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Survival is Insufficient Without Love,

By @bohoteacher

Rated T, 7186 words

Status: Complete Work

Summary

A healer called Crow is just trying to get by in the post-pandemic wilds - though he dreams of finding somewhere to belong. One night, Aziraphale stumbles into his world. He's a travelling storyteller on a quest to find a printing press, holding tight to the belief there must be more to life than just survival. Together, they'll share small hopes, and find a home within each other's hearts.

Why we love it:

I know “Dystopia AU” doesn’t automatically scream “joy and softness”, but Bohoteacher has created a beautiful and tender tale of finding hope in a changed world. She deftly fills us in on the impact of a devastating global event by focusing on those left behind decades later, giving the story a sense of depth without lingering too long on the details of the disaster. In Crow, she portrays a character who's resigned to his solitary life, and it's satisfying to see his hope reignited by the indomitable spirit of storyteller Aziraphale. Watching these two interact and become closer was so heartwarming! Lastly, Bohoteacher’s scattered use of references to the TV show is skillfully done, evoking a strong and enduring emotional impact.

Tags: Falling in Love, Happy Ending, AU Dystopia, AU Western, AU Human, Wholesome, One-Shot, Rated T

Review by @angie-words

Read on AO3

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THE SECOND I scrolled past this @chrishallbeck animation on Insta, my hyperfixation demon possessed me like ”BETCH WE GOTTA INEFFABLE-IFY THIS RN”.

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Behold: my first lip-sync attempt (read: chaos) and my second-ever animatic (my laptop is now a warzone of 37 Firefox tabs and ✨crackhead energy��).

DOES THIS SLAY OR SHOULD I THROW MY TABLET INTO THE SUN?

Low-key debated swapping their roles but PLS we all know Aziraphale is the OG bastard of this duo. Crowley’s just here to accessorise the drama.

P.S. This animatic is 0% talent, 10% YouTube research and 90% ”what if we made the blorbos do a silly”.

All credit goes to @chrishallbeck !

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Favourite angel <33

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Who are you mocking, a plant?

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I still can't believe people are expecting Aziraphale to fail. This angel right here.

The one who deciphered a book of prophecy in one night.

The one who lied to a group of angels to protect humans and a demon he barely knew at the time.

The one who stopped Armageddon with a technicality.

The one who directly lied to God.

I don't expect Aziraphale to win gracefully. Chances are he'll stumble onto the perfect solution, but I definitely do not except Aziraphale is going to fail.

He's too much of a clever bastard to fail.

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1960′s Crowley - from Good Omens

Bonus:

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angel radio

playlist // support me on kofi

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Rated E, read now on AO3:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69494606/chapters/180231536

Summary:

Aziraphale has been the coach of Tadfield Academy's basketball team for the last ten years. The results these past few years have not been the best, but the Ducks are back on top and ready to win it all!

That is, until the school board threatens to shut down the sports program altogether and forces him to take an assistant in order to change the team's strategy.

How will Aziraphale deal with the intrusion of the rude Scottish psychologist in his life? Will the Ducks actually have a chance to win the cup at all, when egos start to fight for a spot in

In short, a boarding school AU disguised as a sports AU, or is it the other way around?

Thank you to my wonderful friends and beta readers @itsscottiesstark and @eybefioro

Tag list under the cut, tell me if you want in or out

Tag list: @victims-of-love @moralsofanalleycatsposts @shadesofecclescakes @goodomensafterdark

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Aziraphale and the history of the effeminate gay man trope

recently, there was this rage bait post about Sheen's portrayal of Aziraphale and how it connects to very old, homophobic tropes of the effeminate gay man (I know you all saw it). I don't do ragebait, so I didn't engage, but I do think the topic's interesting, so let's get into it shall we?

what the OP completely failed to explain (because they were rage baiting, kept contradicting themself, and had seemingly no idea what they were talking about acutally, duh) was the historical context of that stereotype and how it influences how we as audiences read Sheen's portrayal of Aziraphale and why.

you remember that Disney villain you had a crush on when you were a child, only to later realize that said villain, and you, are both queer(coded) as fuck? that stems from the Hays Code. the Hays Code was a self-censorship protocol devised in the early 20th century to keep Hollywood in check ideologically. it stated, roughly paraphrased, that "deviant" characters (gays, communists, etc.) should not be portrayed in a positive light. so what did creators do? they queer-coded their villains, later on the funny side-characters meant to be the butt of the joke. ever heard of the "bury your gays" trope? where there's exactly one gay or queer-coded character, and they die halfway through the film? that's where that comes from. the Hays Code basically said that you can have a queer character, but they can't have a happy ending because that would give audiences the wrong idea about what was "good" and the "right" (aka straight) way of living.

the Hays Code, though long abolished, was very pervasive and influential asthetically, to the point that we still see traces of it in the media made and consumed today. there's a related subplot in the show Sense8: the Mexican actor Lito is outed as gay, and the only roles offered to him going forward are either "villain" or "drug-addicted, HIV-positive side-character who dies halfway through the story". that's also a result of many decades of Hays Code.

so, what happens when you take that kind of portrayal, the mannerisms, the aesthetic, and use it to portray not only not the villain, not only not the side-character meant to be the butt of every joke, but the PROTAGONIST that audiences are meant to identify with and root for, and who also happens to be a literal ANGEL? you subvert the trope. and that's exactly what Sheen's doing by playing Aziraphale the way he does.

by the way: for this to be true, it doesn't matter whether Sheen knows what he's doing or not. it only matters what the audience reads into it AND that there are visible similarities to the way effeminate gay man in older movies were portrayed, which there are.

thanks for coming to my literal TED talk. here's a cute angel and his bitchy eyebrow to make you smile <3

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Welcome to that corner of the bookshop!

Where we try to give spotlight to the underrated works of our beloved Good Omens fandom!

This blog will be dedicated to reading and sharing the fics that are overlooked, because we know what it’s like to write and not meet the audience and engagement you were hoping for! Here, we know that most of the best fics ever written have less than 50 hits, 10 kudos, and no comments at all, and we’re here to give them some love!! If you wrote a fic, or have read one that you think deserves more love than it has received, please send the link through the asks! We will read and share it to spread the love! Can't wait to read your fics! With love, Max and the team 💛

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Why do I have to put everything through the GO filter?

I just saw for the umpteenth time the delicious Attonement.

Now starring:

Aziraphale as Cecilia

Crowley as Robbie

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Busy Angel

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Braces….

The Temptation of Crowley

STore: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/naniiebim

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Edinburgh TV Festival 2025, 19/08/2025

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Park benches are nice. 💛

If you want to be tagged in future art posts let me know!@itsscottiesstark @eybefioro @sad-grandfather-clock @yokohamama

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KEEP COMMENTING!! KEEP READING!!!

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

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