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@crowleyslvt
All of My Works
Figure I'll start cross-collating all my ao3 fics in case people want smth to read, organised from highest word count to lowest:
Bare Knuckles, Rose Thorns, and Split Grape Skins (E - Graphic Depictions of Violence) A Western!AU where Crowley is an demonic outlaw, and Aziraphale is a Heavenly bounty hunter. Crowley's POV. Enemies to lovers, lots of violence, lots of conflict, lots of bondage, lots of pining. 41K words. Complete.
there is no requited love here. only pining 👀
AO3 writers, how many words have you written and published on the platform so far? *If you’re unsure how to check your total word count (of every work you’ve published), you can do so by clicking on the Statistics button on your AO3 dashboard
1-10,000
10,001-20,000
20,001-50,000
50,001-80,000
80,001-100,000
100,001-150,000
150,001-200,000
200,001-500,000
500,001-1,000,000
1,000,001-5,000,000
More than 5,000,000 words
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hey now...
Couldn't have nailed me any harder to the floor if you had a fucking hammer.
I love the silliness but also with some serious mixed in. Like, when I write, I enjoy some crazy fun, and then I want to go straight to heavy topics with some angst.
So uh, accurate?
Cracking up at the description here
It’s not super reflected in my current active tumblr content but yeah this is accurate
Furfur x Eric
E, 3k. Read it here on ao3!
Furfur feels the sight of the rabbit demon like hellfire, too, but it burns further down and deeper. Incinerating everything behind his breast bone with softness and shame.
A gift for @crowleyslvt, a sequel of sorts to his fic In Showing Affection and Other Weaknesses
Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.
Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.
And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"
But like.
If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.
So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.
There is no nuance to this.
A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.
That's it.
That's all.
"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.
"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.
"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.
"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.
"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.
But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.
"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.
relevant everywhere tbh
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: E
Word Count: 23,913
Status: Complete
Relationship: Aziraphale/Crowley
Content Warning(s): Alcoholism
Featured Tags: Not A Fix It, Angst & Smut, Pining, South Downs Cottage, Domestic Shenanigans, Comedy, Archangel Drip, Virgin Crowley + Aziraphale, Top Aziraphale/Bottom Crowley, Top Crowley/Power Bottom Aziraphale
Summary: Crowley leaves the bookshop and prepares to…what, he doesn’t know. Grieve, he supposes. He certainly isn't prepared to see the new Supreme Archangel of the Heavenly Host 4 extremely alcoholic days later.
Author's own little season 2.5, in which a vacation is taken on hard mode, an interview is dodged, and a series of bizarre encounters occur.
AKA I wanted to write about Crowley getting railed and running errands. Have my first finished fic in almost 10 years.
something i've noticed about the difference between good omens and doctor who fandoms rn is that the good omens people are either making funny art or coming up with increasingly unfeasible theories about supposed 'hidden messages' in the show and generally being weird about it going out of their way to say they LOVE EVERYTHING about the show, and the doctor who people are like. damn this sucks.. unfortunately it's also really compelling. oh well <3
like idk the good omens people (generalising here of course) seem incredibly strung up on what Could Be Meaningful and making wayyyyy to much of a big deal out of minor details. and like the show is clever! there are secondary levels of meaning! but not everything is or should be. not everything is a metaphor. continuity errors exist. and the doctor who people (even new fans) are still yknow eating drywall over it but are also like HAHAHAHthat bit was awful. anyways its also incredibly thematically relevant to these other episodes so it's very important you watch it lol.
and i think the difference is that good omens is twelve episodes. just twelve. there's the book of course, which is a different angle than the show, there's the radio version etc. but there's only so much story. and a lot of the version are the plot of the book in different formats. whereas doctor who goes on forever and ever and ever and there will always be more content. so the good omens people are overanalysing the same few moments over and over again because thats all there is, they probably know their content better than the doctor who people, but b/c you only see them in so many Situations, its also easier to begin to warp your perception of them. you only see them deal with a crisis a couple times under very specific circumstances. there are only so many character moments, so things can be blown out of proportion b/c you cant compare it to another similar moment.
but doctor who is infamously long and infamously has a Very large eu so you have a lot more time with the characters to pull together your perception of the characters, even when regenerations and new companions come and go. you simply have more to work with to build your understanding.
like if you compare the 'i just lost my best friend' scene from good omens to any of the 'doctor thinks companion is dead' scenes--crowley reacts like that only once. he is distraught, obviously, doesnt quite know what to do about it at first, doesnt know what's happened to aziraphale--but its a specific moment. bookshop burned down. world is ending. aziraphale Gone. whereas doctor who there's a range of scenarios with a range of reactions--guilt and also hope when bill gets shot and then taken away. anger and denial over clara willingly dying knowing that she must (actually resolved her character arc quite well i thought, though so did hell bent). there are more but i forget. uhm end of s1 second to last episode rose gets vaporised but it's actually a teleport, the way nine responds to that. there's just more to work with!! which i think is why the good omens fandom is so deeply embroiled in arguing over minutiae of character and background detail b/c they dont have anything more to read about them except fanfics (which are obvious a feedback loop in any fandom) and because they only see aziraphale and crowley for such a short time. they cant compare their reactions during times of The Literal End of the World and The Disruption Of Their Quite Nice Life Together And Also Possibly the End of the World to them just chilling.
'It's more like the high-paced, high stakes madness of Season 1, I think, than it is like the sort of gentle, romantic, funny, sweet Season
NEW THINGS ABOUT SEASON 3 👀❤
“I knew where I needed them at the beginning of Season 3; that was something that I’d known for a very long time,” Gaiman told TV Insider at the Writers Guild Awards in April 2024. “I remember sitting with John Finnemore, with whom I co-wrote Season 2 and talking maybe in 2019, 2020, about the shape of the story. And John was saying, ‘Well, we need an ending. We’ve got everything planned out, but we don’t have the last 10 minutes. How is it going to end?’ And when he asked me, I knew exactly how it was going to end and I explained to him that it was going to end with a kiss and suddenly everything fell into place.”
“I’m writing it currently, so I don’t know what I can say other than I got a video message from David Tennant this morning asking me where the scripts were, because he wants to read more of them. He’s only read the first three and he’s very excited to find out what happens next,” Gaiman told TV Insider in April 2024. “It’s going to be fun. Some people that you love will be coming back; some that you expect, some that you don’t. And it’s more like the high-paced, high stakes madness of Season 1, I think, than it is like the sort of gentle, romantic, funny, sweet Season 2.”
GOOD OMENS "The Book"
Hi Neil,
I just saw this post where someone zoomed in on Aziraphale's face and it looks a lot like he's holding a bullet in his teeth
Does Aziraphale have a bullet in his teeth?!?!?
is this intentional?!?!?
please, tell us
I can't put the link to the post here but there is research, there is a slow motion video.
Thank You
Aziraphale has a bullet between his teeth at all points in Good Omens Season 1 and 2, except during the actual bullet catch sequence in Season 2 episode 4, when he has either a small fish or an enormous diamond between his teeth...
I love that people make metas. I love the analysis and careful amount of detail that goes into theorycrafting. I love the passion with which people comb over things they love and wring out ideas that another person might never consider.
however...
sometimes it is easier to remember "secret fourth episode" and go about your day. there are some who take it far too seriously, who take it to heart with real and tangible emotional attachment. when sometimes it's as silly as "it was the butler the whole time". Don't forget to get silly with it. Don't forget the whimsy.
I genuinely believe my first stroke of genius was in Love Conquers All making Aziraphale so avoidant that he literally bent reality to his whims and led Crowley on a pseudo psychedelic trip through time and space just to avoid stating his feelings 😇
Pssst. Find it here.
The thing abt Crowley that I think is missing from a lot of fan content is people like. how do I word this. people like him so much that they're not willing to make him do things they find unlikable. Crowley's demonhood is usually represented in fan stuff by him like, doing bad things to bad people, people who "had it coming" one way or another, which I think works in serious contexts but is just no fun if you're trying to match the tone of the source! Crowley comes up with and does things that are objectively annoying and unpleasant and that's Fine. It's hilarious. We all need to make peace with the fact that Crowley would play Instagram reels loud as hell on the train, she'd be in front of you on line at the drug store paying with exact change, she'd show up to your baby shower with one of those toys that make a bunch of noise, she invented the leafblower. Etc. These jokes write themselves they're so easy and they're always funny and I want to see more of that sort of energy
to any fic reader who has ever thought "i don't need to leave a comment on this fic that i loved, after all, what's one measly comment? what difference could i possibly make to them?"
i have attended the wedding of a couple who met because one of them commented on a freaky smut fic that the other one wrote
(one of them proposed during a panel they were both on about omegaverse)
comments make a difference in people's lives
The fic can be years old, but a single comment of "This made my day brighter" or "This made me cry" or "I adore this"?
It's enough to lift a writer's mood, fire their writing for a week, help them start something new.
One comment can make a spirit soar. You have that gift to give.
Go on, burst every one of his bubbles why don’t you
