Trying My Best To Make Sense Of It All

❤️‍🩹 Come up, darling, let us start to heal together ❤️‍🩹

What if Aziraphale hadn't left Crowley in that dirty alleyway? What if he had helped him up and held him close?

Another IPB writer on today's Who's Who....

Another member of the Ineffable Professional Bang, today it's @sakascal !!

And after much deliberation, wanted to share their fic Until It Is

DIY miniatures? Always wanted to try one...

And because it's a magic bookshop, I simply had to make it Good Omens.

A video and more pictures beneath the cut.

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Artist: Lonicera

tumblr: @lonicera-caprifolium

Where to find you: Loni-capri.caard.co

Something you love to illustrate in Good Omens art: Love! I love drawing their love SO much, that is THE most important part of every single piece I create for them

I actually made two versions of this one--

One Life, One Love

by @thinkinginscripts

Rated M, 23 533 Words

Summary

Aziraphale and Crowley are slaves living in the Akeshi capital, meeting briefly at a slave market and making an instant connection. Crowley dreams of the two of them running away together, before Aziraphale is sold on to a new household. Crowley prays to Aziraphale's god to make him brave enough to find Crowley again. While they're apart, Aziraphale discovers a means of escape - across the Akeshi straits. But Crowley can't swim...

Why we love it

This was such a powerful read. It starts very strong, with a first meet that stayed with me all the way while I was reading this. Their first encounter feels like a soul-binding one, and once you've read everything, you come back to it and just... yeah. Crowley knew. I loved the utilisation of language in this fic so much, the way their names are twisted, the way they create their own means of communication. I loved the world building. It's done brilliantly, in few words, and yet you get how things work in this universe so easily. Truly beautiful writing. And OMFG the ending. Ends on a cliffhanger, thankfully it has a sequel! Time to read that I suppose!

Tags: Fantasy AU, Cliffhanger, Secret Relationship, POV Aziraphale, Language Nerd

Review by @captainblou

Thank you @au-roulette for organising! ❤️

My prompt: Classic Literature

read now on AO3: NaturallyTeal’s Dracula: ‘Count Crowley the Impaler’

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86281926

Summary:

Aziraphale J. (short for Jonathan) Harker visits the mysterious Count Crowley in his empty, forbidding castle in Transylvania. Soon, the inexperienced clerk from England has to fight snares of evil and practice constant vigilance to defend his innocence. But the question is: who’s impaling whom here?

Fully written, will be 3k in 5 chapters, will update twice a week

Chapters: 1/5

Fandom: Good Omens - All Media Types, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

On the Ineffable Professional Bang discord server, writers share the best lines they wrote during the previous week in Super Sentence Sunday - here's another random selection. We have over 40 writers in the Bang, lots of familiar names.... maybe you can recognise some styles below? (shared with permission)

As a part of Fandom Trumps Hate, I’ve made this gift for @maidenimage . It’s of a pretty cool chapter from their fic Foolish Behavior (Seems Right), go read it go go go! Go experience the drama

This one was challenging and oh so fun, thank you M for the opportunity and inspiration

New Good Omens multichap podfic: Is There a Version?

Written by @lookingatacupoftea.

Aziraphale has been giving the performance of his life for the past five months, averting the Second Coming while searching for a chink in the armour of heaven. It's hard when his heart is walking (sauntering) around below and his brain is betraying him with visions of a different life. Crowley is playing his own dangerous game while navigating unsettling emotions. Enter several old and new friends, two important texts, the art of prestidigitation, revelations about the way Her universe operates, and the inescapable tyranny of Christmas music. Can humans, demons, and angels work together to save the world and take control of their own fates when reality seems to be fracturing around them?

Chapter 1: Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

Aziraphale keeps it together in heaven despite the spectre of what might have been.

13 min | Teen (Work rating: Mature)

The story has wonderful art by @lutraslutra! Rated M, strangers to lovers human AU with banter, falling in love, just a touch of angst and a happy ending!

Fiction summary:

Rovaniemi! The perfect destination for a solo holiday! Quiet, charming, full of history and art! A solo trip there was just what Aziraphale needed to lift his mood after being bombarded by the pink chocolate boxes and heart-shaped cards that Valentine's Day aggressively threw at him from every shop window. Self-care and self-love, that’s all Aziraphale wanted out of that holiday.

Enter Anthony J. Crowley.

The handsome, charming novelist who chatted Aziraphale up on the plane.

Well, nothing wrong with a holiday fling, after all.

Just for the week.

And he’d never think of Crowley again, of course.

Excerpt from chapter 6:

Crowley turned to look at him again and spoke in a little more than a whisper. “Hello. Fancy seeing you here.”

“Yes,” Aziraphale said, a quivering excitement oozing from his voice. “Was just passing and thought I’d stop by.”

Crowley leaned his head against the back of the sofa. “So, uh. Is um. Your room c-comfortable?” he asked and immediately bit his lips where a mischievous smile was threatening to make an appearance.

Aziraphale blinked. “Would you like to see it?”

Read from the beginning on Ao3.

Read Chapter 6 on Ao3.

Many thanks to @goodomensafterdark

We asked the Ineffable Professional Bang writers to share on the IPB Discord Server what they'd been writing this week - on our Super Sentence Sunday! Here's a very eclectic, anonymous selection - follow us for more Super Sentences throughout the week....