Ciralys

+ BONUS (BC you little shit)

Things NOT to trust your local demon with

+ Bonus (bc someone does not learn)

01x01 // 02x06

Aziraphale being ashamed of his chaotic deeds and Crowley being really into that.

+ Bonus

I always found comfort in the Aziraphale/Crowley relationship. They love each other deeply, and they don't need to kiss or hold hands for that. The only time they do kiss is disastrous and is stated, by the one who wrote it, to not be a romantic gesture but an attempt to reach out. Yet that doesn't stop them from saying stuff like "the only thing I want in the universe is you and you're the one making me complete". And that's so, so very important to me. 

We're told so often that to be real, a romance needs kissing and sex. My first serious relationship fell apart because I didn't feel comfortable with sex, and my then-boyfriend told me that "a relationship is like a table and sex is one of the table legs" (quoting here). I thought I had a problem. At that time, I searched for and read a lot of fics portraying canonically ace-coded characters, especially in the Good Omens fandom (including the great ao3 fics by the ace writer IneffableDoll) and the Sherlock Holmes fandom, and it helped me feel like I wasn't abnormal. 

I feel that, too often, a fictional (or non-fictional) relationship is deemed "complete" or "finally starting" when the characters do kiss. I realise (with a little bit of horror) that I'm now expecting kissing as a show of sincere love in fictional works and, like everyone here, I was expecting a kiss in the finale (with some resignation). Because that's how it's supposed to go.

So I'm so, so very glad that we didn't have one. I understand that some people can be disappointed, because we like to project our own expectations about relationships onto others. I do that too. But Aziraphale and Crowley have never, in canon, shown any inclination towards sexual matters, and that never prevented them from having a comforting, secure relationship. Not kissing in the finale doesn't mean that they're dysfunctional, or that their love isn't as legitimate.

BURNING BOOKSHOP if you own one Hell, collect 4x the Tides rolled.

One of the lowest point of Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship was that messy, non-consual kiss from s2, so it made sense to adress it in some way. But I was very afraid as to how they would do it. I do think the point is not to indulge us but to be true to the characters, and that kiss was true to them. Aziraphale and Crowley had an ace-coded relationship from the beginning. A kiss on the lips doesn't make their relationship "better" or "stronger", even if that's what's we're expecting from movies. Aziraphale and Crowley have loved each other deeply for centuries, and "we can run off together" is way more powerful than any flesh-to-flesh contact. So is growing old in a cottage together, and we don't see them kiss there either.