Good Omens Holiday Exchange

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hello! First, I'm sorry if y'all have said something somewhere and I've just missed it, but I was just wondering if the exchange is happening this year/when sign ups will open if it is? Thank you for everything y'all have done over the years!!

Hello Anon and other Good Omens Exchange fans,

This is Luna, former mod. Before we held the 2024 GOE (20th anniversary) I'd let Vulgarweed know that it was going to be my last year to mod. At the conclusion, I reminded V that I was no longer going to mod and did they want to continue the Exchange? At that time, they hadn't decided.

It is not my Exchange and it's not my call whether it will continue. I gave V a chance to respond to your question, but I know it's not fair to people who look forward to participating to leave this question hanging or state something definitively about the Exchange's future. But it would be very difficult to pull something together of the quality you participants expect at this late date and keep it seasonal.

I met some very lovely people through the Exchange, and it has been a pleasure to work with all of you for the past 8 years.

Lunasong365 ❤

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The Mods thank all Exchangelings past and present for participating in 20 years of the Good Omens Exchange! But expecially to our 20-year participants: @irisbleufic and our very own @vulgarweed! 🎉🏆 🥂

Creators are now free to post their works in any forum! But...if you're planning to post on AO3, we've set up a Collection 2024 Good Omens Holiday Exchange in which you can include your work if you choose. When you create your post, search for the collection under "Post to Collections/Challenges" (the other years' Exchange collections are there as well, in case you missed them!).

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Don’t respond to this post! Leave your comments on Dreamwidth please!

First, a couple of Mod announcements:

1. If you plan to post to AO3 after the Reveal, we've set up a Collection (2024 Good Omens Holiday Exchange) in which you can include your work if you choose. Creators will be free to post their creations in any forum after the Reveal on 11 Jan.

2. After the Reveal, we encourage each creator to monitor their gift for new comments on Dreamwidth through the month of January.

3. Please subscribe to our blog either here or on tumblr to keep up with announcements on the Good Omens Exchange. Or we are available at goodomens dot exchange @ gmail dot com.

Now’s your chance to let the mods know how you felt about this year’s Exchange! We’re open to suggestions for improvements and also to know what we’ve done right! Feel free to respond to the Dreamwidth post (NOT TUMBLR) via anon, Secret_Kraken, or your own url.

Your 2024 Mods: @lunasong365 and @vulgarweed

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The Mods were pleased to welcome back our past Exchangelings to the GOE this year, and many new people! Our 42 different participants presented 44 gifts of love created for the fandom. We would like to thank all the creators, their betas, and everyone who takes the time to enjoy the gifts and post comments for our talented group of artists and writers! It takes a lot of people to make this a successful and fun Exchange.

Tomorrow, we’ll post an opportunity for you to provide feedback to the Mods.

With sincere thanks, Vulgarweed and Lunasong365

Now for the matching game! A link is provided to the prompt sets so you can see which prompt the creators were working with. Feel free to play this game in any manner you wish. The Great Reveal will occur on Saturday, 11-Jan.

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Here it is! The last gift of the Good Omens Exchange! A lovely commentary on an antiquarian book that leads to Something Else. Rated Mature.

Please take the time to enjoy this gift and comment on all this year's gifts over the next two days. Here's the upcoming schedule:

– 9-Jan: The Matching Game - when you first get to see all the participants in a list!

– 10-Jan: Leave your feedback for the Mods!

– 11-Jan: The Great Reveal! After this, participants will be free to post their work in any forum. We will have an AO3 collection in which to include your gift if you desire.

So love,  and so shalt thou be loved;  and there will be  a mutual Friendship, 5.  as that of Turtle-doves, 6.  hearty, gentle,  and wishing well on both parts.

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With an ensemble cast of GO favorites, this mix of human + business AU with fake engagement trope is sure to please. Add a dash of family rivalry and it's almost irresistible! Rated Mature.

“What about your views on public displays of affection?” Uriel asked. “I know our Aziraphale here can be very affectionate.”

“True,” Gabriel said. “You haven’t even kissed this whole time you’ve been over.”

Aziraphale gave Crowley a questioning look.

“You want me to sample the goods in front of spectators?” Crowley asked.

“It's alright, dear,” Aziraphale said. Softly, Aziraphale touched Crowley’s hair before reaching up to breathe the same air with him. He was aware of all the eyes on them.

When their lips met, Aziraphale forgot all about the audience.

We're grateful to everyone who's been reblogging our tumblr posts to share with others! There's just one more gift to go on the Exchange!

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We're so lucky to have Creators who jump in to help when others, for one reason or another, are unable to complete their gifts. These people unselfishly give more than was asked, under short deadline. The Exchange offers them this gift in grateful appreciation.

Besides, all of us were traumatised by the end of season 2! Perhaps this exchange of letters between the new Supreme Archangel and Grand Duke of Hell will help to soothe?

My dearest Crowley. I wish I could have run off to Alpha Centauri with you when you asked. I wish I could have returned your kiss, confessed my feelings, and stayed with you. But, just like last time, I fear the consequences if I do not do my best to act on what has been revealed to me. And yet I still hold out hope for a day to come when I can speak more freely to you and continue that conversation the way I wish it could have gone, and generously return your affections.

Giving and receiving — that's what the Exchange is all about! Please honor our Creators with the gift of a comment today! It's easy — you don't need to be a member of the Exchange or Dreamwidth to show your appreciation for what you are enjoying!

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Afternoon delight! or maybe early evening or possibly even late morning, depending on your time zone! We present a cute human au, college-setting, enemies to friends to !! fic about two roommates who can't stand each other... until they could. Rated Mature.

“Y’know what I’ve been thinking?” Crowley asks. “We should move in together. After university, I mean.”

The suggestion catches Aziraphale off guard. They’ve been friends all throughout their university years now. And as it’s coming to an end, Aziraphale has been worried he would never see Crowley again. “You think so?”

“Yeah. I mean– we’ve already been sharing one small room for years now. We’re used to each other. How bad could it be to share a flat?”

Aziraphale knows he should probably say no. 

“I think it’d be nice,” he says, and seeing the way Crowley’s eyes light up makes it worth it.

It's worth it! Read a fic, check out some art, leave a comment. Make a Secret Creator's day! It's all available at the link to the GOE home on Dreamwidth!

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Here's the second helping in the GOE three-course service this weekend... we present a hearty yet delightful crossover with The Good Place! Newt is there. Sergeant Shadwell is there. And Anathema and Madame Tracy are there — but neither of them thinks they should be there!

“I’m not so sure,” Madame Tracy said, her words slow with doubt. “Oh, I don’t know, but this place feels odd. I don’t like keeping secrets. I’d almost turn myself in, only now I know you’re in the same pickle I’m in, I don’t want to stir up trouble for the both of us.”

“I—suppose. Thank you. I—I don’t know what I want to do. But, it has to be better than the Bad Place, right?”

Perhaps their interactions with AJ and the Judge will help...

3rd weekend gift will be posted Sunday! Keep up with all the great fic and art on the Good Omens Exchange by subscribing to our blog and sharing the links with friends.

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A hobby is a great way to meet and interact with people! One can share their ideas and enthusiasm and learn new things, like... how to raise plants! See this entire humorous fan art by clicking the link.

We Mods are sure you've made lots of friends through your love for Good Omens! The Good Omens Exchange brings fans together by creating and receiving gifts created to prompts from the receiver. How can you participate, even now? Anyone can leave the gift of a comment for our Secret Creators on each post on Dreamwidth.

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Grey, gloomy day. Cold, snowy day. Bright, bitter day. Gusty, blowy day. Damp, misty day. Wet, rainy day. Whatever your weather, wouldn't you rather be on the sofa with a cup of tea and reading fluffy, cosy Good Omens fanfic? You can share that feeling by sharing this link with others!

“Oh dear, that’s an awful lot of rain, isn’t it?” Aziraphale picked up a blanket—it was tartan, of course—and spread it across them both. Then he tugged his hand free of Crowley’s, and wrapped an arm around him instead. “There, that’s better. The temperature will likely plummet soon, and we’ll stay much, much warmer like this.”

“Gosh,” Crowley said again. “Right. Right. You know me, I’m all for warmth.”

He smiled as he snuggled closer to Aziraphale. Yeah. Yeah, this was exactly what he wanted out of life.

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Crowley said, sounding weary, “I don’t like wanting things.”

Slowly, Aziraphale sat down in his chair and regarded Crowley. “I would never have thought you felt that way. You taught me all about it.”

“It was easy enough to want you to want things. You enjoyed them so much. But for me, wanting — They were watching. They might see if I kept anything good. They might — they might come when they liked, and take what I had.”

“You never tried to keep from them one real want?”

“I did,” said Crowley, and his solemn eyes made Aziraphale understand.

“Oh,” he said, feeling his face warm. “Me.”

Have you ever wanted to just read great GO fic, one after another, interspersed with wonderful art? The Good Omens Exchange is a treasury of art and fic created with fandom love, some available nowhere else! Each can be found through links on our tumblr blog, the Archive on our Dreamwidth page, or scrolling backwards through time!

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Happy 2025, Exchanglings past and present! With 20 years of gifting, we've had a lot of wonderful Creators participate. This fic is in honor of you! It's a glorious teacher AU ensemble fic that incorporates elements of book and TV!Omens with more than a touch of everyone's favorite slash: Aziraphale/Crowley! Rated Explicit.

Aziraphale has a strong urge to step forward into Crowley’s path, to block him into stillness, to place a single finger across his lips to keep them from moving. So he does. Aziraphale takes two purposeful strides into the path Crowley has been walking back and forth and puts his index finger over Crowley’s still-moving lips.

“What’s this?” Crowley manages to say, although a tad muffled by the finger. It hasn’t worked. Perhaps another method would be best for getting his point across.

“Kiss me?” Aziraphale asks. The question must catch Crowley off guard, because he begins sputtering again.

“OK,” Crowley finally agrees.

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Crowley and Aziraphale are still suffering the effects of their respective office Christmas parties when the angel pops over to the demon's flat for some New Year's Eve commiseration—and more drinking.

“I’m an angel,” Aziraphale said, which was the oldest of his inebriated excuses. “I’m—”

“Full of it, is what you are,” Crowley said, taking the remote control off of him. He set it back on the coffee table and stumbled into his seat beside Aziraphale. “Oof. No more of that stuff, d’you hear me? It’s worse than the punch. You’ll be hungover for a full week at this rate.”

🥂We know you'll enjoy this timely fic today, tonight, or anytime in the coming year! Stay safe, dear Exchangelings and GO fans, and we'll see you again next year (like tomorrow...)

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Aziraphale wiped a tear from his eye. “Oh my, Crowley...they're lovely."

Now, it was Crowley’s turn to watch Aziraphale instead of the sky. He snuggled closer and slung an arm around the angel’s waist, smiling more openly now after having grown more accustomed to allowing himself to express genuine happiness in the life they’d carved out for themselves here in the South Downs.

"Not as lovely as you. As much as I like my own stars, I much prefer looking at the ones in your eyes." ✨

Stars throughout the ages! A/C throughout the ages! You're sure to enjoy this fic that spans millennia – six, to be exact!

The Good Omens Exchange spans decades! There's been lots of monikers for the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley, but 'air-conditioning' has always been this mod's favourite. You're sure to discover more terms in the Secret Author and Artist gift summaries throughout the 20 years of our Archive on Dreamwidth.

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Human AU! Uni setting! Female!Crowley! Professor!Aziraphale! Sexy times! There's a lot going on here you're certain to enjoy! Rated Explicit.

“I get it, angel. You don’t date your students, and I will respect that. If there was nothing else, I need to get to my next class,” Crowley said. “Have a good rest of your day, Professor.”

Aziraphale felt infuriated and aroused by the clear dismissal. He would have his hands full for the rest of the term with Crowley. Of that, he was certain.

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It's not too late to subscribe to our tumblr blog to get the link to excellent art and fic daily and three times on the weekend! The Good Omens Exchange will continue the rest of December and a full week into January. Catch up on Dreamwidth for previous posts!

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The Good Omens Exchange matches Exchangelings who are eager to create gifts for others with Exchangelings who have come up with wonderful ideas to create! But it's an Exchange—each is both giving and receiving. The fun is that you don't know who made your gift to your prompts until the very end!

Look at this guy. Can you blame a Serpent for getting a bit distracted? See the entire gorgeous artwork by clicking the link. Leave a comment for our Secret Artist so they know you stopped by. You don't need to be a member of the Exchange or Dreamwidth!