me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket
I’ll say this (a rare thing from me but I feel it’s necessary) - whatever your feelings about the Finale, the cast and crew who worked so hard to bring this to us do NOT deserve to be subjected to any kind of harassment or hate, especially not from members of the fandom. It’s totally unacceptable and frankly ludicrous behaviour: anyone who thinks this is an okay thing to do needs to stop and take a long hard look at themselves. These are real people who did nothing wrong apart from try to give us, the fans, some closure. I love this fandom dearly - bullying, harassment or hate of any kind is NOT what we stand for.
A post I saw, but couldn’t repost. But I am so thankful I have found it…🩷
Please read it…for me, it is the biggest Easter egg there ever was in GO…they are sitting in the Garden of Eden, surrounded by the new universes, with Champagne in their glasses (to the world - to our world/worlds), with the apple still intact and without wings…they did it. They gave them their ending as an „us“…hidden, but there. And I love it…🥹
If you listen carefully, I bet you can hear these two making the tiniest toast right here in the bookshop. They will be around forever, zipping between universes, creating them and messing them up, each time a different world but always finding, choosing and loving each other. And probably the Crowley and Aziraphale of our time are Michael and David :")
I know many of us will need time to process all of this but remember we all have tons of blank pages to fill
It feels so strange to close this chapter. So many things have changed since 2019, and thanks to GO, I've met people I couldn't imagine not having in my life ❤️
The more I think about it, the more I believe the divide in the Good Omens fandom right now is a philosophical one.
We’re asking, where does the soul live?
For those who think that who we are is shaped by a life time of experiences. That we grow and change with each each heartbreak and trauma. We see the ending as something horrible. We’re witnessing the death of our beloved characters and we are grieving for them.
For those who believe in a soul, who believe that Asa and Anthony are Aziraphale and Crowley because of the something intrinsic that lives inside them, what they’re seeing is a rebirth and a second chance. In that sense the ending is beautiful. They both get exactly what they’ve always wanted. To live as humans without the pressure of heaven and hell. In that sense, the ending is a joyous one.
Sadly these beliefs are deeply held, often the roots begin as far back as our childhoods. No amount of screaming at each other about media analysis is going to change anyone’s mind. Please just accept that there are multiple ways that one can view the ending and that those who are upset are experiencing grief. This is an extremely normal and valid reaction to end of something so meaningful and should be treated with care.
That said, your grief is not an excuse to lash out and those who don’t deserve it.
I want to preface this by saying that despite everything and even though I didn't like the finale ending personally, I did love everything else about it and I love good omens 3 in general. All these are fics that purely read as a season 3 that I absolutely adore and take comfort in. They're all complete and horrendously long I'd say, and of course a guaranteed happy ending. Story and character focused recommendations.
Factory Settings by Anonymous (103k) - absolutely the fuckung holy grail. i mean who hasn't read this masterpiece? amazing story, perfect characterisation of both aziraphale and crowley as well as an angelic version of crowley. it has banter, its well paced and my darling aziraphale. if you haven't read this, GO GO GO! [T rated]
The Ineffability of Gray by kitfornow (100k) - this one doesn't lose Aziraphale's determination and sense of responsibility he feels to do the right thing. Slow burn, angsty but the ending is gorgeous. [Not rated but no smut]
Perennial Care and Keeping by cyankelpie (11k) - I see this one more as an epilogue to season 3 exploring how their relationship is affected by years or pushing eachother away now that they finally have forever. [G rated]
Three Is Not Enough by haleinedelail (93k) - this one is my absolute FAVOURITE. author basically wrote a season 3 complete with splitting the story into 'episodes' and including flashbacks. the characterisation is perfect and dare I say, the story is a lot more compelling than the actual finale (mostly because its 93k and not rushed 90min lmao). it has it all, hurt crowley, amnesiac aziraphale, cute muriel and the climax is very satisfying. [T rated]
Flaws by indigo (indigo_angels) (218k) - angst lovers this is for you. depressed and hurt crowley, aziraphale trying his best (i do think crowley is extremely hurt and it blames aziraphale a bit too much it makes sense purely on the context of the fic and I love angst shutup). BUT it has amazing writing and I've read this about 6 times already. despite the angst the ending is so sweet and sappy and well earned. [E rated]
Good Omens - Corner Office with a View (Broke My Wings so You Could Fly) by Noli_Timere031754 (84k) @nolitimere54 genuinely the most pathetic wet cat crowley you'll ever read. love the characterisation of both the husbands and their interactions are phenomenal. also great for BAMF aziraphale. [M rated]
Synchronized With You by ayellowbentley (legends_saga) (38k) - part one with a part 2 epilogue with amazing ace aziraphale and crowley, miscommunication and reconciliation. [T rated]
scherzo in f-sharp minor, for orchestra by astrhae (23k) - i know I've recommended some beasts but this is a shorter story which I think characterises aziraphale and crowley very well and resolves the conflict perfectly. slow burn but worth it. [M rated]
On the Side of the World by profdanglais (58k) - oh i absolutely love this one with aziracrow scheming and trying to save humanity together despite their differences plus I really liked the way they saved everything. [M rated]
I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you by midnightdragons (66k) - angst lovers this is for you. complete with tortured crowley, bamf aziraphale and focus on the angst followed by softness and ofc we have our happy ending. [T rated]
We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Ginger_Cat (65k) - this is porn with reluctant plot because surprisingly none of the fics here any of that BUT if you like pining while fucking, this is amazing. [E rated]
hurry back, please bring it back home to me by Percyjacksonfan3 (103k) - very angsty and somehow silly. cute jesus and love their mutual pining and slow burn in this one. [T rated]
Now that that's out of the way, just know I have hundreds more I could recommend but this list is already too long. If any of the authors would like to be tagged, do let me know!
I currently have 88 fics on AO3, every one of them written post-season 2 of Good Omens.
A couple of weeks ago, I thought to myself, 'wouldn't it be cool if that number was exactly 100 when the finale airs?' (I like round numbers, okay?)
I realised that the number of fics I would need was exactly the number of days in May before the air date.
I could not let this thought go.
I asked my friends to talk me out if it. They did the opposite 🤣 (I love you all).
SO.
Starting tomorrow, May 1st 2026, I will be posting one (1) fic of 666 words every day until the 12th, ready for us all to be broken and remade on the 13th.
These might be anything in my general wheelhouse: smut, fluff, historical, canon, South Downs future, human AU.
They will *not* have any spoilers based on the promo for S3, so if you've been avoiding that there will be nothing here to ruin that for you.
Is this possibly madness? Yes, but I'm doing it anyway. 🤣
And we made it to 100! 12 days, 12 fics, 12 bloody titles and summaries.
Massive, colossal, enormous thanks to everybody over in @goodomensafterdark who has betad, given me ideas, prompts, had birthdays and just generally been supportive. @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon @angie-words @cheeseplants @fishey-me @rosehipandnettles @fuzzygoblin @spacegiraffetoo @adverbian @koala2all @spectrallydistracted @tansyogg @floofyraptor-art-and-writing @e-rated-beardo @malachitegrey and anybody else I've missed out.
You are all the best, and I can't wait for what fics season 3 will bring us.
Thanks to everybody who read, kudosed, commented and reblogged, I live for your support.
To the world!
A breakdown of fics below the cut:
An Indecent Proposal - Crowley gets down on one knee. M.
Another Lesson to be Learned - Aziraphale corrects Crowley's behaviour. E.
Come In Here No More - Crowley makes an entrance. T.
Closer to the Prize at the End of the Rope - Aziraphale and Crowley search for something. T.
Please Hold for a Little Divine Ecstasy - Crowley meets a very familiar voice at the library. M.
An Unsubtle Serpent - Aziraphale spots a snake in the grass. E.
Tell You Where to Stick It - Crowley is a menace on the road. Aziraphale has objections. T.
Boudicca - Emperor Nero sends Aziraphale to help put down a rebellion. But the rebel queen seems awfully familiar... M.
The Chase - Many years ago, Aziraphale's village made a deal with the local satyr herd. Every year, there is the Chase. This year, though, something is different. E.
Give Him a Mask and He Will Tell You the Truth - Francis helps Ashtoreth relax after a hard day raising the (not)Antichrist. E.
Next to Godliness - There was only one bath. T
And There's Nightingales - Aziraphale and Crowley spend their retirement in bed. E.
I think nobody talked about it already, but isn't it Crowley Dagon ist talking to in hell? Thought he's unemployed.
Hi Simone 💕 Hope you're well. Thanks for your patience. I have made us strawberry shortcake. *gets out the pretty plates* 😊
What could Dagon-- who is Lord of the Files and Master of Torments, per S1 -- want with Crowley, and how could this explain everything weird about what seems to be a spooky version of Whickber Street in these spoilers? And what might all of this have to do with the Tadfield Manor sequence from S1?
In the S3 spoilers, we can see that Crowley is being held prisoner in what appears to be Dagon's office, tied to the fish's electric eel (sea serpent lol) chair... which he'd probably really enjoy under different circumstances. 😂 The feral photo also showed Crowley being restrained by Hell's Ushers from S1. So, we're looking at Crowley being kidnapped by Hell-- which is what I thought might be happening, based on what it is that I think happened in the end of S2.
We know that S3 is picking up right in the aftermath of S2 so it makes sense to me that Lucifer would send his thugs after Crowley at this point in the story. Why?
Because, like I thought when I saw S2 the first time and have never not thought since, and still think they're likely going to do some form of, even if they had to shorten the story? I think that was Lucifer with the coffee in the end of S2 and that he and The Metatron are in cahoots. They're trying to get rid of Crowley and Aziraphale and Gabriel and Beelzebub so that they can get The Second Coming and The Great War: Round Two started, both of which are necessary to maintain their power.
It's a version of the recurring "cooperation with our old enemies"/"temporarily not on opposite sides" that we see happen throughout the story. In order to get rid of their enemies, our bad guys had to divide and conquer, and also had to take the bookshop so that there would be no safe haven.
That's partially why they targeted Aziraphale first, and why Lucifer let out a sigh of relief when Aziraphale got into the lift in the end of S2. If he hadn't? The bad guys' plan would have been shot. They've won a round here but they won't win in the end.
I think that Aziraphale only thinks that he's Supreme Archangel right now but he might really be a test for Michael, explaining why The Metatron didn't just give her the job in S2, and some of why we know that Michael's story in S3 is so important. When Michael passes the test, The Metatron has no more use for Aziraphale. That is when the story gets around to how Aziraphale actually accepted Lucifer's temptation in the end of S2 and is, technically, considered a demon now.
And how if he tried to save the world just now, thinking he was Supreme Archangel? He might have actually just given it all to Lucifer.
This is why I think that they keep showing us almost nothing except for what is going on with the angels Upstairs near the start of the story. The trailer is cut so that the "something's wrong-- things are just disappearing" make us think that the Whickber Street on which we see Crowley in the spoilers is the real Whickber Street that we know but I don't think it is. He's at rock bottom, according to the spoilers-- which can actually just be another way to say in Hell. Why do I think that this Whickber Street isn't real?
Because I keep looking at the details of it and either reality has started to warp itself around Crowley or Anthony Jemimah Crowley made this creepy pot. This is why I say it matters that Dagon, who has him prisoner, is Master of Torments. Anyone who is truly a master of torments knows that the worst torment a person can undergo is the M-25s of their own making-- the nightmares from their own mind.
But, first, before that? Dagon is Lord of the Files, and that's why I think that she's intercepted Lucifer's kidnapping of Crowley. It's related to events that have happened Upstairs since Aziraphale was told he was in charge-- the everything going bonkers... and one thing, in particular.
I think Dagon needs to find Jesus. (And it's going to be so funny when they're all running around asking one other "has anyone found Jesus yet?" 😂). Why does Dagon want to find the Jesus that Heaven has lost, at least? Because she's real big mad about The Great War and she wants to win Round Two. She thinks Hell having Jesus would help.
Dagon sees Heaven absolutely dropping the ball Up there and smells blood in the water. This is Hell's time! They can totally win this thing! Even though there's a staffing crisis and no Beelzebub, who is actually intelligent! lol Even though they are in such a supply shortage that Beez was putting demons on half-rations a few days ago! Everything is going bonkers-- Earth deleting itself before they can even destroy it and a Jesus going missing... that level of bonkers. Dagon sees this as the opportunity they've been waiting for.
In S1, we saw that Dagon is the major general of Hell's army. She was the one who was giving the pre-war rally speech. She also arrived in the group scene in the end of S2, overjoyed, all "We're at war! Finally!" Dagon might ultimately end up okay-- especially if someone can get her and Michael to just go on a date already lol-- but at the start of S3? It looks like she's not quite yet on the side of our main characters.
I made the mistake of initially thinking that Dagon could already be resistance, largely because she doesn't seem completely awful. She was protective of Furfur and Beez with the cardboard box in the end of S2 and while she was present when they kidnapped Crowley and Aziraphale in the end of S1? She didn't hurt them directly and was shown looking a bit uncomfortable with Hastur's violence when he crowbarred who they thought was Crowley.
Dagon is also who got "Crowley" safely out of Hell after the holy water bath in the end of S1 without issue-- but there's also that Beelzebub ordered her to. While Beelzebub has been protecting Crowley as much as they could this whole time? With them gone, there's no one who could be in charge Down in Hell that would be on Crowley's side, which ups the stakes of him being held prisoner there.
I think I might have previously mistook what might be Dagon having sympathy for Crowley personally for what their feelings about war and Hell might be. While Furfur showed pacifist leanings in standing up to back up Aziraphale and support Gabriel and Beelzebub? Dagon did not. What she did speak up about, though, had to do with Crowley, and could make sense of her reactions in both seasons to his situation.
Dagon was the one who addressed the elephant in the room when Crowley had stepped outside to get Maggie and Nina to safety. When Shax demanded that the angels hand over Gabriel and Beelzebub so that they could be given "as gifts" to "our master, Satan"? Dagon spoke up and basically told Shax the open secret that most of the other higher-ranked demons and angels in the room already knew-- that Lucifer is obsessed with Crowley. That he'd take the gifts of Gabe & Beez, sure, but they'd just be hors d'ouerves to a main course of Crowley-- and not a single person disagreed with her.
This, and Dagon's moments of sympathy towards Crowley makes it likely that Dagon knows about Lucifer's abuse of Crowley. That could explain why she's been shown to be a bit sympathetic towards Crowley in some past scenes, and why she might not be beyond all hope, if probably going to not be so great at the start of S3.
So, Dagon wants to find Jesus before Heaven does and, because she is Lord of the Files, she knows that Crowley was the one who tempted Jesus in the desert. She thinks that if any demon Down there would know how to find Jesus, it would be Crowley. (If she were thinking less literally, she would not be far off from the truth lol.)
Dagon also might not want to do the task that she's been given by Lucifer, which is to throw Crowley in one of Hell's eternal prison cells forever, only to be interrupted by whenever Lucifer feels like "visiting." This could also be why Dagon is excited about her idea to try to bring Crowley back into the fold of Hell by having him help find Jesus. She thinks everything can be solved if Crowley was "one of them" in Hell again-- the "all of us vs. all of them" Crowley foreshadowed in S1 coming around here again.
This is then the plot significance of it being Dagon to whom Beelzebub was half-speaking when they watched with quiet joy and wonder at Crowley surviving. To Beelzebub, this was a bittersweet moment of hope. They were thrilled at Crowley having found a way to escape and they understood what they were looking at, in a way that I don't think Dagon and the others did.
Beelzebub's quiet "He isn't one of us anymore" was them thrilled that the friend they loved had found a way to break free but was also full of a sorrow that they could lose him. It's mirrored a bit in Uriel's reaction to Gabriel wanting to leave in S2-- the pained way she said "if you leave, you can never come back" that showed how she wanted him to stay because he's her friend.
So, Dagon's interrupted Hell's kidnapping of Crowley to have him brought to her office so she can try to get him to help. She likes Crowley and thinks that if he can find them all Jesus and help them win the war, he'll be one of them again and maybe they don't have to throw him into this eerie pot of his worst pain. He doesn't have to be a prisoner of Hell, is her argument. They can all fight Heaven together and win this time and it'll be just like the old days, only even nicer.
Dagon tries to offer Crowley a deal: help with Jesus and fight with them again in the war ahead and no scary psychological torment prison.
And Crowley... just could not give less of a fuck. This isn't remotely a deal to Crowley and he wouldn't even care if it was at this point.
To him, being stuck anywhere without Aziraphale for eternity-- let alone with Lucifer-- is already a psychological torture prison. It doesn't matter if he's in a literal cell or not because he is already trapped by his damnation.
There's nothing Dagon can offer him that would ever make Crowley try to do this and Crowley liked Jesus. He feels sorry for him. He empathizes with him. What happened to Jesus is not much different from what happened to the original demons-- or to Agnes Nutter or to Mr. Dalrymple, as the story has been pointing out. It's all the same mob mentality. The last thing Crowley wants to do is go find Jesus and hand him over to anybody from Heaven or Hell. Not to mention?
At this point in the story, it probably still seems like Aziraphale is Supreme Archangel, and Crowley can often recognize some Aziraphale shenanigans when he sees them. He remembers them losing the antichrist in S1 and might see through the Missing Jesus plot as more that Aziraphale is trying to delay The Second Coming.
So, for even just that reason alone? Crowley wouldn't help Hell because it would get in the way of what Aziraphale was trying to do with saving the world.
Crowley, in his angry panic, talks a lot of bullshit about not giving a fuck about anyone else but he does care and if he could help here-- especially by not doing anything at the moment lol, as he's a smidge depressed right now-- then that is another reason why Crowley would refuse to help find Jesus.
But, mostly, it's just that Crowley doesn't care about anything anymore. He's just done. He doesn't want to fight the angels-- he never did. He was traumatized by The Great War (a scene from which seems like it would fit nicely in as the S3 opening scene?). In his mind, he is staring down all of time damned to Lucifer, and there's no way to ever make being trapped for eternity with his abuser better. If there's no Aziraphale for him for eternity, than Crowley just does not give a fuck what happens to him next.
The scene will likely also parallel Beelzebub trying to get Crowley to help find the missing Gabriel (the other Jesus in this story lol) early on in S2. Beelzebub also didn't have much to offer Crowley-- Dagon will have far less.
Beelzebub tried to offer to reverse the persona non grata status that would have given him back his Prince of Hell status and, with it, diplomatic protection that could have kept Heaven off his back a bit but Beelzebub alone couldn't do anything about what they knew would truly be appealing to Crowley, which was to get rid of Lucifer.
Beelzebub was trapped in Hell and couldn't really speak openly enough to tell Crowley why they needed to find Gabriel. They were clearly desperate to do so, which Crowley interpreted as being that Beelzebub was afraid because Lucifer was desperately looking for Gabriel and demanding that they find him. Beelzebub couldn't tell Crowley that they were just looking for Gabriel because they are in love with him and wanted to make sure that he was safe.
As a result, Crowley didn't tell Beelzebub that he and Aziraphale had Gabriel because Crowley's a lot of things but when he thought that Hell was looking for Gabriel because Lucifer wanted him? Like fuck was Crowley going to hand Jim over to that monster. No one knows the horrors of Lucifer better than Crowley and he didn't take Beelzebub's offer, not even when it could have given him a little more protection, because Crowley is, fundamentally, deep down, a good person.
But, yeah, the idea is likely that the two scenes will probably parallel one another but by the time Dagon is making Crowley this offer? He just doesn't care, so the Master of Torments has to throw him into his eternal prison cell.
Kind of like his flat in S1? Crowley can design his prison cell a bit, and that is what Spooky Whickber is. He's made this pot. It's the Whickber Street from Hell, comprised of Crowley's nightmares. What the story will reflect is that it looks a bit like what's actually happening in his reality because it's a world where Aziraphale is gone.
Instead of "you will wake, having had a lovely dream of whatever you like best"? Think: "go to sleep and dream of pain, doom and darkness, blood and brain."
I love this because it seems like Aziraphale is going to end up in this place with Crowley and as dark and depressing as it is? I think that it will end up with the vibe of Tadfield Manor, in that Aziraphale will feel Crowley's love for him in it.
Aziraphale kept getting hit by overwhelming flashes of love when they were in Tadfield in S1 because he was picking up on Crowley's own overwhelming feelings of love for Aziraphale-- the ones that were popping back up for him in his memories of that night eleven years ago.
Tadfield Manor when they were there together was depressing-- this pretty old building being used as a corporate paintball space-- but when Crowley looked at it? He had the same emotions that he did when the two of them were driving at night together down the same road he had driven on when he delivered the baby.
These locations remind Crowley of moments when he was feeling such desperate love for Aziraphale, worried they were running out of time and he might never see him again, all of his emotions heightened by the end of the world and having just been attacked. It's very similar to the end of S2, in a lot of ways. Aziraphale was then shown to pick up on Crowley's emotions as they were brought to the surface again as he returned with Aziraphale to the places connected to that night in Tadfield.
I think that Spooky Whickber Street will work in much the same way. The whole street is built around a world where Aziraphale no longer exists there, and I love that.
My initial theory was that the world that would teach Crowley and Aziraphale these lessons was going to be a world where Aziraphale had never existed at all but this is along the same lines and, if this world is of Crowley's making? Then, this works better because not only is it probably easier to do in 90 minutes (lol) but it reflects Crowley's fears in a way that is actually really romantic and going to be really important to Aziraphale's understanding of their conflicts, largely because of the bookshop still being there.
In S2, Aziraphale wants to talk to Crowley about moving out of the bookshop but he's seeing Crowley's PTSD worsening from the bookshop fire in S1. There are all those fire extinguishers and battery-operated candles and Aziraphale knows Crowley thought he lost him but he's half-convinced himself that it's the bookshop itself burning down that is Crowley's nightmare. The loss of his home and shelter.
Aziraphale wants to move but he doesn't even know how he'd start having that conversation with Crowley and working on their plan to go to euphemistic Alpha Centauri because he thinks Crowley doesn't want to leave the bookshop because that's his home but a Crowley-designed nightmare spooky Whickber Street where the bookshop still stands but Aziraphale is gone?
Aziraphale will see proof-positive that, yes, Crowley loves the shop, and part of this nightmare for him is that he can't get inside there, where it's safe, but it's not really about the shop-- it's about Aziraphale himself.
This whole nightmare world is a place that reflects Aziraphale being gone-- Crowley having had him, and lost him, and a chain reaction of that being reflected on Whickber Street. It's not the bookshop itself so much as Aziraphale and the safety it represents. Crowley would move because all that matters is being wherever Aziraphale is.
Everything in the spoilers about this evil version of Whickber Street looks like it supports this. The bookshop is there but dark and Crowley can't get in. He doesn't have The Bentley there (at least, not at first, it seems), which reflects his loss of control over himself since he's Lucifer's prisoner. He's living on the street, getting hit with sudden rainstorms, no literal or figurative canopy in sight.
The road is closed. The food is blah and mostly non-existent. The fruit market, Marguerite's, and Arnold's Music Shop all no longer exist-- all shops reflecting romantic, positive things. Maggie's record shop-- a place implied in S2 to exist because of Crowley and Aziraphale, maybe because Maggie and her family are their family-- is there but looks like it's closed. It's unclear if a version of Maggie herself is here.
There's a shop called Beyond Soho that's next door to what looks like an arcade in the Death part of Give Me Coffee. Nina does not appear to be here so far and her coffee shop has been possessed by what looks like a Famine-like chain, where Justine is waitressing, wearing a cliched French outfit that our Justine would never. There's a version of Mrs. Sandwich here who doesn't look like the friend Crowley knows. Lucifer is here whenever he wants, and Crowley has no escape from him.
This is just off of the little we can see so far in the spoilers. There will be more, but all of it, collectively, seems like it's going to remind Aziraphale of the impact he really has had on the world around him. It's a Whickber Street that says: Without you, all these shops would be closing, all these people looking for work. Without you, this road is closed, this street is full of trash, this food is bland and scare, this world is faded and lifeless and horrible. It shows Aziraphale all the good he's done, and how much Crowley loves him, by showing him Crowley's worst torments.
And then they escape this world together, and make a new one. 💕
Tumblr should take away the ability to like posts for a few weeks so peeps understand this website cannot survive with just liking. I see so many gorgeous gifs and edits and they get like....13 reblogs and 700 likes. That's not right, fam
Good Omens Fan Fiction Friday 1 May 2026 - Spies in Disguise 2
Spy stories and cold war tales are an important influence on Good Omens. It seems a fitting theme to revisit (see my first list of spy-themed Good Omens fics).
In Mission: Ineffable (M) by @andromeda4004, British agent Aziraphale Fell finds himself betrayed and accused of treason. He needs the help of a weapons dealer (Crowley) to find a double agent and clear his name. The story continues in Mission: Ineffable - Pestilence (M). Aziraphale has to find a rogue agent who has access to deadly pathogens while keeping his person on the inside (Crowley) safe. These are two tense and thrilling stories.
In For His Eyes Only (M) by @afrenchwriter, Crowley is an MI6 agent aided by his quartermaster, Aziraphale. If you've ever shipped James Bond and Q, this is the fic for you.
There's a Place for Us (E) by @missunderstoodlyrics tells the story of two members of competing families who have to team up using their best spy craft to uncover an important secret in the 19th century.
Aziraphale is a Russian attache followed and approached by British agent, Crowley, in The British Agent (NR) by Jackie Thomas. What will it take for him to betray his own country?
Finally, we have a ficlet, Operation Goldeneye (G) by @dragonfire42, in which the demon Crowley turns up in a bar to exchange notes with a British Army officer, Ian Fleming. And now we know why Crowley is so fond of James Bond.
Have fun reading spy stories. Remember to thank our wonderful writers for their work by leaving kudos and comments. Did you know that only a small minority of readers ever do? Keep readers fed by showing your appreciation.
I'll be back next week with more recs on a quirky theme. Follow me so you never miss out.
Chapter 1: 'He returned to this seat like an old friend, vanishing into the hush of old books.'
In the Margins by @thisisshiny , which finished today (and I'm coping well enough).
Chapter 2: 'Crowley paused, twirling his pen. This was either brilliant or completely mad. Probably both.'
Chapter 5: 'Wednesday morning found Aziraphale sitting in his favourite armchair with a cup of perfectly brewed Earl Grey.'
Chapter 7: 'He stood with perfect posture, one hand resting on a book spine while he read, completely absorbed in whatever poetry had caught his attention.'
I was thinking, a story about books should have traditional illustrations, think of the kind Austen books have, for example by Charles E. Brock or Hugh Thompson.
(Only problem is, I'm used to the complete control of digital, not to mention painting, which is in my opinion is a medium least prone to mistakes and errors. Absolutely terrifying trying out traditional ink. However, authenticity. Can't get this feel with digital "ink" brushes, I've tried. It works as well as a cure to perfectionism, in the best worst way.)
You may also have a bonus illustration, which I think I executed clumsily, so it's a little bit of a part of this series, but only by half. An honorary part.
GO3 soon, GOons
P.S maybe I just wont read the epilogue. Maybe I'll give it the Discworld treatment, as in if I don't read the last book, it'll never really end.
P.P.S if there are any typos in the illustration texts, that's just extra authenticity.
