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[cassieoh]

A Trembling Thornless Rose

The Empress Josephine expects her ladies to be clad in the most elegant and expensive of fashions. Crowley’s all right with the bared shoulders and low bustlines. But the pale flowing gowns aren’t meant for demons. Far too close to Heavenly robes, if you ask her. No, all that nonsense is far better suited to… angels.

I collaborated with the awesomely talented @musegnome for the @itsstylishzine and the fic she wrote is so, so amazing!! Please go give it a read (and all the love).

[aziraphales-library]

Do you have any ineffable wives fics??

Hello!

You’re always welcome to look through our ineffable wives tag here or on AO3 here.

Here’s a few human au ineffable wives fics I would recommend:

1. brighter than the brightest stars by seekwill

 “What,” said Crowley, the hinges of her jaw suddenly not quite working the way they should, “are you wearing?”

 Aziraphale startled and immediately drew the open button up pyjama top around her. “Oh, you know. Nothing. Nothing of note. Pyjamas.”

It wasn’t bright enough to see it, but Crowley could hear the blush on Aziraphale’s voice. But what Crowley had seen in the dull moonlight wasn’t even in the same ballpark as nothing of note. She groped wildly for the lightswitch behind her, her mouth cracking into a grin. - When 20-year-old Crowley sees Aziraphale for the very first time she's piss drunk, and backed by a chorus of absolute menaces who fancied themselves her friends. An inauspicious start grows into something miraculous. Years after their first meeting, Aziraphale still manages to surprise her.

2. Flannel and French Lace by musegnome

 She had a vision of how things would go when Crowley got home. The door would open. Crowley would drag in her suitcase and pull off her shoes at the door. She’d come up the stairs, and Aziraphale would rise to greet her, and Crowley would be so delighted to see the blue dress. She liked it best out of all Aziraphale’s dresses, since all she had to do was untie a belt and unclasp a button and it would fall open. “Like unwrapping the best present,” she’d told Aziraphale, laughing, and this time wouldn’t she be surprised to see what was inside?

Seekwill's brighter than the brightest stars, from Aziraphale's POV.

~ Mod G

If any of you have any other recommendations, please feel free to put them in the notes!

[go-events]

Good AUmens AU Fest Masterpost #4, June 21-27

The Good AUmens AU Fest is an event of over 100 authors and artists, all producing new alternate universe works based on a prompt that was assigned to them. They’ve been at work since early March and the works will debut during the month of June.

This is the fourth of five weekly masterposts.

[ Links to previous masterposts: 1 - 2 - 3 ]

Works arranged by date posted

June 21

Elders AU: a halcyon day by @mllekurtz​

Library AU: Call Number by @musegnome​

Western AU: A Fistful of Omens by @saretton​

June 22

Medusa AU:  I See You by @sungmee​

Soulmate AU: four-letter words by @pheenick​

Bodyguard AU: Apple Tree Duty by @danger-r-98-5

June 23

Summer Camp Counselor AU: Star of the Wooded Mountain by @jammintwamp​

Circus AU: Rites of Movement by @spoilthevines​

June 24

Regency AU: The Lord of Tadfield Manor by @cousin-serena​

Demon/Human AU: This artwork by @emeraldscholar​

June 25

Professors AU: Opera Cakes and Second Takes by @ineffable-writer​

Art Heist AU: This is Ourselves (Under Pressure) by @raiining​

Vampire AU: The Night Shift by @silver-colour​

June 26

Angry Customer/Employee AU: The Fine Print by @fremulon

Single Parent AU: What You Mean to Me by @lt-commander-aly​

Good Omens/Generation Kill fusion: 40 Days in the Desert by @wildtrakone​

June 27

Percy Jackson AU: This artwork (first of a series) by @coffeemacaroni​

[pyracantha14]

It’s live sweet babies!! @musegnome is a beautiful human and I’m so happy that we’ve written together something we both love so much! I hope you love it too! Chapter One of Yet, If He Said He Loved Me ♥️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26367751

[difficult-lem0n]

yet, if he said he loved me

In this new world, where the sword of Damocles of the apocalypse has clanged down with all the strength of a plastic bread knife, Crowley and Aziraphale are carefully exploring their new normal. Centuries of buried love and hurt will always leave landmines, including some you planted yourself. An invitation to a 1970s theme art gala with Anthema & Newt is a lovely idea that throws our angel and demon back into memories of a night at the bookshop they haven’t spoken about in 48 years.

It rings like a bell through him. He can still remember how the leather of the coat was like a second skin, warm and soft. He can remember how it felt when Aziraphale had grabbed the front to manhandle him onto the desktop. The black ink spiraled out in an arc almost like a wing. 

Crowley has gone still. The silence feels thick and heavy, like any word he utters would drop into it and hang there, suspended. His brain tries to find something light to break it. Anything at all. “One word at a time,” he thinks, “like stair steps.”  Thank someone he manages to keep his voice steady. 

 “Nah. Last time I wore it, it got stained. And… I can’t always get the stains out, angel.” 

His eyes well up at the picture in his head and he works to push the memory down, breathing through his nose and trying for lightness. 

“But I’ve got a lot of other options. Tell me you’ll dress up, too?” He’s rewarded with the angel skipping past his awkwardness. 

“Yes, fine, Crowley, I’ll see what I can come up with.” 

“I’ll pick you up, Angel? If we shoot for seven o'clock we should get there right as the pre-show nibbles arrive.” The silence sticks in this throat as he waits to hear the reply. 

Finally he hears a strained, “That sounds lovely, my dear. I’ll see you then.” And Aziraphale rings off hurriedly. 

Crowley sits holding the phone to his chest. It’s still a physical ache to think about it. It was one of the lowest points of their... friendship, arrangement, whatever this is now. And it IS something now. Something so precious, and he worries the fragile bubble they’ve created might disappear. 

Because it’s obvious that the angel hasn’t forgotten a thing.

Welcome to a PyraMuse collaboration for the GO-Events Server’s POV Pairs event!

@purepyracantha​ is writing Crowley, and @musegnome​ is writing Aziraphale. We’ve had so much fun writing this together, and we hope you enjoy!

Look for this dropping on AO3 on September 22th!

[go-events]

Week 1 Round-Up!

Here are the works that have been posted as a part of GO-Events Rom Com:

Hey nonny, nonny by @ulspi

The Annual Tadfield Cheese Rolling Festival by @summerofspock

Romancing the Tome by @antikate

This Much Is True by @musegnome

Auspicious Schooling by @madeofmydreams

Celestial Passengers by @meowdejavu

It Would Take a Miracle by @micky-r-c

Torpoint Blank by @chewb

[go-events]

GO Rom Com Spotlight: @musegnome​

The most excellent @musegnome​ has claimed The Wedding Singer to adapt for Good Omens in the Good Omens Rom Com Event.

For reference, here’s a little background about the source material!

About The Wedding Singer: Set in 1985, Adam Sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. He loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his fiancé. He meets a young woman named Julia (Drew Barrymore), who enlists his help to plan her wedding. He falls in love with her and must win her over before she gets married.

We spent some time chatting about how the adaptation is coming so far, as well as future plans for it! Now, get to know @musegnome​ a little better!

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goromcom: You know how if you open a Tumblr chat with someone you haven't chatted to before, Tumblr tells you two things they post about? I wanted to tell you that yours reports that you post "about #goromcom and #good omens." Aww! goromcom 4eva!

musegnome: #goromcom 4eva indeed! I actually have a weird online social media anxiety, because I worry that can't read people like I can in person. I've been an accountless Tumblr lurker for years - and finally created Tumblr and Discord accounts when I signed on to the Rom Com event! Everyone has been lovely. Please come say Hi on my new Tumblr!

goromcom: And we’re happy to have you! You chose to adapt The Wedding Singer as your rom com. Has this movie been a favorite of yours, or is there some other reason you chose it?

musegnome: I was a teenager when this movie came out and I've loved it forever (though not of course without an eye toward its more problematic qualities). I also feel like Robbie and Julia map very well to Crowley and Aziraphale respectively, and a lot of the other characters connect wonderfully too (Glenn's attitude toward Julia was reminiscent of Gabriel's attitude toward Aziraphale; Robbie's brother-in-law's nipple-twisting comments were a great way to link to Shadwell, etc.) Because of the aforementioned online social anxiety I was hesitant to jump in to the event, but when I realized I had a list of almost all the GO characters connected to Wedding Singer ones, and a multi-chapter story line outlined, I took the plunge! I'm really excited to mix up a favorite nostalgic movie with my current GO obsession.

goromcom: What's your favorite moment of The Wedding Singer, and are you looking forward to presenting it in your adaptation? Any loose plans for that scene that you can share?

musegnome: Less a favorite moment and more some favorite scenes/lines. The scene where Robbie is talking to the woman who jilted him at the altar, Linda, and as she's telling him about all the reasons she doesn't want to marry him, he says "You know, that information might have been a little more useful to me yesterday." I quote this line all the time, and that scene is definitely making it into this fic! Along with the whole wedding cake/dress shopping montage, capped by the bit where Robbie and Julia listen to the rival wedding singer John Lovitz (to be replaced by Hastur and Ligur ...with Ligur singing "I Will Survive"). That's actually the next scene up for me to write, and just writing this description has me antsy to get started!

goromcom: Oh, some Ligur irony there! It sounds like you may plan to stick closer to the story beats of the original movie rather than making bigger changes?

musegnome: Pretty closely. The major events and scenes will be the same as the Wedding Singer (but stuffed with GO tropes like a turducken), and there's a few original scenes I'm adding to firm up the Wedding Singer/GO bridges. I'm still working on the ending - in the movie, Glenn and Julia get on a plane to go get married in Las Vegas, and Robbie gets on the same plane and stops them. But I have Gabriel as Glenn, and since the angel/demon characters are still angels and demons in this fic, I can NOT imagine Gabriel tolerating plane travel at all, or viewing Las Vegas with anything other than horrified fascination. I have a tentative plan that will be a major change from the Wedding Singer ending, but would tie into the Nazi church scene in GO. We'll see how it plays out though; characters can veer off in unexpected directions!

goromcom: What's an interesting decision you've made in your planning so far--a notable casting decision, a changing of venue, or some other plan you have to paint Good Omens all over your rom com?

musegnome: I thought about doing the fic as a full human AU, but I had a lot of touches I wanted to include that involved angelic/demonic abilities. So I have the Wedding Singer town of Richfield (which is of course Tadfield in the fic) as a kind of neutral space where the angels/demons come to tinker and thwart each other in the happy parts/miserable parts of weddings and wedding planning. Also, The Wedding Singer was almost as much a tribute to the 1980s as it was a romcom; I'm not doing a specific 80s focus, although I've tried to keep music and technology mentions such that the fic could vaguely be set in the 80s. Like I mentioned earlier, a lot of the characters have similar roles and personalities, and map really well - Robbie and Julia as Crowley and Aziraphale, their respective BFFs Holly and Sammy as Anathema and Newt, Glenn as Gabriel, Rosie (the lady Robbie is teaching to sing) as Madam Tracy... so it's been fun to draw those lines.

goromcom: I am blatantly stealing this last question from The Good Place: The Podcast, but here goes: Tell me something "good". It can be something big or small. It can be a charity you think is doing good work, or you can talk about how great your pet is.

musegnome: Not to belabor a point, or to gush too much, but everyone on the GO RomCom server has been a delight. I've really loved getting to interact with everyone - couldn't be a nicer group (or a more welcoming fandom) for a socially anxious gnome to dip online toes into! And I haven't written for fun in a very, VERY long time, and it's been a real confidence booster to see how easily the writing has been flowing so far. (Hope I haven't just jinxed myself....) I'm so thrilled about this whole experience. Also, I have a very cute tiny dog who likes to keep me company while writing.

goromcom: Adorable! 

Stay tuned for the GO adaptation of The Wedding Singer, coming soon!

[leilakalomi]

For the WIP game, Leila love - all of these are fascinating, but Sanctuary spin-off?! I’d love to know more!!! 👀💜

Ooh yes! I started writing a one shot that’s basically a Crowley POV. Very much still a WIP, and sadly, one that hasn’t been updated since February 😬