Is There a Version? (M, 42k, 25/25): This is a full post-s2 fic with a tone closer to s1 and a reality-bending plot that builds on the discontinuities in s2. Can humans, demons, and angels work together to save the world and take control of their own fates when reality seems to be fracturing around them? Now available as a podfic by the wonderful @literarion!
The Album of My Memory (E, 7k, 4/4): In this post-s2 fic, Aziraphale has regained the memories heaven stole from him over the millennia. But that doesn't mean the story of his own existence makes sense. Can he and Crowley help each other understand the past and move into the future?
She Speaks Poniards (T, 2.5k, 1/1): This post-s2 Crowley POV one-shot focuses on the complicated relationship the ineffables have with words and explores hurtful language between them as a two-way street.
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https://x.com/azirakkakka/status/1761795519238816143?s=46 gorgeous- I love our femme angel and demon though i think this is purely an outing for fem Angel š šš
This weekend marks the final two spotlights in our participant series! Today we're featuring @thinkinginscripts, one half of the IPB mod team. (Yesterday we featured @bohoteacher, the other half.)
@thinkinginscripts selected Secrets I Have Held Within My Heart, a story that reflects a style she hopes to explore further in her writing.
We deserved a good, angst-free kiss and our fellow fans have already provided a plethora of them (see 9 such below). Please reblog with others you know of and make sure to link/credit the artists!
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š¬ 8Ā Ā š 437Ā Ā ā¤ļø 1187Ā Ā·Ā Credit to the incredible twitter.com/grahamsdixon, check out the original post and show him/them your love.
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š¬ 41Ā Ā š 3058Ā Ā ā¤ļø 8831Ā Ā·Ā I do not know if I like better normal way I intended to do or If I like better the rewind version so here b o t h
š¬ 13Ā Ā š 378Ā Ā ā¤ļø 1172Ā Ā·Ā Whattaya mean, thatās not how the scene went??!!??!?Ā Ā·Ā This is............ very messy/scribbly/whatever. Honestly I f
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š¬ 7Ā Ā š 71Ā Ā ā¤ļø 234Ā Ā·Ā Took me way too long for this but it's finally done.
They deserve all the kissing!
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š¬ 38Ā Ā š 2409Ā Ā ā¤ļø 9128Ā Ā·Ā gingerlizzard on twitter made a gorgeous kissing gif and I wanted to try my hand at animating a kiss too
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š¬ 0Ā Ā š 134Ā Ā ā¤ļø 390Ā Ā·Ā šØNEW ARTWORKšØ: REUNION KISS
Finally reunited, Aziraphale confess his feelings and Crowley is overwhelmed with emotio
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š¬ 29Ā Ā š 321Ā Ā ā¤ļø 911Ā Ā·Ā Yeah I made another scribble animation of these idiots kissing
It took a week and I regret nothing
Bonus mention to the EVERY frame matters project, which is the same angsty canon kiss but with awesome artwork:
š¬ 68Ā Ā š 2666Ā Ā ā¤ļø 6942Ā Ā·Ā EVERY Frame MattersĀ Ā·Ā 300 Artists, 300 Frames and a shared love for Good Omens and it's characters. We came together
This is my first time posting a story I haven't yet finished writing. (Be gentle with me, AO3. I don't think I could handle an actual curse. IYKYK.) I expect it to be 4 or 5 chapters once compete, and I will (yes, I promise) update it weekly.
Like my other multi-chapter fics, this tale is inspired by my life. But this time, it references my present life, not my past.
Like my sailing AUs, I made extensive notes (at least in the first chapter). Readers of Anchored, Buddy Boating, and The Cure for Anything is Salt Water... may be surprised to hear that I know far more about dogs than I do about sea faring (yes, really).
I'm happy to chat with other dog geeks. But even more, if anyone reading this has a fearful dog, feel free to reach out. Caring for a challenging dog can be very isolating.
Walking Dogs After Midnight (6190 words) by CuriousPupsicle
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Good Omens - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Newton Pulsifer, Agnes Nutter, Beelzebub (Good Omens), but Beelzebub's a cat, Original Dog Character(s)
Additional Tags: Meet-Cute, Developing Relationship
Summary:
Aziraphale finds a mysterious, and very handsome dark figure lurking in an alleyway who changes his life. But it might not be who you expect. This is a double meet-cute.
I had to resort to imagining a and c walking in the park and brushing hands accidentally, not acknowledging it but then the next time. the next time they /accidentally/ brush hands Crowley goes for it and neither of them will look at each other but Aziraphale is smiling at the asphalt and Crowley is blushing and doesn't trust himself to speak. they walk the rest of the way in companionable silence, and they don't mention it, and they don't let go until they have to. let us all gaslight ourselves like it is summer 2019 again. only way we are going to get out of this
AUGH YESSS I JUST WENT WEAK IN THE FUCKIBG KNEEEESS
(If you arenāt in a place to read some GO3-critical analysis, this isnāt the post for you. No criticism intended! I have friends I like and respect very much who disagree with me on this subject. Curate your experience! Mute these tags, block me, whatever you need to do. I wonāt take it personally.)
Because of who I am as a person, I canāt stop noodling about what the Good Omens Finale was actually trying to do. Temporarily setting aside whether I liked it (I did not) ā what was it trying to do? What was the writersā logic and thought process in the decisions they made?
Okay, letās work backwards from the dramatic climax, and see if we can follow the critical plot path. What had to happen so that the climax could happen?ā¦
Aziraphale and Crowley sacrifice their existence, because apparently thatās a necessary condition to create a world without God judging people for their choices, which seems to be Crowleyās definition of āreal free will.ā (This condition has never been so much as hinted at before, but okay, sure. For the sake of argument, letās accept it.)
Aziraphale and Crowley have to be able to summon God using the Book of Life so that they can negotiate their sacrifice.
Michaelās Book of Life rampage has to happen, so that Aziraphale and Crowley have a reason to summon God.
Aziraphale and Crowley have to be together when Michaelās Book of Life rampage happens, so that they can negotiate the sacrifice together.
Aziraphale has to come back to Earth so he and Crowley can be together when the Book of Life rampage happens.
Heaven has to lose Jesus so that Aziraphale can have a reason to come back to Earth.
The Second Coming has to be planned so that Heaven can lose Jesus.
Aziraphale has to go back to Heaven to plan the Second Coming because ???
This is where working backwards falls apart for me. If the ultimate goal was to get A & C together in the same place for the climactic Book of Life destructionā¦ they were already in the same place at the end of S1. Why did they need to be separated and then brought back together?
Ordinarily, Iād think it was done to ramp up the emotional stakes for the poignant climax. You know, give them a happy reunion, really give them hope, so that the sacrifice hits that much harder.
But the reunion isnāt written as happy at all ā itās bitter and angry and cold. If anything, it lowers the emotional stakes for the sacrifice, because their getting back together already feels hopeless.
So, narratively, what was the breakup and reunion for?
Maybe thereās an argument that Michael losing out on the Supreme Archangel promotion is what set off the Book of Life rampage? So Aziraphale had to get the promotion? And the breakup was just a side effect of that?
This gets hazy. Was that actually what set Michael off? And why was Aziraphaleās promotion needed for that to happen, as opposed to someone elseās?
All I can come up with is that the entire F15 breakup existed so that the ultimate sacrifice scene ā where Crowley sacrifices their chance at happiness for the greater good of humanity ā could be a callback to an earlier scene where Aziraphale had been the one wanting to make that sacrifice.
Something something, Aziraphale is foolishly willing to sacrifice their happiness for a pointless reason, all in the name of being āgoodā and āangelic,ā but in the end we get the āØ ironic twist āØ: Crowley the demon is the truly good and truly angelic one, because heās the one willing to sacrifice their happiness when it really helps humanity.
I donāt like it. But setting that aside, itās all I can come up with for what the thought process might have been.
Temporarily accepting for the sake of argument that Aziraphale had to go back to Heaven, we can start working backwards through S2:
Gabriel has to run away with Beelzebub so that Aziraphale can get promoted so that Aziraphale can go back to Heaven
Gabriel has to lose and regain his memory before running away with Beelzebub so that ???
Itās unclear what any of that Gabriel amnesia plot was needed to set up.
Why not replace the whole āhiding amnesiac Gabriel from Heaven and Hellā plot in S2 with a āhiding Jesus from Heaven and Hellā plot? Then A & C are together when they need to be. It also gives them the realization that their happiness can never really be safe while Heaven and Hell still exist, because theyāll always be dragged back into the power struggle. They realize that all of humanity is in the same boat. That no one can ever truly be free. That sets up a motivation for their sacrifice.
I still donāt like this storyline. I would still argue that Aziraphale and Crowley would never give up on their universe. That thematically, the whole idea of āsacrifice themselves to create a new universeā contradicts the book/S1.
To me, the ultimate thesis of the book and of S1 is that humanity has the power to save itself. That humanityās real power lies in imagination, empathy, self-determination, love and friendship and family, and making our own meaning out of everyday joys. That this power is stronger than any god, if we only choose to claim it.
Aziraphale and Crowley sacrificing themselves, erasing their whole universe to get God to start over with a new one, making that decision for humanityā¦ because humanity is helpless and hopeless in the face of Godās ineffable game, so helpless that humanity has already been destroyed ā¦ it contradicts everything I understood and loved about Good Omens.
But if S3 insisted upon a ānoble sacrifice to erase everything and start overā storyline, at the very least it could have been coherent about it.
The thing is. The thing is, Aziraphale and Crowley absolutely were capable of sacrificing their existence for humanity. They show this quite explicitly near the end of the book:
"There are humans here," he said.
"Yes," said Crowley. "And me."
"I mean we shouldn't let this happen to them."
"Well, what-" Crowley began, and stopped.
"I mean, when you think about it, we've got them into enough trouble as it is. You and me. Over the years. What with one thing and another."
"We were only doing our jobs," muttered Crowley.
"Yes. So what? Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused."
"You don't mean we should actually try to stop Him?"
"What have you got to lose?"
Crowley started to argue, and realized that he hadn't anything.
There was nothing he could lose that he hadn't lost already.
I felt a wee pang at the change in the show, when Aziraphale says āCome up with something!ā instead of this moment of quiet bravery, because itās my favorite moment in the book, and I love Aziraphale so much for it.
The thing isāthey canonically (at least in book-verse) already offered to give their lives for humanityās sake. With wings out and holding hands, might I add.
(While nothing could have made GO3 much better except an entire rewrite, couldnāt they at least have let them have their wings in the final moment, and snuff out holding hands, instead of a poorly-filmed and limply-executed finger kiss?)
Now Iām wondering why that scene was changed. Was it solely because whatsisname wanted to center Crowley and show that he had extra powers (hate that) and Crowley is David Tennant and power over time is a cute Timelord reference? Thatās what I assumed at the time. Or was it because even then he was calculating the sacrifice of GO3 and didnāt want to repeat himself?
I canāt help feeling like that moment was taken away from Aziraphale, like more and more things are as the show progresses. I donāt feel that scene as written in the book detracts from Crowley, who gets the big predictive speculations shortly thereafter. It bothers me more now than at the time because now I know the scales will never be evened.
And Iām annoyed, because in my mind they already tried to make that ultimate sacrifice and it turned out they didnāt have to. A sacrifice that isnāt accepted actually counts. It was (to me) a lot impactful in the book.
Today Crowley didnāt think she was receiving near enough attention from her Husband, so she donned one of his blue button down shirts and casually strolled past his line of sight.
"I am on holiday! Instead of a new podfic chapter, please enjoy some old favourites. Today: Petrichor & Parchment.
āMr. Crowley, I presume?ā Aziraphale asked in lieu of an introduction, which was not forthcoming. The guy hadnāt even removed his sunglasses. Oh God, he had a tattoo on his face. Aziraphale wasnāt one to judge, butā¦ what kind of gardener had a snake tattoo on his face?
An all time favourite that I know many of my listeners frequently come back to.
Final chapters of Summers at Northwoods posting this week: Chapter 8 on Wednesday, Chapter 9 and the Epilogue on Saturday.
Gorgeous lake art by @becky-7750 (couldn't resist sharing it one last time)
Chapter 8 begins with breakfast by the lake and a conversation that has been waiting ten years to happen.
Chapter 9 finds Crowley and Aziraphale discovering what comes after the truth has finally been spoken.
The Epilogue returns to the dock one last time.
It's been such a joy sharing this quiet little story with all of you. Thank you for every comment, every kudos, and every kind word along the way. I can't wait for you to read the final chapters.
Read from Chapter 8 here: You Help Me Figure Everything OutRead from the beginning here: Summers at Northwoods.
