Hello! 👋 Can I interest anyone in my story Share My Stars, a Good Omens 1980’s Human AU fic that was partially inspired by Slow Show and The Secret History?
It features astrophysicist Crowley, English professor Aziraphale (Ezra), a reasonable amount of academia-based plot and hopefully-enjoyable side characters, an unfortunate amount of repression, and what I hope is a cozy yet also relatively realistic look at life on a small college campus in Vermont in 1987-88.
Rated E (eventually). Main tags are Slowburn, Requited Longing, and Angst with a Happy Ending. Content warnings for Period-Typical Homophobia.
Chapter 9 summary: Crowley makes an impulsive decision. Ezra reacts about how you'd expect.
Chapter 9 excerpt:
When Ezra made eye contact with Crowley across the man’s head, he smiled. The instant of that smile made the rest of the room fall away in a wash of faded color and noise. Crowley was drawn to him inexorably, moth to candleflame, unable to backpedal in midair even if he’d wanted to.
Chapter 10 summary: Ezra flips the script.
Chapter 10 excerpt:
He lifted the snake up to examine it better. It was perhaps thirty centimeters long, black and gray with several tan streaks down its back. It wiggled forward hesitantly, sniffing the air, and its forked black tongue flicked out over his knuckles.
Ezra laughed. “Hello to you, too,” he said. “You’re a beautiful little thing.”
A million thanks to my betas indeedcaptain and sazzyfics! You guys rock forever ♥️
This story is completed and updates Wednesday and Sunday nights. Chapters 9 and 10 just dropped.
Goal: forcing me to keep things simple - inking, shading, just a few sashes of colour
Improvement pursued: to get the movement, the emotion, finding how to add depth, learning how to leave things barely finished
Max time allowed: 2 hours instead of 8-20 on my previous projects
Today's theme chosen by me: a little tribute to the great fanfiction “Demon and Angel Professors”, more precisely to a specific scene in one of my favourite chapter called “Say It To My face”
If you haven't read "Demon and Angel Professors" by Gosthinthehouse/@ineffableghost, I can only encourage you to do it.
And if you're a Francophone, here is the link for the French translation by @malohkeh-main and your humble servant.
Quick life update, Dr Fell and I got married this summer. Just thought you would be interested to know all of you were right all along. Don't make a big deal out of it or I'll curse you.
((Sorry I abandoned this ask blog lol! I finally finished the fic this blog was based on last week. If you read it to the end thanks for sticking around! I come back to this blog a lot to remember how fun it was. Maybe I'll make a new Crowley blog someday. Thanks for having fun with me! Love, mod 💛))
love like yours (will surely come my way) chapter 21
Chapter 21/??? of my Professors AU just dropped!
love like yours (will surely come my way) by CCs_World
rating: T
chapter word count: 2286
current fic word count: 74586
fic summary: Dr Zira Fell is a new professor of theology at St Beryl's University. His first day there he meets the mysterious and enchanting Dr AJ Crowley, an art history professor and a painter. They almost immediately become friends, and spend most of their time getting lunch together, talking, drinking wine, making art, and falling slowly in love with one another.
chapter summary: The Them does some snooping. Dr Crowley spills a secret. Dean Zebub hears some news.
excerpt:
“You’ve been acting weird for weeks,” Pepper accused.
Dr Fell sighed as a strange look came over his face. “Yes, of course,” he said. “Only…” He sighed again, and his eyes wandered around the room, avoiding the faces of his students. “Only, have you ever wanted something terribly and yet known that you could never, ever have it?”
Pepper and Brian considered this, and then Pepper frowned. "Like a PS4?"
Dr Fell blinked. "A what? No, it doesn't matter. Not like that. Well, I suppose… it could be rather like that? Oh, I'm too tired for metaphors."
Squinting, Brian asked, "Dr Fell, are you in love or something?"
(Texte en français après "Afficher davantage", venez donc les amoureux de la langue de Molière ❤)
For the past weeks, I've had the honour and pleasure of being my dear @malohkeh-main's beta reader for her French translation of "Demon and Angel Professors", a gorgeous and gigantic Good Omens AU written by Ghostinthehouse aka @ineffableghost.
Malohkeh does the heavy work, while your humble servant adapts the text as best as possible for French readers. A hard but fascinating work!
Just so you know, each chapter of the English text is exactly 666 words, and Malohkeh made sure to respect this from the beginning. Sometimes, it is possible to manage to end up with a satisfying, coherent translation at 666 words. And sometimes you just cannot do it in French language (AO3 even counts some punctuation marks as words!). So we keep a wordcount made of 3, 6, 7 and 9 for reasons of our own.
Today I worked on the one-shot titled "Would I lie to you" and it was definitely a 666-achievable chapter, while being fluid to read in French. That moment when I tweak, tweak, and tweak again...reading and reading, going from 661 to 668 words, then 665, 667, 663...before reaching the last sentence. A sentence where I go full YOLO in my prettiest french-writing mode, then save the draft...and the word count claims "666". Muhahaha. It just feels like this to me:
If you haven't read "Demon and Angel Professors" I can only encourage you to do it here!
And if you're a Francophone, please have a look at our first translations! Give us a feedback if you'd like!
And thank you so much @vanam0nde for checking/translating my ineffable babblings on Tumblr!
Anecdote Random de Traduction - Ou pourquoi c'est pour moi un honneur et un plaisir de traduire!
Depuis quelques semaines, j'ai l'honneur et le plaisir de beta-reader ma chère amie @malohkeh-main pour sa traduction en français de "Demon and Angel Professors", un splendide et gigantesque AU Good Omens écrit par Ghostinthehouse aka @ineffableghost. Malohkeh fait le plus gros du travail de traduction, et votre humble servante se charge d'adapter du mieux possible le texte à un lectorat français, tout en respectant la prose de Ghostinthehouse. Un travail exigeant mais passionnant!
Pour information, chaque chapitre de la version anglais originale compte exactement 666 mots, et Malohkeh s'est fait un devoir de respecter cet objectif dès le départ. Parfois, il est possible d'avoir une VF cohérente et agréable à lire qui fait elle aussi 666 mots. Et parfois, c'est juste impossible à faire (le site A03 comptant même certains effets de ponctuation en français comme des mots! ) et alors on garde en objectif de rester sur un nombre de mots uniquement à base de 3, 6, 7 et 9 pour des raisons qui nous paraissent pertinentes.
Aujourd'hui j'ai travaillé sur le one-shot 6 intitulé "Would I lie to you", et c'était définitivement un chapitre qui pouvait rester à 666 mots tout en demeurant agréable à lire en français.
Ce moment où je fignole, fignole, et fignole encore, relisant encore et toujours, oscillant de 661 à 668 mots, puis 665, 667, 663... avant de terminer sur la toute dernière phrase de conclusion, où je fais une belle modification en mode YOLO pour que ça sonne mieux, je "save as draft", et le compteur de mots qui clame "666". Mouahahaha.
Comment vous dire, si ce n'est que je ressens à peu près ça:
Si vous n'avez pas encore lu "Demon and Angel Professors", je vous invite fortement à y faire un tour !
Et si vous êtes francophones, passez donc nous donner votre avis sur nos premières traductions!
Right, time to collect my many bottles of my best wines and whiskeys and head to Soho to see how much I can tempt our dear Dr Fell into consuming in the next hour. Updates to follow.
