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always been a big fan of the â¨fingertip touchâ¨
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"There is no 'our side', Crowley!"
I was looking for this gif and every post I came across was some variation on how poorly was Crowley treated here. Poor boy. How utterly cruel of Aziraphale. How heartless. How he just dropped Crowley like a hot potato. Cos Heaven was coming. And Aziraphale decided that they were over. And he was going back to them. Or something. If you know any that look into how Aziraphale is feeling, please tag me. What do I think Aziraphale is feeling?
Well. Was he happy to have Armageddon coming? No. But he did think it was inevitable.* However. They tried to influence the Antichrist. But had the wrong boy. Then they tried to think of how to find the real one and in that short time - what? Kill him? Talk to him? They had no idea what the kid is like. What powers he has. None.
The Great Plan. It is coming to its fulfilment. It is written. The War is about to begin. Heaven and Hell. The big one. They both know this. And this is not something Aziraphale or Crowley can avoid. It's not something they can just stop believing in. They had their Arrangement, their side (sort of), and they managed not to get caught. But now? Now Aziraphale is right. There is no OUR SIDE. There never really was. There might have been a moment in their existence on Earth (about 12 hundred years?) when they could feel like/pretend they are having their own side. But now the full reality of their existence is back. There are Heaven and Hell and they are preparing for War. They have no interest in Earth. Aziraphale and Crowley are tiny pawns in a very big picture. They both belong to their respective sides. They always have. Even when they found ways to work together. (Mostly cos their sides are conceited idiots both.)
And so Aziraphale decided for one more desperate attempt to get God to see how the whole thing can be avoided. Does he think She might understand? We don't know. Does he look full of hope as he walks back to his shop? He doesn't. He gets broken up with again by Crowley who nonsensically (and yes, romantically, sure) wants to go to another star - to do what? Wait till the end of universe reaches them? (Why is everybody always defending Crowley? And act like he's being reasonable there?) And then Aziraphale gets punched in the stomach. By a fellow angel. And told by Metatron to not be a bloody fool and report for service as the good angel he surely is.
And he gets discorporated. Which looks like it really sucks.
And then he DESERTS the War AND Heaven (that he apparently still has faith in...) and goes on a limb to find the boy and just see if he can come up with something. Anything. Thinking Crowley is gone. Packed his stuff and left. Possibly with the friend he was talking to when he tried to call his flat earlier.
Because Aziraphale feels the War and ending of the world is such injustice. Written or not. Great Plan or not. Maybe he didn't think at first he could make any difference but Crowley showed him it's worth considering it. *Crowley is always showing Aziraphale that things can be questioned. It didn't take Aziraphale long at all to reconsider letting things just play out and instead fight to the last breath he doesn't need, for Earth instead. The conditioning he needs to fight isn't that Heaven is good and right. The conditioning he needs to fight is that things can't be changed. That it is all written out. That he is a nobody and can't influence anything. Aziraphale's biggest fight and learning curve is in having faith in himself. So. Much like he felt it was unfair to leave the first humans unprotected and how he felt killing Job's kids was cruel, he disobeys and does his own thing again. He learns he can. But all this comes at a cost. To himself (thinking he will Fall for these things) but also to his beloved - and THAT is much harder for him. He would never want to put Crowley in danger. And he does. Every time they meet. The guilt he must feel for this.
Aziraphale lives between two sides. And they are both awful. And he is often misunderstood for just acknowledging this as reality he and everything else exists in.
I think his view of his reality is pretty accurate. There is no our side. They wanted one. But they can't leave their sides. Even after S1 they couldn't. Not really. And they both knew it. And no, he is not in clutches of Heaven or sometimes reverts to their indoctrination or anything like that. He goes along with Heaven as far as he MUST. And his life alongside his demon, however tentative, was always precious to him. But.
Crowley who showed him how to keep questioning things, try to make them better, didn't see it his way and left.
Aziraphale has to do the best he can and just do something. Anything. He can not just do nothing. He can not try and run. Or hide. Or wait some more. Crowley showed him that things can be different and Aziraphale had to do all to try and make it better. And he will. And Crowley will help. He always does.
Is Aziraphale always right? No. Does he make mistakes? Yes. I am never saying Aziraphale is faultless - but I think many things he is blamed for are not right. And I also think Crowley is often seen as can do no wrong. Everything he says is right. 100% correct. The right things to do. He knows more. Understands more. If he disagrees with Aziraphale than it follows that Aziraphale is wrong. That's not true. They are both beautifully rounded, full, flawed characters I love. They complement each other in ways I bet I have not even noticed yet. And they are their own beings too. They don't only exist for one another.
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Neil Gaiman does a podcast with David Tennant (2020)
The podcast is here, and there's a transcript of parts of it here. It's all really interesting!
Here's what really resonates for me. While talking about the opening flashbacks of s1e3 (emphasis is mine):
"Neil: It was utterly budget-busting and I also knew that it would make everything else work. And also it would make the scene I knew I was going to write in episode 3⌠it would turn that from a scene that was a bit sniffly into one that would break peopleâs hearts [yep, the bandstand scene], because youâd actually spent 28 minutes watching the ups and downs of these two on Earth for 6000 years becoming the only important thing in each otherâs lives and here is this moment where there are actually⌠they have two utterly disparate philosophies of existing and Aziraphale cannot go off with Crowley and Crowley cannot leave without him but he has to, and you wind up with a âHave a nice doomsdayâ line. But the excitement that I had of writing that stuff and the joy I had knowing that weâre going to watch the relationship open like a flower to us, ending in the 1960 with the hand-over of the holy water and there wouldnât be a dry eye in the house - and I knew that because it did that for me - them watching what you and Michael brought to it and it became the most most glorious tentative friendship over thousands of years, that then becomes sort of peculiar and flirty and weird and prickly and funny and glorious, and, you know, it was the one that won me the Nebula Award."
This absolutely frames season 2 for me, and in particular the final fifteen minutes, which are season 2's heartbreaking bandstand scene. During season 2, we watched their relationship once again open like a glorious, flirty flower, still the only important thing in each other's lives, until their utterly disparate philosophies of existing separated them and broke all of our hearts.
But they came back together after the bandstand, and they will again after season 2 đ¤â¤ď¸
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Almost forgot to post some of the photos of my recent visit to Londonâ¨
Do you recognize this bandstand?đ
Fan theory: they're gonna reunite right there in s3, listen to međŚâ¨
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S1E3 â Hard Times Write Up P6 - Friday (One day to the end of the World) from "the break up" scene
Quick note to slip in right at the beginning here: the setting in the Script Book for this rendezvous was back at St. Jamesâs Park. Iâve no idea why it was changed, but I do really like how portentous and isolated the band stand feels. Perhaps thatâs exactly why it was changed.
Right, I donât think I can avoid this much longer. I really am not looking forward to going through this scene. I know Iâm not alone in finding it a difficult watch. As a reminder, itâs my belief that Aziraphale and Crowley are secretly romantically involved at this point in the storyline and have been since Adamâs birth (11 years), so I do really feel like this scene is a break-up. Furthermore, I think itâs likely that Aziraphale came to the meeting with the intention of breaking up with Crowley because heâs started to believe that they cannot stop Armageddon. Iâll pick up on a few things as I go through the scene itself that would feed into that theory, but for now, all we need to know is that I donât like watching this pair split up. F*** knows how Iâm going to get through the Final 15 write up when I eventually get there.
The conversation starts in a similar vein to the one that we just saw Aziraphale having with the archangels in Heaven â with him playing aloof and hoping that the other party doesnât notice heâs hiding something. I donât know why he doesnât tell Crowley that heâs been Upstairs to discuss the matter with his superiors at this point, or that he knows where Adam lives. What I do know is that heâs nervous â not only is he feigning ignorance, heâs wringing his hands, which he does whenever heâs anxious.
Aziraphale actually gives his own game away in his response to Crowleyâs question about his investigative prowess â Adamâs shoe size is the only piece of information on the list that he doesnât have. But Crowley isnât listening (shock horror) and completely misses the subtext. I also suspect itâs likely he wonât contemplate the possibility that the angel is keeping something from him â itâs simply not on his radar.
Here's when things start to get really rough as far as Iâm concerned. Thereâs something that we have to bear in mind, particularly if youâre prepared to accept my head canon in terms of where their relationship is at. The couple are staring Armageddon in the face. Not death, or obliteration from existence. The annihilation of Earth. Which means that, once itâs over, they will both be sent back to whence they respectively came from. No more sneaky little rendezvous meetings in parks. No more dining at The Ritz. No more nightingales. They arenât just facing the destruction of Earth, theyâre facing the possibility of an eternity of existence apart from each other.
Even if youâre not onboard with my theory of them being in a relationship at this point in the storyline, that idea is⌠well⌠heartbreaking to be perfectly honest. If you donât think so, Iâve no idea why youâre still reading my waffling at this point. And if that idea hadnât already occurred to you when you were watching this scene before, Iâm sorry if I just destroyed you a little bit (#sorrynotsorry).
So, with that devastating blow delivered, letâs take a look at Aziraphaleâs language here, of both verbal and body types.
He looks and sounds fairly resigned to their fate here. And pretty defeated. If I was to try and subtitle this single line of script with what I think is actually going through his head, it would read something along the lines of âI think we should say our goodbyesâ. And I think Crowley, despite him missing the much more obvious subtext earlier, picks up on it.
My subtitling of this clip would go something along the lines of âno, fuck that shitâ. Heâs not ready to give up, not after 6000 years of slow burn. Itâs no surprise that Aziraphale is uncomfortable with this outburst, after all, he still believes that heâs a company man. Angel. Whatever, he canât seem to get his head around the fact that heâs really not onboard with Heavenâs plans. What I find interesting is his delivery of his next line.
His voice cracks. At the very end of the line. The way the conversation is playing out, it could be argued that heâs trying to make amends for Crowleyâs criticism of the Great Plan but I think itâs something else. This isnât a chastisement of Crowley. Itâs a request of God. As in, âplease forgive him, he knows not what he does/didâ. As in âif you forgive him, he can come back to Heavenâ. Unfortunately Crowley sees right through that one though, laying waste to the angelâs hopeful but poorly thought out plea in a painfully realistic summation of his existence. Why he feels itâs necessary to really hammer home the point to Aziraphale is a bit of a mystery to me â itâs really not like anything he says will make the angel stop loving him, as his face tells us when Crowley has finished spitefully pointing out how truly unforgivable he is.
I find the next exchange particularly interesting.
Aziraphaleâs line almost feels unfinished. And if I could take a guess as to how he meant to finish it, I would say âyou could be one againâ is top of my guesses, which I think is backed up by his devastated expression after Crowley once again wastes no time destroying his dreams.
Itâs not hard to see why I find it so difficult to get through this scene â up to this point weâre basically seeing the Final 15 9 episodes too early. And the similarities donât stop there so letâs keep going. Note: I am aware I am somewhat jumping the gun with the comparisons, but I donât want this scene to interfere with the write up when I come to do the Final 15 (I want that to stand on its own merits).
Crowley does try and do some reparations, showing his faith in their capabilities as a team and sticking to the original plan, but Aziraphale knows there was always a flaw in it â what do they do once they actually find the Antichrist? We see a very clever echoing of a previous topic here too â Crowley being unwilling to compromise on his position of the killing of innocents. We saw it in Mesopotamia in 3004 BC and again in the Dinosaur Park from episode 1, although at that point he was able to disguise his stance because of his employment. Iâm not sure why he doesnât use that reasoning at this point again, as his approach causes this discussion to start its descent into an all-out argument about the morality code at play.
Thereâs a huge sense of irony with Aziraphaleâs take on this moral dilemma â apparently the good guys donât kill children. Clearly his memory is somewhat selective because not only have the âgood guysâ been doing that for thousands of years, theyâre about to kill ALL THE CHILDREN with Armageddon. Itâs no wonder Crowley tries to call him out on it. And can we just talk about the fact that what Aziraphale is asking his friend to do is an absolutely awful thing to do? And for what? So that Heaven doesnât have âblood on its handsâ. Crowleyâs face says everything that I could try to put into words about what heâs being asked to do:
Side note: thereâs a little moment during this exchange where their fingers almost touch. Maybe actually touch given Crowley appears to react to it, but I couldnât swear either way owing to the camera angle. It reminds me a little of the Sistine Chapel, but I donât know that it would be an intentional reference here.
Theyâre about to reach an impasse in their argument, mostly stoked by Aziraphaleâs dogged determination that he can continue to use the fact that heâs a Heavenly being as an excuse for not making difficult choices. The way he delivers this line suggests that not only is this a hill heâs prepared to die on, but that his stance affords him superiority.
The words of Crowleyâs reply imply that it was scripted to sound like a small injection of humour into this situation, and I think you could easily interpret it that way.
Then you should kill him yourself. Holi-ly.
I however think that this is him trying to remind Aziraphale that just because youâre an angelic host, that doesnât mean that youâre above implementing death and violence in certain situations. Perhaps when it lends weight to a moral argument. Either way you choose to read it, weâve reached our stalemate and so itâs time for Crowley to employ his self-protection mechanisms by hurling insults and making a run for it. And if you were in any doubt that the way this discussion unfolds is meant to be anything other than heartbreaking, youâre not listening to the soundtrack that starts at this exact point â flowing strings and flute in a minor key has emotional turmoil written all over it.
I deliberately left the subtitles off that last gif because I think the vast majority of us recognise the subtext of this conversation without needing to know the exact words that are spoken. It amounts to person A saying something hurtful, causing person B to be shocked and hurt by it before saying something hurtful back as a response before realising they spoke before thinking and trying to take it back. Itâs a typical couple argument, isnât it? Aziraphaleâs body language here really resonates with me â itâs such a classic display of regret and desperation that it makes my heart ache.
Are you ready for the big hitters of the mirroring of the Final 15? Letâs start with Aziraphaleâs plea:
You canât leave, Crowley.
Sound familiar? Sounds an awful lot like a time when a demon stood in front of an angel and told him he couldnât leave the bookshop to me. Except this time the positions are reversed (obviously). Nonetheless, the parallel with that line is strong. And hold up, thereâs another one coming â Crowleyâs about to suggest that they run away, maybe not as an âusâ but âtogetherâ. This time itâs received a little differently though, because that look on Aziraphaleâs face is pure hope (until it isnât).
And just look at Crowleyâs body language. He has literally opened himself up to Aziraphaleâs acceptance. If I didnât know any better, Iâd say thatâs his invitation for the angel to cross the bandstand into his embrace and disappear off into the sunset togetherâŚ
Now, Iâm sure there are some of you thinking that Aziraphaleâs line about them not being friends completely undermines my theory about them being romantically involved at this point. I would argue that actually it strengthens my theory. The way I hear that line, thatâs Aziraphale saying, out in the open, that the word they use as a cover to describe their relationship is categorically not what they share. If he rushed into the next sentence about them being nothing more than an angel and a demon, I might agree that my theory is problematic at this point, but he doesnât. Thereâs a pause before he continues where I think he suddenly realises what he almost just gave away and this weak little interjection story is the best he can do to try to maintain the cover. Even heâs not convinced about it â he canât even maintain eye contact with Crowley after he claims not to like him, I suspect because those words are so hurtful that heâs actually managed to hurt himself with them. You can see Crowley is pretty confused by this whole turn of events too.
Not only is the demon pretty confused by everything thatâs going on (after all, he called the meeting to try put together the next steps for their plan to avoid Armageddon, not break up with the love of his existence), but he isnât prepared to let their partnership go without a fight.
Thereâs an interesting parallel with the conversation from the second episode in season 2 here â with Crowley claiming heâs protecting âhisâ existence and Aziraphale contesting that itâs âoursâ (i.e. theirs). In this context though, this is Crowleyâs last card, a desperate plea for the angel to remember what it is that they have together, what they built for themselves. Itâs no good though, Aziraphale is determined to see this one through and does the one thing that he knows Crowley wonât be able to forgive him for â denies it all, which isnât too dissimilar to the shit he pulls off in the Final 15. And then thereâs this:
Those words are the definitive break-up words, arenât they? You can actually see the thought processes going through Aziraphaleâs brain as he resolves to do what he came to do, despite how much it will hurt him to do it. He only manages to make the words come out on the second attempt of opening his mouth to say them, has to take a big breath before he does it, forces himself to make eye contact when he does say the words, even visibly recoils from the sound of them after theyâre said. Michaelâs performance here is genuinely outstanding, it blows me away how effortlessly he portrays the complex emotions heâs going through. And in fairness, David does an equally outstanding job with his response, particularly given that he canât really use his eyes. The fact that he conveys Crowleyâs distress with the only other tools he has â body language and speech â here is beyond amazing, not least because itâs the very lack of speech that really tells us how much heâs hurting from whatâs just happened.
And if there was even the slightest bit of doubt left about whether this was a relationship break-up scene or not, maybe just look at Aziraphaleâs devastated expression as he watches Crowley walk away.
Thereâs one last thing I want to draw attention to in this scene. All the way through the meeting, it has been possible to hear individual bits of birdsong from the surrounding area. Just after Crowley delivers his apparently nonchalant parting shot (âHave a nice doomsdayâ), we can hear an increase in volume of the birdsong in the soundtrack.
Itâs not an individual bird this time, but an absolute cacophony of song, like a dawn chorus (which is unlikely â we are led to believe that this is the end of the day, not the start of one). I would say that its increased prominence was to do with the camera angle, which now pans out to include a wide shot of the bandstand, but we also hear a subtle quieting of the birdsong as we get to the end of the scene. Given the use of birdsong for individual birds being used for subtext in this series, Iâm sure there must be some meaning to this as it certainly doesnât feel accidental. According to the RSPB, âthe dawn chorus is the symphony of song performed by birds looking for love, and to defend their patchâ, which would feel rather fitting for the end of this scene â the screaming of the birds representing Aziraphaleâs inner turmoil that he has just pushed away the one person he wanted most to protect, but feeling as if this was his only option. Or maybe Iâm full of shit, and the birds were just really loud the day of shooting.
Thereâs one remaining scene in this episode, but I couldnât find anything outside of the given narrative of interest, so letâs just say that we end this episode finding out that Adam is really coming into his powers, though it should be obvious to us that heâs not exactly using them to carry out the devilish deeds that we might expect to see from the Son of Satan.
Well there we are. Did you enjoy that? I have to say, I didnât. I started this part of the write up with a disclaimer that I find the âbreak-upâ scene very hard to watch, and it did not get any easier going over it in minute detail. I suspect I will need some sort of food or alcohol comfort to get me through the Final 15 when I get there, but for now Iâm safe right? Itâs not like thereâs any immediate angst coming my way in the next episode, right?
Ah bollocks. Oh well, I guess Iâll see you on the other side of that one. As usual, comments, questions, discussion, all welcome!
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This makes my heart happy
Starry night
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â°â˘Do not send to Neil Gaimanâ˘Â°â
I personally think that Aziraphale's way of saying 'I love you' is by saying, 'I forgive you.'
Looking back at the bandstand scene we have Crowley saying:
Crowley: "Great, pustulent, mangled bollocks to the great blasted plan!"
Aziraphale: "May you be forgiven."
Crowley: "I won't be forgiven. Not ever. That's part of a demon's job description. Unforgivable, that's what I am."
And from that point on, Aziraphale doesn't say 'may you be forgiven,' or 'God forgive you,' he says, 'I forgive you.'
It's as if he's saying, 'You're forgivable to me. If God, heaven, hell, all the angels and demons don't forgive you, I do. You are forgivable to me.'
To me, it's like this:
Crowley: "I won't be [loved]. Not ever. That's part of a demon's job description. [Unloveable] that's what I am.
Aziraphale: I [love] you.
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Hard Times
Itâs March, time for my homage to episode 3. I know there was so much else to choose but what harder time than this was there in season 1? đ
I really wanted to do a lot with this but life happened so I had to scale it back. But I still like it. Even though it hurts. đ˘
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the good omens mascot: you broke me
i watched ep 1 2 and 3 of S1 on stream with you guys and fuck me
okay so i know i said that i would sleep and then come on tumblr but i just have so many emotions so i decided to make a post then sleep my head hurts from three hours of having my eyes ROOTED to the screen it didnt feel like three hours my eyes hurt from tears my heart hurts from sadness it's nearly 2 am im delirious and my orange was gaseous (anyone on the stream will know)
im just so sad crowley the bandstand no crowley dont cry i swear he loves you i swear i see it in his eyes he literally stumbles every time you look at him which is always god you're both so in love this is sickening this is beautiful ow my head hurts i didnt even follow the plotline i could just feel emotions from the looks NO THE BANDSTAND NO AND THE CASE OF BOOKS STFU CROWLEY DONT DO THIS TO ME AZIRAPHALE STOP BEING SO SOFT MY HEAD HURTS
HORRIBLE PARENTING, GOOD OMENS FANDOM, YOU ADOPTED ME AND KILLED ME 24 HOURS LATER
I am going to go sleep and dream about crowley and aziraphale being heartbroken and then i will RUIN all of your lives on this hellsite tomorrow
i love you stupid fuckers im so emotional goodnight - asmi
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A helpful summary of the bandstand scene from s1e3! The underlying parallels with the last scene of s2e6 are really incredible... Between the bandstand scene and the s1e1 conversation about what to do about Gabriel/Jim, we should have totally seen the s2 ending coming đ
Good Omens: Can we talk about the Bandstand Scene?
The Bandstand Scene is AMAZING for so many reasons - let me count the ways - walk with me step by step here (hold on to your heart)âŚ
(Look, for a start, itâs in Ep 3 after that huge history binge showing their friendship throughout millennia, how can you not look nine fathoms deep into this emotional dumpster fire?)
Crowley is waiting for Aziraphale. (Isnât he always?) Aziraphale looks over his shoulder as he arrives, nervous of Heavenâs censure. Crowley is open, Aziraphale dissembles to his best friend about one of the most important things in the universe - heâs not happy about doing so - but Crowley believes him immediately. Which says rather a lot about both of them.
Crowley then blasphemes against The Plan and Aziraphale is terrified by it. âMay you be forgiven,â he utters like a blessing. At the same time, Aziraphale doesnât have the freedom to cuss out the Almightyâs plans but rather wishes he did.
âI wonât be forgiven - not ever⌠Unforgivable. Thatâs what I amâŚâ Usually, itâs Aziraphale reminding Crowley heâs a demon. This is, I think, the one time it goes the other way around. And immediately, Aziraphale is thinking of the inherent goodness in Crowley (you were an angel once!), as if trying to negate an insult.
âIf you kill him then the world gets a reprieve and heaven does not have blood on its handsâŚâ Once again Crowley has more self-control than I do because in the face of that horrorshow of a sentence Iâd want to stab something. (Probably me, but still.)
That discussion on killing - Aziraphale is so certain that itâs within Hellâs remit, where as Crowley has had all of history to see itâs mostly just Humanityâs remit apart from once or twice when God had a hand in it. (Which definitely included killing innocents. Holi-ly. No wonder heâs bitter.)
âThis is ridiculous - you are ridiculousâŚâ Crowley has finally had enough of Aziraphale following party dogma despite not believing in it. He loves Aziraphale, his best friend, but canât stand his hypocrisy in the face of Armageddon  - theyâre wasting time.
âYou canât leave Crowley! âŚThere isnât anywhere to goâŚâ Foolish angel, still unable to admit his feelings. And straight after this with barely a beat, Crowley suggests running away together. âTogether?â asks Aziraphale with such longing and then immediately pushes that feeling away, trying to play the part of Heavenâs Good Little Soldier.
âHow long have we been friends - 6 thousand years!â Crowley presses. (Meaning Crowley loved him from the start, idiot snekâŚ)
âWeâre not friends ⌠I donât even like you!â His face betrays him of course, as does his tone, still desperately quoting party propaganda.
Most friends would be furious, Crowley just rolls his eyes at the falsehoods. âYou do!â he admonishes sounding certain - although I wonder what that cost him?
Then a few moments later, âWeâre on opposite sides!â
âWeâre on OUR side!â And Crowley doesnât hisss but he advances with all the threat of a snake looking to strike.
âItâs over.â Aziraphale looks sick and almost surprised at the words coming out of his mouth.
And Crowley is so damn still, bleeding from a soul-wound he canât acknowledge. âRight,â he says at last, like itâs nothing. He has his pride.
Aziraphale turns away trying not to cry because it shouldnât hurt him to cast out Edenâs Serpent but it does, deeply.
Crowley has replaced his mask and adopted his swagger once more - âHave a nice doomsday,â he says like most would say âfuck youâ, but he canât, even now he canât hate his angel.
And Aziraphale watches him go, rooted to the spot by heavenâs hypocrisy and his own feelingsâŚ
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Part of a video I'm working on. You guys seemed to enjoy the sketch version, I figured you may like where it's located!
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The way he tries to keep Aziraphale from breaking eye contact đđđ
#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#a/c#ineffable partners#the bandstand breakup
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Good Omens Scavenger Hunt in London
Something's up again! Shax visited the Bandstand today to deliver Crowley's mail.
But Crowley was nowhere to be found and so she left the mail behind one of the benches around the Bandstand - together with some amazing art from @drimmsydra and @fuzzywhispersbear !
To find all the treasures, look for an angel among the bench plaques.
Please reblog this post so that it reaches as many fans as possible â¤ď¸
Love you all!
#good omens#good omens fandom#gomens#scavenger hunt#theineffablescavengerhunt#crowley#aziraphale#aziraphale and crowley#ineffable husbands#good omens season 2#michael sheen#good omens 2#david tennant#fandom#shax#crowley's mail#hell delivery service#the bandstand#battersea park#london#TIC#the ineffable con#tic5
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Rewatching The Pain â Aziraphale so clearly doesnât want to go back to Heaven. He refuses the Metatron point blank. He doesnât waver until he tells him he can bring Crowley; he can make Crowley safe. (And Earth! All the people! But Aziraphale doesnât ask for any details on that! He wants to know what they can do for Crowley.)
And then when Crowley wonât go, Aziraphale comes within half a stammer of refusing to go too. And it makes me remember that Crowley immediately abandoning his plan of running to Alpha Centauri once he thought Aziraphale was dead. He didnât care about saving his own skin. They donât really want to leave Earth, either of them; but they very, very badly want to keep each other safe.
#which makes me wonder if weâre going to see Aziraphale popping in every three days or so#to try and get Crowley to reconsider#the same as Crowley shows up panicking in the Bentley trying to get Aziraphale to run away a second time#immediately after the bandstand#they wonât be okay till they know the other is okay#good omens#good omens 2
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look, you can argue that in season 1 they both had a plan, but let's be real hereâthey both SUCKED. then again, at least one would have worked and it's not aziraphale's.
crowley looked at that gigantic, inevitable mess and went "no child = no apocalypse, gotta kill him unfortunately". would have worked.
meanwhile aziraphale did the equivalent of staring at a burning building and then going "let me call my boss" instead of the fucking fire brigade.
they're both so smart but trauma makes you stupid sometimes.
#alex talks good omens#good omens#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale#good omens season 2#go2#aziracrow#crowley x aziraphale#ineffable divorce#the final fifteen#at some point i really need to examine the bandstand conversation about killing the antichrist#with the job flashback in mind#because aziraphale and his 'no blood on their hands' was alreadyâexcuse my languageâfucking stupid and false#but after JOB??? girl god was gonna nuke a family to win a bet#having hell do the dirty work doesn't change that they gave the command
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Never in my life did I think would have such a visceral reaction to bandstands.
#if you know you know#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#good omens 2#aziracrow lasts forever#good omens fandom#the bandstand
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