#crowley coded

In the book, Crowley says G.K. Chesterton is "the only poet in the twentieth century to even come close to the Truth."

Take a look at these Chesterton quotes:

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

but the more i think about the more it’s hitting me how accurate that statement is to me. i consider myself a more Crowley coded person because i related to him a lot more than i related to Aziraphale.

i related to how he shows love and his relationship with authority and his endless desire to ask questions and learn and his fierce defensiveness and protectiveness of the people (or singular being) he loves and his absolute adoration of the world and humanity and his undeniable optimism shrouded in a veil of cynicism. i don’t think i can articulate just how much all of those things hit home for me.

like Crowley is me in so many ways and i am him.

and yet. who am i out here defending like my life depends on it? Aziraphale. i’m not writing long ass metas about why Crowley’s decisions make sense. no, i’m writing those long ass metas about why Aziraphale isn’t really wrong and about how his decisions make perfect sense and about how he doesn’t deserve the hate.