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[itsscottiesstark]

[playablekairi]

why were you digging? what did you bury? before those hands pulled me from the earth

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

finally convincing my sister to watch GO with me and her not paying attention at all because she's literally just watching me grinning hysterically and hugging a pillow to my chest during the Wall Slam

[ankles-be-bitten]

i may have fallen victim to the curse of the Bad Aziraphale Take with this post, so i'd like to right my wrongs:

i still agree with this, however i would like to add some insight: the metatron is definitely orchestrating their falling out. he knows exactly what he's doing & he knows that he can't control aziraphale as long as he has crowley on their side--that's emotional abuse 101. the victim is isolated from their real support systems, and the only place they have left to turn is their abuser. i believe that aziraphale knows what he's doing, and that he's just going along with heaven as far as he can in order to protect his demon, but from the metatron's perspective things have to look like they're going according to plan.

i think... maybe this is only half true? not sure what i was thinking when i wrote this; it was late. whatever.

crowley is an optimist, but he clearly had his doubts about how aziraphale would respond, which is indeed based in reality. aziraphale doesn't have a great track record as far as assuming the best of him in the moment (which, i must add, isn't his fault. it is one of his flaws, however). i think the important thing is that he trusts aziraphale to do the right thing in the end.

i still agree with this. however, i want to acknowledge that i felt this was unfair at the time, but in retrospect i was ignoring aziraphale's dependency on external validation that crowley does not have. crowley is far more independent than aziraphale, and i acknowledged this, but i framed it originally as "crowley has an unfulfilled need," rather than what i now think it really is, which is that AZI has an unfulfilled need.

yeah, there it is. different people, different needs.

as far as it being strange that aziraphale didn't pick up on what crowley needed in that moment right away, i do still feel that way--sort of. i honestly at this point just want to pin it down to him being excited.

whatever you have to say can wait--we have all of eternity to say whatever we want, in complete security. we won't have to hide. we can be together. and he wants so badly to be together. that's literally all he wants. he wasn't even a little interested in returning to heaven until the metatron told him that crowley could tag along. this is manipulation 101, people! the metatron knows, or at least can intuit, that crowley wouldn't want to become an angel again. he knows exactly what he's doing to them. this is not a good faith offer.

most of the rest of that post is me rambling about my interpretation of aziraphale's actions and the reasoning behind them. feel free to read the full take if you'd like, but i don't believe it's necessary to break down the whole thing. it mostly boils down to aziraphale needs to see people as people before he can respond properly to their needs. i may or may not still agree with that, i'm on the fence, but if that is the case, it's 100% because heaven has conditioned him to be that way. you need to earn salvation, you need to earn love, you need to earn humanity.

i originally used job as a counter example, but he may actually be a paragon of this interpretation. if anyone deserves salvation, it was job--righteous job, level-headed job, job who lost everything but never, ever lost faith in the Almighty. if anyone has earned aziraphale's sympathy, it's him.

this is just a wonky take. he does care, or else he wouldn't be making the offer. interrupting crowley might have been selfish in the short-term, but to aziraphale, the long-term result is eternity together unhindered. they will have all the time in the world to be an us if they can only get out from under the watchful, dangerous, probing eye of heaven.

i think i was getting close to the point here, but i was still framing it from the perspective that aziraphale had woefully wronged crowley, and that he's not also a victim of the system here. i was in far less certain terms falling into the "aziraphale is naive" trap, when in reality he just wanted to be safe. as archangel, he can do as he pleases without fear of retribution. he has never, ever felt safe before--not safe to ask questions, not safe to be seen with crowley, not safe to run off to alpha centauri with him. blaming him for prioritizing crowley's safety is more than a little silly.

this is just... the ick. it feels like a whole other person wrote this. i am trying so hard to give myself grace for this absolutely rot-gut take.

yikes. yikes yikes yikes. i'm not sure anymore if crowley has ever expressed a pointed distaste for being an angel again; that may just be misguided on my part. somehow i'm victim-blaming both of them here, while also completely misrepresenting aziraphale's intentions. i'm falling into the "he doesn't love crowley enough/the way he deserves" trap, painting him once again as naive, blind, and selfish. oopsie daisy.

i still believe the kiss was an offer akin to the ox rib, extremely alcoholic breakfasts, what have you. it's possible crowley doesn't feel seen--i might even go so far as to say that that's likely--but not in the way i stated originally. he's heartbroken. he's devastated. he might even feel betrayed. but just because he feels that way doesn't make it the truth, and i think a mistake i've made throughout this particular text is mistaking how aziraphale's actions look from the outside for his actual intentions.

i think this was mostly right up until the part about azi being selfish. he's far from selfish, he's not even close to naive. assuming he made a mistake in the f15 at all, he absolutely knows it now. he will do anything it takes to be with crowley.

at the time of this addendum i think he's made a Plan™ and is trying to convince himself he's made the right choice. all will make sense in the end. or maybe it won't. we'll figure it out--some things take time, and we don't have all the information.

i do believe that about covers it. in summary, they are both victims and treating either of them like they're naive or stupid for making the choices they did is unfair because they're both doing the best they can with the information they have available to them. it's heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and really, really unfortunate. but it's neither of their fault. it's literally all the metatron. if heaven and hell were out of the picture, crowley would've been free to confess and aziraphale free to reciprocate--but that's just not their reality. everything aziraphale does is in order to keep crowley safe, in the interest of us long-term. crowley knows he has a hard time expressing himself, and so he wants to get it out fast, and that's valid; aziraphale having reservations due to safety concerns is just as valid.

it's neither of their fault.

[breezydaysoflife]

#6 for the GO ask game! :)

6. who is your favorite side character?

Gah this one is hard, especially bcs I'm more of a s1 fan then s2(where the side characters really shine), but uh... I'm gonna go with Anathema? I'm pagan so I like her witchiness. Makes me feel seen.

[heyimdove]

hello! I hope you are having a marvelous morning. afternoon, or night, wherever you are at whatever time you happen to see this.

"drinking buddies and diaries" was the first fic I ever read, before I had tumblr or an ao3 account. since then I've read it at least a dozen more times, most recently finished a few moments ago. ao3 has now reported that I've opened it over 250 times, so that says something! when introducing some of my dearest friends to good omens and ao3 in general, this is what I tell them to start with, and everyone has had very similar reactions to myself.

this fic is so marvelous from start to finish, and its undoubtedly one of my favorites I've ever read. muriel is positively adorable, and im a sucker for jealous aziraphale and a crowley who wants both distance and to be as close as possible after the f15. everything about this story has me squealing, and a few scenes where I was on the verge of tears at how cute it was. even the more suspenseful scenes were so beautifully emotional and the entire thing amazingly written. im going to undoubtedly read it many more times, and share it with as many people as I can.

thank you for putting your writing into the world and giving an overworked teen something to look forward to reading at the end of the day! xx

!!!!

I can’t lie to you; I’ve spent the morning wriggling and crawling through a back injury and a justified but still crap attitude.

This message really could not have been sweeter or more appreciated. It means so much to me that people read Drinking Buddies at all, let alone reread it, and then to those who go out of their way to reach on here? Angels. You are an angel (in a Muriel way, not a Michael way, of course).

Thank you for your support and for clearing away my grouchiness with your kindness this morning. ❤️ and for sharing my fic! Truth be told, if I think too much about that, it chokes me up a little bit. I’m very grateful to you.

Ps. It’s easy for me to say “don’t overwork yourself” without knowing what’s going on in your world, so I won’t say that. I’ll just say your rest and relaxation is precious and I hope you never forget how much you deserve it in heaps.

[haemey]

Let's do a pinned post! Wheeee!

So far, everything is Good Omens!

My fics (#haemey wreytes):

The Credo series in order (also see this post):

Credo in unum Deum, patrem omnipotentem, G-rated, slightly angsty, 711 words

Factorem coeli et terrae, G-rated, pensive, 569 words

Visibilium omnium et invisibilium, G-rated, very silly, 5.8k words

Lumen de lumine, G-rated, fluffy, 379 words

Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem Descendit de coelis, G-rated, silly, 2k words

Ex Maria virgine, T-rated for swearing, silly, 1,6k words

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est, M-rated, very angsty and dark, 1,1k words

Et ascendit in coelum, G-rated, slightly angsty, 449 words

Qui sedet ad dexteram patris, G-rated, slightly angsty post F15 poem, POV Aziraphale, 99 words

Exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, T-rated, the dumbest thing I've ever written, 3.2k words

Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen, G-rated, fluffy, 905 words

Standalones:

But the greatest of these is love, G-rated, fluffy and silly, 2,2k words

Nothing has to change, G-rated, hurt no comfort, 1,9k words

Dance me to the end of love, G-rated, pure fluff, 941 words

... had a great Fall, G-rated, sad poem-y thingy I guess, 142 words

My Fanart (#haemey draews):

Bless this mess

Crowley and Aziraphale in evening gowns

The husbands in portrait

Featherless biped I guess (warning: cursed)

[ashstar10]

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Pros

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Cons

Average webcam quality

Slightly Heavy

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Pros

Great performance

Backlight keyboard

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Nice design

Cons

Soft display

one year warranty

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Also read:- Best gaming laptops under 70000 in India (2021)

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Pros

Great Battery life

Good build quality

Fast fingerprint sensor

Cons

Low storage options

A little dull display

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Pros

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Awesome battery life

Impressive gaming performance

Cons

Heavy

Computing task

Single color keyboard backlight

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Also read:- 7 best gaming laptop under 60000

5. MSI GF75 Thin, Intel i5-10500H

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SSDs are up to 30% faster than hard disc drives, resulting in increased performance and faster startup times. More RAM allows more applications to operate at the same time, resulting in a quicker laptop.

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This device includes Cool Boost Technology 5, which includes specialized thermal solutions both for CPU and GPU, as well as up to two fans and seven heat pipes.

Pros

Awesome performance and extremely fast.

Nice sound quality

The laptop weighs just 2.2kg , so its easy to carry.

cool boost etchnology 5

Cons

Touch pad quality could be more better

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[itsscottiesstark]

Can we talk about this for a second?

Do you see his eyes? He hasn't even stepped foot back in Heaven and he's already forming a plan. He's known about The Second Coming for what? 40 seconds?

This is an angel who means business. He's already 15 steps ahead.

And I don't know about you, but this is not an angel I ever want to find myself on the opposite side of. I am honestly shitting my pants just looking at that smile. Metatron, you really dug your grave there.

[itsscottiesstark]

Is it just me that's so traumatized by the final 15 that now every time I read Aziraphale say "Oh, Crowley" in the fondest of ways IT BREAKS MY HEART EVEN THOUGH IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SWEET MOMENT IN THE FIC?

[itsscottiesstark]

Huh. It's been... 10 months. How we doing?

[itsscottiesstark]

On today's episode of ineffable divorce coded songs that are not Hozier:

Would you know my name if I saw you in Heaven?

Would it be the same, if I saw you in Heaven?

I must be strong, and carry on

Cause I know I don't belong here in Heaven

Would you hold my hand if I saw you in Heaven?

Would you help me stand, if I saw you in Heaven?

I'll find my way through night and day,

Cause I know I just can't stay here in Heaven

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees

Time can break your heart, have you begging please

Begging please...

Beyond the door, there's peace I'm sure

And I know there'll be no more tears in Heaven.

[playablekairi]

i am selfish, i am broken, i am cruel

[playablekairi]

and everything you thought you knew will fall apart

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

I don't understand how people are able to look at this face and say that aziraphale hates crowley and only wants to manipulate and control him.

[playablekairi]

we are the greatest pretenders in the cold morning light