Introducing... Celestial University, a Good Omens AU fic!
Massive thanks to @yamisnuffles for this incredible work of art, btw.
I’m super excited to be involved in the @go-events Good AUmens AU Fest next month! I’m working on a human AU based on the prompt ‘university students’, starring our favourite ineffable couple and featuring plenty of other Good Omens favourites – celestials, humans, and otherwise.
It’s currently fully outlined (and is going to be another long one), with three and a half chapters written and ready to go (my posting date is 6th June, so only a few weeks away!). I hope you’re ready...!
Read on for a sneak preview of the fic...
Lectures, unfortunately, were exactly as boring as Crowley expected them to be.
To be fair, it was only the first week, and they were more introductions to the topics they’d be covering than any actual learning, but it still wasn’t particularly inspiring or hopeful for how the rest of the year – or his degree as a whole – was going to go.
In the first one, he’d been handed a leaflet about optional modules, and had immediately decided to do as many of them as possible outside of his actual degree subject. What exactly he’d do instead, he had yet to figure out.
At least there was some interesting stuff around campus. Apparently the Freshers’ Fair lasted all week here, with societies putting up stalls in and around the Students’ Union to try to entice newcomers to join them – if not with the activities of the society itself, then at least with free sweets or pens.
He spent a bit of time wandering around the stands, peering at the ‘stuff we do!’ leaflets for the TV Society (‘make awesome shows for our Student TV YouTube channel!’), the Mixology Society (‘more than just making cocktails – learn to spin and flip those bottles, too!’), the Driving Society (disappointingly more focused on ‘learn to drive’ than ‘be enthusiastic about one specific make of car’), and the Drag Society (‘come and strut your stuff, performing gender with the best of us, no matter your identity!’).
He seriously considered the latter, paused for a moment over the Poetry Society, but in the end only signed up for his subject society, ‘BusinessSoc’, which seemed to specialise in pub crawls and generic socials rather than anything actually Business-related. It would be good for meeting people, at least.
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University was everything Aziraphale had dreamed it would be.
His first few lectures were fascinating, going over all the different texts and areas of literary and language history that they’d be covering, plus offering a mouth-watering list of optional modules that he was somehow expected to choose between by the end of the week.
The Freshers’ Fair was brilliant, too. There were an awful lot of people around, which was a little intimidating, but there was also free food on offer – pizza! sweets! cakes! – and a massive range of societies to join. He made sure to visit each stand, scoping out exactly what they did before signing up to any.
In the end, he added himself to the email list for the Student Book Club and agreed to go to the introductory sessions for both the English Society and the university newspaper. There were several others he was interested in – the Baking Society, the Theatre Society, the Poetry Society – but there were limits to his capacity for socialising, so he was careful with what he signed up for.
After all, he had at least three years of this. Plus a Master’s degree. And maybe even a PhD, if he got that far. Plenty of time to try everything.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 6 is up! This is my human AU fic for the Good AUmens AU fest, and it’s based on the prompt ‘university students’.
A fair number of text messages in this chapter, so reading it with the work skin on is advised, but I have tried my best to make it accessible without too. Let me know if you have any problems, and I’ll fix it asap!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Still not 100% happy with it, but here’s Chapter 5 of my Good AUmens AU Fest fic, Celestial Omens - a human AU based on the prompt ‘university students’! Featuring terrible flatmates and Strong Aziraphale.
Massive thanks to @madeofmydreams for beta-ing part of this chapter, and to @lordvoldemortsnipple for helping with wrangling the css into submission!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 4 has been posted! This is my Good Aumens AU Fest fic, a human AU based on the prompt ‘university students’, and in this chapter I send the ineffables to the theatre (not the Globe, but it is still Shakespeare, at least...)
Publishing this fic isn’t going to be to a schedule from here on out, but I’ll still post here whenever a chapter goes live, or you can subscribe to the fic on ao3 and get updates sent directly into your inbox. Hope you’re enjoying this so far, and thanks for reading!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 3 of my Good Aumens AU Fest fic is up! This is a human AU based on the prompt ‘university students’, and only now do we get to the actual part where they start lectures... (shh, don’t judge me).
This chapter also (finally) includes the section I used for my preview post!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 2 of my Good AUmens fic is up! Human AU based on the prompt ‘university students’, now with added awkward partying. Enjoy!
I’m starting to mess around with work skins for the first time with this fic, and just wanted to link to this helpful guide (and associated example fic) for how I did the post-it note. Looking forward to experimenting further as the story goes on!
'Wherefore, verily I say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual' (D&C 29:34). 1. Strengthen your testimony of the gospel through fasting, prayer, and study. 2. Undertake a consistent program of scripture study. 3. Read Enos 1-5. Following the example of Enos, increase the power of prayer in your life. Seek to draw nearer to your Heavenly Father through sincere daily prayer. 4. Design and undertake a one-year program of extensive Church reading. (Books by Presidents of the Church and other General Authorities or similar major gospel studies may be considered.) 5. Develop a personal file of teaching and speaking enrichment ideas, including quotations, thoughts, anecdotes, scriptures, and inspirational experiences. Accept every opportunity to use these materials in speaking or teaching. 6. Keep a personal journal. Record memorable spiritual experiences or events, goals for the future, areas for personal improvement, and personal thoughts and feelings. 7. Complete the Teacher Development Basic Course, followed by an active teaching assignment. 8. Graduate from an institute of religion, complete at least 24 quarter hours or eighteen semester hours of Church religious training, or complete the equivalent hours of a Church Educational System individual study program. 9. Fill an honorable full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 10. Fill an honorable stake mission. 11. Attend the temple at least once each month. 12. Participate in bringing a new member into the Church or in reactivating a member. 13. Enroll in a Church-approved genealogy class. Complete at least four generations on a pedigree chart for your own family. Write a family history relating incidents, backgrounds, and inspirational experiences based on research and interviews. 14. Prayerfully consider an individualized goal. Discuss with Relief Society leader or Presidency member before submitting.
