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Further notes on Thou Knowest Us Happy/the deft, sweet gesture of your hand
These were some of the things that I that I found interesting and wanted to dig into/build on:
- I adore the flashback with the kiss, and what it added to Aziraphale’s character and their history. It’s a moment that informs so much else and worked incredibly well to show how they’ve been dancing around [acting on] their feelings for a long time indeed.
- The knitting, what the knitting symbolises, and its function in the story. And how it illustrates Aziraphale’s complex ways of dealing with (or avoiding) issues. Metaphors are my kink and this hit, like, all of them.
- The poetry. Aziraphale reading poetry to Crowley. The specific poems chosen and how Aziraphale uses them to say things he otherwise finds difficult, and how they’re used to illustrate things on many different levels.
- The hurt/comfort, which is exquisite. The detail that Aziraphale has had experience with looking after plague victims; and that trying to heal Crowley hurt him instead. And the whole holy water business, which I also wanted to dig into deeper. (And then invented an explanation for. Apologies for taking liberties.)
- The fact that Hell did come after Crowley, and — when they couldn’t kill him — destroyed his flat and all his possessions instead. It’s horrible, and very plausible.
- The way Aziraphale dealt with difficult situations, how he just puts emotions away to deal with later. A+ characterisation. How he faces down Hastur & co and how he has an explanation ready (because of course he has thought about it). And how the lie/insinuation becomes truth by the end. (And I deliberately made the solution in my story different. In 'the deft, sweet gesture' Aziraphale's smarts and bravery saves them — in my story it’s Crowley’s love, even though neither of them realise this.)
- The fact that Aziraphale used to smoke. I’ve not seen that in any other fic, but it makes perfect sense, given his pleasure-seeking nature (he probably still has a cupboard full of pipes). Also I could then use it for the smoking at the end of my story, with no worries. ;)
- Crowley’s (by turn) defensiveness and acquiescence, and how he just says: ‘Stop, please explain’.
- The nature of their eventual ‘getting together’, and their open and sensible discussion about what a relationship will mean, how it’ll probably work. The awareness that it might not be easy, but they’re both ready to take the risk.
It was, essentially, a whole package of things that I loved and felt added to canon in incredibly rich ways and that I wanted to explore further. ‘Further’ then became T.S. Eliot and 14th Century angst and Julian of Norwich — which was a surprise to me too — but I hope people like it…
- I adore the flashback with the kiss, and what it added to Aziraphale’s character and their history. It’s a moment that informs so much else and worked incredibly well to show how they’ve been dancing around [acting on] their feelings for a long time indeed.
- The knitting, what the knitting symbolises, and its function in the story. And how it illustrates Aziraphale’s complex ways of dealing with (or avoiding) issues. Metaphors are my kink and this hit, like, all of them.
- The poetry. Aziraphale reading poetry to Crowley. The specific poems chosen and how Aziraphale uses them to say things he otherwise finds difficult, and how they’re used to illustrate things on many different levels.
- The hurt/comfort, which is exquisite. The detail that Aziraphale has had experience with looking after plague victims; and that trying to heal Crowley hurt him instead. And the whole holy water business, which I also wanted to dig into deeper. (And then invented an explanation for. Apologies for taking liberties.)
- The fact that Hell did come after Crowley, and — when they couldn’t kill him — destroyed his flat and all his possessions instead. It’s horrible, and very plausible.
- The way Aziraphale dealt with difficult situations, how he just puts emotions away to deal with later. A+ characterisation. How he faces down Hastur & co and how he has an explanation ready (because of course he has thought about it). And how the lie/insinuation becomes truth by the end. (And I deliberately made the solution in my story different. In 'the deft, sweet gesture' Aziraphale's smarts and bravery saves them — in my story it’s Crowley’s love, even though neither of them realise this.)
- The fact that Aziraphale used to smoke. I’ve not seen that in any other fic, but it makes perfect sense, given his pleasure-seeking nature (he probably still has a cupboard full of pipes). Also I could then use it for the smoking at the end of my story, with no worries. ;)
- Crowley’s (by turn) defensiveness and acquiescence, and how he just says: ‘Stop, please explain’.
- The nature of their eventual ‘getting together’, and their open and sensible discussion about what a relationship will mean, how it’ll probably work. The awareness that it might not be easy, but they’re both ready to take the risk.
It was, essentially, a whole package of things that I loved and felt added to canon in incredibly rich ways and that I wanted to explore further. ‘Further’ then became T.S. Eliot and 14th Century angst and Julian of Norwich — which was a surprise to me too — but I hope people like it…