No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

kedreeva

If Gaiman himself knocked on my front door and told me he would add Crowley and Aziraphale saying “I love you” to Good Omens but I had to give up “You go too fast for me, Crowley” to get it, I would turn him down in a heartbeat. I know damn well which one of those lines is more romantic. I know which one of those lines is going to haunt me for y e a r s down the road. I know which line I’m going to be crying about for the next century, and it isn’t some common i love you. You can put those words in any character’s mouth, but you’ll have to pry you go too fast for me from my cold dead fingers before I give it to anyone else.

greenbergsays

“You go too fast for me, Crowley,” is beautiful and fucking perfect and there isn’t a goddamn “I love you” in existence that can match it for feeling

kedreeva

That’s because I love you is a cut out!! Those are three very good words, but they are a stencil you can use on anyone!!

you go too fast for me, Crowley are you fucking kidding me, not to be dramatic but those 7 words hold 6 millennia of unrequited love and still have room left over to hold the look on Aziraphale’s face when Crowley hands him those books and the devastation of two words scribbled on a piece of paper in a park, and an entire matching-tartan thermos full of Aziraphale’s worst fear for Crowley because he won’t lose Crowley to the getting of it and he knows Crowley won’t use it on himself if Aziraphale is the one who gave it to him, because that would make it Aziraphale’s fault and Crowley wouldn’t do that to him because Crowley loves him and they both know it.

There’s only 7 words and they say I’m sorry, and I can’t yet, and I want to, and I’m not ready, this is too much for me, there are too many things I have to sort through on my end still, and you don’t have to wait for me but I hope that you can because I meant what I said about picnics and dining at the Ritz but I also meant it when I said one day. And somewhere, tucked safely into the curve of one of the e’s where Crowley will have to find it later after unpacking the rest, are the words I love you, too.

greenbergsays

I love how we think of the same things. Look, I wrote this yesterday as an original reply to this post and then went, “no, we’ll talk about this later” and dumped in a draft:

as someone who is both asexual and who lives with severe anxiety, “you go too fast for me, Crowley,” is the best and worst line in existence. It speaks to my very soul.

You can hear the resignation in his voice when he says it. The quiet acceptance of what he thinks is going to happen.

He’s saying, “I know what you’re asking of me, what you’re offering, but I can’t yet.” He’s saying, “Yes, I want it. Yes, I have feelings for you, but they’re still new and frightening for me. I have to get used to them first, before I can do anything about them.” He’s saying, “I know I take too long. I know I’m processing too slowly for you. You want more, but I can’t give it. It’s okay if you don’t want to wait.”

Not a single person in existence asked us, but we’re both out here like, “AZIRAPHALE DOESN’T EXPECT CROWLEY TO WAIT FOR HIM 😭😭😭”

kedreeva

I would also like to point out that the FOLLOW UP to this conversation is that not ONLY does Crowley fucking wait for him because of course he will wait as long as Aziraphale needs, he makes sure “one day” comes true for Aziraphale. Not once, but TWICE they are seen dining at the Ritz.

Look me in my fucking eyes and tell me that Aziraphale saying “Perhaps one day we could, I don’t know, go for a picnic. Dine at the Ritz” followed by “you go too fast for me, Crowley” isn’t an EXPRESS timeline laid out for them as a couple because it fucking is. It’s 100% absolutely Aziraphale saying “I’m not ready right now, but someday when I am ready, I would like to do these things with you, if you’ll just wait for me.”

and that’s exactly what we see happen.

That is what KILLS ME.

Aziraphale tells him, in not so many words: “When I’m ready, I would like to dine at the Ritz with you.”

and then we later see them dining repeatedly at the Ritz together.

I just?? How??? does anyone?? It’s the most obvious narrative decision ever made!! And IMPORTANTLY, it’s made BEFORE the end. It’s made BEFORE they have experienced the stresses of the nonpocalypse and it’s shown to us in the first place casually, and they are both comfortable there, which implies that not only have they have done this before, they have done this often. Which means at some point we haven’t been privilege to seeing, there was a first time.

There had to have been, at some point in time between you go too fast for me and well I’ll be damned, a moment where one of them looked at the other and asked if they would like to dine at the Ritz. And either Crowley offered in a moment of bravery and Aziraphale decided that it was no longer too fast, or Aziraphale sorted out his shit and told Crowley he was ready for this by asking if he’d like to dine at the Ritz today, and honestly?? Thanks be, because I’m tired of just being TOLD people are in love, fucking show me it or get out of here, and Good Omens fucking delivered.

So yeah. You can have that exchange over my dead body.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.