#crowley hates the 14th century

[evilasiangenius]

Sneak Preview: The Canterbury Tales Roadtrip

Aziraphale carried Crowley into the inn. The demon was still dead asleep and wrapped up – even his face was entirely hidden in the folds of Aziraphale’s hyacinth-colored cloak, and the angel resisted the temptation to push that fur-lined wool back just a little bit so that he could stroke the demon’s dark curling hair.

“I’m sorry, you can’t bring in anyone sick!” the innkeeper began, moving to block the way.

“Oh no, he’s not sick at all. He’s quite healthy, through and through. I doubt the plague could even touch him. Besides, this. This. Er, this is…” Aziraphale panicked for a moment, trying to think up an excuse. “This is…erm, this is…this is my son!”

“I’m not his son,” Crowley’s voice was muffled from beneath the enshrouding cloak.

“Ha ha, that’s exactly the kind of backchat a son would say. My son. These young folks and their jests, really. Now now, my child, behave or I might accidentally drop you.”

“You wouldn’t dare.”

“Quiet, child. The adults are talking.”

Crowley gasped in outrage.

“Anyhow, the poor child fell asleep on my horse, which reminds me, if you could send someone to make sure my palfrey’s watered and fed, I’d appreciate it. I can handle the grooming myself–”

“Did you say horse?” The innkeeper’s ears pricked up at the suggestion of wealth, and then he inspected Aziraphale a little more closely, from the cream-colored silk velvet of his long calf-length pleated houppelandes, the sleeves fashionably scalloped and trimmed with the same pale blue-gray fur lining of the hyacinth cloak to the low slung belt with elaborate metal ornaments of gold-chased bronze and hanging tassels of silk, among which hung a heavy purse. “Come in, come in! Please, did you want a room? You’ll be wanting a room, we got the very best rooms for a man of your standing, Sir…?”

“Ahem, if you must know, I am a knight. Sir Aziraphale, a knight of the crown,” Aziraphale said, resting his hand upon a hilt made of white horn and bound with golden silk cord. “As you can see by my sword.”

“Oh, so that’s what was poking my back,” Crowley said softly, just loud enough for Aziraphale to hear.

Aziraphale went bright red. “And my son who is my squire.” He drew Crowley a bit closer, and whispered into the demon’s ear. “Don’t make me drop you.”

“Yes, I’ll behave. Daddy,” Crowley laughed, looking up into Aziraphale’s flustered, consternated face.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziraphale and crowley #aziracrow #aziraphale is a knight #crowley is his squire #canterbury tales crossover #writing in nearly every single character from the prologue #crowley hates the 14th century #coming soon to ao3 #aziraphale and crowley in fancy medieval clothing #i'll probably start posting this story next week #mistakes were made

[lesbi-and-epressed]

Crowley: buying something in a shop

Cashier: that would be 14 cent--

Crowley: *demonic screaming noises*

#i felt the need to do something stupid #hope yall will forgive me #woah thats a bad tag to share on a Good Omens post #good omemes #good omens #crowley is a mess #crowley hates the 14th century

[pocketrabi]

Crowley and the 14th century

So, we all know how much Crowley despites the old fourteenth century. "The thing I like best about time is that every day it takes us further away from the fourteenth century", right?

But why does he hate it so much? For the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages in Europe? The Black Death? The Hundred Years' War?

The fourteenth century was truly a shitshow, sure, but Crowley lived for millennia, so why?

I was wondering. What if something happened during that time? With Aziraphale as witness of course.

Something so stupid and embarrassing and hilarious as to beg for time to go faster because "I don't want to be anywhere near that bloody day, thank you very much".

Like, some drunk stranger spotting Crowley (and not Aziraphale) one full moon night near the lake, pale skin and long, curly flaming hair, and starting spreading this tale about a young lady of celestial beauty and shut up, Angel, or I swear to Someone-

#good omen #crowley #crowley hates the 14th century #stupid little idea #I'm sorry

[luke-o-lophus]

Good Omens HC: Crowley hated the 14th Century because of the Black Death

He is too proud to admit his dislike comes from hating seeing how much the humans suffered (maybe Hell even gave him credit for the pandemic?). So he just says it was too boring.

#luke shares #good omens #crowley #good omens meta #i connected some dots #this human brain loves finding patterns #crowley hates the 14th century #14th century

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Why play video games when you could spontaneously decide to deep dive into the black plague to spur on some medium-length depression fic?

#good omens #crowley hates the 14th century

[absolutebozo]

A bunch of little ones for y'all today.

I physically cringe when typing y'all but it's easier to type than you all or you guys. He says, taking his time to type all this out.

Aziraphale: You know, I'm starting to regret showing you how that blender works.

Jim, drinking toast: Why do you say that?

Muriel: So, what's for dinner?

Crowley, after Aziraphale left: Regret.

Crawly, after the 14th century: I slept for almost a century but I might still be tired so lets go for one more century just in case.

Aziraphale: Crawly, that's a coma.

Crawly: Sounds festive.

Extra:

My Good Omens book gets here today, supposedly. I actually can't wait. I'm bouncing off of the walls.

#good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #azirapahle #aziraphale and crowley #gos2 #good omens season 2 #gos2 spoilers #jim short for james short for gabriel #archangel fucking gabriel #Crawly #Crowley before the name change #Crowley hating the 14th century #Domestic Aziraphale #Domestic Crowley #Ineffable Idiots #Crowley being sad after Aziraphale left #Sad Crowley #I GET MY BOOK TOMORROW

[violet-yimlat]

I’m reading Dante’s Inferno and I think the passage I underlined in red represents Crowley pretty well! I also drew a little Crowley for fun. Most of my annotations are “UwU Virgil senpai” type sarcastic comments so yeah. I’m having a hell of a time. Also, did you know that there’s a pizza chain called “Dante’s Pizza” and their slogan is “one hell of a pizza” and the deserts are described as “a little piece of heaven on a plate”? No purgatory puns though. I suppose that you could pretend that you are in purgatory while you wait for your food? I haven’t read the Purgatorio yet, but I have watched the Overly Sarcastic Productions version of the entire comedy. Sorry for the long post!

#good omens #crowley #demon #dante alighieri #dante’s inferno #dante’s divine comedy #Dante’s pizza #books #annotations #the 14th century #how much Crowley hates the 14th century #maybe it’s because he read the inferno #and was like #i’m in this photo and i don’t like it

[princessamericachavez]

Book Crowley really is the most character ever.

He doesn’t need sleep but he loves it so he keeps doing it. He slept through the entire 14th century because he hated it. He answers to “Hail Satan” with a little wave and a “Hi”. He actually wants to listen to classical music but it keeps turning into Queen. We don’t realize he has yellow slitted eyes until he’s frantically searching for Aziraphale at the burning bookshop. He keeps a nice, spacious, modern flat just because it’s the kind of flat the human he pretends to be would have. He bought a great sound system and forgot to buy speakers for it but made it work miraculously. He keeps a fully stocked fridge with food that never goes bad just to keep up appearances. He loves Mary Poppins and tries to emulate her as a nanny. He was cast out of Hell. Deep down he is an optimist who believes the Universe will look after him. He hasn’t forgotten he was an Angel once and still tries to go good. He actively tries to keep people from getting harmed. He hates guns. He questions God’s plan but still trusts there is one and maybe he has a part in it. He was friends with Da Vinci. He went to Spain, saw what the Spanish Inquisition was doing and proceeded to get drunk for a week.

I want to study him like a bug under a microscope.

#Crowley #good omens #neil gaiman #terry pratchett

[shades-o-grey]

Crowley Headcanon:

Part of the reason Crowley hated the 14th Century and riding Horses (and not just because they're tough on your bottom)

Its because horses get startled by him. Because of his snake like characteristics horses never settle around him and always get wound up.

Horses are scared of snakes!

Made trying to travel the human way rather difficult before they invented chariots and blinder and all that.

Before then the only Horses Crowley could use were the great black mares with flaming eyes and sparking hoofs Hell provided.

And they rather unsettled Crowley.

#good omens #go2 #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #gomens #gomens theory #good omens theory #good omens thoughts #good omens brainrot #Crowley Brain Rot #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #crowley theory #crowley headcanons #gomens headcanon #good omens headcanons

[p4nishers]

few of my aziracrow hcs throughout history:

in the 16th century crowley started the rumor that dead bodies could cure disease just for fun and it got a LITTLE out of hand when the rich actually starting eating that shit. he got a commendation for it and not only was it weird as hell but aziraphale didn't talk to him for at least two decades bc of it so it wasn't worth it

crowley was exclusively fem presenting in the 1970's and tried therapy that decade in hopes of getting her head screwed on right might make her enough for a certain angel. she ended up only going to 3 sessions and wiping her therapists memory of everything

aziraphale joined the army in ww1 as a medic and healed mostly in france till he was called away to an assignment (keep some promising young priest safe and make sure he ascends to sainthood) which took years and the war was over when he got back

crowley was a plague doctor in the 14-15th century bc he was originally supposed to tempt ppl into death but he could never actually bring himself to do it so he ended up lying to hell and healing/comforting people in their last moments of death. got found out eventually by hell and was kept Downstairs for a few decades in the 1400's. the black death and the famines that followed it after is the reason he despises the 14th century so much (also he just hated seeing aziraphale so skinny and so worried)

crowley invented the flat earth theory and the 'sun revolves around the earth' theory. hell gave him several commendations

crowley was on the titanic and has held a grudge against every single body of water ever since

crowley was friends with mary magdalene

crowley was forced (by hell ofc) to marry one of the lords she was tempting in the late 1500s and she did, reluctantly, until she got so tired of his bullshit she was like 'nah fuck this' and ran away. that got her a few decades of paperwork in hell but really, it was worth it. (the whole time aziraphale wrote her letters and was trying to figure out why he felt so heartbroken everytime he thought of crowley being married to another)

crowley helped put out fires in the great fire of london and when hell reprimanded him for it he made some excuses about helping the rebellion rise among the citizens and everyone hated lord bloodworth, even hell, so he reasoned he should've gotten a commendation alone for annoying the man. ALSO he did NOT lift a finger for the St Paul cathedral so they should be happy with him, really! aziraphale was in france at the time, watching Molière's newest comedy, even tho he barely understood a word.

crowley bleached her hair ONCE in the 1980's and immediately regretted it and miracled it away before anyone could see

crowley tempted one of the man working on the first translation of the bible and added spelling mistakes for shits and giggles

crowley would have married aziraphale in rome

aziraphale used to give rides to crowley back when they rode on horses cause horses canonically hate crowley and aziraphale might've been a smug bitch about it but he still liked helping crowley out. (crowley sat there like a block of salt the entire time and did not think of anything but his hands on aziraphale's waist for months after)

somewhere between 1941 and 1967 crowley confessed or TRIED to confess his feelings for aziraphale but was immediately shut down (even tho az felt the same) bc aziraphale was scared that heaven would find out and that crowley would be in danger. they parted on shit terms after and that's the reason they were so tense with each other in 1967 bc there was already a rejection between them

after the flood aziraphale saved every injured animal that he found bc he couldn't bear the thought of 'wasting' god's 'mercy'

crowley wanted to be a highwayman in the late 1700s but they heard it involved horse riding so they settled for being a footpad (travelled and robbed on foot) for a while and aziraphale disapproved, obviously, but he was no snitch

crowley rescued aziraphale from pirates once (aziraphale refused to part w his books and they were just about to execute him before crowley showed up) with a shitty fucking getaway boat and everything. aziraphale kissed his cheek in thank you and crowley promptly fell out of said shitty fucking getaway boat

in the early days crowley tried to convince himself that what he felt for aziraphale was simple jealousy or obsession with what he couldn't have but sometime after job he gave up

crowley invented jesters. aziraphale was a jester for an assignment (looking after a promising king and making sure he ascended to sainthood) and crowley laughed her ass OFF when she saw aziraphale in his little jester outfit. she still brings it up sometimes and aziraphale ignores her everytime

aziraphale kept bees in the 18th century and, following tradition (i kid u not) gossiped to them about crowley in exchange for honey

when crowley learned of what god asked abraham to do with isaac he was like 'oh absolutely fucking NOT' and 'kidnapped' him (politely asked isaac to come with him somewhere safe). aziraphale came to 'demand' him back until crowley explained the situation, after which he hemmed and hawed until he was like 'well... WELL!!' and stayed to 'watch' over them (make flower crowns with isaac)

aziraphale found crowley asleep on noah's ark with her arms warped around every animal she could reach and felt an emotion he wouldn't name for another 3000 years

aziraphale invited himself over to crowley's to celebrate 1999's new years eve and crowley did the littlest tempting they've ever done so aziraphale would hug one of their pillows all night and after he left crowley miracled his scent to never leave the pillow and still sleeps with it every night and pretend they have everything they want

#yes im history nerd and insane #im not normal about them and exactly 1 person asked to hear my hcs so i had to make a post #good omens #good omens s2 #azicrow #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #good omens headcanon

[fellshish]

The hc that Crowley hated the 14th century in particular because of the bubonic plague *cries*

It plagued his nightmares 😥 (btw i found some info on why he hated the 14th century here)

#my asks #good omens #crowley

[aziraphales-library]

Hi!! Thank you for doing all this! I wasn't sure if this was already something you've been asked about, but do you know of any arranged marriage fics? I keep trying to find some but the filter always looks for the arrangement instead. I figured I'd give asking you a shot!

Thank you!!

Hello! There are a few posts on our #arranged marriage tag. Here are some more for you...

Comfort, Keep, and Honor by Meridians_of_Madness (M)

If Heaven and Hell decided that they needed their Earth operatives married straight from the beginning- well, it all ends the same way, but the road getting there is different. An Arranged Marriage AU.

An Arrangement of True Minds by Sodium_Azide (T)

Two families, alike in pragmatism if not dignity, make an arrangement 14th century style.

Aziraphale Fell and Anthony Crowley do their family duty, as they understand it, but their actual sacrifice wasn't written in the prenup.

Circumstances of Distinction by angelsnuffbox (M)

"Once, when Aziraphale was younger and far more of a romantic, he had hoped to be swept off his feet into a whirlwind romance: to feel his heart grow asunder over the passionate thrills of love - a Shakespearean love, filled with flowery words and heated confessions. But such aspirations did not long last. In these circles of society, people married for power. For alliance. To marry for love was to condemn oneself to a life of poverty. And to find that love, out of circumstance, from the stale negotiations of a wedded alliance was above all the greatest privilege, one that could not be afforded by even the wealthiest creature in the world."

*

Sir Anthony Crowley has been living his independent life as a cast-out younger son when he had a baronetcy and failing estate suddenly thrust upon him. Mr Aziraphale, son of a wealthy tradesman, could be the answer to his troubles. A balance of rank and wealth, was this not just what unions were for? A series of meetings in the ballrooms of Bath will determine what fate has in store for these two.

A (non angsty) Regency era arranged marriage AU

Just Married by TawnyOwl95 (E)

Aziraphale East does not wish to get married.

His mother has other ideas. After all, what other choice does a gently bred omega have?

When Aziraphale persists in rejecting suitors, Mrs East takes matters into her own hands. However she has thoroughly underestimated how stubborn her youngest child can be.

As does his new husband.

to linger in you by NaroMoreau (E)

An arranged marriage is set in place before Aziraphale can be crowned as a King. He hates the idea but there's nothing to be done.

Luckily, his betrothed turns out to be quite agreeable, except...

... not everything is as it seems.

Incorporation by Ack_Emma (E)

Best friends from rival wool merchant families, Antoinetta Crowley and Aziraphale Fell are shocked when their parents arrange a surprise marriage between them.

But this new arrangement is a chance to be on their own side and to be left alone for a bit. Their lifelong friendship is solid, what could go wrong?

As it turns out, plenty.

Times are changing, and married life is harder than it looks when you're a pair of young, ineffable dorks.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #arranged marriage #human au #regency #adult omens #mod d

[juneofbonesao3]

Thinking about how in Good Omens, a few times in the show and many times in the book, it’s mentioned how much Crowley hated the 14th century. But none of the backstory scenes in the show occur during the 14th century.

Crowley hated the 14th century because he didn’t see Aziraphale.

#someone sedate me #headcanon #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #crowly x aziraphale #innefable husbands #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #good omens book

[thesherrinfordfacility]

I love TV Crowley and I don't think he's a bad/unfaithful adaptation of book Crowley I just. I wish that when he says things like "I'm going to run off to Alpha Centauri" or something along those lines, about abandoning the Earth, more emphasis is placed on the fact that He Would Not Actually Go Through With That. Like for as much as he threatens to do so, when it comes down to it he truly cannot bring himself to up and leave the humans like Gabriel and Beelzebub did. It would grate on him and he'd end up turning right back around and I want something other than Aziraphale to be the clear, immediate reason for it. Crowley notably hates the 14th century and that was the century where over a third of the population (245 million people) died due to a combination of the Great Famine and the Black Death. I think about that sometimes idk.

hi (again?) nonnie!!!✨ you're good dw, i got what you were saying and it's perfectly valid; ultimately as i added to the tags of the last ask, for many reasons it's difficult to accurately translate a character to screen when you don't have the more overt narration of their internal thought processes, because these give great influence to how the reader should view the character.

its not at all bad (the way that book crowley was depicted in tv crowley), there are elements i like about each more than i do about vice versa (same for aziraphale, and anathema, and madame tracy and- you get the idea), but he is in many ways different. and i trust that maybe we'll see the other facets of crowley's character in s3, by nature of s3 perhaps being more solid in the original plan for the GO story in general (again, bc t+n discussed it)... particularly those traits demonstrated more in the book, because if there's a particular season where i think this is going to necessary, it's that one.

might be worth having a read of this first ask that i got from LWA✨ (if youre new here, first of all welcome! and second, Longwinded Anon/LWA is a legend in these halls for dropping their analysis of different elements of the story and characters in my ask box from time to time... they have truly elevated my way of thinking about the story that's perhaps a tad more critical than most, but i think that's important!!!). anyway, this ask has a bit of critique on book vs show crowley that might of interest!!!✨

#in this house all opinions are valid if you can argue them well enough #we entertain all schools of thought here especially critique #this is a safe space✨ #good omens #ask #crowley meta

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Tw death and sad things

I decided it's been enough time since I put up Every Day Another Step Away (a story about why Crowley hates the 14th Century) that I could go back and reread it with fresh eyes.

I forgot I put this in there:

There was a woman's shoes by the door, and her coat was still slung over a chair

Absolute gut punch. I put it in for a specific reason, because that's what struck me after my mom passed. That specific image of her shoes by the door, coat still slung over the chair, waiting for her, everything left the way it was as if she'd expected to come back. It was sudden, so everything there was like a snapshot in time, everything uniquely hers wholly and completely, everything she was when she thought no one was watching.

Anyway, sorry for the downer. I just wanted someone out there to know that I put a little piece of her in my work, to live on beyond her. That's one of my favorite things about writing: it's a way to immortalize all of the little things that bring meaning and emotion (even if that emotion is sorrow) to my life. Even if I hurt my own feelings from time to time. It hurts, but it also reminds me of the way people live on in these seemingly inconspicuous details, and that at least is comforting.

#good omens kind of #fanfiction #writing

[naty-arty]

So sleeping beauty takes place in the 14th century.... crowley hates the 14th century...... just saying he probably wanted to sleep through it........

#to be clear I think he is the sleeping beauty #he just wanted ab excuse to sleep unbothered for 100 years guys whats so wrong with that #good omens #crowley