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Title: Juliet Immortal
Author: Stacey Jay
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2011
Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, paranormal, retelling, supernatural
Blurb: Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most: her new husband, Romeo Montague, who made the sacrifice to ensure his own immortality. But Romeo didn't anticipate that Juliet would be granted eternal life as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For seven hundred years, Juliet has struggled to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent, while Romeo has fought for the dark side, seeking to destroy the human heart...until now. Now, Juliet has found her own forbidden love, and Romeo will do everything in his power to destroy their happiness.
#juliet immortal#romeo redeemed#stacey jay#series#2011#fiction#fantasy#romance#paranormal#retelling#supernatural
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@boar-zine preview of farmer diluc and my sweet Juliet napping
#little juliet passed away last winter#i just wanted to immortalize her in a painting because she was so sweet#pls consider preordering the zine when it becomes available to see the whole piece!#and the many other beautiful illustrations!#GI_BOARZINE#diluc#my art#genshin impact#genshin#diluc ragnvindr#diluc fanart
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I know that they would probably be hesitant to do it, but I'd love for sfth to do a skit based on Chinese mythology.
#shoot from the hip#this is partially because I'm chinese#but mainly because chinese mythology is UNHINGED#so y'all know chang'e? the goddess of the moon with the rabbit?#yeah well she got onto the moon because her husband saved the earth from being burned alive by 10 suns#and god was so pleased that they gifted him an immortality elixir#but then the husband became corrupt#so to save the people chang'e drank the entire potion herself#which made her float to the moon for some reason??#anyways it's got that classic sfth unhinged-ness that we know and love#and I think it'd be hilarious if we saw a sfth rendition of this exact legend#similar to caesar and juliet
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Oh Romeo Romeo, perché sei tu Romeo?
(Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?)
#mysterious lotus casebook#li lianhua#li xiangyi#cdrama#mlc#cheng yi#chinese drama#go to the mountains and sea#new year eve#new year#cheng is is so Juliet coded here#my princess#deep lurk#immortal samsara#love and redemption#the lost tomb 2#south wind knows
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obviously I know modern language changes what Shakespeare meant 400 years ago but Lady Capulet greeting Juliet with “what, are you busy, ho?” is taking me out. sounds more like something Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way would say tbh
#romeo and juliet#my immortal#william shakespeare#books#reading#v speaks#bookblr#act 4 scene 3 for those curious
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Female Crush Friday! Clawed Beauty aka Cat Lynn! Whether she's covered in black clothing head to toe, or dressed up as a rainbow, she's the ultimate scene queen of Tik Tok, and only PLUR (Peace Love Unity Respect) is allowed in her castle!
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#emo scene#cat#beautiful#porcelain and the tramps#avril lavigne#evanescence#my immortal#wake me up inside#so long and goodnight#3oh!3#set it off#plushies#my little pony#oli sykes#never shout never#three cheers for sweet revenge#on the bright side#hot topic#boba tea#myspace#limewire#ipod nano#mental health#its ok to not be ok#this is gospel#check yes juliet#fueled by ramen#paramore decode#makeup#king for a day
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I really really wish these last seasons of lost were gripping me like the first three did. there's interesting shit going on but I just find myself not caring about any of it. I'll finish it eventually but fuck it's a slog at the moment.
#like the time travel is cool#but the intrigue of it was over so quickly and we're not really striving for anything now#like what is the goal. what are we doing.#and i couldnt care less about the new people. or juliet being a mainstay tbh#EXCEPT faraday i like him a lot :)#faraday is exempt from all of my criticisms always. i fuck with him#but yeah everyone has gotten really boringggg to me.#like there's no growth. and kate as a mom is so jarring to me.#like oohh hurley's crazy jack's a manipulative alcoholic sayid's a hired killer#these have been true since season 1#where is the growth. the change. the spark. the mystery. the chase.#anyway. im on s5 e3 and it's really dragging#richard being like. immortal or whatever is interesting though.#I'll give it that#lost#lost 2004#jennie watches lost
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tag dump auuugh auuug auaughhh
#✰ * ˖ your alter for worship › txt.#✰ * ˖ moon dust in your lungs › inbox.#✰ * ˖ a brutal thing made of flowers › vent.#✰ * ˖ is there a part of you that is more real than the others › memories.#✰ * ˖ the moon will sing › song lyrics.#✰ * ˖ love like you › my mate.#✰ * ˖ hello my old heart › fictional others.#✰ * ˖ clever as the devil › id: fox spirit.#✰ * ˖ never run from anything immortal › id: unicorn.#✰ * ˖ meet me in the woods › id: cat.#✰ * ˖ how rare and beautiful it is that we exist › id: celestial deity.#✰ * ˖ the guardian › id: ellie.#✰ * ˖ i don't belong to anyone › id: lolbit.#✰ * ˖ she swallowed burning coals › id: jacket.#✰ * ˖ in my restless dreams › id: heather.#✰ * ˖ i hope you know i pack a chainsaw › id: juliet.#✰ * ˖ welcome to the club › id: vinyl scratch.#✰ * ˖ try to do the right thing › id: arthur.
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The Mortal Immortal
I kind of want there to be more to this story than there is. It’s just kind of light considering it comes from the author of Frankenstein and that the opening is so reference heavy. (Wiki-wormhole did cause me to uncover that Lefanu’s Great Grandmother wrote weird/fantastic fiction. See: The History of Nourjahad ).
Still the ending tension between wanting to and not wanting too die does raise it above just escapist fare.
Am left with two questions though:
When does the it would be terrible to live foreveer thing first emerge as a trope?
And what kind of a name in Winzy?
#the mortal immortal#mary shelley is a bad ass#reader report#that's the engraving that accompanied the original publication#itself based on a painting depicting or at least named after romeo and juliet with the nurse
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- Romeo Redeemed
#books#booklr#book quotes#book recommendations#love quotes#romeo and juliet#except it’s not Juliet because romeo decided to trick her into killing herself#and now they’re both immortal and magical#and enemies
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i feel like no one aside from the reader truly understands how insanely loving percabeth is
the amount of trust and knowledge they have of eachother
they’re truly obsessed
annabeth
gave up immortality from artemis
searched for percy for 2 weeks when he exploded in the volcano
took a poison dagger for him
punched his bully in the face
gave up immortality on circe’s island
searched for him for 6+ months and regularly checked on his family while he was gone
percy
gave up immortality on calypso’s island
hijacked a quest so he could go find her instead of just waiting like everyone else
stood infront of her multiple times to keep her safe
gave up immortality and a place in olympus by the gods
searched and only thought of her when he was on the run for 2 months and she was the only one he remembered
grabbed and fell into tartarus for/with her
and this is just stuff i thought of off the top of my head
like OBSESSED there isn’t a world where they aren’t together and they truly are like romeo and juliet taking bullets for eachother they simply just refuse to die
also idk why but i keep seeing ppl talking abt if annabeth had fallen into tartarus without percy and i genuinely don’t think there’s a universe where he would’ve allowed that to happen and he would’ve gone ape shit fighting whoever to jump down that hole to go with her
same with annabeth but i think it would’ve been easier for them to like chain her to the argo in comparison to percy but she would’ve actually hurt people trying to help him
#god i love them#please add more if you have any#hoo#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo#heros of olympus#hoo fandom#pjo fandom#hoo text post#pjo text post#hoo/pjo#percabeth#pjo annabeth#annabeth chase and percy jackson#annabeth and percy#annabeth chase
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Teacher’s Pet (p2)
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Player 001 x reader [SMUT] 📖
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Part 1
Note: reader is 18, senior in high school. We do not promote underage sex on this page.
Texts: you’re pink, he’s blue
In Ho pulled up to his own apartment. Looking over to the seat you once sat in. Now, empty, nothing but the ghost of you there. He could see you in his mind, when he closed his eyes. Your smile, your kind gaze, your hair flowing around in the wind from the open window. He looked down to his soiled pants. The idea of you so overwhelming he just had to cum.
“I’m so gross” he said aloud. Fallen? For my student? How cliche. He thought to himself as he exited his car. Really In Ho, how more bookish could you be? He let out a sigh as he started to grab some trash from the floor as he did every Friday. Blue ink catching his eye, hand writing that wasn’t his.
“That girl” he smiled and shook his head, stuffing it into his pocket. Tossing the trash and grabbing his items, walking up the stairs.
Hours later he sat watching TV and grading papers. Your number teasing his eyes as he begged himself not to dive down into this rabbit hole. To not dive head first into you. Trouble at every step.
‘Hey, I think you meant to leave your number for someone else’ he wrote in the message bar. Your phone dinged as you laid lazily in bed, listening to music. You smiled as you rolled over to see a text.
‘No… I wouldn’t leave my number around for just anyone’ you type back.
‘How do you know I’m not a dangerous man?’ The messenger wrote back. You were into this mysterious facade he was putting on. He smiled on the other end, daring himself to continue.
‘Dangerous? The face of danger weeps when it senses my presence…’
‘A beautiful girl as you? I can bet you are indeed a presence to be bowed upon setting sights on. William Shakespeare writes about beauties such as you, I never believe he could possibly be telling the truth. But yet, I stood in from of my Juliet and dared to the a rose in her direction’ he wrote back. He cringed at his own writing. Too strong. I should’ve been light and fun. He face palmed, I’m so stupid.
You smiled at the message, saving it in your memory forever. A squeal escaping your lips. ‘Then do I dare call you Romeo? Or shall you be my Gomez and I be your Morticia’ you were practically drooling now.
His own mouth hung open in a smile. Your response lightening his heart. ‘We shall be whoever you’d like us to be as long I call myself yours and you as mine’ he replied. His heart palpitated with every word of yours he read. He eagerly awaited your response, he was desperate to, would you have me? Can I be yours? He begged to question. ‘Then Gomez and Morticia we shall be. Death got to Romeo and Juliet too early and I believe we deserve something more immortal’
Your heart jumped in your chest. He was asking to be yours, he wanted you as his. Though, it could be just romantical literature talk, nothing. You shrugged, nonetheless, the man you had been desiring since the beginning of Sophomore year was texting you.
He stared at your text. Immortal love he repeated a million times over in his head. ‘I’d love to invite you out but I am afraid we cannot be too public. Though, if I could brandish you proudly, I would.’ Your heart dropped as the solid reality hit you. You couldn’t be go out socially. ‘I don’t mind the idea of private loving, takeout and movie dates are cheaper anyway’ you said.
‘Private loving? Hmm sounds… scandalous’ he typed. ‘Dare I ask what that includes’ he said. Your heart fluttered at the text. ‘It includes you, me, and a bedroom’ you tossed your phone across the bed. Eyes wide at your own words. He was definitely gonna cut you off. Back to just being a student helplessly in love with a man you couldn’t have.
He stared at your text, his own eyes wide and glassy. His cock hardening in his pants. Sex. Love making. Fucking, you. His body on overdrive. He called you. Your phone rang, his contact name on the screen, you shook as you picked it up.
“H-hello” you say into the receiving end.
“(Y/n)” he spoke softly. “The way you have my cock straining in my pants is insane” he said breathlessly. Your stomach dropped at his words, butterflies erupted in your pussy immediately heating up and salivating over the idea of his dick.
“I’m sorry” was all you could force out.
“No. Don’t be.” In Ho responded, pulling himself out.
“If it’s any consolation, I’m throbbing for you” you say as you snake your hand down into your shorts. Rubbing circles on your clit.
“Are you really?” He said in almost a groan. His cock dripping with precum, his stomach fluttering with excitement. He stroke himself slowly. The forbidden ideas of you wrapped around him and begging for him to move faster playing in his mind.
“I really am… when would we be able to hang out?” You ask. Entering a finger inside your pussy slowly. Holding back a moan as you did. Imagining his cock inside you as he spoke,
“We can hang out whenever… tonight, tomorrow, whenever you’d like. It’s not a problem.” He said, trying to sound as normal as possible as his hand made fast work on his cock. “We can stay at my apartment, or your house. I’d be more than happy getting you a hotel”
“We can really do whenever. My house is always empty, my mom’s always working or cheating on my dad with her athletic trainer, and my dad is doing the same but with some secretary from his job. They seldomly come home” you responded. You were two fingers deep and arching into your own touch, pressing expertly on your g-spot as you fucked yourself.
“Oh that’s-“ he paused to breathe. His cock pulsating in his hand, his orgasm threatening to explode from his cock. “That’s terrible”
“Not for us” you say slyly. Your walls began contracting around your fingers. “Hey, Mr. Hwang?”
“Call me In Ho” he replied. Holding his breath as his heart sobbed to hear you say his name.
“In Ho… I should tell you now,” you began to say. “I’m a virgin” an audible groan left him. Your eyes widening at the realization that he was masturbating. The delicious idea making you impossibly wetter.
“I’ll be gentle, (y/n). I promise” he spoke. A small moan escaped your lips and made it to his ears. A wide grin spread across his face. “(Y/n), are you… playing with yourself?” Your breath hitched in your throat at the question.
“Y-y-yes” you say quietly. “A-are you?”
“Please don’t be scared to moan for me. You’ll make me finish” he said. He was already on the brink of exploding. He ran a finger over his tip, a deep inhale at the feeling.
Your heart was beating at twice its pace. Your bpm well over normal rate. You fucked yourself, letting your small moans escape your lips. His cock ached to be relieved.
“You sound so beautiful” he told you. “Will you cum for me, (y/n)?” He asked. You let out a strained and quiet yes. Confirmation that you were close. “I need to hear you say it, please” he begged.
“I’m going to cum for you.” You respond your head thrown back, moans and squeaks escaped from your lips as you did. You listened to his groans. The sound of his voice filling the quiet void of your room.
“Oh god” he grunted. Laying his head back on the couch as he moved faster. “I’m gonna cum, (y/n)” You were panting like a dog in heat, your orgasm was just a few pulls away.
“M-m-me t-too” you said in strained breathes. Your whimpering filling his ears.
“Cum for me. Cum for me, pretty girl” he coaxed. “Be a good girl” you let out a string of moans as you released on your hand, grinding your hips up to seek more friction. He pushed his orgasm through, finally allowing himself to cum. His cum spurted out in thick strands on his shirt. Little flecks hit his face. You laid in bed as you came down from your high.
“Date tomorrow?” You asked suddenly, basking in the afterglow
“Thai takeout and movies?” He asks as he basked in the last moment. Your moans replaying over again.
“Scary movies.” You say quizzically.
“Of course” he smiled. “You are a girl after my own heart. I have all the scary movies you can think of on disc” he said proudly.
“Even the Halloween series?”
“How could I not?” He chuckled. You guys talked for hours.
“I’m going to shower” you told him. “I can keep you on the phone or I can call you back?” You say unsure.
“Either is fine” he replies, hoping you would keep him on the phone.
“I’ll just keep you on the phone” you say.
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Dark Academia Names For Writers + Includes FREE PDF DOWNLOAD
I previously made a post about this, but I felt compelled to share again. I've created a free PDF that’s available on my Gumroad, which features a list of over 75 names, both male and female. It’s a little guide that I hope you can refer to as you develop your characters and worlds. I understand how challenging the naming process can be, and I truly hope this resource brings you a bit of inspiration and ease in your creative journey.
FREE PDF DOWNLOAD:
80 Dark Academia Names | For Writers, Gamers, and Artists
🖤 Dark Academia Names 🖤
Female Names:
Athena - Greek origin, meaning "wisdom"
Beatrice - Latin origin, meaning "she who brings happiness"
Cordelia - Latin origin, meaning "heart"
Daphne - Greek origin, meaning "laurel"
Elowen - Cornish origin, meaning "elm tree"
Felicity - Latin origin, meaning "happiness"
Genevieve - French origin, meaning "tribe woman"
Hermione - Greek origin, meaning "messenger, earthly"
Iris - Greek origin, meaning "rainbow"
Juliet - Latin origin, meaning "youthful"
Lydia - Greek origin, meaning "from Lydia"
Minerva - Roman origin, goddess of wisdom
Niamh - Irish origin, meaning "bright"
Ophelia - Greek origin, meaning "help"
Persephone - Greek origin, meaning "bringer of destruction"
Quilla - Incan origin, meaning "moon goddess"
Rosaline - Latin origin, meaning "beautiful rose"
Sylvia - Latin origin, meaning "from the forest"
Theodora - Greek origin, meaning "gift of God"
Viola - Latin origin, meaning "violet"
Male Names:
Ambrose - Greek origin, meaning "immortal"
Barnaby - Hebrew origin, meaning "son of consolation"
Caspian - Persian origin, meaning "from Caspian Sea"
Dorian - Greek origin, meaning "from Doris"
Ezra - Hebrew origin, meaning "help"
Fitzroy - Norman origin, meaning "son of the king"
Gideon - Hebrew origin, meaning "feller, hewer"
Hugo - Germanic origin, meaning "mind, intellect"
Ichabod - Hebrew origin, meaning "no glory"
Julian - Latin origin, meaning "youthful"
Killian - Irish origin, meaning "bright-headed"
Leander - Greek origin, meaning "lion man"
Magnus - Latin origin, meaning "great"
Nikolai - Greek origin, meaning "victory of the people"
Oscar - Irish origin, meaning "deer lover"
Perseus - Greek origin, meaning "to destroy"
Quentin - Latin origin, meaning "fifth"
Raphael - Hebrew origin, meaning "God has healed"
Silas - Latin origin, meaning "wood" or "forest"
Thaddeus - Aramaic origin, meaning "gift of God"
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80 Dark Academia Names | For Writers, Gamers, and Artists
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Welcome back to Alex's unhinged meta corner, and today I have something surprisingly not kiss-related—though it is still about the final fifteen because hey, gotta keep the brand image.
I read this post by @goodoldfashionednightingale and began typing a small response. Then I made the mistake of drinking half a litre of coffee on an empty stomach right after taking my adhd meds and my brain began vibrating at the speed of light.
But oh, have I discovered parallels. This, my friends, is about the nightingale, where it comes from, what it means, and what the fuck happened in part 3 of 1941.
Ready? Let's go.
Now, as OP said in her post, s1e3 is important. In the script book, Neil himself says that these flashbacks are where the producers would tell him to cut scenes to save money. They suggested every single one—except for the one he ended up taking out, which was the bookshop opening scene set in 1800. The others are building blocks, you need them to see how their relationship progressed and what kind of important milestones they had.
(side note: author is very miffed that english does not have a separate subjunctive form like german which makes quoting lines way more confusing than it has to be)
The one I want to mention is neither 1941 nor 1967. No, what I want to talk about is 1601. This might be about to get a bit rambly but I will do my best to keep it tidy.
The focus of that flashback is on the Arrangement, yes, but it gives us a lot more information than that.
they both see Shakespeare's plays regularly, maybe even meet in the crowd
Crowley prefers the comedies
Aziraphale does not seem to have a preference, he enjoys the tragedies and presumably the comedies too
there is an oyster woman selling food -> reference to their meeting in Rome when Aziraphale tempted him to try some oysters
Aziraphale reflexively denies their relationship
Crowley might say he is not worried but circles Aziraphale the entire time, keeping watch
they both ask favours of each other and both agree to do them
What stands out to me in relation to what I am about to expand on is the line that Crowley delivers after Aziraphale's little 'buck up'—which Crowley finds adorable btw but that's a post for another time.
"Age does not wither nor custom stale his infinite variety."
Why would he say that? What exactly is prompting this? WHY say that specific line?
At first I thought it might be to tempt Shakespeare because he does commit art theft by just copying that line down, BUT I think there is more to that. So much more, in fact. I am wiggling now because I am very excited about this and my adhd meds are kicking in anyway.
First things first: the line itself.
It appears in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, a romantic tragedy, which was first performed in 1607 aka six years after this meeting. Enobarbus is talking about Cleopatra and describing why Antony won't leave her. Her.
Ccrowley uses his—again, who is he even talking about? Hamlet? Shakespeare? Random poetic quote?
No, I think this line is about Aziraphale and it's a code. Right after, the next line from Aziraphale is "What do you want?", meaning that this is their code phrase for 'I have a favour to ask of you'.
Age does not wither nor custom stale his infinite variety
Age will not affect his appearance nor will he ever become boring to Antony. Crowley, who later chooses the name Anthony for himself, tells Aziraphale, an immortal, that he will never age and that he will never grow bored of him.
It's flattery, pure and simple, and it's code at the same time. This establishes the important fact that they might use more of Shakespeare's work as code/already have a system in place (even though he steals Crowley's line for later).
They play their little morality game of back and forth, Aziraphale agrees, Crowley probably manipulates the coin toss, and THEN we find out that the oyster woman is called Juliet.
Why? What is the meaning of that? Why give her a name and that name in particular? Why bring the sexy oysters back into it?
Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1597, so it is safe to assume they have both seen it by 1601, but this is mostly for the audience, not for us-or is it?
Aziraphale gives Crowley puppy eyes until he agrees to make Hamlet popular, and while I don't think Juliet itself is a code word, although it's very interesting that the OYSTER woman is the one with that name (especially adding what we now know about Job), Romeo and Juliet might be.
Yes, the Nightingale song came out in 1940 but the bird has been around for much, much longer, and, as many probably know by now, also shows up in Romeo and Juliet.
This is where I am starting to vibrate at the speed of light because listen to me. Listen.
Crowley is Juliet. Anthony J. Crowley. Antony Juliet Crowley.
(side note: I'm not saying that Crowley chose it based on that—though I am not not saying that—but that it is a clue for us at the audience.)
Why do I think that? In the play, Romeo spends the night with Juliet and then goes to leave as the night begins to end. Juliet tries to stop him and tells him that the birds they are hearing aren't larks, which sing at dawn, but nightingales, which sing at night.
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Who is the one always pushing for more? Crowley. He is the one trying to convince Aziraphale it's safe, they're safe to spend time together.
Romeo disagrees with Juliet and says 'I must be gone and live, or stay and die'.
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Leave and stay alive, or stay and hell/heaven will punish us. It gets even better though.
We all know how Romeo and Juliet ends: Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, kills himself, Juliet finds him and then kills herself too.
Hey, do you know how Antony and Cleopatra ends?
Antony thinks Cleopatra is dead, kills himself and dies in her arms, then Cleopatra also kills herself—by snake poison; Romeo also died by poison.
The parallels are THERE. They are jumping down our throats! Two tragedies, two sides, several familiar names and phrases, same fear, same ending.
I think by now you can guess how this ties back to 1941.
We do not see how that night ends, but we know it ends. One of them wants to stretch it out, maybe even quotes Romeo and Juliet because look at the setting!
Candlelight, wonderful night they spend together, the threat of Crowley's early demise, and, to quote the play once more, this time Romeo: I have more care to stay than will to go.
Crowley thought it was his last night on earth and went with Aziraphale to his bookshop, to be with him, because he cares more about that than the fact that he will be dragged to hell come morning. Do you remember?
"Expect a legion to come for you first thing tomorrow" THAT is the threat. They have until dawn, just like Romeo and Juliet, which is why she is so desperate for the birds to be nightingales. Fortunately for them, Aziraphale saves the day, BUT there is NO SECURITY. They do not KNOW if a legion will still show up or not. If dawn is a deadline and they will need to fight.
Sure, they improved their chances, but who knows? Maybe they will come for him anyway, it's not like hell is all fair and square.
The best part: it gets even better.
Juliet eventually panics and tells him to go, and Romeo drops a line that huh, sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it?
'More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!'
Remind me, what does Aziraphale say again? Ah, yes. Perhaps there is something to be said for shades of grey.
There is more. Yes, even more. We know the whole rescue relies on a magic trick, a switch. Guess what Juliet yearns for while telling Romeo to go save himself?
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Oh, now I would they had changed voices too. While they did not for Romeo and Juliet—they kiss and part—they did for our two. One fabulous switch and we're good.
(side note: Toads? Associated with hell. Larks? Associated with the dawn, yes, but also heaven since Romeo says 'Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat the vaulty heaven so high above our heads.')
So, this was a whole lot of information, let's see if I can summarize my thoughts.
I believe the nightingale is a code word that has existed even before 1941 and gained a lot of importance over the years. In 1941, the song is added to the meaning and whatever happened between the two that we have not seen yet, it fundamentally changed their relationship. Maybe they kissed, maybe one of them tried to convince the other to prolong the night but they parted on not-great terms.
The nightingale and the song become a symbol of hope, a goal to achieve, another uninterrupted night, maybe, or an uninterrupted life.
When they part in the final fifteen, it's morning. Crowley points at the sky and says "no nightingales", which at that point has several different layers to it.
No nightingales because their night is over, just like with Romeo and Juliet, and please, please allow me to add another detail, because I am frothing at the mouth over this. The scene I quoted, known as balcony scene, do you know what it is preceded by?
A ball.
Star-crossed lovers defying their sides, falling in love at a ball, getting a hurried, wonderful night together but torn apart by danger of punishment, the nightingale as a dream, as a wish for unhurried time together. Family rejection, torn apart by parents, willing to die for each other so they can reunite in death.
No nightingales. The ball, the romance, is over, their dancing is over, heaven is tearing them apart, and Aziraphale returns to heaven while they are both stuck in a pit of misunderstanding and miscommunication, all bound together by fear for each other.
The thing is, Crowley hates tragedies, he never liked the "gloomy ones", and he does not want them to end in one—luckily, this isn't the end. Yes, they kiss and part, but the play keeps going. We have an entire act 3 to fix what Romeo and Juliet couldn't, to ensure that this is a COMEDY, not a tragedy.
Both Antony & Cleopatra and Romeo & Juliet died out of fear, hurried into making bad decisions because they knew what would happen if their sides were to catch up with them.
Crowley and Aziraphale can reunite heaven and hell with love, not death. This is THEIR story and they are writing the ending. No more day and night, no more deadlines, no more hiding and sneaking about, no more fear of larks and sunshine.
Good Omens will end the way it began: In a garden with two no-longer-star-crossed lovers embracing the song of a lark as well as that of the nightingale.
I hope this made sense to everyone who was no present while my mind started to vibrate itself into a puddle because the thing is I can see Neil doing all of this completely on purpose.
Thoughts? Questions? Additions? Come and join me in my insanity and until next time I have a mental breakdown over this show (probably in like two hours).
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(Sorry I had to shorten some quotes)
From: Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy A Tale Of Two Cities-Charles Dickens Moby Dick-Herman Melville Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen War Of The Worlds-H.G. Wells The Iliad-Homer The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fritzgerald The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri Romeo & Juliet-William Shakespeare My Immortal-Tara Gilesbie
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How immortal-core of them to test weapons on each other....and Bad killed Foolish...again....
He's now down to one life and suggested Landduo go out Romeo and Juliet style and leap off a cliff together...so y'know...🏳️🌈
He then wrote this will lol
Stream date is December 21 2024
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