The One Month Anniversary Update Of The Taking Over The Asylum Server!

The one month anniversary update of the Taking Over The Asylum server!

We have a minecraft server, a soup cult, some very concerning facts about Jay, a very complex family tree, and around 50 patients. So on this anniversary, these screenshots arose.

Behold! My idea for what I think Crowley shall be doing post season 2:

(TLDR at the bottom)

Even though Shax moved out (presumably) the apartment is still technically owned by hell, so I feel like he would pull a few miracles to get himself a little shop (I like a little shop) where he sells plants, it’s functionally a greenhouse with a painting studio on top — Crowley also broke into the old apartment to get his stuff back, the statue from 1941, Aziraphale’s thermos, and the Mona Lisa cuz I found a post talking abt how he and da Vinci were probably besties — that just looks like Rapunzels tower, random paintings on the wall being painted over each other so many times (this part came from a fic where Crowley has a room in his apartment filled with paintings of Aziraphale, I changed it a bit but I still wanna give credit)

He spends about a month or two just wallowing, he bought the place on whickaber st (I don’t remember how to spell I’m so sorry) so he keeps running into the other shop keepers — he kinda is one now — and Maggie and Nina keep staring at him, which he is not pleased about.

He ends up adopting Muriel (kinda) as well as a fuck ton of random little kids who either have shitty parents, no parents, or just feel like hanging out and have an interest in plants (most of them neurodivergent or queer, or both). He doesn’t hide much of his snakieness around the kids who live with him (most of the second floor is dedicated to the children he’s taken in, with some dimensional stuff to make more room) mostly because they don’t find him scary, over the millennia children have always been fine with his eyes — they’re often too young to have the prejudices adults have, although that has changed in recent centuries.

He grows his hair out a bunch because I said so, and I love the bun/braid look with still hair down, it’s amazing and very gender. The plant shop is covered in vines and huge leaves — Crowley is attempting to replicate Eden by hand, also he’s been selective about how he talks to the plants, it really depends on his mood, so the plants have been getting a lot of emotional whiplash, but thankfully the kids always explain to the plants what Crowley really means and if his words were directed at the plants or another allegory for himself.

That’s as far as I’ve gotten in it, I know at some point Aziraphale is gonna come back and there shall be extra angst (there’s already a lot of angst, but this will just be a slightly different flavour of angst)

(TLDR: Crowley starts a greenhouse/paint studio/foster home and teaches kids about ducks and plants and history)

My animatic playlist is so fucking long and it’s just gonna make people cry

So I just realised that after the whole thing with Elspeth and Wee Morag, Aziraphale doesn’t see Crowley for ages, and when he does, Crowley is asking for none other than a literal suicide pill. And Aziraphale doesn’t have much context, to him it seems like Crowley just helped a young girl trying to kill herself, made a nice speech about it, and then shows up a few decades or more later (it’s too late/early to look up the dates) suddenly wanting the very thing he just stopped.

With how much Aziraphale likes denial, or at least vocal denial, I feel like they’ve talked about Crowley’s suicidal thoughts before, and Aziraphale’s thinking “I thought he’d been in a better place mentally” or something. Plus Zira doesn’t seem to make the connection that Crowley was tortured, in his diary he just says “and I didn’t see him for a while” and while we don’t have the entire scene, and the Ducks scene might not be their first meeting since Edinburgh, Aziraphale doesn’t even ask if he’s okay, no pleasantries, no conversation, just straight gaily forward to the point.

I don’t think this makes any sense but it’s like 3:30am and I still haven’t eaten dinner.

IT HAS BEEN FURBISHED, IDK HOW TO MAKE IT PUBLIC JUST YET SO I'LL PUT THE LINK HERE: https://discord.gg/ys5b8sK5

I'LL WORK OUT HOW TO MAKE IT PUBLIC TOMORROW, MY BODY IS GOING LIMP AND IDK WHY

@princeloww @crowleys-dark-sunglasses @dil3mma @melted-bone-tea @jaykinarts you all said you'd like to join, so i'm @ing you just in case

We need a tota group chat where we all just talk about tota and rave about it together, I kinda wanna make one but idk if anyone would actually want to do that

Hi!

I read your post about the Good Omens 2 kiss. The kiss, which wasn’t a romantic gesture per se, but Crowley’s desperate attempt to make Aziraphale stay, make him understand what Crowley himself only allowed himself to realize after Maggie and Nina talked to him.

That in mind, do you think there will be a second kiss in s3? Given that it wasn’t a romantic gesture, is there the need again for such desperate actions like kissing?

Tbh I’m always quite confused when it comes to Aziraphale & Crowley and the need/ the desire of displaying physical affection. I know there is love, friendship and thousand of years between them, but when it comes to human things like kissing, hugging etc. I’m not sure if they ever want/ need that as a way to show affection.

I don’t believe that the season 2 kiss was just a means to an end, and therefore needs no repetition, but a part of me fears that this one heart breaking kiss is all we will get.

Sorry for this mazy message. I think I just want to know if you believe that there will be second kiss, and this time a happy one please.😭

hello! thank you and congrats, you’re the first person to ever ask me a question on here! 🥳

obviously i’m not 100% certain, and i fully trust neil and everyone else working on the show to do what makes sense for the characters and their growth, but i personally hope we get another kiss!

true, they don’t need to have anything physical between them to express their love for one another—we’ve seen it over and over and over again throughout history, even before history! they do not need to kiss or hug or even hold hands for us to know they’re in love. it’s very frustrating when people say that, especially after the s2 finale and after neil has expressed it time and time again that this is a love story.

[tl;dr: although aziraphale and crowley don’t need to show affection physically to know their own feelings and each other’s, i think the way the story and character arcs are going makes a second kiss seem very likely]

physical affection is a very human thing, something that the angels and demons don’t crave or need.

BUT. they also don’t need, and generally don’t crave, food and drink, yeah? throughout both seasons, aziraphale and crowley are the only ones from both heaven or hell (that i remember) that are seen eating and drinking.

aziraphale eats because it brings him pleasure. he indulges his cravings and relishes in the joy he gets from them, a very human thing. the only time we see him go overboard with it is the first time he eats: when crowley offers him the ox ribs. aziraphale doesn’t get full because his body doesn’t need the sustenance, so he just keeps eating, not knowing how to stop and making a mess. over time, he learns temperance in earthly desires and refrains from overindulging. he allows himself to enjoy more and more of humanity and what they create simply because he enjoys it. he finds pleasure in food and drink and theatre and magic and books and music and so many things that would never have existed if humans didn’t also indulge in their pleasures.

conversely, we only ever see crowley drinking, never eating. it’s possible that he’s tried human food before, but he usually sticks to alcohol and coffee (and that one time with laudanum), beverages that alter your state of mind at least a little bit. he doesn’t seem to get pleasure from them, though. it’s like he either drinks to be social with aziraphale, to drown his sorrows/give himself a boost of energy, or out of habit/appear more “human” to blend in. crowley doesn’t let himself indulge, finding joy in his few earthly possessions (his plants and his car, things he takes care of but also has some control over), being near aziraphale, and just generally being a mild nuisance to humanity.

in season 1, although aziraphale clearly likes crowley and being around him, we don’t see him “indulge” physically with him. in season 2, that completely changes. they’re both free from heaven and hell, and so punishment from fraternizing, so aziraphale begins to explore what indulging in pleasure is like with the one being he can’t imagine ever parting from—through small touches, dancing, even just looking at him. aziraphale is so fucking ready to allow himself this one pleasure he’s denied himself since the creation of the universe: to openly love crowley in any form he can.

in season 2, crowley is still a little…stuck (he’s living in his car. not ideal for him or bentley. or the plants). he’s so used to not allowing himself to indulge and is probably a little frightened over this sudden freedom he has, so he almost lives vicariously through others: following aziraphale around with his own projects/duties and trying to get maggie and nina to fall in love. it isn’t until nina tells him that he and aziraphale look to be “together” that he realizes, “wait, does he like me, too? we look like a couple??” he keeps it in the back of his mind, sees gabriel and beelzebub go off together, gets that pep talk from nina and maggie, and thinks, “fuck it, we can do that, too, cause we want to and not just out of self preservation.” he’s about to communicate what he wants and allow himself the pleasure he’s been keeping at arms length or more for thousands of years.

SO, i think, keeping in mind everything we’ve already been shown about aziraphale and crowley, and their personal relationships with themselves and pleasure, it’s highly likely that another, hopefully more passionate and romantic kiss will happen in season 3. obviously a lot will have to happen before then, but aziraphale knows what he wants and has so much practice in discovering new pleasure and enjoying it that i think he wants to have some degree of physical relationship with crowley. he didn’t forgive him for the kiss, or act like he didn’t like it, because he didn’t want it (he would’ve probably pushed him away if that were the case); he was upset and hurt and angry that was how it was done. crowley has much less practice and the kiss is the first time crowley let himself indulge, but it’s devastatingly overshadowed by his desperation and frustration with aziraphale.

just like aziraphale couldn’t stop himself from eating the entire ox, crowley couldn’t stop himself from kissing aziraphale, no matter how messy it got.

anyway, i love the idea of crowley learning to indulge in the things he wants to and finding pleasure on his own and then aziraphale helping him even further 😊

(aka they should kiss and fuck about it)

(and if they decide it’s not for them, then that’s good too 💜)