ModernDayKlutz

Stumbling through life, one strange trip at a time Beta, Attempted Writer

[moderndayklutz]

A Mix of Ramblings

A quick list of my Good Omens fics on A03 underneath the cut.

Longfics

The Only Way Is Forwards - Rated E - Canon, Post S2/preS3 Time Travel - Aziraphale finds a divine book in the Heavenly Archives warning of the ills of time travel while implying it's possible. As his confidence in himself is at its bleakest, can he outwit and outsmart the very nature of time to stop the coming war and find another chance for him and Crowley?

One-shots

This Night - Rated M - Good Omens Human AU Fic - Part of the Sweet & Spicy Spring event - It's been a year of lonely nights since graduation, and even more nights since Anthony was expelled, thinking he'd never see anyone from university ever again. Until this night, a seasonably cool night in May, when his friend Bea drags him to a house party. This night? How bad really could this night get?

Shine So Bright - Rated E (NSFW) - A Christmas-Themed South Downs Canon Fic - Aziraphale and Crowley celebrate their second Christmas together in the South Downs. After the first one was a complete disaster, Aziraphale has a special gift for Crowley this time.

Easy Access - Rated E (NSFW) - Canon Fic - Aziraphale notices that Crowley has developed an odd tic. After an evening of dining, theatre, drinking and more drinking, Aziraphale figures out a way to help Crowley with his condition. In other words... ineffable sex in a kilt.

Staring Contest - Rated T - Canon Fic - After countless days watching Aziraphale and Crowley side-glance, blink and gape at each other at the coffee shop, Maggie and Nina had enough. They told them both they'd put down ten quid on which one of them would win in a staring contest. An honorable, gentlebeing's-type wager (which the two occult-leaning idiots could go take several hours doing someplace else).

Poems

And To Think I Saw It On Whickber St - Rated G - A tall tale about a spooky night out with an angel and demon.

And All The Days After - Rated T - Inspired by 90 Days To Change Your Life, a scene and poem about finally feeling seen.

Turn - Rated M - A beat/slam rhythm experimental poem about a demon.

I Knew - Rated M - An iambic pentameter poem based on a fic about Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis.

In The Darkened Wood - Rated E - A poem about two ineffables and a secret rendezvous into the woods.

[crowley-anthony]

crowley being a lil' bitch for aziraphale

[moderndayklutz]

@wiblywoblytimeywimey754 more excellent rendering 👀

[championoftheoppressed]

GOOD OMENS — Crowley holding Aziraphale's food

[moderndayklutz]

He's always so annoyed with himself too 🤣.

[diggllerr]

Trying to have a positive spin on the finale

[ineffableserpent]

I changed my profile picture to that gorgeous crowley smile we get when hes watching nina and maggie because I need some joy in my life and crowley is that joy and whilst I love angsty, pathetic, drunk, bottom-eyes crowley

(seriously he looks cute)

i also really, really love happy, loving, caring, silly, joyful, crowley too.

because both can exist. both sides are the same person.

i love every part of him. he is who he is not because of his trauma but because he grew from it. he has been alive for 6000 years i think he knows a thing or two about surviving. he is who he is because he doesnt care what other people think. he doesnt fit into any boxes. he keeps going despite it all, even when everything is falling apart, he gets back up and he manages to find happiness in every day life.

like a human couple falling in love

like a walk in the park with aziraphale

like a long drive in his car

like being in the bookshop

like feeding the ducks

like listening to music

I love all of crowley because he is not just his trauma. he is not just a demon. and he most certainly isnt a fucking angel.

he is honestly, just an ordinary fucking guy.

he is a good person. he is a menace. he is just a silly dude underneath all that snark, underneath those walls he puts up to protect himself, underneath the swagger. he cares about people. he cares about the humans and plants and animals and cars and music and he cares about aziraphale so incredibly much.

(sorry crowley, youre not fooling anyone)

hes literally just an ordinary guy with powers whos been through too much shit but he doesnt let that define him. he does his own thing. plays by his own rules. goes along with hell as far as he can and he looks damn good doing all of that too.

hes got style, charisma, sarcasm, a dont-fuck-with-me attitude, a deeply loving soul, a kind heart, a caring and soft side that he doesnt show often but when he does? oh. when he does...his eyes completely light up. when he lets his guard down. when aziraphale makes him laugh. you can tell he just loves him so much and feels so safe around him.

he is more than a demon. he is more than his trauma.

he is crowley. and crowley is beautiful.

crowley taught me its okay to be yourself. crowley taught me its okay to not fit in. its okay to care too much about things. its okay to be scared. its okay to be emotional. its okay to let yourself feel things. its okay to go against the rules. he taught me its okay to love whoever you want and not care what other people think. he taught me to survive. he taught me theres good moments in the darkness and that i will keep getting back up even when i feel like i cant. he taught me my trauma doesnt define me. he taught me to be strong. he taught me that you can have a rough past and still find happiness. that both things can exist.

and i just fucking admire and love him so much. so so much. I cant even describe it to you my chest feels like its gonna burst open.

(I am so emotional over him right now i love him so much dont touch me like hes so silly!!)

(and for the record. obviously I love aziraphale too. and I need to start posting about him more honestly. ive just got complete crowley brainrot 24/7)

[curiouspupsicle]

Good Omens is a Transformative Work

It has been since the very beginning.

NG (fuck NG) thought of a book plot where a demon finds himself in The Omen movie. But he screws up the baby switch. And the Antichrist grew up as a character in a Richmal Crompton novel. He didn't know what to do with it next. TP offered to buy the story. He changed the demon into a demon and an angel defying their bosses on the earth they both loved. He added his smart whimsy and gave the story a moral core far beyond a silly spoof. When the story was written, queer kids saw themselves in the angel and demon based on the subtext. Because they lived in subtext. Gender fluid and trans readers created stories about an angel and demon for whom gender was a choice depending on how or whether they decided to make an effort. The strangeness of fitting into a planet dominated by beings the angel and demon differed from spoke to neurodivergent readers.

Religious readers found healing after years of struggling to make sense of doctrine divorced from morality. Some ace and aro readers saw the deep and meaningful relationship beyond romance between a pair together over 6000 years. And tons of horny people from all walks of life poured their hearts into smut that made the most of beings whose bodies allowed for a range of sexual practice that would never be realistic for humans.

People who felt rejected or unloved because they were "too much" or "too little", took solace from an angel who didn't mind the gruffness of the demon who couldn't bear to be cruel. And the demon who liked the angel being a little bit of a bastard. If an angel and demon could care for and accept each other for themselves, perhaps it could happen for them too? This is why the Good Omens fandom is so special. Transformation has been baked into his story from the very beginning. Biblical fan fiction, a collaborative story by two authors, a tv show/movie brought to life by a team of actors, designers, writers... And now also entire worlds of fan fiction and art. Good Omens continues to transform itself and the people who love it. And it will always be ours as we continue to transform it for generations to come.

[curiouspupsicle]

I wrote this 2 years ago. Maybe it's time to reblog?

[nikki-rook]

Does that include choosing heaven instead of me?

[moderndayklutz]

Don't follow Aziraphale's footsteps.

Don't choose pleasing your parents over your spouse. Ever. That is a direct pipeline to divorce.

Don't act like you're doing something special all for someone and not include them or communucate to them. Doesn't matter what your intention. Don't ever do something like that behind their back.

"But I did all of it for you."

"And how'd that all turn out."

You are not smarter than the one you care about. You are not protecting them by not including them.

Be mad at the finale, but take this lesson to heart.

Don't do that to your teenage kids either. Or anyone else you love. Don't convince yourself you're doing something in someone's best interest if it's against their heart's wishes. Just don't.

Just don't do it to people you claim to love.

Ask them what they want. Solve every problem together.

And if that means you have to sacrific some comfort (like not having your parents mad at you, or your kid becoming something you don't want)... whelp, too bad.

Sometimes you have to pick one. You can't have everything you want.

But you can find what's most important and be happy.

Focus on that.

[dbacklot99]

Writer's Guild Presents: Forgiveness

"Oh, no you don't!" Crowley shouted from across the pyre, catching her by the shoulders. "Angel, grab the book!"

Singeing his fingers, Aziraphale pulled the Book out of the flames, patting the embers till it burned no more. But still, the darkness swirled around them, threatening to consume them as well.

"Let me go!" Michael cried, thrashing against Crowley's grip.

"I know what it means to be unforgivable," Crowley hissed, "and you don't get off that easy. Quick, while you still can— what's the first thing you remember?"

Read more here.

@goodomensafterdark

Thanks to LadyZoisite & @moderndayklutz for beta.

[soloorganaas]

It's in there, besides gardening. Opposite philosophy

[dustbunniees]

tbh my biggest problem with go3 is that aziraphale and crowley do stuff that affects the plot and actually makes a difference in the story #notmygoodomens. my ineffables do NOT save the world, they are there while the world is saved

you’ve taken the two most useless beings in existence and you made them make a decision. look at them. they’re suicidal now

[moderndayklutz]

Oh, no you don't. Get back here with those tags.

This is the funniest take I've seen yet. 🤣

[twilightcitysky]

The thing is. The thing is, the show is a romantic comedy. The book wasn't, fine. But the show IS. intentionally so. What was the point of the Jane Austin emphasis in S2, all those mirror couples, the ball, the freaking S1 cold open and subsequent breakup... if not to tell us that we're doing romantic comedy? It follows all the beats including a big disagreement/ rupture in act 2.

If you are going to do that, you HAVE to follow through on expectations for the central couple. That's what the audience expects and how these narratives are crafted. Instead, they decided to go "nihilist philosophical" in the last scene with no warning and flip the table on everyone's expectations, and it isn't fair to do that and then say we're the ones who are media illiterate because we didn't like it. They are the ones who set the expectation in the first place and capitalized on that.

[moderndayklutz]

This I love too, and I did like the finale. Because this is also right.

Because that is the truth: there are no wrong answers here. There are differences in how we feel about it and a hundred good points to be made depending on how you look at it.

I liked the finale for one set of reasons, and didn't like how the finale ended up for another set of reasons.

Yes to all of this.

[chaosandcardigans]

do you think we're together in another universe?

I don't care, I just want you in this one.

[moderndayklutz]

Except that doesn't work, to try to continue living in a traumatic place and expect to get better. It doesn't.

No "us" didn't mean them not together.

It meant for them not to go back to the relationship and world they had, because romantically and emotionally, it had problems.

"Yes I love you. Yes we are best friends. But we keep hurting each other over and over and over, like some silly little dance and gaslighting it will make everything better. We don't talk. There are respect issues. There is toxicity all around us. I want something better. I want a real relationship with you. Where we aren't at each other's throats all the time. When where something goes wrong, we don't take it out on each other. Where we don't call each other names and panic. Where we can live in a world that's not constantly out to get us and destroy us. And tell us there's only one way we can love each other or try to constantly define who we are for us. A world that isn't toxic towards us.

"That is what I want Aziraphale. If we are to move forward at all. If we are to keep going, but in a different capacity. Things have to change. I refuse to go bavk to the way we used to be. Yes there was the occasional good time and it looked okay on the surface, but most of the time it was awful. We were just making the best of an awful situation.

"I want out from under ither people's control. We'll have to go it alone, find our own way. But that's what I want. I want us to leave this place, and I don't think it will be the actual end of the world if we do. I think there are some things that go past the last page of a book. I have that faith in the universe. I understand universes; Hell, I built them.

"I know even though when things are erased they still exist in people's minds. Trauma and tragedies do, but they also --- when in a healing environment, once tou get beyond the bullshit --- get better over time, don't they. Time is healing.

"That's what I want. To leave this job, to leave this place, to leave the never-ending patterns and rutts we kept getting into, to leave people toxic to us that keep trying to drive us apart, yes even if they are our parents. I think leaving is not the end of the world, that's all. Leaving something just because parts of it are comfortable isn't the end of the world. Leave your job. Leave a place that's not yours or mine anyway and always belonged to them.

"I do not think this has to be the end of us. I'm optimistic that even though this feels like the end, that it won't be. That all of this can become something more and something greater.

"And yeah, we could fail. Yes it is scary. But, will you take this chance with me?"

[tartan-thermos]

In this essay I will

[itsineffhazbinle]

Man how I miss the fandom’s take on these characters, it feels like we were well and truly robbed…

[iiiflow]

GOOD OMENS PEOPLE!

The German subtitles revealed something that’s not in the original version!!!! Right at the end of the scene in the bar, just before the zoom in on the portrait of Terry Prachett, Asa Fell gets asked about the bookshop and he tells Anthony Crowley about Derek, the owner. The audio gets so quiet that you can’t make out the words Asa says after that.

In the English subtitle version, this is also it.

In the German version however, there is another line that continues the sentence. I’ll try to translate it:

"[Derek] persuaded me to help him when I stopped teaching."

He was a teacher! Asa Fell worked as a teacher before he worked in the bookshop!

WE GOT CANON TEACHER!AZIRAPHALE

[arcanasland]

is anybody talking about the Arthur Eddington easter egg and the fact that he was also a gay man obsessed with stars and played by david tennant?

[moderndayklutz]

Saving the tag:

[rybkart]

What the heaven , angel!?

[moderndayklutz]

❤️ Book Omens ❤️

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.