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sazzlette:
1. Take your OTP
2. List your personal canon for those characters. So the stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with the books, but in your head is irrefutably what would have happened xD
hee. The more I write any particular pairing, the more personal fanon builds up. So here's the one I've written most!
(Some of these points are more irrefutable than others, mind.)
1. Aziraphale feels secretly superior to a number of his colleagues for not getting caught up in that tawdry Nephilim incident. But the reason he didn’t had nothing to do with superior morality and everything to do with (a) not being a particularly sexual being at the time, and (b) being actually gayer than a tree full of monkeys, etc.
2. Crowley, on the other hand, has fathered children, way back in Eden. Those “make trouble” orders were awfully nonspecific. Nobody really noticed, though, because snakes don’t give a damn who their father is (or their mother, for that matter).
3. Both of them are really big ol’ bottoms at heart. This gives their sexual power struggles a bit of a passive-aggressive twist. (But Aziraphale is easier to seduce into topping, being more of a control freak.) Crowley is especially violently allergic to the notion of getting locked into a role, because of millennia worth of furious rants about the idiocy of placing great importance on the “who’s on top” question from his fag-hag pal Lilith, who will never Get Over It.
4. God finds them hilarious and endearing and is really very protective of both of them. But the game would be no fun if they knew this.
5. Aziraphale is indirectly responsible for a lot of the past 400 years of human Western innovations in occultism, because he really did let his friendship/book-geek-rivalry with Dr. John Dee get way out of hand. He worries about this a lot. It’s like the flaming sword giveaway all over again. Crowley found this hilarious—up until the early 20th century, when he met the other infamous A. Crowley, and the two did not get along.
6. Aziraphale has a distaste for the French (except for their wine, cheese, and possibly some sexual practices) that goes back to 1066, when the Arrangement got its first solid, grueling test. He once had a remarkable conversation about this in Old English with that nice Professor Tolkien at Oxford, the only man he met in the 20th century whose pronunciations weren’t appalling.
7. Both of them are confused and vaguely uncomfortable in the presence of Buddhism or Hinduism. It reminds them of how little they really understand. They’re both insanely curious, though. They do the supernatural equivalent of ordering materials that come in plain brown envelopes.
8. Aziraphale is secretly grateful for Crowley’s sluttiness. If he were the only acceptable outlet for Crowley’s libido, he wouldn’t have nearly enough time to read.
9. Crowley, on the other hand, has a jealous streak, but he rather wishes Aziraphale would shag someone else just so the other shoe will drop and he can stop worrying about it. (Besides, he wants to watch.)
10. They both know that wings are erogenous zones, but this ought to be used sparingly.
11. While it is true that Crowley would rather take holy-water enemas than openly acknowledge that Aziraphale is more generously endowed than himself, deep in his heart of hearts he finds this fact hilarious. Besides, he really is way more flexible.
12. Crowley suspects, in the furthest deep dark never-accessed reaches of his mind, that redemption might be possible if he wanted it badly enough. The only way he would ever, ever seriously consider trying is if it were somehow necessary to save Aziraphale.
For a certain value of "irrefutable" of course. I've written things that contradict some of 'em, and very well might again...negative capability, y'know. Important for fandom.
sazzlette:1. Take your OTP
2. List your personal canon for those characters. So the stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with the books, but in your head is irrefutably what would have happened xD
hee. The more I write any particular pairing, the more personal fanon builds up. So here's the one I've written most!
(Some of these points are more irrefutable than others, mind.)
1. Aziraphale feels secretly superior to a number of his colleagues for not getting caught up in that tawdry Nephilim incident. But the reason he didn’t had nothing to do with superior morality and everything to do with (a) not being a particularly sexual being at the time, and (b) being actually gayer than a tree full of monkeys, etc.
2. Crowley, on the other hand, has fathered children, way back in Eden. Those “make trouble” orders were awfully nonspecific. Nobody really noticed, though, because snakes don’t give a damn who their father is (or their mother, for that matter).
3. Both of them are really big ol’ bottoms at heart. This gives their sexual power struggles a bit of a passive-aggressive twist. (But Aziraphale is easier to seduce into topping, being more of a control freak.) Crowley is especially violently allergic to the notion of getting locked into a role, because of millennia worth of furious rants about the idiocy of placing great importance on the “who’s on top” question from his fag-hag pal Lilith, who will never Get Over It.
4. God finds them hilarious and endearing and is really very protective of both of them. But the game would be no fun if they knew this.
5. Aziraphale is indirectly responsible for a lot of the past 400 years of human Western innovations in occultism, because he really did let his friendship/book-geek-rivalry with Dr. John Dee get way out of hand. He worries about this a lot. It’s like the flaming sword giveaway all over again. Crowley found this hilarious—up until the early 20th century, when he met the other infamous A. Crowley, and the two did not get along.
6. Aziraphale has a distaste for the French (except for their wine, cheese, and possibly some sexual practices) that goes back to 1066, when the Arrangement got its first solid, grueling test. He once had a remarkable conversation about this in Old English with that nice Professor Tolkien at Oxford, the only man he met in the 20th century whose pronunciations weren’t appalling.
7. Both of them are confused and vaguely uncomfortable in the presence of Buddhism or Hinduism. It reminds them of how little they really understand. They’re both insanely curious, though. They do the supernatural equivalent of ordering materials that come in plain brown envelopes.
8. Aziraphale is secretly grateful for Crowley’s sluttiness. If he were the only acceptable outlet for Crowley’s libido, he wouldn’t have nearly enough time to read.
9. Crowley, on the other hand, has a jealous streak, but he rather wishes Aziraphale would shag someone else just so the other shoe will drop and he can stop worrying about it. (Besides, he wants to watch.)
10. They both know that wings are erogenous zones, but this ought to be used sparingly.
11. While it is true that Crowley would rather take holy-water enemas than openly acknowledge that Aziraphale is more generously endowed than himself, deep in his heart of hearts he finds this fact hilarious. Besides, he really is way more flexible.
12. Crowley suspects, in the furthest deep dark never-accessed reaches of his mind, that redemption might be possible if he wanted it badly enough. The only way he would ever, ever seriously consider trying is if it were somehow necessary to save Aziraphale.
For a certain value of "irrefutable" of course. I've written things that contradict some of 'em, and very well might again...negative capability, y'know. Important for fandom.
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:04 pm (UTC)Many of them are bunnylicious, aren't they? And a lot of them I've written, but there are still some I haven't...or haven't written enough. :D
I've missed you! I was having Waxbean Withdrawal after GOE.
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:13 pm (UTC)After GOE, we had post-holiday travel and then post-holiday travel recuperation. I'm not so sure I'll be taking an infant on a week-long road trip again. That was really something.
And the beginning of the year is always busy with conference deadlines. So I've been scrambling to make up cool-sounding abstracts (which truly are rather abstract) for this year's round of conferences. Unfortunately none of them are in your city - I think I "met" you shortly after I'd had two conferences in a row in your hometown. Oh well.
You know --- I think you may not have written enough of C watching A with others... for the benefit of A/C.... how would that play out, anyway?
xoxoM
ps. it took me a while, but I finally got to read musegaarid's Bond/Go crossover. You were right. Delicious.
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:27 pm (UTC)I'm not so sure I'll be taking an infant on a week-long road trip again. That was really something.
Whew. That sounds intense. And good luck with the conferences. Me, I've been quasi-jobhunting, and looking for jobs at colleges, actually--hoping to eventually get a toe in the door towards employee discounts for grad school courses. :D
You know --- I think you may not have written enough of C watching A with others... for the benefit of A/C.... how would that play out, anyway?
I have never written this at all, come to think of it. And I think I need to. (Upthread, QW and I were discussing the possibility of the third party being a professional, which would probably count as Crowley's greatest tempting feat of all time.)
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:59 pm (UTC)I'm really crossing my fingers for you. There are some excellent unis and colleges in your town, too.
well, there goes the little one. She hasn't got a handle on cause and effect yet. She likes to shove her fist into her mouth and then gets upset when she gags herself. Then she does the whole thing again.
xoxooxM
ps. C watching A. Yes! Consider me an enabler in whatever way might work!
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Date: 2007-01-25 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-25 11:33 pm (UTC)(Once QW and I were kicking around the idea of parodying the wangsty Aziraphale Falls subgenre by having Crowley accidentally get redeemed in a comic, possibly pornographic, manner and then wangsting melodramatically about it.)