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Lady Augusta Bracknell is the most memorable character and one who has a tremendous impact on the audience in Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. She is a fashionable woman in society, but her intimate knowledge of social niceties keeps her from thinking critically about her environment or the true character of the people around her. Lady Bracknell is utterly respectable, conservative, and proper. As a former member of the lower class, she represents the righteousness of the formerly excluded.
It’s possible that Crowley referring to Aziraphale as “Lady Bracknell”, is an affectionate way of mocking his always pristine clothes, impeccable manners, pattern of speech and strict rules (which he bends when it’s necessary).
Lady Bracknell is also notable because in the last 20 years or so she has almost become a panto role, in that she is played more and more often by men in drag.
metatron voice yeah the last guy who had this job was an absolute disaster, he fell in love with a demon and foiled an attempt at starting armageddon. hey aziraphale,
Have we appreciated yet how inevitable the breakup really was? The truth is, whether the metatrash orchestrated it or to what extent he did, Aziraphale going back to Heaven and Crowley refusing to go back to Heaven was the only way that situation could have played out. The minute the metatrash offered Aziraphale the chance to right the wrong of Crowley’s Fall, it was over. Offering Aziraphale the supreme archangel gig was just insurance.
Aziraphale was always going to want to redeem Crowley because he doesn’t (yet) understand the Fall, what it cost Crowley, what it’s actually done for Crowley, and how Crowley was fundamentally changed by it. Aziraphale does not yet know what Crowley knows of Heaven - and Aziraphale can’t have known it yet. But he will, and this breakup is how he gets the opportunity to learn what he needs to learn to finally, finally understand what it means for him and Crowley to be on their own side.
And Crowley,who would follow Aziraphale anywhere and do anything for him? He cannot follow him back to Heaven, he cannot pretend to “be an angel” again for Aziraphale, because it is literally impossible. Crowley can’t undo the millennia of growth he’s undergone, he can’t be un-cast out of the fold, he can’t be un-unwanted by God and he can’t be un-unloved. That’s his lived experience of being fallen and nothing could change that for him.
There’s no world where Crowley accepts the offer, and there’s no world where Aziraphale refuses it. Not with them as they are right now together and separately in their arcs. And maybe that’s part of why it’s so painful to watch and dissect, because they hurt each other so badly and they don’t want to, but it’s actually inescapable. They’re in a trap that they can’t see until it springs. Snap. The elevator closes.
coffee theory and immediate reconciliation sucks btw I wanna see them duke it out like divorcees going to court over a beanie baby collection and getting obviously sad about it but also being too stubborn to admit it until they end up making out on the negotiation table
I spent a very reasonable normal ordinary amount of time painting smooches and contemplating how lovely it must be to finally be kissed by someone you’ve desired for oh, say, 6000 years? and how it would be obvious if demon boy here were the one to completely take apart soft, shy Aziraphale but how it would be even better if it were the other way around. Crowley likes to think he’s really smooth and cool but the fact may be that,actually, he’s the soft one and maybe he’s pined so hard he doesn’t need much to completely lose his shit… and then there’s M*chael Sh**n being… like that and I-I-I……hjkj;;;f;f;;;;; maybe projected a bit too hard. I am feeling supremely awkward about myself and my life choices right now and I’ll probably have several breakdowns later about posting things like this on a website that doesn’t allow you to remove them ever, but look, I put some real fucking effort into those hands and faces and y’all are going to look at them
I love that Aziraphale chooses to suffer nobly and learn bad, halting French by taking night classes instead of just. Knowing it because he’s a magical angel because 1) it’s such a good character moment that illustrates how much he loves life and humanity and finds all it’s difficulty and little triumphs worth it 2) it’s is such a goddamn Catholic thing to do to yourself. We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard. Our first Catholic president said that
I wrote this whole on an insane amount of cold medicine last night and you know what? Stand by every word. Especially the ones by jfk
