irrsal & wirrsal

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

I think it's the opposite, actually.

Yes, Aziraphale is an angel, he loves, that’s what he does. But he’s not supposed to love a demon. Because of what he is, of who he is, he struggled with his feelings for Crowley for millennia. And yet, each time they met, he made the choice to speak with him, to protect him, to stay, to bond - to love.

In a universe in which angels and demons are supposed to be hereditary enemies, an angel chose a demon, over and over again (with a few notable exceptions, but we all know why - and he still loved him).

Messy? Oh, yes.

Silly? How can such a relationship, built on trust and affection, be silly?

God should NOT have approved of their relationship. Thats what made it so appealing to the viewers, right? That they weren't supposed to be together. That literally everything, from the structures surrounding them down to their literal particles as a holy and unholy being, was trying to keep the two sides apart ("angel... demon... probably explode") and that they were the only two cogs in the machine that malfunctioned and DECIDED to love each other. There wasn't some string of fate connecting them (fuck you neil gaiman). We call them ineffable husbands because their love was something hard to understand and impossible to put into words. And they were always uncertain about it, they were always scared. ESPECIALLY AZIRAPHALE! But they CHOSE this love.

It would have been so much more powerful if God had told him that She disliked his love for Crowley and Aziraphale stood his ground and said "and so what?" We could have had a scene in which they choose each other over their oppressors. Instead, God planned everything and their love, that was interesting because it was unwanted, strange, unpredictable by Heaven and Hell became the goal, the norm across universes, the prediction. Oh they were actually soulmates all along. Who find each other in every universe because a higher being wants them together.