Aragon: And This Is Legolas Greenleaf, Son Of The Elvish King Thranduil, Prince Of The Mirkwood, Esteemed

HIII i love your blog lol!

awwww thank you! I love your profile pic the duck is adorable :D

damn it looks like my inklings have all run dry

does anyone have the foggiest

best uncle 14 fr

oh he is already such a great uncle, giving her the look of ‘I’m supposed to be retired but for you? Say no more, we’ll sneak away tomorrow, your wish is my command’

the dumbest temptations that Crowley has ever performed:

tempting a cat to walk over to him when the little 'pssh pshhh kittyyyy' noises weren't working (It was a black cat so it was totally evil and demonic guys trust)

spent 30 seconds panic-adjusting the meat he was offering to Aziraphale in the Job flashback so that it would taste just right

"IT NEEDS MORE SALT WAIT NO THAT'S TOO SALTY NEVERMIND WHERE'S THE SEASONING WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY DON'T HAVE SEASONING HERE I THOUGHT GOD CARED??"

his sunglasses made everything too dark for him to see the little stars in Aziraphale's eyes so every time he gets a new pair he makes sure they're just dark enough to hide his eyes and block out bright lights but not dark enough that he can't see his angel's beautiful pupils <3

snakes.

whenever a snake species starts becoming endangered he tempts governments into giving funding for wildlife conservation (occasionally if they're still endangered he grabs a snake or two to raise and reintroduce himself) (It's EVIL because they're POISONOUS and eat...well, mostly mice but don't tell Hell that)

tempting the guy in charge of the playlists at his favourite bar to play angsty songs on repeat when he's brooding >:(

Yaaaas okay here we go:

I started watching it fairly recently when Crowley and Aziraphale kept haunting my pinterest feed until I gave in and looked up the show (totally a demonic temptation now that I think about it)

Noooo I too poor :(

I have some ideas for fanfics but haven't gotten around to completing any (me core fr) and I've made one (1) edit that I spent way to long on lmao

OOOOOOh okay it would have to be a tie between the Crowley goes to Therapy one, which was also the first good omens fic I read and a 200 part professors AU by Ghostinthehouse on ao3

Me, frantically scrolling through my bookmarked fics: WHY IN MY TIME OF NEED DO I HAVE NOTHING??

Beelzebub def I love that little stinky dude

not a quote but that little "hmmp" that Aziraphale does when he realizes that Crowley turned job's goats into birds instead of killing them (he also puts his hands on his hips wait he's so precious)

noooo don't make me choose between my children T_T probably season 1...I would die for that 30 minute flashback at the start of episode 3 with Azriaphale and Crowley throughout the ages and I love me a happy ending (end of season 2 who?)

Yesssss I'm currently obsessed with David Tennant's Doctor Who (he's just a funky little guy fr)

OKAY HEAR ME OUT: my ideal good omens crossover would be with doctor who (the hyperfixation is real y'all.) Crowley and Aziraphale would appear in the doctor who universe (canon can get with it or die by my blade) and become besties with the doctor (14th or 10th, obviously) and Donna. THEN one time post season 2 Crowley appears in front of a bunch of UNIT guys (Shirley and Mel my babies ^_^ ) and while everyone else is freaking out the doctor just like "Hi Crowley :)" and then he looks around and is like "Where's your Angel?" and Crowley just starts SOBBING and gets a hug :)

there's a special place in my heart for the 'eccentric old blonde guy who everyone loves and his scary genderfluid/queer spouse with the sunglasses run a bookshop and refuse to actually sell people books' type of AU

Overall, really good :) the fics and edits and fanart are amazing (everyone is so talented like what) and people are generally super nice

would I be able to call myself a proper good omens fan if I didn't say the Aziraphale steps into the circle scence?

I LITERALLY HAVE AN ENTIRE PLAYLIST DEDICATED TO THEM <3 probalyyy first love/late spring by Mitski but also GOOD OLD FASHIONED LOVER BOY OMGGG I can't

yessss its called 'Ineffable Husbands <3' its 2 hours and 3 minutes

ive only met 1 other person irl who's seen it and one time in class I saw they were reading good omens fanfic on their Chromebook (i'd recognised that ao3 font anywhere lol)

noooo I cant pick just oneee but probably the time where Aziraphale was freaking out about performing his magic on the west end stage and Crowley was all supportive and reassuring him he was amazing AND ALSO the 'to the world' scene *starts crying tears of cuteness*

ooooooh def the season 2 opening scene before creation, where Crowley's making the universe (he smiles so MUCH it's adorable) and when Aziraphale's helping him and they're just so cuteeee

OF COURSE (It made me cry)

Nopeeee this is kinda my first Good Omens post really (wish me luck y'all)

season 2 (Bildad the Shuite is queen fr)

apart from bildad the Shuite (his own category that ascends time and space <3) I love the nanny bob

I sometimes forget that Crowley being Raphael (Archangel of healing, mostly) before he fell isn't actually canon, I love it so much!! also he, Gabriel (ew), Micheal (double ew), and Uriel all being archangel siblings is such a cute idea

okay its not really a theory but I NEED Crowley to be all "sUprEmE arChAnGeL aZirAphALe" when he sees him again (and they also need to hug at one point where they're clinging to each other and aren't letting go for a longggg time)

WILD CARD (ooooooh fun) ask whatever ya want :)

This was super fun to do :):) (also its 5 minutes to midnight and my Duolingo streak is hanging in the balance)

ask game for people in the good omens fandom!

when did you first watch/discover good omens, and how did you find out about it?

do you have any merch?

have you created any fanart or fanfiction, or really any content for the fandom?

what is (if you read) your favorite good omens longfic?

what is (if you read) your favorite good omens one-shot?

who is your favorite side character?

what is your favorite underappreciated quote?

do you prefer season 1 or 2, and why?

have you seen any other work by david tennant and/or michael sheen?

have you ever imagined or created a crossover with another fandom for good omens? which one, and what was it about?

what is (if you read) your favorite type of human au for good omens? (ex. coffee shop au, surgeons au, plant store au)

has your interaction with the good omens fandom been overall good or bad?

what's your favorite instance of FUCK in the show?

what is your favorite good omens-coded song?

do you have any good omens playlists?

do you know anyone irl who has also watched good omens?

what is your favorite husband-y moment between aziracrow?

what is your favorite moment through history, and why?

have you ever read the crowley therapy fic (the most-read fic in the fandom)?

have you ever had a good omens post breach containment (aka get popular enough to end up on pinterest somewhere)?

do you prefer crowley's hair from s1 or s2? why?

what is your favorite crowley hairstyle through the ages?

what's a good omens headcanon that you considered canon?

what's a theory for season 3 that you NEED to be included?

WILD CARD!! ask whatever you want!! :)

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

I love these so much !!!

The 14th Doctor's Adventures

So, it's time for a little theory that may spiral into its own AO3 fic. My theory on what 14 uses his TARDIS for in his own time. Like 15 suggested, he uses it for therapy. 14 chooses his solo travel, not for adventure but for closure.

His first stop is to his oldest friend. He takes the TARDIS back to 2011, wearing a perception filter so he isn't mistaken for 10. And 14 attends the funeral of Brigadier, Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. He stands in the back, out of sight. He mourns and grieves, letting himself stop and feel. He pays his respects to The Brig and says goodbye, promising to watch over his family. Then he catches sight of Sarah Jane and knows his next stop, another old friend.

He takes the TARDIS forward from 2011 to 2017, from one funeral to another. Still wearing the perception filter, 14 stands on a nearby hill, watching and hearing the funeral of Sarah Jane Smith. And like his old friend Jo Grant said, it breaks both his hearts. 14 leaves a TARDIS key and a version of his sonic screwdriver on Sarah Jane's grave and turns away. Unlike The Brig's funeral, 14's grief over Sarah Jane is raw and quiet. He steps away and simply whispers

"Goodbye. My Sarah Jane" and then leaves for The TARDIS, to a much happier location. 14 uses The TARDIS to attend every single major event he missed from his companions lives.

He visits Jamie McCrimmon back in 19th century Scotland, finding his old friend regained his memories in his twilight years and the two embrace and catch up with each other.

He attends weddings of his friends, Martha and Mickey, Tegan and Nysaa, Jack and River (that one throws him off slightly). He dances and laughs and lets himself feel.

He visits Chiswick in the late 2000s, standing outside the hospital and seeing Donna and Shaun leave, carrying a tiny little baby that he knows will one day be Rose Noble.

He's there for Kate Stewart after her father is gone, explaining how he was there, that he's a future Doctor. 14 lets Kate scream and shout at him and then cry on his shoulder, just holds her.

14 visits Jack Harkness after he lost both his grandson Steven and Ianto Jones and helps his friend. He drags Jack up out of his depression and helps him, even letting Jack hate him and blame him, for which Jack later apologises for.

14 goes back again to 1970's New Jersey and breaks the rules, visiting Amy and Rory in their later life. He meets their adoptive son and talks about everything that's happened to both of them, reassuring them he saved River in the end and spent 24 years in the same place as her at the end of their time together.

While 15 is off amongst the stars, fighting robots and racism and shapeshifters and Gods of Chaos, 14 is bouncing all around Earth, dropping in on old friends and healing broken trust. He goes everywhere, everywhen for everyone. He is The Doctor in a way he never was before. And he loves every minute of it.

@emilythezeldafan @crypt--creature

ask game!! 15 and 36?

Thank you for the asks :D

15: last thing I ate was some of my brother's Easter bunny (he shall never know)

36: Do I paint my nails? Yessss normally they're black and pink (the only two colours I have lol)

ooooooh I love this concept

Headcannon:

Tolkien describes many of the elves in LOTR as ‘beautiful and perilous’ or some other combination to the same effect. What if Elves created uncanny valley effects towards the other races of Middle-earth?

The elves keep a little too still.

They blink, but hardly enough to be ‘normal’.

Their skin is a little too perfect.

Elves’ grace feels more predatory.

They can be completely silent.

In conclusion, give me more unsettling Tolkien elves. Please, fanfic writers I beg you.

Aziraphale: Crowley, dear, are you...crying?

Crowley: nO i'm having an allergic reaction

Aziraphale: to what?

Crowley: ...life.