Ok but Crowley is the reason Sherlock Holmes is so enduring.
No no, bear with me.
The first stories come out in The Strand. Crowley, newly woken from his near-century of sleep, reads them in Aziraphale’s copy, and really likes them. Aziraphale, who moves in literary circles, offers to introduce him to Doyle.
Crowley is very excited, and when they meet wrings Doyle’s hand and go on about how much he likes the stories.
Doyle, of course, is a rude bastard, and dismisses Crowley’s praise. He doesn’t like the character, he’s not interested in what people like Crowley think to him.
Crowley is initially tempted to destroy him, and ruin his career, but then realises he can get better revenge than that. He makes the popularity of the stories and books blow up. He puts them everywhere. He makes Sherlock Holmes the talk of London. He finances the backstreet presses printing spin-off stories.
And he keeps it going, firing up Holmes’ popularity until Doyle is driven out of his mind, believing in fairies and hating his own work. Until Arthur Conan Doyle is only ever remembered for Sherlock Holmes, and Crowley gets unending adaptations for himself.
Crowley deadass fuckin got humanity kicked out of eden cuz he thought it’d be a Funnie Joake what a precious bastard
I Can’t Believe Crowley And Aziraphale Are An Old Married Couple Who Go For Walks In The Park And Feed The Ducks Together
HELLO???????
full offence but those two getting absolutely smashed in the back room of aziraphale’s bookshop and arguing about dolphins is literally the funniest and gayest thing i’ve ever read in my life
aziraphale likes devilled eggs…..Meat of Four Icicles Subtext mayhaps??????
I’m fully SCREAMING
Crowley’s name is fucking Anthony I hate him
Guess I’ll die!!!!!!
AZIRAPHALE SAID FUCK
OH MY GOD HIS BOOKS
I was sat here crying over the books and my friend jesse said “at least the angel still has the most important thing to him” LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU’RE RIGHT
Is Aziraphale Fucking Dead
“Move, I’m Gay” – Aziraphale
rip 1926 bentley you were a good bitch
tag yourself….. i’m the guy who’s too polite to tell crowley his car is on fire
aziraphale was so upset crowley didn’t give a shit that he was alive that he fuckin killed a guy
I really appreciate that the Good Omens miniseries makes a specific point of casting
Aziraphale and Crowley as a couple of frumpy middle-aged nerds who dress like they got lost on the way to a LARP. Like, way to commit to the tone.
I mean, that’s basically what I gathered from the book…right? 😂 Gotta blend in with the mortals 😂
The fun part for me is how well the show’s costume design conveys the fact that they think they’re pulling it off, while at the same time establishing that no, they really aren’t. Crowley looks like he mugged an extra from a direct-to-video cyberpunk movie, and
Aziraphale
is dressed like a very tall hobbit – they’re absolutely the opposite of inconspicuous, yet you could totally believe they think it’s working because yeah, those getups would successfully deflect attention from any personal eccentricities, wouldn’t they?
Aziraphale patted Crowley on the back. “We seemed to have survived,” he said. “Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.”
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, page 339. (via spontaneousthings)
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