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Looking for any sex worker GO fics! I’ve had no luck with my searches. Does anyone have any recs? Thank you!!
I’ve got something right for you!
A new Collection - Coin Tricks has just been created of Good Omens fics featuring sex work.
There is also a specific tag that you can search through - here
Other works:
Leave the Light On by killerqueer, VentureTrain [E], WIP
The You've Got Mail But With Phone Sex AU that nobody asked for.
Azra's life is turned upside down when his partner of two years breaks up with him, seemingly out of nowhere, and kicks him out of their shared flat. Well, Gabriel's flat. Left to start over on his own, he ends up living above the bookshop and below his incredibly rude landlord, who seems to insist on having incredibly loud intercourse at all times of day.
Meanwhile, in a moment of loneliness, he finds himself doing something he has never considered, and calls a phone sex line. Oh, and he might just be falling in love with the operator.
Paper Wings, Glass Hearts by KiaraMGrey [E]
Crowley is an escort. He's been doing it for several years now, and he thinks he knows what to expect. But after meeting one particular bookshop owner, he isn't so sure. Aziraphale is so different from his normal clients. He opens up something in Crowley he had thought long since buried, and threatens the carefully constructed walls that have long stood guard around his heart.
Aziraphale is... lonely. He is tired of being alone. But he has been hurt too many times in the past to even consider dating again. So, he comes up with the perfect plan. A relationship without real feelings. If only it were ever that easy.
~Mod N
I would also very much like to add A Business Arrangement by CopperBeech; it was wonderful!
@aziraphales-library , @goodomensficrecommendations
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30878999/chapters/76244912
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Bish. 1978.
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THANK YOU BLUES CLUES 💗💜💙
The look is molten gold 💛
Obliterating my het status yet again, @gingerhaole
Oh my goodness, Marie, I am over the moon!! It’s so beautiful, thank you!! ❤️ @a-january-girl
Rejoice, “let’s fake a relationship for Christmas” fanfic season is upon us.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Christmas commissions are officially open!
Come to me for any lettering project and we’ll talk about it 😊
She’s absolutely the best!! I JUST commissioned a big piece, but I might have to have some holiday swag too...lol
You and gingerhaole and khiroptera are fucking disgusting. Please do something with your time other than exploiting gay men. Fetishistic yaoi fujoshi shit is no longer welcome here.
Aw, thank you for comparing me to such great artists, it’s an honor! :D
But ok, let’s think about your message. Actually, let’s make an example out of you, for the sake of this fandom and others.
A bit of History and background, first.
Slash fanfic and art, as we know them, became a thing in the 1970s, with the Star Trek Original Series. The fandom, mostly women, sold printed copies of zines in a very secret way, because women having interests of a sexual nature was pretty taboo. Still is.
The terms yaoi and fujoshi are japanese and do not apply to this occidental approach, or this specific British show. (I mean, you singled out three Good Omens fan artists). Japanese creators and fans of m/m pairings have their own History that are parallel to slash, but are not to be confused.
Anyway, all this to say that m/m pairings have been a part of art and literature for 50 years now.
Why slash?
People have thought a lot about the question, and the most probable cause of the phenomenon is mathematics, and the fact that male characters outnumber female characters several times, and that is all over media.
If the cast of your show, book or game has 10 characters, 7 are male and 3 females, the m/m pairings are going to greatly outnumber straight pairings and f/f pairings.
Now, male characters are given more time, dialogue and backstories. They tend to talk more between themselves, which creates interesting relationships. Female characters barely pass the Bechdel test, and don’t have the possibility to create interesting bonds between themselves - or with men - if they’re always relegated to the romantic or sexual interest. From a storytelling point of view, male characters end up more interesting just because the media we consume treats them better.
There is another thing that comes to mind about m/m pairings: the absence of misogyny. In a world where women (and people misgendered as women, including Non-Binary people) are constantly seen as lesser, reading romance of the straight variety can always bring back a gender imbalance that is not present when both partners in a romance are male. A romance on equal footing can be better escapism.
Is slash “exploiting” gay men?
I mean, disregarding the fact that anon up there chose to call two genderless characters “gay men” (which is backed by one of the Good Omens authors). And also disregarding the fact that the three artists you blame, myself included, do not hesitate in drawing the characters as female presenting, non-binary, or any other gender presentation--
Which gay men are you talking about? Because fictional characters do not exist. You can’t exploit things that don’t exist. They’re ideas. Are you talking about their actors? Or the authors? Because they all said it was okay if we imagine the characters in love.
Real men, gay or bi or any of them over the lgbt+ spectrum, are not harmed by the stories and art we tell. What harms them is real homophobia. If someone likes slash and treats gay men badly, that’s a problem, yes, and we need to address it. What I’ve seen from fandoms so far is that people are pretty good at regulating these attitudes. But liking slash and being homophobic are not related.
Drag queens
Let’s also not forget that gay culture has included a lot of what is traditionally feminine. No one complains about drag queens using the elements of what is, to us, the pressure of appearing feminine. Because we know that some of them can be misogynistic, but others can elevate it to an art form. We know how to make the difference.
Aren’t you better than straight men that watch lesbian porn?
I’m going to be honest, I don’t care if men watch lesbian porn. Let them. What I care about is if men treat women and non-binary people in a fair and decent way. I know many excellent straight men that watch lesbian porn, and they treat people with respect.
People are not the media they consume.
There’s also something pretty specific about fandom: They don’t objectify characters, they elevate them. Pornography reduces actors to bodies, empty vessels that are there for our enjoyment. Fanfiction and fanart build on stories, develop personalities, they make the characters more real than they were in the source media. That’s the opposite of objectification.
The female and queer gaze
Now, let’s talk about sex (baby). The message above, like anyone who wants to shame m/m fandoms, reduces it to sex, and pornography. Note that the three artists mentioned, myself included, have tons of non-sexual art and fanfics to our names. But that’s not what they focus on. They focus on sex, because sex is bad. But okay, let’s talk about artists and writers who make sexy content.
As mentioned above, in the Star Trek printed magazine part, the female and queer, gaze is considered taboo, and still is today. Women can’t want. They can’t produce pornography for themselves. They can’t masturbate. It’s baaaad. Same for lgbt+ people. The only acceptable approach to sexuality is the mainstream straight male gaze.
People will protect men that don’t exist if it means shaming real women for what they want, and creating the things they want.
Shaming creators
Let’s say that anon really thinks defending hypothetical men is a worthy cause. Let’s see what they did with it: they wrote an anonymous, hateful message, to a single person on tumblr.
It won’t surprise anyone that I’m a woman. That I’m queer. That I’m brown.
And what if it changed my mind, huh? What if I decided to never more draw or write m/m characters ever again? It wouldn’t change the fact that it’s still a massive literary and art current. Is anon going to contact each creator individually, or did they just want to use any reason to send anonymous hate in the inbox of a defenceless person on the web?
There is a movement of puritanical thought disguised as leftist rhetoric which can be summarised as “sex is bad, woman making sex things is bad”, and people aim it generally towards women both cis and trans, non-binary people, people of color, people in the lgbt+ spectrum, neurodivergent people, etc.
People will find something they disapprove of and attack small creators instead of bigger organisations, because being hateful is more important than making real change.
Fandom is made of real people
Also... what do they do about the gay men who write slash? The bi men? The trans straight women? The non-binary people? Are these people exploiting gay men, too?
Fandom, and m/m fandom because you pretty much can’t have one without the other, is mostly filled with women, non-binary people, BIPOC, neurodivergeant people, and everyone on the lgbt+ spectrum. They’re independent creators that are all easy to reach through their inboxes. They’re all people that suffer hate an discrimination. They’re people that are easy to harass.
This is why I’m making an example out of this anonymous message. I could have deleted it. Forgotten it, went on with my day.
But there are too many creators out there who get the same kind of vitriol and don’t have the words or the experience to answer back. But I do. I’ve been reading slash fic since 1998, on my parent’s computer, in the common room.
Slash fic taught me about romance. About men. About respectful relationships. About queerness. About accepting my own queerness. About trans and non-binary people. About accepting my body. About sexuality, my own, and others. About kinks, finding what I like and what I don’t. It helped me be confident in bed, and my partners have been pretty happy with what I learned from fic. It taught me how to write my own stories. It taught me English.
They will say we’re exploiting when we’re actually building temples.
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I’m off to draw men kissing men.
Can an English person tell me if someone reading the Narnia books is supposed to think Turkish Delight is yummy or disgusting?
Because I think it is delicious, so I always read it as something reasonable to tempt someone with, but I was reading some book from 1930 and apparently it considered disgusting to proper people of whatever acceptable level in the british caste system the book was aimed at. So, what is the verdict?
I’m not English, but my impression is that Turkish Delight is famous for being very, very sweet. It’s something a kid might really like, but that sophisticated adults are supposed to have outgrown the taste for. I imagine that a contemporary American might feel similarly about, say, Twinkies.
(Was the book from 1930 Strong Poison?)
That makes sense, along with the comments about sugar rations. I am satisfied.
(Yes, I felt like Dorothy L Sayers was judging me. That book also features a character who is a cook who hates garlic and I’m not sure whether it is a joke or not.)
I trust no one that hates garlic.
FUCK YOU DISNEY
Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.
You know that 400K yall were so fucking mad about OTW raising? Yeah, its gonna pay for the travel expenses and court costs that the legal team at AO3/OTW when they protect your shit from getting C&Ded. DO NOT DELETE YOUR STUFF! IF YOU GET CONTACTED BY DISNEY - GO TO THE ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS , CONTACT THEIR LEGAL ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT! ASK FOR HELP!! THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS *WHY* *THEY* *EXIST*
Note that Disney would have one Hell of a time serving C&Ds to authors at AO3 - because there is no “contact author” option other than leaving a comment.
They’d have to contact the SITE, which is to say, the Organization for Transformative Works, to deliver a C&D order or a DMCA takedown order.
And the OTW is not going to remove fics because someone sent a letter that says “actually those characters belong to me and you can’t use them that way.” The OTW was created to FIGHT that kind of claim. They are ready.
Don’t delete your fics out of fear. WE OWN THE SERVERS. They can’t threaten the hosts into deleting anything.
And if Disney thought they had a strong legal case against fanfic, they’d’ve shut down the archive a decade ago, when it was penniless and unknown, instead of waiting until it had won several battles in Congress and got worldwide acclaim for a Hugo Award.
This is important!
Importante!
Priests AU Pt 1 - Priests AU Pt 2
I am LITERALLY writing something similar to this now!
i just kinda automatically think of all my mutuals as my age but then one person will mention getting married and having a baby and another will mention going into their junior year of high school and i’m like wait what
Mutual 1: my husband bought me roses today!!
Me: your what
Mutual 2: *gets an ask that congratulates them with their 14th birthday*
Me: you’re what
reblog with your age in the tags
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“Oh,” said Aziraphale, and gave a pleased little wiggle.
Standing next to him in the chip shop, Crowley looked over with a raised eyebrow. “What?”
“Nothing,” Aziraphale said, still smiling that small, inward-facing smile. Crowley squeezed his hand questioningly. “It’s just,” Aziraphale continued. “There’s a poem. About standing in the fish and chip queue, wishing you had more than just yourself to buy supper for.” He glanced over at Crowley, squeezing his hand back, face shining with happiness. “I just realised it doesn’t apply anymore.”
Crowley’s heart grew so big it filled up his throat. “Yeah,” he managed. “Not anymore, angel.”
Vinegar (by Roger McGough)
Well, that’s so fucking cute you could choke on it ❤️
I just want to point the entire Good Omens’ fandom attention to this painting by Hugh Goldwin Riviere called “The Garden of Eden”
This is absolutely RIPE for a GO repaint!
Happy Pride! 💗💜💙
Just a few of my favourite ocean photos I’ve taken this year
This is unreally beautiful.