“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
Aziraphale probably thinks crowley is out there tempting people all seductively and hot because he thinks crowley is seductive and hot while in actuality crowley’s just some rained out loser [affectionate] moving road signs or whatever in the middle of the night. So like one day in their Arrangement with capital A for some reason crowley decides to secretly follow aziraphale to watch him try and ‘be crowley’ and act demon-y and tempt people and that’s when he finds out that for tempting occasions aziraphale just wears the sluttiest outfits he can find and crowley’s brain just… short circuits
“Apologies, apologies! The time got away from me.” Aziraphale Fell entered the room brightly, a binder in one hand, tea mug in the other.
Crowley’s languid sprawl went rigid as the senior accounting analyst who had been the indulgent secret in the back of his mind took the seat opposite him.
Or, Crowley Pines at the Office: An AU.
Written for @voluptatiscausa for the @gospexchange 🖤 Inspired by the song Ache for You.
it starts out thinking it’s mad men but with computers, but it’s actually about the tenuousness and absolute necessity of human connection in a climate where change is inevitable and everything ends, because if everything you can ever hope to accomplish is fleeting then what could matter more than the people you accomplish it with? or more literally it’s about three computer nerds and their most annoying coworker trying to stay ahead of the computer boom in the ‘80s and ‘90s. one of the most overlooked shows of the past decade and genuinely one of my most beloved shows of all time now. it gets better every season (season 1 is rough, but worth it) and develops this deep, lived-in humanity that feels like love. I cannot recommend it enough