Green apples
Added 2020-12-31 21:17:47 +0000 UTCSo this was a big deal for me to draw, and I'll tell you why. For a long time I had a major, major negative reaction to seeing art depicting these characters as pregnant. When I was pregnant -- even though it was planned, and it all went smoothly and obviously in the end brought me the greatest joy of my life -- I was more angry than I'd ever been in my life, super cagey the entire time, like a tiger in a trap. I just remember being angry and panicky, and I thought, Why would anyone want to do that to characters they love?
Took me a while to appreciate that a) it's not that way for everybody, b) I actually had a really nice pregnancy except for the brain chemicals, and c) there really is nothing wrong with drawing stuff like this, especially if it means something special to you.
I found out a bunch of my friends really loved pregnancy art (and art featuring babies and families) for sweet reasons, and I wanted to get past my own trigger. The only way I could do that was to just draw it, so I did.
In my mind, maybe Anathema is as afraid of being pregnant as I was, and Crowley volunteers to carry the baby for her. It's not obvious, but Aziraphale is supposed to be fem-presenting here in solidarity. When I was pregnant, I craved green apples.
