Hello! I recall reading a fic where Aziraphale reads Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself out loud as Gabriel berates him, and Aziraphale only reads louder as a sign of accepting himself? I believe some of the bookstore patrons stand to defend Aziraphale as well?
I read this fic in particular while simultaneously reading two other fics and it seems I got them all a bit lovingly jostled together (one of which, a rather famous one, was Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma, I just re-read for about the 3rd time, still cry every time)
But anyway does anyone remember or know anything of Aziraphale quoting Walt Whitman in defiance of Gabriel?
Hello!
So it took me a while to look through AO3 to find this one. But I think I found it!
Dust Shalt Thou Eat by ARealPip, Nix Laurel (E)
After the world doesn't end, Crowley and Aziraphale get a room at the Ritz and start working out what it means for them to be together.
They can swap bodies and touch each other's souls, but their bodies interact with the world very differently from each other. Crowley's body is cursed by God, and he can't taste food. And Aziraphale, like all angels, doesn't experience sexual arousal. Now that they are together, they can expand each other's horizons. But relationships, even magical ones, are delicate and complicated, and being able to hear your partner's thoughts doesn't mean that you will agree on everything.
Two magical lovers find ways to heal each other, to escape their past, and to protect Earth from all those bastards in Heaven and Hell.
~ Mod G
