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Featured Fic #29: All I Wanted Was You

Today's featured fic is "All I Wanted Was You" by badwolfgirlicouldkissyou

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Over the steady course of 6000 years (give or take), Crowley had developed something of a fantasy regarding exactly how he would like to touch, and be touched, by a certain angel.

It had started chaste enough – their pinkie fingers might brush as they walked closely side by side. Perhaps, one day, Aziraphale might tuck a stray strand of crimson hair behind Crowley’s ear, and linger at his jawline for a fraction longer than actually necessary. They’d hold hands in St James Park, lips might meet, softly, oh-so softly, and a tingle would emerge at the bottom of his spine and warm his body with the distinct presence of love.

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Featured Fic #28: Falling Into Her Lap

Today's featured fic is "Falling Into Her Lap" by Val_Quainton, whovianuncle

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It was already late afternoon, and Mistress Aziraphale Plum couldn’t find her owl-feather earrings. She had the perfect ensemble and was determined to make all heads turn when she arrived that evening.   “Spooky, my dear, have you seen…” “On top of Anathema’s books. I can see them from here.” The golden-furred bat familiar hung from a sconce above the fire lintel, well clear of their sympathea’s fussing and fluttering.

As well as a rollicking good knees-up and gossip-fest, the annual Horn Dance celebrations were an opportunity for witches[1] to exchange new ideas, catch up on the latest practises and magickal techniques, and of course, give and return favours. For instance, reuniting borrowed books of prophecy with their owners. Azzi was gleefully looking forward to it.  

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Featured Fic #27: And All Those Earthly Pleasures

Today's featured fic is "All Those Earthly Pleasures" by badwolfgirlicouldkissyou

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Crowley had retired for the evening, a ritual that Aziraphale was still finding quite difficult to master. He glanced at the grandfather clock that stood in the corner of their sitting room and wiggled a little in his seat – just gone 11pm, plenty of time to get some reading in before dawn.

Only, something was different tonight. Oh, everything else had happened in concordance to their quiet little life in the South Downs. They’d spent the day harmoniously coexisting, their once solo activities now becoming things that they liked to share with each other. They tended their garden, went on long walks, they attempted to cook and/or bake with mostly disastrous results. Sometimes they would receive visitors – Nina and Maggie, or Adam and the Them. Very, very occasionally Anathema and Newt. Then, once the sun had begun to set, Crowley would lay on their sofa with his head in Aziraphale’s lap; the angel would read aloud from one of his many books until the demon became too sleepy. They would kiss goodnight – kissing was something that they just did now – and then Crowley would go to bed for a few hours. Usually be up again by sunrise.

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Featured Fic #26: coffee, theoretically

Today's featured fic is "coffee, theoretically" by @eefaevie

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Aziraphale leaves the meeting with The Metatron feeling quite strange. He knows, on some level, what they discussed. There was something about a promotion. Something very important about Crowley. Unfortunately, he finds that he has difficulty thinking about any of it on account of whatever it is that’s going on with his corporation.

It isn’t exactly the usual jitters that accompany coffee consumption; he’s all too familiar with those. It’s one of the many reasons he favours tea, after all. This is a different sensation entirely—something burrowing deep in the centre of himself, roiling and turbulent and hungry.

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Featured Fic #25: we shall have the world forever for our own

Today's featured fic is "we shall have the world forever for our own" by @quitequaintrelle

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In October 2023, Minnesota horticultural teacher Travis Gienger set the record for the World’s Heaviest Pumpkin with his behemoth gourd, dubbed Michael Jordan, at the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, USA. Pumpkin Michael Jordan clocked in at an astonishing 2,749 lbs (1,247 kg)—the same weight as an average adult male hippopotamus.

However, a new contender for the title has emerged at the annual Harvest Moon Festival in the unassuming village of Wood’s Bottom, West Sussex, UK. Well… it nearly emerged victorious. The pumpkin could have surpassed the record had it not exploded in spectacular fashion a few moments ago.

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Featured Fic #24: Just Another Ox Rib

Today's featured fic is "Just Another Ox Rib" by badwolfgirlicouldkissyou

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The apartment Crowley had chosen as his residence was not what Aziraphale had expected, if he’d actually expected anything at all. Being as close to the emperor as he had been, able to whisper whatever evils Hell had cooked up, the angel had rather assumed that the demon would be in some fancy domus just as he was, with plentiful space and a brilliant courtyard in which to sunbathe and sleep. As it were, Crowley had led Aziraphale through an Insula, stopping at a ground floor thermopolium in order to purchase the oysters (with a quick apology to the angel for not taking him to Petronius’s restaurant), and then up many crumbling stone stairs until finally reaching a small two-roomed residence. Inside, the furniture was as basic as it could get, and they had to sit on the cold floor cross-legged with the platter of seafood and a jug of drink between them. They each filled their glasses before clinking them together.

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Featured Fic #23: Feeling Love

Today's featured fic is "Feeling Love" by Storyteller_of_the_Forest

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Aziraphale had always been a peculiar angel. He never fit in with the other angels. He cared a little too much, was a little too curious. It made him a bit of an outsider. As he grew and moved up in the ranks, he learned to mask the things that made him different, that made him stand out. Mostly.

The light-haired angel only ever met one other angel who seemed to share a similar curiosity and awe, who didn’t look at him with disdain, a beautiful red-haired star maker. Aziraphale had been on his own, as he usually was, when he suddenly heard a lovely voice call out, “Excuse me?”

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Featured Fic #22: There are stars at the bottom of the sea

Today's featured fic is "There are stars at the bottom of the sea" by Bucky1984, Emi_Hotaru

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A flock of hungry seagulls circled low in the clear sky above the calm turquoise waters of that part of the world, a sign that land was near.

One of them, more voracious or braver than the others, began its descent, sailing on the warm Caribbean winds. Attracted by the commotion caused by two ships tied alongside below, a promise of human presence and therefore of food, it landed delicately on the yellow-painted poop deck of the smaller one. There was no activity on this ship, gently rolling by the ocean. The bird chose it to study the situation while preening the tips of its feathers. The cannon fire had recently ceased, restoring a relative calm, disturbed by the clash of weapons and the creaking of the wood subjected to the hurried footsteps of the men pursuing each other on the other boat.

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Featured Fic #21: Night and day

Today's featured fic is "Night and day" by Wyrmy

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When Aziraphale woke up, he realized he was fifty years old.

Rather big number, fifty, he thought, as he rolled over in his large, soft bed. Rather intimidating to face up to, really. In another decade, he’d be sixty. There had truthfully been times in his life when he hadn’t expected himself to live even half so long.

And now, undeniably, more than half his life was over.

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Featured Fic #20: Such sweet compulsion

Today's featured fic is "Such sweet compulsion" by HolRose

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It was raining outside the bookshop. Not heavily, it was the kind of spring rain where you can look up in the sky and not be clear where, exactly, the raindrops currently soaking you are coming from. The sun kept coming out, then going in again. Crowley imagined rainbows arcing over the roof of the building, which felt a lot to the former demon like the best of portents. He and Aziraphale were engaged in packing up the bookshop prior to moving to the cottage in West Sussex that they had settled on as their retirement home together. Crowley couldn’t believe his good fortune, and had never in his life been so unadulteratedly happy.

The sun’s yellow light beamed now and again through the windows of the small flat at the top of the venerable building, casting bars of warmth and shadow sporadically across where Crowley sat on the bed, deeply engaged in his rummaging. There came to his ear the swift metallic clip of footsteps on the spiral stair, succeeded by the sound of a familiar tread on the linoleum of the tiny landing.

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Featured Fic #19: L'arrangement

Today's featured fic is "L'arrangement" by badwolfgirlicouldkissyou

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“If my people hear I rescued an angel, I'll be the one in trouble. And my lot do not send rude notes.”

“Well, if I can't use frivolous miracles, and you refuse to help, how am I to remove these manacles?”

“You could… give me something. In exchange.”

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Featured Fic #18: Cayuga Blush

Today's featured fic is "Cayuga Blush" by @thetunewillcome

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It was not a nice day for a wine tour.  Most days weren’t, in New York State in spring, though that had never stopped the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail from holding their May Flights and Flowers event.  For the first two weekends of the month, groups of wine lovers young and old flooded the wineries along with the inevitable rain.  At each vineyard, they received a tasting flight, a 5% bottle discount, and a potted flower to plant in their garden back home.  Or, in the case of the particularly red-faced patron screaming obscenities in the parking lot in front of them, to rip apart, stomp on, and throw at strangers’ cars.

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Featured Fic #17: Temporary Bliss

Today's featured fic is "Temporary Bliss" by lokisilverhiddlestom

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PRESENT DAY

Aziraphale knew what he was doing. Or atleast that's what he tried telling himself, standing in front of the mirror in his dorm room. His reflection looked back at him - blue-gray eyes (the color changes depending on the light), a soft, cherubic face, full lips currently pulled down at the corners, blonde hair which were almost to the point of looking white. His eyes seemed to be mocking him - a mirth in their depths and an almost question on his lips.

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Featured Fic #16: Show You Something

Today's featured fic is "Show You Something" by whatareyou42

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“Listen, listen...” Crowley said, trying to get Aziraphale’s attention. His dark glasses long discarded, they’d been drinking for awhile in the bookshop and Crowley had a genius idea, or at least a funny one. They might have opened a few more bottles tonight than usual, but Aziraphale had gotten in a new really nice red and they were taking advantage.

“What?” Aziraphale finally looked at him, his rambling about.. well, Crowley wasn’t sure what he’d been rambling about, but he’d stopped, which meant it was Crowley’s turn to talk.

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Featured Fic #15: Apus

Today's featured fic is "Apus" by Notalostcausejustyet

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There’s something about the quality of Crowley’s skin in the waning sunlight. Some residual shimmer from the stars he once held in his hands that grasps the last light of the day and casts it back out in golden iridescence. As many times as Aziraphale has been fortunate enough to see it, he finds it no less entrancing every time.

Crowley never seems to notice the radiance he holds, but he can hardly be blamed for the oversight, occupied as he usually is in these moments. Aziraphale takes in the sight of his lover beneath him and revels in the warm, golden glow of his body.

“My love, have I ever told you that you still hold the stars?”

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Featured Fic #14: Ink Blots and Forget-Me-Nots

Today's featured fic is "Ink Blots and Forget-Me-Nots" by gutsandglitter

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2019

When Aziraphale first decided to become a florist, it had seemed like the perfect occupation for a kindhearted hopeless romantic. He envisioned his bouquets being part of grand, jubilant events — weddings, births, graduations, anniversaries — and the thought had warmed him to his core. He loved love in all its many forms, and he felt it was his calling to spread and celebrate it in whatever small ways he could.

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