#jewish crowley

[aziraphales-library]

Hi mods, first of all thank you for your service, I was looking for a human AU fic where Crowley is Jewish and Aziraphale is a University Professor, He invites Aziraphale for Shabbos, that's about what I remember, I read it probably right after season 1 came out so a while ago.

Hello. I could only find a couple of Jewish Crowley and professor Aziraphale fics. Could it be one of these?...

Pretty flowers for pretty angels by Sani86 (E)

Doctor Azirpahale Fell takes a job at Tadfield University, looking for the recognition he deserves. Instead, he finds a sexy-as-sin botanist who yells at plants and grows the prettiest flowers.

Coffee, Wine, and Textbooks-Verse by shaniacbergara (G-M) (Series)

They're professors. They're ridiculous. What more could you want?

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #human au #jewish crowley #jewish omens #professors #mod d

[murphyoftheendless]

Out of all versions of Crowley I've watched/read/listened to, Book!Crowley kvetches the most and I adore it

#good omens #jumblr #anthony j crowley #crowley good omens #book crowley #book Crowley kvetches so much #as he should #no one can out kvetch him #jewish Crowley needs to be talked about more #jewish crowley #jews of tumblr #jewish good omens

[chaoticamelay]

Good Omens Hanukkah headcanons 🕎

Aziraphale has one really old, gorgeous oil menorah he takes super good care of! and Crowley likes to buy one funky menorah every year to add to his collection (maybe his favourite is shaped like a snake?👀)

my beloved mutual Daniel on twitter came up with this one but: Aziraphale lights his menorah in the hillel tradition, crowley lights his in the shammai tradition. they're hereditary enemies (they love each other very much)

Re the last one, this conversation definitely happened:

Maggie, has never seen anyone light a menorah like this: what are you doing?

Crowley: it's the Shammai tradition

Maggie: cool, cool, who taught you that?

Crowley, casually: Shammai

Nina: *choking on her drink*

Crowley has tried to hustle people at dreidel. She fails miserably every time but Aziraphale thinks it's funny

Muriel fucking loves dreidel and they're the only one Crowley doesn't pretend to hate losing at it with

Nina has a special drink available in her coffee shop, it's meant to mimic the flavour of sufganiyot! (Crowley puts six shots of espresso in it, Aziraphale tried it but decided it was much too sweet and he preferred the real thing)

Maggie's record shop plays a 'holiday' record that is all Hanukkah music with one token Christmas song... oh how the turntables lol

Maggie is a bit of a candle snob and exclusively uses handmade beeswax candles in her menorah!

Crowley uses a mismatch of candles from years and years worth of Hanukkah candle sets (they tend to come with one extra) and they're all different sizes and colours and it's chaos

At least one of the nights they all celebrate together, and Nina and Maggie are a bit disturbed and fascinated when Crowley and Aziraphale say the blessings in perfect Biblical Hebrew

Aziraphale has Many Opinions about latkes and didn't speak to Crowley for a week once because they joked that they liked chocolate sauce on theirs

Maggie covers her latkes with ketchup and Nina thinks it's disgusting (she's wrong)

Aziraphale, Maggie, and Nina are exempt from the shopkeeper's association's mandatory Christmas lights rule

Aziraphale gifts Crowley a yamacopter (see photo) as a joke, he wear's it to commit to the bit and pretends to hate it but he secretly likes it bc it makes little kids giggle when they see him

Crowley, Aziraphale and Maggie like to joke about an expedition to the Vatican to 'steal the menorah back' (at least Maggie is 85% sure it's a joke? Either way Nina has offered to be their alibi and Muriel is 100% down to be the distraction

It's not a joke, the menorah is now in the backroom of Aziraphale's bookshop

Happy Hanukkah everyone!!!!!

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #muriel good omens #nina good omens #maggie good omens #jewish crowley #jewish good omens #jewish aziraphale #they're all jewish fight me lol #slaps roof of good omens #this bad boy can fit so much judaism inside it #hanukkah #good omens headcanons #happy hanukkah have some headcanons!

[cheers-mdears]

May I go on the record yet again to say that I love that Crowley isn't angry about Falling.

Sad? Frustrated? Sometimes. Remorseful? It's complicated. Yearns to understand? Abso-fucking-lutely. Angry? Resentful? Bitter? ...nah.

He's just *clenches fist* so fuckin' Jewish, I love him so much.

#I suspect I spontaneously write some version of this post at least once a year lol #good omens #anthony j crowley #crowley good omens #good omens meta #crowley character analysis #indrid talks #jewish crowley

[jewomens]

Neil Gaiman mentioned earlier this summer that he wrote Crowley as Jewish, and lately I’ve been curious how that plays into his S2 arc of questioning and disillusionment.

Obviously Crowley isn’t ethnically or religiously Jewish, but it’s a pretty major part of Judaism and Jewish identity to question God and reinterpret the Torah as times change, and he specified that this was what he was referring to when discussing Crowley’s Jewishness.

His parallels to Christians who lose their faith are far more immediately apparent, so I could just be grasping at straws here, but there’s something about the way Crowley doesn’t fit easily inside Christian mythos, how he’s the first to really embrace life on Earth, and how he routinely dismisses Heaven and Hell that has a distinctly Jewish feel to it.

It’s also implied he had a closer relationship to God and Metatron than many of the other supernatural characters. When he tries to talk to God in S1E4, his tone is casual, and his language implies that God spoke to him at some point about His/Her plans for humanity. It’s almost as if he’s talking to a friend, which is a huge contrast to Aziraphale’s attempt to contact Him/Her (i.e. the ritual circle). Crowley’s also the first to recognize Metatron when he comes to Earth in S2, even after several instances of forgetting angels and demons he worked with previously.

This isn’t to say that Jews are somehow closer to God than Christians, just that - from what I’ve seen - Jews tend to have a more casual, interpersonal approach to their relationship with God than many more serious Christians. For example, the ideal of being “godfearing” seems to be more prominent and highly praised in Christian communities than Jewish ones, and the disparity between God and humans in Christianity (that God is infallible and perfect, and the humans are born tainted with sin) is really not a major part of Judaism at all. Rather, Jews see humans (and the Jewish people specifically) as having a role in making the world a better place, and that Satan is a tool of God’s to help challenge people to be better than their baser instincts. While I can’t speak to Crowley’s beliefs on that, his lack of total deference without any outright hostility seems more similar to the Jewish relationship to God than the Christian one.

That implied closeness could also be a hint at Crowley’s angelic alter-ego, and it might have nothing to do with Judaism. Unfortunately there’s no real way of confirming one way or the other until the third season comes out.

Either way, it’s fun to think about. Explorations of Jewish thought and relationship to God (particularly those written by someone with Jewish heritage) are few and far between, so it was an interesting idea to play with. Any thoughts/questions totally welcome! Most of this was fun speculation on my part, so I’m curious to see what other people might have to say.

#good omens #Jewish Crowley #good omens spoilers #good omens season two spoilers #gos2 spoilers #crowley #religion in good omens #good omens season 2

[socialist-microwave-laser]

adding to the conversation about aziraphale embodying a person beginning to question christianity but afraid to do it too much bc religious trauma/guilt:

something that has always bothered me about people trying to argue against christian homophobia is the claim that the christian bible (and i'm assuming this talking point includes the torah, though jews are very rarely mentioned in this context) never says anything about homosexuality. this is demonstrably false and easily disproven. often these people say it is actually a mistranslation and should be condemning pedophilia which is incorrect, the hebrew talks of "man with male." yes this can refer to pedophilia but it can also refer to homosexuality. also, homosexuality is clearly the main takeaway (though the talmud does go on to talk about what these verses imply about sexual relations with females)

the main thing that gets me about it is the implication that if the text actually did condemn homosexuality, then homophobes would be justified. obviously this isn't true, and we can use jews here as an example. jews, so focused on torah and talmud that a common nickname is literally "people of the book," are one of the most accepting demographics for queer people in the united states (x). not only does the torah condemn homosexuality, but so does the talmud! and yet here we are, jews being good people despite what religious texts say. and the important thing here is that jews don't shy away from talking about the bigotries present in these texts

so to apply this lens to good omens, when aziraphale found out about what was to happen to job, he refused to believe that g-d wanted it. even after reading the contract twice (once with muriel and once with the archangels), even after talking to many of the key players involved who all said that this was g-d's will, he still expresses doubt on if g-d truly wants all this to happen to job and his family. he ignores the facts of the fucked up things happening and still chooses to believe that g-d's will aligns with his own (while also comforting himself with the "it's all just so ineffable!" cop-out). rather than sitting down and allowing him to think that maybe g-d and the bible are fucked up and wrong and should be questioned, he decides to believe something contrary to his material reality because he is part of a community in which questioning is The Worst Possible Thing You Can Do

#queer #transgender #jumblr #crowley #good omens #aziraphale #jewish crowley #good omens analysis #aziracrow

[dinglehort]

if crowley prays to god in season 3. then what

#jewish trauma resolved #good omens #jewish crowley #he's so metuka

[geekthefreakout]

I think about Mr. Gaiman saying Crowley is the most Jewish character he's ever written a LOT. Because it's so true, Crowley is... very Jewish. The way he questions, the way he prioritizes actions over what he is supposed to believe, even his function as a demon is closer to the Jewish interpretation of Satan as more of a... prosecuting attorney rather than the source of all evil.

I can imagine him throwing down with some rabbis over various interpretations of Jewish law and what not. Maybe he even STARTED some of those Talmudic debates.

I can imagine him being the one who said "Well, if everything that falls from heaven is kosher, and yet donkeys are not kosher... should meat shaped like a donkey fall from Heaven, could it be eaten?"

Prompting another rabbi to call him a demented ostrich.

#gomens #anthony j crowley #jewish crowley #crowley stirring the shit in the talmudic debates #slithering all over the midrash

[tsyvia48]

Author & Mensch: Reflections on the impact of @neil-gaiman on my life, in essay and doodle

As a woman of a certain age, I am a well-practiced overthinker. Nerd, geek, know-it-all, intellectual, the names have been biting or praise depending on who wielded them. They’re all true, and I embrace them. 

In the early days of adulthood, when I was a wee 20-something overthinking nerd, geek, know-it-all, intellectual (20+ years ago), I became deeply interested in image and text and text-as-image. While friends were watching and arguing over Survivor, I was obsessing over Peter Greenaway’s The Pillowbook and Prospero's Books and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. (To this day my copies of the Sandman graphic novels and the English translation of The Pillowbook of Sei Shonagon are proudly displayed on the good bookshelves—you know, the ones I want people to peruse.)

Sandman isn't merely good storytelling and good art, it teases at some of the fundamental questions to which my religion-major heart was consistently and reliably drawn. It modeled a way of rendering the questions—and suggested answers—I would never have imagined on my own.

In those days, I created an artist's book: an altered gift edition of Hamlet. I explored Ophelia’s femininity and the inevitability of her break with her mental health, caught as she is between Hamlet and her father. I imagined her story if she’d had true agency. I investigated the way art (fan art?!) had shaped my understanding of the play and my relationship to it. I layered in my story—my resonance and dissonance with hers—and my art, along with images of famous and not-so-famous paintings of Ophelia. I proudly named Greenaway and Gaiman as influences. 

I imagined myself an artist. And, truthfully, I suppose I was one. 

I read Good Omens back then, too, delighting over the religious tropes and subversions, the humor, and the fundamental faith in humanity that shone through. 

In the two decades since then, below the din of “responsible” choices (that have mostly moved me away from imagining myself an artist) there has been a melody quietly bringing me comfort, shifting my perspective, and reminding me who I want to be. When I stop to listen for and name the music, I realize much of it generates from Neil Gaiman. 

The Graveyard Book gave me comfort and hope as a new parent. 

Ocean at the End of the Lane reminded me of the layers and the depths⏤the archetypes and metaphors⏤present in everything around me, if I am willing to seek them.

Neil’s anecdote about meeting Neil Armstrong has been a talisman against imposter syndrome. Or, more precisely, it has been a permission slip for forgiving myself when the imposter syndrome inevitably surfaces.

The episode of Dr Who he wrote (“the Doctor’s Wife”) changed the way I understand the entire Dr Who experience before and since. 

Lucifer (tv), which his work inspired, gave me joy, comfort and distraction through a tough time in my life. 

When, a few years ago, I realized he is Jewish, I had that swelling of pride and resonance that I always get when someone I admire shares that identity with me.

And now there’s the Good Omens tv series. It has opened something in me I didn’t realize was closed. Crowley and Aziraphale are helping me better understand myself, and love, and gender, and storytelling, and, believe it or not, Torah. I am writing again for the first time in ages. I'm drawing more often and with more joy than I’ve known maybe since childhood.

I’ve been getting back into my gratidoodle practice, drawing and writing what I’m grateful for. And when I decided to add Neil Gaiman’s face and some words about my appreciation for his work to my sketchbook, I realized he’s brought me full circle.

Text and image and text-as-image + Neil Gaiman + story is an old constellation for me. And once again, I find my thoughts dancing, shifting, blossoming to the quiet melody of (one of?) the greatest storyteller(s) of this generation. 

And now that I am actively engaging with other Gaiman fans, I see how responsive and kind and encouraging he is to those of us who love his work, and his name is permanently etched on my heart: a benefactor, a teacher, a role model.

How satisfying and fitting that such a powerful and resonant voice, miraculously, thankfully, beautifully, also seems to be a genuine mensch. 

B”H (thanks to God) that I am alive at the same time as such a one.

#I didn't realize I was going to write AND draw when I started this #but I felt I needed both #I wish I had a flatbed scanner #this photo doesn't do it justice #there's greater nuance in the color in person #Stories matter #Art matters #like, really matters #Neil Gaiman is a gift to this world #Good Omens #Crowley and Aziraphale #Ocean at the End of the Lane #The Graveyard Book #Neil Armstrong and imposter syndrome #The Doctor's Wife #So grateful for tumblr

#crowley x aziraphale #good omens #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #ineffable husbands #jewish good omens #aziracrow #jumblr #my art #ocean at the end of the lane #the graveyard book #the doctor's wife

[meatmensch]

one of the things about crowley/aziraphale that really, really gets me is the fact that crowley loves seeing aziraphale happy. he tempts him not because he is a demon, but because he delights in his love's pleasure

#jewish crowley moment as well #my posts #good omens

[elly-sweetheartcrowley]

Happy Passover🍷

#passover #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #jewish

[no-nightingalez]

Every time I see “G-d” censored with a dash in the summary of a Good Omens fanfic, I know I’m about to read the most breathtakingly beautiful piece of literature in the history of time

#Jewish good omens fans are just #absolutely brilliant #i love yall #and yall are absolutely CARRYING this fandom #good omens #jewish good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens fanfiction #my txt

[chaoticamelay]

Jewish gomens headcanons

I originally put this on twitter but I am running away from there so here they are on tumblr!

-crowley and aziraphale were very involved in how Purim came to be celebrated today! it's a holiday of dressing up (imo your outfit should always be at least a bit campy) and drinking a ton of alcohol and heckling, tell me that doesn't sound like smth they'd do

-crowley and aziraphale know ancient hebrew and it confuses the fuck out of any jewish religious leaders and modern hebrew spakers they meet bc,, why are they speaking perfect biblical hebrew,, what is this fuckery

-aziraphale likes to crochet and he has crocheted a ton of kippot for himself in all sorts of fun colours and styles

-crowley has worn both traditional men's and women's head coverings and is comfortable with both (art of crowley in a tichel should exist please i love her sm)

-aziraphale is exempt from the shopkeeper associations rule about christmas lights and his menorah for hanukkah is one of the oil cup ones bc he's a traditionalist

-crowley can walk in a synagogue without hurting his feet bc if G-d banned everyone who ever asked questions from entering there literally wouldn't be a single person allowed inside

-Crowley loves rosh hashanah because people always offer them apples and they think it's hilarious

-crowley and aziraphale do their own version of tashlich where they through peas into the water in st james park, knowing the ducks will probably get to them first

-yom kippur is the one day a year where you'll see crowley wearing white and it's as uncomfy for everyone around him as it is for him bc it looks so weird

-them going to the ritz after armageddon was literally just "they tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat" that's so jewish of them!

-at some point someone jokes about the temple menorah being in the basement of the vatican and crowley convinces aziraphale that they should immediately go on a clandestine undercover mission to find it and return it

-one of aziraphale's many certifications/talents is being a sofer

-crowley likes to try to stump aziraphale's knowledge of jewish texts and theory with hypothetical scenarios (think "if we took cells from a living animal and cloned them and sectioned off a chunk of the new stuff and did it again and grew meat that way would it be kosher?")

-both of them skip the ritual hand washing blessing because while they aren't sure it would harm crowley, better safe than sorry!

-aziraphale has lots of opinions about latke toppings and once he didn't talk to crowley for a week bc crowley joked that he likes chocolate sauce on his

-maggie and nina are jewish and after aziraphale goes to heaven he spends rosh hashanah with them and they teach muriel to make round challah (this one is courtesy of twitter moots)

-crowley doesn't fast on yom kippur bc we are supposed to "be like the angels" and he only likes one (1) angel who loves to eat! so instead he just eats a bunch of aziraphale's favourite foods

#jewish good omens #jewish crowley #jewish aziraphale #good omens #ineffable husbands

[cheers-mdears]

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

I think about this part of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and I think about Antony J Crowley and I try not to fuckin cryyyyy

#he would also have approx 5 million questions on his tongue lbr #jewish crowley #anthony j crowley #good omens #crowley good omens #indrid talks

[plumpliori]

Happy Jewish new year to everyone!

#jewish good omens #jewish new year #shana tova #rosh hashanah #good omens comics #good omens #crowely #snake crowley #aziraphale #garden of eden #apple and honey #jewish tradition

[anonymousdandelion]

#dandelion says #memes #dandelion fics-adjacent #regarding fanfiction #good omens #when the angels left the old country #jewish dandelion #sorry aziraphale and crowley #I do still love you #you just don't study talmud