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[ineffablefool]

We just watched an educational short about dinosaurs from 1970, and when it got to the "then they all died out" bit, the narrator said something that stunned me.

"That [climate change into a drier and less food-abundant environment] may have been one reason why dinosaurs died, yet we don't know for sure."

You.

Don't.

Know??

You don't know? How does that even -- it was a fuckoff giant big meteor! It vaporized a big chunk of the Yucatan into the atmosphere and nuclear-wintered the planet! Everyone knows that!

Except actually they didn't. The first paper suggesting that there might have been a meteor that had done it, hitting somewhere, would be published a decade later in 1980. That was only a year before I was born! I grew up in a "yeah it was probably Death From Above" world, but that was a brand new lil baby of an idea at the time!

So in this educational film from 1970, yeah. No. They think maybe the world drying out as it got older was part of the problem, but. They really Didn't Know. The exact fate of the dinosaurs was kind of just mostly a mystery, and that was that.

The inexorable march of scientific progress is neat!

Science source: https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2023/04/08/an-asteroid-killed-the-dinosaurs/

I watched the short being made fun of on Rifftrax but you can watch it straight here: https://chasmosaurs.com/2022/10/05/dinozaury/

[naturallyteal]

Aziraphale’s Brief History Of Time

A fill for the AU Roulette Challenge 2025 for the prompt “Time Travel” by @au-roulette

Original tumblr post of the art here, please reblog if you like!

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Good Omens (TV)

Relationship: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Words: 1134

Additional Tags: Time Travel/Au Roulette/Fluff/Fluff with a chance of a bit of smut later/South Downs Cottage (Good Omens)/South Downs Cottage’s Garden/lazing on a sunny afternoon/time travel physics explained/I read (about) two Stephen Hawking books to write this/Banter/Established Relationship/Set in an unspecified future/fanart inside/art by @eklmrlos

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[apocalypsenah]

A birthday gift for the lovely, lovely @ineffablefool of his If Not Now, When boys for his fic, One Garden, With Serpent. Happy birthday Jack!! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful words (and self!). I hope the day was as good as it can be right now, and that the year ahead brings you lots of good things. 💚

(They go to a botanical garden, there are some adorable romantic shenanigans, and it’s all very very soft and wonderful. I think I read this twice just on the day it was published, can’t recommend it enough! Especially if you’re an INNW fan.)

And a special thank you to @depressedstressedlemonzest for wrangling a bunch of us Soft Zone™ fans and for being a fantastic cheerleader as I worked on this!! 

[aziraphales-library]

Hello! I remember reading a handful of 'crowley accidentally says I love you and then makes up a fake boyfriend to cover for it' fics, based on a text post by sleepymccoy, I believe. I know one of them is, "The One with the Fake Boyfriend" by Julia_Skysong, but was wondering if you all know of any others? I know there are, but I can't seem to find them. Anything else similar to this prompt is also appreciated. Thank you and have a lovely day! You all are amazing.

Hey! I only know a couple of fics based on the original tumblr post...

Sometimes The Truth Is Like A Second Chance by ineffablefool (T)

Crowley shifted the phone to his other ear. “Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great, angel. See you then.” Say it, say it, say it... “I love you.”

There was a pause, which Crowley’s heart decided to fill by slamming against the rest of his organs.

“Crowley,” Aziraphale gasped. “Did you just say...?”

(Crowley tells Aziraphale, over the phone, that he loves him. Then he panics and tries to claim that it was just force of habit from his saying it to his boyfriend. At which point he's stuck with a made-up boyfriend. Probably there's no way out of this predicament.)

And the one you mentioned...

The One With The Fake Boyfriend by Julia_Skysong (G)

Inspired by this textpost from sleepymccoy on Tumblr:

Crowley accidentally saying "i love you" as he hangs up on a phone call to Aziraphale then having to spend the next three years pretending to be in a relationship cos "sorry angel it was automatic... cos i say it so much to my... boyfriend???"

Cue mutual heartbreak as Az is super 100% supportive cos he loves Crowley and wants him to be happy but he had rather convinced himself that maybe Crowley had feelings for him but apparently not and Crowley is just miserable cos Az isn't showing a single hit of jealousy

Also imagine when Crowley finally gives it up and goes over to the bookshop like "we broke up, angel, give me wine and let's never discuss it again" and Aziraphale has to actively fight his happy shimmy

Also Crowleys fake boyfriend has like eighteen jobs cos Crowley never bothers to remember what he made up last time but Aziraphale is cataloging everything like a jealous maniac and despite himself is very impressed with the renaissance aficionado Crowley managed to land

But here are some fics with a similar theme...

a slip of the tongue by lexophile (T)

Crowley makes a strangled noise and Aziraphale turns back to him to find that the demon is sitting up, his posture rigid and his expression slack with shock. His mouth is quite literally hanging open as he stares down at Aziraphale.

“Er,” Aziraphale says, befuddled. He holds up the bottle of wine. “Did you want some more?”

“Azsssiraphale,” Crowley hisses out, then clears his throught and tries again. “Angel. Did you… do you… what did you jussst call me?”

-

In which Aziraphale accidentally calls Crowley his boyfriend while inebriated and they both lose their minds.

Wanted To Tell You by DandelionDrabbles (G)

“Remember that thing you told me, that time?" Crowley said abruptly. "That someone loved me.” His eyes were fixed on Aziraphale, oddly intense. “I decided I should tell them. That I know, and I love them back." “Congratulations," Aziraphale told him sincerely. “I’m so happy for you.” Crowley was still staring, as if waiting for another reaction. The silence felt strangely charged. Aziraphale wondered if he was missing something.

Have you told him by cyankelpie (G)

“So,” Aziraphale said conversationally, “Tell me about this person you’re in love with.”

Crowley, who had unfortunately chosen that moment to take a sip of wine, sprayed it all over the table. Some of it went up his nose, and he coughed to get it out of his lungs. “What the buggering heaven,” he said when he finally stopped coughing, “gave you the idea—”

“Oh, come now, there’s no need to be embarrassed.” Aziraphale’s self-satisfied smirk that suggested the opposite. The droplets of wine had miraculously dodged his pristine white toga, because of course they had. “You must have known you wouldn’t be able to hide it from an angel.”

(Aziraphale can tell Crowley loves someone, even if he doesn't know who. Naturally, he does what any good friend would do, and teases Crowley about it relentlessly.)

love rings true by asideofourown (G)

Aziraphale stared down at the box, his heartbeat thundering in his ears. He had seen this kind of box before, of course, and he knew what was usually inside them, but surely—

Aziraphale carefully popped open the box, and his jaw dropped when he saw the ring inside. It was— Crowley had— he had an engagement ring? Because this was very, very clearly an engagement ring, round and gold and surprisingly simple given the demon’s usually ostentatious taste.

Aziraphale quickly closed the box again and stuffed it back in the drawer, his mind whirling. Why in the world would Crowley have an engagement ring? Had it been given to him, or had he— had he gotten it to give to someone else?

[Aziraphale stumbles upon a ring in Crowley's flat and jumps to conclusions]

- Mod D

[nicnacsnonsense]

First line meme

rules: post the first line of one of your wips and tag as many people as there are words

So @summerofspock tagged me on this and I’ve been fretting because my sentences tend to be rather long and I really don’t know that many people who I know for a fact are writers and who I haven’t already seen be tagged. So I’m going rogue and I’m tagging the people who expressed a particular interest on the original post in the replies/reblogs/tags for the Good Omens Frozen AU. (Plus a couple other people. It’s a long sentence, okay?) This probably won’t be happening soon, but I’ll commit to trying to make it happen.

Crowley clung to the shadows as he snuck quietly down the dark hallway, making his way to Aziraphale’s room. 

tagging @seaskystone @themoonmothwrites @josephina-x @historicallyinlove @noire73 @saretton @crashcrazy @teslatherat @glitteriztical @rainetempest @rozugold @raiining @ineffablefool @stars-sky-see @hopeinthedark1901 @mythomagically-delicious @eregyrn-falls @racketghost @waywren

[multsicorn]

good omens fic recs, post five

The continued adventures of reccing my favorites of the fics I’ve encountered lately in the giant marvelous heap that is Good Omens fandom.  Mostly all Crowley/Aziraphale (though there’s one in which Crowley fucks younger!Shadwell while pining for Aziraphale), and... mostly a lot of fluff?  For my usual tastes.  But quite a bit of harder/angsty/weirder shit, too.

Eleven fics under the cut, and, for more fic, links back to post one, post two, post three, post four, and the tag.

Perchance to Dream by Sir_Bedevere (1k, g). In which Crowley's bad dreams disturb his and Aziraphale's small snek children, or snildren, and Aziraphale comforts them. I love how totally adorable the snake children - so earnest! so curious! although so small! - are, and how adorably Aziraphale and Crowley care for them.

tell me all the ways by tinsnip (2k, g). In which Crowley’s and Aziraphale’s domestic tranquillity is marred by a little fight. I love the way that this fic embraces the rough edges of the two of them - Aziraphale’s stubborn passive-aggressivenesd, the front Crowley puts up of being a good - bad - you know what I mean! - demon, but is no less - in fact, all the more - about them embracing each other, for all of that.

Mercy by Lise (2k, t). In which, around 1000 AD, Crowley comes to Aziraphale for - not a mercy killing, but a mercy discorporation. I love the trust and worry and dependence that’s present between the two of them even before Aziraphale, at least, is willing to consider them friends, and Crowley’s putting up a strong face that gives way to honesty, and Aziraphale’s avoidance that yields to bravery.

All Sorts Of Fascinating Things by ineffablefool (7k, t). In which Crowley and Aziraphale visit a not!Eden planet on the original starship Enterprise. (No Star Trek characters appear in this fic.) I love the tenderness that the two of them have with each other, the way that Aziraphale, especially, loves all the new human delights of the future, and the gentle humor and adventure of this episode.

Advice From a Tree by Zetared (9k, t). In which Crawly convinces Aziraphale rather than Eve to eat the apple, and everything's different. I love how thoughtfully this fic plays out its premise - although it fucks me up, in parts - I love how it engages with the mythology in a very Good Omens-y way, what it does with Eve and Adam and their eventual family, and how Crowley and Aziraphale deal with the problems this AU brings.

Blind Panic by HopeCoppice (3k, m). In which Crowley, in the process of shedding his skin, is blind for a little while. I love the tenderness, the thoughtfulness, the - oh, there aren't words for this, but the way in which Aziraphale lets Crowley, in the midst of his vulnerability, still take the lead: he's there to help Crowley in only the ways that Crowley wants to be helped.

Still My Heart Has Wings by jessthereckless (9k, m). In which Aziraphale and Crowley work out this whole living-together thing. A very domestic fic, and I love all the little things that go to make up their particular home life, from remodeling as literally making space for each other, to Crowley, of course, cooking - he needs a hobby! - to a truly wonderful take on angelic/demonic slightly telepathic Weird Metaphysical sex, as well as only slightly weird purely physical sex ;).

pining, smoking, and other things we do to pass time by SoulJelly (2k, e). In which Crowley fucks Shadwell, outside a pub in the 1980s. (Of course he’d much rather be with Aziraphale, but you can’t always get what you want). I love the portrait this story paints of Crowley as such a deeply disaffected demon, at this point in his life - not even all that much into wiling, much less anything else - but this is what he’s got.

an unperfect actor by equestrianstatue (2k, e). In which Aziraphale saw a dirty postcard some time ago, and wants to do the thing. I love how it layers past unfulfilled desire under the present fulfillment (aka, sex), and also the gentle teasing between Aziraphale and Crowley that’s note-perfect.

the moment to its crisis by sabinelagrande (3k, e). In which Aziraphale has been a virgin for six thousand years, but no longer. I love the viscerally hot cunnilingus, and Aziraphale’s matter-of-fact discussion of his, um, problems with his anatomy, but most of all I love how it’s not only humans who suffer from ‘don’t have sex’ religious propaganda - angels do, too.

Possession by spunknbite (8k, e). In which Crowley possesses Aziraphale, and they have sex and also many feelings. I love how this fic chooses to portray the experience of possession - how there’s some degree of sharing another’s thoughts, feelings, memories, etc., as well as body - but not all at once and completely - more like a strange and very intimate kind of dialogue. With sex.

[ineffablefool]

Just letting everyone know that @kedreeva got to me so I have now watched the first episode of The Residence on Netflix and plan to watch the second at my earliest opportunity! It'll take a week or two to work through all of it (assuming I do keep going) for Reasons Not Of My Control, but if anyone reading this wants to marathon the whole thing before Thursday (aka within the first week of availability) then that would probably make Ked happy. (Murder mystery comedy at the White House, lots of fun performances, the birdwatching consulting detective main character has very firmly put a checkmark on her list next to "ineffablefool's heart")

[ineffablefool]

For my fellow fat fans of masc clothing:

I randomly stumbled on a US-based men's big and tall store that's going out of business so everything is super cheap but there's like. LOTS of stuff still (as of when I just looked, June 24 2025). I inhabit a common and boring area of the size range that always sells out first when sites have big sales, but all of the things I wanted to buy were still available in at least one of the two sizes I fell between.

The company is called Johnny Bigg! I have never heard of them before today, so I cannot vouch for their quality; I also don't know how fashionable their stuff is, since I live under five rocks and get excited about the LL Bean catalog. But I figured I could afford a "$40 total for three shirts and shipping" kinda gamble. Others might feel similarly.

[ineffablefool]

i have excellent timing XD

[ineffablefool]

Please send some good vibes to housemate, who has been battling against our even-more-corrupt-and-dysfunctional-than-the-norm homeowner's association (basically it's been a big pocketbook for a couple of board members since around the turn of the century) for a couple of years now, and is planning to go to the annual meeting tonight and insist on certain Irregularities being explained to the assembled members. The main guy running the show already had a personal beef with housemate even before housemate started uncovering things like the decades of unpaid taxes and the illegal giving away of communal land, so we're really not sure what's going to happen! At least this meeting the police presence won't be a surprise.

[ineffablefool]

gahhhh the last few weeks I have been starving for fics or art where Aziraphale is clearly, legitimately fat (with adoring attention paid to his physical features which are associated with said fatness) and also clearly, legitimately loved ("desired" would be okay but oh give me cherished, give me treasured and held dear and, again, adored)

and I know that this is one of those things where I should just be the change I want to see in the world, but the last few weeks I have also been [flops face-first onto bed and doesn't move for 45 minutes], so clearly that is not happening

[ineffablefool]

Lucky I Love

Aziraphale stopped in front of the quaint little storefront, and Crowley stopped with him. Watched his eyes brighten, round face totally devoid of fear or worry or anything but joy. Exactly how it should be. “Go on, then,” Crowley grumbled, already rescheduling lunch in his head. "I know that look.” Aziraphale raised a dignified eyebrow. “I don’t have a look.” “Oh, you’ve got plenty of looks. This look says that either you go in there now, or you spend the rest of the afternoon sighing wistfully about how you wish you had.” Crowley opened the door with a minor flourish. “In you pop.” Aziraphale beamed at him with enough radiance to start a familiar feeling in his chest. The glow of success, he figured — it would rise up, fluttery and gently warming right down to his scaly toes, any time he got Aziraphale to make that face.

Read on AO3

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AO3's tag autocomplete had an owie yesterday, and then today I keep falling off the Internet for some reason, but I have still managed to bring you all my Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week-appropriate fic (originally written for @aceomenszine volume 2 last year)!

Just because Crowley cares about Aziraphale to a degree which no human being can fully comprehend doesn't mean he loves him, right? Crowley knows what "love" is supposed to be. It's the thingy with the roses and the smooching and all that, right? ...right?

[ineffablefool]

Opinion: every eBay seller who lists a clothing item as size, say, 46, when once you click in and start scrolling through the product images you learn that the tag clearly says 46T, should be forced to live the next six months of their lives wearing only clothing that is minimum two inches too long for them.

They can have their regular wardrobes back after the six months, I'm not unreasonable or anything. I'm just short and would like to occasionally be able to have visible hands when I'm wearing a jacket, or in lieu of that, I'd like some of these sellers to understand my pain.

[ineffablefool]

This is a question for I guess mostly homeowners in the USA, although I'm not against hearing from others.

Every single time we get contractors out here to work on stuff outside, one or both of our nearest neighbors will stop them to ask them to do "while you're out here" type work for free/cheap. And like... is that normal? Do people just hijack each other's contractors all the time and I was unaware?

Specific examples here:

A storm rips a big branch almost entirely off our tree, so we hire an arborist to get it down safely and haul it out: Neighbor on that side stops the workers to ask them for extra trimming on our trees along her property line. (They don't do it.)

Arborist is here again on our dime doing a long list of agreed-upon tree removal/trimming work: Same neighbor asks for the same extra trimming on our trees (and gets it this time, I think not for free but it might have been). Other neighbor asks them to remove all the branches on our lovely mature oak (which she hates bc it drops sticks on her yard) up to like 30 feet above ground (and gets it for free).

Fencing guy out here on our dime putting up a backyard fence: Other neighbor (the one who hates our oak) stops him in the middle of drilling post holes and asks to have some shrubs dug out (I'm pretty sure they're not asking about the one shrub that is right on the side line and therefore legally half ours but I guess we'll find out?) with the Bobcat for a hundred bucks.

I feel like this is super rude behavior and housemate says it's parasitic but is it actually normal and we've just been unaware of this cultural phenomenon until now?

[ineffablefool]

went to see if I can grab myself a bluesky but I guess they're only interested in new users who are willing to click a 'back' arrow once for every month they lived before November 2004? which 280ish is a lot so no thanks guess I'll continue to pass

[ineffablefool]

Random reminder that fat people are precisely as good, important, worthy, beautiful, valuable, and deserving of respect and love as thin people are. Including really really fat people! There is no version of you that is superior just because they weigh less. All the different-sized versions are identically wonderful.