#badass husband

[ineffable-romantics]

Thank GOD for those new promo pics.... I've always said this was the way I picture Aziraphale in modern day if he'd been the demon instead, and now I have the perfect angel!Crowley to match!

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

5x1 | 6x10

[motheroftheantichrist]

Okay, but the bathroom trap from Alison Gordon's perspective is insane. Imagine you and your daughter are being held at gunpoint by a kidnapper. Your husband can save you-- his wife and mother of his child-- himself, and his own daughter by giving a quick and painless death to a complete stranger. Instead he spends several hours playing twenty questions with some random twink while you desperately fight your way out of an unwinnable situation by the power of pure rage. This is why she fucking left you, Larry.

[once-upon-the-earth]

Look I think I said it before somewhere but I need to talk about it again.

Aziraphale (in the show - his characterization differs in the book and I’m talking about show Aziraphale here) is a soft character. He started out as a soldier and he made the conscious decision to give the sword away to someone who would use it for protection, instead of keeping it to fight (leaving out the whole thing about War owning it later on cause that’s a different topic and definitely wasn’t what Aziraphale had in mind when giving away the sword). He also makes a conscious decision to look and act as non-threatening as possible, instead deciding to look soft and huggable and gay as hell a tree full of monkeys on nitrogen oxide. We don’t see him fighting anybody even when he gets the sword back - he just holds it and swings it around a little, he doesn’t even lift it when they face Satan (I think. I’d have to go back and watch again but I’m fairly sure he just stands in the background behind Adam with the tip of the sword facing the ground).

We know, or at least suspect from the scene where he fixes the hole in the wall that he’s physically strong and we know he’s still technically a soldier in Heavens eyes (Gabriel going „you’re a lean mean fighting machine“ and him having and possibly leading a platoon in Heaven) but he fully rejects that position in episode five to go back to Earth. He doesn’t want to be a soldier at all. He’s still a protector, we see this in season two with Jimbriel (he literally says „I said I would protect you and I will), but even THEN he doesn’t physically fight the demons entering the bookshop (he lights the circle but it’s Maggie and Nina throwing fire extinguishers and encyclopedias).

I know we as the fandom love badass Aziraphale. I love badass Aziraphale as well. I take a little bit of an issue with how him actually being badass is portrayed in fanfic sometimes because a lot of trying to make him physically fight demons comes across as trying to make him more masculine, more fit, less the campy, soft, kind character that he is and it annoys me. (A part of that is also how people try to make him more like Crowley, which I don’t like the undertones of either but that’s a whole different topic.) Both because I don’t like the implication that to make him badass you have to change that part of his character and because we’ve seen him being badass in the show already and it was either a) trying to protect humans/Crowley/Jimbriel, which involved a lot more threatening that him actually throwing hands or on one occasion b) him being bitchy (Furfur pronouncing his name wrong). It was him being kind and caring about people and their lives! And possibly their reading skills.

And I know there’s a lot of hope for more badass Aziraphale in season three, because hell yeah, Heaven getting obliterated from the inside? Absolutely. But when we get to see BAMF Aziraphale in season three (because I don’t doubt we will, in some form or other) I’d much rather see him be badass by outsmarting Heaven (magic tricks anybody?) and getting away with it or threatening the Metatron or whatever than by punching somebody in the face. And IF he does have to use physical violence, then I want there to be a reason for it and I want it to be portrayed as a bad thing. Like I want I to be the absolutely lowest point of the character because we know how much he detests doing it and he hates having to do it anyways.

In that case also want it to end with the Metatron dead in a ditch.

[lets-all-calm-down-a-bit]

if charlie and pim were married, pim would call charlie his wife and it would piss charlie off to no end

[larkoneironaut]

The Kaer Morhen theme plays in the distance

Nah, I’m kidding, it’s actually Drink Up, There’s More, because that’s the only tune my last brain cell plays on it’s tin whistle

[grey-and-green]

“Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out” Job 41:19

I wondered about this on my first watch through, and I’ve seen ongoing posts about “wtf does this mean, why is this so important?!” because…why is this bible verse highlighted so much, why are we being asked to take notice of this? Whyyy?

Now this is just my interpretation, and it’s not really something that’s likely to be addressed in S3 - we’d need Neil to confirm, but:

Gabriel still appears to be intact when he’s writing on the box, and the last thing we see him do in Heaven is take the fly out of the matchbox. So, we can guess, that the last thing he registers before he becomes Jim!Gabriel is this bible quote:

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out

And the last time he saw Aziraphale (well it was Crowley, but he doesn’t know that, obv), he looked like this:

I wouldn’t forget this face in a hurry.

So we’ve got panic, confusion, an elevator stopping on Earth with one very disoriented Archangel looking for somewhere safe to go, a lingering almost-memory of an angel with the power to breathe hellfire when his life with a demon he loves is under threat, and the last thing you see before you lose your memory is this bible verse.

I think it’s meant to show why Gabriel goes to Aziraphale’s bookshop for help.

Because why else go there? Why even go to London?

Because Gabriel was scared of Aziraphale last time they met, the matchbox reminded him of that, and I’d want that version of Aziraphale on my side if I was afraid of Heaven.

[reihino1988]

Badass Aziraphale does things to me...

[vertigoartgore]

Gambit by Dan Mora (2024).

[black-pussy-supreme]

Has there ever been a more perfect moment in television history?!!!

[demontobee]

Okay. So. Who else desperately needs a sequence of shots in S3, in whatever kind of battlefield context we'll get, where, if anyone dares to just so much as lay one finger on Crowley, Aziraphale goes absolutely feral at Heaven, Hell or whoever is in his way with his flaming sword. All of this, a sort of grotesque dance/battle choreography, in slow motion to the song "Je ne regrette rien" by Édith Piaf.

[feralforestgoblinn]

Crops from a hannigram sketch from some FAD server shenanigans

Ehehehe

[weebsinstash]

Personally, I'd want to be in a triad with Lucifer AND Lilith 😳

Reader: Charls, imma be honest with you, your parents are hot

Charlie: ....what

Reader: there's like a two foot height difference between your parents and your father is the shorter one. He's a silly goofy little man and your mom looks like she tops him

Charlie: oh um ok so that thing about boundaries we mentioned before--

Reader: I feel like I could go over to your dad's house for dinner and your mom would greet me at the door in an evening gown and invite me in out of the rain because it's just so cold, "oh, my husband isn't quite home yet, so do warm yourself by the fire" and I'm sitting there shivering as she offers me a tall glass of wine for my troubles and then once I'm drunk I tell her what a refined beautiful woman she is and she chuckles and calls me a cute little girl and then your dad walks in and watches me get the strap

Charlie: that's oddly specific and I think maybe I'm starting to form some ideas on why you might be down here

Reader: yeah to get fucked by your parents

Charlie: can you PLEASE--

[mia-nina-lilly]

Since it's a book about Oak and Suren, and indeed it's a sequel, I suppose I should be paying attention to them, however, nevertheless, every time Cardan appeared or was mentioned, I couldn't help but think about how my boy went from the Cruel Prince to the damn badass king of Elfhame. Guys, Cardan practically owns anyone in conversation, knows the schemes alongside Jude, and on top of that, he's super powerful, a present husband, brother-in-law, and uncle. He's everything and then some. The way that Oak sees him aaaaaa.

I love Holly for giving us this development 🥹😭

[pokemon1oadvanced]

Why is no one talking about the way Loki undid his coat button as he strutted down the dimly lit hall 😳😮‍💨

‘You still glad we’re here?’

ALL while protecting Mobius

[emaxou]