aziraphale’s mad at crowley for some reason so he starts blessing everything in sight
aziraphale, glaring at crowley while wearing a cross around his neck and guzzling a bottle of holy water that he just blessed:
crowley, visibly frightened: BABE
aziraphale, at lunch: WAIT my dear, let me say grace over our food first :)
crowley: [strangled scream] JUST TALK TO ME ANGEL
Gardening is a Crowley thing. The only thing Crowley devotes any personal attention to in his apartment is his lush garden which he demands meet his exacting standards.
When Crowley and Aziraphale have to spend years in each others back pockets raising Warlock Dowling, Aziraphale chooses to disguise himself as …the gardener. You can’t tell me Aziraphale didn’t spend half his time trolling Nanny Crowley with his ‘kind-hearted’ and ineffective gardening techniques.
I can’t help but picture Crowley, dressed as Nanny Ashtoreth, in the garden, at 2 in the morning, viciously doing some damage-control ‘gardening.’
“Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing” indeed.
Okay but no, I’m suddenly OVERWHELMINGLY entertained by the idea of Aziraphale being nicer to plants than Crowley is, while also being UTTERLY INCOMPETENT as an actual gardener/horticulturitst/botanist. And him and Crowley getting into nightly arguments after Warlock has gone to bed like
Crowley: Praise! And Comfort! Are NOT SUBSTITUTES! FOR OPTIMAL NITROGEN LEVELS IN THE SOIL!!!!
Aziraphale: but crowley that orchid was positively in tears after you were finished berating it–
Crowley: SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE DID
I mean, he did tell Warlock that slugs and snails, two common garden PESTS, should be respected and cared for.
Catch Nanny on the lawn with a 10lb bag of salt, strongly disagreeing.
Ok, so I was sitting down to pick out the Good Omens theme song by ear today, and it is just a masterpiece. The orchestration, the contrasting themes, its indecision as to whether to be major or minor, the PERCUSSION, the way it builds as the world progresses to an ineffable end…
But here’s my favorite thing:
After the angelic B theme, the modulation back to the A theme goes UP A TRITONE, from the tonal center of A to Eb.
The tritone, the interval that occurs when you divide the Western musical octave equally in half, was historically called diabolus in musica or THE DEVIL IN MUSIC, and was avoided as much as possible up until the end of the Renaissance era.
I see you David Arnold, I see you
(The moment in question happens at 1:27)
“It’s a bond that leads to a surprising amount of teasing and flirting between the pair, as Tennant’s demonic fallen angel, Crowley, performs miracle after miracle to keep Aziraphale out of trouble and vice versa. Crowley’s virulent claims of demonic allegiance easily forgotten with a batting of Aziraphale’s eyelashes.
It’s an interaction that isn’t just gay as all hell (and heaven, really), but embodies the shows all too important message, that even the most extreme beings are more complex than they seem.
The two are irresistibly good together in the yin and yang style portrayal, which they both have said they played as a romance.
While Gaiman has always carefully stated the exact nature of the characters’ love for one another is up to the reader, it’s difficult to watch Michael Sheen gazing adoringly at David Tennant as he saunters around in tight leather pants and sunnies, blaring Bohemian Rhapsody from the radio in his Bentley, and not read the two’s story as 6000 year-long romantic comedy.
There’s certainly a queer undertone to the pairing, not merely characterised by their familiarity or flirtatiousness (or several people observing them as boyfriends on several occasions), but in the consistent cautiousness that both Crowley and Aziraphale approach their ‘fraternising’ with.
One of the many examples being when Crowley offers Aziraphale to stay with him and Aziraphale replies, not with a no, but a “I don’t think my side would like that”.
Something that consistently characterises queer relationships in fiction and life, is an awareness that being together ultimately endangers one another, in contexts where queerness is deemed wrong.
So, it’s no wonder really that Crowley and Aziraphale’s constant fear that their friendship endangers the other, because they are meant to be sworn enemies as agents of heaven and hell, combined with all the other elements of their onscreen relationship is so lovingly read as queer by fans.”
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