Me and @isiaiowin entry for week 4 of the GOAD Poetry Pillow Fight:Ā Bubble Bath!!
Michael introduces Dagon to a bubble bath. Will they dive in?
Excerpt:
Un deep
pond without fish,
bubbles rise up and break,
but no ocean scent left to trace ā
it's strange.
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Relax.
Take a deep breath,
and forĀ onceĀ donāt question;
the warm water is rather nice,
you see?
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Dagon, who is sitting opposite them in a dark blue blouse, and, here we are getting very close to said reason, soft, pale human skin.
"Grand Duke of Hell, huh?"
"You heard?" They wrap their hands around their mug, still cold-blooded and seeking warmth, and yet there is a slight blush rising to their cheeks. Michael's eyes are drawn to it like a moth to the flame, flickering from side to side and biting back a smile when it spreads further down their neck.
"I have my sources," they respond lightly, basking in the sharp glance Dagon shoots them.
"Oh, don't be jealous, you know you're my-"
Ah.
Reaching for their own cup, Michael interrupts themselves and blinks rapidly. Now it is their turn to study the pattern on the wall behind Dagon's chair and ignore the flush claiming their face. Leaning into their personal space, Dagon jumps on the unfinished sentence like a predator pounces on their prey. A curtain of shimmering ginger hair moves with them, rippling like the ocean surface in a sunny breeze.
"I'm your what?"
Michael's gaze snaps back, landing not on silver-blue eyes but the genuine, amused smile tugging on their lips, and while the urge to taste it is by far not a new one, the intensity of it still catches them off-guard every single time, a fact Dagon is well aware of.
"Oh, shut it," Michael bites back, but there is no real heat behind it, and hides their shaky exhale with a sip of coffee.
Good stuff, coffee; humans did something very right with that. Bitter, and comforting, and nothing like the salty-sweet chill they have definitely NOT imagined for Dagon's lips.
The newly promoted Grand Duke of Hell does indeed 'shut it', falling back in their chair and stretching out one leg under the table.
Michael swallows a choked sigh and tips their heeled foot against Dagon's just once, an acknowledgement of something they both cannot quite name.
Dagon tilts their head curiously, a measured look in their eyes, and gives them a once-over that leaves Michael covered in a comfortable warmth they know will linger even in the cold sterility of heaven.
You remember he was an angel, yet you never take that into consideration.
Crowley loved God, and he was speaking to Her as recently as the last armageddon. Crowley loved God, and was loved enough by God as an angel that he was tasked with a major component of the universeās Creation. Crowley crafted starlight and nebulas, constellations and Alpha Centauri, and he did it perfectly. He made it so beautiful, he loved it so muchāeven now, he canāt stop growing things, can leave behind everything except his plants. He obeyed the will of God once, Aziraphale. He made the universe out of wonder and beauty and curiosity, and because the God he loved so dearly, the God he thought loved him, asked him to. And that God didnāt even tell Crowley that their Creation was meant to only last six thousand years. Who knows when They decided? She wrote the end of Earthās story before it even begun, and made it so anyone who questioned it would Fall from Their Grace forever. Aziraphale, you know that just because someone says theyāre good doesnāt mean you agree with their thinking or their morals, yes? Didnāt Job, Wee Morag teach you that? The hubris, to think you know better than him. How can you lecture on Truth and Light and Good when youāre speaking to the demon who was once the angel chosen by God to let there be light.Ā
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āYou donāt know me.ā āI know the angel you were.ā āThe angel you knew is not me.ā āThe Book of Job (season 2, episode 2)
Aziraphale doesnāt understand what it means to Fall.
This isnāt his fault. No angel can know, until it happens.
But it is his fault to assume he understands the distinctions between the mechanisms and moralities of demons and angels, when between he and Crowley, heās not the one whoās been both.Ā
Crowley canāt ever be an angel again. How can you ask him to return to a place that damned him and cast him outāmuch less to wield your love as bait? As contingent?Ā
Crowley loves him with patience, with care. He didnāt have to be an angel to protect Aziraphale, to stop time and save the world, to save his books from the Blitz. He didnāt have to be holy to walk into Heaven for Aziraphale and breathe fire at the Archangel Gabriel, and he didnāt have to be an angel to make him cocoa. He brats over Aziraphaleās silliness and snaps when the angelās stubbornness butts against what Crowley knows are mutual values, a shared, fundamental need to save who they can, where they can. He does all this as a demon.
So, to hear I forgive youā¦" [...]
"Serpent of Eden, gardener cast from the garden, sculptor of starlight doomed to the pits of hell. You thought nothing would hurt worse than falling, and then you fell for him.
Crowleyās waited this long. Heās come to know himself as a wretch of wanting. Itās in the flex of his fingers, the set of his jaw, the lines of his spine and the plants in his car because he wonāt ask Aziraphale to let him move in unless Aziraphale asks first. āYou go too fast for me, Crowley.ā Surely itās fair for him to take that to mean that theyāll arrive at the same destination, even if it takes Aziraphale more time to get there? Crowley knows exactly what Aziraphale would be giving up for him. And he resists asking that of him for so, so longāuntil the very higher-ups who wouldāve punished them go off together.
He wouldnāt do it if he didnāt believe in his heart that this was finally the time. Even after Aziraphale said what he said, even after Aziraphale asked of Crowley the very thing Crowley could never, ever doāhe tried.
And he wasnāt wrong. Aziraphale had been as ready as heād ever be. Heās agreed to āour side.ā Heās wanted Crowley all season, and heās not hiding it. Heās wooed Crowley all season, the ball and the dance and rescuing me makes him so happy. Heās been openly lusting, making up excuses to touch him. Heās been taking Crowleyās side over Heavenās again and again, in the little ways that matter. They already are in love, and they act like it.
Thatās what makes this hit so hardālove isnāt enough."
Wow. Wow. A really great analysis (this is just an excerpt). Read it all here:
Well, that went down like a lead balloon. Smited, smote, smitten, here at the end of all things.
Yesterday @isiaiowin and I shared our contribution for GOetry pillow fight week 4 (you can read it here !). Together with the poem, both of us also painted something, and this is mine :D
[Timelapse and rambling under the cut, as usual]
AAAAAAAAAA I HAD SO MUCH FUN WRITING WITH MOON. She's incredible at this, and jumping ideas with her was sooooo good! And then the back and forth of sharing the poems was so nice š I wrote Michaelās POV in this one... she was supposed to be more snarky and bossy at first but then I got too sappy š I'm not mad about it though, all the love talk in the poem fits very well with the pillow fight, and honestly, I was in need to writing something very soft. This ship is also soooo good. I love Angelfish (or Institutional problem, as I like to call it š) so much. I should write more about them in the future. Maybe a human/office AU...
Anywaaaays. This is a different style than all my other drawings. I always tried to go for clean and smooth lines, and never messy/sketchy ones. The thing is, as I worked on the sketch I really start to like how it was looking, and when I tried to make the linear using it only as a base (as I usually do) it lost all charm. The line art wasn't looking good this time. So I just... abandoned it and embrace chaos lol
I cleaned up a bit the sketch,and defined better the shapes with a thicker pen, adding more details with finer lines here and there. I reeeeally love the result; I mean, I know it can be better, and that I can take this further, but for a first try with this kind of style I think it looks surprisingly nice.
I like how it gives a bit of a pencil drawing quality to it, something that I'd probably doodle in the back of my notebook, but it was lacking texture. The pen I was using for the lines didn't have any, just a clean straight one I use for sketches and the final line art, so I tried to compensate in the colouring.
I discovered some really good pens for texture that are native from ibis paint, and I used them here. I think it worked well enough. I didn't want to paint everything in solid colours, but rather give the idea of colour like I'd do with colour pencils. So I just filled in near the borders, making it soft and not completely opaque, showing the white of the "paper" behind.
Speaking of colours... aaaaaagh the combination of Dagons blue/green skin with her guger hair is soooo nice. I never stopped to appreciated it before and I was so wrong for it. I love her outfit, and the makeup they used for her in the show, and her scales... and the same goes for Michael. Her hair in the show is just perfection, and the subtle gold in her makeup drives me crazy, so I tried to put it in the spotlight for a but here. In my head Michaelās skin is golden and no one will convince me otherwise now <3
I'm thinking of playing with this style of drawing more now. It made me very happy to not aim for a perfect line art, and the soft colour are so pleasing to me.
Go read our poem!! I loved writing it, and I hope you will enjoy it too. I do feel like this art fits with the feeling of the poem, and so does Moon's art. It's incredible the way she paints skin!! I am still looking at those ears aaaaaaaaaaa
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