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Welp another fandom with gorgeous art to break my heart, let's goooo

Ohh look, it's the dead boy detectives!

#thank you for your sacrifice #cheating on Good Omens watching this like Neil said #dead boy detectives #painland #payneland

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And it's hilarious!

Do you think aziraphale has ever read a book on snake care and tried to apply the principles to human shaped crowley

#Crowley's going to start looking at everything Azi is reading a LOT more carefully now #good omens fic recs #good omens fanfic rec

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sobs in waiting for GOmens S3

So. So. You're telling me that two ghost boys (108 & 35 years old, give or take), managed to have a healthy confession while climbing the stairs of the actual Hell, and two occult/ethereal immortal entities, after 6000 years of pining, didn't? It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.

#aziracrow #get it together ffs #painland #already has you beat #dead boy detectives #good omens

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YES! It was so incredible to actually witness such a loving, brilliant way to respond that wasn't awkward, wasn't "oh god everything's ruined forever' - no. The love is real, it may not be the exact same perception/ideas about what to do about it (for now anyway) but the Love. Is. Real.

got to the dead boy detectives love confession and i just gotta say that “you are the most important person in the world to me. and i can’t really say that like i’m IN love with you back but there’s no one else, NO ONE else that i would go to hell for. and we’ve got literally forever to figure out what the rest means” is the most beautiful romantic response i’ve ever heard coming from the unrequited party like what the fUCK-

#we need more of this in media #instead of BS friendzone failure drama #kill the demonized concept of the friendzone with fire #we should all want to be in the zone of friendship damnit it's precious and real and still love #painland #dead boy detectives #payneland

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Can confirm, @ineffabildaddy and @copperplatebeech have great stuff! Check out their human AUs as well. Definitely checking out the rest of this list!

Looking for something to read?

Oh look, it's another recs post! This time I'm featuring two stories per author. These are writers I always make time for, whose work stands out as unusually hot, clever, funny, or smart -- sometimes all of the above.

I'm gonna start you out strong with two by @werpiper: After Hours takes Aziraphale and Crowley to the baths after their oyster supper, and all sorts of interesting pleasures are there for our angel to sample. Piper's Crowley is one of my favorites: always evaluating the situation, not quite aware of what his own heart is doing but feeling it anyway.

Fitting In is a new story, still a WIP, but I am utterly tantalized by Muriel's first taste of love -- and tea. This is already rich in detail, soft and fragrant, and I can hardly wait for the action to get going in earnest. The pairing seems surprising but when you think about it for ten seconds of course it makes sense. Sex workers help the curious, the awkward, and the inexperienced every day, bless them.

If you enjoy these, check out @werpiper's back catalog -- they have done a ton of ineffables-through-the-ages, and their series Miracles and Heresy is worth many delightful hours of your time.

I love what @copperplatebeech has been doing lately:

He's Not My Friend is a T-rated story that explores Aziraphale's constant refusal to acknowledge his relationship with Crowley, and Crowley's mirror of that, and how things glacially shift over time. It is subtle and yet specific, it will make you ache and smile.

All Of The Above, also T-rated, is a warm and fuzzy alternative to that, a hilarious celebration of true friendship that made me laugh out loud and still got me right in the feels.

@copperplatebeech can do everything, from quiet, gentle, and romantic to devastating plotty AUs to extraordinarily horny established relationship to absolutely ridiculous humor. Do dive in if you haven't already.

Next up, @cumaeansibyl, master of kink:

better living through technology manages to shove everything I want in a dirty story into less than three thousand words: uptight Aziraphale reduced to sodden wreck, Crowley gleefully showing him what he's been missing, character-driven erotics, and exceptionally funny dialogue.

indulgentiam peccatorum nostrorum is somehow all that and more, turning the "I was wrong" dance into a kink (something I can't get enough of, recs welcome). This one is post-Bastille so it is extra-juicy. Mind the tags!

@cumaeansibyl has a gift for established relationship one-shots, which readers of mine will know are my entire jam. They also have a mind-meltingly hot inverse!omens AU that features different variations of angelic/demonic Crowleys and Aziraphales for our ineffables to play with.

A new-to-me author, Calico, has me hanging by a thread with their Ineffable Romans series. If you want to remember that your ineffables aren't human, that they are inordinately clever but very stupid, that the feelings they have for each other are truly beyond what anyone alive has ever felt, Calico may be the writer for you. This stuff is deep. Also hot af.

Sub Rosa reads like a nasty shag at Petronius', but there's so much more going on here. It is Extremely Queer, driven by power dynamics, and Crowley is fully demonic here and absolutely in control...or is he?

The Intemperance of Liber Pater continues on this theme, with dialogue-driven smut that reads less like a seduction than an inevitability. There's another story in this series, unfinished, and I can't wait to see what happens next.

Last but not least: two short pieces by @ineffabildaddy. I stumbled on their stories just this week and I absolutely love their approach, which I've not seen done quite this way before.

take me as your wife has a tight first-person perspective as Crowley meets Aziraphale for a meal and imagines (or is it his imagination?) that Aziraphale is suggesting Certain Things about how they might occupy themselves later. Indeed, is he suggesting even more? Something about their relationship? Or is it all in Crowley's head?

Only in Dreams is kind of a companion piece, from Aziraphale's point of view -- though hundreds of years later. This one's set after the events of S2 and although just as romantic as take me as your wife, it also offers an ineffable take on the ol' glory hole concept. Just in case you thought I was getting soft. 😏

@ineffabildaddy has a whole series of poems and ficlets like these and I can't wait to explore them all.

#good omens fanfic rec #good omens fic

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And here I've just been pouring Amaretto into my tea sometimes. I gotta get my gender game on.

my gender is either that ridiculously complicated latte order with like 17 modifications or the plain black coffee from yesterday you drink out of a plastic cup. there is no in between

#my #genderfluid #needs more flavours #lgtbqia+ #queer

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#bamf aziraphale #those angels are going to learn what rue the day means #good omens #badassaziraphaletakes

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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

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Fantastic fic! Of course the Klingons would love our little killing machines.

Ship's Pride -- rated G, ~1250 words

Inspired by Tumblr! All honor to the original posters. Q'apla!

A Klingon captain, facing a lesser nemesis of his race -- tribble infestation -- discovers the elegant solution, and the only capitulation of his career.

"These creatures… repose more than any I have ever seen.”

“Do you question their value? Have you found a tribble in the medkits lately?”

“No, sir, only – I find it unusual that you should allow her to repose across your lap.”

“It is oddly calming. It approximates a state of meditation, like a less strenuous form of mok’bara.”

“She is making a strange noise.”

“That is part of the calming effect. It is generated by rubbing behind the ears, thusly. Which is also calming.”

Read on AO3

#Like true warriors #they cannot be bidden #star trek #klingons

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This is officially my headcanon now.

My kitten tried to kill my stuffed tribble. My roommate remarked that my tribble killing cat would make a great Klingon pet… and she’s right.

Imagine a Klingon ship having a cat that protects them from tribbles & vermin. They have to get the cat from a shelter run by humans and they’re like “This is the honorable Mr. Chonks”.

“Yes, our ship also has an earth feline. Her name is Carrot and she fights like a warrior.”

There’s absolutely a Klingon out there who lost an eye to a feral cat that he then adopted.

Klingons who go “pspspspsps” to get the Ship Cat to come hang out during break.

Orange Ship Cat that gets lost in the jeffires tubes and Klingon whose sole job is to go fetch the orange cat. He acts like he hates his job but he actually really adores his feline co-worker so much.

Klingon that always hands things to the Ship Cat so it can sniff it.

Klingon that intentionally grabs boxes to enrich Ship Cat’s little life. Sometimes they get multiple boxes and the crew bets on which box will be deemed “best box” by their fluffy little warrior.

Klingon that starts his work shift saying “Qapla'!” to Ship Cat who meows in return.

Newly Minted Ship Kitten climbing up to a Klingon Captain’s shoulder with her tiny needle claws while said Captain is attempting to be intimidating on the viewscreen.

Klingon who gets a head bunt from Ship Cat and gives it a head bunt back.

#of course they have cat videos #star trek

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Pretty much, yeah. He knows Crowley has an, um, unique approach to plants and figures this is another one.

I know Neil has confirmed that Aziraphale didn't know Crowley was living in his car.

So I really want to know why he thought THE PLANTS were living in Crowley's car. Does he think Crowley has just taken to driving them around London with him all the time, just...because?

#Aziraphale's capacity to just not get what people are doing is legendary anyway #for all we know he asked and Crowley told him plants don't like speed either #good omens

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Yeah Edwin's awakening has been really good to watch, this babygirl will burn down the world when he really gets his head together

"i have feelings for you too" "i wasn't talking about you" SAVAGE

#painland #is a ship tag since you're wondering #dead boy detectives #dead boy detectives spoilers

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The perspective here!! And all the feels (sob)

[The Fall]

If you Fall, I'll be there to catch you. Even if I can't stop your Descent - If all I can do is delay the inevitable, At least you won't be alone when you hit the ground.

"I won't leave you on your own" - Anthony J. Crowley, S2 Ep 5

#yeah I did think we were safe damnit #fallen Azirabirb my heart #aziracrow #with the cute dialed to 11 #and now the angst too #good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands

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The fact he can stop time is so central to that - did he know how before he leaned it was all going to end too soon? Or did he learn *after*? Was he trying to figure out controlling time so he could save his stars?

One thing that really gets me about the opening with angel Crowley is that he's not just excited by how beautiful his stars are, or how fun the process of creation is, or how impressed he's made Aziraphale. He’s not in it for the glory or the aesthetics. He’s actually horrified by the idea that the universe will just be "fancy wallpaper" in the future, even though Aziraphale assures him that humans will "marvel" at his creations.

What Crowley loves about his stars is their potential. He is building, essentially, a nursery. Most of the universe's stars, he explains to Aziraphale, will come pre-aged--but his are just starting out! After they're given time to grow, who knows what could happen! Good or bad, black holes or new constellations—there are so many possible futures ahead of them, and Crowley can’t wait to see what happens.

And then Aziraphale tells him that he knows what will happen: those stars will never grow up. They will never shine or burn out or implode or become anything new. They’ll be destroyed before they get the chance.

"You can't kill kids."

“Whose side are you on?” “God’s, of course!” “Same God that wants me to whack the kids?”

"People die." "They do, don't they?"

“Great pustulant mangled bollocks to the Great blasted Plan!”

"Don't test them to destruction."

"It's always too late."

"Nothing lasts forever." "No, I don't suppose it does."

This fear has been chasing Crowley since before the beginning. It’s what caused his first doubts, put the first traces of gray in his wings. He’s been raging at the futility of watching beautiful, complex things be damned or destroyed for his entire existence, and that’s why he seems to the audience and to Aziraphale to be a mess of contradictions.

He loves to follow the trends of the times, but he clings to his classic car in an era of planned obsolescence for vehicles. He lives in an ultra-modern flat, but finds his greatest comfort in the unchanging security of aziraphale’s old shop. He hates the idea of killing children, but is willing to see a child die if it preserves the rest of the universe and foils the Great Plan. He “goes too fast,” but his most unique and notable power is that he’s learned to stop time.

Crowley hates predestination. He hates divine intervention and the removal of agency. Crowley, the architect of free will, is constantly torn between his love of change and choice and potential and his terror that everything will be destroyed by an unstoppable, incomprehensible higher power. That’s his driving conflict in the way that Aziraphale’s is learning to find his own path without following Heaven’s rules, and I am fascinated to see how it resolves.

#crowley my beloved #good omens meta #crowley #good omens

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happy 40th anniversary everyone 🥳🥳

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who’s that watchman who’s kinda skrunkly

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helen. 

HELEN. ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT NOBBY NOBBS.

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oh yeah

#are you gonna look at me and tell me that im WRONG?

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saw the postmaster today in his stupid gold suit. hes so hot

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i don’t get why people say this he’s the most average looking guy ever. his WIFE however

#you know that post that’s like ur at a lesbian bar and a hot older woman is smoking #and ur like. ‘can yuo put that out on me’ #yeah

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do you guys think the patrician has a secret blog

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No, but I bet his secretary is on studyblr

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are you kidding me the patrician is definitely on tumblr. brb committing treason so i can compliment his shoelaces

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hot take but i kind of think the guild of assassins and thieves are problematic. like one of them you could ruin someone’s life and the other one you’re literally KILLING people. i know rich people are delusional but i can’t believe they literally think the best school for their kids is murder college.

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assassins got them

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#but it's all sent by clacks #discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

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This is a nice and accurate list

Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

#discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett

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Oooh this is exciting! And terrifying.

You hear that? Ineffable May is nigh! That’s right— this month long daily prompt event dedicated to Good Omens… is back. Participate using art, writing, cosplay, or any other craft at your disposal.

Ao3 Collection

#gonna give it a go #terror is good right #good omens fic