What A Very Nice Fire

[aziraphales-library]

Heyy, do you have any recommendations of fanfics named after Hozier's (our lord and savior) songs? Especially more recent ones since both season 2 and his new album were released relatively close.

Thank you very much, your work is amazing!!!

There are... so many. We're previously recommended some fics inspired by Hozier here. Here are some series two Hozier fics...

no grave can hold my body down (i'll crawl home to you) by AK_Qhyrstol (T)

Keep driving, keep driving… He’d been holding his breath for hours, trying not to let the lump in his throat and the burn in his eyes win. His lips were pursed and tight, desperately holding back the sobs screaming in his lungs. Where could he even go? There wasn’t anywhere for him to go. -- Or: After Aziraphale leaves Earth for Heaven, Crowley gets in the Bentley and drives, and drives, and drives...

The Choiceless Hope in Grief (That Drove Him Underground) by aac0577 (NR)

Post-Breakup, Muriel and Crowley talk. Aziraphale and Crowley do too.

It's More the Being Unknown by sam_rvb (G)

The last few months have been a bit of a blur for Crowley, who has been trying to figure out what to do with himself since Aziraphale left him for Heaven. He's taken up residence in the bookshop alongside Muriel, who finds a new room to explore and asks Crowley if it's okay for them to read the newly discovered books within.

from eden by tlsonetwothree (G)

In the wake of Aziraphale’s destruction of Crowley’s heart, there is a certain solace he finds in the Earth they once shared. The demon takes a road trip to a cottage in the South Downs, where he tries to pick up the pieces of his heart and soul, both of which left when his world did.

The fear in its eyes, Gone out in an instant. Your tear caught the light, The Earth from a distance. by bl0rb0 (T)

Aziraphale has never seen Crowley cry. He’s been there in the rare moments the man-shaped being has done so, but Crowley always turns away or flees somewhere unknown. Aziraphale doesn't know that a piece of the Starmaker resides in Crowley, in the form of his tears. Crowley’s tears are filled with Holy Water and every time he cries, his tears make themselves known on his cheeks as a form of scars and burns. When Aziraphale leaves to heaven, Crowley hides in his beloved Bently to cry his sorrows away. He hoped it would be a short cry, one that goes just as quickly as it came and then he can return to his sarcastic and bitter self. But years go by and Crowley’s cheeks and hands have scarred over and he refuses to come out of hiding until a lighthearted and once naive angel pulls him out.

Don't Fall Away From Me by dream_animal (NR)

“Ok…” Crowley ran a hand through his hair. “Ok, ok, so - we need a plan. And to do that, we need information, yeah?” “Right,” nodded Muriel, enthusiastically. “Right,” said Crowley. “I suspect it will be a bit more difficult for me to just waltz through Heaven this time, so you’re going to need to—” he cut off with a gasp, like he’d been punched in the gut, and inhaled sharply. “What—" Muriel felt it a moment later, unbidden tears spilling from their eyes. A great despair. A wave of agony and anguish. A cosmic imbalance, ripping across the ethereal plane. Angels and demons alike shuddered under the weight of unbearable grief. The universe wept. It was a feeling that had not been felt for millennia. Crowley dropped to his knees. Muriel turned to him, horrified. “It- it’s…” An angel had Fallen. In which Crowley deals with life post-Aziraphale, and Aziraphale deals with the consequences of his decisions. Can they pick up the pieces in time to save the world, again?

Heaven isn't built to house a love like you and I by ItsScottiesStark (T)

They did it. They stopped Armageddon. They survived. This was it, the first time they were actually free to finally figure out what their side entailed. Aziraphale is a being of love. Always has been. And now, all the love he has for Crowley is free to flow from the edge of his fingertips to the demon's, in a gesture that could only mean one thing; I'm with you. I'm here. As much as his hands itch to reach out for the love of his existence, his words seem to fail him, time and time again. He knows Crowley deserves more than gentle hand holding and forehead kisses in the dark. He aches to scream his love from the top of his lungs, for the whole world to hear. And the demon knows it. And he waits. Because he'll wait forever for Aziraphale. Because he knows they are meant to be one. We take a peak into Aziraphale and Crowley's "peaceful, fragile existence" they slowly carve out for themselves after Armage-not. We get to see Aziraphale slowly but surely reach out for the demon time and time again, bringing them closer than ever. Until Jim happens. And it all goes to shit.

- Mod D

[thelyricallyre]

And another Don’t Fall Away From Me (essentially Season 3, wrapped and ribboned into a gorgeous, heartbreakingly beautiful written package, incredibly well-loved and with its final chapter up soon): https://archiveofourown.org/works/49807735/chapters/125729869

I hugely recommend this fabulous work, by none other than the wonderful @phoen1xr0se.

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[penrosesun]

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

[neil-gaiman]

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

[thelyricallyre]

LibreOffice is glorious. As someone who enjoys writing and who also uses office-based tools for work (I’m a teacher) every day, it’s the only software I’d ever want to use.

…I was not paid to say that, either.

[thelyricallyre]

She doesn’t want me to write, but write I must (with a bit of re-reading to start, of course)!

[thelyricallyre]

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[Chapter Two] The Outsider

[Human AU] When Anthony J. Crowley gets fired from his well-respected job as an English teacher (at an equally well-respected London private school), his only option is to apply for everything and anything. The only job offered? A tiny primary school, seemingly in the middle of absolute NOWHERE. Without any other options, Crowley takes the job, with every intention of leaving just as soon as he can find something better. Aziraphale Fell, a licensed child counsellor and school chaplain, has worked at St. George's Primary School for years and is well-loved by staff and children alike (despite, on occasion, being a little behind on the times). He loves everything about his job, from the drawings stuck up on the walls of his office to to the creaky, coffee-stained chair, but even Aziraphale is aware that he lives, breathes and dies for the job... and not much else. One cold day in January, their worlds' collide.

[thelyricallyre]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[Chapter One] The Fall

[Human AU] When Anthony J. Crowley gets fired from his well-respected job as an English teacher (at an equally well-respected London private school), his only option is to apply for everything and anything. The only job offered? A tiny primary school, seemingly in the middle of absolute NOWHERE. Without any other options, Crowley takes the job, with every intention of leaving just as soon as he can find something better. Aziraphale Fell, a licensed child counsellor and school chaplain, has worked at St. George's Primary School for years and is well-loved by staff and children alike (despite, on occasion, being a little behind on the times). He loves everything about his job, from the drawings stuck up on the walls of his office to to the creaky, coffee-stained chair, but even Aziraphale is aware that he lives, breathes and dies for the job... and not much else. One cold day in January, their worlds' collide.