I posted this on insta because the fact checkers cant claim its false.... cause it's a fact.
Nothing lasts forever
Imagine how hurtful it must have been for Crowley to see Gabriel, the person who literally took an active part in the process of traumatising the man he loves into the mindset that he cannot be happy and free, get a happy ending. To see the man, who was one of the reasons Aziraphale haven't even acknowledged their relationship for such a long time, because they were on "opposite sides". The man who was one of the reasons they couldn't be together, even as friends, for 6000 years. The man who wanted to execute Aziraphale with a smile on his face and "shut your stupid mouth and die already" as his "goodbye". Seeing this man getting what Crowley has always dreamt of: being able to run away with the person he loves, leave Heaven and Hell behind and just be together with his beloved - in Soho or on Alpha Centauri, literally wherever, because "Heaven is wherever Beelzebub is". Crowley seeing Gabriel get it so... so effortlessly, while he has worked for it so long, nearly died because of it and still haven't been able to get that, to get the happy ending and sever all the connections with Heaven and Hell. It must have hurt like hell (most literally).
the thing that strikes me about gabriel and beelzebub is that the two of them simply ... don’t give a fuck. like, they have no lingering trauma whatsoever, they’re just like “eh we love each other, everything else can sod off” but aziraphale and crowley have been in the TRENCHES FOR YEARS AND CAN’T DO THAT bc they have all these qualms and whatnot
gabriel and beelzebub getting together in 4 years bc they started bitching about bureaucracy makes sense bc they truly dgaf. wish i could say that about aziracrow
no but y’all don’t get it crowley and aziraphale are literally the queer dichotomy of assimilation vs resistance
aziraphale doesn’t like being an outcast from heaven, he doesn’t like the powers above him and knows heaven is broken but believes it to be a case of poor management, instead of being the nature of heaven itself, he believes he can change it from the inside, he wants to be holy and good and believes that doing heaven’s work is the way to do that, he wants to carve out a spot within the system for himself and crowley and fundamentally doesn’t understand that crowley does not want or believe in quietly abiding to the rules of oppressors
crowley, a demon working for neither hell nor heaven but for himself and what he sees fit, actively chooses to be an outcast, unpalatable to any power that be, he embraces it and revels in it, especially when he’s being an outcast *alone together with aziraphale* two celestial beings not built to fit into boxes or follow orders, an absolute refusal to stand down or change one’s self as to not aggravate the system, aziraphale fundamentally believes assimilation into heaven to be the ideal outcome failing to take into account the sheer insult that notion is to someone who embraces their offputting and queer nature.
crowley has long liberated himself from the notion of belonging to any system, made easier by his critical nature and literal plunge into hell, aziraphale “on the side of good and light” is so so well intentioned but has not been forced to examine his fundamental beliefs and where they come from, he still believes heaven is better than hell he still believes he’s better than a demon, he still believes in heaven. Crowley however is entirely disillusioned with those ideals and is absolutely dumbstruck that the one person he thought held similar ideals on authority, his fellow outcast, immediately buys back into the system the moment it isn’t actively hostile to him
happy disability pride month and FUCK all the subtitles that go [speaks foreign language] instead of just saying what was said
