#weirdly the nightingales wed

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alright good omens mascot here time to bake a wedding cake for our favourite fools

So due to Reasons I'm currently hyperfixated on designing a wedding dress for Crowley (the post is here, though what started as a fashion design post has currently devolved into a soap opera and murder) and @queermarzipan showed me the infamous tumblr vanilla extract post so.

Let's see if we're better at baking than that, maggots, this is for Aziraphale and Crowley do nOT fuck this up (I say as I google cake ingredients because i am clueless):

[EDIT AGAIN: AS OFFICIAL GOOD OMENS MASCOT, I LAY A CURSE ON THIS POLL. THE MORE VANILLA EXTRACT, THE LONGER WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR SEASON 3.]

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what even is this site why does this make me happy

NOW WHY CAN'T YOU ALL FUCKING DO THAT WITH THE AZIRACROW WEDDING CAKE? HUH GOOD OMENS FANDOM? WHY IS THAT A BOWL OF CHOCOLATE CHIPS DROWNED IN VANILLA EXTRACT? DO YOU NOT WANT CROWLEY TO SLITHER OVER AND WATCH AZIRAPHALE EAT CAKE ON THEIR WEDDING DAY?

Reblogs appreciated~!

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Hi! How about 8, 14, 23, and/or 40 for the valentines asks? I hope you're doing well 🥰💚💜👻

8. favorite fanfic trope?

Ooh tough one!! Probably enemies to lovers!!! Because that means drama and that is what I live for!!!

14. favorite candle scent?

Gingerbread or any other Christmas candle!!!

23. what’s your dream wedding like?

Like as traditional as you can get whilst still being gay/not sexist! It shall be in a really pretty church which is covered in ivy (for the aesthetic) and there will be loads of flowers and bunting everywhere! And right now I kind of want the reception to be in a barn, also with flowers and bunting everywhere!! The first dance will be to dont stop me now as that is the perfect first dance song and the last dance will be to a nightingale sang in Berkeley square but specifically the tori amos version! And that’s all I’ve really got right now!!

40. coffee, hot chocolate, or tea?

Tea!! Like in the past 24 hours I’ve gotten weirdly into it and I don’t know why!! I usually hate all teas but breakfast tea but now flavoured teas taste so nice!! I just downed a mug of ginger!!! It’s very out of character for me but I don’t care because it’s delicious!!!

And I am doing well thank you!!! I hope you are too!!!! 🥰💚💜👻

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*pushes all my crowley wedding dress designs and posts behind me* ahaha i'm so normal about this so normal don't look at me good omens fandom you did this to me YOU-

If Crowley and Aziraphale ever got engaged and had some sort of small secular wedding, just imagine the first time they see eachother

They’d be in fancy outfits which isn’t unusual for them, but it would be different

Crowley would try very hard not to tear up but he does anyway, and Aziraphale would instantly follow suit

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the brainrot has worsened, i'm thinking about crowley's wedding dress.

Don't look at your Mascot, good omens fandom. Don't look at me. I'm coping so fucking well it's insane. But I discovered today that Neil chose the song Book of Love for Crowley and Aziraphale's Angelic Playlist. So I listened to it for the first time today. And I'm being very normal about it.

The song ends with But I... I love it when you when you give me things. And you... you should give me wedding rings.

Which may or may not have got me thinking about Crowley and all the costumes that he's worn so far, and then thinking about what my dream wedding dress for her would be, and then wondering whether it would be a dress or a suit, then realising that it would be both. Both as in, both combined into one dress.

Now, please bear in mind: I am a visual and graphics designer. I am not under any circumstances a fashion designer. What I am, however, is still crying over Crowley and extremely fucking insane.

I then grabbed a paper and brush pens and did a (terrible) drawing before the image could escape me, and brain-dumped ideas. I have six tabs open ranging from the gown necklines of each decade of the 1800s to the superior support of back-lacing corsets. And a whiteboard open on Canva. I'm so normal I swear.

Here you go everyone have my braindump of ideas for a wedding dress for Crowley.

[Would they get married the human way? Probably not. Would he wear a dress like this for his wedding? Probably not. Am I going to achieve the end result I want? Probably not. Will I spend hours over this anyway for her? Fucking yes.]

And yes, that is Crowley carrying a bouquet of leaves from her plants. Fight me to the death on this. I bet he yelled at them beforehand too. IF I SEE A SINGLE YELLOW SPOT ON OUR WEDDING DAY, YOU'RE ALL DEAD TO ME, THIS HAS TO BE PERFECT FOR AZIRAPHALE. Poor Aziraphale probably had to sneak up to them later and comfort them.

So. Wedding dress. Terrible idea? Absolutely, maggots. I'm going to think about this endlessly anyway. New hyperfixation unlocked.

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go to sleep asmi

here is a bedtime story to help you get tf to sleep

One day there was a demon with red hair who really loved cars and Queen. This demon was very silly, and was also very lonely. One day, the demon thought, 'huh! Maybe I should find myself a friend! An angel!' So, every weekend, the demon would knock on random bookshops until they found their angel. One day, the demon knocked on the door to a particular bookshop - one belonging to a certain Mr fell! This angel invited the demon inside, and there they sipped tea on the couch together for all eternity.

The end.

*closes book*

NOW GO TO SLEEP

HNNNGGGGGGG but anon maggot you see i do not want to sleep i want to CHAOS and besides I have to finish understanding cufflinks to see what fastenings the cufflinks on Crowley's wedding dress will have it's very important you see abso-fucking-lutely crucial to the proceedings

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happy ineffable valentine's day, loves.

Happy Valentine's Day, maggots of mine :") I made this card for you all.

The song The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel was chosen for the Aziraphale and Crowley's Heavenly Playlist by Neil.

And, well... tell me those aren't the most beautiful lyrics for them ever.

The book of life? The book of love. Written very long ago... before the beginning. Look at them. Look at you. Gorgeous.

So here's wishing you all a very ineffable Valentine's Day, the first one I've looked forward to in four years. And it's because of our two beloved idiots and because of you all.

All kinds of love, romantic, platonic, aesthetic, familial. For the world, for your favourite humans, for your pets, for the universe, for the stars, for stories.

And if you don't feel love, that's perfectly valid, too. Have a beautiful day all the same.

I love you all, so ineffably much, it's insane.

Asmi

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@weirdly-specific-but-ok about the ineffable wedding...

I love all the designs for ineffable wives but Aziraphale would most likely wear something like this.

I dont know who made the dress but it was uploaded by Kelly Brown on pintrest!!!

Its perfect

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back to the weddin' prep maggots

CAN YOU ALL PLEASE STOP MESSING UP THE CAKE-- but anyway other things to do it's all good the Aziracrow wedding is going fINE.

If you have landed on this post without context, just know that you broke your fucking mascot and now I'm here planning a non-existent wedding for fictional people and roping my entire maggot-infested corner of the fandom into it as well. You can search for #weirdly the nightingales wed on my blog if you like, though the cake post involves demonic screeching for help from the BDSM community and the Crowley dress post rapidly devolved into murder.

OKAY SO THIS QUESTION IS GENUINELY ALWAYS ON MY MIND. Like if they did have a human wedding where the fuck would they have it? And this'll also help me with my brainrotted wedding dress design endeavour.

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pt I the wedding dress: an actual update

For the uninitiated, my current hyperfixation (one of them) is designing a wedding dress for Crowley because I heard the song Book of Love by Peter Gabriel from their Heavenly Playlist. Here's how far I've got with the concept:

Okay, where do I start? There's so much happening and I've only got as far as the shirt, cufflinks and jacket. Let's go with the overview/jacket:

[Disclaimer: I'm a design student, but not in fashion design. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun, and I hope that's what matters]

JACKET: So the first photo above was the jacket idea I had when I first decided to start this, because the season 1 waiter blazer suits Crowley, from the cropped nature to the sharp notched lapels (if you're not sure what that is, like I was at first, it's not very clear in the white but you see that lightning bolt style collar in my sketch? that's the notched lapels).

But it met too high on the chest (notice where it cuts the tie) to be soft enough for a wedding dress, so I made the two halves meet lower down in the sketch. I also made it single-breasted (which basically means a coat or blazer that has a single row of buttons, in this case, just one button).

I haven't worked out more about the jacket, oh and also if someone could tell me the material of the original costume that would be very cool. I'll probably spend an unreasonable amount of time designing the button, too. As for colour, it would be black with a garnet or currant red lining.

OVERVIEW: So like the sketch shows, there's a shirt, that's held in place by a corset over it, and the jacket covers both. The corset would probably be under bust and back-laced for more support, with hints of scarlet on snakeskin leather? I'm not entirely sure, I need to research corsets.

The cummerbund (oops misspelt it in the sketch) is a broad waist sash, you can see it in the waiter costume, too. In the wedding dress, it would overlap the shirt slightly under the corset, and I was thinking of black satin with embroidery of stars/constellations.

I was originally going to draw star charts of a significant month for them (maybe April, because that's when nightingales, which are migratory birds, usually return to England for mating season to sing). Perhaps star charts as visible from Earth versus Alpha Centauri? But that could get complicated and on the bafta livestream chat someone sent coats that have Zodiac patterns on them in gold, so I'm debating that too.

Besides, there'll already be a nightingale pin on the lapel, gold with a sapphire eye for Aziraphale.

The lower part of the wedding dress involves a train and trousers and split skirt, we won't go into that. I think this post already got too long so I'll make another one for the shirt and the cufflinks :")

Have a lovely day my maggots you're amazing and I love you. Look at you, you're gorgeous.

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pt II the wedding dress: crowley's shirt

Dear GOD this post is so overdue I blame the 10khaos. But never fear I'm back on my bullshit.

Okay I'll just add the overview here and then get started on the info-dumping:

THE SHIRT OVERVIEW: For the shirt (which goes under the corset and cummerbund like I described in the pt I post), I went with the basic design sleeve-wise of a typical Victorian-era men's shirt, but with a shorter length (somewhere between a Victorian women's chemisette and the men's shirt). The length is reduced so it doesn't interfere with the silhouette at the waist where the upper part of the dress meets the lower (the lower half hasn't been drawn yet because I got hyperfixated on the cufflinks).

THE NECKLINE AND BODICE: The material would be muslin and it has a Regency-era neckline and bodice, both of these factors inspired by a 1805-1810 Regency muslin evening gown in the Victoria and Albert museum. Regency era gowns typically gathered just under the bust, and so will this shirt, which gives the slight pleats at the bodice below the ruffles. I figured this was best given which parts of the shirt would be visible and which hidden under the corset and jacket.

THE GOOD OMENS ALLUSIONS: The Victorian era is when the Edinburgh minisode happened, which is why I've leaned on it for the shirt. The Regency era, on the other hand, is where most of Jane Austen's novels were set, and so the neckline is a nod to Aziraphale's love for her novels and the ballroom dance he organised in season 2.

For reference, below are (L to R) a Victorian men's shirt, a chemisette, and the neckline and bodice of the V&A Regency dress:

[don't mind the shit images just take the vibes I'm working on a Canva whiteboard and I do NOT keep things organised on there]

Okay I think the ruffles actually need a separate post because I did a lot of overthinking for them. It involved textile trade in the Edwardian era and a lot of lace and Good Omens motifs.

Well... prepare for the ruffles post you poor sods you created a monster.

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FUCK YEAH GO FOR IT! This is the link to the wedding dress post, and all wedding-related posts in my blog are tagged with #weirdly the nightingales wed, so feel free to use that.

Okay, it's time for me to get batshit crazy and start a fanart project waaaaaay above my skill level (again).

This time, triggered (yep, that's the right word) by @weirdly-specific-but-ok musing's on Crowley's wedding dress (sorry, I can't find the original post, send me the link if you've got it and I'll add it in).

I've been collecting some reference pictures over the last couple of days has gone from what I conceptualised as a high-society, Romantic Era royal wedding painting to a fuck you to the establishment by modern day Azi and Crowley (I'll be amending what they are doing with those hands) in their wedding gear (which is outlandish).

@zaizai734 it's hyperfixation arts and craft time, can you please check that I have eaten and drunk some water every now and then? x

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NEED HELP WITH CROWLEY'S DRESS

HELLO I MADE MY THIRD CUP OF COFFEE, EXCEPT THE PACKET OF COFFEE POWDER SAID IT WAS THREE SERVINGS OF 100 ML AND INSTEAD I'VE POURED IT INTO ONE TINY CUP WITH NO MILK AND IT SMELLS OF BIBLICALLY ECSTATIC ADRENALINE

THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST SORRY FASHION SIDE OF TUMBLR, DOES ANYONE HAVE GOOD SITES/REFERENCES FOR THE FOLLOWING THINGS:

TYPES OF LACE AND HOW EACH MATERIAL FEELS

FABRICS THAT FLOW SOFTLY

DRESSES MADE OF CHAINMAIL BUT LIGHTER

TYPES OF TROUSERS

TYPES OF SEAMS AND WHICH WORKS WITH WHICH FABRIC

THIS IS FOR THE CROWLEY WEDDING DRESS THAT MY BRAINROTTED SELF IS DESIGNING THANK YOU

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You are such a great mascot! But please go to bed!

i... thank you... my hands are shaking and i think i might throw up for real i spent like an hour researching crowley's dress and writing down all the historical details and designing the FUCKING CUFFLINKS AND RUFFLES I SPENT THIS LONG ON JUST THE CUFFLINKS AND RUFFLES I'M GOING TO LOSE MY GODDAMN MIND

OF ALL THE PARTS TO FOCUS ON? THE CUFFLINKS? THE RUFFLES??????

oh i feel nauseous

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pt IV the wedding dress: crowley's cufflinks

Fuck me the brainrot is UNREAL. As is the amount of time I spent on these buggers. Also, if Arthur asks any of you, you never saw this post, okay? I was off tumblr doing "resting" and "not working" and all those things he told me to do.

Sooo in the previous posts we discussed (I infodumped) the overall top half of the dress, the shirt and the ruffles of said shirt. So now as is the natural pipeline we are discussing the cufflinks of the shirt.

Above is the scrawling I did, I don't know if you remember the day, but I was on a lot of caffeine and crying about the cufflinks while you all told me to go the FUCK to sleep.

VERSION 1 SYMBOLISM: So the first one which we shall call Version 1 (creatively) has the traditional Celtic triquetra knot. I'd looked up Celtic symbols and asked you maggots as well because Scotland has Celtic history and well, Edinburgh episode, David Tennant etc. The triquetra knot had a lot of symbolism of three's: past present future, body mind soul, maiden mother crone, youth adult old age etc.

ALPHA CENTAURI ALLUSION: Also, the three diamonds, one at each tip of the knot: this is because Alpha Centauri, where Crowley wanted to take Aziraphale to and live there together, is a triple star system. Alpha A and Alpha B, the main stars, orbit each other, with Proxima Centauri (so named because it's the closest star to our Sun) orbiting both of them. So the knot does give a kind of orbital path notion, even if not accurate, and the diamonds are the stars. It would probably be in silver, with the underlying base being black.

PROBLEMS WITH VERSION 1: However, there are issues with Version 1. For one thing, the triquetra knot is more common in present day Ireland and England than in Scotland. For another, early Christians adopted (appropriated) the triquetra to symbolise the Holy Trinity. So. Perhaps not.

And clearly we can't have issues with the intricate detail of the fictional cufflink's fictional symbolism in a fictional wedding of a fictional character that is not canon. So then I made changes:

VERSION 2 SYMBOLISM: Version 2, while retaining the Alpha Centauri diamonds and orbit symbolism, has a different Celtic symbol. This is the triskele, a symbol that is more popular in Scotland than the triquetra, as you maggots told me. It has three interlocking spirals, representing the three domains of material existence (earth, water, sky), the cycles of life and reincarnation, and movement of time and the universe. All of which feels exactly like Starmaker's journey to becoming Crowley. The Alpha Centauri stars are now nestled in the spirals of the triskele, with a more rose-like base that could be emerald under the silver.

So. Yes. Those are the cufflinks that I am sure were very highly anticipated /s. Idk why I do this. But I love you Crowley.

Have a wonderful day maggots <3 If you do happen to be interested in the wedding dress, all the wedding posts are tagged on my blog with weirdly the nightingales wed.

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i've been working on crowley's dress design

to be more precise before the bafta stream i did the sketch for the overall upper body and i designed most of the shirt and then today i just spent a GODDAMN HOUR RESEARCHING SYMBOLISM AND EUROPEAN HISTORY AND TEXTILE IMPORTS FOR THE CUFFLINKS AND THE RUFFLES and then i made sketches of ideas. i hyperfixated too hard and now i'm near tears help look at this goddamn mess:

anyway so maggots your mascot is dead this is what finally did it, fucking lace imports into england during the elizabethan era so that i could reference that Hamlet flashback in the season 1 episode 3 cold open.

im going to go fucking sleep before i start either hysterically laughing or sobbing or both

i love you all please take of yourselves better than i do please