Oh, Hello there!

You can find me as GaiasEyes on AO3! I’ve written mostly cannon, but my long fics so far are Human AUs. Most of my Angst does have a happy ending, where the ending is unhappy or ambiguous is tagged.

**My personal favorites. If you're looking for one to read, try one of these.

Human AUs

A Little Life**- E, 71k. Human AU following Professor Anthony Crowley and bookshop owner Ezra Fell as they build a life together and everything that entails. Mind the tags.

Night Blooms** - E, 65k. Mystery & Mutual Pining & Smut, Friends to Lovers. I found a strange flower in your garden that smelled incredible and tasted just as good. Only, now I can’t stop dreaming about you...

The Looking Glass - E, ~8.5k. AziraLuciCrow Voyeurism fic with a lot of feelings and mutual polyamory longing. Happy, loving ending.

Better Not - T, 1.3k. ‘Should I say thank you?’ He’d asked. ‘Better not,’ she whispered and made a hasty excuse.

Chirality - T, 1k. Lucifer/God riffing on @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon’s epic Sins of Knowledge

Esca - T, ~1.5k. Hastur/Ligur ghost story riffed from The Magnus Archives.

Cannon

Angst

Catalyst - G, ~3k. The creation of the new universe and what happens to God in the process.

Blood in the Water - E, 13k. Violence. Dark Crowley, Dark Supreme Archangel Aziraphale come to blows in a Cathedral in Manhattan.

The Devil You Know -T, <1k. Prophecy 3007: Prayers and hope/bring forth sorrow and serpents reign/for the devil lurks in plain sight/under an arc of pale moonlight.

Star-Crossed - M, Lucifer/Crowley <1k Poem. The path to Hell is not paved with good intention. I ought to know, I laid it.

Where There is Smoke** - E, 4.5k. Aziraphale and Crowley helped limit the loss of life in The Great Fire of London in 1666, but the work left Aziraphale’s wings rather a mess.

The Saint of Lost Things** - E, 15.5k. Water is only as holy as the hands that bless it. If the good Father sought to grasp flesh beyond the body of Christ with his fingertips, if he wanted to feel the weight of more than wafers on his tongue… Well, a demon could practically drink water blessed by those hands.

Ostinato** - E, 11k. Crowley uncovers an ancient summoning ritual discovered by humans, rooted in magic and steeped in the power of music. If the Supreme Archangel will not respond willingly, then Crowley will not give him a choice.

Choice** - E, 4.9k. An unidentified narrator tells his side of the story of life in Heaven before there was Hell.

Fractured - (First story in Before Eden There was a Garden series) T, 2.3k. Following Aziraphale immediately after the war in Heaven as he searches for someone and slowly forgets.

Shatter - (Second story in Before Eden There was a Garden series) T, 2.7k. Following The Starmaker immediately after the war in Heaven as he is forced to remember. Companion to Fractured.

Return to Eden (Final story in Before Eden There was a Garden series) E, 14k. After The Second Coming Aziraphale and Crowley are trying to pick up the pieces when Aziraphale begins having nightmares that seem all too real. Resolves Fractured and Shatter.

Fluff

Losing My Religion (Now I’m a Believer) - G, ~2k. Adam & Jesus meet in a dingy alley before the end of the world. (Written pre-S3).

Minor Miracle - E, 4,7k. Fluff & Smut. Aziraphale and Crowley both performed miracles on Aziraphale's wastepaper basket. Crowley was enjoying his covert snooping until sketches of a tall, slender figure with sharp features began to appear.

Cardamom & Clove - E, 4k. South Downs domesticity. Late one winter night Aziraphale convinces Crowley to play in the snow.

Lavender & Thyme** - G, 2k. South Downs domesticity. One autumn afternoon Crowley sits at the old upright piano in the cottage. Aziraphale joins him.

Coriander & Mint** - E, 4k. South Downs domesticity. Aziraphale is making brunch late one summer morning. Crowley helps.

Sage & Rose - T, 2k. South Downs domestic fluff. Aziraphale and Crowley share coffee and tea in their garden.

Breathless - E, 4k. Crowley has shown an interest in breathplay. Aziraphale takes full advantage of all the unique abilities of his demon’s corporation.

Dream of Me - T, 2.2k. After the Almost Apocalypse Aziraphale and Crowley begin to settle into their new existence on a side of their own. One evening Crowley turns up at the bookshop with nothing but a plan and hope.

Of Kings and Kids - T, 13k. A Very Good Omens Christmas where the Ineffables are involved in Jesus' birth.

A Carol Conversation - M, 5k. Crowley uses a Christmas Carol scavenger hunt to finally Talk About It.

Humor (I’ve written humor? What? No, not me, never.)

Bangers and (Monster) Mash - G, <1k. It’s hard being an adolescent and the former anti-Christ.

Mammalfunction** - G, <1k. Aziraphale is on the Earth design team and his design is certainly…something…

No Experience Necessary - G, ~3k. Crowley & Muriel. Muriel encourages Crowley to apply for a position in a plant nursery.

Collaborative Authorships:

Grief of a Dying Sun - E, 75k, Mind the Tags! Part 3 of a the larger The Serpent and The Owl Epic Fic. A fantasy AU that will end as it began: in the stars.

Coming Home - A Choose Your Own Adventure Story - E, 117k. Over 30 authors created a Choose Your Own Adventure fic for our ineffables to finally get down to business in the South Downs. Where will your choices take them?

rules: post the first sentence of your most recent 10 fan fics and tag up to 10 people. Thank you for the tag @quitequaintrelle !! 💜🌟

In order of newest to oldest

1) “She hovers in the vast, charcoal expanse, wide and deep and limitless.” (from Catalyst)

2) “‘Going down,’ states the disinterested voice as if she’s commenting on a mundanity of existence.” (from Losing My Religion (Now I’m a Believer))

3) “Hastur’s breath hangs in the air as he blows on his fingertips.” (from Esca)

4) “Lucas flinches at the headlamps of a passing car.” (from The Looking Glass)

5) “‘Siri, what’s the time?’ He calls as he fastens the top button of his spruce-green dress shirt.” (from Better Not)

6) “A shadow slips into the lab, sweeps across the stained linoleum floor and drapes over the tight-ruled graph paper.” (from Chirality)

7) “In the beginning, only humans had been welcome in the Kingdom of Heaven.” (from Freebird)

8) “‘Alastair’s boy, Henry, will mend it for half the price,’ his dad remarked between bites.” (from Bangers and (Monster) Mash)

9) “There’s a hotel room in New York City.” (from Blood in the Water)

10) “‘Well, it’s certainly…’ Gabriel trailed off, his smile so obviously a facade it may as well been made of plaster.” (from Mammalfunction)

Good Omens Fic Writers - Ostinato (E)

I’ve been watching @copperplatebeech, @curiouspupsicle and @quitequaintrelle feature their beautiful stories. Thank you for setting this into motion! This week I have time to participate, too!

Good Omens was my first fandom. I’d never written fiction before, didn’t know what AO3 was, had never engaged with fic or fanart. I came in shortly after S2 starry eyed with the shiny innocence and wonder of a child who just discovered ice cream and was about to eat themselves sick.

I jumped in head first, obviously. That included doing events. I signed up for GOAD wars (angst, my beloved), I took part in fic exchanges, and I signed up for the High Pollen Count Event without really knowing what sex pollen was. 😂

I had just finished writing A Little Life (and was still posting it while I was writing Ostinato) and I needed something different. I wanted to play with darker imagery and dubious motives and morally grey choices. To be frank, I didn’t want to cry. So of course I went darker (normal people would go for fluff, I now realize).

I knew I wanted to stretch the trope a little bit. Rather than it be compulsory/dubious sex, I wanted a story that forced proximity while tensions were high and for it to be more ambiguous about where the pollen’s effect ended and their choices began.

I started thinking about myths and superstitions I grew up with. There’s a few paragraph in the story about the magics of different cultures, that was the first part I wrote and it seeded the entire story. All my memories of childhood are surrounded with music. Being a classically taught pianist myself (hobbiest at best) and looking at Crowley’s hands, it wasn’t a stretch to make music the root of a summoning ritual.

I wanted the summoning ritual to have a cost for the summoner (Crowley), for him to fail multiple times, and for the uncertainty of success to make him even more desperate to succeed. The story became a 5+1 in a way. After all, Ostinato is the musical term for a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in a piece, usually in the same voice or at the same pitch. Once I had the title and the piece Crowley plays (and no, I won’t tell you what it is here, in hopes you might read the fic 🙂) I knew I had my story.

What surprised me the most about Ostinato was the response. My multi-chapter stories did pretty well, but this was the first time a one-shot really got attention. And the comments about how I described the music and how it suited the story meant so much. I love music, the way a piece can grab you and make you feel things and dredge up memories, whether you want them in that moment or not. The idea that I was even remotely successful in conveying that through words still brightens my day.

I have the sheet music Crowley plays, it’s marked up with plot notes and emotions and dynamics. I can’t really play this piece, but every so often I still sit at my piano and play the opening bass runs and treble chords (poorly, at quarter tempo) and smile.

(Art by the incredible @and-his-hands-were-24-crows)

Ostinato - E - 11,226 words