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Any World (That I’m Welcome To) by @areyougonnabe

Date Completed: 3/6/2025

Size: Legal Quarto.  19471 words, 157 pages.

Copies: 2

Binderary may have ended but I still had books on the brain.  In this Terror story James Fitzjames is discovered frozen with the ships (a-la Captain America) and is shepherded through the modern world by history professor Francis Crozier.

Word count wise this would have been best suited for a standard letter quarto but the story is filled with articles, facebook discussions, and text conversations so it needed the longer page size of a legal quarto to keep the threads from becoming too disjointed.  This also meant a lot of playing with formatting to show nested replies and various speakers, so I got to learn a lot about paragraph shading and indentations in LibreOffice.  I used Palatino Linotype for the main body text, a sans serif (Corbel) for the “multi-media” portions, and Major Birch Stamp for the titles.

This is a traditional case binding, and one of the few I've made where the spine piece is a little wider than the textblock (as most tutorials suggest) instead of my usual method where the two are the same width.  It makes it easier to get a defined groove in the hinge, but I find it a little harder to get everything snug for the final assembly.

“Hold on. Hold on,” he hissed, going stiff under Aziraphale’s hands. “Are you— did you— what are you doing? Do you know what you’re doing?” “I’m playing with your hair, dearie.” “Yes, yes, I noticed,” croaked Crowley, and he slid right out of Aziraphale’s lap and into a shellshocked sprawl on the floor at his feet.

Length: 2,417 words

AO3 Rating: Teen and Up

Best for: Safe in Public, Romance, Fluff

Triggers: None

Read it here, fic by attheborder

*Minor Spoilers* oh! oh! jail for this pre season 2 fic! jail for One Thousand Years!!!!! “There’s a thought,” he said, wonderingly. “It can just be… us. ” How dare you!!

For real though, this is a very tender and loving short story about Aziraphale slowly introducing touch. Casual intimacies without actually addressing their feelings until Crowley completely blue screens. It’s very sweet, you can’t help but fall in love with a story like this. If Neil Gaiman cares about me at all he’ll give us Aziraphale playing with Crowley’s hair in season 3. I really loved this one, and it will give you the warm fuzzies.

PODFIC : Creatures of Circumstances

Podfic length : 2:38:49

Read by : Julibellule

From a Good Omens fanfiction written by Attheborder / @areyougonnabe

Rated : Mature

Summary: A creature traps Aziraphale and Crowley in a parallel universe where they have to find each other again.

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Download or listen to Part 01 to 03 - 1:02:39 - Rated M

Download or listen to Part 04 to 08 - 1:36:10 - Rated T

“Lucky you,” he’d said.

“I’m sorry?”

Crowley had pointed to the dandelion stalk the stranger held in the crook of his arm, its sunny flower resting on his shoulder.

“Haven’t seen one of those all summer. The lady’s been at them like nobody’s business. A one-human war against weeds.”

“Oh. Yes, quite,” said the stranger, blinking. “The lady— do you mean Mrs. Young?”

Crowley squinted. “How d’you know her name, then?” 

“I—” The stranger’s clear eyes had been like the creek, seeming to change and flow even as Crowley gazed into them. They’d flicked over at the house, visible through the pelting downpour, and suddenly Crowley had understood.

This odd fellow wasn’t another demon at all.

“You’re from… Inside.” 

I’m pretty sure it’s this!

it's a new craze by attheborder

CROWLEY: I try not to make a habit of gratitude, but I must give our appreciation to everyone out there who’s been listening and subscribing to The Ineffable Plan.

AZIRAPHALE: Ooh, yes, we’ve become quite popular, haven’t we?

CROWLEY: Yeah, just hit number eight on the advice charts … No advertising at all.

AZIRAPHALE: Mm. How … miraculous.

CROWLEY: … Aziraphale. You did not.

The Nice & Accurate Theatre Proudly Presents:

[podfic] it’s a new craze

[ on Ao3 ] [ on YouTube ] [ mp3 download ]

Runtime 53:30; Download Size 78.49 MB

Crowley - @thefinalginny​ Aziraphale - @lakesandquarries​ Additional Voices - @kingsofrome​ and @amserpand​

Artwork - @amserpand​

Original fic: it’s a new craze by @areyougonnabe​*

CROWLEY: I try not to make a habit of gratitude, but I must give our appreciation to everyone out there who’s been listening and subscribing to The Ineffable Plan. AZIRAPHALE: Ooh, yes, we’ve become quite popular, haven’t we? CROWLEY: Yeah, just hit number eight on the advice charts … No advertising at all. AZIRAPHALE: Mm. How … miraculous. CROWLEY: … Aziraphale. You did not.

Crowley and Aziraphale are very possibly the people least qualified, on the entire planet, to start up an advice podcast.But what else is there to do when the world isn’t ending anytime soon, you’re technically on indefinite sabbatical from your lifelong careers, and you need a plausible excuse to spend more time with your best friend who you’re definitely not, absolutely not, maybe just a little, actually maybe overwhelmingly in love with?

it's a new craze

By attheborder ( @areyougonnabe )

Summary:

CROWLEY: I try not to make a habit of gratitude, but I must give our appreciation to everyone out there who’s been listening and subscribing to The Ineffable Plan.

AZIRAPHALE: Ooh, yes, we’ve become quite popular, haven’t we?

CROWLEY: Yeah, just hit number eight on the advice charts … No advertising at all.

AZIRAPHALE: Mm. How … miraculous.

CROWLEY: … Aziraphale. You did not.

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Crowley and Aziraphale are very possibly the people least qualified, on the entire planet, to start up an advice podcast.

But what else is there to do when the world isn’t ending anytime soon, you’re technically on indefinite sabbatical from your lifelong careers, and you need a plausible excuse to spend more time with your best friend who you’re definitely not, absolutely not, maybe just a little, actually maybe overwhelmingly in love with?

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Loved this fic! Ok let’s be real, I really love all of attheborder’s fics. This one was so perfectly in character and so funny! Definitely a good one to save.

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