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I've just lost a flatmate.

If you find her, look after her for me, 'k?

Best of luck in Scotland, Jock Jock darlin'.

:(





In other news, linnpuzzle is after ideas for symbols for Aziraphale and Crowley. Me, I suggested a cuppa for the angel and a Bentley sign for the demon, although house plants, books, plant misters and the like are all equally viable. Someone mentioned a halo for Aziraphale and a pitchfork for Crowley, and that rubs me up the wrong way. I had a very strong NO reaction to that one. It's even in the book:

"But it won't be as interesting. Look, you know I'm right. You'd be as happy with a harp as I'd be with a pitchfork."
"You know we don't play harps."
"And we don't use pitchforks. I was being rhetorical."

What makes Aziraphale and Crowley so much fun and so fascinating to attempt to characterise correctly is that they're not traditional. It's not even close to being as simple as 'angel' and 'demon'; they've learned from humanity and in 6000 years they've changed to the point where neither of them, if reassigned back 'home', would have a chance of fitting in without serious readjustment.

They got along. They nearly understood one another. He sometimes suspected they had far more in common with one another than with their respective superiors. They both liked the world, for one thing, rather than viewing it simply as the board on which the cosmic game of chess was being played.

It's what makes the slash theoretically possible, it's what makes their friendship both possible and important enough to both of them to be willing to get apocalypted side by side, it's the reason the book is as fantastic and as rereadable as it is.

So... yeah. I'm gonna vote 'no' on that one.



And apparently we have two knives left after the Jock Jock strategic retreat. So no one's invited for dinner. XD

Comments

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Like I said to unravels, though, that might well work for Crowley but not so much for Aziraphale... not until the end of the book, in any case.

Am in total agreement to what you said to her. Before the whole poll thing, I was considering a feather for Aziraphale and sunglasses for Crowley because of the stereotypes. Crowley's more about being himself than being a demon, while Aziraphale seems to take pride in being an angel (at times, at least. When he's not forced to deal with the other occupants of heaven and their rules). Aziraphale is still my favourite, though, for reasons I can't really put my finger on. He's just as unsuited for the stereotype as Crowley is, except he's reserved and better at diverting attention from himself. So the feather idea really wouldn't have worked.

I miss you! Are you still feeling not-very-social, or is there a possibility of poking you on AIM sometime?