And For The Record, It Does Go Perfectly.

My take is that both have a finite amount of commitment in them, and put it all into each other. They don't have enough left for a pet, long-term goals, or an address

since Arthur isn’t a fan, would John be inclined to any animals in particular? he strikes me as a cat-lover, maybe for the shared temperament

No, neither like animals

EDIT: neither are pet people should be a better way of saying this. They can empathize with any creature (lily) and they care about creatures, but they’ll never have pets.

Regarding the minisodes, I don't think the point was to show us that they trust each other implicitly. It's something I've been thinking about, so excuse the long reply.

The flashbacks in season 1, IMO, had 2 purposes:

Showing us how their relationship came to be as it is in present day. How they met, how they started getting along, how the Agreement came to be, fall out and reconciliation that they had over the centuries, etc.

Setting up the Holy Water ( if I remember the book correctly, it only shows up for the scene in Crowley's apartment, he didn't get it from Aziraphale and since the body swap is TV only, it never comes up again)

Your mileage may vary, but I think that this season's minisodes were only partially about their relationship (because everything is at least a bit about their relationship), they were more about Aziraphale. Specifically, Aziraphale's moral struggles.

A companion to Owls (the Job Minisode) shows us Aziraphale lying to the Heavenly Host to protect humans, and being very miserable about it (as a side note, I was screaming "Dude, you lied to GOD in the garden of Eden" during my first viewing, but on careful re-watch, his "I must have put the sword down somewhere" can still fall under the "technically true if extremely misleading" category, which apparently doesn't count for him).

In the Resurrectionists, Aziraphale spents most of his time encountering consequentialism for the first time, and trying to reconcile it with a deontological philosophy. Is defiling tombs a Wrong thing to do, if it leads to Good? I might be thinking to much about it, but it's interesting to see that after some reluctance, Aziraphale has a pretty standard reaction to encountering Consequentialism : it's great! It solves so many problems! And then runs smack down into 2 classic counter-arguments to Consequentialism: 1. you cannot actually know what the consequences to your actions are going to be (i.e., Wee Morag dying). 2. Consequentialism implies that the subject should be impartial as to who benefits and who suffers, as long as the overall Good outweighs the bad. But as Crowley points out, "It's different when you know them, isn't it?"

The moral argument in Nazi Zombie Flesheaters is at the very end. Aziraphale says that Crowley helping him means that he's not as bad as he says. Crowley replies that Heaven sees thing in black and white and sometimes, you have to blur the edges. They toast to shades of grey. Very very light/dark grey. And that's basically the moral position of Aziraphale as we know him in the present day: willing to make some concessions. But it's a compromise, and it's more about Crowley being good than, for instance, Heaven being bad.

The minisodes do other things, of course. A Companion to Owls reminds us of how awful Gabriel was, the Resurrectionists makes a link to the pub and explains why Crowley asks for the Holey Water, the Nazi Zombie Flesheaters shows us the trust (and I'll bet money that we haven't seen the last of these zombies). But I think they do work as foreshadowing for Aziraphale being overjoyed at the idea of being friend with Crowley without the moral complications.

(The discussion in the other reblogs was great, but I wanted to answer some points in this post specifically)

Can someone who actually liked the ending of s2 please explain to me why?

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It is unclear where that leaves France's government for the immediate future — because of President Macron's odd decision to call snap elections that led to the current nearly-three-way-split legislature, no further elections can be called until the summer.

”Hey Kellin, your mother was a whore!” is still one of the funniest and most batshit lines in Malevolent because it comes directly out of left field. Whores are literally never referenced again (except as a callback to that line, which happens the very same episode). John nor Yellow nor the King ever make reference to any other hypothetical whores or slutshaming in any regard. The Entity just decided to be a bitch like that. It’s like a preteen who learned precisely one swear and is trying to shock you by saying it as loudly and as clearly as possible to get a reaction out of you. Who taught him those words. Where is his mother.

fellow goth transmacs do you ever read monstrous regiment, 31st novel in the discworld series by the late sir terry pratchett, and become consumed by thoughts of renaming yourself "maladict" every waking moment since putting the book down

desperate times and measures and so forth, to be fair, but if the entity living in my eyeballs after getting catapulted there from a magic book who’s familiar with various otherworldly shit that I just found out existed earlier that day said they had a bad feeling about going into a dilapidated house in an isolated clearing, I would not go into that house

Chapters: 4/15 Fandom: Malevolent (Podcast) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Doe/Arthur Lester Characters: Arthur Lester, John Doe, Bella, Parker Yang Additional Tags: Amnesia AU, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Spoilers Through Coda, Arthur POV, John POV, longfic, Plotty, Corporeal!John Series: Part 3 of a universe that doesn’t care and people who do (Lighthouse) Summary:

Arthur Lester awakes terribly injured, being tended to by a so-called nurse named ‘John Doe’. His horrific, oddly realistic nightmares plague him every night, just as his memory loss plagues him every day. Underneath the notice of his nurse, he begins an investigation to find his missing memories.

Having nearly lost Arthur, John contents himself with simply allowing Arthur the space and time to recover. For the first time, he has new companions to help him: Bella, Parker, and little Faroe. However, an old enemy still lingers out in the cosmos, one who earnestly wants to become whole again.

Sam plz,,, you're so close,,, just one coworker away from starting shit,,,

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maths enjoyers and bug enjoyers and horror movie enjoyers and so forth all need to come together and unite against the common enemy of people telling you how much they hate something as soon as you mention you like it