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Latest Fics/First Lines

Rules: post the beginning lines of your most recent 10 published fanfics (or chapters, if you don't have 10 fics), then attempt to tag 10 people!

Except that I don't think I know ten people to tag on here, and I've had a really rough couple of days, so sorry/not sorry but I'm skipping that part. But shoutout to @addledmongoose for tagging me. And sure, I'll share the first sentence of each of my last ten published fics. Why not? Thwarted Snark (Post-S2 fluff, rated G)

Crowley was tossing frozen peas at some ducks in St. James Park when he spotted that familiar shape and shade of cream in his peripheral vision and instinctively turned his head to look.

The Whole Purpose (Post-S2 shenanigans with Tracy, rated G)

“Oh, COME ON! Really?” Crowley very loudly complained, followed by some very expressive vowel sounds and a stomp of his foot.

He's the One (Human AU, rated T)

They had been friends for nearly as long as they had known each other.

By Any Other Name (Post-S2 feels and also penguins, rated T)

It took a full year, a full leap year, for Aziraphale to find his way home again; 366 days, and he marked each and every one, scratched them into the wall of the empty space in his chest where his heart should have been.

All of This is Completely Normal Here (a.k.a. "Interrogation Bingo," Pre-S1 Outsider POV, rated G)

Lonnie Clarke was talking to a lunatic.

Letters to Satan (Ooh, multichapter fic! Canon compliant, rated T)

“Oh, and Crowley, darling… One more thing.”

Muriel's First Hanukkah (Post-S2, rated G)

Muriel hadn’t witnessed human history, but they’d spent their existence with access to most of the files and very little to do but read them.

The Old Serpent (Outsider POV, rated T)

If you work in animal control long enough, you’ll end up with some stories to tell.

You Were Right (Origin of the "I Was Wrong" dance, rated G)

Crowley did it first, although its original form was very much the opposite of what it would be.

Dear Principality Aziraphale (Most recent 👀 part of my Heaven's New Regime series, written before S2 dropped, rated T)

When they had been getting ready for a visit from a member of Aziraphale’s platoon, Crowley hadn’t really thought about what would happen afterwards.

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I wrote a 400-word bit of fluff. I mean, y'know, relatively fluffy. General audiences. No archive warnings apply. Just a reunion and a hug. Please enjoy.

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I'm participating in @fandomtrumpshate this year! I've never done it before, but given the state of... everything... it's one of the few ways I can make a difference. I think you can see what I'm offering here: https://fth2025offerings.dreamwidth.org/tag/username:+togetheragain

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For those people who need to hear it, there is nothing wrong with going back into the closet for your own safety. You aren't less queer because you can't be queer publicly. You aren't less trans because you have to act like you're not trans.

If you need to start going by your old pronouns or quietly go back into the closet to be safe - you are allowed to do that. Please do that if it means you're alive.

Your safety is important.

You are important.

And if you know someone who has to do this, don't push them. Don't out them. Follow their lead. People's safety is more important that grandstanding.

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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There is very little that will stop a fanfic writer from posting. There are things that will slow us down a bit, but we will always apologize for the delay.

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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I have a new fic!

The Whole Purpose

Rated G

11k words

I saw a tweet and suddenly I needed to write a story about Crowley helping Tracy avenge her petunias. Yes, really.

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Hey, I forgot to share that I posted a fic yesterday! It's a fluffy little human AU of Crowley and Aziraphale as adorable awkward teenagers. Rated T. CW for minor homophobia and fat-phobia. 2121 words. Enjoy!

He's the One

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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I've had someone comment that they laughed so hard they scared their cat.

Another person laughed so hard they scared a passing stranger.

And someone else had to stifle their laughter to avoid waking their parents.

I love these comments for many reasons, including the fact that I tend to forget that I'm actually funny in my writing. But apparently I'm funny enough to make people literally laugh out loud, suddenly and loudly enough to startle people and animals around them.

I have also LEFT comments for other writers saying things like "I needed to reread this today because of this thing that happened in my life and reminded me of this story" and "this scene kept replaying in my head while I was at work today" and "real life forced me to walk away in the middle of reading this chapter, specifically at this point, and DO YOU KNOW HOW TORTUROUS THAT WAS?!?!"

If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:

- what time it is

- how long you’ve been reading

- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours

- what you were late for because you were reading

- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep

- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing

- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak

- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak

- how much phone battery you have left

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Psst... We do actually see Crowley’s S1 watch in S2.

On Shax's wrist.

Presumably, he left it in his flat when she moved in.

„It‘s always too late“ (ft. Crowley‘s watch)

I‘m currently on vacation in Greece and, naturally, re-reading Good Omens (the book) for the nth time. And you know what keeps bugging me and has been nagging at my brain ever since S2 dropped?

Crowley‘s line, right after he threatens Jim at the bookshop („If anything happens to Aziraphale because of this–“) which he follows up by saying: „It doesn’t matter. It‘s always too late.“

I cannot tell you just how much this silly line has been festering at some back end corner of my brain. Because what do you mean, „it‘s always too late?“ Too late for what? Has it ever been to late before? To change an outcome? Seemingly not, since they stopped the literal end of the World barely a few years ago. That‘s the most „too late“ definition there is, and they still turned it around so that it wasn‘t. Too late, that is.

So why say this? With such defeat, as well?

I don‘t remember if it‘s series canon, however, in the book, we get this little foot note about Crowley‘s watch:

„This watch gave the time in twenty world capitals and in a capital city in Another Place, where it was always one time, and that was Too Late.“

Knowing Neil, this specific wording resurfacing in S2 cannot be a coincidence. „It was custom made for Crowley“ – by who? I‘d wager that human watch makers certainly couldn’t make a watch that shows a time such as „Too Late“ in „Another Place“.

We know and see Crowley‘s watch in S1.

I think the prop department left out the „Too Late“ bit of it, which is understandable. But it‘s book canon anyway and what matters more to me here, is that Crowley definitely wears a different watch in S2.

It‘s very nicely and accurately framed in many shots as well, including the promotion pictures. Yet another thing I‘d wager to not be a coincidence. But that‘s merely speculation, of course. A lot of props and a lot of Crowley‘s appearance changed since S1 and changes even throughout S2.

Whether or not this has any deeper meaning or is simply a red herring, is for Neil and the prop department only to know.

All I‘m saying is: The mysterious custom-made, possibly non-human-made watch that said it was always „Too Late“ is gone or at least changed with some focus shifted onto it, and yet: It‘s still always too late, according to Crowley.

Is it a metaphore? For Crowley‘s Fall and it always having been „Too Late“ for him in „Another Place“ (e.g. Heaven)?

Or is it a hint? To the Second Coming? To Armageddon not having been the only end of the World? To the unofficial picture where the whole world seems to have been destroyed and the last thing standing is the bookshop? To that version of world, where it seems to be too late after all?

Or is it just a watch? And just a line? And I should just put my book down and go for another swim in the ocean in case this is just a sun-induced conspiracy theory?

Let me know your thoughts, I‘m sure this has been wondered about before!

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This is why it’s so important for parents to support their trans kids.

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Wait WHAT.

Don't mind me, I'm just over here getting my mind blown, thinking of the many times I've said "I KNOW I took my meds, but I FEEL like I didn't" holy crap there was probably an actual real REASON.

i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good

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The "blurry A, blurry Y, blurry Z" thing is oddly close to home for me. At some point, I also started putting qualifiers on the letters I "identified" at eye exams, but in my case, it sounds like:

"Proooobably a G?"

"I think that's a B. It might be an E, but I'm going with B."

"Ummm it's either an O or a C."

"I'm PRETTY sure that's a Z."

No matter how confident I am that I'm interpreting all the other blurs correctly, there's always at least one on each blurry line where I could figure it out in a word or something, but as a stand-alone letter, I just don't know.

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”