Is There a Version? (M, 42k, 25/25): This is a full post-s2 fic with a tone closer to s1 and a reality-bending plot that builds on the discontinuities in s2. 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? Now available as a podfic by the wonderful @literarion!
The Album of My Memory (E, 7k, 4/4): In this post-s2 fic, Aziraphale has regained the memories heaven stole from him over the millennia. But that doesn't mean the story of his own existence makes sense. Can he and Crowley help each other understand the past and move into the future?
She Speaks Poniards (T, 2.5k, 1/1): This post-s2 Crowley POV one-shot focuses on the complicated relationship the ineffables have with words and explores hurtful language between them as a two-way street.
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1811. Returned to London after the death of his father, infamous rake Anthony âCrowleyâ, Duke of Morningstar, has three months to restore his tattered reputation and secure himself a proper match, on pain of having his title stripped from him.
Enter the irreproachable Lord Aziraphale, newly minted Viscount Eastgate, who would very much like to discourage his many suitors from lining outside his door in Mayfair so he can go back to enjoying his peaceful existence on the shelf.
After a chance meeting at a gentlemenâs club, it appears the two may lend each other a helping hand after all. While a fake engagement will not solve their problems once and for all, it should buy them enough time to put their respective affairs in order.
If only the ultimate goal of their Arrangement would remain as clear and unchanging as it shouldâŠ
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Excerpt from Chapter 1 - âThe Angelâ:
Stormy grey eyes widened in surprise and then slowly roamed all over Crowleyâs face, moving even further south, along his waistcoat, his pantaloons, down to the blood red tassels of his Hessian boots.
Now, in polite company, such attention could only be described as rude. However, Crowley prided himself on being as far from polite company as one possibly could be and it was clear, at least judging by the unfocused intensity of the manâs expression, that he hadnât quite realised what he was doing.
Besides, Crowley liked to be ogled. Thrived on it. There was no other reason for wearing pantaloons that tight. In his experience, the more he could get people to concentrate on his appearance, the more successful his deceptions.
So he grinned and folded himself on the chair with the snake-like gracefulness heâd cultivated over the years.
âAm I more or less interesting than your book?â
The angel frowned and drew back, cheeks pinkening and eyes blinking in sudden awareness. âWhy, I neverââ
Crowley smirked and popped a roasted potato in his mouth. âDonât answer,â he said, mouth full. âThat was terribly forward of me. Rude, even.â
A wrinkle appeared between the angelâs eyebrows, something akin to recognition not so slowly dawning on him as he straightened his back. âAccording to what I have heard about you, I should not expect anything less.â
âOh, my fame precedes me, then.â He speared another potato as obnoxiously as he could.
âI am afraid it does, Your Grace,â the angel said, lips almost comically pursed in disapproval. âWhat are you doing at Angelâs?â
âSame thing you are, I wager.â
âSomehow I doubt it.â
Many thanks to @addledmongoose for choosing me at this year's @fandomtrumpshate and letting me play with these two for a good causeđ
WIP Wednesday - 3 June 2026 - A Place Where Palms Grow (Like Trees) (M) by @@raxacoricofallapatoriusrulez
Aziraphale manages to break away from the rigid constraints of competitive rowing. Years later, his mother's will requires him to live on in his family home on the bank of the Thames for one year before he can sell it. When four young people beg for his help when their rowing club coach leaves, will he make peace with his past? And what will the meet-ugly with another coach lead to?
If you know me at all, you know I have a special place in my heart for Boat Omens, especially when the atmosphere feels real. And this does.
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A Place Where Palms Grow (Like Trees) (47827 words) by Raxacoricofallapatoriusrulez
Chapters: 11/?
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Terry Pratchett
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Muriel (Good Omens), Michael (Good Omens), Uriel (Good Omens), Sandalphon (Good Omens), Maggie (Good Omens), Nina (Good Omens), Adam Young (Good Omens), Pepper (Good Omens), Pepper's Mum (Good Omens), Wensleydale (Good Omens), Brian (Good Omens), Warlock Dowling, The Bentley (Good Omens), Metatron (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Rowing, Mutual Pining, Second Chances, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Past Trauma, The Them - Freeform, body image issues, Kingston-upon-Thames, Returning Home, Rival Coaches to Lovers, Toxic Sports Culture, Eating Disorders, Burnout & Pressure, Kids Are Not Subtle, Boats & Feelings, Emotional Constipation, That One Almost Breakup
Summary:
After a decade away from the sport that nearly broke him, Aziraphale returns to his childhood home on the banks of the River Thamesâbound by his motherâs will to stay for one year before he can sell and leave for good.
He intends to endure it quietly. Instead, spring brings rowing boats back into his lifeâand with them, a reluctant coaching role, a group of determined kids, and a rival trainer with sharp eyes, red hair, and a past Aziraphale canât quite forget.
Crowley has his own history with the sportâone marked by injury, rejection, and survival on the fringes. He doesnât expect to find anything in Kingston except work. He certainly doesnât expect Aziraphale.
As old wounds resurface and something new begins to take shape between them, both men are forced to confront what they lostâand what they might still choose to keep.
Because leaving is easy. Staying is something else entirely.
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I originally typed most of this out as a reblog to somone else's post, but in the interest of not going too off topic, I decided to separate it into a big ol' spiel of its own.
One of my own more complex opinions in regards to the ending of the finale is that it COULD have worked.
In a different story, with a different set up.
There are a lot of optimistic fans who will theorize and headcanon and explain over and over again why the ending "makes sense" and is a "bittersweet" but happy one. But every argument I've heard in that regard only "makes sense" if you narrow down the show to ONLY the third season and the direction the showrunners took it in.
It's because so much of S3 it directly contradicted the rest of the show that myself and many others didn't just dislike it, but felt betrayed by it. And while I am not, and never will be, the type of person to express their distaste for something directly to a series' creators and writers, it really does feel like the people who took over for S3 chose to pay very little mind to the sorce material and previous seasons.
âą For example, the turn of having god act as a direct antagonist, insisting things must end, instead of them continuing to be the absent, ambivalent force they were in the book and S1 and 2.
âą Another issue I've brough up many times already: The issue of free will having never really existed was entirely invented in S3 as well, seemingly only to somewhat justify the drastic measures of having to scrap everything and start over.
Because up until S3, free will was one of the major themes of GO. Not the questioning of its legitimacy, but the constant reinforcement that everyone has it and can make their own decisions.
Adam chooses not to be the antichist, despite everyone telling him he has no choice in the great plan. Aziraphale and Crowley find loopholes and choose to try to avert armageddon, all while denying their own free will and taking the long way around to get anything done. Gabriel, Beelzebub and the Metatron insist upon armageddon under the excuse of having to follow the great plan, all while abusing their free will in choosing to do so. Anathema burns the second book of prophecies, choosing to live her own life and break the cycle her family had been stuck in.
The book insists upon free will, and S2 even goes out of its way to show us another example (besides Azi and Crow) of angels and demons indeed having free will of their own despite always denying it, when Gabriel and Beez run off together.
Thematically and literally, free will has always been a very real driving force in the GO universe, but S3 chose to retcon that.
âą Then, another one of the biggest contradiction: The message of S2E2 with Job's children. The show spells out for us how, when it comes to people, replacing them, even in abundance will never make up for the loss of them in the first place. It's a sorry and down right insulting excuse for a reward and a happy conclusion.
âą Not to mention in S1, when the exact same scenario of the world being too corrupt and just needing to start over is being discussed by Adam and The Them, the moral the story chooses to enforces is literally "That's a reason to fix it, not destroy it!"
Looking back at all of that, the ending they gave us, while technically "bittersweet", was bittersweet in same way that adding motor oil to an affogato instead of espresso would make it "bittersweet." There are recipes where bitterness plays a valuable part, but it won't be enjoyable or even make sense if you're going to use ingredients that have no place in that particular kitchen.
Almost all of the foils, themes, issues and sacrifices that were introduced in S3 could have worked in another story, with a different sorce material, with a different message and build up. Good Omens was a comedy. A sweet, deep, somewhat hearbreaking comedy. But an optimistic one. With a satirical take on heaven and hell, and always a loophole to jump through to find a way out of a bad situation
The sacrifice Aziraphale and Crowley were forced into at the end was on account of them being put into a uncharacteristically hopeless situation, under uncharacteristically hopeless circumstances, in a story had had always been and was supposed to be inherently hopeful!
So the bleakness of those last 20 minutes instead felt jarringly uncanny
Motor oil works excellently in cars. Couldn't get around without it! But it's not so great in a coffee... In other words, nihilism and seemingly unavoidable "noble" self destruction have no place in a story that had always been about hope and finding another way.
Even as a "metaphor for dismantling institution" it doesn't hit at all. At least not in theme with the message that came before it. And I only bring that interpretion of it up because I've had that point barked at me plently of times now.
S1, S2 and the book told us: Despite being born into/as a part of an abusive sytem (Adam, Aziraphale, Crowley) you can make a very real change by refusing to participate in it. And even without the power to rebuild it completely, you can still carve out a life for yourself independent of it and make your own side.
But S3 said: At the end of the day, there is no escaping the institutions you were born under. There are no changes you can make that will last, no choice you can make that is really your own, and no real freedom from it for yourself or others in your lifetime. BUT! If you're willing to sacrifice everything, you can make things better for the people that will come -after-.
(And if I had been looking to engage with a story that enforced the latter, I wouldn't have been watching Good Omens.)
It could be argued that, assuming this was indeed always the way the story was intened to end (though I don't believe that, personally), that with a full 6 epsiodes, the writers could have gradually worked the story of S3 to more convincingly justify the same outcome, with the same sacrifice from Aziraphale and Crowley and the same end and rebirth for humanity.
But even then, if that had been the case, and it had been handled better, I'm still not convinced that the core message of S3 could have ever aligned with Good Omens as a whole.
When it comes to the heart of Good Omens, the story that we've all loved for so long, that ending, when placed alongside the book and first two seasons feels very much like (and is almost objectively) a bleak, tone-deaf disregard of what came before it.
Some bitter part of me just wants to see those contradictions acknowledged. You can like the finale, you can love it! But isn't it odd? The weird shift from everything we'd been show already? It feels dishonest to embrace it as anything but a turn from the previous morals of the series.
(Also, side note: People love to echo "But it was their choice! Aziraphale and Crowley chose this! They got exactly what they wanted!" As if fictional characters have a choice. If the writers chose to write Aziraphale and Crowley into bland hetero relationships apart from eachother, would you look at that writing direction and go "Aww, but at least they got to choose it for themselves UwU", or would you be mad that the writers made a terrible writing decision for the characters they'd been entrusted with?
Even on a non-meta level, operating WITHIN the rules of S3, either:
Free will had indeed never been real, in order to somehat justify starting over, BUT that in turn means that Aziraphale and Crowley did not make their sacrifice of their own free will and the ending was just another hollow extention of the almighty's game.
OR
Free will HAS always existed in the GO universe, so the decision NOT to rebuild and reform the world they'd both come to love and instead let it be scrapped and started over, was a poorly thought out and and cruel one.)
Full disclosure that this fixit fic is 100% my way of coping. My way of rewriting the finale. My way of seeing my beloved characters placed into the same circumstances but acting in character gdi (as I interpret it*).
In the spirit of that - spoiler alert - this chapter goes a little ways towards healing the giant wound left by That Kiss at the end of S2 and That Lack of Kiss in S3.
*caveat that these are my views on the characters - you can have yours and this fandom contains multitudes and positive takes on the finale always welcome with me
Fic Premise: what if Aziraphale didn't stay away? What if he came back sooner, and he and Crowley had a chance to begin to talk and work out their differences before the high stakes rush to the end? If we just changed that one detail, how would the rest of the story of the finale unfold?
Rating: Mature (may become explicit later, or may write an explicit part 2 tbd)
Thank you to my betas @angie-words @bohoteacher @enby-xb-nomad and my writing communities @whickberstreetwriters and @goodomensafterdark
Hellooooooo GO moots! I know it's been *checks notes* eight months and one day đŹ since the last W&F update but I said it would be back and so it is!
Make sure to check the notes for an important one from imposter/ @maaikeatthefullmoon
I know stuff in the fandom is a little divided and rough right now, but I hope this silly offering brightens someone's day as much as it brightened my own to write it.
So, without further get ready for chapter 24 'Step to Me'!
I think the difference here is Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss openly mocked the fans that shipped Sherlock and Watson, whereas NG insidiously inserted himself into the fandom space and played along with the shipping. Encouraged it. Half confirmed it sometimes. And then actually made them kiss. Sherlock and Watson never crossed that line, so there was nothing to resolve. And also, they were together in the end, still running off solving crime.
Aziraphale sees sound, words and feelings as colours. Crowley sees the world without colour at all â only shades of grey, light, shadow and texture.
When they meet, they begin, carefully and almost accidentally, to show each other how the world looks from their side.
Every Colour Of You
The story was created for @fandomtrumpshate 2026 as a gift for the wonderful Chandyowlet (@handyowlet on Tumblr). And although Iâm the one who put it on paper, this story was genuinely collaborative â which is why she absolutely deserves a co-creator credit.
Thank you, for everything, dear C.
The story is completely written, the first two chapters are up. More every Tuesday and Friday, as usual?
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I donât have much to say about this chapter, except that itâs another BIG milestone! Painted is 50 chapters old! Almost a year-worth of updates! đ
Thanks again for sticking around for so long, and thanks to the other people who have joined us later in the journey. đ (Iâll definitely thank everyone again once we reach the proper one year mark)
An excerpt đ
Anthony takes a cautious sip of coffee. Strong. Bitter. Perfect.
âHow you feeling?â he asks after a moment, glancing sideways at Ezra over the rim of the mug.
Ezra is quiet for a beat.
Better than last night, certainly. Last night heâd looked split open after everyone finally left. The momentum that had held him together through the speech and the reveal and the endless adrenaline had simply⊠gone. Anthony had held him curled against his chest while Ezra cried quietly into his shirt, exhausted. Heâs noticed Ezra letting himself cry more lately, no longer wanting to keep barriers wedged between them, presenting himself to Anthony in that messy, vulnerable way he once would never have allowed to surface. Anthony takes every one of those moments like something precious handed carefully into his palms.
Now, though, Ezra looks sharper again. Not untouchedâbut steadier. Thereâs still tiredness beneath his eyes, but itâs threaded through with something brighter. Something alert.
âGood,â Ezra says finally, and Anthony believes him. âA bit overwhelmed, perhaps. But⊠good.â
Anthony hums softly. The word feels woefully insufficient for what yesterday was, but maybe there simply isnât a better one.
Ezra glances back down at the laptop. âIâve been watching the aftermath.â
Anthony groans immediately. âDangerous pastime.â
âIt truly is,â Ezra murmurs.
He taps a key, and the BBC News broadcast expands fully across the screen.
Professional footage fills it at onceâsweeping aerial shots of the crowd outside St Judeâs, thousands upon thousands packed into the streets beneath the summer sun. The camera cuts across banners and painted signs and flashes of white masks in the crowd before landing on the mural itself in full cinematic clarity.
The Ark glows against the stone. Even through a screen, itâs staggering.
The news presenter speaks in that polished BBC cadence while footage rolls behind her. âYesterdayâs unveiling of the Ark mural outside St Judeâs Church in Clapton drew unprecedented crowds, with estimates placing attendance well into the thousands. The artwork, created collectively by The Common Thread and the anonymous activist art movement known as the Host under the leadership of the masked figures Aziraphale and Star Makerââ
Anthony physically winces. âChrist alive. Hearing them say our names on the BBC still feels deeply cursed somehow.â
Ezra snorts softly into his coffee.
The report continues. Clips flash rapidly across the screen: people crying beneath the mural, crowds roaring as the tarp comes down, close-ups of painted figures on the Ark, interviews with residents, slow pans across the angels amongst ordinary people.
âThe mural has already become a powerful symbol for anti-eviction groups across London,â the presenter continues. âIts imagery of communal survival and mutual protection appears to have resonated deeply with attendeesâŠâ
The footage cuts to interviews. A woman near St Judeâs wipes tears from her face while speaking directly to the camera. âItâs the first time Iâve ever looked at something political and actually felt included by it,â she says shakily. âLikeâweâre in there. People like us.â
Another clip followsâa young man grinning breathlessly in front of the mural. âMakes you feel like maybe someoneâs actually fighting for us, yâknow?â
âAziraphale? They make people feel safe,â someone else says. âThatâs why people follow them.â
Something strange twists beneath Anthonyâs ribs at that. Safe. Bloody hell. Thatâs the dangerous bit, isnât it? Not just admiration. Not just attention. Faith.
The report shifts again, showing Ezra on the platform in full mask beneath the blazing afternoon sun. White. Gold. Motionless against the storm-coloured mural behind him.
âAziraphaleâs speech, which framed the housing crisis as both a systemic and moral failure, has since circulated widely online,â the presenter says carefully. âSupporters have described the address as inspiring and urgent, while critics have condemned aspects of its rhetoric as inflammatory and openly antagonistic towards state institutions.â
Anthony lets out a quiet breath through his nose. âHere we fucking go.â
Ezra says nothing, but Anthony feels the subtle shift beside him anyway. The weight of it settling between them. Because thatâs the thing now: yesterday they crossed a line. Deliberately. And everybody knows it.
My S3 fix-it canon-compliant fic is now complete. 11k words that start right after S2 ended and diverges from the S3 movie the moment the Metatron is ripped from the Book of Life. If youâre interested in a fix-it that acknowledges what we got and takes it an entirely new direction in a Choose Your Own Ending type way, check it out!
World Without End
Excerpt below the cut:
Saraqael located Michael at once on their tracking device. âTheyâre upstairs.â
âWeâre all upstairs,â Sandalphon huffed.
âUp-upstairs,â Saraqael said. They pointed toward the ceiling. âMetatron level.â
âThatâs impossible,â Uriel said. âNo one is allowed up there except the Metatron. Obviously.â
âWho has just been attacked,â Aziraphale cut in before the two archangels could exchange further barbs. For goodnessâ sake, it was like corralling children sometimes with those two. âPerhaps Michael saw the culprits and is right now trying to keep the Metatron safe. Angelsâwith me!â
âBut weâre not authorized,â Uriel began.
Aziraphale waved off her words. âI authorize this. Emergency circumstances. I will take full responsibility if Iâm mistaken.â He stopped by the lift and turned to point a finger at Sandalphon. âExcept for you. Stay here and find your charge. Find him, or I will have no choice but to demote you.â
âButââ Sandalphon began.
The ding of the lift cut him off, and Aziraphale hurried the others inside. He pressed the button to the top floor, fingers shaking. A moment later, they were on the way up, up, up.
Aziraphale was braced for potential battle when the lift disgorged them. He didnât have his sword any longer, but he would fight if need be. He was not prepared to find the room empty of anyone except Michael, shaking and moaning in a crumpled heap, one hand clutched in agony around a page from the Book of Life. Flames licked the edges of the paper, soot and smoke staining Michaelâs fingers.
A shiver of instinctual terror washed through Aziraphale, and he was moving before he knew what he planned to do. Something deep inside him told him that if that page burned through entirely, everything would be lost. The entirety of existence would break. Reality would be unmade.
*****
The movie Clue is one of my all-time favorites. If youâre not familiar with it, it comes with three endings. There are cue cards that flip between the different endings. The first says: âThatâs how it could have happened. // But how about this?â
This is literally the first thing that came to my mind when my brain unscrambled enough from watching the finale. A story can end many ways. It can end many ways without changing the substantive content of what came before. The Book of Life / butterfly effect / reality catching up âlogicâ of S3 gave me the perfect opportunity to write a canon-compliant alternate S3 that I preferred to what we got.
Note: this is not a full S3 fic. Iâve written numerous S3 fics in the last three years â my pinned post has links out to them â and I didnât feel the urge to create another. I only wanted to write a bridge story, one that starts with the way the IRL S3 began and then diverges as soon as the BoL plot opens itself up to an âeverything can be canonâ type situation, leaving âwhat happens nextâ up to everyoneâs individual imaginations.
It has been a good experience, writing this. Iâve used lines from the movie, and so scenes Iâve written have started to transplant themselves over the ones we got. Iâve started to feel warm, fuzzy feelings about S3 because I can ârememberâ the proper communication and the sweet kiss and the way Az and Crow work together to fix the Book of Life. It also helped me to sort out all my thoughts about the finale, good and bad, and land squarely on a quote from another of my favorite movies, The Hours: âI donât accept this. I donât accept what you say.â And happily, because of the way the movie was written, I donât have to accept it. So I wonât, and I will move on. đ
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, thatâs 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 heâd 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. âHello. Fancy seeing you here.â
âYes,â Aziraphale said, a quivering excitement oozing from his voice. âWas just passing and thought Iâd stop by.â
Crowley leaned his head against the back of the sofa. âSo, uh. Is um. Your room c-comfortable?â he asked and immediately bit his lips where a mischievous smile was threatening to make an appearance.
Aziraphale blinked. âWould you like to see it?â
Sometimes I see people talk about how pointless the GO3 Gang Subplot was and how it should've totally been cut and it contributes nothing to the episode and I am⊠of two minds about it. Because I actually do see what was the intention here. That whole thread was supposed to be Important Thematic Set-Up to Crowley and Aziraphale's conformation with God. It's, y'know, Crowley has been playing the same rigged game over and over again expecting different results that he will never get, because the person actually in charge makes sure that he will never Find the Lady. And then Aziraphale swoops in and wins the only way you can win these kinds of games, by changing the game completely.
And then in the ending, Aziraphale and Humanity has been playing God's rigged game, which only goes the way God wants it to, until Crowley requests to change the rules of the game, by creating that new 'Real' Universe.
But the thing is, that STILL makes the Gang Subplot detrimental to the episode and something that should've probably been cut, because that ending absolutely FAILS to actually fulfil the thematic throughline that the Competitive Crossword Sequence established and thus it's existence and the attempt to create parallels with the climax only highlights the failure to show God being outplayed, outwitted or defeated in any meaningful way.
The contrast between the Gang Storyline; where Crowley and Aziraphale clearly want a Thing (the Bentley), and the Mob Boss clearly does not want them to have the Thing, and Aziraphale clearly takes that Mob Boss aback by twisting the contract about 'choosing a game' to mean the most bullshit game that he is most optimized to win ever, and then winning so hard the Mob Boss gets a Heart Attack, to the God Climax; where Crowley and Aziraphale wantâŠ. the universe to not end, mostly, and God can end the universe whenever They feel like but They decide to humor them, and then Crowley just shouts at God a bunch of time that it's not fair and he knows Their game is rigged, and then God is like "okay then, what better idea do you have?" and Crowley is like "kill yourself!" and God is just "yeah sure why not lol, but you know⊠this mean I have to kill you and your boyfriend as well" and Crowley is like "-pensive emoji- yes", is just too vast.
And trying to look at the parallels only emphasizes how weakly the climax plays as a "defeat the oppressive system by changing the rules of their game" thing. How there is never really a point where God isn't holding all of the cards, how there was nothing binding Them to do what Crowley asked other than because They felt like it which leaves open the possibility this is still all part of the Game They want to play somehow, that Crowley and Aziraphale don't even really get what they want at the start of the scene because the universe still ends and God just starts a new one, that there's no way for them to know that God will actually keep to Their word and they literally just have to blindly trust the person that the whole point is that they shouldn't trust to do anything but rig the game in Their favorâŠ
This is much less like Competitive Crossword and more like if Aziraphale came in to that Mob Boss' office like "Oh, you know, taking my boyfriend's car/pet/extension of body away was very rude and mean of you! And I know you games aren't fair! ):<" and complained at him a bunch of time, and then the Mob Boss was "yeah, okay, my games aren't fair, what do YOU think would make them fair?" and then Aziraphale was like "let's both stick our heads into this pit of burning deadly Hellfire and if we both die you HAVE to pretty please pinky-promise me you tell your next of kin to send Crowley's Bentley back to him, okay? (:" and the Mob Boss is like "yeah sure that sounds cool I guess I guess I wouldn't mind dying today" oh and also since the Mob Boss had access to Hellfire he always knew he could've killed Aziraphale immediately and completely consequence-freeâŠ
And also maybe the Bentley was already stripped for parts and Crowley was dead but the Mob Boss really really promised he'd get a new Bentley and send it over to someone who is probably named Anthony Crowley.
In general, I think that even under the best circumstances it's hard to make your ending both "the protagonist outwitted God by changing the rules of Their game into something they can win" and "the protagonists selflessly sacrifice themselves in a bargain with God for the Greater Good". With all the themes of unfair games and changing the rules, it's Odd that when God sets up a seemingly-impossible price and ultimatum to our heroes⊠they really do have to just Nobly Accept it. Those rules are apparently set in stone. It would've felt much more resonant with this supposed theme if Crowley and Aziraphale could have it all somehow, the way the Mob Boss made Crowley choose between the Bookshop and the Bentley but Aziraphale made sure they'd have both, if Crowley and Aziraphale could also have a world free of God and Heaven and Hell and be an 'Us'.
And I don't think the Reincarnation thing counts both because even if (and it's important to remember that is an 'IF') they have Crowley and Aziraphale's souls/consciousness, Asa and Anthony are fundamentally different people who have gone through fundamentally different life experiences, they were just not what Crowley was thinking of when he was hoping for an 'Us'⊠and also because there was no Agency here on the part of Aziraphale and Crowley, they didn't make this happen or chose for this to happen or plan for this to happen. It was just, fate or the cosmos or whatever. For this theme to work, Crowley and Aziraphale would have to figure out how to do something tricksy and clever to somehow outwit God themself.
So, y'know, Gang Subplot still Stupid and Bad and should've been cut. But it's not that it should've been cut because it was pointless, but because it had just enough of a point to drag the story down even farther.
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We are looking for artists, writers and other roles for our Alternative Good Omens Finale fan project
Hello!! We're doing a Good Omens fan animation project in a Discord server* of about 40 people at the moment. We've already gathered some main ideas for the script, and now we are looking for more people who want to take part in this fan project. It isn't mandatory to join the Discord server in order to take a role, although it would be recommendable.
Which roles are needed?
-We've got plenty of potential prose writers and scriptwriters already (but don't worry; new ones are still welcomed!). Writing editors are also required.
-At the moment, there is a high demand for artist or/and animators of any kind. So, if you're into drawing, painting or animating, give it a chance!
-We'll also need people in charge of social media and the Discord server itself, such as admins and mods.
-If you are a musician, voice actor, translator, composer, sound designer, video editor, or you fit other similar role which may be needed for the final stages of the project, don't hesitate to join us!
How to apply?
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This form is to help us determine what skill sets we have in our group as well as how we want to assign roles. There's a lot of work to do i
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âHi, I'm Becci and I've been making up stories since I could hold a pen. The first dated record I have of a fanfiction goes back to 2005, which is usually the point I count as my beginning. That means I was the tender age of nine when I started my temporarily toxic, on-off relationship with fanfic - marked by embarrassing first steps, year-long hiatuses and hyper-productive phases.
2019 - the year I was introduced to the Marvel universe - marks the point where I started considering myself an author, rather than just a writer. That's when I began producing stories that were actually readable (and fairly enjoyable, too, if I dare say so).
To me, the best part of the Good Omens fandom (apart from the people, of course) is the plethora of versions of our favourite hereditary enemies. My highest achievement as an author is when someone revisits the source material and can never get through a scene again without thinking about one of my stories. Good Omens, by definition, offers an incredibly wide range for canon-adjacent storytelling. Since they've lived through literally all of human history, there are endless gaps to fill. (Yes, those gaps, too. Especially those gaps. I see you, horny fandom.) Plus, I'm a sucker for the enemies-to-lovers trope and who embodies that better than an angel and a demon falling in love?
Also this is the spiciest fandom I've been in so far and I'm having a fucking blast providing y'all with smut đ â
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If you are a first-time reader of Becci's work, or are looking for some recommended reads, hereâs some suggestions from the author:
Not A One-Night Stand: Remember what I said about intertwining canon with fanon? This is exactly that. It's an ongoing series about them fucking while pining for 6000 years. We start with Job's cellar and go all the way until season 3. Six parts are currently up, lots more to come. All canon-compliant, highly explicit, and I promise you, you'll never watch the show the same way again đ
The Very First Page: A Crowley-centric one-shot set before Creation. It's almost Crowley-exclusive which probably explains why it never got as much traction. But if you're into evocative prose, angel!Crowley and star-maker imagery, I consider this one of my strongest pieces.
You can find these and all of Becciâs other works on AO3
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