To all the new fans who didn’t read the book or listened to the audio drama: Crowley is NOT cool, I repeat, the demon Crowley is absolutely not cool. And Aziraphale is an asshole.
David Tennant when asked which of his characters of the past resemble Crowley: “The only character, I think, is Peter Vincent in the movie Fright Night. He’s a bit rock-n-roll and he thinks he’s really cool, but actually, he is not cool at all. He is rather soft and rather sweet underneath a very swaggery exterior. So there are elements of that to Crowley.” (NYCC)
to clear up misconceptions about Crowley being cool:
Crowley once heard that you can make plants grow better by talking to them. So he decided to put this into practice. Once a month he looks around his apartment and selects the most weedy and underperforming plant, then carries it around to show all the other plants while talking aloud very menacingly about what a shame it was that this one couldn’t make the cut, then leave and close the door very ominously behind him.
All of Crowley’s plants grow fantastically well because they are the most terrified plants in London. But I would genuinely ask you to consider the vision of David Tennant, wearing those glasses, walking around an apartment holding a potted plant while making Godfather-style pronouncements to other plants, before making any decisions about Crowley being cool.
bold of you to say this behaviour isn’t cool af
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Source: TV Tropes’ Trivia page for Good Omens (Literature).
Source: ‘That’s how I want to remember Terry’: Neil Gaiman reminisces about Pratchett (The Guardian)
i can tell you with full certainty that right now aj crowley has taken up a job as an uber driver and is leaving the public of london mentally scarred but where they need to be seven times as fast
I’m not sure if his uber rating would be extremely good or extremely bad. “Drove 90 down Oxford street. It was terrifying. Reached destination 30 minutes early due to over taking traffic on pavement. 5stars. Would NOT reccomend”
My favourite thing about the Aziraphale and Crowley relationship is that they tempt each other
They canonically spend time tempting each other and excusing their time spent together as “oh I’m trying to tempt this angel/demon to the side of good/evil and it’s actually working!!!” to their superiors
And it’s TRUE because their time spent “tempting each other” (ie loving each other and becoming each other’s most important person-like presence in their lives) has turned them both into true neutrals, with Aziraphale being totally okay with tiny infractions for his own satisfaction and Crowley actually caring about the consequences of his actions just because he doesn’t want to disappoint Aziraphale
They are each other’s temptation and that’s… That’s so beautiful.
Crowley deadass fuckin got humanity kicked out of eden cuz he thought it’d be a Funnie Joake what a precious bastard
I Can’t Believe Crowley And Aziraphale Are An Old Married Couple Who Go For Walks In The Park And Feed The Ducks Together
HELLO???????
full offence but those two getting absolutely smashed in the back room of aziraphale’s bookshop and arguing about dolphins is literally the funniest and gayest thing i’ve ever read in my life
aziraphale likes devilled eggs…..Meat of Four Icicles Subtext mayhaps??????
I’m fully SCREAMING
Crowley’s name is fucking Anthony I hate him
Guess I’ll die!!!!!!
AZIRAPHALE SAID FUCK
OH MY GOD HIS BOOKS
I was sat here crying over the books and my friend jesse said “at least the angel still has the most important thing to him” LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU’RE RIGHT
Is Aziraphale Fucking Dead
“Move, I’m Gay” – Aziraphale
rip 1926 bentley you were a good bitch
tag yourself….. i’m the guy who’s too polite to tell crowley his car is on fire
aziraphale was so upset crowley didn’t give a shit that he was alive that he fuckin killed a guy
Crowley And Aziraphale Adopt The Antichrist Challenge
aziraphale and crowley literally fuckin stood there going off at Literal God And Satan about how their plan sucks is the DEFINITION of the gay agenda!!!!!!!
this is so powerful alexa play me and my husband by mitski
FIRE SWORD FIRE SWORD FIRES SOWRD FIRE SWOFIRD FIERSPWRD FIRE DSOWRD FIRE SOWRD FISWREWOSRD FIRISWORD FIRE SWORCHGH F I RE S W ORD
NOT TO BE DRAMATIC BUT I AM LITERALLY GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok but Crowley is the reason Sherlock Holmes is so enduring.
No no, bear with me.
The first stories come out in The Strand. Crowley, newly woken from his near-century of sleep, reads them in Aziraphale’s copy, and really likes them. Aziraphale, who moves in literary circles, offers to introduce him to Doyle.
Crowley is very excited, and when they meet wrings Doyle’s hand and go on about how much he likes the stories.
Doyle, of course, is a rude bastard, and dismisses Crowley’s praise. He doesn’t like the character, he’s not interested in what people like Crowley think to him.
Crowley is initially tempted to destroy him, and ruin his career, but then realises he can get better revenge than that. He makes the popularity of the stories and books blow up. He puts them everywhere. He makes Sherlock Holmes the talk of London. He finances the backstreet presses printing spin-off stories.
And he keeps it going, firing up Holmes’ popularity until Doyle is driven out of his mind, believing in fairies and hating his own work. Until Arthur Conan Doyle is only ever remembered for Sherlock Holmes, and Crowley gets unending adaptations for himself.
– we might get to see how they play into other stories in the bible. 6000 years – most of that time is before the Arrangement, and hopefully we might get to see them fight / battle, or see their reactions to things like noah or moses or someth
– maybe insight into how the Arrangement started
but anyway – getting new scenes that help to build the friendship that they have over the past 6000 years. that’s really important to me. i think it will be so amazing! and hopefully pretty funny! and some more insight into their characters as well. plenty of stuff to fic!
5) actually, just, generally the fact that there are multiple(? the metatron too i hope, + fem!crowley???) nonbinary characters in a tv show. do you know how important that is
11) more angels, crowley and aziraphale’s friendship, relating back to #1. plus, a new ending ??????????????? dude??? that sounds amazing??? i’m excited
12) the bookshop fire scene, quite honestly. i know david can do some damn good tragic acting and i think that that scene will blow us all away (and i hope they keep it in!). i have some hopes that he’ll almost cry
14) crowley with a plant mister
15) dolphins…
16) the . the kraken. please
17) crowley’s yellow eyes ?????
18) a visual of aziraphale going “HERE TAKE THIS” [SHOVES A FLAMING SWORD INTO EVE’S HANDS]
that’s just some stuff off the top of my head there’s so much more tbh ahdflfjdlflkdsas i’m so so excited
When you read a post and marvel at how much is on the money.
(Having said that 9, 10, 12-16 and 18 have still to be filmed. We finally reach the bookshop on Monday. And we burn it down on the 20-22nd.)
