Secrets Of Blackthorn Hall Is Basically The Highlight Of My Week, But I Still Don’t Read It Until The

a pretty new friend just asked “what are you gay or something” and there was slightly more critique in her tone than i would’ve liked

in which crowley tries to convince himself that all is not yet lost, because underneath it all, he is an optimist…

What if: the reason chain of thorns has some strange writing is cause it was shortened in editing or simply pre-publishing, cause Cassie said it would be “A Very Long Book”, but it wasn’t longer than qoaad, and that could explain why the end had all those summaries about how people had reacted to things that happened

I seriously can't believe that in the 1941 scene Aziraphale didn't offer to pick Crowley up even once. Girl, you've been best friends for almost 6 millennia. You trust him enough to let him hold a gun to your head. I think we're at the point that you can hold him. Not saying Crowley wouldn't bat an eye or get flustered, but are you really going to make him stand on hot coals when he's saving your ass?

I suck at art and photoshop, can someone please draw/edit that scene so Crowley is giving that speech while Aziraphale is casually carrying him bridal style?

my strategy for how to become friends with someone

1. find mutual friends (or at least someone who knows them better than you)

2. make plans with the mutual friends and their friend groups

3. once at the plans, talk to the person you want to befriend. hopefully you can have a nice conversation with or without the others

4. exchange social media or numbers or something

5. keep doing steps 2 and 3 til you feel that you can make plans with the person themselves (or make up a practical excuse to meet them outside of your friend groups)

6. if successful, you are now friends

experiencing the ultimate evening of jazz, my favourite book and a glass of wine

I want to be in a book club. Digital is great, English is best. If anyone has a book club or would like to start one: I’m in. It is so sad not being able to talk about books to people who’ll actually listen.

I can read a lot of different things, but seriously: a book club

I really like Shadowhunters if that’s helpful

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I hate to ruin this, but technically Wille already has a last name. The real Swedish royal family ‘has’ the last name “Bernadotte” after the king we imported during the 19th century.

But: the Swedish royal last name up til then was “Eriksson” after Gustav Vasa (formerly Gustav Eriksson) which is kinda cute

I’m sorry, I just love Swedish history

Simon, holding Willes hand as they walk in the park: What's your last name?

Wille, laughing: I don't have a last name, you know that already

Simon, getting down on one knee: Maybe it's time you get one

Wille: *starts sobbing and nodding his head*

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.