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#1 aziraphale headcanon: he fucks

That was unexpected

What really happened

(Thank you for brainstorming with me @naromoreau!)

The adventures of Crow-ley and Aziradove! (went to a museum of zoology yesterday and all the taxidermy birbs gave me silly ideas lmao) 

Part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 -  part 6 - part 7 - part 8

My favorite Ineffable Husbands trope is Aziraphale being very open and free with saying sweet nothings/ridiculously romantic things and Crowley blushing ten shades of red, embarrassed and indignant says “you can’t just say that, angel!” And Aziraphale just frowns and says “why ever not? It’s the truth.” 

And then when Crowley starts doling out the endearments Aziraphale is just like “Oh, uh, yes, I see why you can’t just go around saying these things now. Gosh, I feel like my heart might burst! Is this how you feel when I say things like that to you, dearest?” 

Michael Sheen: *speed dials Neil Gaiman* Hi, how are you? Look I wanted to know *opens AO3 history* now that there's Covid-19 and all-- are Aziraphale and Crowley going to, well, stay home? *scrolls through the quarantine tag* What are they going to do with... uuuuuhh FOOD... *searches for a/c fics where they spend lockdown together* ahah alcohol too. *reads a randomic absolutely-not-pwp fanfic* and y'know, is Crowley going to - ahem - ...sleep?

Neil Gaiman: *sighs* Yes, I'm going to write you a lockdown fanfiction.

#grumpy angel

David Tennant reads the bookshop scene from Good Omens during Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Posting here to memorialise this even after the BBC takes it down from their website. Originally performed 12th Nov 2019 at the Barbican, London. 

…his Aziraphale voice is so delicate oh my word, I’m ready to offer my life savings and possibly a kidney in exchange for a full-length audiobook

I’ve just made a life-changing Good Omens discovery.

You see here how Sandalphon is standing in front of Aziraphale’s sink in the back room?

But wait, what is that just visible above his head?

THAT IS A SHELF OF ANGEL-WING MUGS. AZIRAPHALE HAS MORE THAN ONE.

(Hat-tip to @mochacoffee​‘s amazing bookshop floorplan post - I spotted this in the background of one of their reference pictures and rushed to check it first-hand in episode 2.)

Reblogging just to say that watching everybody’s utter delight at this discovery roll in throughout the day has vastly improved what would otherwise have been another crappy, ill day. <3

The somftest pillow in the bookshop

Leftover sales are now open!

And will remain open until everything has been sold. If you missed preorders, now’s your chance to grab a zine or zine-related merch. Don’t delay, though- there are limited quantities of everything and once they’re gone, they’re gone forever!

How strong is Aziraphale?

Let’s estimate how heavy is the rock that Aziraphale is lifting in the garden of eden’ scene. Based on the footage we have, I will approximate its shape to a trapezoidal base prism (more specifically, its base is a trapezoid rectangle).

To discover the base measurements, I will use this scene (because is the one where he is closer to the stone, minimizing camera effects)  and Mr. Sheen height (1,78m) to do some pixel measurements.

Some math later and using the fact that two edges of the rock accompanies the junction of the larger stones I managed to get the height and smaller base of the rock, but I still needed the other side and the bigger  base.

For this, I measured the angle shown. With these informations and trigonometry, I concluded these are the base’s measurements. Now, for its depth (this one was hard and probably the source of possible errors), we need some considerations. 

Based on other scenes from the wall, we can safely say that this stone does not represent its thickness. However, we can see the inside of the wall, which is made of three to five layers of pre cut blocks. 

I am assuming, now, that Aziraphale’s stone has the depth equivalent of the first outside layer that we see, since antique stone constructions don’t use mortar and the piece could fairly “break” in that spot. 

Thanks to our adorable Eve, we have a scene to make some pixel measurement using her hand as reference (an average woman hand has a length of 17,27cm) and I concluded that the stone’s length is 28cm.

Using the right volume formula, the result is V=0,03087m^3.

Now, we need to estimate its density. According to some proposed locations, the garden of eden is  in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Based on the book “Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence”-Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, the primary construction stones of this region is limestone and gypsum. 

The density of limestone (the most probable one) is 2711kg/m^3, which results in a weight of 83,69kg for our little angel to lift.

To sum up, Aziraphale is lifting approximately 83,69kg (184,5 pounds) without using any knee technique and without even looking discomfortable. Maybe the buff angel we see in the storyboards is not so off, after all.