#no thoughts only crowley

[hansoeii]

stuck in the rain.

#I can't stop drawing them under the rain #they're on their way back home to the bookshop after a nice date at the ritz #and oh no it suddenly started raining and they only have one umbrella #how unfortunate #btw i made this the perfect size for a lockscreen on purpose #go ahead and use it if you like!! #i love drawing them so much #head empty no thoughts just good omens #thank you neil gaiman #good omens #good omens fanart #good omens 2 #good omens 2 fanart #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow fanart #my art #digital art #david tennant #michael sheen #neil gaiman

[joycrispy]

One thing I love about Crowley --never stated, but consistently shown-- is that he is, at heart, an engineer.

I have a few different things to say about that. Let's unpack them.

As the Unnamed Angel, we see his designs for the Pillars of Creation are millions of pages long, comprised of cramped text, footnotes, diagrams, schematics, etc. It's very...Renaissance polymath, in the way it implies a particular intersection of artist and inventor.

Also: in the naked romanticism with which he views his stars.

We already knew he made stars, but in s2 we learn that he did NOT sculpt each of them by hand. He designed a nebula ("a star factory," he says) that will form several thousand young stars and proto-planets, and all --aside from getting the 'factory' running-- without him lifting a finger. We also learn that these young stars and proto-planets stand in contrast to those made by other angels, which are going to come 'pre-aged.'

...I'm reminded of Hastur and Ligur's approach to temptations. Damning one human soul at a time, devoting singular attention to it over the course of years or decades, and how that stands in contrast to Crowley's reliance on, quote, 'knock-on effects.'

Ligur: It's not exactly...craftsmanship. Crowley: Head office don't seem to mind. They love me down there.

Hm.

I'm also reminded of the M25.

The M25 may not be as grand as a nebula (sentences you only say in GOmens fandom...), but LIKE his nebula it's an intricate, self-sustaining engine that does Crowley's work for him, many times over. Again.

That's some pretty neat characterization --and so is the indication towards Crowley's disinterest in victimizing anyone tempting individual people. It takes a considerable amount of planning and effort (and creeping about in wellies), but in accordance with his design the M25 generates a constant stream of low-grade evil on a gigantic scale.

Cumulatively gigantic, that is. Individually? Negligible.

But no other demon understands human nature well enough to parse that one million ticked-off motorists are not, in any meaningful way, actually equivalent to one dictator, or one mass-murderer, or even one little influential regressive. That's the trick of it. Crowley gets Hell's approval (which he NEEDS to survive, and to maintain the degree of freedom he's eked out for himself), and at the same time ensures that any actual ~Evil Influence~ is spread nice and thin.

It's some clever machinery. And he knows it, too:

The Unnamed Angel and Crowley are both proud of their ideas.

(musings on professional pride, Leonardo da Vinci, the crank handle, and 'the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale' under the cut)

In the 1970's Crowley gives a presentation on the M25, projector and all, to a room full of increasingly impatient demons. Maybe the presentation was work-ordered; the 'can I hear a WAHOO?' definitely wasn't.

Before the Beginning, the Unnamed Angel can barely contain his excitement about his nebula. Aziraphale manages a baffled-but-polite, "....That's nice... :)"

11 years ago, Hastur and Ligur want to 'tell the deeds of the day,' and Crowley smiles to himself because (according to the script-book) he knows he has 'the best one.'

(Naturally, his 'deed' has nothing to do with tempting anybody, and everything to do with setting up a human-powered Rube-Goldberg machine of petty annoyance. Oodles of 'Evil' generated; very little harm done.)

Hastur and Ligur don't get it, of course. That's also consistent.

Nobody ever knows what the hell he's talking about.

It didn't make it on-screen, but, in both the novel AND the script-book, Crowley was friends with Leonardo da Vinci. The quintessential Renaissance polymath. That's where he got his drawing of the Mona Lisa --they're getting very drunk together, and Crowley picks up the 'most beautiful' of the preliminary sketches. He wants to buy it. Leonardo agrees almost off-the-cuff, very casual, because they're friends, and because he has bigger fish to fry than haggling over a doodle:

He goes, "Now, explain this helicopter thingie again, will you?" Because he's an engineer, too.

(It is 1519 at the latest, in this scene. Why the FUCK would Crowley know about helicopters, and be able to explain them, comprehensively, to Leonardo da Vinci?

...Well. I choose to believe he got bored one day and worked it out. Look, if you know how to build a nebula, you can probably handle aerodynamics. And anyway, I think it's telling that this is his idea of shooting the shit. 'A drunken mind speaks a sober heart,' and all. He probably babbled about Aziraphale long enough to make poor Leo sick)

Apart from Aziraphale, Leonardo da Vinci is the only person Crowley has any keepsakes or mementos of.

Think about that, though. Aziraphale's bookshop is bursting with letters, paintings, busts, and personalized signatures memorializing all the humans he's known and befriended over 6000 years (indeed: Aziraphale has living human friends up and down Whickber Street. He's part of a community).

Crowley doesn't have any of that. It's just the stone albatross from the Church (for pining), the infamous gay sex statue (for spicy pining), the houseplants (for roleplaying his deepest trauma over and over, as one does), and this one piece of artwork, inscribed, "To my friend Anthony from your friend Leo da V."

To me, at least, that suggests a level of attachment that seems to be rare for Crowley.

...Maybe he liked having someone to talk shop with? Someone who was interested? Someone engaged enough to ask questions when they didn't immediately understand?

...Anyway.

There's also the matter of the crank handle.

This thing:

This is one of the subtler changes from the book. In the book, Crowley knows Satan is coming and, desperate, arms himself with a tire iron. It's the best he can do. He's not Aziraphale; he wasn't made to wield a flaming sword.

The show, IMO, improves on this considerably. Now he, like Aziraphale, gets to face annihilation with what he was made for in his hand. And it's not a weapon, not even an improvised one like the tire iron.

He made stars with it.

[both gifs by @fuckyeahgoodomens]

If you Google 'crank handle,' you'll get variations on this:

Crank handles have been around for centuries. Consisting of a mechanical arm that's connected to a perpendicular rotating shaft, they are designed to convert circular motion into rotary or reciprocating motion.

Which is to say they're one of the 'simple machines,' like a lever or a pulley; the bread and butter of engineering. You'll also get a list of uses for a crank handle, archaic and modern. Among them: cranking up the engine of an old-fashioned car... say, a 1933 Bentley. That's what Crowley has been using his for, lately. But he's had it since he was an angel and he's still, it seems, very capable of it's angelic applications.

Stopping time. For instance.

(This is conjecture on my part, but, I like to imagine that Crowley has the ability to stop time for the same reason I can --and should-- unplug my computer before I perform maintenance on it. Time and Space are a matched set, after all, and in his designs in particular, one feeds into the other.)

I know everyone has already said this, but: I REALLY LIKE that when he needs to channel the heights of his power, he does so not with a weapon but with a tool. Practically with a little handheld metaphor for ingenuity. One from long-lost days when he made beautiful things.

(And he loved it. Still loves it --he incorporated that metaphor into the Bentley, didn't he?)

Let Aziraphale rock up to the apocalypse with a weapon: he has his own compelling thematic reasons to do exactly that. Crowley's story is different, and fighting isn't the only way to express defiance. And if you've been condemned as a demon and assumed to be destructive by your very nature, what better way than this?

He made stars. They didn't manage to take that from him.

Neither Crowley nor Aziraphale are fighters, really --they have no intention of fighting in any war. They'll annoy everyone until there's no war to fight in, for a start. But between the two, if one must be, then that one is Aziraphale. Principality of the Earth, Guardian of the Eastern Gate, Wielder of the Flaming Sword... all that stuff. Even if he'd prefer not to, it's very clear that Aziraphale can rise to the occasion, if he must.

Crowley was never that kind of angel. He wasn't a Principality. He doesn't have a sword.

...And yet.

It's Crowley who protects. He's the one who paces, who stands guard, who circles Aziraphale and glares out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near.

In light of everything else I've said here, I think that's interesting.

Obviously part of it is that Aziraphale enjoys it and, you know, good for him. He's living his best life, no doubt no doubt no doubt. But what about Crowley? What's driving that behavior, really?

Have you heard the phrase, 'loved to the point of invention'? Well, what if 'the point of invention' was where you started? What if where you end up involves glaring out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near? What is that, in relation to the bright-eyed thing you used to be?

What do we name the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale?

...Thinking about how an excitable angel with three million pages of star design he wants to tell you all about...becomes a guard dog. Is all.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #Crowley #Aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta #unfortunately I do not have trains of thought #only long meandering strolls of thought #sorry about it #anyway tl;dr Crowley is a nerd #also I have a strange emotional attachment to the idea of 1500's Crowley... #...facedown in a pile of Mona Lisa sketches; drunkenly info-dumping about Aziraphale #and Da Vinci is just like. 'Ahhhh mio amico Antonio. You fucking simp.'

[doinkexe]

Ineffable Husbands Mini-Comic!

Was practicing with layouts and such so I doodled up this quick comic for practice, enjoy!

(Do not repost anywhere without asking or credit, I’ll personally hunt you down if you do ☺️)

((full image under the cut!))

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #good omens crowley #good omens aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens comic #good omens 2 comic #ineffable husbands comic #aziracrow comic #neil gaiman #aziraphale #crowley #prime video #comic #haha you thought I’d draw angst? #I’m still not over season 2 #only wholesome art here #(I’m delusional) #they make me sick

[beaulesbian]

Crowley + his glasses, inside the bookshop - Good Omens season 2

#the way he feels safe and can take his glasses off there bc he's accepted as he is #uNTIL!!! that last moment because suddenly no! he isnt accepted as he thought for 6000years #and it hurts to see him putting the walls back up between him and 'his only friend' #screams about this for the rest of eternity #good omens #goedit #goodomensedit #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #azicrow #aziraphale x crowley #david tennant #good omens spoilers #go s2 spoilers #mine #gif:good omens #gomens #gomensedit #good omens 2

[clown-owo]

I couldn't get this out of my head

#og post #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #gos2spoilers #i. i am not tagging everyone #only the people i think are important #which are #muriel #ok that's all folks!! #...im kidding #aziraphale #crowley #anathema device #adam young #gabriel #beelzebub #metatron #this took longer than i thought it would because i had so much trouble finding good screenshots on google images #that i just went and got my own #had 2 use a fucking autoclicker to advance frame by frame for the best screenshot #the last one is mean to aziraphale but unfortunately it is funny

[maybeonedayillfindout]

i think we as a society need to stop drawing the gender bent versions of crowley and aziraphale younger and hotter. we have seen crowley present as a woman before and she is clearly still middle aged and lanky. and aziraphale probably wouldn’t get very much shorter or younger. draw them with the wrinkles, cowards

#what’s the post abt the derry girls sister michael and the other woman?? anyway that’s their truest form #they’re only sexier if you as a person find women more sexy #not because they’re drawn as such #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #good omens season 2 #maybe/elias' fantastic new thoughts

[acatwithstockings]

I propose to you shared glasses with swappable lenses.

#ineffable husbands #good omens #azicrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens fanart #i just thought these kind of glasses were neat ok #besides when they are in their cottage they probably won't be wearing glasses at the same time #like Crowley probably will only wear them when going out and Aziraphale will wear them while reading. #so sharing one frame would not be an issue

[estcaligo]

Imagine if Crowley is Revan, but under some spell idk. And when it starts to wear off Lilia and Crowley are looking at each other like this, recognizing one another lol.

#twisted thoughts #twisted wonderland #twst crowley #dire crowley #lilia vanrouge #i am sad and nervous this is the only post i can produce tonight

[blackthorn-faerie]

Remember when “You’re My Best Friend” was playing on the record when Aziraphale’s bookshop was burning down? A headcannon of mine is that Aziraphale plays Queen in the bookshop because he associates it with Crowley’s driving: it’s terrifying. He’s trying to scare off customers.

#good omens #aziraphale #he really thinks that the best of Queen album he got from Maggie’s mum in the 80s would keep customers away #customers are vibing to the music while being glared at by the feral bookshop owner #torn between staying until their favorite song ends and running away #also how does he listen to a song that’s literally just #oh my god I love my wife soooooo much #and think #ooh how terrifying #Crowley is all awwwww he’s thinking about meeee #he’s thinking about your awful driving #that’s it #no thoughts only them #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #ineffable spouses #az fell and co #good omens headcanons #aziraphale headcanons #Queen #youre my best friend #best of Queen

[ineffablerainstorm]

Is it only me or should we be more worried about the fact that hell can just kidnap Crowley whenever and from wherever they want?

I mean, this is scary, right? Goodness I don’t know how Crowley doesn’t have severe anxiety (well, maybe he does^^) with the threat of being dragged down to Satan knows what terrible fait every moment of every day. And when Beelzebub does it in s2, he isn't even working for them anymore.

In the theoretical case that Aziraphale and Crowley had run off (to Alpha Centauri or wherever): Could hell just get Crowley back anyway? Is he just lucky they chose not to interfere after the holy water bath? What would happen if they really wanted to control him?

And if hell can drag Crowley down, can heaven pull Aziraphale up? Would they have done so if he hadn’t agreed to go?

I have so many questions! And this goes back to the “former demon” and “former angel” thing as well. What are they? Can they choose not to be associated with heaven or hell or will their ex-head-offices always have control over them no matter what?

Also: I wonder why they sent Hastur and Ligur after Crowley in s1 if they could have just pulled him down. Same goes for the kidnapping before the holy water/hellfire incident. Oh. What would have happened if they had tried to drag down body-swapped Crowley? Who would they have gotten? The body or the "spirit"? This is interesting...

#only questions no answers #just some thoughts #does their very nature mean they are always controlled by others? #I don't like that ahhh #crowley probably has anxiety actually #good omens meta #(does this qualify - I have no idea^^) #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #ineffable husbands

[estravenlover]

HATER NATION!!! what’s the most annoying fan interpretation of aziraphale and crowley

#okay so I’m so glad you asked because mine is that people think aziraphale never experienced any hardship #and the crowley is somehow lightly abused by aziraphale all the time #bc crowley is a poor little meow meow and aziraphale doesn’t understand pain and only has nonsense emotions #I also don’t like that people like god so much in the fandom I feel like textually she sucks and won’t fix things like that’s the point #aziraphale #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #crowley #u guys can fight over it in the tags it will be fun!!!! this isn’t real and therefore not that deep #okay also I hate that aziraphale is never butch when he’s a girlie in fanart #like it’s fun when he’s femme too but idk I just think he would like being butch too #I also don’t buy that aziraphale was drugged by metatron I’m sorry that theory doesn’t make sense to me #I have some irl critical thoughts about good omens and fan treatment of the show but this is just silly for fun complaints

[m-y--p-a-s-s-i-o-n-s]

Has anyone pointed this out yet?

#crowley #good omens #spn #supernatural #bildad the shuhite #is it a coincidence? #surely I'm not the only one who thought this immediately #doing a s2 GO rewatch #must be a crowley thing

[marlenacantswim]

please don't catcall crowley while he and aziraphale are having a serious conversation; the angel really enjoys how close their faces get when they have to whisper, and will assume you have fiendish intentions and go on the defensive if you interrupt the moment.

[Image ID: a digital drawing of Aziraphale and Crowley as they appear on the Good Omens TV show. they are depicted from the torso up. aziraphale is in front of crowley, turned away annoyedly towards something to the left with his left hand firmly placed against crowley's chest, where his heart is. crowley is wearing his season 2 turtleneck outfit, and seems confused about whatever has got aziraphale so riled up. aziraphale is wearing his default outfit. / .End ID]

closeup and lineart under the cut, snip snip ✂️

i'm a guy who likes thick lines in my art, i've noticed, so when i accidentally drew an extremely arizacrow pose during gesture practice, i thought it would be a fun opportunity to try something new, mainly thin lineart. however, the call of home sings loud, and i ended up chicken-scratching my way into essentially having thick linework again. 🤷💅😔

also despite being a good omens guy for yonks, this is my first time ever drawing them!!!

#aziraphale only goes guard dog mode in extremelt brief bouts of pettiness #and then would immediately be like ''i do apologize; i'm not auite sure what possesed me there; ah hah.'' #and crowley has Snake Brain™️ and thus has no thought to even consider reading into it whenever it happens #i mean honestly crowley was so invested in the words azi was saying that he didn't even hear the guy catcalling hism #so he really has no clue what the fuck is happening #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #good omens fanart #running my mouth #made this with my hands #my artwork #david tennant #michael sheen

[demonsandpieohmy]

Ok but how fucking devastated was Aziraphale when the Library of Alexandria burned down. How many centuries did it take for him to emotionally recover. And then how horrified he was when he thought his rare books had been destroyed at the church. How much it meant that Crowley saved them for him. And then for Crowley to have to tell him that his own little library of Alexandria had also burned to the ground during the apocawasn’t. But that he had managed to save one book (again).

#the fact that Crowley ran into a burning building of what he thought was probably hellfire and still took a book #because it would be the only thing left of Aziraphale to remember him by #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #lilly rants #aziracrow

[acrylcii]

having a taste of the wine ✨

#i know im not the only one who thought they had some CRAZY tension in this scene #good omens #good omens season 2 #my art #artists on tumblr #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #digital art #art

[bluecloudsandwhitesky]

Y’all thirsting over turtleneck Crowley all you want but at the end of the day which do you remember best: turtleneck’s drink order or The twin passions of Bildad the Shihite?

#good omens #bildad the shuhite #good omens 2 #Crowley #I’m tipsy and have only thoughts of Bildad #this is the best tipsy I’ve ever been