Nessicaa - ☆Ad Astra Per Aspera☆

Okay okay things I loved. because yes I’m devastated but I loved SO MANY THINGS.

EPISODE 1, I LOVED the absolutely manic angel Crowley, brilliant and distracted. Loved the way Aziraphale introduces himself, while Crowley never does (fast forward to their meeting on the wall, “and you are…” “Crowley”.) Loved Aziraphale’s little eyebrow bounce on ‘you are gorgeous’ and his immediate embarrassment.

Loved Crowley’s miracle on the ‘inclusive’, pulling the miracle into the universe. That Crowley is the one to say ‘let there be light’.

And! Of course! Crowley shielding Aziraphale!

Also also. (I’m going to go into meta again, aren’t I.)

Aziraphale tells Crowley about the humans. Crowley is all about the stars, the nebulae, the mechanics of it all, but Aziraphale already cares about the future humans while Crowley is all ‘this is not just there to twinkle!’ Oh, Crowley will start to care about the Earth, a LOT, later on. But that’s how they are starting out.

And a curious note is, Aziraphale praises Crowley. Deliberately, pointedly. Well, it’s very pretty. And I think you’ve done an excellent job. Is that what you yourself have been missing, Aziraphale? Or is that what angels are supposed to do?

I love how interested Aziraphale is, and how he worries about Crowley already, and how much disquiet there is in their first conversation.

And I do believe that Aziraphale will carry it through all of time: how happy Crowley looked, back then, back there, putting the universe into motion. How absolutely, spectacularly happy.

ALL HAIL THE WATCHER

Aziraphale [about Job being talked to by God]: I don't suppose he's getting any answers.

Crowley: No. But just to be able to ask the question.

my frontal lobe just snapped into place

feverish and forsaken. on my second glass of mulled wine. never kill yourself

going back to the last post. gerard's playlist which he played as a dj

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Peek A Boo

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism

Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease

Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby

Pixies - Velouria

The Hives - Abra Cadaver

Morrissey - Last Of The Famous International

Playboys

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

New Order - Temptation

David Bowie - Modern Love

Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding

The Clash - Spanish Bombs

Cursive - Art Is Hard

The Stooges - Search And Destroy

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Violent Femmes - Add It Up

Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

okay so nearly always, crowley stands to aziraphale's left, on the sinister side. but in 1823 edinburgh, when aziraphale protests against bodysnatching and they start discussing his economic theories of potential goodness, it is aziraphale that stands to the left. which feels like a very deliberate choice when they so carefully keep crowley on the left in every other scene with the two of them

so in this, the episode where crowley does an unambiguously good deed and saves a life, while aziraphale has qualms about what counts as goodness, they've also literally swapped positions, changing where they stand in relation to each other both physically as well as morally

whatever dude i dont even look that tormented mostly

The Kingfisher (1886) by Vincent van Gogh