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One of the unspoken rules of the internet is that Japan has a surprisingly dedicated underground fanbase of everything.
nnn never mind im just going to upload them as a photoset ksdhf /)___(\ weh
uh WELL, OK, i was a little nervous about uploading these here but ive decided im going to reblog them anyway
i imagine steve rogers to be a transgender man so i did some sketces of him i_i
I needed to sketch something before I go to bed so I doodled Sherlock hanging at Mycroft’s place after the Reichenbach fall. The world needs more Holmes brothers fanart.
The Arrangement: An Essay
Because I need to express my thoughts and feels, okay?
This is just a quick gander into the way the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley progresses in Good Omens throughout the book, probably in not too eloquent a format.
What strikes me is that at the beginning, it is portrayed as very much a matter of necessity/convenience rather than emotional fulfillment: “they wouldn’t have chosen each other’s company voluntarily” is how the book puts it, and presents the saving of time/expenses as the main, practical benefit of the Arrangement. This is obviously what the two (want to) think of the Arrangement, and somewhat in contradiction to what is actually shown: they’re both intimately aware of each other’s hobbies and interests and make a habit of dining or feeding the ducks together. It is clear their relationship already has an emotional level that goes beyond the necessary, but they do not actively acknowledge it.
How that comes to change is one of the running themes in the book.
You are completely right on every point but I’d like to elaborate a bit on one of them. Both Crowley and Aziraphale choose to see the Arrangement as a relationship purely of convenience. As you said, Aziraphale can’t see it as true friendship because he thinks of Crowley as inherently evil. But Crowley knows they are equals so why does he not see the friendship for what it is? In my opinion, it is because he can’t admit to his attachment to the angel anymore then he can admit to himself that he is kinda a sweetheart.
Crowley lies to himself chronically. Every nice or not so bad thing he ever does is spun just slightly in to a more palatable lie to tell himself. An example of this is when he turns all the paint guns in to real guns and then makes sure no one will really get hurt because “it’s more fun this way.” There are lies and half-truths like that spread throughout his narration, with a hearty collection of them appearing during the parts he spends with Aziraphale or talking about Aziraphale. It is from Crowley that we first hear about how the Arrangement is just a thing of convenience just as it is Crowley who we first see reaching out to Aziraphale. So basically, while Aziraphale’s journey over the length of the text was realizing that Crowley was kinda good and his equal, Crowley’s was one of beginning to accept his own complex nature and all the attachments that entails.
Sorry to add this to your essay but it was so spot on I thought it could use a mention of this.
Aziraphale/Crowley? Consider yourselves shipped.
Welcome to the ship! Here is my blog dedicated to gathering up great Good Omens fics. There are a ton of great AC stories on it so I thought you might be interested. :)
Well
I’m on a Good Omens kick, what a surprise
Pardon me while I go re-read the entire Discworld series
”Hah! You really think you can win little brother?
I THINK NOT”
I love John in the background
Updating his blog like nothing is happening.
I really like to think that when Sherlock was little, he’d coerce Mycroft into having pretend sword fights with him and play-act pirates and Mycroft would act like he didn’t want to play along but would get really into it.
