what baffles me is that crowley is actually good for aziraphale. not in the sense that the good actions he does are done for aziraphale, but in the sense that crowley teaches aziraphale to be good to himself

in s2ep4 when aziraphale is looking for a magic trick to do, he first says that he can't go to the magic shop because he's not a professional conjuror. crowley disagrees, convincing him that he's a professional as he is "about to perform on the West End Stage"

afterwards when the shopkeeper calls aziraphale a "talented amateur", it's aziraphale himself who makes a point in proving that he's no such thing as he's "booked to appear in the West End"

and then when they're backstage talking to furfur aziraphale clearly calls himself a "working professional magician". over a few hours, crowley makes aziraphale confident in his own identity

not only does crowley love aziraphale (in whatever way he expresses it) but he literally makes him better. crowley, who believes he is incapable of doing good, manages to make an actual angel, better

Something about Crowley’s snake form being a red-bellied black snake and how they have to be really abused before they will bite. Something about how even though they are venomous, there are no recorded deaths. Something about how their first instinct is to run away….

Petition to call the season 3 limbo "The Fourteenth Century."

Crowley is an optimist and so am I.

Day 2:falling

Loved you yesterday

Loved you still

Always have

Always will

Awwwww!❤️

Rewatching the 1960s The Addams Family series and in one episode I thought I saw a type of plant that Crowley had.

While of course this must be coincidental, imagine if Crowley (who heard about talking to plants in the 70s) knew about and remembered the American show about the weird family that seemed creepy and dark but were actually very loving and supportive of each other, and decided to get one of those plants?

Crowley, definitely thinking about The Addams Family (1964): Big spooky fan, me.

There's no denying it...

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here

Hot beverages from season 2 ☕️

I made these into stickers hehe

Crowley and Aziraphale as cats

This isn't new, but i love that they redressed the Whickber Street set for the sixties sequence, clearly wanting it to seem like it was taking place in another bit of soho.

Where Crowley talks to Shadwell is directly opposite the bookshop. (Between what becomes the coffee shop and the French Cafe)

Which means the lit up signs for 'striptease' are actually on/in front of the bookshop (you can see the doorway column on the far right)

(And yes, in S2 the Dirty Donkey pub where Crowley makes his plan here is opposite the shop entrance, but in S1 it wasn't)

I love this, because it's ingenious redressing of the set, but also because if you make it canon/in-universe reality, then "I work in Soho, I hear things" becomes "you are literally parked outside my shop you idiot", and "I'll give you a lift, anywhere you want to go" is an invitation to a date - for Crowley to take him out somewhere, because he obviously doesn't need to be dropped home.

go

Did adam choosing to not be satan's son, and changing reality to make himself mr +mrs young's son end up converting greasy johnson (who originally would have biologically belonged to human parents (young or Dowlings, though i'd err on Dowlings) to the "spare" unearthly child and therefore making him actual jesus as a side effect, so THAT was the actual start of the second coming.

Oh. Aziraphale and crowley strike again.

It is implied in the book that Greasy is Harriet's kid and Warlock is Diedre's kid, yes

The Three Baby Question

What a great question to ask! I had to go back to Season 1 to check what we see in the show.

Excuse the hastily taken screenshots, but it does happen the same way.

For this we need to know the following: Harriet Dowling's original baby is wrapped in white and the Young's original child is wrapped in blue.

The red baby (Adam, spawn of Satan) is brought into the Young's room and left there. They end up raising Adam.

Their blue baby is taken out and given to the Dowling's. The Dowling's raise the Young's child as Warlock.

Finally, the Dowling's original child is taken away and adopted out. In the book, this child is referred to as Greasy Johnson.

So riffing off of what @naniiebimworks said - did Adam replace Warlock? Is Warlock no longer the Young's biological child? Or are they brothers now (and Warlock just hasn't found out yet)? And will any of that matter for S3?

Bonus image - the cards

Here are the playing cards associated with each child in the baby swap:

Jack of Clubs in white for Greasy (Dowling's>Adopted out). King of Hearts for Adam, red (Satan>Young's). Ace of Spades in blue for Warlock (Young's>Dowling's).

Okay so maybe not a hill a willing to die on but definitely one I'm willing to plant my flag on at point is that when Aziraphale says to Crowley, "I forgive you" both times it's about Crowley not having faith in Aziraphale. It's the opposite of "'you said trust me', 'and you did'."

Yes, God yes, and I’ll stick my flag beside yours on this ground: Aziraphale never forgets that Heaven never forgave Crowley’s questions. Heaven’s door was closed forever to Crowley once he refused to just go along with their plan. And Aziraphale wants to be absolutely sure Crowley knows that for the two of them love means “I will always forgive you when you question me. You never have to do what I say to keep my love. My door will always be open to you, however many times you walk out of it. You are free to be who you are with me.”

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Hi, reblogging this post again because????? How does it only have 300 notes??????

This genuinely altered my brain chemistry, I don't understand how it hasn't blown up. Do you understand???? This has literally given context to the "I forgive you"s that I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.

I know this isn't how Crowley hears it, but I think more than anything, it's along the lines of "I forgive you for not trusting me in this" or "I forgive you for abandoning me in this when I told you I need you, for rejecting what might be our only real chance of being together in a way where we can be safe and happy" or even (depending on what theory you believe) "I forgive you for not understanding what I'm trying to tell you, for not listening to me and reading between the lines like we have ALWAYS done with each other."

Despite the anger and frustration and hurt behind it, there's something really beautiful about the implication behind Aziraphale's "I forgive you" (and all the ones he's said before): it seems to imply "You're doing this thing that hurts and upsets and frustrates me, but there is nothing that you can do that I will not forgive you for. You do not need to follow me blindly to earn my love or my forgiveness, even if I am so, so angry with you right now. You are not unloved and unforgiveable, you will never be unloved and unforgiveable, not to me. I will never cast you out for doing something I don't agree with."

I forgive you = My love is not/will never be conditional

Don’t leave this in the tags because it’s what I wanted to say

Thank you thank you thank you

I thought it was quite obvious after S1 that ‘I forgive you’ was a faith statement and reassurance from aziraphale. So that deep down, Crowley would know even if he absolutely didn’t believe in aziraphale about something, aziraphale would always still forgive him and still welcome him back.

Add that to NG’s statement that Crowley needs to learn he’s forgiven and accept that forgiveness and to forgive himself.

This might be the best #BadassAziraphaleTake I’ve ever read

NGL this actually made me break down crying. Aziraphale making sure he never, ever does to Crowley what God did. My door is always open to you, no matter how much we disagree, I will never cast you out. My love is not conditional.

Exactly!

I'm really baffled why so many people go around these words and seek some meaning that is different form the most literal one.

Each time Aziraphale says "I forgive you" is after Crowley did or said something hurtful.

Each time is as simple as that. You hurt me, you did something I don't like, but I forgive you. This does not end our relationship.

This is why Crowley's "don't bother" in final 15 tears my heart out much more than anything else. Because if anything, THIS was the rejection and cutting things off.

I love how Aziraphale is so taken with Crowley in The Flood scene that he is actively trying to avoid looking into his eyes... all while Crowley, equally besotted, keeps trying to meet Aziraphale's.

Especially when you consider S2's whole thing about rainstorm-adjacent eye contact...

We start with the one moment where their eyes do meet, as Crowley slips around Aziraphale, causing Aziraphale to be caught in his gaze for a moment. Aziraphale has to steady himself. He doesn't breathe for a moment. He blushes. He looks away as soon as he can get himself together enough to do so. One day, he's going to paint his house the color of those eyes, but in this moment? His heart is going to beat out of his chest just looking at Crowley.

Then, Aziraphale keeps looking ahead and only glances occasionally slightly to the side, trying not to make it obvious that he is not looking at a flirting Crowley-- who, for his part, can't take his eyes off Aziraphale. Aziraphale avoids fully catching his gaze, looking away quickly, just undone by those eyes enough that he's too shy to meet them.

We get to a point where Crowley is literally *leaning forward* to try to get Aziraphale to meet his eyes, but Aziraphale is dodging by looking anywhere else.

Even when exchanging a brief look of understanding, Aziraphale looks in Crowley's direction but not directly into his eyes.

This keeps happening for the rest of the scene, with Aziraphale not directly meeting Crowley's eyes through telling him about the plan for The Flood, the rainbow, the Oi! Shem! unicorn moment, etc.. It ends with them both looking up as the rain begins. It is a whole scene showing us that Aziraphale's attraction to Crowley makes him shy away from his gaze while Crowley's attraction to Aziraphale makes him seek out his eyes. This scene, though?

It is the only scene where this sort of dance is taking place, is it not? There's no scene after it like it.

By the Job minisode, this eye contact issue not only no longer exists between them, but we have the scene where Aziraphale asks Crowley to take his glasses off and look him in the eyes.

So, back in Mesopotamia... come S3, might we see that this sudden rainstorm of The Flood eventually forced them together beneath a canopy where they looked into each other's eyes and... vavoom?

Adding onto this that Crowley wears sunglasses when they are in public spaces. In S2, he is almost never seen wearing them when he’s inside the bookshop or when he’s with Aziraphale at all really unless they are near humans.

When he starts to get uncomfortable, especially emotionally, he starts to put them back on. It’s almost like he uses them as a shield or a wall to put up between others..

There’s no reason to wear them here. No other person to put up all a wall against. No humans to hide from. Just himself, his plants, and the Bentley.

You got it, my friend. However can one vavoom if one is defense mechanism-ing? One cannot. Ergo, vavooming requires a rainy situation sans shades. Hence, Le Flood.

“…and no more old bookshop”

That’s what it stopped Aziraphale short in s1, didn’t fully convince him but it made him pause. And Crowley knew that.

flash forward to s2,

“You can’t leave this bookshop.”

Crowley uses the same line again and yet it means so much more now. Which makes it all more devastating to hear,

“Nothing lasts forever”

That’s not part of the song and dance they have played through before. They can’t wiggle themselves out of this one.

Even back in s1, although they made a pit stop at the Ritz, they didn’t truly bring the issue back up until they were in the bookshop. To start to plan.

It’s their safe haven

And now that it’s torn down and exposed the only thing he can offer more of, is himself.

and yet after everything, all the heartbreak, Aziraphale still says,

“But, um….my bookshop.”

While retreating into his East end corner, putting distance between him and the Metatron, to make himself closer to Crowley, to see if he’s still there.

and if that isn’t some of the biggest proof that Aziraphale did not want to go, did not want to leave Crowley. Well.

I love how Aziraphale is so taken with Crowley in The Flood scene that he is actively trying to avoid looking into his eyes... all while Crowley, equally besotted, keeps trying to meet Aziraphale's.

Especially when you consider S2's whole thing about rainstorm-adjacent eye contact...

We start with the one moment where their eyes do meet, as Crowley slips around Aziraphale, causing Aziraphale to be caught in his gaze for a moment. Aziraphale has to steady himself. He doesn't breathe for a moment. He blushes. He looks away as soon as he can get himself together enough to do so. One day, he's going to paint his house the color of those eyes, but in this moment? His heart is going to beat out of his chest just looking at Crowley.

Then, Aziraphale keeps looking ahead and only glances occasionally slightly to the side, trying not to make it obvious that he is not looking at a flirting Crowley-- who, for his part, can't take his eyes off Aziraphale. Aziraphale avoids fully catching his gaze, looking away quickly, just undone by those eyes enough that he's too shy to meet them.

We get to a point where Crowley is literally *leaning forward* to try to get Aziraphale to meet his eyes, but Aziraphale is dodging by looking anywhere else.

Even when exchanging a brief look of understanding, Aziraphale looks in Crowley's direction but not directly into his eyes.

This keeps happening for the rest of the scene, with Aziraphale not directly meeting Crowley's eyes through telling him about the plan for The Flood, the rainbow, the Oi! Shem! unicorn moment, etc.. It ends with them both looking up as the rain begins. It is a whole scene showing us that Aziraphale's attraction to Crowley makes him shy away from his gaze while Crowley's attraction to Aziraphale makes him seek out his eyes. This scene, though?

It is the only scene where this sort of dance is taking place, is it not? There's no scene after it like it.

By the Job minisode, this eye contact issue not only no longer exists between them, but we have the scene where Aziraphale asks Crowley to take his glasses off and look him in the eyes.

So, back in Mesopotamia... come S3, might we see that this sudden rainstorm of The Flood eventually forced them together beneath a canopy where they looked into each other's eyes and... vavoom?

Adding onto this that Crowley wears sunglasses when they are in public spaces. In S2, he is almost never seen wearing them when he’s inside the bookshop or when he’s with Aziraphale at all really unless they are near humans.

When he starts to get uncomfortable, especially emotionally, he starts to put them back on. It’s almost like he uses them as a shield or a wall to put up between others..

There’s no reason to wear them here. No other person to put up all a wall against. No humans to hide from. Just himself, his plants, and the Bentley.

What if...

Hear me out, please.

What if Crowley's clothes turned yellow with the Bentley when Aziraphale was going to Scotland?

Change it back! has gained a whole new meaning. Please fan artists, render this silliness!