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It feels like they keep telling us it’s over, and while, yes, the series is done, that does not mean we have to stop creating. Good Omens has belonged to the fandom for a long time and as long as we keep creating stories and art then Crowley and Aziraphale will never be gone.

I have some big writing projects in the works, but this damn heatwave is melting my brain and I have summer seasonal depression which has made things hard to focus.

Unspeakable unions and vicarious pleasures (E, 3k): two idiots run into each other at an orgy…. and each fuck someone else while staring at the other

Ultra rosa (E, 20k): sort of a sequel to Sub rosa (also excellent, E, 3.8k) but can be read on its own. roman bathhouse shenanigans, you’re in for a ride here: sweet, hot, interesting

A feast for dionysius (E, 13k): well lookie here, aziraphale runs into crowley at an orgy. crowley’s receiving the worsttttt cunnilingus. why doesn’t aziraphale demonstrate how it’s done?

Pounded in the butt by my onlyfans porn star flatmate (E, 6k): AU. Basically what it says in the title, hot and sweet

Playing games (E, 5.5k): crowley hangs out at the gentleman’s club aziraphale frequents, he tries to get aziraphale’s attention by daring a man to touch him. ooffff …. memorable and emotional

- feel free to add your own fics/recs!

Will No On Rid Me (E, 6.9K); a Regency AU. Miss Antonia Crowley is at her limit: she longs for the touch of her local parish priest, Father Ezra Fell. Frustrated by Ezra's adherence to his vows, she sets up a risky situation in order to provoke a reaction from him. Maybe then she can move past what is surely just a silly infatuation...

Window Dressing (E, 4k); The miracle is this: there is a bubble in reality, extending outwards from the window of a familiar Soho bookshop. Passers-by within the bubble can see through the slightly age-warped glass into the shop beyond. They won't notice as they pass through the membrane of the miracle and they won't remember what they saw once they have.

Thank you for tagging me, @hermiola, @spectrallydistracted, @curiouspupsicle and @bellisima-writes! 💖

Last Song: Hey, Soul Sister by Train and The Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys. Both are comfort songs for me. Whenever I'm feeling a bit low, they somehow shimmer me back towards joy.

Currently Watching: SAS Rogue Heroes, Season Two. Utterly deranged. Absolutely brilliant. Paddy Mayne for life. 😊

Current Obsession: Still Good Omens. Also Project Hail Mary, which is very good for my soul. And Paddy Mayne. See above. 😁

Currently Reading: Apart from Good Omens fanfiction? Mostly historical non-fiction. Right now, I'm absorbed by On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein—a sublime history of one London street.

Currently Working On: I just finished two fics: one fun little spontaneous story, and one meticulously researched historical angst-fest set in 1950s Britain. As usual. 😁

I'm also working on a rather experimental screenplay that insists on being stubborn and complicated, so it's taking its time.

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Related to writing: 1889 late Victorian men's fashion.

Unrelated to writing: Trust me, you don't want to know. I'm a copywriter with bizarre clients, ranging from incontinence products to an international trade fair for industrial valves. 🤣

don’t get large numbers of hits on their fics

started writing for go after season 2 came out (or after season 3 came out! hi!)

don’t have a big ao3 subscriber/tumblr following count

write slowly

have unfinished wips up on ao3

don’t often get their fics recced by others

you’re not any less valued for any or all of these things<3 you are important to the fandom! you are appreciated and a necessary, nourishing part of the ecosystem<3

The Best Part - @happynachohologram A throwaway comment from Aziraphale sets Crowley wondering about the best parts of retirement. UGH this is just fluff on steroids.

Honourable Members - @groovynightstrawberry Aziraphale and Crowley were something, once. Now they sit across from each other in the House of Commons, a few metres and a whole world apart. HOT HOT HOT. Night Blooms - @gaiaseyes451 I found a strange flower in your garden that smells incredible and tasted just as good. Only, now I can’t stop dreaming about you… Luscious, mysterious, heart wrenching. Beautiful. All The Little Moments - @paperclipninja It was the talk of the ton. Notorious scoundrel and most eligible bachelor, Anthony Crowley, has returned. Regency AU! ALL the historical tropes and pining, eat it up with a spoon. Cosmological Constants - @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon An Asa/Anthony fic that will make you cry. It is gorgeous. a taste of honey - @carry-the-sky

A post S2 Aziraphale and Crowley rekindle their own friendship, yet spend a while yet still finding their way back to kissing. The best kind of lovely slow burn and payoff. In the Interests of Time - @doonarose

What if our Aziracrow turned human? How would they cope? Written pre S3. A delightful smutty awkward first times romp.

I am OBSESSED with this fic Keep Calm & Carry On by @dragonfire42 and @naturallyteal it's a WIP but it's being updated regularly and it's FASCINATING. Tower of London Ravenmaster Aziraphale & Pigeonkeeper

Yeah, I'm still struggling with the fandom fallout after GO3 and haven't exactly felt like sharing all my new GO3 LEGO babies in the aftermath, but *gritting my teeth* these babies deserve some love and I hope that there are enough fans left here who will appreciate them *looking around warily*?

If you do, please give them some love. If you don't, just ignore this post and please don't hurt my babies' feelings with any spiteful comments. Seriously, they're trying so hard to bring some joy to this fandom, please don't tread on them. *glares glarefully at anyone even thinking about hurting my babies* Thank you very much!

That being said *putting down the teeny-tiny LEGO shovel*, please enjoy our Ineffable Spouses, sharing an intimate moment (yeah, we wish, I know)!

I bet that Crowley in this wonderful Aziraphale-gifted version of his dream wife Heaven outift must have helped their husband to get dressed up down for his important business trip to Hell, right? Also, still wondering if there was some tartan hidden somewhere... tartan pants maybe? 😉

For additional pictures and some ramblings about the creation of those two idiots, including credit for the "store-bought" parts...

I get the urge towards that headcanon, and I do think the Crowley in the miniseries comes off as nicer than the one in the book.  (I think miniseries Crowley and Aziraphale are both a little nicer, a little more toothless, than the versions of themselves in the book.)  But maybe it’s because I was a book fan first, or maybe it’s because I just find him infinitely more interesting this way–I think Crowley, even show!Crowley, has the capacity to be very good at his job of sowing evil.  And I think that matters to the story as a whole.

A demon’s job on Earth, and specifically Crowley’s job on Earth, isn’t to make people suffer.  It’s to make people sin.  And the handful of ‘evil’ things we see Crowley do over the course of the series are effective at that, even if the show itself doesn’t explore them a lot.

Take the cell phone network thing, for instance.  This gets a paragraph in the book that’s largely brushed off in the conversation with Hastur and Ligur, and I think it’s really telling: 

What could he tell them?  That twenty thousand people got bloody furious?  That you could hear the arteries clanging shut all across the city?  And that then they went back and took it out on their secretaries or traffic wardens or whatever, and they took it out on other people?  In all kinds of vindictive little ways which, and here was the good bit, they thought up themselves.  For the rest of the day.  The pass-along effects were incalculable.  Thousands and thousands of souls all got a faint patina of tarnish, and you hardly had to lift a finger.

In essence, without any great expenditure of effort (look, I’d never say Crowley isn’t slothful, but that just makes him efficient), he’s managed to put half of London in a mental and emotional state that Crowley knows will make them more inclined to sin.  He’s given twenty thousand or a hundred thousand or half a million people a Bad Day.  Which, okay, it’s just a bad day–but bad days are exhausting.  Bad days make you snap, make you fail at things, make you feel guiltier and more stressed out in the aftermath when you wake up the next day, makes everything a little worse.  Bad days matter.

Maybe it’s because I’m a believer in the ripple effect of small kindnesses, and that means I have to believe in its opposite.  Maybe it’s just that I, personally, have had enough days that were bad enough that a downed cell network (or an angry coworker because of a downed cell network) would honestly have mattered.  But somebody who deliberately moves through the world doing their best to make everyone’s lives harder, with the aim of encouraging everybody around them to be just a little crueler, just a little angrier, just a little less empathetic–you know what, yes.  I do call that successful evil.

It’s subtle, is the thing.  That’s why Hastur and Ligur don’t get it, don’t approve of it.  Not because Crowley isn’t good at his job, but because we’ve seen from the beginning that Hastur and Ligur are extremely out of touch with humanity and the modern world and just plain aren’t smart enough to get it.  It’s a strategy that relies on understanding how humans work, what our buttons are and how to press them.  It’s also a strategy that’s remarkably advanced in terms of free will.  Hastur and Ligur deliberately tempt and coerce and entrap individuals into sinning, but Crowley never even gets close.  We never see him say to a single person, ‘hey, I’ve got an idea for you, why don’t you go do this bad thing?’  He sets up conditions to encourage humans to actually do the bad things they’re already thinking of themselves.  He creates a situation and opens it up to the results of free choice.  Every single thing a person does after Crowley’s messed with them is their own decision, without any demonic coercion to blame for any of it.

You see it again in the paintball match.  “They wanted real guns, I gave them what they wanted.”  In this case, Crowley didn’t need to irritate anybody into wanting to do evil–the desire to shoot and hurt and maybe even kill their own coworkers was already present in every combatant on that paintball field.  Crowley just so happened to be there at exactly the right time to give them the opportunity to turn that fleeting, kind-of-bad-but-never-acted-upon desire into real, concrete, attempted murder.  Sure, nobody died–where would be the fun in a pile of corpses?  But now forty-odd people who may never have committed a real act of violence in their entire lives, caught in a moment of weakness with real live weapons in their hands, will get to spend the rest of their lives knowing that given the opportunity and the tiniest smidgen of plausible deniability, they are absolutely the sort of people who could and would kill another human being they see every single day over a string of petty annoyances.

Crowley understands the path between bad thought and evil action.  He knows it gets shorter when somebody is upset or irritated, and that it gets shorter when people practice turning one into the other.  He understands that sometimes, removing a couple of practical obstacles is the only nudge a person needs–no demonic pressure or circumvention of free will required.

I love this interpretation, because I love the idea that Crowley, who’s been living on Earth for six thousand years, actually gets people in a way no other demon can.  I love the idea that Crowley, the very first tempter, who was there when free will was invented, understands how it works and how to use it better than maybe anyone else.  And I really love the idea that Crowley our hero, who loves Aziraphale and saves the world, isn’t necessarily a good guy.

There’s a narrative fandom’s been telling that, at its core, is centered around the idea that Crowley is good, and loves and cares and is nice, and always has been.  Heaven and its rigid ideas of Right and Wrong is itself the bad thing.  Crowley is too good for Heaven, and was punished for it, but under all the angst and pain and feelings of hurt and betrayal, he’s the best of all of them after all.

That’s a compelling story.  There’s a reason we keep telling it.  The conflict between kindness and Moral Authority, the idea that maybe the people in charge are the ones who’re wrong and the people they’ve rejected are both victim and hero all at once–yeah.  There’s a lot there to connect with, and I wouldn’t want to take it away from anyone.  But the compelling story I want, for me, is different.

I look at Crowley and I want a story about someone who absolutely has the capacity for cruelty and disseminating evil into the world.  Somebody who’s actually really skilled at it, even if all he does is create opportunities, and humans themselves just keep living down to and even surpassing his expectations.  Somebody who enjoys it, even.  Maybe he was unfairly labeled and tossed out of heaven to begin with, but he’s embraced what he was given.  He’s thrived.  He is, legitimately, a bad person.

And he tries to save the world anyway.

He loves Aziraphale.  He helps save the entire world.  Scared and desperate and determined and devoted, he drives through a wall of fire for the sake of something other than himself.  He likes humans, their cleverness, their complexities, the talent they have for doing the same sort of evil he does himself, the talent they have for doing the exact opposite.  He cares.

It’s not a story about someone who was always secretly good even though they tried to convince the whole world and themself that they weren’t.  It’s a story about someone who, despite being legitimately bad in so many ways, still has the capacity to be good anyway.  It’s not about redemption, or about what Heaven thinks or judges or wants.  It’s about free will.  However terrible you are or were or have the ability to be, you can still choose to do a good thing.  You can still love.  You can still be loved in return.

here's a list of things that are still here, that you can access anytime:

the book

the radio adaptation

season 1

season 2 (grab the bits you like and ignore the rest if necessary)

the bits of season 3 you did like (ignoring the rest may feel more difficult here but it is achievable i promise)

all the fanworks that exist already, whether they were created pre-tv adaptation, post-s1, post-s2 or post-s3

all of david and michael's interviews and other promo about the show pre-s3

the fans that are currently active in the fandom

the memories you've made in the fandom

and here's a list of things we can look forward to:

more fanworks/fanwork events, because people are still creating and will continue to do so

getting to know new good omens friends, whether they're new to the fandom or just new to you

in that vein, welcoming new fans to the fandom (it may not seem likely but new people will continue to seek us out!)

the final ineffable con and all the craziness and content that will come from that

people continuing to discover your fanworks, old and new

the moments where you'll start to feel the finale, the show in general and/or the fandom becoming easier to engage with again

WHAT HAS HAPPEN

TO YOUR HAIR??!

A post I saw, but couldn’t repost. But I am so thankful I have found it…🩷

Busted!

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 1 : here

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Masterpost Part 2 : here