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Please excuse the text and let me be cringe, that ending fucked me up so bad I’ll be recovering longer than from OFMD Izzy’s death
Plus a little extra:
Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.
It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.
And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.
I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.
Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.
Long-form MM fiction with spice, heart, and a touch of humour. Click to read Loving and Spicy MM Fiction by Kanna Ophelia, a Substack public
So I made a Substack! (Email newsletter). Not a paywalled one, but a way to share my fiction without worrying about writing to market. The things I really love. Lonely people, soppiness, spice, every body and mind type is beautiful, consent is queen. Tried writing to market, didn't like it. Writing with my heart instead.
My tentative plan is to use it to make me polish and publish on a strict weekly schedule, and build an audience for the stuff I actually want to write rather than what I was writing to sell. I'm starting off with a story I started on AO3 long ago, and I'm writing for this now. A chapter a week in your inbox.
If you want to support me and my writing, I'd really appreciate you subscribing so I don't look all unloved and alone. I'd appreciate even more if you share, comment, support.
There's an optional section where I write about writing and my life, if you're into that. But the main newsletter is just stories.
And yes, the revised version of The Husband Bluff will end up there, too. I'm working on making all my ongoing fics that have not really ventured off my hard drive into a shared world series.
See you there?
Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”
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it never hit me how shortsighted Heaven is until i realized they put a Principality (whose entire raison d’être is to protect places and people from harm) in charge of Earth, and then were genuinely surprised when Armageddon came and said Principality went absolutely off-the-grid feral trying to stop it
Where did I read the sentence “you can’t give a Principality a territory and then act surprised when they become territorial”
Honestly, given how Heaven reacts to everything throughout Good Omens, I’m 99% sure that they meant for Aziraphale to be guarding against the humans, and Aziraphale just had one of his “I’m going to selectively hear those orders” moments, and the rest was history.
“And,” Gabriel said with a wink, “you’re going to be a guardian in the human realm.”
Aziraphale nodded and winked back.
As methods of communication go, a wink is quite versatile. You can say a lot with a wink. For example, Gabriel’s wink meant:
You’re going to go down to that earthly territory and make sure those hairless monkeys don’t do anything to get in the way of the divine plan and make sure they know what it is to fear the wrath of the Almighty and behave themselves as lesser beings should.
And as far as he was concerned, Aziraphale’s answering wink meant: I shall indeed descend to the earthly plane full of gross matter and hairless monkeys and be sure to keep them in their well-deserved place, beneath our divine heel.
Whereas Aziraphale, on the other hand, thought that Gabriel’s wink was more along the lines of: You lucky beggar Aziraphale, getting to go down there and look after God’s new humans and all the exciting things they have to make and discover. Now you go down there and experience all the humans have to offer and protect them with your life.
And therefore, his own wink had meant: Message received and understood. The humans will never have a more stalwart guardian. Looking forward to seeing what sushi is when it comes around.
It took quite some time for angels to learn the important of using words when dispatching pedantic principalities on human-sitting duty.
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I've been thinking about this for a while, but, do fans realise that if you swap both the aspects (demon/angel) and the gender presentation (male/female), there are actually 16 versions of the Ineffable Duo.
I had fun thinking of different stories and character design ideas for each of the Ineffable Duos, and I wondered if other people might do the same.
So, here's a list of all the versions of the Ineffable Duo. If any of these catch your interest, please let me know your ideas relating to them:
Male Angel Aziraphale + Male Angel Crowley
Male Angel Aziraphale + Female Angel Crowley
Male Angel Aziraphale + Male Demon Crowley
Male Angel Aziraphale + Female Demon Crowley
Female Angel Aziraphale + Male Angel Crowley
Female Angel Aziraphale + Female Angel Crowley
Female Angel Aziraphale + Male Demon Crowley
Female Angel Aziraphale + Female Demon Crowley
Male Demon Aziraphale + Male Angel Crowley
Male Demon Aziraphale + Female Angel Crowley
Male Demon Aziraphale + Male Demon Crowley
Male Demon Aziraphale +Female Demon Crowley
Female Demon Aziraphale + Male Angel Crowley
Female Demon Aziraphale + Female Angel Crowley
Female Demon Aziraphale + Male Demon Crowley
Female Demon Aziraphale + Female Demon Crowley
I admit I'm most curious about Female Angel Crowley and Female Demon Aziraphale . . .
I'd appreciate the reblogs so that this reaches more people, if possible?
Now I want a brief and purely comedic fic where the 16 pairs interact with each other!
Ok but if you also add in human Aziracrow, ypu get eight additional pairings - for angel and demon each, plus four human + human pairings. So twenty more pairings, getting us 36 total.
Have fun keeping track of all of those 😅
This is escalating to a level of math I can't cope with and I love it!
I animated MANY Good Omens giphy stickers Here's Part 1 of them! You can use em in instagram stories, tiktok stories, etc... Find em' by searching Gomens in gif search
Knowing that it was Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins to fight for the final 90 minute episode rather than Amazon trying to grab as much money as possibly/cut their losses actually exhilarates me! It's like I've been given free rein to enjoy whatever comes out of it guilt-free. Honestly, after sleeping on it, this is the best outcome I could have hoped for, and certainly I didn't dare hoping for anything like it 3 months ago.
This echos how I am feeling this morning. I will be able to watch in comfort knowing this has been made by good people who love the original book and care about Terry’s legacy. ❤️
It’s not Amazon’s fault. It’s not the fandom’s fault and it’s not even the haters who asked for the cancellation’s fault.
It’s Neil Gaiman’s fault. End of discussion. He caused this, because he just couldn’t act like a normal human being and not assault women. He’s done this. And he’s too much of a coward to take the blame and to actually own up to his mess.
I’m so glad he’s out. And i’m glad we still have SOMETHING to look forward to. It’s doable in 90 minutes, guys, and the only reason we have that is because we fought for it. It’s no longer Neil Gaiman’s show. It’s ours.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
This is happening again.
I was a bit suspicious of the solution they found, and now I have hope again. I needed an artist to make me picture it :)
Another Sir Terry Pratchett interview on the details of writing Good Omens with Neil Gaiman. (More about this process x).
Question about how he goes about collaborating with someone else ( @neil-gaiman).
Terry: “You make them do what you want”.
Gary Cornell came up with something very apposite talking about working together, he says : It’s not that (each) of you does 50% of the work, each of you does 90% of the work.
Um. The way we did it then, and I can’t really speak as an expert because its the only time I’ve ever done it and other people do it in different ways, it wasn’t a case of, the way the Americans tend to do it, um, is one person writes a draft and the other person goes in and noodles with that draft. We did the whole thing from the ground up; each was doing bits. The ad hoc way we had of working, it’s simple: I’ve got a track record writing novels, Neil hadn’t. So I became like the editor, the taskmaster. Because the other thing is the practical problem about two people 120 miles apart doing something, is that, um, it would be different now, but in those days we had no reliable means of electronic communication. We could connect computers together with modems and then spend the whole evening at cross purpose and ringing each other up and saying “I’m getting lots of little faces and shit like that all over..”
Three quarters of an hour and about eight phone calls, you actually managed to transmit about 2000 words you could have actually phoned and sneezed in a morse code.
[w]hen we were doing the first draft of the film script, we were both members of CompuServe so crappy our BT rural lines that the quick efficient way was for me to go into CompuServe and leave the work I’d done in Neil’s mailbox on the computer in Ohio or someplace and later that evening he would dial CompuServe in America and download it from Ohio or wherever it was.
So in order to get the script 120 miles, electronically it was doing about 10000. This is from the global village.
What we would do is I would hold the master copy and sometimes work would have to stop for 24 hours because stuff was in the post, because the nightmare, the absolute nightmare which I knew would happen if we let it, was that somehow we’d end up with two master copies in existence with little, minute changes, and we’d never be able to spot which was which.
So the last thing we wanted was two master copies, and we worked on the phone who did what. I did a bit more than Neil, of that anyway. But, it also felt to me to be an awful lot of the glue that no one wanted to do because it was easy to do set piece scenes and written on a kind of, on the kind of plot somewhere you get A and B to F and X and Y across to C T. And that really is like 3000 words where you have to move people around and then,you know, shove extra bits in; so I ended up probably doing near 75% of the book.
I would probably say because it’s, because had we’ve done it any other it would’ve been like three months longer to do.
Also part of the process from another interview with Terry Pratchett:
Q: Let's talk a bit about the book you collaborated with Neil Gaiman on: Good Omens. That was before email, so how did it work on a practical basis? What was the most challenging aspect of writing with someone else?
I'm sure what I have to say will echo what Neil has said. When two people work on a book, it isn't a case where each one does 50% of the work. Each one does 100% of the work. There are some bits in Good Omens which I know are mine. There are some bits in Good Omens which I know are Neil's. There are some bits which were Neil's idea which I wrote, and there are some bits which were my idea which Neil wrote. Some bits we no longer know exactly whose ideas they were, or who wrote them. By the time we'd gone through all the drafts, it had been written by some sort of composite entity. We wrote it in the 14th century. We each had one phone line and a 1200 baud modem. We'd work it out: "OK, you send, I'll receive." Sometimes it would take 20 minutes to half an hour before we could send the stuff. It would have been cheaper and easier to have rung each other up and sneezed out the text in Morse Code. I was the Keeper of the Disks. I insisted that there should only be one official version in existence at any time. The moment it split into two, we would be in dead trouble. But Neil would sometimes send me a disk with 2000 words, saying " This is the scene with so and so -- insert it here." It more or less worked. It took us about six weeks to do the first draft. I think it worked because, at the time, we were each making a name for ourselves in our respective fields. It's not that we didn't take it seriously. But we were relaxed. We thought we would earn some holiday money by doing it. The nice thing about collaborating is that there is one other person in the world who is thinking about the exact same thing that you are thinking about. We both have a similar reading background, I suppose. It was quite rare when one of us came up with something that the other guy didn't know about. So we could bounce ideas off one another quite easily.
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Please enjoy the Good Omens Script
It's a pretty open secret that I hand out The Good Omens Movie Script (of the never to be made 1990s movie) to anyone who asks nicely or checks my current Dreamwidth. It was published in a small edition, and a pdf of it was very widely circulated in book fandom back in the day.
Someone broke all fan etiquette, and common sense, and the fourth wall and brought it to Neil Gaiman's attention, forcing a situation where people who had already read it would refuse to share it saying it was to respect Neil Gaiman. Me, I never really was very cool with this "I've got mine!" attitude. Incredibly irritatingly, people did circulate out-of-context quotes and used them to portray it as terrible, script!Crowley as abusive, and script!Aziraphale as a doormat. None of these are true: it is an extremely, extremely loose and weirdly Americanised adaptation, but it's fricking adorable, and so are its versions of Crowley and Aziraphale. (The characters who get done badly by are Madam Tracey and Brian, IMO - best to think of them as entirely different characters.) It lacks Terry Pratchett's grace, complex humanity and way with words (see also: GO S2), but it's laugh at loud funny at times and this version of the Ineffable Husbands is a seriously cute grumpy/sunshine couple. Also, it has Business Exec Satan.
All this led to the ridiculous and annoying situation of people who had never read it being derogatory of it, while, despite being published, it was in danger of becoming lost media and a lost opart of GO history. (See also: Revenge of the Old Queen and Rocky Horror.) So I'm sharing the link here. If you want to yell at me, I ask you to first consider why you want to respect Neil Gaiman's wishes on anything and reconsider your priorities. It's a damn pdf of something only eleven people own in hard copy.
Feel free to share, or to archive it yourself. If it gets taken down, let me know and I'll find a new home for it. Just be aware that I'm rarely on Tumblr so it takes me a while.
coming out of my safe bubble for a bit
Hi guys.
Didn’t think I’d be trying to figure out what email address I used to use for Tumblr for something so depressing. But here we go.
I’m a sexual assault survivor. I’m an emotional abuse survivor. I know far more than I should know about trauma fawning . I am intimately familiar with the way you try and turn everything around in your head, because everything in your life is so much better if no one tried to rape or abuse you or maybe they didn't really mean to do it and it was okay really, but this does nothing to deal with the trauma.
I am also one of the people with multiple copies of Good Omens that have fallen apart over time. I defend Neil Gaiman’s movie script. I’ve fan-girled Neil Gaiman and believed he was One of the Good Guys. I forgave him for supporting his wife’s ableism because hey, it’s hard when the person you love does bad things. And—this is awful to face up to—I staunchly ignored nonnies on failfandomanon suggesting he was a dangerous creep, because they didn’t fit into my starry-eyed narrative of him as progressive, and supportive of woman and queer folk, and kind. And for ages I followed the book fandom meme that Crowley is Gaiman and Aziraphale is Pratchett. In a way, fangirling Gaiman was part of my love for Terry Pratchett (GNU Terry Pratchett), whose kindness to me in alt.books.pratchett very possibly was a factor in saving my life. I had a massive platonic crush on Neil Gaiman.
This situation FUCKING HURTS.
I’ve only discussed this with people who I really trust, in private. But I can’t feel furious and betrayed by NG’s circles for largely failing to speak up and not make a bloody Tumblr post, even as a mere fan. Also, you know. Posting fanfic - particularly movie script fanfic, in which Sir Pterry wasn't involved - is hard when you are wondering if posting it without a statement will be taken as an endorsement of the author, or if making a statement will cause traumatising arguments in the comments.
I’ve also got a 90% finished chapter of I Will Be Your Slave sitting in Scrivener, because one of the biggest themes of that fic is whether consent under fundamentally coercive situations can exist. I can’t look at it.
So if anyone has read it, even if you don’t know my personal history, and is concerned about what my position might be: can you imagine my Crowley holding the possibility of homelessness over Aziraphale’s head to coerce him into a sexual relationship? Can you imagine him threatening suicide if Aziraphale spoke up against abuse? Can you imagine him leaving Aziraphale bloody and unconscious because he had other things to do? Can you imagine, oh, any of the shit that SEVEN women (so far) have come forward about about being endorsed by me?
Yeah, that’s my position.
I don’t know what to do going forward. I do know that I don’t blame anyone for still being a Harry Potter fan, but personally all my HP stuff is just too painful for me to look at knowing someone I thought was a good person is a transpohobic bigot. But for all I was an HP writer (mostly Ginny/Cho if you care), I never cared on the level of Good Omens. I didn’t meet my best friends in the world in HP fandom. I didn’t use the books to get me through times I felt suicidal. And hey? My regular commenters? I genuinely love you and your kindness and the way you light up my life. I see your familiar names and I glow.
I don’t want to lose Good Omens. But right now, I’m struggling.
And at the same time? I’m still hyper obsessed. I can’t listen to a song without it being about my boys. I can’t bear the TV show ending on that tragic note.
I do know that if everyone goes ahead and makes Good Omens 3 as if nothing ever happens, the TV adaptation will be forever poisoned for me, because I will know that, when the money hits the wall, the people involved will not stand with abuse survivors.
I’m sharing a petition that was shared with me. Sign or not if you choose. I realise it might not even be a feasible demand, as GO is very much Gaiman’s baby right now—I signed mostly to express my heartbreak. Just don’t defend Gaiman to me, because I’m crying enough typing this out and I don’t want to lose people who are important to me. Also, I don’t care if you think crying over a fandom is stupid. I never claimed to have a sense of proportion or not to hyperfixate.
And remember that presumption of innocence is a (vital) legal term. If you presume the innocence in the case of abuse allegations, you are presuming guilt on the part of people courageous enough to come foward about being abused.
Believe women.
Love and hugs and I hope to see you on AO3 when I find a way through.
181 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?
In The Beginning
Book Aziraphale: (concerned) It must be bad, otherwise you wouldn't be involved.
Book Crowley: You've got to admit it's a bit of a pantomime though.
~
TV Aziraphale: Terribly sorry, I didn't catch your name?
TV Crowley: Crawly. Mind if I scoot under your wing?
TV Aziraphale: Not at all, my dear.
~
Radio Aziraphale: You fucked up, Crawly, you snakey whore.
Radio Crowley: Look who's talking, Aziraphale, you dumb bitch.