#antikate

I am so obsessed with the atmosphere of Gods in the Gaslight , by @antikate and @redfacesmiley.  It really makes you feel like you’re in an old theater lit by gas lamps, or wandering through the late night mists of 19th century London.

The Good AUmens AU Fest is an event of over 100 authors and artists, all producing new alternate universe works based on a prompt that was assigned to them. They’ve been at work since early March and the works will debut during the month of June. 

This is the second of five weekly masterposts. 

[ Link to previous masterposts: 1 ] 

Works arranged by date posted

June 7

Memory Loss AU: Another Time, Another Place by @indigo-angels​

Medical AU:  An Ending (Ascent) by @antikate​

June 8

Medieval AU: Opposite Sides (art) by @scriobharis​

June 9

High Fantasy AU: This artwork by @khenqart​

Rumplestiltskin AU: Spinning Straw by @nicnacsnonsense​

Post-Apocalypse Survival AU: This artwork by @it-is-ineffable​

June 10

Fey AU: through the silent wood by @summerofspock​

Western AU:  Your lasso wound around my neck by @d20owlbear​

Roommate AU: Lest They Be Flatmates in Disguise by @theoldaquarian​

Animal Rescue AU: See the beginning of the series here (art) by @apocalypsenah​ 

June 11

Stage Thespian AU: The Show Must Go Wrong by @noodlefrog-omens​

Tolkien AU: The Lord of the Wings, or To the World and Back Again by @mirach​

Pokemon AU: See the beginning of the series here (art) by @katherine1753​ 

June 12

Public Transit AU: come on darling, let's be lovers by @truncated-symphony

1950s Queer Activists AU:  Put down the apple, Adam, and come away with me by @arokel​

Neighbors AU:  Yellow Grass, High Tide by @ivory-line​

June 13

Psychics AU: things not seen by @splitting-infinities​

Royalty AU: Crowning Achievements by @writing-mostly-probably​

HELLO MY DEAREST KATE.

Ok this one has been in my wip folder forever, and I do want to eventually get it written! But it’s a little plotty so I think I’m intimidated by it. The basic gist is that after the apocalypse, Anathema finds evidence of some Occult Activity around Tadfield and comes to the conclusion that the culprit is this demonic sect. She ends up visiting Aziraphale to ask him for some help in tracking down a very old book that she thinks will help them figure out what’s happening. On their quest to find the book, Anathema and Aziraphale get kidnapped by the cult, which turns out to just be One Guy, his brother and his brother’s mate (both of whom are hilariously inept). Meanwhile, Crowley and Newt are left to team up and track them down. There are also Unsaid Feelings floating in the mix. I know it sounds weirdly heavy, but I want it to have a mostly light-hearted tone with the occasional Emotional Moment, kinda like Good Omens itself. ONE DAY I’ll get to it. In the meantime here is A Snippet:

“Good morning,” Aziraphale said with only a slight nervous waver.

"Hi, good morning," the woman replied. She hesitated for a moment. "You… you remember me, right?"

Aziraphale blinked, momentarily stunned by the question - it had only been six weeks since they’d all stared down the end of the world at Tadfield Airbase, after all.

"Erm, yes of course. Ms Device, was it?" he asked.

"Oh, please just call me Anathema," she said. "I'd have called ahead, but, uh, you don't seem to have a phone number listed anywhere."

She smiled somewhat expectantly, and Aziraphale matched it with all the serenity of thousands of years of careful angelic practice. On the other side of the door, he gripped the doorknob, white-knuckled.

"Well, Anathema, I appreciate you've come a fair way, but as I said we're not op--"

"I was hoping you could help me," she interrupted. "I'm trying to track down a very rare book."

The words were like a flash of silver to a magpie.

"Oh?"

i would love to! i just answered 1 in another post, but here’s 10 - What, if anything, are you going to try to do differently in your writing in the new year?

ummm i think id like to branch out a little - perhaps give an au a go? and id love to do more podfic, i really liked doing ‘you dont say it, you feel it’ but its hard to get time and energy to record with Life happening.

ah kate how dare you! this is unbelievably kind.