#consenting cycle repairmen

[feluka]

devotion innit

#my gifs #myth: good omens is a story about the conflict between heaven and hell and humanity being caught in between #reality: good omens is a story about the conflict between someone who wants to give someone everything and someone who can't say yes to him #and the poor audience being caught in between #good omens #good omens spoilers #gos2 spoilers #consenting cycle repairmen

[and-his-hands-were-24-crows]

Push

#Maybe it's dumb to do two in the same day but HERE WE ARE #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #consenting cycle repairmen #do that again #neil gaiman #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #I made this #24 crows art

[zeldahime]

Highway to Pail Day 9

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February 9: Deviled Egg

It was a something of a joke, the first time Aziraphale ordered deviled eggs when out with Crowley. They had both been eating stuffed hard-boiled eggs for millennia of course, but it had taken them until after the invention of refrigeration to happen to be together at a restaurant that had them on the menu and described them with such a slightly blasphemous name.

Aziraphale had ordered deviled eggs for the both of them—Crowley might want to try one to write a memo about for Home Office—and watched out of the corner of his eye as Crowley's entire face stretched in surprise, his eyebrows escaping his sunglasses and jaw dropping. It always gave Aziraphale a thrill when he could surprise Crowley like this with his little transgressions. They'd had the Arrangement for nearly a thousand years and had been unofficially friends for far longer than that, but Crowley was still so easy to shock with a well-placed turn of phrase.

And then Crowley ordered angel cake while looking directly at him, lowered his glasses, and winked.

Suddenly his corporation's heart was racing faster than the Bentley on a country road.

Crowley didn't often eat, and when he did he didn't eat much. He usually went for dry wines and black coffees, dark chocolates and green apples. Aziraphale didn't think he'd ever tried sponge cake, and certainly if he had he hadn't eaten more than a stray nibble to fit in during a job. And he was ordering an airy sweet just to see Aziraphale's face when he did.

The tables had been turned and the room was suddenly very hot.

"What's the matter, angel?" Crowley asked, smirking like a cat who had just gotten into a locked drawer. "Afraid I won't share? Don't worry, you'll get most of it."

"That's very kind of you, though hardly necessary."

"Oh, don't start." Crowley rolled his eyes in that way of his that involved his entire head and both his shoulders, but the smirk eased into a smile. "Properly demonic, tempting an angel to gluttony."

"Of course it is, my dear," Aziraphale said, a grin threatening to overcome his face. "And as an angel, it is my duty to thwart the schemes of evil, such as allowing eggs dressed with mustard to be served to humans in cafés near public gardens."

"Oh, a right diabolical plan, that was," Crowley agreed mock-seriously. "Satan's ministers couldn't do it better. Practically ox-ribs, those eggs."

They both thought of a night, a long time ago, when a demon introduced an angel to earthly pleasures; and like every meal they shared since, they repeated it, Aziraphale enjoying his meal while Crowley watched.

Crowley did try an egg. Aziraphale longed to deliver it directly onto his tongue, like he had with another hardboiled egg eight or nine centuries before, but he feared that would get them kicked out; they were hardly in the kind of establishment Aziraphale had frequented in the later 19th century, where men-shaped beings could flirt so boldly. Crowley seemed to be operating on a similar line of thought with the cake, making an aborted motion toward Aziraphale with the fork before turning it around to give over the handle and shoving the plate toward him.

Not for the first time, Aziraphale thought of the novels in his shop, the young people of his neighborhood, the countless humans he'd seen in love and seen giving one another companionship throughout history, and their propensity toward kissing. He wondered if that would ever be something he and Crowley might do. He wondered if the eggs and cake would taste differently on Crowley's tongue.

Most likely not, Aziraphale decided. They would probably continue to taste mostly of mustard and sugar respectively. Still, it was a romantic notion. Perhaps one day, if they could be sure Heaven and Hell were no longer paying them any attention and wouldn't change their minds, if Crowley felt the same way he did, if Crowley could stand to be touched so intimately when he so often ducked out of the slightest suggestion of physical contact, they could test it.

#my writing #highway to pail #do it with style events #aziraphale #aziracrow #azicrow #ineffable husbands #consenting cycle repairmen #good omens #good omens fanfiction

[amarshmallownamedo]

In The Book, we always give the spotlight to the lines,

"'Can we get on?' said Crowley. 'Goodnight, miss. Get in, angel.' Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all."

But I think we miss out on the follow up to that line, a few pages later:

"[The book] was probably in the back of a car belonging to two consenting cycle repairmen."

#theyre gay your honor #good omens #good omens book #aziraphale #crowley #anathema device #aziraphale isnt the only one who people think is gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide #terry pratchett #neil gaiman

[kay-427]

"Two consenting cycle repairmen"

And people thought they were platonic? Anathema heard Crowley call Aziraphale "Angel" once and she said 👉 gay

#Good Omens #Kay reads #ineffable husbands

[flameslikeanything]

gay wings gay wings gay wings

#good omens #book omens #aziraphale #crowley #azcrow #crowphale #air conditioning #consenting cycle repairmen #my art #kind of a style experiment I guess

[brightwanderer]

So I know there’s been plenty of sharing of the bit in the book where Anathema mistakes Crowley and Aziraphale for a gay couple...

There was definitely something very weird about them, she decided.

[...] “Get _in_, angel.”

Ah. Well that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.

... but can we also take a moment to appreciate the little follow up when she searches in vain for the book and comes up empty-handed:

Which meant, as she had feared all along, that it was probably in the back of a car belonging to two consenting cycle repairmen.

#good omens #new ship name? #consenting cycle repairmen #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands

[proudruinerofeverything]

forget "ineffable husbands", forget "air conditioning", forget "azcrow", the ship name has always been and will always be "consenting cycle repairmen"

#we should just rename all romance 'consenting cycle repairmen' #i now pronounce you consenting cycle repairmen #good omens #good omens book #aziraphale #crowley #anathema device #anthony j crowley #neil gaiman #terry pratchett

[asgardian--angels]

Some more Good Omens Book minutiae

There have already been some good posts highlighting trivia and changes between the book and show (a couple are here and here) so I thought I’d add in some more that might be useful and haven’t been overdone yet. Ones I think are most helpful are bolded!

Crowley can see in the dark (because he’s a demon, not because he’s a snake)

Crowley does eat (and notes that sleeping is enjoyable after a heavy meal), but on at least one canonical occasion Aziraphale takes Crowley’s portion of food for himself (angel food cake, to be exact, and he does it without needing to ask) so infer what you will about how we never see Crowley with food in the show

Crowley does read, or at the very least it mentions him attempting to calm his nerves by reading a novel

Aziraphale learned magic when he took a class in the 1870s taught by famous stage magician John Maskelyne

Aziraphale takes his tea without sugar

Crowley does not like to shapeshift, because he is afraid he’ll forget how to turn back 

It’s not terribly clear but somewhat implied that Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis were NOT Crowley and Aziraphale (they reference a ‘team’ working for them) but that the two did exchange and compare notes on Warlock’s progress frequently. So thank Neil and Co. for the screenplay choices. Additionally, Brother Francis never actually did any real gardening, he just miracled everything to look perfect

When Warlock was 6 years old, nanny and gardener left and were replaced by two tutors, Mr. Harrison (evil) and Mr. Cortese (good)

Aziraphale will employ any means “short of actual physical violence” to discourage customers in his bookshop, including unpleasant damp odors and glowering looks to anyone who walks in

That clunky watch Crowley wears was custom-made to have the time in 20 world capitals as well as the time in Hell, which was always “Too Late”, and whose battery burned out years ago but he never noticed so it kept working

In 1653 Aziraphale added his own annotations to the proof sheets of a Bible published by Bilton & Scaggs Publishing (the same as who published the Nice and Accurate Prophecies), adding a bit about losing his flaming sword (basically the dialogue in the scene of the series where God confronts him at the gate in episode 3), and is now known as the Bugger Alle This Bible, one of a special collection of misprinted Bibles Aziraphale is proud to own

Aziraphale does watch films. This includes one documentary about gorillas making nests. He also makes an Exorcist reference.

For 6000 years Aziraphale thought dolphins were fish

Crowley watched Mary Poppins on TV at Christmas one year

Aziraphale buys his clothes, while Crowley manifests them

Anathema refers to Crowley and Aziraphale as “two consenting cycle repairmen” :)

Anathema’s bicycle is named Phaeton

Aziraphale’s bookshop is situated directly next to another bookshop called ‘Intimate Books’ and he occasionally gets confused customers that wrongly come into his shop

Anathema is British, not American, in the book

Adam has an older sister named Sarah

Aziraphale is the first angel to own a computer

After the non-Armageddon, Adam alters reality to send Warlock on a plane to America, because Adam thinks America is a cool and magical place and that Warlock deserves something good. (We do not find out if Warlock’s life improves, only that he liked England because it was ‘a good place to be an American’)

Crowley was so impressed by how diabolically mundane the warranty conditions for computers were that he sent a stack of them down to Hell’s ‘Immortal Souls’ agreement department with a memo saying ‘Learn, guys’

When Crowley trapped Hastur on his answering machine, he considered taking the tape and playing it in his car until it became Freddie Mercury, but he decided even that was taking it too far

While NOT show canon, in the book the combination to Crowley’s safe containing the holy water is 4-0-0-4, the year he “slithered onto this stupid, marvellous planet” (Neil has stated that the combination in the show is meaningless and was the default for the safe they bought)

In the book, it does NOT expressly say that Crowley destroys the plants he deems failures, just that he leaves and returns an hour later with an empty flowerpot

Crowley’s flat contains a bedroom, office, kitchen, lounge, and bathroom, each “forever clean and perfect” because he doesn’t really “live” there, as well as a fridge stocked with gourmet food that never spoils and the fridge isn’t even plugged in

Shadwell believes that Aziraphale is a Russian spy

Crowley and Aziraphale had both visited Shadwell’s apartment exactly once (and Aziraphale was rather disgusted by the state of the place)

In the book (as opposed to the show) Aziraphale is full aware (and nonplussed) that there’s only a 50/50 chance Heaven would win against Hell in Armageddon, and that it doesn’t matter for humans so much anyways because everyone will be killed horribly as civilian casualties during the war itself (a hilarious and very bitchy speech absolutely worth reading, when he possesses Marvin the TV preacher)

The road to Hell isn’t paved with good intentions, rather with frozen door-to-door salesmen, and young demons go ice-skating down it on weekends

Madame Tracy’s real name is Marjorie Potts

Aziraphale has “neat, copperplate” handwriting

Crowley is an optimist

It turns out, Hastur’s murder of the telephone salespeople prevented a Crowley-esque domino effect of thousands of people getting angry from the calls and passing that anger on and on, thus actually spreading a wave of low-level goodness across London

In the book, the M25 wasn’t actually on fire, but rather an inexplicable glowing combination of “pain and dark light” called infra-black, and was both 700 degrees Celsius and -140 at the same time. The Bentley spontaneously combusted when crossing it.

When Crowley meets Aziraphale-as-Tracy, he does say ‘Is that you? Nice dress’ but the TV version added the ‘It suits you.’ However in the book he also says ‘Aren’t you going to introduce me to your new body?’ :)))

When Adam acknowledges Crowley at the airbase, Crowley feels true terror for the first time in his life, because while Hell could make you cease to exist, the Antichrist could make it so you never existed in the first place

When Aziraphale makes the soldier disappear, he actually was transported back to his childhood home in America where his family lives

In the book, to get them both home from Tadfield Crowley steals a Jeep from the airbase

Crowley and Aziraphale are deadass just referred to as ‘the couple with the bottle [of wine]’ one time

There is no body swap scene at the end, because there didn’t need to be; in the book, the stakes of Aziraphale and Crowley’s Arrangement were not nearly as high. A big deal was never made of it, as they were too unimportant to warrant the attention of their superiors. Retribution never came. While they could get in trouble (and Crowley was threatened many times) for defying orders concerning the Apocalypse, little mention was made of their friendship being a crime. Thus, they never had any real reason to deny being friends, and were much more comfortable with their loyalties and each other. This lack of tension marks the biggest divergence between the series and book, and creates a starkly different (and interesting!) dynamic for the characters in the show.

Just me but I get the distinct sense that book Aziraphale and Crowley are already an old bickering married couple and this explains the distinct lack of pining lmao.

Anyway, I hope these were enjoyable or helpful!

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthony crowley #mine

[feluka]

uh hey sorry but we made your boyfriend believe that not only is the question of good and evil an answerable one, but also that *he* has the responsibility to answer it and to walk away from that would be selfish. so uh yeah he's forfeiting every bit of peace he's managed to cultivate for himself in a world that demands all pleasures be destroyed and thus unwittingly gave up the closest thing he'll ever get to an answer to the question of good and evil. and the peace he's now throwing away includes yours since yours depends on his. so sorry

#is the tumblr boyfriend meme still a thing. you guys used to love the tumblr boyfriend meme! #good omens spoilers #gos2 spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #consenting cycle repairmen

[and-his-hands-were-24-crows]

Okay but what if I was really annoying and reposted these four as a set.

(I have ideas for a couple more, but it might be a minute.)

1. "You Were an Angel Once" (8/25/23) 2. "Starmaker" (8/26/23) 3. (Untitled riff on that one sculpture. You know the one.) (8/27/23) 4. "The Kindest Use a Knife" (8/28/23)

#good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable spouses #consenting cycle repairmen #It's probably not classy to repost like this but I DO like seeing all of them together #I don't know the fucking rules I just live here #neil gaiman #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #I made this #24 crows art

[zeldahime]

Look I know it’s super vague and therefore about every single ship ever, but I’m daydreaming about Aziraphale and Crowley to this song hardcore today

Because! They never said these things!!! For 6,000 years!!!!!!!!!!!!

And when they finally did, everything imploded.

#personal tag #Spotify #consenting cycle repairmen

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Ear of Newt

by larkspurblue

Mr. R.P. Tyler of the Tadfield Neighborhood Watch was nosy. Little old ladies in knitting clubs were nosy. All of Anathema’s Tadfield neighbors were, in Anathema’s opinion, a little nosy. So was her mother, and definitely so was her grandmother. But Anathema did not think she herself was nosy. Until the day she had the strange beings whom she had once supposed to be two consenting cycle repairmen out to Jasmine Cottage for tea. Anathema wants her burning questions about the universe, and also the status of a certain angel and demon's romantic relationship, satisfactorily answered. Newt would rather stay out of it.

Words: 4104, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Newton Pulsifer, Anathema Device

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device/Newton Pulsifer

Additional Tags: Matchmaker Anathema Device, background pining, schemes and hijinks, but very mild hijinks because Newt is not good at it, Accidental confidante Newt, in this house we appreciate Newton Pulsifer, Newt tries to bond with Crowley about plants, Anathema has the same psychic headache that Daphne has in Frasier, whenever Lilith flies into Seattle, but Anathema's is about Crowley and Aziraphale being in love, couple friends but one couple is an angel and a demon and also not formally together

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/27499435

#ao3feed ineffablehusbandz #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthonyjcrowl

[jackymedan]

Me reading today:

Crowley: Goodnight, miss. [to Aziraphale] Get in, Angel.

Anathema’s POV: Ah. Well, that explained it. She had been perfectly safe after all.

Me: am I supposed to interpret this the way I THINK I should or...... *looks sentence up online* *gets redirected to tv tropes page about ‘mistaken for gay’* Okay, good, just checking ;)

#and then later she refers to them as two CONSENTING cycle repairmen omfg #I was like either she knows about the existence of angels and that comment explained how they fixed her bike or something #OR she totally interpreted that as a form of endearment and she totally thinks they're a gay couple now lol #I think the internet agrees with me it's the second one #I mean it probably kind of is a form of endearment just like aziraphale calls crowley dear all the time #but yeah..

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

I've been rereading the Good Omens book because of the TV show, and I came across a very odd piece of phrasing. When Anathema loses the book, she spends some time hunting for it before realising that it must be in the car "belonging to two consenting cycle repairmen."

The word "consenting" is really odd in this context. Consenting to what? To repairing her bike? To giving her a lift? It makes no sense.

But think about the last time you heard the phrase "two consenting..." It was quite likely something along the lines of, "It's nobody's business what two consenting adults get up to in their own bedroom" or, "Two consenting adults should be allowed to get married."

"Two consenting..." is generally followed by "adults" and used in discussions about couples, and frequently LGBTQ+ couples. By using the phrase "two consenting" as a description for Crowley and Aziraphale, the narrative is hinting that Anathema perceives them as a couple. The fact that she thinks the car belongs to both of them and not just one of them is another sign she sees them as an item.

#Good Omens #Good Omens book #ineffable husbands

[ao3feed-goodomens]

Your Assistance Is Required

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2SLsihN

by edna_blackadder

Anathema attempts to make her way in a non-Agnes-dictated world by ghost hunting. Death recommends seeking out a pair of consenting cycle repairmen.

Words: 10278, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Newton Pulsifer, Death (Good Omens), Original Characters

Relationships: Crowley/Aziraphale, Anathema Device/Newton Pulsifer, Original Female Character/Original Female Character

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2SLsihN

#ao3feed #fanfic #Good Omens