#the bandstand breakup

[brainwormcity]

The way he tries to keep Aziraphale from breaking eye contact 😭😭😭

[tsuntsunfangirl]

"--even if i knew where the antichrist was, i wouldn't tell you! we're on opposite sides!"

"we're on our side!!!!"

im going to scream.

crowley has always seen it that way -- him and aziraphale. they've always been apart from heaven and hell. they're their own unit. and that's how he always wanted it to be.

*sobbing*

[dalliancekay]

"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.

[gretchenzellerbarnes]

can't believe ineffable bureaucracy and ineffable husbands went canon in the same episode. what a time to be alive

[unidentifiedlyingobject]

You can't leave Crowley!

...there isn't anywhere to go

We've tried so hard to get away from them but after all this time if there's one thing that we should have learned by now it's that there's no true escape, it's just you and me and this broken and dying planet and soon we won't even have that, our Earth, our beloved Earth that represents everything human about us and trying to escape from our supernatural existences, soon we won't even have our Earth, they took everything from us. many times, almost each other.

It's not just that I don't want you to leave, but also

...there isn't anywhere to go

[sunnysaystuff]

proud aziraphale apologist

he's always been scared

the whole time, through everything, he's been scared.

why oh why does he have to be so scared

(rhetorical question)

[tooteadoo]

Something bad is 'bout to happen to me I don't know it, but I feel it coming

Might be so sad, might leave my nose running I just hope she don't wanna leave me

[shipaholic]

Yeah, I think I’m ready to call this: Crowley and Aziraphale start S2 having drifted apart and/or fought between S1 and now. That’s why there aren’t any promo clips of the two of them - it would give away that their relationship has cooled.

Evidence:

1. Aziraphale’s snippy “I can see that” in the trailer. It’s funny, but it’s also the bitchiest he’s ever sounded talking to Crowley.

2. Crowley saying “We can do it together” and Aziraphale's surprised response, as if the idea of doing something ‘together’ is out of left field.

3. Crowley seems to have been living in his car for a while - long enough for Shax to know about it. Aziraphale either doesn’t know, or is letting the situation continue even though he has the means to stop it.

4. Crowley is hanging out in St. James’s Park without Aziraphale, and with another demon. Since when has Crowley had other friends? Didn’t every demon in Hell show up to watch him get horribly dissolved in holy water? Why is he this desperate for company? It could just be business, but Shax knows that his current address is “the Bentley”. That’s personal information.

5. (Speculative) S2 is, we hope, going to be the middle season of three. Act 2 is where the problems and complications fall, between Act 1′s set-up and Act 3′s resolution. Also, Neil has said S2 is a bit less plot-heavy compared to S1 and S3, which makes it a good place to put all the interpersonal and romantic angst, without an apocalypse taking centre stage.

6. (Speculative) One of the few, only things we know about Terry and Neil’s planned sequel that never was, is that Crowley and Aziraphale end up sharing a home in the South Downs. It makes sense that the TV season designed to bridge the gap between Good Omens the novel, and what would have been its sequel, would feature a plotline about their living arrangements, and whether they should live together.

[fellshish]

We should dress up as crowley and aziraphale more often out there in the wild. In bookshops. On the streets. In the park. In the breakup bandstand

[purplewillowchicken]

Can't escape Good Omens even on holiday on an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

Round a corner, see a bandstand, think, "Have a nice Doomsday!"

And of course all of you lovely, crazy people are here with me inside my phone. Xxx

Another little thing that made me smile

[quoththemaiden]

I posted earlier wondering what the Japanese dub of Good Omens would do with Crowley's insistence on "our side," and it turns out it's a parallel to a fantastically-translated scene in the previous episode.

In English, it's "We're on our side."

In Japanese, it's "Ore-tachi wa ore-tachi da!"

"We are us!"

[whatifweallweresquirrels]

Wholesome

A little scavenger hunt for the Good Omens fandom in London

I am visiting London and I did a thing. Because this fandom is the best thing in this world and I love you all.

If you go to the Bandstand (yes, that one) in Battersea Park (see the printscreen), look for 3 benches.

There is a piece of GO-themed artwork hidden behind each one of them.

The artwork is the same on all the benches, so please take just one :)

Have fun! Don't forget to share if you find the art! And if you can, please reblog this post. My reach on tumblr is super small but I would like this to get to the people. Thank you ❤️

[aziraphales-lawyer]

The way Aziraphale looks away in both the Bandstand breakup and the EVERY breakup, not wanting to watch Crowley go — knowing he'll come back, he always comes back, right? That was a step in the dance they've had for millennia.

But Crowley doesn't want to dance anymore. He breaks it. He breaks the dance. He moves aside. He does – tells Aziraphale the one unspoken thing – the reason they dance at all.

[lineffability]

petition to have crowley and aziraphale kiss under the bandstand as a beautiful mirroring of their first breakup, it is raining around them but they are sheltered and safe, together under a canopy, there's no need to protect the other from the rain because the distance between them has been bridged (at last, at last, heart to heart) reblog if u agree

[randomfandomss]

The Bandstand Breakup vs. The Bookshop Divorce

[suzypfonne]

Bandstand! BANDSTAND!

#me