MrsBrandon

[miellez]

I did a thing I guess

[miss-conception]

Perfect!!!!

[miss-conception]

This is my first ficlet!!!

You will notice it's still part rant but I hope you enjoy it anyway

The last light of the afternoon coming in through the window gave a gold touch to every object in the backroom of the bookshop and played winking in the curls at the top of Aziraphale's head. Crowley, splayed over the couch with a leg over the armrest and an arm hanging down to the floor, smiled at the sight of the cheeky sparkle.

–The third part was released– he said still smiling but with a neutral tone.

Aziraphale, who had been reading and taking notes from a book for the last hour, took his glasses off and turned to look at the lying figure behind him.

– Oh, dear! Tell me you didn't have anything to do with it!

He sounded equally scandalized and worried. Crowley was looking intently at the ceiling.

–I promised you and I keep my promises. You know that about me…

–I'm sorry! I didn't mean to imply that– said Aziraphale going to sit in a little spot free by the demon's side. He was at arm's length, so Crowley reached and brought him closer for a kiss.

–I didn't say a single word after that night, Angel… And that was forty years ago! It was the wine, I guess, and the dude in the hat had the idea already, without my help. I told you; he had been talking about that with that other obnoxious guy. They had the whole thing planned…

–I know, I know. You said it so many times. And I believe you even if it seems unbelievable how accurate everything was.

–Coincidence, free will, blablabla, you know the deal. The details I told him were pointless, mere touches of colour. But they made a difference, if I may say so myself.

–And I can pinpoint exactly what those details were, you wily serpent– he was looking at Crowley with a loving smile– You put us in some danger talking about the Ritz. And the nightingale, so precious... You always were a romantic...

–Oh, shuuduppp – said Crowley. But he was smiling too.

–But I know you still love meddling. And you do it for the fun of it– continued Aziraphale.

–In this case, trust me, I didn't need to move a finger. That awful writer ruined it all by himself. It was a wreck, and one so tragic in and out of the tale that even I couldn't enjoy it.

–Oh, dear! Don't you say... And all that lovely group of misfits that took so much joy out of it?

–I guess some of them must be devastated, sadly. But I think many will keep finding some comfort in the community, and that place you suggested me to create where everyone meet around those stories...

–The Tumblr? –asked Aziraphale. Crowley decided not to correct him, as one does when a toddler mispronounces a word, in the hopes of listening it again in the future.

–Naaa, sorry... That's half ruined. It was a prank, let me tell you. I convinced them to ban porn, can you imagine?

Aziraphale could imagine, and rolled his eyes at the irony.

–No, I was thinking in AO3– said the demon– That is your reign and it is still unspoiled.

–And I appreciate it, my dear… So, what was so devastating about that third instalment, anyway?

Aziraphale was changing his position very subtly, shifting to slowly gain space and lay sideways beside Crowley.

–Well, the writer was resentful because now that the truth about his behaviour is widely known, everyone hates him. So, he took revenge ruining the show. He painted us as pitiful beings that don't love each other anymore. And then he killed us… No, even worst, he made us kill ourselves as a sacrifice to bring another universe where humanity could have free will.

–That sounds very unlikely! And you are telling me that none of that is your fault?

Aziraphale was perfectly comfy with his head in the crook of Crowley's arm. The room was darkening gradually.

–Of course not, you know I despise bad writing. If I had wanted to make everyone miserable, I would do it with much more elegance. Have you forgotten about Conan Doyle?

–Oh, you were really proud of that, but it didn't last long. In the end the followers received what they coveted.

–I can't always win. I'm already pushing my luck here– said Crowley squeezing affectionately the angel's arm. –Anyway, I couldn't resist to make a tiny little fiddling with a minuscule detail in that finale…

–Ah, don't I know you… Are you going to tell me, foul fiend?

–At the very end of the story, after we have died, they present other characters. They are played by David and Michael, those lovely actors, you know? So, they look like us, I mean, as we look in the show. And they are supposed to be some sort of replacement. I don't know if they are meant to bring comfort or even more despair, but they are lame in any case. I hated them, Angel, I couldn't help myself...

–You are worrying me, my dear, what did you do?

The yellow eyes of the demon were warm and bright in the darkened room.

– Oh, it was so wicked! Their stylist suffered a minor inconvenience and I was miraculously there to replace him. I gave them the worst hair anyone could imagine!

He started laughing wholeheartedly, embraced tighter a still confused Aziraphale, and toyed with his soft curls while reaching for another kiss.

[macquills]

It's not important, and I've seen plenty of discourse to the contrary.. but it's still bothering me.

You want me to believe that a being who's given in to EVERY earthly delight he's come across.. food, drink, dancing, clothes, theatre, books, music, intrigue.. would suddenly and arbitrarily draw the line at a little bit of lust with his true love of 6,000 years? Especially when he finds out his feelings are reciprocated?! And then end with Bury Your Gays?! But here, have some other unrelated gays you just met and know nothing about other than they look just like the ones we just killed off. No. And I'll thank you to fuck all the way off.

[fellshish]

strange way of coping: thinking my daily silly inconveniences are Crowley’s doing who’s still alive and well and being the best demon out there.

that’s such a great way to cope with both the finale and small inconveniences 🫶

[momsspaghetti39]

Screw everyone who wants you to give up, this world is worth saving

[fellshish]

good omens 3 is as if they made a non book based season 3 of heated rivalry where shane and ilya had a big fight, talked through some of it but not all, barely touched each other, then died to save hockey

[miss-conception]

I'm afraid, not gonna lie, we don't know if they are not planning this exactly

[nimbusalba]

Asanthony...

I’m a bit slow on the uptake, I know, but I just realized what pisses me off so much about asanthony. I’ve been trying hard not to hate them because they are just fanfic human AU and I love human AUs. I fall in love with all those characters immediately and find the similarities and differences with the true Aziraphale and Crowley very interesting and warming. But the difference between all those other human AUs and asanthony is that all those other characters are not trying to replace the true Aziraphale and Crowley. They live their parallel love stories without anything to do with our boys. But these new usurpers came here and stole their happy ending and that breaks my heart (and angers the crap out of me). It’s not their fault, they were just written this way, but I can't help but resent them for it. Maybe I’m being petty, but everytime I see them it makes me feel sick. And sad. And so pissed.

(And I hate their hair so much! Aren't there hairstylists in that crappy new universe? Don't they have hair products? Mirrors at least?)

I'll spare all of us a picture of them, but here, take a happy aziracrow instead.

[aydracz]

"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

[aydracz]

"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 Revels in Heartbreak" - read below

[videnoirs]

season 3 (and 2, to an extent) fail to me for a lot of reasons but especially because aziraphale and crowley aren’t supposed to be the heroes of humanity or whatever.

they’re lazy, selfish, and hedonistic immortal beings who want to save the world so they can continue driving cool cars and eating expensive food. they do not give a single fuck about their coworkers or the details of their jobs, and fumble their way through everything remotely heroic. why are these dweebs making any major decisions about humanity or speaking directly to god herself? why are we turning them into self sacrificing jesus figures?

[miss-conception]

The answer is simple: bad writing.

There's a trend lately in series and movies that transforms every new installment into a more grandiose story. And every little character that we love for the silliness and the joy is made a tragic hero. I think behind that it's the idea that tragedy is more serious than comedy, that you can't talk about deep issues with humor, and that a character needs to do some big sacrifice to prove they are good.

None of that it's true. And Good Omens 1 should be proof enough

[friendly-neighbourhood-demonz]

what would have been a satisfactory ending:

they scrapped all of [redacted]'s original script and started over

it was light and humorous all the way through

az was not treated as dumb or naïve for taking that place in heaven

az and crowley made up in the beginning of the film and were a team trying to stop the end times for the rest of the finale

the message would have been "we need to fix what is broken, not burn it to the ground"

Az and Crowley would show some form of affection towards each other, like a hug or maybe a kiss

Az and Crowley decided they didn't need god anymore, nor follow her rules

the metatron would have been dealt with properly

what would have been a PERFECT ending:

Az gave Crowley hope by explaining that they just need to fix what's broken, not start over, and Crowley admitted Az had a good reason for going to heaven in the first place

Az and Crowley say "I love you"

Az and Crowley being pretty much "useless", while jesus and the humans are doing the important bits by "being fundamentally people"

the plot was solved when heaven and hell teamed up against humanity (including Az and Crowley who's now explicitly on "their own side: humanity's side.") and Team Earth convinced Team Celestial how stupid this whole charade had always been

god had NOT been controlling everything this whole time and had always been more like a narrator of the universe, rather than one affecting the story

everyone had always had free will

[armageddidnt]

A solid post

[dalliancekay]

It’s just that S2 introduced memory wipe as a punishment and S3 tried to tell us it’s a good thing.

Jim didn’t love Beelzebub. Gabriel did. He needed his memories for a reason. Anthony doesn’t know or love Aziraphale. He loves a completely different guy. Which is nice and all. But I wanted to see Aziraphale and Crowley happy. Safe. Free. I wanted them to stay in my universe. I thought we shared it!

I get what people mean about their dear ones when they lose memories. I care what people say about their own lost memories. I'd never say they were replaced by another person. But that's not at all what we are talking about here. It's a new universe with brand new people. (Which if determinism is not true and god is gone should not look like the old ones?)

And I am glad if you found comfort and happiness in S3! I wish I did too.

But to me Aziraphale and Crowley are gone - their love started the new universe and I am sure it was powerful enough to be everywhere and all that (I could have maybe even liked it if S3 was done better and I didn't get attached to Aziraphale and Crowley so much). It's just not the ending I craved. Or needed. Or find rewarding. As much as I like a deep philosophical conversation, I just wanted them to have one another. Safely. And for as long as they wished.

[mothdogs]

Was idly thinking about Crowley living as a woman for 11 years at the Dowling house and the "Neither, actually" response to being called a nice young man and. God it made me so fucking sad. We have like six nonbinary characters ever in any media and I just had to watch my favorite one get obliterated into dust 🤡

[alphacentaurinebula]

I just realised something horrific.

GABRIEL AND BEELZEBUB had a happier ending than Crowley and Aziraphale.

Gabriel.

And Beelzebub.

What the actual fuck.

[recoord]

Why Good Omens season 1 has already fulfilled Sir Terry Pratchett's wish

Neil Gaiman said he wouldn't make a sequel to Good Omens

Neil Gaiman at SXSW in Austin, Texas in 2019:

[Gaiman also confirmed the series will only be six episodes, with no intention of trying to go for another season if successful. "The lovely thing about Good Omens is it has a beginning, it has a middle, and it has an end," he said to appreciative applause. "Season 1 of Good Omens is Good Omens. It's brilliant. It finishes. You have six episodes and we're done. We won't try to build in all these things to try to let it continue indefinitely."]

Source: Entertainment Weekly (2019)

"It's a buddy road movie through time."

2018 - Neil Gaiman on X- Twitter

Tweet link here

Also Neil Gaiman in 2023:

["It won't be confirmed unless enough people watch Season 2 to make Amazon happy...

...But obviously Season 3 is all planned and plotted and, if I get to make it, will take the story and the people in it we care about to a satisfying end."]

What happened?

Were the profits and ratings high enough to create two more seasons out of thin air? At this point, seasons 2 and 3 seem more like a greedy stretching of a beloved story already told in its entirety in the first season.

Has the first season already fulfilled Sir Terry Pratchett's wish?

As read above, Neil Gaiman himself said: "Season 1 of Good Omens is Good Omens."

Gaiman was very opened about how pleased he was with Season 1 and how he made it having Sir Terry Pratchett's wish in mind.

Interview for The Verge (May 30, 2019)

Link : Neil Gaiman had one rule for the Good Omens adaptation: making Terry Pratchett happy

Interviewer: Do you feel pressure from knowing this has to be the definitive best adaptation it could be?

Gaiman: No. All I wanted to do was to make something Terry would have liked. It wasn’t like, “Make the best thing.”...

...Gaiman: The lovely thing about Good Omens [the miniseries] is that it’s still Good Omens. If you loved the book, this is that thing that you loved. And I will make you fall in love even more with Sergeant Shadwell. I will make you fall even more in love with Newt than you thought you could, I hope. It does demonstrate that I do kind of know what I’m talking about, which is a nice thing to know.

...Gaiman: So with Good Omens, I feel like what I got to do was put the thing I made with Terry on the screen and then buttress it. What I added isn’t completely different from the original. It’s not out of left field.

Neil Gaiman on an interview for The Guardian in 2019.

Link: Neil Gaiman: ‘Good Omens feels more apt now than it did 30 years ago’

There are times, he insists, when “you make something you like so much that you don’t really care what anyone else thinks of it.” There’s a clue to this, perhaps, in the show’s final frame, which reads “For Terry”. “He didn’t believe in heaven or hell or anything like that,” Gaiman says, “so there wasn’t even a hope that there was a ghostly Terry around to watch it. He would have been grumpy if there was. But I made it for him.”

Why was Good Omens season 1 so good and you could really feel Sir Terry Pratchett's contributions?

Gaiman himself has already told us the answer:

...Gaiman: So with Good Omens, I feel like what I got to do was put the thing I made with Terry on the screen and then buttress it. What I added isn’t completely different from the original. It’s not out of left field.

Neil Gaiman for The Verge (2019).

There was original material to work with (Good Omens, published in 1990), on which we certainly know that Sir Terry Pratchett himself actively worked from start to finish.

Is there a proper sequel to Good Omens the book on which to base 2 more seasons of the series?

Neil Gaiman says the following on an interview for GQ in 2019.

Link: Neil Gaiman Says No to Adapting His Own Books—Except This Time

...But with this, it was like: Okay. Terry is gone. He wanted me to do this. He wanted me to do it for him. And that gave me a kind of weird impetus. And it meant that I felt very much at liberty to take every conversation that Terry and I had ever had about Good Omens. Not just the book, as written, but everything beyond it. We planned a sequel, never written, so I got to steal the angels from the sequel. I got to steal from every conversation Terry and I had about how we would do this. It felt very personal, and I guess kind of… holy. If that doesn’t sound too ridiculous. But it was a mission.

Two conclusions can be drawn:

1) Informal conversations about the plot of a sequel do not equate to an officially written sequel.

2) Neil Gaiman has already used many of the ideas he and Terry Pratchett had planned for a never-written sequel to Good Omens and those ideas were largely added to and executed in the TV adaptation of Good Omens (2019).

Why keep stretching those ideas if the co-writer is no longer able to actively contribute and help to create a proper sequel?

If Gaiman were the sole creator of Good Omens we'd have a different conversation, but that's not the case. The first season of Good Omens was already a beautiful homage to Good Omens and Sir Terry Pratchett's work on the book.

Did Terry Pratchett write around 75% of Good Omens?

Link for the post here.

Link for the post talking about the video and sharing the video here.

Edit: I wanted to bring this point up to point out Terry Pratchett's important contribution to the making of the book, not to highlight it as an excuse to distance Gaiman from the novel. We will have to accept that he also contributed to the creation of the book.

Sir Terry Pratchett's last wish

2017 - Rob Wilkins on Twitter (X)

Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller

By Sophie Haigney - The New York Times

Terry Pratchett, the well-known British fantasy author, had a wish fulfilled two years after his death: A hard drive containing his unpublished work was destroyed by steamroller.

Mr. Pratchett, a wildly popular fantasy novelist who wrote more than 70 books, including the “Discworld” series, died at 66 in 2015. That year his friend, the writer Neil Gaiman, told The Times of London that Mr. Pratchett had wanted “whatever he was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all.” Mr. Gaiman added at the time that he was glad this hadn’t happened.

Now, though, it has. Mr. Pratchett’s estate manager and close friend, Rob Wilkins, posted a picture of a hard drive and a steamroller on Aug. 25 on an official Twitter account they shared.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Wilkins wrote that the deed was done.

I have not been able to find the exact reasons why Sir Terry Pratchet wanted his unfinished and unpublished works destroyed, but we can respect his last wish as a way for him to have control over what he felt he was ready to share with the world and what he was not.

Is Good Omens the exception?

With all that has been presented so far, I can only conjecture, but not be sure. I can believe that there was Terry Pratchett's permission and desire to make an adaptation of Good Omens, the original book published in 1990, but to my mind, creating two more seasons of a never-written sequel doesn't fit as part of Terry Pratchett's desire.

He is not among us to actively participate in a sequel and if his last wish was to destroy his unfinished works, I can't believe that he would have wanted to give his approval to something new published under his name and without his supervision.

Sir Terry Pratchett talking about a never-written sequel to Good Omens

“Neil and I thought about a sequel an awful lot initially. We talked about it on tour. And I think it was a big relief to both of us, when one day we looked one another in the eye and said, 'I thought you wanted to do a sequel.'..

Interview for the Magazine Locus. Locusmag archive page

This is me speculating, but I don't think there was real enthusiasm for creating a sequel until Gaiman alone saw profitable potential in the TV adaptation....

Good Omens also belongs to the those who love the story

I think it's okay to still love the story of Good Omens. Personally, I will always be grateful with the story and the characters for giving me confort in troubling times, but I find seasons 2 and 3 as some kind of excuse from Gaiman to keep profiting and benefiting from the story (more now than ever due to the SA allegations*).

Aziraphale and Crowley will always live happily in a lovely cottage as long as we want to. Even before season 2 was announced, many of us had already accepted that. Many artists have imagined lovely endings for our innefable husbands and in my eyes their works won't be any less valuable than whatever Gaiman had planned.

Note:

I don't like talking about Season 3 of GO without mentioning the current 5 SA allegations against Neil Gaiman (Main writer of seasons 2 and 3 and showrunner), so in case you want to know more about the allegations against Neil Gaiman. Here there's a great Round Up link (Podcasts links, transcripts, etc.)

Credits for the Round Up link to Muccamukk. Thanks a lot!

*more thoughts on supporting season 3

[itsineffhazbinle]

Furthermore, it seems like NG could have been involved in the "distilling" of the 6 episodes into one movie process. So long for "he offered to step down".

This makes the writing credits going solely to these 3 writers and not to TP so much more interesting.

[miss-conception]

This is very important

[thedeepmiracleperfection]

Finale got us so collectively fucked that no one is even acknowledging it's (TV) Good Omens's 7 year anniversary.

Anyways here's to a show that gave us one of the most heartfelt, moving, complicated, humanly flawed and hopeful queer love stories of the century. Here's to a show that brought so many people together. Here's to a show that motivated artists and writers to create some of the most beautiful works of art ever known to man. Here's to a show that celebrated being human. Here's to a show that so many queer folks saw themselves in and affirmed for them that being themselves is the most powerful act one can do. Here's to a show that taught us that our world is messy and complicated and awful and wonderful and worth saving and most of all that it can and should be saved. Here's to a show that taught us people are rarely good or bad but just people, and even though we make mistakes along the way we still deserve the opportunity to decide for ourselves who we will be. Here's to a show that at its core is about love and hope being the things that bind us together.

Here's to you all and all of us who are not going anywhere. Here's to the world.

[aivelin]

The Shuttered Garden: How the Good Omens Finale Betrayed its Humanistic Roots

Text: Aivelin Illustration: a-ida

The series finale of Good Omens dropped this Wednesday, leaving the fandom shaken and in absolute distress. The audience reaction was immediate, driving the Rotten Tomatoes score for Season 3 down to a disappointing 36%. The online debate grew so heated and overwhelmed with grief that numerous fan accounts faced 24-hour social media bans for their highly emotional confessions.

Viewers are highly divided. While a fraction accepts the heavy ending as a necessary evil, the overwhelming sentiment across platforms is utter bewilderment and heartbreak: "These characters do not feel like the ones we grew to love in previous seasons!"

This raises painful, critical questions: Is this sudden shift in characterization a narrative misstep? Is the tragic, suicidal ending a harsh subversion of the original book, which famously promised a comforting happily ever after?

To find the answer, one must look closely at who held the creative reins for the scripts of Seasons 2 and 3. By analyzing the writing credits, clear and undeniable patterns emerge, linking these distressing plot choices directly to Neil Gaiman’s broader, often dark and subversive, body of work.

The Solitary Vision and the Realigned Mold

While the first season captured the shared spirit of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 novel, the subsequent seasons belong to Gaiman’s solitary vision. When viewed alongside his wider world of storytelling, such as The Sandman, American Gods, and Stardust, the tragic fractures in Aziraphale and Crowley’s bond lose their surprise. Gaiman’s worlds are populated by immortal beings who are deeply fractured at best and cruel at worst. In these narratives, it is almost a rule that celestial entities will take advantage of the hearts that love them, turning devotion into a tool before abandoning those souls to a devastating fate.

Crucially, Gaiman always veils this emotional cruelty behind high-minded dilemmas. The act of abandonment is never framed as simple coldness; instead, it is masked as a profound moral crisis ("We cannot be together because I am a god and you are human"), a sacrifice of monumental importance ("I must leave our future to save my kingdom"), or an unyielding divine necessity. Even when Gaiman’s romances lack outward malice, they are consistently denied peace. In Stardust, the mortal husband passes away, leaving his immortal, celestial wife to endure eternity in silent, isolated grief. By transforming Aziraphale into a colder, more emotionally distant figure who abruptly leaves Crowley for a heavenly promotion, Gaiman is merely reshaping Good Omens to fit his favorite creative blueprint.

Deeply Pessimistic Parallels

Ultimately, the ending of Good Omens Season 3 and the conclusion of The Sandman reveal deeply pessimistic parallels. The Sandman closes with its protagonist suffering the consequences of his own rigid nature, forced by higher powers into self-destruction so that his kingdom might survive. In the wake of this death, the universe offers a surrogate replacement - a new entity stripped of the original’s memories, whom the remaining characters are forced to accept despite their lingering grief. 

Aziraphale’s sudden, illogical decision to leap at Heaven’s offer mirrors this exact brand of narrative cruelty. Neither Aziraphale nor Crowley deserved to have their hard-won autonomy stripped away for the sake of a grandiose self-sacrifice. 

A Profound Departure from Terry Pratchett

This shift represents a profound departure from the late Terry Pratchett’s fundamental worldview. Pratchett harbored a deep-seated aversion to suicide tropes and grand, sacrificial violence in fiction. His works respected the dignity of both life and death. In his narrative, the Apocalypse is defeated not through self-sacrifice or bloodshed, but by the quiet resilience and stubborn pragmatism of ordinary people. The first season beautifully honored this philosophy, as the Antichrist and a group of children stopped the Apocalypse through sheer, down-to-earth humanity.

The subsequent seasons discard this logic entirely, altering the very cosmology of the universe. In Season 1, God was an infallible, detached observer whose ineffable plan quietly empowered the right people at the right moment to prevent ruin. By Season 3, God is reframed as a petulant, semi-malicious entity capable of erasing existence on a whim.

Furthermore, while Pratchett and Gaiman likely brainstormed the concepts of the South Downs cottage and the conflict between Heaven, Hell and Earth together, Pratchett would never have designed an intentionally suicidal and destructive endgame. In his philosophy, survival is achieved through an attachment to mundane, earthly joys. In the first season, Crowley is saved from hellfire by his love for his car and his human-like imagination, while Aziraphale survives because of his eccentric, earthly devotion to collecting rare books.

Conclusion: Fanfiction or Harsh Reality

A true thematic continuation of both authors' visions would look radically different. It would find Aziraphale and Crowley left alone in a quiet bookshop for eternity, weaving their magical memories and shared love for humanity together to rewrite every lost book back into a brand-new universe. If that choice ultimately stripped them of their divinity and left them mortal, it would be a logical, bittersweet happily-ever-after within the sanctuary of a beautiful, earthly garden.

Instead, Gaiman has opted for character regression and profound emotional devastation. To pretend that Aziraphale's betrayal of Crowley and their martyrdom makes narrative sense within the established logic of Season 1 is an exercise in denial. Audiences are left with a stark choice: either view everything past the first season as high-budget, angst-driven fanfiction, or accept a harsher reality. The original, humanistic spirit of Good Omens died with Terry Pratchett, leaving behind a cold universe engineered for heartbreak.

[aivelin]

Today is the day many saw season 3, so I'm reposting it with all replies and reblogs with comments in it. You may find some opinions and also under ao3 post https://archiveofourown.org/works/84905381/chapters/224114576#workskin