i do not care how they make it happen but aziraphale and crowley deserve tenderness in s3. Not necessarily another kiss but just… az putting his hand on crowley’s neck as they look at each other, crowley being allowed to run their fingers through the angel’s hair, sitting together on the sofa with crowley’s head in az’s lap, az calling crowley ‘darling’ or ‘my dear’, crowley bringing their angel flowers, they deserve the opportunity to show the other how much they love them
Top tier Aubreyad experience earlier this week - at the (sold out!) Animus screening of Master and Commander at the Prince Charles Cinema: 5 of the actors randomly showed up, apparently having bought tickets?? and were brought onstage and pressed for an anecdote
A foremast jack and four midshipmen!
Alex Palmer who played ‘never met a dead man who bought me a drink’ Nehemiah Slade, Jack Randall who played Boyle the midshipman, Lee Ingleby who played the unfortunate Mr Hollom, and, of course, Max Pirkis and Max Benitz, who played the tiny Mr Blakeney and Mr Calamy respectively. Delightful anecdotes of how they’re all still friends, and had arranged a dinner with the lads and figured they come and see it. They seemed genuinely amazed and delighted that the screening sold out, and told some tales of life during the shoot: music Peter Weir would play on set, and birthday parties they had during filming.
CLAMP COMING BACK SWINGING WITH THE PARALLEL TO THE MANGA’S OPENING SCENE
BRUTAL.
To have Sakura and Lava Lamp promise to hold hands when at THAT moment they ALSO couldn't close that distance? When it mattered most?
Was it these two all along, back then? Was the manga's opening a glimpse of what happens on between THESE two characters, in ten years time? Or is that still yet another scenario we haven’t seen yet?
Either way THIS almost-touch between them is accompanied with the PROMISE that they’ll close the distance between them on her birthday. Establishing the pattern of Sakura and Syaoran ALMOST touching but then not being able to - for it to become the outline of their lives afterwards, and the lives of their clones, and onwards until the present day.
So Lava Lamp made two promises here (to protect Sakura, and to hold her hand) and we're SO close to him maybe being able to fulfill them after all this time!
It's been six months today and I finally felt brave enough to go through my gallery of that night when I was watching the Eurovision final at G Livelab.
That was a good week.
A video of the public vote reaction under cut (because the quality is very shitty)