Hey, Yall, I posted a chapter for two fics today!🎉 also marked in ink is now officially in 3rd person!
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posting schedule: every other week and just posted chapter 21
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
Posting schedule: whenever I finish, also just posted chapter two!
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I forgot to make a post here about posting a new chapter on AO3, I apologize. Also, Marked in ink will be switching to third person soon. Happy Pride everyone 🩷💛💙🏳️🌈
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posting schedule: every other week and just posted yesterday
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
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I just posted a new chapter! Also, for marked in ink once I post chapter two will be changed into 3rd person.
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posting schedule: every other week and just post chapter 19
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
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As a countdown activity while we waited for Season 3, the Mods on the Ineffable Professionals Bang Discord server posted a single opening sentence each day and let everyone who wanted to join in make a story, one sentence at a time.
Writers and artists built stories together in real time, with no planning. We made absurd crackfic, romantic disasters, historical nonsense, reverse universes, missing messiahs, mysterious ducks, emotionally compromised demons, pizza jokes, and an alarming amount of Furfur.
Very little remained sensible for long. It was chaos, frankly. But part of the magic was the collaboration itself: people pausing while others typed, cheering devastating lines, improvising plot twists, and somehow keeping the story moving forward together.
We've posted them here to capture this slice of fandom community, and the spirit of those 13 days of collaborative joy and chaos, for posterity.
It also marks the launch of our new IPB Ao3 account. This is where our Bang collaboration fics and art will be posted through September.
Twelve chapters, twelve chaotic short stories, lots of authors.
And - a poem.
On the day before S3 was released, we asked the IPB members to tell us their hopes for the Finale. One sentence each.
@bohoteacher turned these lines into a poem. In the aftermath of the finale, the poem reflects sadness and reflection, but also something hopeful. It is a reminder that fandom has always been a place where alternate endings can be built collectively, even when the official story feels difficult to hold. It is not meant as rejection of anyone's interpretation of the Finale, but as a record of what people hoped for, and what they may continue to imagine for these characters.
With deep thanks to everyone who contributed their words, wishes, and feelings. This is, in the truest sense, something made together.
Hey yall, it’s been a while (sorry😅) a lot happened since I last posted lol, but I’m back. Also, as another warning Marked in ink will be changing into third person once I post chapter two.
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posting schedule: every other week and just post chapter 18
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
The Ineffable Professionals Bang... Opening the Collaborative Chaos
Work is never just work, especially not around here
The Ineffable Professionals Bang is officially moving into its collaborative phase! Today on the IPB discord server we revealed the Artist/Writer Matches, and to celebrate we're also unveiling something very exciting: a brand new IPBang banner created by our wonderfully chaotic side-quest artists team, led by @anixfelix and powered by a great deal of creative mischief.
The banner was built across multiple styles and hands, with each piece reflecting a different interpretation of Good Omens characters and the many, many ways they might exist in professional worlds: lawyers, pilots, doctors, diplomats, architects... and probably a few occupations the IPB Roulette Wheel invented out of spite. 😆
Shout out to our brilliant side-quest artists for each contributing a character - can you work out whose is whose?
We're so grateful for the time, talent, and sheer enthusiasm that went into this. It really sets the tone for what this bang is all about: collaboration, creative chaos, and a lot of affection for these characters in wildly different professional shoes.
We've got over forty artists, over forty writers, and fifty-one fics heading toward September posting - We can't wait to see what everyone creates!
Follow @ipb2026 for sneak previews and regular reblogs of IPB members' art and writing.
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From Before the Beginning, Aziraphale saw the dangers of how heaven functioned. He didn't buy in to their arbitrary judgments and cruelty. He wanted to protect that joyful Starmaker, but didn't have any power. Without hesitation, he sheltered that same lovely Being from the strangeness of that first rainstorm on the Garden Wall. He risked damnation when he unflinchingly gave away his flaming sword to protect the first humans, and he willingly chose damnation (so he believed) when he lied to save Job's children.
That was a long time ago. One might wonder if the closer he got to Crowley, the fewer risks he was willing to take. One might even suspect that, as their bond solidified, Aziraphale's abundance of caution was (maybe perhaps possibly) even more focused on protecting Crowley than on protecting himself...
In the S2 Finale, Crowley set himself up to subtly challenge the Metatron, while Aziraphale played the fool, fawning and anxious and ever-so-surprised. Yet just minutes ago, he confidently scolded heaven's archangels and hell's top demons like they were a bunch of unruly schoolchildren, bell-ringing and all!
The set up for the Metatron was a performance. A magic show. Look at Crowley, focus on Crowley, he's sassy, he's a rebel, he wants to find out your secrets and take you down. Don't look at poor, weak, nervous Aziraphale!
Because... Scroll up and look at that title screenshot of "poor, weak, nervous Aziraphale." That's strength. That's not an angel ready to give up and walk away without a fight.
Now, I'm not saying Our Ineffables knew exactly what the Metatron's plans were. The Final 15 was painful for a reason. But, whatever was to come, Our Ineffables needed to lull the Metatron into totally underestimating Aziraphale. What a daring cliff-hanger, that we might have been lulled right along with him...
Crowley is determined and astute, and Aziraphale is smart and clever, and together they are already a dedicated and loving "Us." An Old Married Couple. They didn't wait 6000 years for this peaceful, fragile existance together to just throw it away in FIFTEEN MINUTES.
They've spent their entire lives focused on strategizing to survive dangerous regimes. They've spent millennia focused on surviving together, protecting each other. One of the strategies that protects them both is Crowley's act of devil-may-care boldness. Another is Aziraphale's mask of fawning obedience.
In S1, learning to break out from behind that mask is Aziraphale's actual character arc. We watch him grow to where he is no longer trapped behind it, where he believes in his own courage and uses it. At the air base he's prepared to hurl himself against the might of Satan, if necessary. He then goes into Hell Itself, not knowing for sure what he would face (Agnes only predicted fire -- that wasn't what hell would use against a demon!). He sasses the Prince of Hell, asks for a rubber duck, taunts Michael to miracle him a towel, and threatens all the Powers that Be.
He wasn't simply "channeling Crowley" --
That little nose squinch tells us he is completely himself! It's his own bravery, his own act of facing down his demons, metaphorically and literally! And he feels damned good about it!
We see this new confidence throughout S2. He is completely at ease with Crowley now, all the time. He confides in him, flirts with him, and fights with him without fear. The trust is immense, and ever-so-comfortable. We're also shown more than just fluff and fun -- Aziraphale boldly confronts a hoarde of demons armed with a candlabra and his intelligence, protecting 2 humans and a helpless Jimbriel with clever strategies and a well-timed halo.
So what happened in that final episode of S2? What was all that fluttery nonsense about after Crowley identified the Metatron?
Exactly that. It was Fluttery Nonsense.
As the above gif cycles 'round, I ask you to please focus on Azi. Watch his first reaction to the Metatron's entrance. (The screenshot at the top is from this moment.) Watch Aziraphale's face change as he focuses on the man who just entered. He literally does a double-take! One eyebrow arches sharply upwards, and he tilts his head in a deep frown.
Double-takes happen when someone is surprised, or shocked. We might do a double-take when we run into someone we know whom we weren't expecting to see just then. Someone we didn't want to see. Aziraphale isn't reacting to some unknown elderly human with peculiarly bad timing who happened to wander in. If that's what he really thought, he'd flutter himself right over to hurry the fellow out of the shop and far away from Michael's pillar-of-salt threats.
Instead, we see Aziraphale's face rapidly cycle (Bless you Michael Sheen, master of the microexpression!) from casual curiosity to surprise to an expression that, if we saw it on Crowley, we would call anger.
Then we're given a bit of distraction ourselves. The camara quickly cuts back to the Metatron and his exchange with the befuddled archangels. "Balderdash! ...complete Piffle!"
The camara returns again to Aziraphale. We are being distracted, but they aren't trying to cut us out of the subtext. It's there -- it flashes by on Aziraphale's face so quickly, it can feel more like intuition than observation (they did cast Michael Sheen, after all!). But the actor put it there and the director wanted it there, or it wouldn't be there.
Aziraphale's jaw tightens. He's reluctant to look away as he turns to observe Michael. He is not reacting to a doddering human that would already need rescued. He's reacting to a much greater danger.
These two shots return to Aziraphale for a reason. We are meant to see them. Together, they confirm that he did recognize the Metatron.
So far, the Metatron is preoccupied with embarrassing the archangels, and hasn't focused on "foolish little Aziraphale" yet. Our Angel quickly goes back behind his Mask, and when Crowley identifies the Floating Giant Head, Azi plays his role well.
Ohhhhhh! The METATRON!
Do we believe what we saw just moments ago? The quickly hidden flashes that reveals the reality behind the trick? Or, like the audience in a magic show, do we follow the distraction?
Aziraphale isn't terrific at magic. But he always succeeds when it matters most.
*****
When danger stalks your every move, it's to your advantage to make sure your opponent doesn't know what you're capable of, what skills you have, and how much you know. If they underestimate you, they may not scrutinize you quite so closely. It allows for the possibillity of some self-protective slight of hand.
Crowley didn't try to distract the Metatron because poor Aziraphale needed protection. (Of course, they are both always trying to protect each other!) Crowley distracted the Metatron so that Aziraphale could hide his awareness, his strength. It's a strategic advantage, and Our Ineffables always work best as a team.
And if they already were trying their damnedest at teamwork and misdirection when the Metatron first arrived, I think it bodes well for what they might have scraped together in that Final 15.
I think it bodes very well indeed...
*****
I'm here to give the fandom hope. Never false hope or pipe dreams.
Only Hope built on substance. Ineffable Hope.
*****
If you enjoyed this, and might like to consider more reasons to hope, you might enjoy some of the links I have to my older essays in the text. They lay the groundwork for believing in the strength of Our Ineffables.
I've also recently posted step-by-step screenshot evidence that, not only could the Meta-Dastard clearly see Through the Window into the bookshop (from his lurking position across the street - omg! S1/S2 Bookends!) during the Final 15 here, but also that Azi knew the whole time, and was signaling Crowley. And that Crowley saw him too, here in Part II.
Thanks for your own Ineffable Hopes...
To Our World!🥂✨
(This post was inspired by a discussion in the comments with @idcllc. Hold on to hope, my friend!)
Hey yall posted another chapter ☺️ also I bring another heads up for those who read Marked in ink that I will be changing the POV from first to third and it will be like that for the rest of the story
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Schedule: just posted chapter 17 and I post every other week in Mondays
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
Schedule: whenever it comes out and chapter two has been rewritten a few times by now so if the one I have at the moment sticks it should be done very soon
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74685966
Trapped:
Summary: All his life, Aziraphale has been up in his tower alone with his books and father. A lonely existence, that is until he meets a run away prince that had climbed into his tower.
Hey yall, I posted a new chapter! And I have come bearing news with Marked in ink. I’m redoing chapter one into third person and the story from here on out will be in third person. Don’t worry, I will let you know when I post the second chapter I will warn you about it here and on AO3, I just wanted to let you know before I change anything.
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Schedule: every other week, just posted chapter 16
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
Schedule: not specific time just whenever I’m done
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74685966
Trapped:
Summary: All his life, Aziraphale has been up in his tower alone with his books and father. A lonely existence, that is until he meets a run away prince that had climbed into his tower.
Hey yall, I forgot to tell yall that I posted another chapter on my fic earlier today. I apologize.
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posting schedule: just post a couple of hours ago (sorry😬) I post this one every other week
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop
Post schedule: soon I have a bit of stuff left to write and then I’m finished, no set schedule it’s whenever I post
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74685966
Trapped:
Summary: All his life, Aziraphale has been up in his tower alone with his books and father. A lonely existence, that is until he meets a run away prince that had climbed into his tower.
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Schedule: every other week and just posted chapter 14
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
Schedule: no specific one it’s whenever I finish a chapter, chapter 2 is coming soon
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74685966
Trapped:
Summary: All his life, Aziraphale has been up in his tower alone with his books and father. A lonely existence, that is until he meets a run away prince that had climbed into his tower.
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Hey yall, I’m back! Life has been busy for the past few weeks. With Christmas and visiting family, it’s been a lot. But I managed.
Flowers:
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley are finally left alone (again) and living their best life. Until one day Shax shows up to the bookshop to take Crowley to Hell for punishment for not helping them find Gabriel.
Posted: earlier today (it was 1 AM and I completely forgot to post here)
Summary: Crowley swore off love, not that he needs it anyway since he’s happily just working with his best friend and co-owner, Bee, at their tattoo shop. Aziraphale has finally had enough of his family and decided to move to SoHo, London to finally achieve his dream of running a book shop.
Post: soon, still working on the chapter
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74685966
Trapped:
Summary: All his life, Aziraphale has been up in his tower alone with his books and father. A lonely existence, that is until he meets a run away prince that had climbed into his tower.
Post: temporary hiatus (writer’s block is a bitch)
Hi yall, for those who are reading flowers are going to be a little disappointed. Because earlier this week I got extremely sick, like throwing up and delirious fever bad. So, I never got to write flowers, so I will try to get it out this week but with Christmas coming up it may be over the weekend or later after Christmas. Also, Marked in ink’s second chapter is coming soon as well as two new fics. One being a short story with only a few chapters. Sorry for the disappointing post. Happy holidays, yall.
Here’s the link to my fics if anyone wants to check them out: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Anxietydrivenwriter
