was a century and a half ago and it defined romance for him too.

but my favorite thing about aziraphale is how much of him is about appearances versus the truth. he can lie straight to angels’ faces and sleep at night. he knows he comes off soft but he once wielded a flaming sword. he dissembles helplessness but he’s far from it and he knows precisely how it makes others treat him. and at the core of aziraphale is rigidity, inflexibility of ideas… his sense of self is stable where crowley’s is malleable, and so on, and so on

and the fact that he’s continuously fixated on trying to misguidedly do the right thing, the fact that he seeks heavenly approval and wants to fit the world into his schema of good vs evil… in no way do i think that means he isn’t one hundred percent aware of how he feels about crowley or what it means about him by angelic or human standards. i’ve seen some folks saying that aziraphale doesn’t want to like kissing crowley and like… as much as i love me some brideshead revisited/atonement flavored angst; i put forth that it’s not internalized homophobia or queer panic but simply: “i’m trying to do the right thing for both of us and you won’t let me.” and “i wanted our first kiss to be different.” he was envisioning an entirely different flavor of romance than what he got but he emma woodhoused too close to the sun

like, y’all. aziraphale in all likelihood has a glorious collection of historical queer erotica. he just has a feathery diva coat hanging in his closet, and for what. “oh, good lord” he says at crowley’s revolutionary outfit in the bastille, while eyeing him up like an entire meal. he’s so good at affected propriety, at carefully constructed stuffiness, but between the two of them aziraphale’s got to be the one who has experience

aziraphale had been physically throwing himself at crowley the entire season. he orchestrated an entire regency ball so they could touch hand to hand. he spends the entire season (well, and season 1) looking at crowley like he’s particularly coveted. he looked at crowley before the fall like he was glorious and beautiful. aziraphale’s queer and he knows it and i think that isn’t his problem, it’s the fact that he wants to build a different sort of future for the two of them but crowley’s gone and thrown a wrench in it by reminding him of everything he can finally have. like. that’s the heartbreak. it’s how dare you make this ugly? i forgive you for our first kiss being all pain and salt. it’s my dearest, i wanted to make heaven as beautiful as you deserve. as sacred and safe for us as our bookshop. and i can do that for us, because once i held a flaming sword and i still remember how the hilt felt in my hands. and now the taste of you is in my mouth.