Alpha Centauri's always nice this time of year

Nebz TV, books, sci fi/fantasy and other queer stuff (especially wheel of time at the moment!). She/her. Not an account for minors. Lots of Good Omens fic as Nebz_AlphaCentauri on ao3

[alphacentaurinebula]

Fanfic and Meta

My Fanfiction

You’re the Bad Guys (rated E, posting a chapter every Friday) - AU - Crowley and Aziraphale are Cold War spies on opposite sides in 1980s Berlin when a one night stand throws them into spy shenanigans of the highest order. Humour, intrigue and smut, plus a bit of angsty goodness. Oh, and it’s a romance.

(Now complete!)

What Are You Doing Here? (65K words, rated E) - post s2 - The Second Coming is ON, and Aziraphale and Crowley attempt to save the world with limited effectiveness, not least because their initial plan seems to be just having a lot of sex. Comedy, smut, a full-scale apocalypse plot, a tiny bit of angst and a whole lot of hijinks.

(Now complete!!!)

Bad Communication series (approx 15K words across the series, rated teen) - post s2 fix-it with a large dollop of humour - Nina, Maggie and Muriel give Crowley and Aziraphale a proper talking to about their poor communications skills. And then our ineffable idiots finally talk.

Bad Advice (up there with a suggestion box)

Bad Management (up there with not allowing questions)

Bad Communications (almost ineffably bad. But not quite)

My Meta

God is the Baddie

Status: Quo

I Forgive You: Queerness in Oppressive Systems

Poverty is Ineffable

Season 3 and the System

Celestial clothing pre- and post- fall

[aduckwithears]

[michaun]

TV APPRECIATION WEEK Day Four: Underrated TV Show/Arc ↳ Deadloch

[bambicest]

eddie + her colourful similes

[wardengrill]

Deadloch 2.01 | Croc Justice

[starsonpluto]

you know what fucking kills me? all major historical events that happened in our universe (the supposed new universe) also happened in the original universe.

we know that covid happened because the lockdowns were the reason Maggie was behind on rent (+ the whole lockdown audio bit, if you want to treat that as canon). the French Revolution, WW2, the Spanish Inquisition, climate change all happened. Shakespeare, Queen, the Velvet Underground, Shostakovich and David Bowie happened. hell, even on a much smaller-stakes scale, our version of the M25 still looks like Crowley's version.

the universe still worked out the same exact way. what was the point of their sacrifice then? no more cosmic meddling? we've ended up with the same exact thing anyway, so either Heaven and Hell were never that important because it's all humanity's doing (oh hello Book Omens/S1) , or the universe is just so inert that the whole "once you get rid of God you gain free will" thing is just blatantly Not True

"but humanity is now free to exist without the influences from Heaven or Hell!!!" yeah and everything still worked out the same way so ultimately Heaven and Hell never had much of a hand in anything

"but humanity being in control is very Pratchett!!!" yes, but killing the whole universe just to prove that point isn't. the death of 8 billion people was just a device to prove that humanity is capable of both beauty and horror? "sin, young man, is when you treat people like things."

I dunno man, this ending is fucking bleak

[alphacentaurinebula]

And not only are the two worlds identical, the ‘god-free’ version cannot really be god free, because there is no logical/genetic/evolutionary scenario that leads to a bunch of humans who look identical to specific celestials in a pub in London.

[squirrelapocalypse]

I only just learned like a week ago that there was a deadloch season 2, so I did the only reasonable thing and binged the entirety of season 1 (again) in a single day and then watched season 2 over the course of 2 days (to savor it). now the only thing to do is watch season 1 & 2 again I guess

[depraveddame]

The finale Aziraphale was not our Aziraphale.

I keep thinking about how Aziraphale, when Crowley did not immediately leap to his feet to help him, just turned around and walked away.

He didn’t try to help him up. He didn’t crouch down to his level. He didn’t even look remotely pressed, and he left Crowley lying there, depressed and dirty and drunk and barely conscious, like he was a piece of trash. Like he meant nothing. (I also haaaaate what they did with Crowley here, but that’s another post entirely)

To think they made Aziraphale into the villain so many people thought he was post s2, and for what? To what end? For what reason? It feels so unnecessarily cruel. So callous. So very much not Aziraphale.

“But Crowley told him to go away! Aziraphale was just respecting his boundaries!”

Nah. No. I mean maybe if Crowley was just chilling having a drink somewhere all upright and not covered in shit and mired in despair, then fine. But he’s lying on the fucking street in the alley muttering that nothing matters anymore. I would argue that when someone you care about is THAT depressed and THAT deep in a dark, dark place, that is precisely the time to ignore their attempt to shove you away. At the very least you reach out to them, anyway.

Was that angel the same as this one? This soft but fiercely tenderhearted sweetheart?

Are we supposed to believe this was that same angel we watched walk away from the same demon he guided through that Edinburgh cemetery with firm but careful hands before he was snatched down to Hell?

Out of all the possible things that could’ve happened in the finale— of all the possible endings and scenarios I thought about for months and months— one thing I never even considered to be remotely possible about this angel who always looked at Crowley like he was everything?

I never thought that Aziraphale wouldn’t help Crowley up off the ground.

And apparently, neither did Peter Anderson Studio.

Why that scene didn’t happen this way in the actual film, I’ll never understand. I’ll never understand pretty much any of the finale because it is so fucking nonsensical in every way, but they butchered the characterization so badly it’s almost impressive. It’s sickening. I have been trying to write a version of this scene that fits with the characters but the words won’t come. I’ll keep trying though.

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[orphanedsource]

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife. hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think orwell’s homophobia bleeds into one of his books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[mwagneto]

you're genuinely trying to fucking tell me that crowley, who repeatedly begged aziraphale over and over and over to run away with him so they could be safe, and each time when aziraphale turned him down just chose to stay and die on earth instead (because there's no point to anything if aziraphale is gone), crowley who completely broke down when aziraphale was discorporated even though it was only his physical body, crowley who spent thousands of years showing up to save aziraphale in the strange little 5d chess of damsel and knight they'd been playing, would be alright with damning aziraphale to nonexistence. himself is one thing but you're fucking telling me that when offered a choice between the continuation of an imperfect world, or killing every single person in the universe, including aziraphale, he'd choose the latter? are you actually fucking serious?

[armageddidnt]

Yup. That’s. That’s it. That is literally the entire issue 🤡

[robertfagden]

actually im doing really well except for the fact that everything makes me sad and the things that dont make me sad make me angry. but other than that im fine

[dimity-lawn]

—Good Omens fans thinking about the finale

[twostepsfromtemerant]

when i look up a knitting term, the last thing I want is an ai overview. I want a 60+ year old woman with no understanding of lighting or helpful camera angles who still manages to give the most concise and clear explanation of how to execute purl 2tog through the backloop. ai summary fuck off, where is phyllis?

[neko-mancy]

just saw a "only one bed" fic with the major character death warning

[dontbreakthechain]

#i guess that's one way to solve that problem

[idabbleincrazy]

“This bed ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

[depsidase]