can we talk about how sweet crowley was this whole season. he told gabriel to jump from the window, regretted it, and made him cocoa. he saved a woman from suicide. he saved a bunch of goats and 3 kids by turning them into birds or lizards. he bumped muriel on the shoulder like a dad would when she told him she was 37th not 38th. he wanted aziraphale to be safe. he told that one guy not to feed the ducks bread because he wanted the ducks to be safe. he sheltered aziraphale, who he’d only known for a few minutes, under his wing. he helped aziraphale with his magic trick and supported him the whole season—his only condition being that aziraphale was safe.
crowley is a good person. even if he hates that, it’s true. and more than anything he wants aziraphale to be safe because he knows what it’s like to lose him. and he wants to protect aziraphale from heaven, because he knows how terrible they can be.
Sounds a bit unlikely.
crowley used the metal tool in season 1 to start time, and we learn that he's used it first to start space. to create the stars -- he still remembers how. he still remembers all of heaven's passwords: in the book crowley is described as an optimist because he has the "utter surety... that the universe would look after him". not god, but the universe. and of course he does: he helped create it and he's looking after it, too.
think about it: aziraphale had a sword, but crowley is about to face satan who wants to destroy the world, and crowley's only weapon is a tool of creation
amateur detective who solves crimes out of curiosity and then just. doesn't bother to tell anyone the identity of the perpetrator
Is there a reason Season 2 didn't have the same narration as Season 1? The voice explaining internal conflicts or background knowlege? Has anyone got an answer, I can't find if this has been answered before.
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Book 1. Sorcerer’s Stone : Friends in early years of Hogwarts
Book 2. Chamber of Secrets : Draco has the diary
Book 4. Triwizard Tournament : Draco appears in the 2nd task | Yule Ball
Book 6. Sectumsempra : alternate scene
Book 7. Horcrux hunting : Draco with the trio
Hogwarts Era
Wartime
8th year • 8th year Hufflepuff!Drarry
Draco’s birthday
Halloween
Christmas
5+1 things
Bets & Wagers / Pranks
Breaking the Statute of Secrecy
Climate change
Clubbing
Coffee shops AU
Coming back to the Wizarding world | Leaving England
Different schools AU : Beauxbatons, Durmstrang
Disappearance / Missing
Everyone lives AU | Sirius Black Lives
Fairy-tale elements
Games : drinking games, party games,…
Historical AU
Magical theory
Movie/TV AU
Muggle life | Muggle things
No Hogwarts AU (joining the Wizarding world later)
Non-magical AU (& high school, college/uni)
Politics
Pureblood culture
Quidditch
Sentient house / Hogwarts
Sorting AU : Slytherin Harry | Gryffindor Draco | Ravenclaw Draco
Time travel | Dimension travel
Voldemort wins AU | No Voldemort AU
Angst
Canon rewrite
Case fic / Mystery
Dark fic / horror
Epistolary | Social media
Fluff | Fluff (Hogwarts era)
Humour
Hurt / comfort
Kid fic | Raising a child
POV Outsider
Serialized fics
Slow burn / slow build
Song fic / song-inspired fic
A/B/O Dynamics
BDSM
Bodyswap
Bonding
Boss/Employee relationship
Casual relationship
Childhood friends
Counselling
Courtship
Domestic!Drarry | Pet names
Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers
Established relationship
Fake/Pretend relationship | Arranged marriage
Flirting
Friends to Lovers
Friends with Benefits
Infidelity
Marriage proposal
Misunderstandings / Miscommunication
Reconciliation
Roommates | Sharing a Bed
Secret identity
Secret relationship
Slavery
Soulmates
Stalking
Strangers to Lovers (with various AUs)
Teacher-student relationship / Tutoring
Ties switching
Unhappy ending (between H/D)
Unrequited love
Arts : artist, dancing, music, musician, pianist!Draco
Auror | Military
Breakup specialist!Draco
Chef
Healer!Draco | Mind healer
Matchmaker
Minister-for-Magic!Harry
Model
Odd jobs
Pirate
Potions Master!Draco
Professor (at Hogwarts)
Prostitution / Sex Work | Stripper
Secretary / PA!Draco
Seer!Draco / divination
Unspeakable!Draco
Wandmaker!Draco • Wandmaker!Harry
Writer
Chubby!Drarry
Dark!Drarry
Determined!Drarry
French!Draco
Insecure!Draco
Jealous!Draco • Jealous!Harry
LGBTQIA+ : asexuality, coming out, crossdressing, fem!Drarry, transgender
Manipulative!Harry
Master-of-Death!Draco • Master-of-Death!Harry
Oblivious!Drarry
Older!Drarry (+ divorced)
Pining!Draco • Pining!Harry
PoC!Drarry
Possessive!Drarry
Powerful!Draco • Powerful!Harry • Powerful couple
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Reckless!Harry
Recluse!Harry
Sassy!Harry
Shy!Drarry
Silly!Draco
Snarky!Draco
Spy!Draco / Redeemed!Draco
Sweetheart!Draco
Tall !Harry
Troubled!Draco | Exiled!Draco
Abusive relationship
Age difference
Amnesia
Animagus
Captivity : Draco in Azkaban | Harry in Malfoy Manor
Creature!Drarry (vampire, veela, werewolf) | merman | phoenix
Dark Mark
De-age
Disability (+blind, deaf) & mute
Drunkenness / Intoxication
Ghost
Illness | Hanahaki disease
Injury
Internalized homophobia
Life debt
Love / Lust potion
Mental health issues / PTSD | eating disorders
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Occlumency
Parseltongue
Patronus
Sectumsempra
Substance abuse
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Tattoos (magical)
Bottom!Draco • Bottom!Harry • Switching
First time / Virginity | Awkward first time
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Smut : (specialized) dildo, hate sex, hospital sex, ice play, piercings, praise kink, (semi) public sex, riding (Draco), sex toys, size kink, slut, wanking
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Draco & his parents
Draco & Luna friendship
Draco & Ron friendship | Draco friends with Hermione/Ron first
Draco & the Dursleys
Draco & the Weasleys : Molly | George | Ginny & others
Draco has a sibling
Drarry & Scorbus
Drarry & Scorpius
Drarry & Snupin
Drarry & Teddy
Drarry & Wolfstar
Harry & Narcissa friendship
Harry & Pansy friendship
Harry & the Malfoys / Meeting the Parents
Harry & the Slytherins friendship
Harry has a sibling
Harry reconciles with his Muggle family
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The Golden Trio broken up
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You idiot. We could have been... us.
The best Severus and Harry dynamic is when everything is exactly the same and they absolutely loathe each other
But also Severus is the one Harry goes to when he has a nightmare, the half-asleep Severus asking if he needs to 'kiss it better' (mocking, snarky) or 'actually kiss it better' (serious, protective) and he just needs to see how Harry reacts to know whether he needs to comfort Harry or if he's good to make fun of Harry until Harry's so annoyed he stops being upset. Severus is the one who kisses Harry's forehead when Harry absolutely wrecks himself playing Quidditch. Harry's the one who drags Severus to bed when Severus is trying to power through a headache. Harry's the one who cheers Severus up when he's upset by just being a sassy lil shit and cracking Severus up.
And it's even funnier when Remus Lupin is the only person who doesn't understand what the hell is this hot-and-cold dynamic? How the hell can Sev both hug Harry after a nightmare and yet also try strangle him when he says one thing wrong? And why is everyone so normal about this?! Why isn't anyone concerned?!
To everyone else, it's pretty obvious to everyone that Remus is an only child.
just an average saturday evening
piece i made for guardian: an aizawa zine
Sometimes I remember that Crowley is actually the Serpent of Eden and it’s so funny like
Imagine being Maggie and Nina, just casually giving relationship advices to the one being responsible for tempting humanity out of the Garden of Eden