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She kisses Jerry on the cheek all the time, and they have such a sweet friendship. And her friendship with Cole. Like when Gilbert drops her off at Josephine's, and Cole & Anne greet in such a heartwarming way- I always kinda wanted Gilbert to look at that and feel some kind of longing for THAT Anne, Anne who would be as close to him as she is with Cole.

look at gilbert's face. he's not blindly infatuated, he notices her hair. he's as startled as the rest of them. then he smiles, so genuinely nervous and delighted to see her.

this has always been a huge scene for me because it's symbolic: when someone really loves you, they're not blind to your shortcomings. that's never the way awae portrayed shirbert. gilbert had no qualms about calling anne out on things: when she was rude to him on the train, when she messed up with the avonlea gazette. he gave her a lot of latitude, but he didn't pretend that she was perfect — not to himself, and not to other people.

still, when someone really loves you, your shortcomings don't diminish their affection for you or your worth in their eyes. gilbert loved anne's spark, her fiery personality. he loved her drive to do the right thing. he loved the fierceness with which she protected her friends — he only didn't enable the poor behaviour that arose from these traits.

this is what makes gilbert's love for anne believable. we're shown that there is no rosy idealised romance about it. over the years, anne has shown him the absolute worst of herself — there is no denying that she can be a real challenge to him. yet after everything, gilbert still loves his anne with an e.

Of course, we've technically seen Crowley's thought process in this, because he was the focal character when it came to the Antichrist baby switch. He was angry, and frustrated, desperate, and scared. He needed a plan, a way out (?), so he called the only being he could ever trust in this.

The same being whom he had a spat with, 41 years ago. Who told him he goes too fast. Who, by all technicalities, accepted and rejected him at the same time.

And like. Put yourself in Aziraphale's shoes for a sec. The last time you see your dearest friend was 41 years ago, which technically isn't that much time when you're an immortal being. But the last time, you THOUGHT he wanted to harm himself. You THOUGHT he was being reckless and self-destructive and in constant danger. YOU THOUGHT he was in constant danger because of YOU. So even though you're scared of what he's going to do with it, you give him the holy water he asked from you. And with the thermos given, you think the safest bet of him never ever putting the wretched thing to use is to STAY AWAY from him. Which is why you pushed him away. And then, because you cannot help it, you promise a distant, seemingly impossible future together: go to a picnic. Dine at the Ritz. One day, maybe. You Haven't seen him since.

Maybe it's for the best.

So imagine the curiosity when your Head Office tells you the demon Crowley is up to something, before it immediately turns into sheer horror when you find out it's actually about the upcoming Apocalypse. Last Battle. End of the world.

And like, of course Az is in denial, because the heaven brainwashing is too strong. But how must he have dealt with that? Coming to the realization that the world is ending in a few years, and you've spent the eternity you had here on Earth denying your feelings for him. Did he regret it? All those missed moments gone, their time now reduced to 11 short years? That the last time you've seen him was when you gave him the very thing that could destroy him, and then stayed away from him because you think you're keeping him safe. And now both of you aren't safe at all.

And then he calls you. You meet up. You dine at the Ritz. You get drunk together. You formulate plan. You realize things are still the same way between the two of you. You want to stop the world from ending, and you tell yourself it's for humanity. Nothing more, nothing less.

You look at your dearest friend, trying to open another bottle of alcohol, and you think, I miss him. You think, I'd like a little more time with him. Even if it's just a little.

for example: the scene where crowley suggests running away to alpha centauri. when crowley finds aziraphale, they’re surrounded by people, yet crowley decides to get aziraphale’s attention by shouting “ANGEL!!!” as loud as he can. simply hollering “aziraphale!” would’ve worked just as well, but ofc he had to say angel. bonus - that’s the scene where the stranger mistakes them as a couple by telling aziraphale that he’s “been there before” and that he’s “better without [crowley]”.

same with the scene where crowley and aziraphale meet anathema for the first time. specifically in the book, after crowley says, “get in, angel”, anathema’s POV literally says that she mistakes them for a couple.

Armageddon was delayed not by Celestial and/or Demonic intervention but rather human error human upbrining, and human influence.

From the beginning the Anti-Christ was misplaced due to several human errors. The first being Mr. Young assuming Crowley was a doctor, the second was Sister Mary not getting social and facial cues, the third was the whole convent being infected with the misunderstanding. This all caused Adam to be placed with The Youngs, a normal human family in a normal human village with normal human friends.

Armageddon was also triggered by human hands. Anathema telling Adam about the worries of the world when before all he knew was the pleasant life of the quarry sending him into a spiral of 'Humanity at its state doesn't deserve to live'.

And then again he is calmed down both by his friends and his own human nature. When The Them begun to go aganist him and question his line of thinking as that is how things have always worked and when they became frightened with Adam he stopped. Becoming more himself and deciding mostly in that moment that he wasn't going to end the world.

In a way Dog is a perfect reflection to what happened to Adam. A demonspawn sent on Earth to find its purpose and drive, calculated and placed in an environment that was sure to fester negativity and darkness only to be handed into gentle arms and explore the peaceful part of Earth.

I get lost thinking about the journey Crowley makes from Eden to the Apocalypse. I completely adore pre-Flood Crawly, the way that he’s still gleeful and curious about the world. He’s such a wily mischief fluff.

In praise of terrific and deliberate costume design: I can’t believe it took me this long to notice the way he gradually covers up his eyes more and more. After the Flood, she has her head covered. The next time we see him, post-Crucifixion, the sunglasses have arrived. And the specs get progressively larger over time, hiding more and more.

(I particularly love the L-shaped lenses in 1862.)

By the time we reach the Apocalypse, the glasses are opaque and completely closed off. Solid, armored protection on all sides.

(I know I didn’t catch every era, don’t @ me, tumblr gif search is the worst and the general progression seems fairly obvious, especially because of where it ends.)

You can see the progression on Crowley’s face too, of course. Watching Humans being Humans for so long starts to get to a demon. The glasses have to be impenetrable when this is where time and the Ineffable Plan have brought you.

(Got to be careful who gets to see you with the glasses off.)

(Got to have a whole glove box filled with extras so as never to be caught without them.)

There is something carefree about Crowley’s very first park bench scene with Aziraphale, in ep1. But it’s such a different kind of carefree than we used to see before the Flood. It’s world-weary, resigned, cool. He’s seen it all and he knows how the game is played.

This contrast, to me, is so perfect: he’s still Crowley. He’s just been around the block a few times by now.

a collection of Crowley/Aziraphale hugs I’ve drawn lately ♥ protip: drawing these idiots being affectionate counts as therapy actually!

1. if by “drastically undercharging” his tenants we mean: rent is 3 shillings. the trick here is not the amount but that tenants have to actually find shillings. they have a monthly meeting to help everyone make sure they have their shillings in order.

2. aziraphale may be the landlord, but crowley is who shows up if there’s a problem with the property. is he the property manager? is he the sugar baby? is he meant to be some kind of thug? the tenants do not know, but while he never seems to actually do anything, the problems do have a tendency to disappear.

3. aziraphale is not interested in landlording for financial purposes or property owning purposes, see point one above. aziraphale is interested in landlording in order to custom build his preferred neighborhood, particularly with regards to places that couldn’t otherwise exist at london rents. the new bakery that just happens to notice the vacant space just happens to make a particularly delicious kouign-amann. the family-owned nail and massage salon is a small space but does the best deep tissue in all of london. and of course we can’t forget the shop directly next store is….intimate books. i see you, aziraphale. i see you.

and I just like the fuckin. Implications like. Crowley knows he has to do something amazing and unexpected (never mind he did something big just before, dragging the Bentley through hellfire and shit?, but he still has it in him to do it