#ineffable divorce

[misscrowleyswingfeather]

YESSS to all of this!!! Whenever I see people hating on Aziraphale’s choice in the final fifteen my first thoughts are either

a) you don’t fundamentally understand her character or

b) you glorify Crowley as some male archetype who can never be wrong. Another thing I sometimes wonder is if we just see Aziraphale as being female-ised because they get hated on so much??? Perhaps there is so much misogynistic media out there, that when we see non-cishet couples and one person is controversial/ disliked in the community, we recognise this as a female trait because of the sexist world around us?

aka maybe Aziraphale is portrayed as wrong and naive, and we associate this with females; rather than Aziraphale just being portrayed as female.

tysm @turquoisedata for adding me, this is exactly what we were ranting about 😂

Aziraphale and the female character treatment

I don't know if anyone wrote a post about this but I see from time to time comments to this end - that Aziraphale is treated like the female characters in films often are, obviously especially romantic films. So I'm gonna try to point how I see this. I welcome further insights of course.

Say we take a basic premise of a romantic film: A girl is wooed by a bad boy for example. And she is a good girl, from a good and righteous, proper family and everything so she refuses his advances. This goes on through his various ploys to entertain and romance her etc and frustrates us as the audience because we can see the bad boy is actually good, her family is oppressive and holding her back and that she (deep down) cares for him (if only she was brave enough to admit it to herself) and so we want her to open her eyes and say she is actually in love with him cos her life will be so much better should she (finally) give in and run away with him.

Familiar? Reasons Aziraphale is not her:

Aziraphale always knew her family is shit. Or at least longer than Crowley did. She was already anxious in Before the Beginning about what she thought Crowley could and could not say without getting into trouble.

She knows Crowley is good. She never doubted him. Whatever he says or does or pretends to do or must do for his job. Aziraphale knows he's good and would always do good if he can.

She knows she's in love - I mean we can argue about when each realised this and also when each realised the other loves them back just as fiercely, but they both know. And they both love. And they both long to be together.

Aziraphale doesn't need to overcome her love for her family/employer and finally make the leap to be with Crowley. They simply can't leave their bosses without punishment. Neither of them. They live in a dictatorship with nowhere to go.

Aziraphale doesn't want to change Crowley. She never did. She asked for Crowley to come to Heaven as an angel because that was THE ONLY option she had for them to be together in any capacity at that point. She didn't bat an eye when he appeared as a demon on the Wall of Eden, she asked for his name and promptly confessed to crossing God's directions.

These kind of film premises are already pointless and make me roll my eyes, but to stick them over Aziraphale and huff cos she doesn't do what the clever sexy man in dark clothes and sunglasses says she should - well that makes me angry.

And so do takes and mischaracterisations that ignore Aziraphale as silly, her worries as pointless, sometimes excessive - maybe she's just hysterical, you know? Takes that always assume Crowley is right, no matter what. Even when he calls Aziraphale an idiot. If Crowley says that, it must be true. No matter that the book spells out in Terry's voice that the angel is extremely clever.

Aziraphale is kind and sweet and giddy and whimsical, she loves magic (that she has absolutely no use for) and wants to do good. That does not make her stupid or naive. She often hides how she truly feels, what she really thinks; always always to protect herself and her beloved. She is often forced to say stuff she doesn't mean. Again. To keep the one she loves and their fragile relationship safe. However, she is fierce when pushed and will defend the defenceless (humans) and the ones she loves (Crowley) to her last breath (whether she needs to breathe is irrelevant right now okay).

She loves her bookshop. She built this home, full of knowledge for herself and her demon and you can take this HC from my cold hands. That she was forced to leave it, only emphasises how little choice she had in Final 15.

Anyway. I love her. And now I really need to sleep so. I'll let this post marinate overnight and we'll see if it needs anything else in the morning.

[meanwhile-at-crowleys-flat]

Today the Bentley was yellow, in spite of all Crowley's threats.

[misscrowleyswingfeather]

when the first hair dye pics of David and Michael come out we better be #1 trending y’all I want the very stars to hear our joyous voices echoing off of hanging pride flags on bedroom walls

[daiwild]

Where did Muriel even find that book

[lindele12]

Bring it back, bring it back, don't take it away from me

Because you don't know what it means to me💔

[twistedeveryway]

This has probably been done but I couldn't find one

[yourangle-yuordevil]

Local goth cryptid goes through a tough breakup 😔

[vidavalor]

Really love Ineffable Divorce from the perspective of the other shopkeepers... to them, one day, some gorgeous guy showed up naked on Mr. Fell's doorstep and a couple of days later, Mr. Fell had disappeared and so had the naked guy... so the whole neighborhood thinks Aziraphale ran off with Gabriel and that's why the bookshop is now being operated by this odd little person hired by its sad and distracted owner-- Mr. Fell's abandoned ginger goth husband with the gorgeous old car. Nothing has been this juicy on the street in decades...

[itdosentsmelllikecacatome]

YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS

More GOOD OMENS

[stinkyeggbow]

I love you,I love you,I love you

[fenja-art]

Aziraphale is handling his role as archangel just fine.

[diavalkitty]

[meanwhile-at-crowleys-flat]

Today Crowley muttered "Let there be light," sardonically as he helped Muriel hang holiday lights around Whickbar Street, and did his best not to accidentally curse Nina as she pointed out ways it should be done instead. But at least she brought him alcohol.

@meanwhile-at-the-bookshop

[crowleys-hips]

[starfruitsomething]

After Neil said that they kept David Tenant in a box on set I couldn't get this image out of my head...

[arlospace]

They're both handling the divorce well