love how she doesn't even bother to ask if crowley has a wife or girlfriend. one look at him and it's clear there is no heterosexual explanation for anything about crowley
i've been thinking a lot about how neil gaiman has said that season 3 will be based on an unpublished sequel to the original book. i can't stop wondering if that means that he and terry pratchett had always planned for crowley and aziraphale to be romantically involved. because their dynamic was different in the book, and i felt it was more of an "unlikely friendship" story rather than "secretly pining for 6,000 years" like it is in the show. whether it was originally planned or not, i'm obviously very happy that neil chose to take it in that direction for season two, but i can't help but be curious about it, especially since the book was originally published in 1990 and obviously it was a different time where having queer representation like that was rare.
Crowley's hearing "I can finally make you good enough to deserve Heaven"
but Aziraphale's saying "I can finally make Heaven good enough to deserve you"
i think there's such an important distinction that aziraphale didn't choose heaven over crowley. he chose heaven for crowley. yes it was misguided and wrong, but he was doing it all with crowley in his mind.
thinking about this moment. for just a split second, aziraphale grabs him and gives in, before pulling away. you can see it in both their faces that they've both secretly wanted this for so long, but neither of them wanted it to happen this way. to be under these circumstances, but it happened and there's a joy in that mixed in with the overwhelming despair that they've been pulled apart and they may never get it ever again. sobbing.
crowley and his sunglasses is such a beautiful way to represent him and how he's feeling. he wears the sunglasses not only to hide his eyes from humans bit also to hide himself and his true feelings from the world. it's a physical representation of crowley's walls and his need to hide. he almost never took off his sunglasses in season one BUT in season 2, he leaves them off most of the time he's with Aziraphale. he's opening himself up to him and when in episode 6 crowley gives his confession and aziraphale shuts him down and says "nothing lasts forever" crowley puts them back on because he opened himself up, he tried to say what he wanted to say and it wasn't enough. i think in season 3, it'll be awhile before he takes them back off again.
it's zero comfort but at least we can be reasonably sure crowley was formerly the archangel Lucifer, with all the references to "morningstars singing" (Lucifer Morningstar), the "we already had one fallen prince of heaven" line, him knowing the Metatron, him saying "let there be light" (Lucifer is the "light bringer") , his high level clearance access in heaven, his reference to being part of the "design " process with god, the weird respect the archangels give him in heaven, the miracle so powerful only an archangel could perform, the Heavy visual implication in the first scene that his questions specifically caused the fall, his suggestion to Shax that he could have done the archangel miracle, in the first scene when he literally says he's gonna tell god she's doing a shit job, his insistence to other demons that he doesnt remember them from the War (I doubt anyone is happy with Lucifer, I think he hides his former identity) and most importantly why he's So Fucking Different from literally every other angel and demon.
this is so interesting, I was still thinking about him being the archangel Raphael but this would be so much crazier i love it
not going to shut up about good omens 2 ever.
the sheer pain i felt on crowley's behalf watching gabriel and beelzebub go off to alpha centauri together, just like Crowley always wanted. it broke me. they could have it, why can't crowley and aziraphale have it.
literally had to turn off a song today because it reminded me of aziraphale and crowley and i was too upset
**spoilers for last episode of Good Omens 2**
I was getting so worried as episode 6 went on that the whole season would pass without Crowley and Aziraphale ever having an explicit romance and like. I'm all for subtle romance but it felt dangerously close to queerbaiting in my opinion, especially since Crowley kept saying "it's not like that, we're not like that". BUT THEN the confession and the kiss scene happened and even though it ripped my heart out I'm glad they actually addressed it explicitly, it felt validating that it wasn't just a ship the fandom had come up with and would never become canon.
when I said “same ship, different font” THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!!
I still can’t get over the name Goldenloin
Like, he’s your main character’s lover and he’s named Sir Greatinbed? Sir Fucksalot?? Sir Sexhaver??? He’s the main gay love interest and his name’s Sir Longshlong??? 10/10 no notes oscar nomination in the mail
Thinking about how Heaven is mostly empty space with very little color, and Aziraphale's book shop is cluttered and colorful. Thinking about how Hell is so crowded you can barely breathe, and Crowley's flat is spacious and minimalist. Feeling normal about it (sobbing)
that brief moment in the Eden scene in Good Omens is everything to me. Crowley and Aziraphale have just met, and they are supposed to be enemies, but when the first rain comes they are there together. Crowley has wings of his own, he could have covered himself just fine. Aziraphale does not move to cover himself at all. It is so perfect, so natural and automatic, for Crowley to shuffle closer, and for Aziraphale to lift a wing to shelter him. The quiet understanding, of watching the world when it is still new and full of so many possibilities. They were made for each other.
watching nimona as a trans person has me rethinking how every oc i've ever made with a power of some sort has been a shapeshifter...like some subconscious connection to that ability to change with a thought what i will never be able to
will be listening to absolutely NO fourth wing hate or criticism, sorry. it's actually perfect and it possesses not a single flaw.
hoping to get more Garrick in Iron Flame. Underrated character in my opinion.
just finished rereading fourth wing and i am experiencing so many emotions i cannot put a single one into words.
*spoilers*
liam dying somehow hurt even worse the second time around, even though i knew it was coming.
i didnt like dain from the beginning even on my first read but my hatred was so much more intense the second time around knowing he was violating her mind every single time he touched her
i dont really like comparing book series' but xaden and his shadow wielding is so azriel coded (that's honestly where i think the similarities end though)
i really really hope rhiannon gets to be in the next book and i really hope she somehow gets brought into the revolution because she's genuinely one of my favorite characters and i think violet needs her support
i'm so excited to learn more about brennan in the next book, he seems like he's gonna be such a great character and definitely is a great brother to violet and leader among aretia
a part of me hopes that violet's dad is also secretly alive but i know he's not
the brief mention in xaden's pov chapter about his mother hinting at some kind of trauma? i'm so curious about whether the "not going there" was meant to imply is she was maybe abusive? or if maybe she betrayed his father or something.
xaden is genuinely one of the best love interests ive read in a long time. like yeah he makes some mistakes (he should have been more open and honest with violet as soon as things started getting serious between them) but i love that he admits his mistake and wants to make it up to her. not to compare to ACOTAR again since so many people already do that but Rhys would never (i'm not a rhys hater but i'm just saying)
violet is seriously my favorite fmc of all time. i was worried in the beginning when she was described as being so physically frail that she would follow the "y/n so tiny and helpless" trope but when she said "i will handle my rucksack and i will handle myself" i immediately knew she wasn't gonna be like that and loved her for it.
the book being mobility aid positive and the treatment of violet's eds i thought was really good (obviously aided by the fact that rebecca yarros has the same condition) but i loved when tairn tells violet not to be ashamed of using the saddle and that having a body with different needs doesn't make her less than or less deserving of riding
tairn and andarna are the best. tairn reminds me of a grumpy but loving dad (my daddy issues were screaming whenever he told violet he was proud) and andarna reminded me of a sweet little sister. even sgaeyl reminded me of a slightly scary but not unkind aunt.
ive preordered iron flame and will now be sitting and waiting for november 7th to come.
y’all need to stop drawing xaden riorson as a skinny white boy he canonically has brown skin and is built like a fucking tree