#crowley's glasses

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The golden sticker "tattoo" :D:

The golden teeth :):

Golden nails (don't forget about toes ;)):

Golden necktie :):

Hairband :):

And don't forget the Richards Y Uma Wang - The Shangai (Vintage Bronze/Amber) - 420 € sunglasses :)

[ineffable-xenanigans]

Eye contact

Here's my contribution to week 1 of the Ineffable Prompt-A-Thon by @ineffablyruined!

Reference images

This screencap...

...plus various pics of the sculpture in question i.e. one of the Marly horses.

Oh, and thanks to @youryurigoddess for this amazing identification and analysis of the statues in the bookshop. I wouldn't have been able to look up additional references otherwise!

Materials

Paper: Hahnemühle (The Cappuccino Book)

Pens: Pilot (G-Tec-C4), Copic Multiliner (Warm Gray 0.3mm)

Markers: Copic Sketch (E30, E21, E23, E27, T1, T6)

Pencils: Caran d'Ache Luminance (713, 719, 001, 009)

[idliketobeatree]

it's rotten work (fighting for my life in the photoshop image settings just trying to brighten crowley's glasses for an edit)

not to me, not if it's you (the payoff of seeing those gorgeously expressive snake eyes hiding the most pained expression known to man)

[unicornbeck]

Which leads me to a question...

When in Season 3 will Crowley's glasses come off? (And 2 sub-questions: when will we, the audience see his eyes uncovered, and when will he trust Aziraphale enough to take them off again?)

As much as I love our demon's gorgeous golden orbs, one of the things I'm very much hoping for is a reliance on this established symbolism to convey what Crowley is too tongue-tied, or too wounded, to say.

If we see his eyes at all in episode one, I'd be very surprised. A little disappointed, too, although I suppose I could see an 80s-style training montage of Crowley drinking As Much As It Is Physically Possible For One Immortal Being To Consume-- but even then, I don't think he'd take his glasses off. And I don't think the angel will get a look until the second half of the season, at least.

Part of me really wants him to have stayed in London and established connections with humans or Muriel, but honestly, I think getting spectacularly dumped by the only being he's ever loved (because he finally went against every instinct and every belief about his own unworthiness that he had) would leave him feeling gutted, embarrassed, humiliated, hollowed out, carved into pieces. He won't want to be seen at all.

Given the way neither Maggie nor Nina saw either of our ineffables disappear, Nina because she was pretty swamped, and Maggie because she fell asleep, they may think that the boys ran off together. If Crowley comes back he'll be miserable fielding questions about it. I really want Nina to get him spectacularly drunk and get him talking. But I don't think he'd let a human in that far.

I think he would go on a binge, alone, and he'd spend almost all of it castigating himself for having allowed himself to believe that anything might happen with Aziraphale. He's a fucking demon, he will remind himself. He knows better than to open himself up to that level of vulnerability, that kind of hurt. He'll go to some pretty dark places, not Hell, but here on Earth. He'll see his pain as mostly his own fault, with a healthy dose of pissed-off reserved for the angel and Heaven and the Metatron. I think he'll be angrier at himself than he is at all the rest of them combined, though, and that's saying something. He'll try to drown the broken feelings with alcohol and and anger, masked by indifference.

He's faked things before. But it will leave him cold and joyless. He might try to sleep for a few years, to avoid dealing with it. Might run away for a spell to other places... But we know that nothing will solve it for him.

I kind of want Crowley to become a surfer, and to channel his self-destructive risk-taking into fighting waves in Portugal. He'd look great with surfer hair, and I can see him pretending pretty successfully that it's healed him, while inside, he'd still be a mess.

Somehow, my post that started as a thoughtful meta ended up as a suggestion for a really spectacular AU.

[fidgetyhands]

Crowley's glasses after The Fight

Crowley uses his glasses to delineate and preserve private / safe space. He's always wearing them, unless he's alone or in the bookshop that he and Aziraphale together have made their space. And, of course, he uses them in the last fight to communicate to Aziraphale (and to himself) that he is shutting him out and protecting himself.

One idea for early season 3 is that he will always wear the glasses. No place feels safe and warm and supported anymore, so shields up everywhere, even to himself. This seems plausible to me, but it's not my favorite theory.

My favorite theory is that in early season 3 he will have stopped wearing the glasses altogether. Not because he feels open and safe, but the opposite. He is so closed and guarded everywhere that he doesn't need to have the option of marking some times / places / people as safe. I think this would be a more subtle and devastating form of keeping his shields up. I also think he would enjoy being sarcastically unhelpful if anyone (like Aziraphale) tried to call him on it. After all, it's hard to argue "I miss when you used to not wear your glasses and I'm sad about it" to someone who is currently not wearing glasses.

[limeyjellybean]

I may have done a Thing.

I am, however, happy with the Thing.

😅

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Snek and the Bentley! 🐍🚗 New glasses! 😎 Plants!🌱:)

Disaster Puppy Content™️

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The New S2 Poster Details

Terry's hat and scarf ❤ With an ook pin! ❤

Crowley's old glasses on the statue. The statue itself is the Marly Horses by Guillaume Coustou the Elder.

Aziraphale's bow tie on the floor 👀

The cardboard box - long ago Neil shared on his instagram: Game on! There are mysteries, histories, secrets revealed and Something Too Terrible To Be Revealed on the way. Also a cardboard box.

Three feathers. One white, one blac and one white with a bluish/grey tinge (if it's not a shaddow)?

The angel mug is back 🥰

'The Resurrectionist' matches with skull and crossbones. In the previous poster there was a The Resurrectionist leaflet.

Again the Eccles cakes (already were in the previous poster)

Feather duster with dark gray/black feathers

On this shelf there books also in the previous poster, but at different place 🤔: The Crow Road, Catch-22.

And: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, from wikj: mystery novel by nritish writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in the 1892 short story The Adventure of Silver Blaze

And: No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley by Rita Marley a memoir of Bob Marley by wife, Rita.

Also heard the people say that the right one of the Catch-22 they see Gabriel García Márquez on the spine (I can't read it :)).

Lord Jim and Treasure Island have also been identified in the previous poster but now are in a different place 🤔👀.

Three books by Jane Austen: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice and Emma. We have already seen Pride and Prejudice in the previous poster but it was a different edition so Aziraphale has more than one :).

Candy?

Again geckos! :) 🦎 (there were three in the previous poster)

The Buddy Holly Everyday was also in a different place in the previous poster. And there is a note on it

The Ressurectionist, 66. Goat Gate, Edinburgh 👀.

[lonicera-caprifolium]

Yours is the First Face that I Saw

a redraw of (this commission) for @cheeriosandwine 💖💖💖💖💖

[crowleyholmes]

Been working on this for a while and if I don't post it now I never will so here you go <3 enjoy the most self-indulgent thing I've ever spent time on - I just really needed them to hug...

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨

[camilleflyingrotten]

Headcanon

Crowley was a pirate once bc it was fun 🏴‍☠️

[the-maw-consumes]

waiting.

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Select additional comments:

@suavissimapenna reply: Except for when he first walks in, Crowley is NEVER wearing his glasses in the bookshop in the new trailer (in the present day). And we don’t actually see him take them off. They just disappear in the scene cut. Not sure if it’s a miracle or trailer editing or something else.

He IS wearing them in the bookshop in the 40s flashback, even though they look *very* cozy. Definitely some kind of change in how comfortable he feels!

@krakensdottir reply: That’s it. It’s the fact that Gabriel is there in the bookshop, smack in the middle of Crowley’s safe space, just walking around like he lives there. Keeping in mind that he isn’t just Some Dude - he’s an Archangel, possibly the Archest of angels depending on who you ask - and Crowley’s reaction to suddenly encountering him THERE of all places isn’t too surprising.

And I agree, he’s no more comfortable showing his eyes in general than he was in season 2. He’s still got his glasses on in every shot we see of him outside the bookshop. But the fact that he’s without them in some of the bookshop scenes, and that he whips them off as soon as he comes in to announce that he’s back? That’s making a statement.

@charlotteharlatan reply: Yes this! By contrast Crowley also has the “lightning” moment out in the street in front of the shop (I’m guessing out of frustration bc Gabriel is there and Aziraphale is being way too nice about it). This was an over the top reaction too, it just doesn’t have as much punch, even with the explosive lightning, because his eyes are covered, like we’re used to seeing them.

My guess is that he hasn’t fully moved into the bookshop at this point in the story but he’s very close to that (hence his increased comfort and immediate removal of sunglasses upon entering the shop, before he knew Gabriel was there). He was THIS. CLOSE. And now here’s this amnesiac archangel arriving out of nowhere and mucking everything up, undoing all his progress (from Crowley’s point of view, anyway).

I’d even bet Gabriel will comment on Crowley’s eyes (bc amnesia, he won’t even remember he’s an Angel, much less that Crowley is a demon) and make Crowley self-conscious about it all over again despite any efforts Aziraphale will make to smooth over the situation.

AND Aziraphale is hiding Gabriel UPSTAIRS from the looks of the trailer, and we’ve never even seen the flat above the bookshop, so it’s not unreasonable to assume Crowley has never been up there, that it’s sort of an inner sanctum for Aziraphale. And here the Angel is, helping the person who told Crowley-disguised-as-Aziraphale to “shut his stupid mouth and die already,” who very much does not deserve his help or his trust, and yet. Maybe Crowley didn’t even tell Az about that part, to spare his feelings. Of course Crowley would be beside himself. There is just such delicious potential for character development here AAAAHHH I’m losing my mind 😭

@scumyuck tags:  #CROWLEY IS NO LONGER USING THE SUNGLASSES AS HIS SHIELD TO HIDE HIS VULNERABILITY AROUND AZIRAPHALE HE WANTS AZIRAPHALE TO KNOW AND TO SEE

Saw a gif of Crowley's freak out over Gabriel and got hung up on how dramatic it looks, how intense, and then it hit me. Guys, he's sunglasses-free. That's why his reaction looks so over the top. We're used to seeing Crowley's eyes hidden and only the rest of his face expressing his emotions. But not here! We get to see his wide freaked out, shocked, "what the fuck is this it's Gabriel!" eyes. Because he's not wearing sunglasses!

Crowley walks into the bookshop all casually without sunglasses. He's not wearing sunglasses. Do you see? In season one he takes them off in the bookshop, yes, but while he's super drunk. And then again sitting amongst the flames when he's devastated and thinks Aziraphale died. Season one Crowley takes off his sunglasses for more than a moment AT HOME. In his flat. He very briefly takes them off at the bookshop, but never while sober, never just like that.

Season two Crowley is either very comfortable with his eyes now (unlikely, that's character development you show on screen), or he's very comfortable in the bookshop.

Feeling very normal about this. Brb screaming.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

I'm under the impression that crowley's glasses are purposefully way more see-through this season compared to the first one, where I couldn't see his eyes at all if they were covered, and I just wanna know if anyone thinks so too?

Hiya! It is possible. In the first two episodes of S2 Crowley has his old glasses from season 1 (Valentino VA2003)

And since episode 3 he has RIGARDS X UMA WANG - THE STONE ECLIPSE 

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my first piece for the Ineffable Histories project! (link!)