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Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.

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Today Aziraphale realized that, being a demon, Crowley had never had a birthday party. Despite also never having celebrated his own birthday, Aziraphale baked Crowley a Devil’s food cake, and purchased a colourful balloon bouquet. He hung streamers in the living room, and startled Crowley by blowing a party horn the moment he walked through the door. (Crowley had asked for that one, having invented the noisemakers himself several centuries prior.)

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Little cat wakes up and stretches after a beautiful nap

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Thanks for mentioning mine! I have a few more to add to the pile, also!

Waking Up Slow is so very good! It's already on my year-end list.

So, I thought I had a, however slight, preference for season 3 fics but this month I've not read a single season 3 fic. I started a couple but found that I wasn't in the right mood and I'm keeping them for later. I guess there are phases in life and I must be going through a phase where I need to read things that put a smile on my face and certainty in my heart. I'm in need of fun and trust. I'm in need of comfort and familiarity. And where to better find all those feelings than in the outstanding creativity of the Good Omens fandom?

April's amazing fiction

WIPs:

My Heart Was Always Yours by AddledMongoose.

It's a slightly alternative universe where Aziraphale and Crowley have somehow never met each other until the present day and each thinks the other is a human.

Each of them has been tasked by their respective head offices to retrieve Raphael's trumpet and each of them wants to find and destroy it. The trumpet will be sold on earth at an illegal auction and in order to gain entry to the auction they have to pretend to be married.

This fiction has it all, characters' personalities are spot on, humour, wit, dynamic, romance, everything.

At the beginning you might feel slightly put off by the first person narrative but give it a couple of chapters and it will flow.

You won't regret it!

We have got to that point in the story where the plot is really interesting! This fiction gets better and better! Rated M

The Escort by VinyamaDN

Human AU where Crowley is an escort and meets Azirapahle via his job. This fiction has a deep level of introspection, it can go from very angsty to very funny in a matter of two lines and it's a wonderful journey! Rated E

Whickber Street by Caedmon

Human AU set, yes you guessed it, in Whickber Street. Aziraphale owns a bookshop in Soho and Crowley opens a new comic book and geek shop a few doors down the road. Honestly, how dare he?

Absolutely lovely from-one-sided-enmity-to-(it's-a-WIP-so-we-can't-know-for-sure-but-come-on!)-lovers story! All our favourite side characters are there and everybody's best friends who we've never met in real life Fergus and Ella!

If you're in need of a smile, go and read it! Rated E

Complete works:

Drop By Drop by green_grin.

Alternative universe fiction in which human Aziraphale discovers and accidentally activates some sigils on his bookshop's wall. He meets and gets to know the demon Crowley who can't leave the plane of hell.

This one is angsty, with mentions of depression and self harm but it does have a happy ending. Rated E.

Mon Horrible Chéri by ghostrat.

I do have a soft spot for enemies-to-lovers AU. This one doesn't disappoint one bit. Crowley and Aziraphale teach science and literature in the same high school and they hate each other (aw... how cute are they when they hate each other whilst being attracted to each other?). When Beelzebub is injured just before the school trip to Paris, Aziraphale has to step in to replace them. When he agreed he didn't know that the other teacher accompanying the children was Crowley. Everything you're looking for in a sweet, funny, romantic enemies to lovers fiction ensues. Highly, highly recommended. Rated E.

Warmth by Dannye Chase (HolyCatsAndRabbits), HolyCatsAndRabbits.

Human AU where Aziraphale lives in a small town and one day a mysterious and very handsome man pays a visit to the library where he works. The two men become friends but Aziraphale knows that friendship is all he can hope for. Or is it?

A little angst with a happy ending. Really sweet and heartwarming. Rated E.

Waking Up Slow by the_moonmoth.

Excluding my favourite WIP, this is the best fiction I've read this month. Human AU set in lockdown... in a cottage... aawww. Aziraphale knocks a stranger apparently unconscious and gives him CPR. Only after does he remember he has been exposed to covid. Funny, witty, sweet, hot, this fiction has it all. Rated E.

Series:

Stories To Brighten Up Your Day by HotCrossPigeon.

If you need some lighthearted, incredibly funny and extremely sweet read, this series will do what it says in the title. Your day will brighten up and you'll have a big smile on your face. If you need something to cheer you up, that's for you. Rated Teen and up.

One shots:

Ars Daemonium by ObligateWeirdo.

Crowley is in a grumpy mood. We learn why through his conversation with Aziraphale. This lovely piece gives us hints at how being an immortal being stationed on earth must feel like sometimes. Rated Teen and up.

My own little one shot:

In Vino Ludus

It's the year 2030. Crowley comes to the bookshop drunk. An as of yet canon divergent fluffy night in the life of an angel and a demon. I was struggling with a chapter for a longer fiction and needed a lighthearted, fluff-filled, angst-free break. Rated E

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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If it had been Crowley to have a conversation with Beelzebub, a conversation we don't see on screen except the few snippets related by Crowley and if Crowley told Aziraphale he had the chance to go back and rule hell and make it a good place rid of torture and evil, how many of you would believe there wasn't anything more to the conversation between Crowley and Beelzebub that Crowley is not telling Aziraphale about? How many of you would believe Crowley was eager to go back to hell? How many of you would think Crowley naive enough to believe he could make a difference in hell? How many of you would think Crowley doesn't love Aziraphale enough, or is hungry for power or is completely oblivious?

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The FINAL chapter of Don't Fall Away From Me is up on AO3!! (M)

Artist Credit: @mistysblueboxstuff

Chapter Summary: It ends, as it started, in a garden.

Author's Note: I have too much to say to leave it here, I am halfway across the country right now, travelling to Skokholm Island to spend almost a whole week with puffins and being totally off-grid and offline, so I will just dial it back to say that I am incredibly grateful for every bit of love, appreciation and every comment that has been given to me, they have pulled me through some incredibly dark times and I am beyond grateful for every single one of you. It has been more painful than I expected to finally let go of this story, of my Crowley and Aziraphale and especially my Muriel, but I hope you enjoy the ending to their story (although an ending for us, perhaps a beginning for them...)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for everything. I adore you.

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Suns out, tums out

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Today’s fun:

Driving around the city In (almost) full Crowley attire (because why not?), listening to my Ineffable playlist and someone shouts out to me:

He still loves you!!!

My day is complete.

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One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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The World is Amazing, Actually (Part 11 or 12, I lost count)

It's been awhile since I made a post about how fucking rad the world actually is, and amidst all the pandemics and climate change and economic troubles, I felt the need.

So:

Today’s Wild Place (The Earth is An Alien Planet):

The Danakil Depression, Ethiopia:

The Danakil Depression is probably the closest you'll ever be able to come to standing on the surface of Venus (without the crushing atmosphere, of course). Choking sulphuric acid and chlorine gases fill the air, while acid ponds and geysers pepper the landscape. 

- Daisy Dobrijevic, published July 4, 2022

(BTW scientists recently discovered microbes capable of surviving in this toxic, extremely hot environment, which means...well, even if we kick the bucket, life will continue. There's something comforting in knowing that no matter how bad we screw up...life will go on.)

Today’s Incredible Feat of Engineering (look! at what! we made!):

Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco, which has gone solar in a big way.

(Which means they are making a huge contribution to helping fight toxic pollution, noise pollution, water use, land destruction, and carbon emissions. No really, there are charts. Reducing carbon emissions charts. Reducing irresponsible land use charts. Charts! Graphs! Data samples!)

Today’s Cool Life Form (the rare, the weird, the beautiful):

The Hispaniolan Solenodon.

A very rare, nocturnal, shrew-like creature that is one of the few mammals able to produce venom. Look at him! Look at his snout! He's just a little guy! He will bite you and run away on his back legs! He's rare, and endangered, but not gone! Not gone yet, bitches!

(Bonus: 10 Fun Facts About the Solenodon)

Today’s Bizarre Mystery (no, seriously, wtf?):

The Great Unconformity.

Hey, remember the Grand Canyon? Remember how we can see the passage of time through each layer, going back hundreds of thousands of years?

Did you know that apparently, on this massive record of earth's geological history, there's a chunk of time missing? Science has some hypotheses about how and why this happens (and yes, it's been found in more than one place), but they are really only hypotheses, and no one's really sure what happened to, oh, 1.6 billion years, give or take.

Today’s Act of Humanity (yes, we are worth the effort):

After fleeing a war, Ukrainians rush to help Mississippi tornado victims.

"They made the 16-hour drive south to donate bottled water and volunteer with aid workers, buoyed by the idea that they could help a community facing a similar struggle to theirs.

“We had to leave our home,” Pavliuk told The Washington Post in Ukrainian, in an interview interpreted by Hrebenyk. “And they don’t have a place to go back, either.”"

NEW CATEGORY:

Today's Good News About The Future (No, It's Not Too Late and Anyone Who Says Otherwise is Selling Something):

The Saiga Antelope, a species critical to the continued survival of huge swathes of grassland, that in 2003 was down to 6% of it's population and already extinct in it's natural habitat of China and Ukraine, has rebounded back to almost 2 million strong thanks to conservation efforts.

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At long last, Chapter 5 of AVĒ IMPERĀTOR is live! In which the emperor plays hooky.

You know where to go for the glorious art: @angellilou-art!

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ANNOUNCEMENT!

I am UNLEASHING my “MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGETHER” comic.

THAT’S RIGHT!

*giant inhale*

You get to read my insane Mr. Brown makes the moves on an oblivious Aziraphale while a panicked Crowley attempts to save the day and he’s just so bad at it comic FOR FREEEEEEEEEClick on my Patreon link and search the above title and BRACE YOURSELF for utter chaos. Udder chaos? No. There are no cows. UTTER CHAOS, I say!

18+ only. Enjoy responsibly. Do not operate heavy machinery for at least 12 hours after reading. Talk to your doctor about any possible side effects when using Gleafer’s terrible, no good, very bad content.

*exhales*

I’m sorry, mom.*

*No I’m not.

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My Heart Was Always Yours

Chapters 29 & 30 of My Heart Was Always Yours are now up.

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The idiots