ilikeblue

nurse nostalgia for the stars long dead

Summary:

The priest was content, or at least a close approximation of it. His post was obscure and insignificant: a beautiful little chapel that serviced an equally quaint village. He had his books and his solitude, and that seemed enough.

Then, like some Grimmian tale, a stranger slunk out of the darkness, threatening to upend his existence with a smile. And now the priest found himself plagued with questions like what if, and why not, and…even more troubling, why haven’t I before?

It was the last question that kept him up at night and followed him when he slept.

Title is from a poem called Disorientation by astrophysicist, Katie Mack.

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I was given two beautiful songs for the Maggie’s Record Shop Event on the Do It With Style discord server (thank you to the wonderful mods for that): “From Eden” and “No Plan”, both by Hozier.

I set out to make this quaint demon/priest story, that turned into a love across lifetimes story, and a story about memory loss and finding those memories again, and the Book of Life and…

If you loved season 3, good! Love it, cherish it! I never want the joy you've found in these characters to fade. And I think that this story dovetails well with the cannon ending.

Crowley has never said look at this lap I have harder than with this posture, and Aizraphale's response is just ~bounce~bounce~bounce~

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.

And it all just pisses me off because while I can dismiss S3 as a piece of shit written by a piece of shit, part of the legacy it leaves behind is the poisoning of the fandom, now and in the future, against a character I have loved for 30 years.

(I know Crowley was treated very badly by Season 3 too. Please don't @ me to tell me how much worse he had it - that was the intent. They were both done extremely dirty, but you're meant to sympathize with Crowley and to see Aziraphale as cruel.)

Sometimes they didn’t even show anyone. Sometimes they showed a few fellow fans.