being extremely clever up here

reading diaries while the owner's away 📖

Multichapters

213] From dust thou had risen (M) by @atearaday

Vampire AU. Aziraphale is the head of an archeology team, exploring a mysterious crypt found in England. But the beautiful murals inside are not the only thing he finds. 🧛🏼

Please be warned - I walked into this unprepared. The tags say #major character death, but I had that before and it was for Gabriel or some other character I didn't care about. This though is a very real dead dove, I quite unintentionally ran into. It's a beautiful story to read and somehow it hit less than other stories of abuse with a happy end. Still, you have been warned. 🖤

214] The Holiday Arrangement (E) by @missunderstoodlyrics

Human Au. Crowley is on his way to film his new TV show, featuring him as the veterinarian of the rich and famous. Driving through the little town *Eden, a stray goat, icy roads - and yes a bit of alcohol - join together in Crowley crashing into the towns most favourite statue. Sentenced to 3 months of working as a vet in the small town, Crowley resigns to get it over with fast. Enter the farmer Aziraphale and his goats. 🐐😇😅

215] Simmer (The Long-Awaited Reply to a Lingering Kiss) (E) by @lemon-tart-221

Human Au. Crowley and Aziraphale have been in the same chef's class of Gabriel in their youth. A shy kiss on a party night is exchanged, then their lifes drift apart. Adults and experts in their respective fields, they bump into each other every now and then, always friendly and always distant. Until one evening in Paris. ☺️

A sweet feel-good story, low on angst and full of meal descriptions that got me hungry. 😅 Kind of a fix-it for the last 15', too - so everything you could wish for! 💗 Also this is my second fic of this author, who only writes GO-fics, so consider me subscribed!

Oneshots

216] Paired (M) by @ddagent

Human AU. They both are chefs of their respective restaurants. And they have an arrangement - every month they join a cooking class incognito and try to outdo the other. 🥸 Only this month's class is for couples ... 🤦🏼😅 So sweet and part of an unfinished series.

217] Complementary (M) by @ddagent

The sequel to the oneshot above! They are finally together - but being chefs takes its tolls out of their new relationship. So the upcoming Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse for a small competition on "how to be the world's best boyfriend". 😅

218] Blind Date (E) by @joanofart5

Human Au. "It's in the cards!" Anathema had said, pushing Crowley to a blind date with Gabriel. And she's absolutely right - it's fate. Just got the wrong man. 😂🌶️

219] Empiricism (E) by @depraveddame

Part 4 of the story of the 2 uni-profs hating each other, but being drawn in at the same time. I loved the tag #The Terror of Feeling Something for Your Sworn Enemy 😅

220] get my kicks like you (E) by @no-birdstofly

Love seems out of reach for Crowley - being a demon and all that. But that's not to say that he has to shun all forms of satifying activities ... And so he learns about self gratification. A lot. And when later on humans have a lot of cool inventions on how to enhance their pleasure, he surely is always one of the firsts to know. The only one he wants though, is Aziraphale. Which probably is never in his cards. Until one evening in the bookshop. 🌶️

221] On a date with Tom (T) by @di-42

"Get out there", Anathema had said to Aziraphale and so he is sitting - just a little bit early, it wouldn't do to be late - at the cafe, waiting for Tom. Enter Tom, who looks nothing like the profile picture and who very much is NOT Tom. Maybe that's for the better. 😅

222] Just desserts (E) by @ad-astrah

Aziraphale is fed up with Crowley disturbing him whilst baking a cake for Anathema and Newt. So our angel has a very specific idea of how to shut Crowley up. 🌶️🎂😅

Hope you enjoy the list, pls share the love with kudos, comments and shares! 🤗

Follow along for short summaries and recs on the books i read🩷 The numbers are for funsies - i want to count my reads throughout 2025. At the moment i only read Good Omens and OFMD!

I only read finished stories and one-shots. You will find no WIPs in here. Also you will only find happy or at least hopeful endings here - i couldn´t handle anything else.

Also i try to find every author here on tumblr to link-to, but some times i am out of luck. If you happen to know them, please tell them, write to me in the comments or DM me and i will update the post!

Click here for the list of all my recs so far!

Multichapters

167] Social organization and adaptability in Xenoerpeton anthropoides: transference of social bonding habits and mate selection (E) by @liquidlyrium

Prof. Aziraphale Eastwise is out in the field in search of a creature called "merlotl", when he falls down a cave and is trapped. Luckily a mermotl of all things comes to his aid. As time passes, Aziraphale gets more and more conflicted as his role as researcher and his heart go different ways. 🧜🏼🩷

With beautiful art by @gleafer

I found this story through Gleafer and I absolutely love fantasy AUs. I have to admit I got stuck in my head and worried the whole time about both of them. Definitely looking forward for the Collab with Gleafer for a graphic version! 😅

168] I REALLY FUCKING LOVE YOU (T) by @thisisshiny

Crowley is kind of dead-ish and meets the angel Aziraphale at the Transitioncenter. Something about him rings a bell, but he can't quite put a finger on it. Together they are going on a quest to find out, what happened. 💗

I really fucking love this. It's funny, it's heartbreaking, it's poetic and about a deep love that never ends.

169] Big Name Feelings (E) by @mrghostrat

Human AU, Fandom AU. Crowley is a writer, Aziraphale is an artist and maybe a bit parasocially in love with Crowley. A short DM from Aziraphale opens the door for a developing online friendship - and that's enough, right? So when Crowley asks Aziraphale to act as his boyfriend during a con to shield himself from unwanted approaches, our angel is happy to help. And of course, conflicted. Faking a relationship he desperately would want? Thumbs up 😂

Oh another beautiful story, very lively written with lots of fanart, discord talks etc included to make it even more vivid.

170] On the same page (E) by @thechekhov

Human AU. Aziraphale is the rising star in the christian book-section - and he is bored with it. Crowley is the most debaucherous romantic fanfiction writer of the decade. They have an arrangement and it´s strictly business. Of course it is.

Oh i am a bit late to the party, this one was finished 2020 and looks like a big hit. And i am always glad to unearth older gems, because maybe some of you haven´t heard from it yet either? 💎

171] An Arm to be held at the wrist (E) by @ineffabildaddy

Human Au. Crowley is a waiter and every friday Aziraphale is his regular. It takes them a year to exchange more than a friendly hello and good-bye. But when they finally start talking, there seems no holding back. It helps that Aziraphale is a very good tattooist and Crowley is covered in ink. 🩷🌶️

I can´t tell the number of times i already recommend stories of this author. They never dissappoint. 😁

172] Drain the whole sea (E) by @no-birdstofly

Alternate Au. Aziraphale lives in a cottage by the sea and restores books. One evening on a stroll on the beach he suddenly finds a naked and strangely hurt man. He knows from legend, he suspects what or rather who this is. Nevertheless he offers help and takes the stranger in. This ... Being named Crowley doesn't seem too eager to leave again. 🩷

Aziraphale will want him back, of course. Aziraphale will walk the beach every night for years to come, remembering his strange encounter with a beautiful man whom the ocean washed into his path.

Oh, another selkie-story, I loves those! And such beautiful language, painting pictures in my head.

Oneshots

173] Blind Warmth (E) by @ladyzoisite

Our angels are on holiday and decide to spice up their day with a blindfold and a wager. 😎🌶️

174] Unbuttoned (E) by @lemon-tart-221

Set between S1 and S2, we find our angels drinking at the bookshop. Aziraphale wants to convince Crowley of human clothes instead of miracled ones. When Crowley tries on the clothes, he is surprised by their softness and texture. Aziraphale meanwhile is more surprised by catching a glimpse of the back of Crowley unclothed ...

A sweet and gentle first time! 🩷

175] The POA Doesn't Own My Cock (E) by @goannasun

Human Au. Crowley is in prison. Aziraphale is his counselor. They did talk - I suppose - before. Now it's p without plot. 😅🌶️

Hope you enjoy the list, pls share the love with kudos, comments and shares! 🤗

Follow along for short summaries and recs on the books i read🩷 The numbers are for funsies - i want to count my reads throughout 2025. At the moment i only read Good Omens and OFMD!

I only read finished stories and one-shots. You will find no WIPs in here. Also you will only find happy or at least hopeful endings here - i couldn´t handle anything else.

Also i try to find every author here on tumblr to link-to, but some times i am out of luck. If you happen to know them, please tell them, write to me in the comments or DM me and i will update the post!

Click here for the list of all my recs so far!

We have loads of fics on our #fantasy au tag, so jump straight into the recommendations! Here are more to add...

The Village Dragon by Kirathaune (T)

A small Welsh village has a dragon problem, so they come to the Wizard Aziraphale for help.

The Lone Rogue & His Unexpected Companion by atearaday (T)

'The Lone Rogue & His Unexpected Companion', Aziraphale's new favorite book, depicts the endeavors of Anthony J. Crowley, a Half-Elf-Half-Tiefling rogue living in Faerûn. When Crowley arrives at the village of Tadfield, a tale about people disappearing at night finds its way to his pointy red ears, and he decides to investigate it. As Nina comes to consult him about the girlfriend she had not seen in several days, Aziraphale closes the book and goes back to his daily life in Soho, working at his bookshop where one can not shop. On the next morning, Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death's doors don't open during its opening hours. While lamenting the fact that his friends are not around and his fictional crush is, unfortunately, fictional—Aziraphale, who has always had a tendency of getting immersed in the stories he was reading... Follows a light that leads him to meet none other than his fictional crush, in what appears to be, despite the improbability, real life.

drain the whole sea by nobirdstofly (E)

While walking near his seaside cottage one night, Aziraphale stumbles across an injured man clutching a torn sealskin on the beach. He's read this story before and he knows how it ends, but it's too easy to invite the beautiful stranger into his home and offer to put his mending skills to good use. Maybe the fairytales of love and loss have got it all wrong.

End of the World? Put a Quest on It! by ZehWulf (M)

"Why do you seem so displeased that I’ve broached the subject?” Aziraphale asked warily. “We may not get on, but I’m not suggesting we work together-together. Merely pursue our own lines of inquiry and meet up to exchange information. I think we’ll stand a better chance of finding something if we’re able to supplement any oral histories with archived ones.” “Yeah, exactly,” Crowley said testily. “That all makes a fantastic amount of sense. I’m pissed because it was supposed to be me asking you to get off your prissy high horse for two seconds to lower yourself to work with me—for the sake of the world,” Crowley bitched. OR Two elf mages, both alike in relative lack of dignity, are forced to lay aside a decades-long bitter rivalry to go on a not-so-epic quest to find a book that will, supposedly, help to save the world (someday). A whole lot of tragi-comic arguing and D&D-flavored nonsense ensues.

The Demon's Tutor by SilvorMoon (T)

Aziraphale was born with the "mark of the angels" - a gift for purification and dispelling evil. He's just been hired to act as tutor and guardian to Crowley, scion of a noble family. Crowley labors under a family curse: someday he will transform into a bloodthirsty monster. On that day, his family will kill him, but Aziraphale has made up his mind to do whatever it might take to stop this from happening...

Code of Chivalry by TawnyOwl95 (E)

One princess. Twenty of Albion's finest knights all competing for her hand in marriage. The polls favour Prince Aziraphale of Sohold, veteran of several similar tourneys and voted most chivalrous three years running by Betrothing Damsels and Slaying Monsters readers. However, this year's hot tip could be Sir Anthony Crowley de Hells, freshly arrived from the amateur tournament circuit in Gallia and already dubbed the tourney's Black Knight. As they both rise in the lists, it soon becomes clear that the tourney is just a distraction for a darker political game. One that's going to make it difficult for everyone to get the happy ever after they deserve.

pulse for pulse, breath for breath aziraphale/crowley | 9k | explicit featuring (the most) virgin crowley trying to figure out what he wants, what aziraphale might want, and how to communicate any of that. or, what it means to have a corporeal form and how to put it to good use.

(@goodomensafterdark)

And @no-birdstofly ---

My last Mixed AUs theme was so popular I thought it was time for part two. But as I started compiling a list of fics to include, I realized how many featured marine beings. And since it's Mer-May, I'll focus on sea creatures. Let's go!

Where the Sea Kisses the Sand (E) by pilatesandpinot features art by qwilikan. Aziraphale is a bookseller in a seaside town. After a 15-year absence, his childhood friend Antonia returns. Does she have anything to do with the mysterious sea creature that takes refuge near the old lighthouse?

Crowley enjoys a quiet life as a publican on the shores of Loch Ness in The Loneli(ness) of a Wild Loch (T) by @kedreeva. But when cryptozoologist Aziraphale arrives with his assistant Newt, will Crowley's peaceful life be uprooted? Of course it will. But in the best possible way.

Also by @kedreeva is Siren's Song (T) in which siren Crowley is intrigued by pirate captain, Aziraphale, who doesn't sleep upon hearing his song. To satisfy his curiosity, the siren joins the ship's crew. This fic offers two-for-one sea creature when it turns out one of the other crew are not what they seem. It may also be the most beautiful ace love story I've ever read.

You could sum up Drain the Whole Sea (E) by @no-birdstofly in 5 words: Crowley is a sexy selkie. Just a short, spicy romance where Aziraphale helps the naked man clutching a seal skin on the beach at night. Sometimes that's all you need from a story, amirite?

In Pitch Black, Pale Blue (M), Crowley is a struggling intern who finds a mysterious creature trapped in a net washed up on the beach. He could never imagine how his actions would change his life forever.

Doorwaytoparadise has written a series, Across Tides and Currents which tells the story of Aziraphale discovering a merman on the shores where he gathers weather data. The story continues in WIP Drops in the Ocean (T), a series of one-shots that show the life Aziraphale and merman Crowley enjoy together. Fluffy and fun.

Finally, we'll end with a spicy fic by AppleSeeds, The Serpent's Den (E). Siren Crowley owns a business where he uses his powers to create a virtual reality for people looking to find life answers. After using the service to decide to open a bookstore, Aziraphale explores the After Dark services which allow him to explore his most hidden fantasies. AppleSeeds tagged it as PWP. But it has a huge helping of fluff and is far sweeter than many fics with that tag.

Do you have a favorite sea creature fic I missed? Reblog and share in the comments.

I'll be back next Friday with more great Good Omens fan fics on a new theme. In the meantime, check out my other favorite fics on this pinned post of weekly Good Omens fan fiction recommendations. And if my faves appear to be your faves, check out my bookmarks on AO3--all the fics I rate in my top 10% of everything I've read.

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feel my fortune tell me  crowley loses a bet and, temporarily, becomes a human. aziraphale, predictably, frets. (oh, and he also refuses to properly fuck crowley until he turns back)

separated by a degree pwp in which crowley wakes up wanting to be dicked down but can’t figure out how to actually ask for it. featuring clever, slightly dom aziraphale and a very desperate crowley pulse for pulse, breath for breath the most virgin crowley trying to figure out what he wants, what aziraphale might want, and how to communicate any of that. or, what it means to have a corporeal form and how to put it to good use

baby, you can have it titty-fucking and WIVES. femme crowley throughout and mostly femme aziraphale, too. endorsement from grace: " I appreciate this fic being 2500 words celebrating breasts"

drain the whole sea selkie au. aziraphale takes in a currently man-shaped crowley and tends to his wounds and to his pelt. selkie crowley! bed sharing! hair washing! and it's very soft

you pour and I'll stay stop 1941 fic, in which aziraphale insists on doing something in return 😇 & crowley gets gagged with his tie 😈 series:

get my kicks like you you’ve heard of “fucking through the ages” fic, get ready for “masturbating through the ages” (and, yes, they eventually fuck)

& the sex toys sequel: a little bit closer till we collide crowley has a lot of sex toys. aziraphale asks him to wear a couple under his clothes (sometimes in public). crowley severely underestimates how hard it will be