#book!aziraphale

[ufofrommarss]

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[aheavenofhell]

Book!Aziraphale things you should know (based on this post about Crowley)

1. When the Bentley gets a parking ticket he’s the one who blows it up.

2. He’s so good at his taxes he’s been investigated for fraud.

3. He intimidates “men in dark suits” trying to buy his shop.

4. He just Takes Bites of Crowley’s food.

5. When Warlock got older, he became his tutor. Neither he nor Crowley wanted to teach him math, but they both taught him very different history.

6. He fights with Crowley about directions.

7. At Warlock’s birthday, Warlock takes a gun from a security guard and accidentally fires it at Crowley. Aziraphale turns it into a water gun (and then feels embarrassed)

8. He (Aziraphale) also gets hit with a cream cake at said party, which he swipes off his jacket and licks off his fingers in the Bentley (because free snacks).

9. Aside from books of prophecy and Wilde first editions, he specializes in Bibles with printing errors.

10. “Are you going to introduce me to your new body?” “Oh? Yes. Yes, of course—“ The way Michael Sheen delivers the “oh” in the audiobook is exactly what you’re imaging.

11. He can’t beat the gay allegations. Not that he actually tries.

12. When looking for a body, before he finds Madame Tracy, he lands in an American televangelist preaching about armageddon. He gets so annoyed that he starts correcting the sermon (then gets excited when he realizes he’s on television).

13. He and Crowley can’t stop having little side chats while trying to actively stop the Apocalypse from starting.

14. He’s ✨touchy✨ with Crowley.

15. READ OR LISTEN TO GOOD OMENS YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT

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[inhonoredglory]

A Wartime Footing: An Explanation for Aziraphale's Elevator Smile

(Based on an ask from @sabotage-on-mercury in response to my meta on why Aziraphale had to go to Heaven)

The creepy smile was one part of the ending I couldn't quite put my finger on either, until someone pointed out on a Twitter response to my meta:

The reason why its scary is bc azi is becoming properly angry at the system and is 101% determined to set things right (Source)

In season 1, Aziraphale was determined not to kill anyone to stop the Apocalypse. He wouldn't even tell Crowley where the Antichrist was, because Crowley's only solution was to kill him.

And because Crowley consistently didn't have any ideas ("not one single better idea??"), Aziraphale took it on himself to pursue the only option left––to ask God to intervene and stop both Heaven and Hell from destroying Earth. Therefore, Aziraphale had to keep the integrity of his angel status by distancing himself from Crowley, while the world was still in danger.

Despite this dedication avoid bloodshed, when God didn't have an answer, Aziraphale went against one of his core beliefs to help save the world. He was willing to murder a child.

For Aziraphale, that takes guts. And (seeing how he reacted at the end of the Job minisode), I wonder that if he had killed Adam Young, Aziraphale would have checked himself into Hell.

Going to Heaven for Aziraphale is ultimately a conscious choice, one that he is clearly afraid of. We see him constantly steeling himself again the Metatron in the end, covering his fear and hurt from losing Crowley with a placid smile and a flippant attitude. He's wearing so many masks, to Crowley, to himself, to the Metatron...

All season we've seen him playing roles (detective, magician, doctor, landlord). But the final role is warrior. Going up that elevator, we first see Aziraphale's eyes searching, worried, panicking, but unable to show it because he's not in a safe space. He swallows, blinks, he's breathing hard (you can see his entire shoulders rise and fall).

But as he goes up, his expression steels. He's quite literally putting on a mask (to himself): a vengeful, hardened expression of pure anger and rage (to drown out the fear and uncertainty he so clearly still has).

Michael Sheen conveying contained anger in both Good Omens and Masters of Sex.

Cuz this isn't just him scrambling to kill a kid, this is him walking calmly and knowingly into sacrificing everything he loves most (Crowley, the bookshop, his entire life on earth) to create a world that will always be safe for him and Crowley and humanity for the rest of time. Where he would have to go up against the most powerful angels, the Metatron, and God Themself to change things. He can't be the kind, sweet angel he was on Earth. That won't cut it in Heaven if he wants to make a difference in any real way.

He wanted to do it with Crowley, with the love and support and strength of his demon. But without him, Aziraphale has to channel something else to keep his resolve afloat.

Something he had when he was a warrior, fighting on the front lines of a battle between Heaven and Hell, when he very likely led a platoon into divine fields of bloodshed before the earth was born. When he was an avenging angel.

I haven’t done this since the Great War.

It was a time and an identity he had chosen to leave behind, because it wasn't the kind of angel he was anymore ("I'm not fighting in any war!"). In this context, you can read Aziraphale's passionate unwillingness to take a life (his pacifism) directly into his past experience as a warrior. It is often the veterans of terrible wars who are the most earnest advocates for peace. (And especially in Britain and Europe, where the violence of the world wars is still such a powerful and painful national memory.)

As he goes up the elevator, he's breathing so hard we can hear it mirrored in the soundtrack, and he is so hyperfocused on steeling himself that he doesn't even care that the Metatron is watching him. He doesn't rest until he's psyched himself into that warrior mindset necessary to carry out this mission entirely by himself, to be both the moral advocate and the uncompromising leader of angels who had intimidated him his entire life. To demand respect and to talk to the very face of God and tell Them they are Wrong.

(Please read this Neil-approved meta for further thoughts on God and Aziraphale.)

That creepy smile is clearly not there because Aziraphale is happy to fall into a toxic parent's false love. There's no comfort or wistful nostalgia in that face. There's no "it'll be so much nicer" in that smile. It's not a happy smile. It's an I'm-gonna-fuck-shit-up smile.

Because it's a warrior's smile before they go into battle, before they put on that armor and, for a while, become something they're not in the name of some greater good. He's fucking furious and it's downright frightening.

Because I have no doubt that the angel Aziraphale we get in Season 3 is the angel Aziraphale who can say this:

He's not quite there yet in the TV show. But this bravery, this anger, this flaming rage is how it starts.

Or as he's described in the book when Aziraphale mysteriously does away with the local mafia:

Just because you’re an angel doesn’t mean you have to be a fool.

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[chernozemm]

dug around my old art files a bit and pulled a selection of my past good omens fanart! those are largely based on the book, and the designs in the fourth one belong to @petrimetek

press F to pay respects I can't post the nsfw ones

#good omens #good omens book #book!aziraphale #book!crowley #ineffable husbands #myart

[yetrop]

Finished reading the Good Omens book recently, and absolutely love hypocrite Aziraphale.

(also, this is the first time I’m drawing their book designs. Maybe I’ll do it again sometime— it was cool to think about the similarities and differences.)

#Good omens #book omens #Good omens fanart #fan comic #Book!omens #aziraphale #book!aziraphale #book aziraphale #Good omens book

[bernard-the-rabbit]

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

#did this in class like..last year #for an assignent #and i liked it so much #my trashy art #good omens #good omens fanart #book good omens #book!aziraphale #aziraphale #aziraphale fanart #book!crowley #crowley #crowley fanart

[asterclaw]

why are they blue

UPD: i messed up all the colors

#why did i think making it blue was a good idea #i think i was kinda right #but why blue #my art #good omens fanart #good omens art #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #aziraphale good omens #crowley good omens #book omens #book!crowley #book!aziraphale

[holypoly08]

Another book omens drawing YAS

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[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

saw these shoes at a store and KNEW what I had to draw....

BOOK!AZIRAPHALE SAY WHAAAA?? >:D

#the sparrow drawzzz #good omens #book!omens #good omens book #book!aziraphale

[stockie-der-stock]

Book Omens?! (ignore my handwriting)

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[goodoldfashionedengineer]

#book omens #good omens book #book!crowley #book!aziraphale #good omens memes #my post

[ufofrommarss]

them.

Please send me asks about them I’m actually so insane about them

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[occasionally-awsome-human]

Finally got good omens in BOOK FORM

i reaally like the chapter initials

also Aziraphale says ineffable in every other sentence and is mentioned to have incredibly manicured hands each chapter

#book omens #good omens #aziraphale #book!aziraphale

[otg-xp]

I'll never forget the time when book!aziraphael possessed a television priest dude and proceeded to tell him all he was saying was just Heaven propaganda said he was an angel when the guy mistook him with the devil and fucked off

#king behavior #i think about this daily #this is my roman empire #good omens #good omens aziraphale #aziraphael #book!omens #book!aziraphale

[idylliumfield]

did someone say book!omens? 🐍🪽

slight alt coloring versions bc im indecisive under the cut

#good omens #good omens book #crowley #aziraphale #nope’s art #they r so important to me #decided the sword is a scimitar for no reason #ive looked at this for too gotdam long #book!crowley #book!aziraphale #ineffable husbands #my favorite part is aziraphale’s arms lol im v happy with the fabric #book omens

[a-light-case-of-ohno]

Love how Book!Aziraphale starts off real sweet and flustered the whole time, gets discorperated, and become the baddest bitch alive

#book!aziraphale #aziraphale #aziraphale good omens #book!omens #good omens