The Middle Distance

So...we finished Year Fourteen of the Good Omens Holiday Exchange! You know, just sticking with something this long is a reward in itself. The new TV series will change this fandom a lot (oh please Someone no purity wankers we do NOT need or want that), and I think it will bring in a lot of fresh blood and a lot of new takes on the characters, and that's going to be exciting to watch from the ground up.

But not that the fandom needs that help. For a fandom for one book published in 1990, it's still extremely healthy, from my POV.

Here's this year's Reveal/Masterlist. 46 brand-new works!

Here's the story that was written for me: A Man Upon the Land by Lilyaceae (Aziraphale/Crowley, other characters, rated T). The author combined two of my prompts - something nautical-themed, something inspired by folklore or fairy tales - and gave me a fantastic romantic high seas adventure, with Pirate Captain!Crowley and Selkie!Aziraphale. Beautiful, so very exciting and sweet and so much fun. (Also...Crowley's ship is called the Bentley. And it burns! Pirate Captain Hastur's ship is called the King In Yellow. I mean....!!! being that perfect should be illegal.)

Here's the story I wrote for Staubengel: The Other Thing With Feathers (at AO3; A/C, rated T) (original post at DW: https://go-exchange.dreamwidth.org/234735.html). I also combined two prompts - something involving bodyswap and something with a lot of focus on WINGS!! In the aftermath of an unfortunate bodyswap incident, Aziraphale and Crowley discover some things that still need some recalibration - including the nature of their relationship. Wing-grooming, yo.

Huge thanks to all the participants, and the other mods, and all the beta-readers and pinch-hitters, all of whom make this possible and still a joy after all these years.

Recurring Slope Lineae" at AO3

Grown-up Adam can still make things happen, if he isn't careful - but the things he finds too important to mess with, those are the real miracles.

GOE reveal yesterday!

I wrote this:
Their Satanic Majesties Request
for thilia
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Request: Crowley/Aziraphale, AU - or not? Crowley is a rockstar, Aziraphale is his groupie. Any rating. combined with: UST (resolved in the end), getting-together fic rather than established relationship, angst, humour, smoking, drinking, possessiveness, focus on the romance part of the story, plot AND smut, dirty talk, flirting, witty banter, dub-con, seduction, kissing, first time, manipulative bastard!Crowley (but still sweet, in his way)
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley’s Arrangement stayed in comfortable stasis for a thousand years. It only took one decade to change it forever. (Crowley and Aziraphale do The Sixties--or do The Sixties do them?)
Warnings: Drug use and consensual sex under the influence.


I stumbled a bit over the "groupie" part, and for a long time I struggled with this story, it was all Crowley being a reluctant grumbly rock star, and Aziraphale was barely in it. Eventually, though he found his own ways in -- as he does--and I think he turned out to be very much the backbone of the tale.

This is more or less the 60s AU (sort of) I've been wanting to write for years.

I've had a few people ask me about the 60s rock jokes and references, so I'm putting some notes about that, and some fine mood-setting YouTube videos, behind a cut.

( Have You Ever Been Experienced? )

More as I remember them. Feel free to ask questions.

Latest post on go_exchange. Go look. Go see. If you missed it, it's a masterlist of 40 brand-new Good Omens fics, art pieces, and comics that are currently exclusive.


I wrote The Speck In the London Eye (fic, Aziraphale/Crowley, R) for danny_sama.

This was the first year we decided to change the system up at GOE and have people choose prompts. I know this worked very well for some people, and not as well for others. We're going to put a post up at GOE in the next couple days, to get feedback about people's feelings about the new system.

Well, I failed pretty thoroughly at the Dreamwidth Kink Bingo game this time around - except I did manage one story for amnesty just a few hours before deadline, so I'm not disqualified for the next one.

Virtue, Ever Vigilant

Fandom: Good Omens
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Kink: Sleepy/unconscious



zzzz. makes me want a nap. a very special nap.

When I wrote this post a little while back about being stuck, some folks gave me the excellent advice of writing something slightly cracky and playful...

Three Maids and an Angel (Don’t Walk Into a Bar)

Three Aziraphale-centric GO Crossovers in Three Ficlets.
Rating: PG on principle.
Summary: Little girls everywhere get warned about the dangers of harmless-looking strange gentlemen, but no one ever warns such a “gentleman” about very strange girls.

The first was inspired by a prompt from catherinecookmn. The second by a convo with scholar_asriel. The third is dedicated to the memory of one of my favorite writers when I was a kid--I might not love stories so much without her.

( ...that has such people in it... )

Gotta go out real soon (don't wanna!), but enjoy while I'm gone!

The wonderful thing about oxoniensis's Porn Battle series is that there are SO many prompts, SO many fandoms, SO many pairings (and moresomes), SO many possibilities.

It's a fantastic opportunity to try one's hand at something new--characters, fandoms, pairings, situations, I'd never even dreamed of writing before. Something completely different. A new adventure.

This was not that day, however.

Dark and Stormy Night. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, prompts: rain, wings, Eden)

Oh well. At least I played with a slightly different style.

Other fandoms tempting me at the moment are His Dark Materials, Gormenghast, 3:10 to Yuma, Flight of the Conchords, and just maybe, This Is Spinal Tap.

Let me take this opportunity to urge EVERYONE to participate. You've got til Sunday. You've got the space of a comment box for your swive-by.

Prosperous's Books
for japanimaniac13

historical; Agnes Nutter/Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer, Aziraphale/Crowley, PG-13

Summary: "For all that history will remember [the great fire of London] might as well also burn the books Agnes will not have written." I like to think she was making choices all the time, about the future as well as the present, even if she didn't understand them fully. This one was difficult, but pivotal.

Author's Note: I wanted to see if I could go off my beaten track, if anyone would still know it was me if I didn't tell them. Apparently, no one did. I have mixed feelings about this.

wow, Saturday night is a graveyard on LJ.

I've had kind of a grueling week. Nothing terrible happened, just a lot of stress and work. The slow sandpaper grind, y'know.

But congratulations to Al Gore! Is there anyone else ever who has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and a Presidential election?

And I got a fabulous surprise boost from quantum_witch: New Art! Detente, the Illustrated Version at switchythings. (Locked to members, so you know it's smut.)

I may go out later. I may go to bed early. It all depends on who's buyin', cause I sure can't.

I suggested this meme to musegaarid a while back and am only now getting round to enacting it myself.

The Babel-Drabble!

Here's the deal. Take one of your posted fics and use Google's translator or Babelfish to translate it into the language of your choice and then back into English. Pick out the best line(s) of the new story and write a drabble. Post your drabble on your journal and tag five friends to do the same.

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"THAT WHAT YOU MEANS YOU WERE WITH SALADIN!" Under Crowley, a peddler angry it has given of soccer to its ass.

"It wasn't with Saladin that I learned," Aziraphale said. Really, Crowley's devotion to donkey football was rather embarrassing.

"Hmph," said Crowley. "Those Arabs liked their horses way too much if you ask me."

"NOT WITH HE WITH HE! IT OBTAINS YOUR MIND FROM THE GRONDAIA, YOU PERVERTITO OF PERDITIOUS!" The given ass of soccer behind.

"Grondaia?" asked Crowley, puzzled.

"Well, heads wound up in gutters all the time when I played the real game. Honestly, I was rather good," Aziraphale said defensively, thinking fondly of the particularly brutal form of Afghani polo that involved sheep corpses when times were lean, although human heads rolled a lot better.

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I tag dreya_uberwald, celandineb, bethbethbeth, argyleheir, and maggiehoneybite. But I'd love to see these from ANY AND ALL OF YOU.