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inafever · 9 months

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On how much Aziraphale has learned since season one:

This is about character development. Inside of a story, everything that happens, happens for a reason. It's meant to tell you something, to teach you or the character of your story, something.

So if the story continues and your character repeats the same mistakes again you know that they are bound to be doomed this time, and even worse the audience is going to certainly lose respect for them, cause they have made the same mistake twice, they haven't learned anything, they're gonna do it again another time, they don't deserve a happy ending. (yes I'm talking about good omens here) So you don't do that to a character that matters to you and you respect even the tiniest bit.

A Lot of us here are thinking that this is what has happened to Aziraphale's character at the end of season two, that he has done it again, repeated the same mistake again and has left Crowley to join heaven and it's been because of reasons like wanting to change Crowley (not true, see this post), still believing in heaven's goodness (not true at all), not being on the same page with Crowley (I'm gonna talk about this one especially in this post) and such likes. But these are the things he should've known better about after 6000 years and all the events that we've learnt about especially throughout season two. (It seems to be rather the whole point doesn't it?)

But we all seem to rather believe that he's made that mistake again nonetheless. so what we're doing here is trying to find reasons to justify the mistake and somehow make the reason behind the wrong actions something relatable to ourselves so we can forgive him when the time comes.

In fact I don't believe that he's made a mistake. for Aziraphale's character to be redeemable, what he has done, must be the only option that he's had for saving them both. I don't care what kind of situation could have resulted in him making this decision, but the only reason, the one and only reason, must be his love for Crowley. Otherwise it'll prove that he hasn't learnt his lessons or doesn't love Crowley enough to make a compromise, and in both cases, he's not worthy of love. He won't earn his happy ending by being tortured and feeling sorry and doing the apology dance for Crowley if he's hurt Crowley out of selfishness and stupidity again

But I'm sure he'll earn his happy ending and I'm sure he's learnt his lessons and it's too late for him to have unlearned them all in a matter of a few seconds. (He is an idiot but he's not stupid) and it's mostly because of this, that I believe the reason why he made that decision, must be very different from what it appears to be on the surface.

Anyway, this post is about what Aziraphale has learned and how he's changed.

I have made a post about their moments of conflict from both season one and two, it's here and you can look it up. This is where you begin to understand how Aziraphale has changed since season one because these are his dialogues after he's had a fight with Crowley in the bandstand, season one:

"even if I did know where the antichrist was I wouldn't tell you we're on opposite sides"

"friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon. We have nothing whatsoever in common. I don't even like you"

"there is no our side Crowley. Not anymore. It's over"

And then there's season two, when they disagree on what to do with Gabriel, Aziraphale is the one to point out that they both rely on the life they've built together

He's asking him to help him take care of Gabriel together and in response Crowley leaves

In the final scene he asks Crowley to come back to heaven

"work with me" "We can be together as Angels, Doing good" "I need you."

He says anything he can think of literally to convince him to stay with him and it doesn't work

We start from "we're not friends" and arrive at "work with me. we can be together"

Even if we don't know the reason why he's insisting on taking Crowley back to heaven with him, this is an Angel that has picked up the pace. That wants them to be an us. No matter what.

But these are only a few dialogues. I think there's more than that. I think the show in five and a half episodes (out of six) has tried its hardest to make the point quite clear about how Aziraphale feels about Crowley (or how strongly he feels those emotions). all through the way he looks at him and through his gestures and soft touches from time to time

I'm gonna make another post of those moments separately and I'm gonna link it to this when I do.

update: (here's the post. not just average moments of Aziraphale looking cute, it's something about the way he looks at him)

And I'd like to even compare those wishful glances to some of those from season one, but I can't, cause they are nonexistent in there.

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txttletale · 1 year

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everyone loves to talk big game about how they hate carceralism and punitive justice until it comes to the topic of sexual violence in which case half of the prison abolitionists will revert immediately to being constitutional literalists for the code of hammurabi without missing a beat--good thing that the accusation of sexual violence hasn't been historically leveraged against people of colour or gay people or trans women or anything or this capitulation to kneejerk reaction would be uhhh pretty bad!

#tattletxt #interpret this post in bad faith and i vaporize you with my mind #this is a subtweet of the fuckin 'do animal testing on rapists' tiktok that went around recently tbc #and also tbc we also should not do prisoner torture to 100% confirmed beyond doubt rapists either!!

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juanabaloo · 10 months

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#btvs #faith lehane #doing a test to see if tumblr forces this to have a community label #but also here's a little extra faith for your dash #you're welcome #fuffy adjacent #and this doesn't even include S7 faith lehane #credit once again to twitter user darthmoll_ for the original faith post

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year

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Lecture tips: Be naked and wet for the most convincing rhetoric.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #season 1 #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #lan xichen #look it never specified whether or not they kept their robes on in the cold springs #and visually its a lot easier to show welts when they are covered up #this is just the fantasy China equivalent of hanging out in the boys locker room together #A binding moment for some. A test of will (to not start fighting) and endurance (god do you remember locker rooms)#i have yet to encorperate audio into this series (YET) but #for the beat reaults; wwx is giving his speech in the ‘number 16: burger king foot lettuce’ intonation and tenor #for the most faithful to my vision results: wwx is giving his speech in the same intonation & tenor as ‘number 15: burgerking foot lettuce’#other note: JC carrying wwx after he gets beat makes me get a lil teary. I imagine he doesnt get the oppertunity at yunmeng very often #im really really soft for the yunmeng sibilings. Tragic as they are/become….#also ack….you *know* it hurts wwx sense of needing to be a protector and not a burden #He has yet to learn to be loved is to lean on each other!

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mamaangiwine · 9 months

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Academica isn't out to get anyone.

Historians aren't trying to disprove anyone's "traditions" for shits and giggles.

Scientists aren't rubbing their hands together with glee thinking "Oh, man watch them squirm when we say crystals can't heal cancer."

Also, its weird how people are totally fine with academic sources, so long as they come from the 1950s and have been disproven at least six times.

#learning new things is a good exercise in flexibility and a good test of faith #magic #folk magic #spirituality #magic practitioners #witchblr #folklore

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cringefailcabitha · 4 days

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I don't know you but I'll try to do Anything that gets me closer to you ,

#inanimate insanity #inanimate insanity invitational #ii cabby #ii test tube #ii fan #cabtube #vialfile #fancab #vialfiledial #I'm really worried that this doesn't read very well. re: meaning and also the order you are meant to look at the panels in #but I'll try not to over explain myself as is typical of me #I actually wrote a bunch in here about my intentions then realised 'hey thats a lot of words you look insane. just trust people to get it'#this is schrodingers vialfiledial #if I’m being honest #anyways wow her file. what a huge leap of faith am I right

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twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat · 1 month

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priest!geto who falls so deeply in love with you that he assumes you were sent by god to test his faith. is this anything /taps mic

#pinterest anon this is all ur fault :(((((#i’m SURE this concept has been done before btw it’s 2 perfect for him …. silly little delusional man #hhhh i’m still figuring out how i want to portray him 😔😔😔#i think. he’s kind of a sleazeball #i think he feels fond of you and it’s so soft and good and normal that he thinks he’s fucking dying #”surely this is a test of will. a trial of faith.” no man it’s this funny thing called Having A Crush #he’s kind of silly but also intense……. kind of funny but then there’s that sense of rot #decay #etcetc #kirei kotomine lend me your strenght i will need it to do him justice………#priest!geto who wants to meet god so he can ask why someone like him was created #why he was born with a liar’s smile. why he was born with the ability to see curses #hmmmmmmmmm #ari noises ✩

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its-short-for-jackalope · 4 months

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okay guys WHAT do we have to do to get Curt and Mariah to cover Ryan and Sharpay's version of "What I've Been Looking For" as Zach and Zoey Chambers????

#i need this so bad. it WOULD cure my depression im pretty sure. we should test that theory.#jack jabbers #hatchetfield #starkid #team starkid #zoey chambers #zach chambers #chambers siblings #curt mega #mariah rose faith casillas

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daiourage · 7 months

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Ritual.

#my art~#faith game #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #i;;; do not know how to draw stained glass and i was looking at references;#will redo later probably ;;;#but this is my last piece for a few weeks bc its testing season and i’m an obedient student 😇#faith posting will resume after testing;;; maybe i’ll post sketches tho #ppl who followed me for tsp don’t worry also #also whoops john’s clothes are wrong #also also john’s corrupt again #also x3 yeah i used the stained glass in the snake meadow hill church #GASP I FORGOT HIS HAIR

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whatthefuckisasweep · 10 months

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RVB NATION HOW THE FUCK ARE WE FEELING RIGHT NOW??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?>!!<!?!?!>!>?!?!!?!?!?!?

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peonypyxels · 1 year

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‘maybe you should take a test? it doesn’t sound like a stomach bug to me...’

#bc cori would b that bitch that keeps a test on deck just in case #she had 1 unplanned pregnancy and 0 faith that it won't happen again #ts4 #s4 #s4 edit #s4 legacy #sims 4 #sparks #sparks legacy #gen 5

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nogooddeetz · 5 months

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so i just rewatched honey queen and in it, roman explains how linda is “the sweetest woman in hatchetfield” (the title that comes with winning the title of honey queen) because what she was willing to do in order to win (kill zoey, among other less than nice things) makes her taste the sweetest to nibbly.

now, in nerdy prudes must die, during the summoning, while blinky speaks to grace and tinky taunts pete, nibbly immediately looks to steph and says “stephanie, yum yum!” steph is nothing like linda of course, she’s not callous or selfish. but. she was, in the end, willing to kill pete to save the rest of the town. she would have done it with a heavy heart, but she would have done it nonetheless. so, is the reason nibbly expresses interest in steph above the others that she is capable of things the others aren’t? like linda, she’s willing to go to extreme lengths to achieve her goal (even though her goal is much more selfless than linda’s).

grace is certainly capable of doing crazy shit too but her deal is a whole separate issue of its own