#bless his bisexual Welsh chaos

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Michael straight up writing erotic gay fan fiction about Lucian and Aro in a 2012 interview and I am losing my mind...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #i'm screaming #aro #twilight #lucian #underworld #there is no heterosexual explanation for this #at this point i hope anyone who still thinks Michael is straight #can just disabuse themselves of that notion #because dear god #and if he's imagined this with Aro and Lucian he has probably imagined endless smutty scenarios with Aziraphale and Crowley #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i need to lie down now

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#michael sheen edit #michael sheen #mrs robinson #david tennant #david tennant edit #davina #slinky hips #welsh seduction machine #bless his bisexual welsh chaos #david tennaissance #tennantverse #sexy scottish serpent #ineffable #michael and david

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Just thinking about these three things together for no particular reason at all...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #nothing moments that add up to something #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #this is for everyone just discovering all of the unhinged things Michael was saying in 2019 #it was A Lot #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i also find it interesting how often Michael talks about masks #and how expressing one's true self through a mask seems to resonate with him #because somewhere in his soul he *is* the angel #and loves David so deeply #and is able to be Aziraphale so completely because of that #ineffable lovers #thoughts #discourse

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"THIN DARK DUKE" I'M--

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #I FUCKING KNEW IT #oh michael #looking for any excuse to touch David that he can find #best day ever #and of course describing David/Crowley as Bowie-like #you love to see it #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #the androgynous beauty of David Tennant #amazing #ineffable lovers #i need to lie down now

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Michael Sheen really said let me show you the tenderness with which I worship David Tennant's entire body and soul by using middle-aged actors as avatars of us in my directorial debut and oh by the way David's wife Georgia is also in the scene because she likes to watch. Cut, print, moving on...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #georgia tennant #the way #what even is happening here #he is fully out of his entire mind #and i am here for it #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #throuples are totally cool now #or 'V style' as i now understand it #also art imitating life #or vice versa #or both #technically it's not RPF if they ship themselves #ineffable lovers #discourse

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Following up on this excellent post from @nightgoodomens, it really is astonishing to see so many people in the GO fandom misunderstanding the characters/personalities of Aziraphale and Crowley. While I by no means am against people having head canons or differing interpretations, it has become frustrating to see people pushing their ideas about Aziraphale and Crowley onto others and declaring them to be official canon, leaving no room for any kind of discussion.

One of the things spoken about in the above linked post is the denigrating of Crowley, which seems to be a near constant in the fandom at this point, particularly in relation to the "apology dance" scene. (Which, to be fair, is chock full of soft!Dom Aziraphale vibes--thank you, Michael Sheen.) What seems to keep getting missed is that the entire apology dance routine is something that Aziraphale and Crowley do to each other. There is just as much of a possibility that Crowley sat there with a similarly smug look on his face and let out a guttural, snakey "Very nice" when Aziraphale did the dance in the years he listed off, because they play this game together.

Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship is one of equals, and I think this is also something people seem to not understand well. It seems as though a lot of fans who project themselves onto Crowley want to be taken care of, and so they want to believe the same of Crowley, and that the reason he wants to be taken care of is because he is broken. But someone doesn't have to be broken to want someone to take care of them. Sometimes the people who are a shambles on the outside can be dominant, just as sometimes the most buttoned up, put together people can also be submissive. And sometimes the people who look in control on the outside can feel not at all that way on the inside.

But this nuanced thinking seems to increasingly be difficult for many GO fans, particularly those who spend a great deal of time on social media, a place where people are either blindly praised or denigrated and torn down, and where such behavior greatly reinforces that binary, black-and-white mindset. We so badly want the world to be clear-cut--good vs. evil, heroes vs. bad guys--but very often that just isn't how things work. And it is exactly what Terry and Neil were trying to speak against in the GO book (and subsequently, the TV show).

The other thing that I think influences a lot of fans' perceptions about Aziraphale and Crowley is their chosen corporations (i.e., Crowley being thin and Aziraphale being plump). There is an automatic assumption that thin somehow equals more vulnerable, and for all of the emphasis that is placed on Aziraphale and Crowley being genderfluid/nonbinary/not subscribing to traditional gender roles, it's Crowley who seems to be viewed as more androgynous/femme, and is therefore looked at as inherently vulnerable. Meanwhile Aziraphale is thicker and viewed as more masculine, and therefore he is somehow inherently not vulnerable. Yet if the body types were reversed, it seems highly likely that fans' attitudes toward them would be much different.

(It also saddens me that this seems to mirror the fans' treatment of Michael and David, where Michael serves as a target for the fans' venom and is seen as less desirable/more threatening because he presents more traditionally masculine, while David is not targeted or attacked and is seen as more desirable/less threatening because he presents much more androgynously. Consequently, many fans find it easy not to sympathize with Michael, and when you can readily disregard someone's feelings, it becomes easier to see them as "less." In the case of Aziraphale and Michael, it leaves no room for either one to be vulnerable and is unfair to both of them.)

What I have always taken away from Good Omens--and from Michael and David's portrayal of Aziraphale and Crowley and how deeply they both understand these characters--is that Crowley doesn't need to be a perfect angel for Aziraphale to like him. He just needs to be a little bit of a good person. And Aziraphale doesn't need to be a perfect demon for Crowley to like him--he just needs to be enough of a bastard to be worth knowing. Neither one has to fully subscribe to the other's outlook or point of view to listen to what they have to say.

Aziraphale and Crowley meet in the middle. In the place that becomes their side, and where they take care of each other, fight with each other, and love each other. And that's more than most of us could ever ask or hope for...

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #ineffable husbands #i think this is also why so many fans can't handle honest criticism of GT and AL #in their minds either someone is completely good or completely terrible #there's no middle ground to just see someone as they are #i swear to God people have no sense of nuance anymore #i've had it officially.gif #also Michael yelling about Aziraphale being a bottom in 2019 was more galaxy brained than any of us even knew #PhD level of understanding of the assignment #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #fandom woes #thoughts #discourse

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"Was John Taylor from Duran Duran your first ever crush?"

This is fine. I'm fine...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #the assembly #i am 99% sure he will say yes to that one #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i will take any opportunity to hear Michael talk about his attractions to men #but if he actually says he is bi (or pan) i will lose my entire mind #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #amazing #can't wait to watch

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(Just needed to make a separate post about this, because I feel like I'm having an aneurysm.)

Michael Sheen has a playlist on his Spotify for The Way, and one of the songs on said list is "I Who Have Nothing" by Shirley Bassey. Which has these lyrics:

This song. On a playlist for The Way. Which has a gay swingers scene at the beginning of episode 3. That Georgia Tennant is in. Where this happens, and after which the camera lingers on the two men kissing more than anyone else in the scene:

...Which of course could mean nothing. But...yeah...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #the way #i'm screaming #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #Michael is about as subtle as a drunken llama on roller skates #method directing by having a polycule with David Tennant #what even is happening here #there is no heterosexual explanation for this #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #is anyone else seeing this #send help #thoughts #discourse

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"The boy did good" is so possessive yet so incredibly fond--that perfect mix of heartfelt and horny that I first noticed in 2019 and that is so characteristically, thoroughly Michael. That combination of something classic and timeless--because love never goes out of style--with something modern and different. Michael showing his heart without a moment's hesitation.

And then just to make sure we didn't overlook the horny part, he threw in "And he looks good in a kilt as well, doesn't he?" as a chaser. As if to say, "Oh, you thought this was me complimenting my buddy on a job well done? No, this is me saying that my boyfriend looked fucking hot in a kilt." Just to remind us of exactly who Michael Sheen is (like we could ever forget).

Well done, Michael. Well done indeed...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #BAFTAs 2024 #the zoe ball show #time to add this to the list of Michael publicly thirsting over David #which at this point is the length of a Dead Sea scroll #michael is about as subtle as a drunken llama on roller skates #also i think it's telling that he hasn't said a word about how Anna looked at the BAFTAs #not saying that she looked bad either #just that it's clear what Michael finds most attractive right now #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #ineffable lovers #discourse

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Every time

I am fucking baffled by this polycule and their new shenanigans.

Georgia's cameo being the swinging scene...

What was the direction there??

"Georgia, just imagine it was last weekend at your house"

I am flying to California tomorrow for a speaking engagement so have to head to bed early, but I wanted to answer this to say that I am two-thirds of the way through the show (about five minutes into episode 3). And after watching the Gay Swinging Scene™ for about the fifth time, I have noticed that the kitchen in the house looks a lot like the Tennants' actual kitchen and I just...

So Michael probably didn't even have to give a stage direction to Georgia because he thoughtfully dressed the set to look like her and David's house right down to the goddamn double oven and how is any of this fucking real...

#moriarty-sisters #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #georgia tennant #the way #either Michael is deeply unwell or i am or both #both is good.gif #i can't #what even is happening here #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #he is fully out of his entire mind #and i am here for it #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #full review still to come once i finish the last episode #discourse

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Michael on the Late Late Show a few years ago talking about how he was almost in a production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and I cannot overstate how much I wish this had actually happened...

(Bonus: Completely unintentional reference to the beginning of episode 3 of The Way at the end by James Corden, along with Michael's reaction. The noise I made...)

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #the late late show #hedwig and the angry inch #iconic #someone please let him be a drag queen already #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #genderfuck!Michael Sheen is the best Michael Sheen #sometimes i think about the fact that Michael has played so many queer roles #and how they all represent different parts of him #i think about that a lot #also his reaction to what James says at the end is killing me #coincidence? foreshadowing? #both is good.gif #amazing

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Michael wanting to play the Master opposite David as the Doctor has me convinced that Michael has been mainlining smutty Doctor/Master fanfic and fanart and between that and his full-time job reading and writing Ineffable Husbands smut I really do wonder when he finds the time to breathe...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #the assembly #let me live please #there is NO WAY he doesn't know how much the Internet has talked about wanting to see him as the Master and David as the Doctor #also taking bets on how likely it is Michael has imagined himself as the Master topping the Doctor in said fanfic/art #i can't #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #amazing #ineffable lovers #discourse

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So, it is now three days into Pride, and the gayness just keeps on coming. This is a screenshot from 2019 of Michael responding to a piece of Ineffable Husbands fanart of Aziraphale and Crowley at the cinema in the 1980s.

For those who may not know (as I didn’t, not being from the UK), La Scala was a cinema in King’s Cross, an area of London that (pre-Soho) was a haven for all things LGBTQ, and showed many LGBTQ-themed films throughout its notorious run.

But the extra special thing about these gay all-nighters (and which Michael would have undoubtedly known when writing that tweet) was that all sorts of debauchery (a.k.a., gay orgies) tended to ensue among its patrons:

...So, not only do we know that Michael has thought about Aziraphale and Crowley fucking, we also know that he has thought specifically about when and where they would fuck...and it’s in a place nicknamed The Sodom Odeon. On top of all that, we now have GO season 2 coming out with a scene filmed in the Bo’ness Hippodrome and Michael looking incredibly smug on the day of filming said scene. In a dark cinema. With David. I just don’t even know what else to say...

(Also...What were you doing in King’s Cross in the mid/late ‘80s, Michael? Is this knowledge all from firsthandjob experience? Because I would not be at all surprised...)

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #at this point i hope anyone who still thinks Michael is straight #can just disabuse themselves of that notion #because dear god #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #also i have a head canon involving Michael and David at La Scala in the late 80s #which i think i need to turn into a fic now #because yes #can't wait for the second season #i'm not saying they have sex #but #🌈👀 #happy pride month indeed #discourse

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Still thinking about Michael on the Zoe Ball Show today saying "The boy did good" and that David looked hot in a kilt at the BAFTAs, and I feel like another poll is necessary to take the pulse of the people. For science, that is...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #i was going to say 'cock slut' instead but #Michael really says it so much better just by being himself #i still maintain that Michael is a switch #but the soft!Dom era is doing things to me #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #by which i mean #just that it's clear what Michael finds most attractive right now #but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds #discourse #poll

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Amazed to see this review of Good Omens from four years ago that calls it exactly what it is: A gay cosmic rom-com. Such a refreshing and remarkable change of pace from "buddy movie" and "unlikely friendship" and other such euphemisms, which unfortunately seem to be just as (if not more) prevalent in the reviews today than in 2019. Hopefully Michael and David will get to do a full-on sex scene won't have to keep screaming about how in love Aziraphale and Crowley are by the time season 3 comes out...

(With thanks to @fangirl-muse for sharing this gem!)

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #it's nice to know that at least one reviewer was paying attention 4 years ago #bless #media literacy #the sooner the media stops straightwashing GO the better #because maybe poor Michael can finally rest #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #thoughts #discourse

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Michael outright admitting that he touched David's chest is absolutely delicious, but not at all surprising. I've been saying this for the last four years, but Michael clearly wants David--is attracted to him, loves him, desires him in a very not-platonic way. Let's also not forget that he said this in 2019:

"Sylph": 1. A slender graceful girl or young woman / 2. Any of a class of imaginary beings assumed to inhabit the air.

Calling someone's chest "sylph-like" is not something that happens after a casual glance, but rather prolonged observation--an enamored gaze, countless hours spent admiring David's handsome physique. How Michael must have been waiting for the chance to touch him, to will those idle daydreams into the intimate reality of David's chest beneath his hand.

We could talk about it being a choice for the character, but honestly nothing will convince me that this wasn't Michael freely and wholeheartedly enjoying the opportunity to touch David's chest. Bless him...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #i'm sorry but if this was a man and a woman there is no earthly way their relationship would be described as 'platonic' #Michael ships himself with David more than anyone else ever could #saying the quiet parts out loud #also 'thin dark Duke' like the Bowie comparison is just #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #in and out of character #best day ever #ineffable lovers #discourse #gif by me