Here's some links to my fics! It's all Good Omens so far.
Not an Angel is my main fic, picking up where season 2 left off. Technically complete now but the story will continue in the Cyanide is Not a Love Language series.
A Bit of a Bastard is my main NSFW fic, pure smut. I thought it was gonna be a one-shot but now there are several chapters and it may become a series. :)
I also did some silly fluffy smut: Kaleidoscopic and In Any Form
Update schedule: Back to chaos, don't expect anything (besides quick S3 fixits) in may.
Cultural Insights of Our Own: Lessons From a Newly Decoded Digital Archive
Interplanetary Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 322-340
Abstract
The recently decoded Internet Archive includes the digital artifact called “Archive of Our Own” (AO3) from early third millennium Earth. AO3 is unusually well backed up and therefore is presumed to contain some of the most significant -- perhaps even sacred -- texts of the time. In this paper we present our preliminary analysis of AO3 metadata, including new insights about the literature, gender and sexuality, religion, and scientific understanding of this historical era:
I. LITERATURE. We describe the cultural centrality of figures such as the Winchesters and Reader. We explore how they featured heavily in every dominant literature genre of the era, including Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, and Oral Sex.
II. GENDER AND SEXUALITY. We review the overwhelming evidence that male-male relationships were the most culturally significant sexual and romantic relationships, but we also show that it was a culture with an unusually broad set of sexual and gender roles. In particular, we highlight the unusual tripartite conceptualization of gender as including alpha, beta, and omega roles; we note the apparent prejudice against betas, illustrated in the prevalence of “no beta we die like men” and similar protest slogans.
III. RELIGION. We describe a newly discovered religious taboo: doves were a common sacrificial animal of the time, but they were forbidden from being eaten.
IV. SCIENCE. Finally, we present new insight about alternate universes. While previous scholars hypothesized that the scientists of Earth may have developed a correct early theory of the multiverse by the late second millennium, our analysis of AO3 presents evidence to the contrary. As late as the early third millennium, prevailing theories postulated highly specific universes, such as a universe in which everyone is in high school, or a universe contained within a coffee shop.
Taken together, these historical insights show that further investigation is warranted into the valuable documents stored within AO3, perhaps even going beyond the metadata to examine the full texts.
This is now available on AO3, complete with academic paper styling and an extra chapter of footnotes explaining the jokes/sprinkling in a few fandom stats. :)
Cultural Insights of Our Own: Lessons From a Newly Decoded Digital Archive
Interplanetary Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 322-340
Abstract
The recently decoded Internet Archive includes the digital artifact called “Archive of Our Own” (AO3) from early third millennium Earth. AO3 is unusually well backed up and therefore is presumed to contain some of the most significant -- perhaps even sacred -- texts of the time. In this paper we present our preliminary analysis of AO3 metadata, including new insights about the literature, gender and sexuality, religion, and scientific understanding of this historical era:
I. LITERATURE. We describe the cultural centrality of figures such as the Winchesters and Reader. We explore how they featured heavily in every dominant literature genre of the era, including Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, and Oral Sex.
II. GENDER AND SEXUALITY. We review the overwhelming evidence that male-male relationships were the most culturally significant sexual and romantic relationships, but we also show that it was a culture with an unusually broad set of sexual and gender roles. In particular, we highlight the unusual tripartite conceptualization of gender as including alpha, beta, and omega roles; we note the apparent prejudice against betas, illustrated in the prevalence of “no beta we die like men” and similar protest slogans.
III. RELIGION. We describe a newly discovered religious taboo: doves were a common sacrificial animal of the time, but they were forbidden from being eaten.
IV. SCIENCE. Finally, we present new insight about alternate universes. While previous scholars hypothesized that the scientists of Earth may have developed a correct early theory of the multiverse by the late second millennium, our analysis of AO3 presents evidence to the contrary. As late as the early third millennium, prevailing theories postulated highly specific universes, such as a universe in which everyone is in high school, or a universe contained within a coffee shop.
Taken together, these historical insights show that further investigation is warranted into the valuable documents stored within AO3, perhaps even going beyond the metadata to examine the full texts.
This is now available on AO3, complete with academic paper styling and an extra chapter of footnotes explaining the jokes/sprinkling in a few fandom stats. :)
Look, if it’s not written by the original author it’s fanfic.
If two people wrote it together and one is dead, then it’s impossible for subsequent portions to have the same authorship.
QED, Seasons 2-3 ARE, technically, fanfic. Some of 2 was quite enjoyable fanfic! But the point is…the point is… the point I’m trying to make is… you needn’t feel obligated to accept ANY of it as canon. Guilt free.
The OTW is Recruiting for Open Doors Technical Volunteers, Tag Wrangling Volunteers, and Translation Translators
Do you know programming languages like SQL or Python and want to help rescue at-risk fan archives? Want to wrangle AO3 tags or translate them into English? Are you fluent in other languages? The OTW is recruiting: https://otw-news.org/2p94jnbf
i think i will keep using the #anti go3 tag forever so even people who hated the finale can filter it out for their own mental health if they want to focus on positive good omens (s1) posts
I know people are joking, but in case some people are also out there making self-deprecating jokes preemptively like I do: I don't think you have to couch a rejection of GO3 or whatever part of it as denial. I mean, denial exists; you could deny objective facts, things that specifically appear on-screen, but that's typically the opposite of what people are doing when they say "I don't accept GO3" or whatever. In fact, I think there is something pretty down-to-Earth about being able to suss out which parts of a popular cultural story resonate with you and which parts you are choosing not to engage with. You are both recognizing its importance to you and recognizing it as fiction.
In a way, I feel framing it as denial might sort of...give GO3 more power than it deserves in our heads. It's an abstraction with an "authority" based in money (production value) and legal contracts (copyright laws), not in the things that give our experiences meaning. We're having the real experiences. We define our own experiences. People can say there's something wrong with rejecting a portion of canon, but who are they and what authority do they have over what goes on in our heads? Are these people we'd trust to judge other aspects of our lives? It's entirely reasonable to make a choice about what you will allow a fictional work to mean to you. The finale doesn't need to be denied, because it can be chopped up and used as mulch instead.
To quote Nick Fury: I recognize that (canon) has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.
S3 happened, I'm not denying any of what was on screen. I just think it's wildly OOC, badly written crap and so I am ignoring it. That is a thing fans have been doing with media for ages.
Pipelines are real. Every so often, it's a good idea to step back and ask yourself, "What am I doing/watching/consuming?"; not in like a horrified sense but a real, self-reflective way. Humans are liquid in the most literal sense - you are not the person you have been, nor are you the person you will be. Take care to pour yourself into the cups of your choosing, lest someone else do it for you.
One of the more emotionally charged arguments I keep seeing between pro- and anti-GO3 fans is how to interpret Crowey and Aziraphale's final request to God at the end. Was it a poetic, noble sacrifice on behalf of humanity, or was it giving up on life in despair?
Obviously, discussions of suicide beneath the cut. PLEASE don't read on if you are not in a headspace for this conversation, I want y'all to take care of yourselves first and foremost.
Before I even dive into my opinion, I want to state that this isn't about authorial intent. I am not interested in what the screenwriters MEANT to convey. This is about what was actually shown to us on our screens, not about what the creators intended us to take away from it.
Did they WANT us to see it as a heroic sacrifice, to shed tears but ultimately feel it was worthwhile and beautiful? Probably. But I really don't care, because I don't think that's what they actually ended up conveying.
Now i was raised Catholic, and in school we talked about saints and martyrs dying for noble causes all the time.
And regardless of anyone's personal beliefs or lack thereof, I think most of us can agree there are some things worth giving your life for--to save someone you love, for example. It's not the idea of sacrifice itself that I take issue with.
I've seen some people say that Crowley was basically transformed into a Christ figure in the finale, right down to the point of dying for humanity. (Most of the commentors I've seen actually dislike this, which is quite valid in my opinion.) But I don't even think that analogy works very well.
Jesus didn't want to die. Crowley does.
According to the Gospels, Jesus knows he's going to be arrested and executed and accepts it, but he's clearly afraid and grieved by his impending death. He loves his friends, his family, his work. He spends hours in the garden crying and praying to God to find some other way. Because he loves this life and doesn't want to face losing it.
Ultimately, he still goes through with it out of love for humanity, yes. But he's not exactly stoked about it. That's one of the most poignant, HUMAN moments of the New Testament.
I would argue a sacrifice isn't actually that meaningful if the thing you're giving up doesn't matter to you in the first place. And that includes one's own life.
How does this compare with Crowley's decision?
Throughout the finale, he shows self-destructive tendencies: drinking himself into oblivion, sleeping in an alleyway, gambling away the only earthly possession that matters to him, just generally not taking care of himself. He is visibly a TEXTBOOK case of depression. His unstable mental health is even spelled out for us when he says:
"Heart broken. World broken. What's the point of anything?"
He has given up hope. He wallows in despair and nihilism, even when reunited with Aziraphale, who keeps trying to save the world from destruction ("you can't change anything," he keeps insisting).
Crowley's mental state never really improves over the course of the finale. He and Aziraphale never properly reconcile or have a moment of tenderness (and no, that coerced "I forgive you" through literal gritted teeth does not count as reconciliation, not when it's so clear he doesn't mean it).
So with all that in mind, how can I possibly interpret Crowley's death/evaporation as a heroic sacrifice? When his life clearly matters so little to him, and he's demonstrated that he doesn't want to keep on living like this?
How can I see that as anything but a suicide? A choice made in despair and anguish, wanting your pain to end, because you can no longer imagine things getting any better?
And don't even get me STARTED on what this means for Aziraphale's death/evaporation.
He hides his reaction from Crowley, but we the audience see how brokenly he sobs. Then he gathers himself together and forces a horribly fake smile, and agrees to go along with Crowley's idea. Why does he do this?
Well, i can't help thinking that he feels pressured to do whatever Crowley wants in this moment, because he desperately wants to redeem himself in Crowley's eyes. And if walking to his own execution is the only way he can get Crowley's love and respect back, then i guess that's what we're doing.
An unwilling sacrifice or a coerced suicide, however you want to call it, isn't poetic and romantic. It's horrible to watch.
If the finale hadn't spent so much time establishing just how mentally unwell Crowley was, then MAYBE I could see their deaths as a heroic act of sacrifice. But since they emphasized that point so often, it's impossible for me to interpret it as anything but suicide.
Also Crowley and Aziraphale are absolutely the wrong sort of characters to turn into martyrs for the greater good, when originally it was their understandable, human selfishness that made them interesting and relatable in the first place. But that's another matter entirely.
If you made it this far through this post, I want to give you a virtual hug. I KNOW from experience what it feels like to want to give up because you are just too exhausted with life. To feel like there is nothing to look forward to, like things are never going to get better.
But I want to remind you that that destructive voice in your head is wrong. Things can and do get better. The world IS worth trying to fix, even if it's messy and imperfect and difficult.
It's okay to struggle, it's okay to ask for help, but please don't give up. You are loved.
Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.
My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.
okay, for those interested, here is a full timeline of how we got to Count Binface:
1977: Star Wars is released, featuring, of course, Darth Vader
(Pictured: Darth Vader)
1984: Director Todd Durham releases his Star Wars parody movie, Hyperspace, featuring Darth Vader inspired villain Lord Buckethead.
(Pictured: Hyperspace poster featuring two Jawa-esque aliens flying through space in a shopping trolley.)
1987: Hyperspace is released on video in the UK, under the new title Gremloids.
(Pictured: Gremloids cover in the style of the original Star Wars poster, featuring Lord Buckethead.)
To promote the film, Mike Lee, the owner of the distributing company, ran for parliament as Lord Buckethead. He ran in Margaret Thatcher's constituency, Finchley, in order to get on TV. Lord Buckethead was representing the Gremloids party.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with Margaret Thatcher.)
1992: Gremloids is re-released. Lord Buckethead rides again, this time against prime minister John Major in Huntingdon. (Here's a fun fact about Huntingdon: I was born there! :D) 87/92 Buckethead seems to have leaned pretty hard into the space supervillain thing, with campaign promises including 'demolish Birmingham to build a spaceport'.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with John Major. Other notable candidates include Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party.)
2017: comedian Jon Harvey, having recently watched Gremloids and learned of Lord Buckethead's candidacy for parliament, decides it's a great bit. He runs against Theresa May in Maidenhead. 2017 Buckethead seems to have a wackier and also more political approach, with campaign promises ranging from nonsense like 'nationalise Adele' to gesturing at actually sensible policies with stuff like 'lower the voting age to 16 and restrict voting after age 80'.
He also made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. As with his previous incarnation, he was a member of the Gremloids party.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead dabbing on stage with Theresa May.)
2018: Director Todd Durham asserts his legal ownership of Lord Buckethead. Jon Harvey opted not to go to court over Buckethead and handed over the reins. Todd Durham extended an invitation to anyone who wanted to be the 'authorised' Lord Buckethead.
(Pictured: the new Lord Buckethead.)
2019: Lord Buckethead, now played by journalist David Hughes, stood against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He ran for the Monster Raving Loony Party, the UK's pre-existing gag candidate party. He ran with a similarly silly manifesto as the 2017 incarnation, but with a bit less of a political edge. His promises included 'All doorways to be increased by 1 foot (30 cm) in height' and 'Nigel Farage to be sold for parts'.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead and Count Binface square up.)
Meanwhile, Jon Harvey in his new persona Count Binface, also ran against Boris Johnson. Buckethead and Binface face off! Binface ran as an independent with a manifesto once again blending silly and semi-serious promises such as 'nationalising model railways' and 'giving £1 trillion a week to the NHS'. This was also I believe the debut of his promise to 'move the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a more sensible position'.
(Pictured: Count Binface presenting the offending hand dryer, inconveniently close to both the sink and the urinals.)
He has a point.
2021: Count Binface runs for the position of Mayor of London for the first time, with promises such as 'London to join the European Union'. He notably finished ahead of far right party UKIP.
2023: Count Binface runs in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election following Boris Johnson's resignation. He once again gets more votes than UKIP.
May 2024: Count Binface once again runs to be Mayor of London, debuting his now iconic 'build at least one affordable house' promise. Notably, he finished ahead of far right party Britain First.
(Pictured: Count Binface with Rishi Sunak. Also pictured: Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Sir Archibald Stanton with a ventriloquist's dummy.)
July 2024: Count Binface stands in the general election, running in Richmond and Northallerton against prime minister Rishi Sunak. He debuts his promise to cap the price of 99p flakes at 99p. This is his most successful election to date with 308 votes.
(Pictured: Count Binface with Andy Burnham. Also pictured: independent candidate Robert Pownell, dressed as a fox for his own reasons.)
June 2026: Count Binface stands in the Makerfield by-election against Andy Burnham, (recently) former Mayor of Manchester running for parliament with the intention of standing in the Labour Party leadership contest.
(Pictured: Count Binface on BBC's Newsnight.)
July 2026 (this week): Count Binface announces his intention to run against Nigel Farage in the upcoming Clacton by-election. He is briefly the only other candidate in the race and by the time other candidates announce themselves the narrative of 'Nigel Farage vs Count Binface' has already bedded in. And then it was now, and then I don't know what happened.
The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op
The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.
if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed
this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.
try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.
there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.
also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!
Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.
Thank you OP for posting! Usually washing does work on most sicknesses, just not this one.
Also noting that this line has a lot of clothing that works for people who need easy chest access or have limited upper body mobility, like if you are recovering from surgery or doing chemo
This is called Universal Design. This means in a nutshell that designing things for disabled people improves the functionality for everyone. There are so many scenarios where design for improved accessibility is better for more than just disabled people.
"The finale of Amazon Prime’s fantasy series Good Omens was supposed to be a gift to its fans, bringing closure and peace to the love story between the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley. How did it end up leaving so many furious and brokenhearted instead?"
From the article "Good Omens Finale Revels in Heartbreak: Whose Happy Ending Is It, Anyway?" by Sarah Nathan - read below
On a meta level, Good Omens S3 was EMOTIONAL ABUSE.
... Meaning, I'm pretty sure Neil Gaiman did it ON PURPOSE, knowing how much it would upset the fans.
Neil knew how badly we wanted Aziraphale and Crowley (OUR version of Aziraphale and Crowley---the specific version of them we met in Season 1) to be together. He knew we wanted to see them resolve their issues and ultimately choose to be with each other in the end.
Instead, Aziraphale and Crowley forgo that emotional journey in favor of unnecessary pain. Neither of them experience real character growth in the finale; they are shown to be the worst and unhappiest versions of themselves, without getting a real shot at redemption. They never fix their communication issues. They don't express their true, authentic feelings for one another (don't @ me with that bullshit hand kiss thing). They never manage to get on the same page emotionally---even when they both agree to commit suicide (which I'm pretty sure was not the "one thing" Aziraphale wanted).
"Why give me Crowley? Why make me complete and then take it away?"
EMOTIONAL WITHHOLDING is a common abuse tactic utilized by men like Neil. They enjoy creating ATTACHMENT in their victims and then "TAKING IT AWAY".
It's easy to see how much Neil enjoyed frustrating his fans in retrospect. He actively taunted us on social media with the catchphrase "WAIT AND SEE" and threatened to make Aziraphale and Crowley kiss---but in a way we "wouldn't like". He loved dangling the implied promise of a happy ending over our heads, which we now know he never planned to deliver on.
Neil was unkind to his audience. He was also unkind to his characters. Aziraphale and Crowley are treated as punching bags throughout the entire series---shown to be "messy" for the sake of entertainment, but not as a real obstacle for either of them to overcome. God herself says she enjoys seeing how much Aziraphale values his relationship with Crowley. And this turns out to be her justification for "taking it away". (Tell me THAT isn't some fucked up shit.) Aziraphale and Crowley experience real emotional pain as the result of her actions---and this is demonstrated by the incredible acting of Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
Neil explicitly sold this as "a love story" when he created the show. Based on the tone of the book, an eventual union between Aziraphale and Crowley would have made the most narrative sense. It would have emphasized the overarching themes of love, agency, and the futility of "choosing sides". But that would have required Neil to possess the same ethos as Terry Pratchett---meaning LOVE AND RESPECT FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
We were never going to get a good love story out of Neil. Men like Neil get off on "PUNISHING" people for no apparent reason; he obviously did this with our beloved characters, to disastrous result. Nonetheless, we still manage to ascribe deeper meaning to Aziraphale and Crowley, thanks to the phenomenal acting team and the dedication of this fandom. Aziraphale and Crowley remain the greatest love story of all time, not because of anything Neil actually wrote, but because of everything that was projected onto them by the people who cared. We assigned their relationship a depth "Neil himself" never could have imagined---one that exemplifies our maximalist ideals of love and the decision to choose it again and again, in spite of everything. It is never going to "end" on Neil's preferred terms. In this rare instance, fan interpretation STILL MANAGES TO ECLIPSE THE SOURCE MATERIAL---and that is because LOVE is always a more powerful story than ABUSE.
Commenting on this may hit way too close to home, but maybe that's why its important.
People think abuse is *all* simple abuse. That it looks awful from the outside. Really, by the time it gets to that point it's been hidden in so many different layers of manipulation.
That manipulation looks like:
*Why can't you take a joke?
*No, you misunderstood me
*This is your fault, why couldn't you do xyz?
*Of course I care, that's why I'm "helping" you
*You don't want people to assume that bad thing about you, do you?
*I am humouring you in your silly little antics because I care
*Only bad things can happen if you defy me
*It's your fault you can't see that I love you
Power games aren't always easy to see from the inside. Especially if its someone you admire or love. You haven't done anything wrong if you've been manipulated. You trusted someone, and they took advantage of that trust.
With every one of my abusers, when it was me being hurt it was hard to see. And every relationship shattered when they hurt someone else and I said "Wait, no, don't do that."
God's little power trip in GO3 got to me because it echoed all the abuse I'd faced over the years. And I wanted, and needed, our beloved Ineffables to see that and truly fight back rather than give in to her will.
Because despite all the people saying otherwise, that's how canon appears. Not only did they allow her to win and simply unexist a universe with billions of people, but she did that and then didn't respect their wishes and continued to watch her favorite little soap opera. Even getting all the characters into the same pub and interacting again, something that would have never happened without some interference.
She made a prediction about how their "silly" love would play out, and she was right. Her destruction happened. And the world is no different for it, because we always had free will.
It's an abusers dream. Don't those silly beings learn?
And that moment makes me feel sick. Because they deserved to do more. To defy God and remind her that love could beat her out in the end. They won. They found the Lady. And instead of folding their cards and calling it a night, they should have played their hand.
In case anyone needs to hear this: this writing is wrong. You can and should have hope. You can not only escape, but find people who aren't abusers and manipulators. I know it because I have. And if my messy, anxiety, AuDHD self can do it so can you. There is hope.
And because of that, I refuse to accept this ending to Aziraphale and Crowley's stories. And we don't have to. There is no reason to accept an abusers ending as THE end. Not when we all have the creative magic in us to find where their, and our, stories are really going.
In the comments of that post about Ao3 refusing to separate the shitty Aziraphale/Crowley knockoffs from the real ones in the tags because one of the tag wranglers is extremely pro go3, someone posted a link to a tutorial on how to make an Ao3 skin that excludes certain tags (any tags). I wanted to pull that out and share it with everyone who wants to avoid ever seeing any fic that has those characters in it. Link
