“The point is,” said Crowley, “the point is. The point is.”

Guardian Angel :)

sometimes angels just get tired of being considerate

Angel, August 2022 A 6000 year long story between a demon and an angel made me believe in love again. I’m afraid I haven’t coloured them that well, I got carried away by blue/green shadows and neglected contrast. I will draw them again with pastel pencils so I can have some fun!

Now, fully cursed warm-up sketches of BUFF AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY from the storyboards plus skinny boi Gabriel in this AU (????) I didn’t want to do this they made me do this oh god-

They’re so buff I love them (esp the push ups)

I'm one of those people who doesn't changes their computer background to something other than the preset ones that come with the computer. I just find one I like from there and call it good. Well. I finally did it. I found something 'subtle'.

I stumbled on it when I decided to screencap some of my favorite videos. (Maybe I'll share some of my favorite screencaps sometime) Who knows maybe I'll change my background for spooky month too.

Touch not ye my little grave, for mama is now far away

when i watched good omens, i didn’t expect to love tv crowley, and it fuckin blindsided me. all at once, i thought, oh gosh, damn, and fuck, roughly in that order, and here’s why.

where tv crowley and book crowley most significantly diverge is the bookshop fire. in the book, “Crowley cursed Aziraphale, and the ineffable plan, and Above, and Below.” in the tv show, instead of cursing him, he calls out for him desperately before falling to the floor with a quiet “you’ve gone.” for book crowley, az is “Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.” for tv crowley, aziraphale is his “best friend.” naturally, in the bookshop fire, tv crowley is in fucking agony. this is not how book crowley reacts.

see, one of book crowley’s most basic traits is his optimism. “Because, underneath it all,” the book says, “Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times—he thought briefly of the fourteenth century—then it was utter surety that he would come out on top; that the universe would look after him.”

it’s a really beautiful passage. and i can’t relate to it at all. 

after the fire, book crowley thinks he might “get completely and utterly pissed out of his mind while he waited for the world to end.” where book crowley only considers it, tv crowley actually does it. he does go to wait out the end of the world while drunk, and does give up, and he does break down, and he is not an optimist; he is a mess. that struck me. i’ve never seen a heroic character so blatantly need help before. but crowley gets help; he finds a friend and confesses how much aziraphale means to him; he gets back in the car and forges onward through the fire, even though he’s clearly Not Okay.

and there, on the flaming m25, book crowley and tv crowley diverge again. tv crowley is not an optimist; he’s not holding the bentley together with the hope that it’ll all work out. but he does it anyway. tv crowley doesn’t have optimism, but he has something that is, to me, even more important. in the show, “Crowley has something no other demons have, especially not Hastur: an imagination.”

an imagination. strangely enough, in the book, crowley admits to lacking it: “They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination,” book crowley says. but tv crowley has that imagination, and that is what saves him–and that, to me, makes so much sense.

tv crowley is traumatised. when he fell, some part of him broke, and while he claims he “sauntered vaguely downwards,” he really took a “million-light-year freestyle dive into a pool of boiling sulphur,” and it hurt. tv crowley is hurt. and so am i. 

i also give up. i also break down. i don’t, and can’t, ever believe that the universe is looking out for me–or for anyone. i am not an optimist. but you know what? i have imagination. i have friends. and if it came down to me to help save the world, that is exactly what i would rely on.

Book Crowley was written by two youngish men at the dawn of the post Cold War era. He is a young man because they were young men. He has optimism because that was the mood at the time. Optimism that decades of MAD was over.

TV Crowley was adapted by a man who is older, and more cynical, and has lost his best friend to Alzheimer’s.

 ^ Yes this.

Book! Crowley was written by young men with the world at their feet, and really, why wouldn’t you feel optimistic as your life starts out?

TV! Crowley was written by a man who lost his best friend to Alzheimer’s and no, it wasn’t a fire, but this man knew/ knows intimately that you don’t just pick yourself up from that straight away. You go and you drink and you mourn andyou grieve and you cry.

And only when that’s happened and you come to terms with the fact that this man is never going to come back, you shift to accommodate that loss and then you look toward what needs to be happening.

TV! Crowley’s reaction was so much more realistic for the relationship he and TV! Aziraphale had and it would’ve been out of character for him to just dust himself off and drive straight to Tadfield, because it would have been like saying those six thousand years meant nothing to him. But they did and so he broke.

I’ve lost someone I’ve loved very suddenly. I’ve had those final conversations, sitting by myself at a lonely table with a ghost. Sometimes there are things left to say, apologies to make. And if I could have said, “Where are you? Wherever you are, I’ll come to you,” and done one last thing to help them—I’d have done it. Even if it meant holding myself together through an inferno by the force of my imagination, even believing as Crowley did that I would still never see them again. He didn’t know Adam would give the angel back. But they had unfinished business, and he was going to finish it, if it was the last thing he did. Which it should have been. He didn’t expect a happy ending, he just needed an ending, one that wasn’t cut short.

“I’ve lost my best friend”

God only knows what the context of this is

But the Crowley and Aziraphale energy is off the charts

“Look, I’m just saying, it wasn’t my fault if he decided to commit suicide by threatening you.”

“Do you really think our respective offices are going to care?”

“Well, no. I’m just saying it’s not my fault. Anyway, he was a saint to his parish and a demon to his housekeeper. Makes him a double agent. So we’re both doing the right thing.”

“And both doing the wrong one.”

“Well. I suppose you could make that argument.”

“How deep do you think we need to put him?”

“I wouldn’t know, I’ve never hidden a body before. I still don’t see why we can’t miracle him away.”

“Audits, my dear. I’m not sure how your side is about it, but my side audits miracles. Unless you’re really sure about that “both doing the right thing” argument.”

“Whatever. Hold your end higher, would you? He’s heavier than he looks.”

WTF, I love this fandom

As a medieval art scholar and an obsessive GO fan, this made my whole week.

IT GOT BETTER

giggle giggle giggle

@deadcatwithaflamethrower @thebibliosphere

It got SO MUCH BETTER

for my dear friend who looks good as Death warmed up <3

Hey so I accidentally filled my canvas with black and this happened with one of the sketches?

It’s been a while since I’ve done any pieces with only lighting and nothing else, but I’m tempted

I got you, my angel! 

au where aziraphale and crowley are the tiny angel and demon on a person’s shoulder (adam, specifically)

This is fascinating, and from what I remember pretty accurate (although the opening, which is primarily green, is so evenly split it should be some kind of chequer-board). What’s mostly interesting is how little there is that’s pure red or pure green, which is how I remember it. Christmas, as they say in New Mexico, in answer to the State Question. It’s also why we were so unimpressed by anyone who thought they could tell us who wrote what, because when they cited things, they were mostly wrong.

I was amused to see a tiny sprinkling of me in Moving Pictures. Because there was a sprinkling of me in there. Terry would send me the book as he was writing it, and call to bounce ideas off me, and I’d cheerfully suggest lines and ideas. (There’s a sprinkling of me in Guards! Guards! and Moving Pictures, with a lot of me in Pyramids and Eric.)