Heh, and here I feel like I'm slacking this year, because last year I not only wrote two (well, unofficially three) GOE fics, I was working on "The Phoenix and the Turtle" at the time too. (And yeah, this meant I was reading books on Caligula-era Rome and Elizabethan England concurrently. XD)

Thoughtful is one thing, melodramatic is another. I do have a weakness for a good rescue story--provided the emphasis is on action and plot twists, etc., not on wangst. And that is an awfully overused plot device. (And not a very plausible one, usually - if Crowley can outfox Hastur, Aziraphale certainly can.)