Lavendersourphantom - Meh

hey, I may be stupid, but when Metatron is speaking to the council of Angels about removing Gabriel from status, who is the other high rank Archangel that was removed? I’m pretty sure it’s Lucifer, right?

Right.

he's brainwashed and loving and wants to do good, he's a good boy (gender neutral)

Ineffable Husbands go on Television

The Great British Bakeoff:

Aziraphale: a bookshop owner based in Soho. He has a lot of prior experience, although they don't often cook where he comes from. He's really going against the grain! A lover of fine foods, music and antique books, his angelic charm will melt your heart.

"I've always loved this show, but I wouldn't be here without my partner! He's really the sweetest and he's always been supportive of me no matter what."

Aziraphale wins, due mainly to having six thousand years of experience and a few handy miracles. He becomes a fan favourite, and everyone wonders who his mysterious partner is.

Meanwhile Crowley on Gardener's World:

"Yeah, I really think it's important that the plants learn to fear me."

*cut away to Crowley screaming at his plants*

"I keep a firm atmosphere in my home. No slacking, no flaws. My partner doesn't appreciate my methods, but they've never failed me."

*cut away to shaking plants*

"What can I say? I'm just too cool for them. Hey, have you ever read the Book of Genesis? I had a cameo - yeah, the Garden of Eden. I was the snake."

The nation is very shocked when they realise that these two are in fact dating each other.

Did you know that before occupying Palestine, Zionists in Europe considered establishing a state in Argentina?

Here is the story of Moise Ville, which was supposed to become the ''Promised Land'' before the occupation of Palestine.

Via TrtWorld

I’m a big fan of when Jake and Princess Bubblegum act like Finn’s divorced parents who are trying their best to figure out how to co-parent their troubled teenager

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

Some art that reminds us of the tragedies of the world. Remember that the West holds itself up as a beacon of justice, yet they never actually help anyone.

Palestine will be free.

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

Nobody tell him.