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The Good Omens Holiday Exchange has wrapped up its 15th year!
The story written for me:
What Happens To the Heart by irisbleufic
Aziraphale/Crowley
Mature
Author's Summary: “[My father] was hell-bent—or heaven-bent—on completing it, and we just were unable to get a musical accompaniment that he was satisfied with. I think it’s one in a long line of songs that have his essential thesis in life, which is the broken hallelujah. Everything cracks, and this is what happens to the heart.” —Adam Cohen, regarding Leonard Cohen's posthumous album release, "Thanks for the Dance"
Absolutely beautiful slow-burn story in several vignettes, each based around a different Leonard Cohen song. (I had requested something A/C inspired by his lyrics). I strongly recommend listening to those songs while reading it, or just before or just after. Over decades, these songs help Aziraphale and Crowley really see other, and really come to terms with what they are too each other - the cracked, the holy and unholy - and eventually the light gets in.
I wrote:
The Year Without a Summer
Aziraphale/Crowley
For Ineffablemercury
Explicit
Author's Summary: Once upon a time in 1815, a mountain exploded and covered the world in cloud, cold, and darkness for so long that 1816 had no summer in the West, and crops failed, causing panic and famine. That same year, a demon decided to steal away an angel to an Underworld hideaway. Coincidence?
I mashed-up two of my recipient's requests: they wanted something inspired by Hades/Persephone, with Crowley abducting Aziraphale to Hell, OR something historical from a list of periods including Regency. What they got was Regency A/C, and Aziraphale gets taken to the old Hellfire Club caves to hide from Heaven. There is a pomegranate and there's ravishing.
It's been a TERRIBLE year for me for writing, and I'm so glad I was able to shake off the cobwebs.
The Good Omens Holiday Exchange has wrapped up its 15th year!
The story written for me:
What Happens To the Heart by irisbleufic
Aziraphale/Crowley
Mature
Author's Summary: “[My father] was hell-bent—or heaven-bent—on completing it, and we just were unable to get a musical accompaniment that he was satisfied with. I think it’s one in a long line of songs that have his essential thesis in life, which is the broken hallelujah. Everything cracks, and this is what happens to the heart.” —Adam Cohen, regarding Leonard Cohen's posthumous album release, "Thanks for the Dance"
Absolutely beautiful slow-burn story in several vignettes, each based around a different Leonard Cohen song. (I had requested something A/C inspired by his lyrics). I strongly recommend listening to those songs while reading it, or just before or just after. Over decades, these songs help Aziraphale and Crowley really see other, and really come to terms with what they are too each other - the cracked, the holy and unholy - and eventually the light gets in.
I wrote:
The Year Without a Summer
Aziraphale/Crowley
For Ineffablemercury
Explicit
Author's Summary: Once upon a time in 1815, a mountain exploded and covered the world in cloud, cold, and darkness for so long that 1816 had no summer in the West, and crops failed, causing panic and famine. That same year, a demon decided to steal away an angel to an Underworld hideaway. Coincidence?
I mashed-up two of my recipient's requests: they wanted something inspired by Hades/Persephone, with Crowley abducting Aziraphale to Hell, OR something historical from a list of periods including Regency. What they got was Regency A/C, and Aziraphale gets taken to the old Hellfire Club caves to hide from Heaven. There is a pomegranate and there's ravishing.
It's been a TERRIBLE year for me for writing, and I'm so glad I was able to shake off the cobwebs.
