Effable Husbands

Aziraphale/Crowley. Plus an array of other Good Omens-related goodies. Work-unsafe posts are tagged #lemons. This is a sideblog for @onthedriftinthetardis. Avatar by @mielpetite.

[daily-crowley]

Crowley Of The Day: happy pride month everyone! To start it off, I give you my (second) favourite look from this diva 🖤

[tsilvy]

friendly reminder that aziraphale made crowley smile in rome when he realized he was in a foul mood

that he blushed when he described crowley as a wily adversary (keeps me on my toes)

that he smiled when he realized the bentley was back without a scratch after having blown up

that he refused crowley a suicide pill

that he kept an eye on crowley for 26 years after 1941, then sought him out and gave him the holy water so that he didn't have to get it himself. but i can't have you risking your life. not even for something dangerous. if we must quote it then at least let's quote it right.

that he went to hell for crowley and made sure they wouldn't bother him anymore

that he only ever cared about crowley not being destroyed

that no way aziraphale didn't check on crowley in three years

friendly reminder that aziraphale would never give up crowley without a fight, not even if crowley asked

[books-and-omens]

I suspended so so much disbelief for S2, and then S3 came, and all of that disbelief came crashing back.

THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT STORY

[twilightofthesandwiches]

And what if I never needed their souls to be 'intertwined by fate'? What if all that I needed is for them to love each other because they have known and understood and shaped each other for so long? And what if I never cared about them ‘finding each other in every universe?’ What if all that I wanted is for them, in this universe where the odds were so stacked against them, to choose each other?

[orayart]

a quick Husbands Being Cute‼️ might do a serie of them flirting around

[mastergeckotattoo]

"Our" Side

[afrenchwriter]

I don’t think Aziraphale’s love for Crowley was is the most predictable thing in the universe.

I think it's the opposite, actually.

Yes, Aziraphale is an angel, he loves, that’s what he does. But he’s not supposed to love a demon. Because of what he is, of who he is, he struggled with his feelings for Crowley for millennia. And yet, each time they met, he made the choice to speak with him, to protect him, to stay, to bond - to love.

In a universe in which angels and demons are supposed to be hereditary enemies, an angel chose a demon, over and over again (with a few notable exceptions, but we all know why - and he still loved him).

Messy? Oh, yes.

Silly? How can such a relationship, built on trust and affection, be silly?

Predictable? More like ineffable.

[fellangel]

this actually bothers me so much.

God should NOT have approved of their relationship. Thats what made it so appealing to the viewers, right? That they weren't supposed to be together. That literally everything, from the structures surrounding them down to their literal particles as a holy and unholy being, was trying to keep the two sides apart ("angel... demon... probably explode") and that they were the only two cogs in the machine that malfunctioned and DECIDED to love each other. There wasn't some string of fate connecting them (fuck you neil gaiman). We call them ineffable husbands because their love was something hard to understand and impossible to put into words. And they were always uncertain about it, they were always scared. ESPECIALLY AZIRAPHALE! But they CHOSE this love.

It would have been so much more powerful if God had told him that She disliked his love for Crowley and Aziraphale stood his ground and said "and so what?" We could have had a scene in which they choose each other over their oppressors. Instead, God planned everything and their love, that was interesting because it was unwanted, strange, unpredictable by Heaven and Hell became the goal, the norm across universes, the prediction. Oh they were actually soulmates all along. Who find each other in every universe because a higher being wants them together.

this ending is not The Lady. This is not escaping oppression, this is giving in to it and letting it happen and painting it as a romantic fate. What the fuck

[rikelister]

They're having a romantic and wet date night 🍷

(I'm an unknown artist, please help promote my drawings. Thank you all!)

[momsspaghetti39]

Screw everyone who wants you to give up, this world is worth saving

[cheeselinn]

another art with our parents

[alwaystuesday]

Before the Fall

New art! New style? Just sort of happened. Gouache + watercolour pencil

[sapierror]

also, I really don't know how to phrase this but to me the finale misses the joke, you know?

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

that corporate satire was what allowed this to be a comedy, a space to tell a beautiful story about choices, humanity, and love. the finale for some reason treats that background seriously, it turns that setting into an omnipotent, dystopian threat, which completely suffocates both the romance and the humor by replacing a petty system you can outwit, outsmart, outmanouver with a bleak, unearned nightmare where "the company controls your every breath, and you can never clock out"

[hellandholywater]

Yes! Exactly this.

The message of the book & first series was that freedom is there for the taking — Crowley not only asked questions, he made his own choices, and so did Aziraphale — that's why Crowley was fascinated by him when he admitted to giving away his flaming sword!

The pair of them had free will because they chose to be on their own side — and it was a (romantic) comedy because they got away with it.

[kandelyabr55]

[lei-sam]

Thank-you sketch for the lovely @echosilverwolf  who requested for something with soft looks or soft kisses , and this scene came to mind 😊❤ Who says this old demon can’t be the most perfect gentleman? 😆 Thanks again for your support Echo! I really appreciate it!! ❤❤❤

[lei-sam]

This is still one of my favorite things I’ve ever drawn

[the-book-of-bad-habits]

Decided to clean it up a little

[enthusiasteditor]

Just a little thank you to every Good Omens fanfiction writer out there. Whether it’s for the laughs, the heartbreak, the comfort, the escapism, the smut, the softness, or the “just one more chapter at 2am” moments, you’ve done, you’re doing, and I’m sure you’ll keep doing an amazing job. This fandom wouldn’t feel like home without you ❤️

[elf-from-subway]

I rewatched the first two seasons and remembered how much I love those flashbacks😭💔

If Crowley didn't draw that mustache on him, then what's the point of all this?

[mister-a-z-fell]

It’s not right, yet. But it’s getting there.