SazzyLJ

She/Her — Good Omens Broke my Writers Block!!!

[sazzyfics]

The Good Friend Tags

I honestly love how Heated Rivalry on AO3 has so many tags for characters being good friends. We see these two characters going through all this in isolation, no one to talk to but each other, and fanfic authors just take that as a challenge. "You need a friend. I will write you one!"

So in honor of that, here are my contributions to the "Give Shane and Ilya good friends" effort.

In Life Lessons Start Early, Jackie Pike goes to sit with Shane in the hospital, and she overhears a certain visitor.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77897061

In Confidence in Confidants, Shane and Ilya slowly let their friends in on the big secret, and they're rewarded with a safe place to be themselves. (Special thanks to @spectrallydistracted for being a brilliant beta and friend)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81346331

No Nice Men is the sequel to Confidence in Confidants, where Hayden ends up mediating a visit between Ilya and JJ.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83606936

Cliff gets a surprise, in The Miraculous Nature of Homemade Soup, when Ilya gets sick during a game against the Metros.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82823781

In Food, Language, and Complaints About American Tea, Svetlana finally meets Jane.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84631776

[hollanovarchive]

Would love a rec list where Shane’s parents, friends, etc realize how good Ilya is for Shane.

Btw love your rec lists. You are doing the lords work and I thank you for it!!!

I wasn't entirely sure how to search for fics under this trope, BUT I tried my best!! Hope you enjoy.

Good for Each Other

🏒 Metros realize that Shane and Ilya are endgame | 1.0k

After a loss for the metros against Ottowa they end up in the same bar and basically the voyageurs see how much they fucked it up and how much Shane and Ilya love each other

🏒 Solnyshko | 1.3k

When Ilya's crashout playlist about Shane gets leaked on Twitter, the internet gets once again a taste of loverboy Ilya Rozanov.

🏒 Lover, You Should Have Come Over | 1.5k

 Ilya gets exposed as a loverboy via Spotify Wrapped

🏒 I Do It For You | 3.0k

jj and hayden visit shane at the cottage & jj realises there’s more to rozanov than he ever knew

🏒 World's Worst Ally | 3.4k

Hayden is just trying to be a good ally. He accidentally commits a hate crime instead

🏒 With A Little Help From My Friends | 4.3k

5 times Hayden defends Ilya behind his back, +1 time he defends Ilya in front of him

🏒 Hayden Pike's Worst Ever Friday Night | 4.6k

Shane decides Hayden and JJ should come for dinner to meet Rozanov "for real". Hayden is not looking forward to it.

🏒 a load of lies | 5.7k

BREAKING: Local man gets pavlov'd by the KonMari method, more at 11.

🏒 The Lily Chronicles | 6.5k

twitter users get invested in uncovering the mystery behind a cryptic account. it seems to most that Lily, the original poster, is a hopeless, angst stricken lovergirl, struggling to make do with her feelings. what people don't realize is this: "Lily" is not a girl. She's a 6'3 Hockey Legend, and her real name is Ilya Rozanov.

🏒 Outside Observations | 6.5k

Various observations through the years as people realize just what Shane and Ilya mean together in a world where they weren't publicly outted by Brad

🏒 Slipping Through My Fingers All the Time | 8.2k

3 times Yuna is surprised by Ilya Rozanov and one time she isn't anymore

🏒 What They’ll See They Can’t Understand | 11.3k

five times the world got a glimpse of how much Shane and Ilya love each other and one time they kept it to themselves

🏒 while the world watches | 11.6k

5 times outsiders realized Shane and Ilya loved each other, and the 1 time that they helped Shane and Ilya realize they were loved, too.

🏒 Glimpses of Domesticity | 12.1k

Shane and Ilya being domestic and in love in public, as seen through the eyes of the internet and their friends, a social media, 5+1 Fic.

🏒 Hopelessly Devoted | 12.6k

5 times the centaurs see how completely Ilya Rozanov loves Shane Hollander and 1 time they love each other in private.

🏒 call me honey (if you want) | 13.0k

5 times that people realize that Ilya is in love, and 1 time that Shane does

🏒 you know i think about you all the time (my deep misunderstanding of your life) | 14.4k

Hayden finds himself unlearning everything he thought he knew about Ilya Rozanov

If you have any suggestions, feel free to add (:

Make sure to check out other fic rec request here -> Requested Lists

[majnoonathelibrarian]

I'll throw in my Yuna PoV series, Competitive Analysis. Rated T, 3 works 2k ish each, another on the way:

Yuna prides herself on agile thinking but she needs more information to understand how to manage Shane’s new situation. Dinner at Shane’s cottage gives her a chance to observe him and learn more about Ilya.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/5672636

[fellshish]

feeling guilty over not working on your fic is so silly if you think about like why are you stressing over the hobby you do in your free time for fun lol wip not whip

[arsoniswarm]

I like to reframe this for myself if this advice doesn't immediately work to make me feel better (It is good advice, this is my hobby not my jobby).

But here's my second line of mental defence: I'm not NOT working on it. I'm letting it rest, like dough. It must rise in my subconscious. It's still there, doing its thing. I'm just not prodding it with my hot fingers. Let it rest. Let it rise. Its time will come.

[sazzyfics]

Some of my sourdough stories are taking forever to rise! 😂😂

[stevesbootyshorts]

Carrion Comfort

Chapter 10: Insurrection

word count: 148k chapter 10/12 shane/ilya, plane crash, wilderness survival

featuring: ✈️ several very sad internal monologues sorry I don't have a bit to go here ✈️ but also! hope! joy! ✈️ spurious accusations of homophobia! ✈️ kisses!

🔗 https://archiveofourown.org/works/79439206/chapters/232941296

[sazzyfics]

I'm not in the right mental space for this today, but I really want to read it soon

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

one day, after they're married and ottawa is having a great season and they've gotten another dog (or a cat) and the noise surrounding their relationship has gone down and everything feels perfect and they're finally living the life they never thought they'd get to live, ilya is going to have a depressive episode worse than he's ever had, so bad that shane is terrified to leave him alone even for five minutes. and ilya will wonder if he can have everything he ever wanted and still feel like this, then what is the point? what even is the point at all.

[deqncas]

my hollanov fic recs (12)

reminder to always read the tags before reading, DLDR!!

-> DIRECTORY: all my hollanov fic rec lists

pull like a dog by segs | explicit | 6.8k words – Statement from Boston Raiders General Manager Rick Doughty: We are aware of a video circulating online from earlier this summer of the locker room celebration proceeding Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. This was a personal recording of an adrenaline-fueled moment inside our private facilities and was not intended to be seen by the public.

our bedroom after the war by Anonymous | mature | 22k words – In an alternate timeline, Shane resolves to move on after Sochi. When he and Ilya reunite for the MLH Awards in Vegas, Ilya takes the news of Shane's new "friend" about as well as you'd expect. 

can't fake that for a moment by dreamtiwasanarchitect | mature | 20.6k words – Ilya doesn't remember being married to Shane Hollander. Probably, he should tell someone. He decides not to.

The Boxer by Viriidian | explicit | 23.6k words – After a viral video ruins Shane Hollander's chances of ever playing for the NHL, he gets his lick back in other ways. Or, The Hollanov Pornstar AU with a twist

get him back! by flairlies | mature | 54k words – Stuck in an alt-world where he and Shane never hooked up as teenagers, Ilya is determined to get Shane back. To do that, Ilya has to figure out a way to get Shane to see him as anyone other than the Russian asshole who has spent a decade pissing him off. It can't be that hard to make your husband fall in love with you... right?

why don’t we just play pretend (‘cause what if I never love again?) by Keullala | Not Rated | 16.6k words – the fake dating hollanov fic, in which Shane desperately wants his ex to think that he's no longer hung up on him and his rival Ilya Rozanov is more than happy to help.

if these walls could talk by angeluvxx | explicit | 21k words – Shane's favourite time of the day is when he can crawl back into his apartment where he finally gets peace and quiet after a busy day juggling work and med school. His routine is sourly interrupted when a new neighbour moves in next door, being as loud as he is infuriatingly handsome.

fake it (til you make it) by PenAndInkPrincess | teen+ | 21.7k words – when shane's old fake id falls out of his wallet around his parents, he has to explain that it was to book hotel rooms before he was 21... and then he has to explain why he needed to book those hotel rooms in the first place.

and i will, i will, i will by laurenswriting | mature | 10.7k words – it's april 2017, and cliff marleau just checked shane hollander into the boards. he doesn't break his collarbone, but he does start coughing up petals.

[gurlsrool]

I just can’t even understand using AI to write fic. I can’t. Fic is entirely optional. I write it for the joy of writing it, not just to slapdash post a finished product. And the finished product is only satisfying because I wrote it! Me! Not a robot!!

I have a lot of weird and bad feelings rn but ultimately the thing I can say most succinctly is that art without humanity isn’t art. And the struggle of writing, smoothing over road blocks, filling in plot holes, fiddling with the sentences you can’t quite nail have always been the point. That. Not the shiny product and kudos at the end. The process is the point. The love you have for the characters and the craft is the point! Without it, why are we even here?

[sazzyfics]

What's the point of anything if it doesn't touch a life? Writing has been a big force in my life, and I can't imagine outsourcing something that is so key to who I am.

[luna-azzurra]

How People Occupy Space (Body Language) 

˙⋆✮ Leaning in slightly when genuinely interested without realizing it

˙⋆✮ The way someone physically turns their body away mid-conversation

˙⋆✮ Crossing arms not out of coldness but because it feels safer

˙⋆✮ That one person who always finds the wall to stand against at parties

˙⋆✮ Mirroring someone's posture when comfortable with them

˙⋆✮ The slow backward step when a conversation goes on too long

˙⋆✮ Tilting the head when something doesn't add up

˙⋆✮ Sitting on the very edge of a chair when ready to leave

˙⋆✮ The way someone's feet point toward whoever they actually like in a group

˙⋆✮ Leaning back and crossing ankles to signal comfort and ownership of space

˙⋆✮ The unconscious open-palm gesture when telling the truth

˙⋆✮ Standing slightly outside the circle and never fully entering it

˙⋆✮ The way someone physically shrinks in a loud argument

˙⋆✮ Turning the whole body to listen rather than just the head

˙⋆✮ That very specific stillness that means someone is about to cry

˙⋆✮ Raising shoulders toward ears when stressed without knowing it

˙⋆✮ The way laughter changes someone's whole skeleton

˙⋆✮ Touching the face when lying or searching for an answer

˙⋆✮ The shift in weight from foot to foot when bored

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Thinking about Book!Aziraphale’s relationship with modernity and technology, because it is more complex and nuanced than just ‘Old-At-Heart Immortal can’t catch up with the times’. The sense I get is that, unlike Book!Crowley, who takes great care to be always as up-to-date as possible with all the latest trends and tech, because that’s ’the kind of human he’s trying to be’ and also generally useful to his ‘modernized sin spreading’ shtick, Aziraphale is just… very selective about what he’s paying attention to. He doesn’t care that much about modern music or slang/other linguistic changes or fashion trends, so they tend to slip by him…

But if it’s something that is Relevant to His Interests, he has no problems adapting to it fairly quickly. Compact Discs were modern technology when Book Omens takes place, and they made it near the top of Crowley’s list of things Aziraphale will miss after Armageddon. Because Aziraphale likes music, so he whole-heartedly adopted this new convenient human tech for storing and owning music.

Book!Aziraphale was ‘the first Angel to own a computer’! It’s clearly not as modern and up-to-date as the one in Crowley’s flat that he upgrades every few months, but still, in 1990/the late 80’s, Aziraphale was still kinda ahead of the curve on the widespread adoption of computers!

Because it helps him do his taxes and manage his “”business””. He probably has no interest in upgrading it or keeping up with evolving computer technology… unless Humans invent some improvement that’s also Relevant to His Interests. And Aziraphale almost definitely actually uses his computer on a regular way more than Crowley, who, at least in 1990, was only buying computers as a status symbol.

(That being said, seeing as Crowley had become addicted to Googling Himself by the 2005 New Year Resolutions, he probably figured out things he likes to do on the computer eventually.)

And at the same time, yeah, he has does have little experience with answering machines…

Probably not technology he would really care about. If anyone calls him while he’s not home or not available , they could just kinda… fuck off, probably. Although I won’t say he’s totally unfamiliar with what they are, pretty quickly after the ‘stop making noises!’ bit he realizes that he should try Crowley’s other number. That’s why I think he just doesn’t have a lot of experience with them and forgot due to the stress he was under at the time.

But all of this makes me wonder… what level of modern technology has Book!Aziraphale adopted by now? By the 2020’s?

[little-mx-sunflower]

He became pretty adept at using the internet once he realised it could be used to hunt down rare books and music.

When he says he heard about a new restaurant, he found it online through niche restaurant community forums.

[spectrallydistracted]

I feel Book Aziraphale isn’t well understood at all! I have decided to spend the time learning more about him. Book Crowley, too.

Thanks for the information!

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

Okay justice for Ilya Rozanov, a man who notably managed his entire families finances and his dementia-having fathers caretaking since he was literally a teenager, while also essentially raising himself to be an elite, generational athlete by himself.

like what is this ‘Ilya needs the threat of a sex ban to pick up his socks’ slander or this ‘Ilya has terrible financial literacy’ misinformation or this ‘Ilya only eats junk food and needs to be forced to eat his veggies’ tomfoolery

[artemisprowls]

#something very heteronormative is going on here…#<prev. and something very orientalist as well not to be the friend who is too woke.#there’s something to constantly writing the one non-western character as singularly in need of civilising in a way that like.#flies directly in the face of the character the canon has actually given us.#we’re all playing in our sandboxes &c. but the canon isn’t only a suggestion😭 not when the alternatives for it too often rely on bias

[sazzyfics]

Not only was Ilya coordinating his father's care, he was doing that from across the globe. I have been a caregiver to someone with cognitive decline, in my experience they go to the person they trust to give them what they need even if they don't understand what's going on.

Ilya's father had a wife and a son in Russia. But when he was scared and confused he called Ilya.

Yes, Ilya liked to party. He liked expensive, fast cars and nice clothes. But a lot of that can be explained by him needing an outlet, a way to be young and feel happy. As far as his spending habits go, if he was visibly spending a lot of money, it gave him at least a little bit of plausible deniability when his brother would call demanding money.

None of that means that, by the age of 28 when TLG starts, he's somehow still stuck in that same mode. People grow up. Part of the beauty of this story is that we literally watch Shane and Ilya grow and change together.

[softgnome]

Personally I do think that sometimes non-hockey fans can end up mischaracterizing Shane and Ilya because they don't know enough about hockey/hockey playstyles

The Ilya we see in Heated rivalry would not be throwing the first punch, he's not an enforcer. Ilya is a star center and a Pest. He wouldn't be doing his job correctly if he was punching players every other game, it would end up with not enough ice time to let him be the playmaker he's paid to be.

But being a pest can be playmaking! Find a player to bait, emotionally push them just enough that they try to fight you, and then get the fuck out of there before the ref gives you both penalties. This gets your team the power play. There is probably someone on Ilya's line dedicated to helping him get out of the fights he starts, and finishing them for him!

I also think this is also something that Shane would respect. Ilya is good at it and it's a good strategy for his team. I don't think Shane would see it as some dirty tactic, because Shane probably thinks everyone with a brain can see it for what it is! He probably thinks everyone should be able to see that being an asshole is a tactic for Ilya, that it's something to ignore and not fall for, that it's a strategy and not personal beef.

I think Shane's more disappointed when a Metro falls for it. Shane sees it as Ilya set up a Looney Toons ass obvious trap and one of his teammates ran into it. Why be mad at Bugs Bunny when you can be mad at your defenceman for falling for a fucking Bugs Bunny trap.

[penandinkprincess]

I know in my heart that shane is the type of person who would never bring up essential personal details until they are immediately relevant and then would also be so understated about them

he and ilya are hanging out in the yard and some bees are buzzing around because some watermelon juice spilled on the ground earlier and shane suggests they go inside or rinse the juice off the patio and ilya teases him about being scared of little bees and shane SO nonchalantly just, "no, but i am allergic and you don't know where my epipen is"

and ilya

[penandinkprincess]

reblogging with my own tags because i'm also CACKLING imagining the implications of this not being specific to ilya, either. they're having a barbeque at hayden and jackie's house and hayden is good-naturedly encouraging shane to try a piece of coffee cake or something and ilya just goes, "no, bad for you"

and hayden IMMEDIATELY is on the defensive because what? you get to tell him what to eat now? where do you get o-

"no, bad for him because it has walnuts in it, pike. you want him to die? this is what you want?"

"what are you talking about?"

shane: "i'm allergic"

"??? since WHEN??"

"since always??"

"you've eaten over at my house HOW many times?? and never brought this up? the fuck, dude?"

"jackie knows"

"WHY DOES JACKIE KNOW AND I DON'T"

[penandinkprincess]

yuna and david dialing IN to "if you don't freak out, they won't freak out" during shane's formative years to the unintended and unfortunate side effect of ending up in situations like bb!shane going *calm tug tug on david's shirt* "yeah buddy?" *big inhale that audibly wheezes as his throat starts swelling shut*

[penandinkprincess]

the idea of ilya on instagram accidentally pressing like while DEEP in allergy mommy blogging territory and natalie from That Allergy Mama DMing him to be like "hi, my husband wants me to tell you he says hi and that he's a big fan and also that call against you against san francisco was bullshit." "hello, husband of natalie. also do you have any suggestions for substituting peanuts in this recipe?"

shane at the other end of the couch after thirty minutes of ilya not looking up is just ??? who the FUCK are you texting down there??? and ilya still without looking up just, "many many sexy women who are crying because i am married now. they are very upset." as if his ass isn't diligently taking notes from a married mother of four on a good allergy-friendly pad thai recipe because shane mentioned in passing that it smelled good the last time ilya ordered some and now ilya wants to find out how to make some he can try.

[penandinkprincess]

he gets filmed for a what i eat in a day/day in the life type video and is so used to thinking about substitutes at this point that he doesn't even think about it when he mentions them in passing. they keep an allergy friendly household so the stuff he mentions is compliant, but it's paired with comments like, "and then i add some wowbutter, which is soybeans and not peanuts. we also sometimes have sunflower seed butter, but the texture for this is better with the wowbutter. i have also tried this, what is it called-shane: the gross paste with beans" *shane, offscreen from the living room*: "chickpea butter?" "yes, this." "it's nasty" "yes, not good. their jar says it is, but it is not. anyway-"

and it truly IS casual for him because this is just how he thinks now, but everyone else just ??? allergy friendly homemaker ilya rozanov??? since when??

[penandinkprincess]

A. the idea of ilya being lowkey stressed about shane surprising him and potentially being exposed to allergens is so fucking funny. ilya who ends up also keeping an allergy-friendly household PURELY because it's just less stressful that way. meanwhile the motherfucker WITH the allergies is SO fucking casual about it that it wouldn't even occur to him to ask ilya to do that.

B. when they're pushing the friendship cover, ilya gets nudge nudge jokes about trying to copy what hollander's doing, and he's not going to share information shane didn't greenlight to get out, so he just plays along. and now there's like. at least three other players lowkey accidentally following an allergy diet because they don't know it's an allergy diet. why do hollander and now rozanov not eat tree nuts? unclear, but they're also the best two players in the entire industry so it's worth a shot to copy them.

C. people being so afraid of ilya's wrath if shane has an allergic reaction to something at their house is KILLING ME. shane just fucking. STANDS near a plate of peanut butter cookies on the table in the backyard during a barbeque and four different people are immediately there shoving him away because they will NOT answer to rozanov about this. they will NOT die over cookies. who is the IDIOT who brought PEANUT BUTTER COOKI-

[penandinkprincess]

@lucky-santangelo ilya only getting five seconds of feeling smug and holier than thou before shane puts him on blast is KILLING me XD

@shanetism the idea of ilya finding out how many times he could have potentially killed shane over the years from not knowing this VERY IMPORTANT THING ABOUT HIM and shane's life flashing before HIS eyes is so funny. also the idea that shane was going to show him the fucking WELL at the cottage and just not mention the drawer his epipen is in and ilya being so ??!!! HOLLANDER ?!?! PRIORITIES ?!?!

[penandinkprincess]

shane groaning SO loud when ilya first breaks out the allergy cards because GOD ilya it's NOT that serious this is embarass-

oh? is this more or less embarassing than having allergic reaction in the middle of a restaurant and needing your epipen? hm? shut up and take the fucking shiny cards, hollander.

and riFUCKINGp to the restaurant that lied about not using peanut oil in their fryer as an angry, stressed ilya is stuck in a hospital lobby with wifi and a lot of energy that has nowhere to go until he's allowed to be back with his husband. you're DONE FOR.

also ilya being lowkey SO fucking frustrated at shane having allergies AND refusing to eat fast food, especially when they're on the road so often and ilya eats allergy-free when they're together. hollander, pick a struggle. you know what will not kill you? mcmuffin. she loves you. look at her allergen list. she is safe. this organic artisinal breakfast wrap from this tiny cafe cannot say the same. she does not love you like mcmuffin. she probably whores around with peanuts.

[penandinkprincess]

GOD the psychic damage ilya takes the day he finds out body products can have allergens in them. his body wash company is getting a SCATHING email about fucking around with their formula when there are PEOPLE with ALLERGIES who RELY ON-

and shane meanwhile is just, "i can take some meds and just be itchy for a little bit. it's seriously not a big deal." "you are covered in bumps! it could have been worse. they should have to give warnings if they are going to fuck around with things like this." "you seriously have to calm down. it's not going to stop me from play-" "shane i cannot overstate how much i need you to not talk about hockey to me right now."

[penandinkprincess]

MAN

shane growing up who always got, "oh, you poor thing" from well-intentioned adults as a kid and then, "damn, i could NEVER live like that" from same-age peers when older whenever he had to explain his allergies, and it was both annoying and also felt like failing at something when he had to decline a piece of birthday cake or a slice of pizza because it wasn't safe for him.

but if he frames it as a performance diet, then suddenly! admiration! he gets some teasing obviously, but there's also an air of "good for you, man" that lands a lot easier than pity.

this does, unfortunately, mean that he just develops a habit of just never saying ANYTHING when not directly asked lmao.

[penandinkprincess]

@riddlemaster101

i feel like shane would reliably tell medical people because this is a Rule for medical settings so yes of course he'll go into detail

for everyone else though??? cackling about people who have known him for literally fifteen years finding out about potentially deadly allergies ONLY because ilya is fucking interrogating the waiter at the restaurant. shane of Before just would have probably declined going and used his diet as an excuse because he didn't want to have it be A Whole Thing. now he has a husband to "he said no pickles" his allergies on his behalf, so he's straight chilling. 🤣

[wendydarling95]

Can we also talk about the Yuna and David of it all?

David spots them at the cottage and they go over, Shane's cottage is obviously allergen free and the shopping he did is all safe for him. Yuna and David know to cook safely, the chicken parm is all good and fine but they say "the croutons aren't safe for you, but you don't like those anyway" just in passing as a matter of habit and Ilya who JUST learned about bananas and latex and bees is like "oh wow! More allergies?? I need a list. Haha" and then they have the meal and the panic attack and they become boyfriends. Before they leave Yuna makes him a copy of her list of all the known allergens and Shane's common reactions to them, it's the first time he hugs her. He looks her in the eye and says "thank you for letting me take care of him. I will be careful."

It's a relief, to know he cares to try. But at the end of the day they JUST met this man. So they cross their fingers and try not to feel the same way they did every time Shane went to somebody's house for a birthday party or a sleepover.

And then they are over at the cottage some night and they decide to order in for dinner. Ilya takes everybody's orders and goes to the kitchen to call it in for them and it's taking *forever* so Yuna goes to see if he needs any help. She finds him sitting with two copies of the list, hers and one translated into Russian for his easy reference. He has the phone on speaker and says "thank you for checking the dressing ingredients, I know is weird request, but sometimes Caesar dressing is safe, sometimes not safe, but he likes it so much is worth checking. Yes, I'll hold again."

They've ordered from this place a dozen times, their recipe for Caesar dressing is safe, YUNA knows that, SHANE knows that, that's why he ordered it. But *Ilya* doesn't. So he's checking. Because Shane wants the dressing and Ilya want him *safe* and *happy*. And isn't that all a parent wants? For their kid to be with someone who is just as invested in their happiness and safety as they are? For somebody who will wait on hold while they check the fry oil and the dressing ingredients and whatever else?

Once Ilya has placed the order and hung up he gets surprised by a hug from behind, thin arms wrapped around him and perfume he's starting to recognize. He's bewildered, but when he asks gently "...Mrs. Hollander?" She just tells him to call her Yuna.

[penandinkprincess]

WEEPING

also cackling about the idea of ilya using the group chat with them to be mad about brands changing their ingredients so things that were SAFE are now NOT 😤 it started just as a "hey, those crackers aren't safe anymore" as a collective fyi thing, but it ends up being ilya just mad about safe things not being safe anymore

significantly shane remains SO unbothered about it all

[penandinkprincess]

also EXTREMELY funny to imagine ilya suddenly being strict about allergens in his house with svetlana, who has done body shots off of strangers with this motherfucker who is suddenly?? confiscating her granola bar??? ilya what the actual FUCK is happening right now??? "no peanuts inside anymore" "...what the fuCK ARE YOU TALKI-"

[sazzyfics]

The parallels between people that would ask, "are you sure you're really allergic? When was the last time you tried it?" And the people that would ask, "are you sure you're really gay? Maybe you just haven't found the right woman?" - because questioning someone's lived experiences is a level of obnoxious that transcends the topic at hand

[dropofbittersea]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82080616/chapters/215994916

[handyowlet]

Good Omens Human AU: “Some Things Never Change” by @spectrallydistracted

FTH 2026 submission for @mizmak

Crowley and Aziraphale were best mates and roommates in uni. They cuddled regularly, but while Az was gay, Crowley was very, very straight so none of it *meant* anything. Or so Crowley tells himself as he gets ready to see Az at Ana & Newt’s wedding nearly 20 years later.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86145581

[spectrallydistracted]

Thank you for the boost! I really love this story and hope the queer awakening makes someone’s Pride month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[leviosally]

Happy Pride Month!!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Let's start a tag game! Reblog with a self-rec from your LGBTQ theme creations, and tag five more people! All fandoms welcome!

Please accept this offering featuring art student Crowley, librarian Aziraphale, fabulous Eric and drag show shenanigans!

Figuring It Out

Fandom: Good Omens

Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley

Rating: E

Spring has come to London, and with it, fresh possibilities. Anthony Crowley--determined to finally follow through on old dreams--signs up for a couple of classes as he tries to revisit what he loves best, get out of a rut, and get back into his career as a freelancer. Aziraphale works as a librarian not far from St. Lucius' School of Fine Art, and when his neighbour and friend, Anathema, asks if he would be interested in a little side-gig as one of the life models for her Intermediate Figure Drawing class, he agrees.

That's not going to awaken things in anyone, right?

Read it here.

Tagging: @gaiaseyes451, @hermiola, @melians-griddle, @gaydhros, @indigofyrebird and anyone else who sees this and wants to play!!

[hermiola]

Happy Pride Month!!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Let's start a tag game! Reblog with a self-rec from your LGBTQ theme creations, and tag five more people! All fandoms welcome!

Here's my first ever GO baby featuring Ace Crowley and Pan Azi!

When Hell Freezes Over

Fandom: Good Omens

Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley

Rating: T

Words: 22k

“Not afraid at all,” the angel finally says. “I mean, maybe slightly afraid. You see, my editor-in-chief doesn’t know I’m here.” “He doesn’t?” “I was supposed to review the new production of Hamlet…” “The one with Ian McKellen?” “Yes, exactly, but Eve – Miss Gardner, that is – she’s been working so hard and she would love nothing more than to be taken seriously, and she thought Gabriel gave her this assignment for all the wrong reasons, you see – and, between us, knowing Gabriel, I’m quite sure she was right – and, and I realized she needed my assignment way more than I did. So, if you really must know, I just… gave it away.” “You what?!” “I gave it away!” the angel repeats, slightly distressed. “Let me get this straight: you traded the chance to review one of the most anticipated shows of the year to interview… little old me?” - (Or: Crowley is a magician with a new Inferno-inspired show opening in London, Aziraphale the angelic-looking journalist who's supposed to interview him. Crowley immediately tries his best to ruffle his feathers. Much to his surprise, though, Aziraphale isn't as pearl-clutchy as he looks. Things go as you'd expect.)

Read it here.

Tagging: @littleweezel, @gaiaseyes451, @cheeseplants, @curiouspupsicle, @joyandotherstories and whoever wants to play!

[curiouspupsicle]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (including Aro/Ace and all queer identities not represented in an emoji pack flag)

Let's start a tag game! Reblog with a self-rec from your LGBTQ theme creations, and tag five more people! All fandoms welcome! Sending a little love to the under appreciated women (at least in the GO fandom) in the queer community:

Lesson I've Learned About Love

Fandom: Good Omens

Pairing: Azira/Crowley

Rating: T

Words: 4k

Before the publican could reply, a tall, slender woman with dark, auburn hair tied up in a messy bun strode up to the bar. Azira felt the hair on her arms stand up, almost as if she had received a mild shock from the electrical energy of the woman standing beside her. “I called in a takeaway, Marjorie. Is it ready?” “Just a minute, dearie. I’ll go check.” With a mischievous look, she nodded toward Azira. “Toni, this is Azira. She’s checking out Tadfield to decide if she wants to move here.”

Turning her attention to the other woman, she continued, “Toni Crowley’s been here five years. She knows everyone in town. You should ask her your questions. She’ll tell you everything the tourist board won’t.” With a wink, she turned to enter the kitchen. “So, what do you want to know? Looking to find all the sordid corners of Oxfordshire or to avoid them?”

(Or, While listening to an address by someone very precious to her, Azira Fell reflects on the one in a trillion surprise from the universe that brought her more love than she could have ever hoped for.)

Read it on AO3. (Pssst, and if you liked the sweetness of these girls, check out Buddy Boating for a slow burn love story on the water.)

Thank you for the tag, @hermiola.

Tagging: @spectrallydistracted, @dbacklot99, @smua70, @tigerseye67, @loveagoodstory87 and whoever wants to play!

[specselects]

Happy Pride Month!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 there are no Ace flags anywhere 😢

Let's start a tag game! Reblog with a self-rec from your LGBTQ theme creations, and tag five more people! All fandoms welcome!

Thank you to @curiouspupsicle for the tag!

This is my first ever Human AU, only my fourth fan fiction, and my first Pride-related story--a queer awakening, which turns out to be a common theme of mine. It remains my favorite. (Shhh...don't tell the others)

All the Pretty Girls (I Have Waited)

Fandom: Good Omens

Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale

Rated: M

Words: 8K

Week after week, Crowley met women at the local coffee shop—pretty, funny, smart women. He enjoyed their company. They had perfectly pleasant conversations. And he never called them back. The one constant, aside from six shots of espresso in a big cup? The funny, friendly, kind—and very male—barista.

Read on AO3

No pressure tags to @brenna @goannasun @sazzyfics @thisisshiny @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon and anyone else who wants to play along!

[sazzyfics]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride, y'all!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

I wrote Train Etiquette for my dear friend @specselects, so it seemed a perfect one to share here. (Thank you for the tag!)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65140090

No pressure tags to @serenity-black @majnoonathelibrarian

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[majnoonathelibrarian]

The Darlings Graveyard - occasionally they get dug back up and reanimated.

[sazzyfics]

Absolutely! And I have reanimated a few bits and pieces... Sometimes for the same story; sometimes for another.

It really has made editing easier for me to move something to a deleted file instead of actually hitting the delete key.

[specselects]

Good Omens Fan Fic Recommendations

June 1, 2026: Travelers' Tales

Happy Pride Month! 

I was going to pick my favorite Pride-related stories for this month, then I decided you are going to have no trouble finding those stories. I might even offer a few of my own. 

The travelers in these tales are restless. They don’t know how to settle down, nor do they think they want to. They haven’t stopped moving for some time. Then they meet someone who makes them reconsider. 

Coming up with themes and ways stories are connected isn’t always easy or obvious. But somehow, these three stories fell together immediately.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

The June Fic Recs

1 Corinthians 13 1-13 by ffinoppop  @ffonippop

Rated: M

Published: February 2024, 21K words, 1/1 chapters

Summary: Restless traveler, Aziraphale Fell, meets settled-down Anthony Crowley in middle-of-nowhere, Texas. Aziraphale goes through life flitting from place to place, never staying long. He runs on the belief that if he’s not going, he’s missing out on something better. Crowley’s life is stationary. He keeps himself rooted with the belief that his life is the best it’s ever going to get, and to go would be to risk that. Aziraphale has to go. Crowley has to stay. They have to take what they can get from each other, and that needs to be enough.

My Take: I’ve read this story at least three times now. Each time I get a little more from it. The central question here is, what do you do when you are terribly in love and yet that isn’t enough to make you change who you believe you are at your core? Can one person ever be enough to make you give up everything else? Should they be? It’s something a lot of us have struggled with. It’s very well done, heartbreaking, and the ending makes more sense than you might expect. 

Adaptive Innovations for a Changing World by amelia_airheart

@she-makes-things

Rated: E

Published: March 2024, 70K words, 22/22 chapters 

Summary: When Anthony Crowley meets Aziraphale Fell at Aziraphale's library, little do they know that they will turn each other's worlds upside down. After a magical week spent falling in love, they face a hard reality. Will they be able to make the choices they need to make to build a real life together?

My Take: I’ve read this one several times, too. Imagine my delight when I finally realized the author was my friend Thingy! It takes me a while sometimes. (Those of you who remember my story about my bday fic written by @brenna will understand.)

This story has so many great tropes: strangers to friends to lovers, long-distance relationship struggles, commitment issues, secrets, misunderstandings, jealousy. And of course my BIG requirement: a happy ending.

Here, the problem is Crowley can’t seem to stop moving, to settle into a relationship, to commit—even though it appears he wants to. It takes a while to find out why. When you do, be ready for a bit of heartbreak before the guaranteed happy ending. 

Buddy Boating by CuriousPupsicle @curiouspupsicle

Rated: M

Published: September 2025, 63.5K words, 21/21 chapters

Summary: Azira Fell is happy sailing solo and living aboard her sailboat, Meander, with her cat Oscar. Toni Crowley is happy sailing solo and living aboard her sailboat, Siren. What will happen when the two independent cruisers meet?

My Take: This is the femme Good Omens human AU you never knew you needed. Hell, until I beta’d it, I didn’t even know I needed it. But I did, and so do you.

CuriousPupsicle knows her boats (she lived aboard for years; don’t ask me about it, I’m not the expert) and makes you feel as if you are there when you read any of her sailing stories. This isn’t an adventure story like Anchored (also an excellent story, but much different). This is a lazy, slow, will-they-or-won’t-they summer romance, perfect for reading right about now. Other GO characters pop up (Tracy and Shadwell as long-time sailing friends, Gabriel as, well, Gabriel) and the whole thing feels like a comfort read the first time you read it. 

Okay, that's it for June. We'll be well into summer by the time I write my next set of fic recs. Maybe something about vacations? Or maybe something on the water? We'll see what floats my boat. (See what I did there? Yeah?)

I'm cross-posting this to my main blog for those who might be seeing this twice. Just so you know.

@goodomensafterdark