Trying My Best To Make Sense Of It All

Back to NaturallyTeal’s Good Omens Poetry master post

You write “Aziraphale”, and you know the reader will see him. Will love him. Will know him. You take him and drop him into a new bit of world, let him run around there, see how he copes, watch him react. It’s like he’s running on rails. You know him. You love him.

You add “Crowley” and he’s a bit different, more different than your Aziraphale, every time, because that’s who he is. He is more changeable, more adaptable, his black has more shimmering shades than Aziraphale’s tan.

The moment both are in your world together, they begin to dance and get closer, they rotate and get caught in each others gravity pull, without fail. That’s them. That’s a binary star system, a double star, Alpha Centauri*.

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* contrary to common belief inside the fandom, Alpha Centauri is** actually a triple star system. But: poetic license, okay?!

** officially since 2016. The third star*** is much smaller and farther away tho than the first two****. But the specifics fall within the definition of a triple star system.

*** Proxima Centauri. You should remember the name of that one, it’s the star closest to our sun, so should you ever get lost in space, that’s a good point of reference.

**** Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. By that logic, Proxima Centauri is also known as Alpha Centauri C. It’s not complicated at all, as long as you don’t get me started on Beta Centauri…

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My Sources:

1) Wikipedia

2) Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory singing the song “These are the stars that are nearest to me”

Today's Ineffable Professionals spotlight shines on @0ldstoneface one of our bang writers.

Check out their humorous story Madame Tracy got stuck in the veil at this link.

Hypothetically, if I were to organise a Book Omens week this year (within the next few months), would anyone contribute to that? It would likely be an Ao3 collection and a designated tag for Tumblr/Bsky/Twitter/Instagram, nothing much more complicated than that.

Please feel free to reblog for numbers! (Also, if anyone would want to help coordinate things if there’s enough interest, feel free to DM me!)

And Crowley plays Aziraphale as incredibly brave, yet extremely forgiving and kind to the end. Someone who shows no weakness even when faced with destruction.

Today we're hearing about the IPB artist and writer (they're doing both!) @slytherat-wonderings @slytherat

They're sharing with us their Ineffable Very Secret Diaries series and their Deviant Art

And sometimes, a bakery will advertise chocolate cake but its really just a vanilla cake with chocolate chips. And you take it, because at least its got chocolate but you just wish it was advertised properly.

And sometimes, people say that something is a vanilla chocolate chip cake but its not even chocolate! Its just sultanas that everyone thinks were meant to be chocolate, but the bakery never said it was going to chocolate, even if they never said it wasn't.

And whenever you go into a new bakery looking for chocolate cake, everyone looks at you weirdly and tells you to enjoy vanilla chocolate chip cake when maybe you don't want the focus to be on vanilla.

And when you DO get chocolate cake, its always the same kind. And you settle, because hey, beggars cant be choosers, right? Its always just white chocolate all the way through, no dark chocolate, no milk chocolate, not even a Mars bar on the side. It feels more like a vanilla cake, to be honest, regardless of the fact that its undeniably technically chocolate.

And you just wish that just once you could finish a chocolate cake and have it taste nice all the way through, especially with all the growing hatred towards chocolate in the world, but every time you order one, no matter how much you ask the waiter not to take it, or trust the chef not to make it taste bad at the center, you never get a good chocolate cake. And you can make your own, but its never going to be sold in bakeries.

Today's spotlight shines on IPB artist @lutraslutra

Follow this link to their Instagram and the piece that makes them smile.

Here are some more lines from the writers of the Ineffable Professional Bang! (posted with permission)

Today's IPB Who's Who Spotlight is on @moon|moonwanders. Read on to learn their favorite tropes when writing fics.

Check out their reverse bang fic: underneath the stars, looking for a sign (glowing in the dark till the sun shines).

Here's some more snippets from Super Sentence Sunday - when we ask the 45 writers in the Ineffable Professional Bang to tell us the best line they wrote this past week. Can you spot any familiar styles? (posted with permission)

I think we could all use a bit of fluff, so here:

Have an Ineffable Wedding photo

Hint hint, this is a modified drawing of a piece made for a wonderful fic by Di_42

find them on Ao3, I won’t say more cause it would mean SPOILERS

@di-42

Next on IPB's Who's Who we're shining the spotlight on @werpiper In the fandom since 1992!