#the southern pansy

[laniakea314]

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

[neil-gaiman]

hello mr gaiman! this isn’t a question I just wanted to thank you for good omens and all the joy it has brought me.

I am a very flamboyant and feminine man. I use wild hand gestures, I talk loudly and dramatically, and the way I present myself often gets me a lot of strange looks and ridicule from people. Whenever I see people who look/act like me in media, they are usually treated as the butt of the joke, something hilarious for the audience to laugh at. One of the only characters who isn’t like that is Aziraphale. Aziraphale is dramatic and feminine, but not in a way that is for the audience to laugh at. He is a funny character, but not because of his mannerisms, mostly because of his naïveté and general silliness. He is not the same hurtful stereotype that I’ve been forced to watch again and again. For my whole life I’ve often been treated like this walking circus. I’ve had to hide who I am in order to be taken seriously by most people. It just feels so refreshing to see a character like me be celebrated and loved for his mannerisms. Watching him in season 1 gave me the confidence to be prouder and more true to who I am. Watching season 2 just made me feel even stronger and more confident. He gave me hope that even if everyone is laughing at me right now, someday soon I can be taken seriously.

I know you probably won’t see this, but thank you anyway. This show/book means so much to me and many others. I hope you have a good day :)

I'm so glad. I love him so much, and I know that Michael Sheen loves him too.

[captainfantasticalright]

The 100 Guineas Club: or that discreet gentlemen’s club where Aziraphale learnt the gavotte in.

Or the gay underworld of late Victorian London.

Aziraphale’s guide to dance 101 is here.

[lickthecowhappy]

The Southern Pansy

A sonnet.

So grows the pansy; beauty bathed in light. His countenance pious humility. Sought by tempting ebony wings in flight to rest beside him in tranquility.

So grows the pansy; gazing at the skies from whence his object of desire fell. What suffering for golden yellow eyes, whose essence on those eyes hath cast a spell.

So grows the pansy; symbol now of thought; the ever faithful partner of free will. For life and love he sacrificed and fought. For life and love his heart and eyes cry still. That all creation sees the love he shows, along the garden path the pansy grows.

This one is for @adverbian who makes me want to be a better poet.

Read more of my work here. This poem is also available on AO3.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

for science again what's your favourite description of aziraphale's gender

I'm procrastinating lunch for this the brainrot is INSANE what did you do to your mascot good omens fandom WHAT DID YOU DO anyway have this maggots:

god i love that little shit so much

[brainwormcity]

Aziraphale, an angel who has miraculously maintained the same haircut for 6,000 years going to the barber? I just know that he went once for appearance's sake and loved it. Probably allows his hair to grow at a normal rate just so he can get it cut once a month.

[andyiguess505]

posting some good omens fanart

[queer-reader-07]

aziraphale canonically saying that he is “THE southern pansy” is very important to me

[laundry3taxes]

Ok but listen do you think that Aziraphale ever watched the Golden Girls with Crowley?

[hjbirthdaywishes]

February 5, 2024

Happy 55 Birthday to Michael Sheen.

[moldyfruitsalad]

aziraphale is THAT BITCH

[melsmodernlife]

Some couples have a “pass” for celebrities they can sleep with and it not count as cheating.

My pass is for Michael Sheen to do the “I was wrong dance” and tell me it will all be ok whilst paying for my therapy.

[justanotherautie]

i love headcanoning old men as ftm. like considering fandom loves to equate being transmasc to being young no one will probably agree with me but i look into his eyes and see the wisdom only a post-menopausal man could provide

[brainwormcity]

But since I came here Felt the joy and the fear Finding myself making every possible mistake

All my edits are basically love letters to Aziraphale. <3

[wispcherry]

projecting? me? never.

i was born full of love

i was born kind and curious

i loved the moon

i loved the sun

each day i would profess it all

i wrote soliloquies of the stars

couplets of comets

elegies of effability

you met me with the stone under our feet

treated me like an equal

with no question to my value

i was born full of love

i was born caring and full of want

i loved the wine we drank together by the dying light

i loved the storms we sheltered each other under

and as i grew that love spilled over

into touches of our hands

into late nights of indulgence

into shared glances i could hardly describe

you who sorrow runs through

who smiled like nothing mattered

just so i could return a grin

I was born full of love.

I was born of love itself.

And how it tears at me inside.

I loved you.

I love you more than anything.

I clutch at the place where my heart should be.

Where you should be.

Where I can whisper to you, I am sorry, I will make it up to you, oh please forgive me.

Where you could find it in yourself to give me another chance. Again, and again.

You who was never given a second chance

If I must fall again and again for you, from grace, it is inconsequential.

Do it. Hold onto me like present does past, like death does life, to keep me from running away from all I have ever wanted. Do it again, right now.

[suzypfonne]

Maybe I've consumed too much British television, but I (an adult raised in the southern US) knew.

chopped judge: as delicious as this prawn reduction is I can’t help but feel that your soul is absent from your movements, and that your entire life is but a performance for my entertainment

chopped chef: thank you chef