Tickety boo

Humble tumblr of an Good Omens obessionist

[flameslikeanything]

The Archangel Gabriel, Deliverer of Holy Memos, Keeper (and strict enforcer) of the Heavenly Handbook of Rules and Regulations, and general terror to all angelic interns unfortunate enough to hang up his motivational kitten posters a micrometer too far to the left. Do not call him “Gabe”, and definitely do not call him “Ol’ Watermelon Wings”

[profoundingly]

Crowley’s been pulling the same dumb ‘original sin temptation’ joke for the last 6000 years and Aziraphale still almost falls for it every time

Bonus for after the apocalypse:

what does it all mean?

[brokendeathangel]

Joining in @Lagt32635680 in drawing Eldritch cats Crowley and Aziraphale hehe. (Tbh I’m not good at drawing cats/animals… I’m sorry ) Also, sharing cat inspo pics of eldritchcat!crowley and eldritchcat!aziraphale hehe!

[neil-gaiman]

So, now that it's October, is Crowley awake yet???

If you can call it waking. I think he’s up enough to phone Aziraphale and ask if it’s all over yet? I do not think Aziraphale’s answer about how we aren’t actually in the official second lockdown yet, or the tone of voice in which it is delivered, followed by Aziraphale’s helpful explanations about the Rule of Six, Household Mixing, or pub opening times, did much to get Crowley out of bed. And he’d put down the phone with a sigh.

If this were the old days, Crowley probably thought, I’d have a commendation for the masks by now. A small, uncomfortable thing that human beings can do to keep other people and themselves safer, turned into a giant politicised shouty mess. Brilliant. Probably I’d have a plaque. But of course, they don’t need demons to come up with stuff like that. Hell is empty. All the demons are here...

And then, just a small, snakey snore.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Hi, I have unusual but important ask:). Could you do close up gifs or pictures of that food on the table in Ritz? When ineffable husbands are on dates and I would like to know what they are eating or having on the table. So far I haven´t been able to recognize much, just some tea and wine. Or do you have more information about this issue? Thank you for answer.

Hiya! :)

So... 😈

Their first Ritz visit we see (episode 1):

Two glasses of wine, two coffees and Aziraphale seems to be finishing some kind of a dessert that unfortunately seems to be too eaten to identify :/ :D. 

Their other visit though (episode 6), oh yes, much better! :)

A lof of things, right? So what are they?

I was thinking that there was a possibility the crew ordered the food at the restaurant - now, we’ve got to keep in mind that the Ritz was not shot actually at the Ritz, but at the Criterion (known as Savini at Criterion since 2015). Unfortunately the restaurant is closed since 2018 and they webpages no longer work but I managed to find the menus from 2017 when the Good Omens series was shot and look! :)

Crowley and Aziraphale had the ‘Champagne/Martini Afternoon Tea’:

CHAMPAGNE / MARTINI AFTERNOON TEA - Scones with selection of jams and clotted cream, finger sandwiches, pastry and biscuits served with a glass of champagne.

(I kind of wish the restaurant wasn’t closed so I could save some money,   someday travel there and treat myself to this - it does look amazing, doesn’t it? :))

Going back to their first visit I browsed though the Criterion dessert pics trying to identify it but had no luck. These are the desserts from the menu, so it could be one of them :)

Finally, in episode 2 (filmed at Penge Cafe, London):

Aziraphale is eating an angel cake. :)

Neil shared the bts photo of it:

And because in the book is the sentence: Aziraphale helped himself to Crowley’s slice of angel cake., my headcannon is that Crowley ordered it, ate that lil’ corner bit, and then gave it to Aziraphale :).

[zephyrofalltrades]

He just likes Slytherin’s aesthetics. But we know he’s a Hufflepuff (so does Aziraphale, but he indulges his demon).

SNEKTEMBER DAY 22: Magic

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The symbol of Hufflepuff house is now also a snake. If Slytherin gets pissy about it, then they can have the badger.

[visualkid-n]

[arejare]

No context required... Just a sexy egg.

Enjoy!

[cliopadra]

It’s spooky time!

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Michael: From early on I’d decided that I think Aziraphale is a bit in love with Crowley even though he’s like the absolute opposite, they’re on opposite teams. There was something about… I sort of tried to think about: How would you play an angel, well, it must be a being full of love,so then if you’ve got someone who’s supposed to be your absolute enemy and the opposite how does that work if you’re full of love for them and I think he just sort of falls in love with Crowley over the hundreds and hundreds… the millenia that they spent together. And, so that helps because David is very easy to fall in love with. So I just spent most of my time just gazing at him lovingly in scenes. (x)

[chrizwho]

sketchdump of the secretly married husbands being secretly married.

[cliopadra]

Merry Michaelmas! 

I had no idea this holiday existed last year, learning about it exactly one week after it happened and only just so managed to remember it’s existence this year, so have some very doodly Arch-holes!

[cliopadra]

So while we’re on the topic of Michaelmas, apparently in Ireland there used to be a tradition to serve pie on the holiday with a ring baked into it. Whoever found the ring could expect to get married in the next year! …reminds me of our ridiculous christmas traditions over here…

[oibibg]

[chocolama-stuff]

La creazione di Adamo

[firecrackerswt]

3 - Ducks

[top-crowley-central]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who doesn’t think that Crowley has a praise kink?? 😅

I see it all the time, that Crowley secretly wants to be called “nice” and “good” and I’m just honestly, really confused where y’all are getting that implication from? Is it something from the book that I’m missing? Is it because of the Wall Slam Scene?

Because, to me, it just seems like Aziraphale would be the one to have the praise kink out of the two of them.

I mean, Aziraphale lights up like the fucking sun as soon as Crowley says that he “didn’t (or can’t, technically) do the wrong thing” on the Eden Wall (despite the sentiment being sarcastic in nature), and spends the entire show wanting to be accepted and reassured that he’s good and just, while Crowley spends the entire show snarling at the very idea that he’s viewed as nice and seems to hate being called it.

I just don’t know where or when that translated in fandom to: “Crowley 100% has a praise kink and Aziraphale doesn’t.”

[babel-of-screaming-sounds-deact]

Personally, I just headcanon Crowley as the one wanting Aziraphale to admit that he loves hanging out with a demon. That’s why, partly, why the Wall Slam happens -- Crowley doesn’t want Aziraphale to sugarcoat anything and call him nice (which he’s not, not really) but just to fucking admit that he likes him the way he is. Miracling all those guns into real ones and then having the people have miraculous escapes wasn’t nice, it was creative and spiteful, and, according to Crowley, Aziraphale made all the wrong conclusions out of it.

So I don’t think Crowley wants to be praised, he wants to be accepted.

Aziraphale, though, is a whole different story. He’s really so genuinely grateful for being praised on the Wall that it doesn’t even register with him that it was sarcasm.  He also likes to be called a bit of a bastard, surely.

That moment at Warlock’s party (and Aziraphale’s inclination for magic tricks in general) are actually screaming “praise me” and that’s what Crowley does in the end. His performance was a complete disaster but Crowley still reassures him.

All the times Heaven praises him, it’s for deeds that are supposed to take away something that he loves (the bookshop in 1801; then the Earth). So Aziraphale wants to be praised for things that he himself considers important; for his own choices.

[charlottemadison42]

This is my understanding of them too. I love reading Crowley has a praise kink content, but I think praise and thanks embarrass and frustrate him. He wants to know he’s accepted as he is, as a demon, and he wants to be reassured he’s going to come out all right. And he wants to look good doing it, which praise and thanks sort of dismantle in a way I read as making him uncomfortable more than horny.

Aziraphale wants to be told that he’s good. That he’s cute. That he’s doing the right thing. That the play he likes is all right. He lights up like a Christmas tree when told he’s a good angel. He wants to entertain. He likes line dancing. He bought those shiny pumps to get him some demonic compliments.

Oh how i love my soft idiot boys. <3

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Tbh, this interpretation makes sense as well because Crowley actually does get a lot of praise, both in the show and the book. It's just that it's largely praise from Hell— in the form of commendations— and it's praise for stuff relating to the elaborate persona that Crowley has constructed around himself as the Serpent of Eden, rather than praise for Crowley himself.

I mean, I feel like you could read Crowley's desperate desire to be seen as cool (as shown by his insistence in the book on decorating his flat the way he assumes a Cool Human Person would have it) as desire for praise, but even then, it's not really him. Crowley has a fridge full of perfectly preserved gourmet food that he never actually plans on eating; he makes sure to buy a new computer every time his own model starts to go out if date, but doesn't actually know how to operate any of them.

Getting called "cool" just means that he's done a good job at playing the character of 'Super Cool Person Who Definitely Isn't Freaking Out About How Uncool He Is'. It doesn't say anything about him as a person.

And he has to have similar anxieties around 'nice'. I mean, I think he does enjoy Aziraphale's compliments sometimes— look at his face in the WW2 church scene when Aziraphale calls him "kind" and tell me he isn't secretly super chuffed with himself— but then that was really more a compliment of his actions ("that was very kind of you" as opposed to "you are very kind") whereas the wall-scene is triggered by Aziraphale calling him "deep down… quite a nice person". Which has kind of different implications.

Crowley can choose to do kind things sometimes (probably has to, in order to tempt people properly), but being a "nice person" suggests a sort of constant, internal goodness that I'm not sure Crowley believes he has.

Is he nice? He certainly does and enjoys doing a lot of things that most definitely aren't nice, even if he's not all that comfortable with straight-up child murder. He does 'nice' things as well, but he can usually find evil justifications for it, and then there's the question of whether he's doing them because he is nice, or whether it's just that he wants Aziraphale to like him. Not to mention the fact that he's constantly surrounded by people insisting that he isn't nice, and was literally cast down into Hell (which seems like an odd thing to happen to a nice person).

Whatever the fandom's opinion, I'm not sure that Crowley is completely sold on the idea of himself as a good person.

I agree, Crowley wants to be accepted. He wants to know that he'll be alright, and that Aziraphale will still want to hang out with him, even if it turns out that he does have kind of a meanstreak sometimes and (perish the thought) isn't actually as cool as he would like to be. He wants Aziraphale to be on his side.

By comparison, Aziraphale is working in an environment where it's well known that slipping up too much can lead to horrific consequences, but it's never made clear to him exactly how far one has to saunter vaguely downwards before it counts as 'Falling'. Which allows everyone in Heaven to act like he's constantly on the verge.

Most of the feedback he gets is, at best, backhanded compliments ("what you're doing is praiseworthy, but obviously doomed to failure") or else just straight up insults ("lose the gut"). He's essentially treated like the company fuckup, some sort of bumbling idiot who is best left to hang out downstairs with God's weird ape creatures, where he can't do too much damage, while the real angels sort out the complicated stuff.

I mean, even his 'promotion' in the deleted scene reads more like a punishment than a reward. No reason is given for why he is being promoted, no real praise is directed at him specifically (barring a brief comment on his "devotion to duty") and they make it perfectly clear that they don't anticipate much trouble finding a replacement. Considering Gabriel and Sandalphon show up pretty much the moment Aziraphale starts setting up something for himself on Earth that is entirely unrelated to his Heavenly duties, it really feels more like he's being recalled for 'going native' rather than being recognised for his work.

And then, when they hear Crowley outside the clothes shop, talking about how he keeps being defeated by Heaven's "champion" and how the Angel Aziraphale is the only angel capable of thwarting him, what do they do? Go back into the bookshop, tell Aziraphale there's been a "change of plan" and rush out as quickly as possible.

Like, as far as they're aware, they just found out that Aziraphale is the best Earthly agent they have at their disposal, and the only person who stands a chance against Hell's Finest, and yet not only do they not tell him this but they do their best to act as though this change in plans has nothing to do with him whatsoever.

In fact, when Gabriel shows up again to tell Aziraphale about the incoming apocalypse, he has the gall to patronisingly remind Aziraphale that 'keeping Crowley under observation' involves not letting Crowley know that that's what's happening, and responds to Aziraphale's protest that he's been on Earth "since the beginning" with "so has Crowley."

YES, CROWLEY HAS BEEN ON EARTH SINCE THE BEGINNING! AND AS FAR AS YOU ARE AWARE NEITHER YOU, NOR MICHAEL, NOR ANY OF YOUR ARCHANGELS WOULD STAND A CHANCE AGAINST HIM, BUT AZIRAPHALE IS STILL HERE! WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT SUGGESTS, YOU FUCKING VIOLET-EYED SUIT-WEARING TWAT?!!

When Aziraphale messes up, it gets treated as yet another disappointment. When he succeeds, it gets brushed under the rug.

Aziraphale wants praise, yeah, but I think specifically what he wants— as is sort of suggested in one of the above posts— is reassurance.

He wants to be told that he's fine, that he's a Good Angel, that going against Heavenly Orders can be interpreted as a good thing actually, that there's at least one person in the universe who doesn't think that everything he does is a mistake. And crucially, he wants to know that there's somebody out there who, when he does make mistakes, will always come and fish him out of the Bastille or blow up a church for him. He wants Crowley to be on his side.