When Both Your Shoulder Demon And Angel Agree And Support You …

“yes, akechi touma” we all say in unison

the writing room really cooked in this episode (they do in every episode but this one is just so special to me now)

Ed + Stede Moments Per Episode: 2x4 Fun and Games (Part 2)

reading the back of the blackbeard wanted poster and i really want to know what situation led him to imprison a cat? WHAT DID THE CAT DO?????

i found a minuscule of motivation

i desperately want to draw akechi but i cannot find motivation to get past the sketch…the middle one is literally just a doodle…

im so happy to see all the other crew members getting more screentime together!! like roach, wee john and black pete trying to help the others with their trauma is really doing things to my heart strings

tonight the music seeeems so loud i wish that we could lose this crowd

dean when cas fucks off for half the season

Neil talking about this season being inspired by Austen just hit me:

Aziraphale is like the Emma for his side of the story. He’s trying to arrange everything just so. He wants people to be happy without pausing to ask what they want. He has this perfect ideal of how everything is going to go and he’s clinging to it. He will arrange for people to fall in love and everything will be fine! Which makes Crowley his Mr. Knightley, fond but critical of Aziraphale’s schemes and entirely smitten on him without giving it voice until it’s too late.

Only he and Crowley are in different books. Crowley is the Lizzie Bennett. He’s the one who won’t do what is expected of him and asks questions and rejects the role he’s meant to be in. He misinterprets Aziraphale’s actions and intentions and in the proposal it’s very much like Darcy’s first awful “I love you against my better judgement” proposal. And likewise, he doesn’t understand that a lot of Aziraphale actions are in the name of protecting him, much like Darcy is trying to shield people from Wickham without ever explaining why.

They are running in different narratives in their own heads because they never talk to each other. They never ask what the other wants or fully understands what the other is thinking. There’s always another side to the story and neither of them is fully aware of it.

I can’t remember if this is right, but I think Neil mentioned Mansfield Park as Aziraphale’s favourite and I feel like this is prescient for the set up for season 3.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 06: Rhys Darby attends the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 06, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)