[nice-and-accurate-ineffability]

My roommates are all far too busy to read Good Omens in their free time before May, but are somehow not too busy to listen to me read it aloud to them for a full hour every night for the next couple weeks, which just goes to show that college students are actually kindergarteners.*

*at heart, of course. No one is arguing that the American Educational System, terrible though it may be, is sending literal six year olds to college and getting them into thousands of dollars of debt before they can add.

[azireffable]

(leans in close so that my lips are touching the mic) crowley watches that first film, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station and delights in the gasps from the audience who believe an actual train is headed towards them. he brings aziraphale to the showing and relishes even more in the angel’s reaction. especially since he’d spent the trip lying, telling aziraphale that it was a very interesting use of a camera obscura. really marvelous, he tells him. doesn’t mention the train at all. or the fact that it’s only a projection.

and crowley expected the uppity lecture for such a “dirty trick” but he absolutely had not expected the angel to move to clutch his hand so tightly when the train appeared to be coming right for them. and there’s only two reasons for the move, either he saw crowley as “safety” or he wanted to “protect him,” silly as that sounds to the demon.

but either possibility makes him feel a little light in the head.

[gothicmarquise]

someone’s probably mentioned this already, but if the Show Must Go On lyrics “I’ll face it with a grin - I’m never giving in” aren’t playing over this scene then

what is the Point

[chibireaper]

you know how some libraries and bookstores have their own branded tote bags? i would love love love looovee to have one labeled A.Z. Fell & Co.

[sielustaja]

Anonymous asked:

I thought the ship tag for Crowley and Aziraphale was just #good omens lolol

Lmao! Oh yes, who needs a separate show/book tag when their ship is so canon. :’D

Originally posted by astralgabriel

[seraph5]

Quick hipster Crowley because why not? Fight me. 

[alicerovai]

Ready for the apocalypse?

[elven-child]

Today on Things I Didn’t Pay Enough Attention To When I First Read Good Omens And Now They Hit Me Like A Brick

[trans-flint]

I’m reading about performative masculinity in the bible so naturally now I’m thinking about the very specific and subversive trans masculinity that Aziraphale and Crowley embody and perform. 

We have Crowley, very well dressed, very luxurious in the decade that coined the term metrosexual. He drives a really old, really nice car. He has a bunch of houseplants and has had them since at least the 70s, years and years before the present day houseplant craze. These aren’t “traditionally masculine” traits. Shadwell might be slightly afraid of Crowley but he still groups him under the same umbrella when he calls both Aziraphale and Crowley nancy boys, a type of terminology he doesn’t use to insult RP Tyler. And Anathema has no difficulty seeing Crowley as queer. 

His masculinity is not in line with traditional masculinity, it’s not, for lack of a better word, masculine, esp the masculine of 1990. It’s neat and a bit anxious with a lot of big green plants and an openness in his physical interactions with another man (Aziraphale) and no one else.

And then we have Aziraphale. I could write 10000 words on Aziraphale as a character and queerness and still not be over how incredible he is. Aziraphale is a total subversion of traditional masculinity. Everything about him, his hands, his voice, his clothing, all read as queer masculinity to everyone around him. 

The above texts talks about how weapons (and a chariot) are key elements to Jehu’s masculine performance and even today violence is so tied up in traditional masculinity. And what does Aziraphale do with his sword? He gives it away to protect someone else. He doesn’t use it to keep Adam and Eve out of the garden, he doesn’t use it to protect them from animals, he gives it to them and says ‘protect yourselves’ bc violence and aggressive defense are not part of his masculinity. And it’s significant that his one violent plan of killing the antichrist is very much tied up in his old identity as an angel, not his human masculinity. Indeed upon seeing the antichrist is a child he trails off into uncertainty about telling Shadwell to kill him and suggests maybe they should wait. 

Aziraphale’s masculinity, like Crowley’s, is not in line with traditional masculinity, it’s not aggressive or violent. It’s an old fashioned bookshop owner, with a precise voice and soft hands, and public physical intimacy with another man.

These two watched 6000 years of masculinity being made, of war and killing and oppression and violence* and decided that their masculinity would not be that. Their masculinity is friendship between those who are supposed to be enemies, and working together, and physical comfort and affection, and softness, and wanting to be left alone together and not messing people about. Their masculinity is theirs, they made it and they perform it individually and with each other, and it’s queer. 

*this is obviously not to say that that is what masculinity is, merely that that is the way that masculinity is frequently and repeatedly performed as throughout history, bc as the above passage states, when we don’t problematize it, the connection between masculinity and violence becomes more and more intertwined.  It’s not a natural connection but it becomes naturalized and accepted.