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Here’s a few Christmas human aus:

Snow Angel by Vagabond (T)

Human!AU. Aziraphale needs a date to his brother's Christmas party to avoid getting set up with someone. Anathema suggests Crowley, the office bad boy. They go, get snowed in, and have a heart-to-heart that ends in a Happy Christmas.

From a prompt: Human!AU: Aziraphale needs a date for family Christmas. He invites the office rebel/bad boy, Crowley.

muddle through somehow by curtaincall (T)

Aziraphale Fell runs a successful food blog, Celestial Comestibles, where he shares mouthwatering recipes and heartwarming stories about his happy domestic life in a cottage with his husband and son. As promotion for his upcoming cookbook, his publishers run a contest: one lucky winner will get to spend Christmas with Aziraphale and his family.

What the publishers don't know is that the real Aziraphale Fell is a single city-dweller. And if he wants to keep up his happily married persona, he'll have to acquire a cottage, husband, and son before Christmas.

As it happens, his friend and neighbor Anthony Crowley has his nephew staying with him for the holidays. One fake marriage proposal later, and everything seems tickety-boo--as long as Aziraphale can keep from developing inconveniently real feelings for his pretend husband...

Taking the Cake by Caedmon (T)

Aziraphale has noticed his handsome neighbor, but hasn't had an excuse (or the nerve) to talk to him. He gets his chance, though, when a bakery delivers a package to the wrong door a few days before Christmas and his neighbor comes knocking.

The Grinch Who Sold Christmas by darcylindbergh (T)

Anthony J. Crowley, a big-time attorney from London, is sent to small-town Tadfield to close a deal before Christmas that would sell out half of high street to a fancy developer and put him up for partner at his firm. The deal will run the local businesses out and change the landscape of the town forever, but that’s none of Crowley’s business; he’s just doing a job.

But as the town invites him to share in their lives, their hopes, and their holiday celebrations, and as the enigmatic Aziraphale invites him to share in something more, Crowley starts to wonder: if everything has its price, is he still willing to pay what this deal will cost?

And here’s some canon-verse fics!

Holidays in the South Downs by TurnipTitaness (G)

After stopping the apocalypse, Aziraphale and Crowley have retired to a little cottage in the South Downs. This is their first holiday season together. It's fluffy.

Deck the Bookshop with Decorations by Elphen (G)

Not one to decorate the bookshop for Christmas, Aziraphale nevertheless finds ornaments, baubles and other decorations hidden among the medley of items, not clutter, of the shop. What's more, he discovers that more is added over the course of December. There can only be one culprit, but why? Of all the things to Aziraphale is going to find out, one way or the other. Even if it means he has to actually ask outright. Set post-canon. 

Christmas Gifts by Amaranthology (E)

Crowley has plans for Christmas this year.

It's posted so that you can read Chapter 1 and get no smut or continue with Chapter 2 for the full experience.

A Christmas Miracle (A Very Smutty Christmas) by IneffableScript (E)

After the Non-Apocalypse, Aziraphale feels he can finally enjoy Christmas. He thinks the only thing to make it perfect, would be to spend it with Crowley. But Crowley has a secret that might ruin Aziraphale's plans! Lots of fluff and smut, only a dab of angst.

Hungry for more? Here’s a link to the Christmas tag on AO3!

As always, if any of our follower have any recs, feel free to leave them in the notes!

Yes we do!

In Every Brushstroke by juiceboxjellyfish

If you're going to pine for thousands of years, you're gonna need some kind of emotional outlet. Crowley has taken to painting, and keeps hundreds of paintings of Aziraphale locked away in his secret studio.

It sure would be a shame if someone were to find them...

Blank Canvas by Phoenix_Soar

 Aziraphale doesn’t - couldn’t - know about the centuries’ worth of painstaking sketches Crowley has hidden away, their subject a poorer version of the Angel depicted on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, drawn solely from a Demon’s memories.

Because Crowley will never get to see Aziraphale like that.

Certain secrets and truths come spilling out amid a jealous outburst. Crowley fears he has ruined things between them, but when Aziraphale seeks him out later, events unfold in ways Crowley has hardly dared to hope for.

A Secret About A Secret by theheartbelieves

Aziraphale stumbles upon some drawings that make things suddenly clear.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18320123

Thank you!

it’s the light (it’s the obstacle that casts it) by bibliocratic (T)

 It's like having a curtain pulled back on something he wasn't expecting to see. A surprise punch-and-judy at an up-scale restaurant, a lobster thermidor when he's ordered an ale.

Crowley's gleefully trying to wrap his head around the fact that Aziraphale is speaking Polari. Because of course he is.

Or: The Patron Saint of London's LGBT Community is real, and he lives in Soho.

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Here are some fics that might interest you:

Pieces of You by syrupfactory (M)

Twenty years post-canon, Crowley and Aziraphale's happily-ever-after is uprooted when Aziraphale suddenly vanishes and an encounter with demons leaves Crowley mortal and powerless. After passing months in solitude, Crowley ventures back into London, only to find his husband living a human life as "Ezra" and mourning a fictional human husband called "Jay." Determined to get Aziraphale back, Crowley resolves to do whatever it takes to befriend him all over again, as ordinary people this time, until his angel remembers him.

Every Atom Belonging to Me by triedunture (T)

Crowley is rendered temporarily mortal after a run-in with a-- Well, it doesn't really matter. What matters is he needs to eat and sleep and do the things humans must do if only for one night. Aziraphale can help with the eating bit, at least.

A cozy, sweet evening with tea, drinks, food, poems, and warm blankets.

love in its disrepute by Flavortext (G)

Aziraphale prefers not to sleep. Some nights he will find a comfortable position in an armchair and do his best to sit quietly, and he could even be persuaded to admit he might doze, but usually, he is able to busy himself doing one thing or another during the hours that the rest of the world takes to rest. Which is why, when he comes back to himself with his cheek pressed into the pages of a book, his desk lamp glaring into his eyes, he nearly falls out of his chair.

The powers of heaven and hell elect to leave their rebellious representatives powerless and on their own in the wake of the Not-Apocalypse. It might just be the final freedom they need to build something new...there's just a few hurdles of mortal life in the way.

If our followers have any other recommendations, please leave some in the notes!

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Here’s some fics featuring a tempting Aziraphale!

Worth His Salt by AgentStannerShipper (G)

Aziraphale tempts Crowley to oysters in Rome. And, inadvertently, a few other things.

Classics Appreciation with A.J. Crowley by yolkinthejump (E)

Aziraphale lays a temptation for Crowley. Literally: lays himself down and waits and asks for something without actually asking, as is his way.

Crowley, as is his way, is happy to oblige.

Original Sin Tartan by Vagabond (E)

Crowley gets that temptation itch after the world is saved and turns up at a wedding in Edinburgh to have a little fun. Unfortunately for him, a certain angel is there to thwart him. Semi-publicly. With Crowley in a kilt.

That's it. That's the plot.

If any of our followers have any recommendations, please feel free to leave them in the comments!

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Here’s all the fics I could find with the It’s a Wonderful Life tag. Also, if you would like to write one, please do so! The more the better! You can always promote yourself here as well!

Every Time a Bell Rings by astudyinfic (G)

They say every time a bell rings, an angel gets their wings.  

Aziraphale isn't so sure about that but it does give him an idea.

It’s an Ineffable Life by soft_october (T)

 I mean what did Aziraphale expect?

 To lie straight to God's face and not be reprimanded?

Aziraphale has been stuck in heaven for the last six thousand years. But due to a clerical error and some good old fashioned Christmas magic, he given a chance to reclaim his status if he can do one thing: Show a demon that his life matters.

Only it doesn't go as he expects.

Crowley’s Christmas Carol by CousinSerena (G)

Crowley hates Christmas, and of course Aziraphale loves everything about it.  When a Christmas prank goes horribly wrong, Aziraphale is deeply hurt.  Crowley decides his angel would be better off if he'd never met him.  But then an unexpected guardian angel appears to him in a dream to show him just how wrong he is.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Derek isn't exactly Batman. Stiles isn't exactly Robin. Still, somehow, they make it work.

This story is awesome. I love the whole thing so much. I want it to continue strong and oh gosh, the characterizations are amazing.