I Am So Glad That My Odd Rambling Actually Made Sense. My Brain Mulch Is In Fact Expanding Foam And Has

I am so glad that my odd rambling actually made sense. My brain mulch is in fact expanding foam and has taken over everything in favour of good omens analysis.

Iiiiits metaphor time!!!

So, it's been shown a few times that Crowley and Aziraphale are opposite but similar, different sides of the same coin, ect, etc.

One very important metaphor for this is the yin/yang. Its been mentioned in interviews multiple times and I think its very true "little bit of a nice person"/"just enough of a bastard" fit this SO well.

But those lines are s1, they fit together because they both represent one side and everything is balanced. They fit together, they dine at the Ritz.

In season 2 however, they don't. At all. Aziraphale makes a point to do more "good deeds" even if they arnet in line with heaven. The whole "very good at forgiveness" and him being visibly upset in the Edinburgh minisode where there are no solid lines to be drawn for morality indicate a bit of negative development on his part. Perhaps the fact that he no longer reports to heaven makes him feel like he has to do more good to make up for it. Hence why Az gets defensive about telling Crowley the good things he's done in the coffee shop scene.

I mean, he was almost about to get Crowley to kill a child in s1, his ability to bastard has decreased.

On the opposing side, Crowley is better this season. Infact I'd say he isn't good or bad. Bad for heaven sure but he is just entirely indifferent to the humans for the most part.

At least that's what I thought until I rewatched it. It's in the way he let's Maggie and nine out of the shop without hesitation, even when he could be mischievous. Its in the way he guides the shopowners out the bookshop trying desperately to stop people getting hurt. Hell, even in the minisodes (ESPECIALLY THE EDINBURGH ONE) he's just floating somewhere between chaotic neutral and chaotic good. (Possibly even neutral good).

While he does also do good in s1, he denies it much more strongly, so perhaps being distanced from hell has allowed crowley to just, do whatever he wants (which just so happens to be good).

There is a point here, let's get back to it.

So, using the colours black and white as in the yin/yang symbol. They both get more white. Obviously, this causes an imbalance. I reckon, crowley pretty much becomes his own symbol, having equal good and bad in him (lets be honest, the "bad" is just him beign a silly little guy). Now I'm deffinetly not saying he doesn't need Az at all, only that he functions as moraly independent. His biggest flaw is that he wants to get away from things instead of fixing them, probably becaue3 he's to scared to try.

Az on the other hand, still refuses he can be bad at all. He's an antihero at worst, doing bad things for perfectly good reason, (hiding Gabriel to PROTECT him). Its this inability to compromise that eventually leads to him blurring the lines between actual good and heaven good, causing him to be delusional and fall back into his old way of thinking at the end.

Pair this with the whole "they want the same thing but are going about it in diff ways", "they don't talk", ect.

They are no longer the yin and yang, they no longer fit together as a pair because Crowley is trying to make himself whole and Az is either ignoring the problem altogether, or trying to be only good. He is trying to have a calm life on earth without letting go of the divine good of heaven and its just not going to work.

I have a feeling that next season Crowley is going to be shifting between emotional and nilhistic (just because he's more moraly stable doesn't mean he is emotionally, bless). Az is going to have to struggle with trying to fix a system that is broken in the name of the one leading the system (god). HOPEFULLY these cause them both to reevaluate their flaws (crowleys running away, Az with his inability to do so) and just erase the moral obligations altogether.

THE FINALE!!!

I love it in the same way that poisonous plants are beautiful, that fire is cozy and the way that the unfathomable vastness of space is comforting.

Bittersweet does not begin to describe my feelings it was done SO well and though devastating is 100% agreeable in terms of character development.

The writing and acting for this season have been so wonderful but that last 20 minutes especially made me feel emotions I did not know existed.

Oh, and Michael Sheen?? Smiling that hard in the release day video??I just know he is enjoying the mass suffering of ep6 and to be honest I cannot fault him.

Opinions on THE kiss (that unfortunately do not have anything to do with how well it was acted, I dont have the time to unpack all that)

Clearly, they are in love before the kiss, and the kiss is not what makes their relationship/ defines it as romantic, this much I agree with, and its a take I've seen a lot of. (I'm also pretty sure the beloved author (executioner of my heart) has said that the kiss is not what people should take as confirmation of their feelings. )

Another thing I've seen that goes alongside that is that the kiss was not a romantic in any way at all.

THIS BIT is what I dont like.

YES Crowley kissed him because he was desperate and he was desperate BECAUSE he loves him.

Romantic gestures and situations do not have to be positive and I think people are forgetting that you cannot have love without loss because otherwise you would never be able to fully appreciate it.

Hell, romance is inherently tragic.

The kiss was not what MAKES their relationship romantic but it was still romantic, in a saddening, beautiful way.

Basically what I'm saying is:

"Crowley kissed Az because he was desperate to get him to stay, and they both show their romance in other ways LONG before the kiss"

Goes hand in hand with

"Love is what made him so desperate and the kiss is still romantic, not despite how sad it is, but because of it"

MCM WAS AMAZINNGGGG. At lests 1 in every 3 bg3 vendors had their Astarion stuff sold out tho.

Went as Dr Clef this year so didn't get as many photos as last year (Akutagawa), but here's a few. =3

Don’t google symbolism. Don’t do it. You’ll cry.

Physics A lvl is already kicking my ass, so to prevent myself from becoming a living projectiles question, I've been utilising our Lord and saviour Hatsune MIKU, along with beloved icon, Gerard Way.

In Shimiji form, of course

(And yes im aware graphs of motion is not a particularly difficult topic, but the worksheet I did before this made me ever so tired, you must understand that this was a necessary move to save my education)

Side note, they may steal your hard earned scores, so beware

Ft, the mirror in the corner