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[aziraphales-library]

hi! i don't know if this ask has been done before but do you have any comedy fic recs? i've had enough of angst for a bit and i just want to read aziracrow bicker and laugh out loud :))

Hey. We have #humour, #humor, #crack, and #bickering tags, for all your laughing needs. Here are more to add...

Seamstress of Soho by GayDemonicDisaster (M)

Season 2 spoilers! When Mrs. Sandwich spots a suspicious new guy apparently lurking on her turf, the misunderstanding leads to an unlikely friendship between the ‘seamstress’ and a demon. So in episode 6 we see that Mrs. Sandwich is clearly at ease with Crowley and he with her, enough to share a joke together. Combine that with the curious sign on her door which might just be referring to Crowley, and we have a little buddy comedy in the making. I decided to explore the backstory of how they came to know one another between season 1 and the beginning of season 2. While this little comedy is about sex workers, there is NO sex in it, and rated M solely for oblique references to things like contraceptive devices and so on - honestly it could get away with a “teen and up” rating but I like to err on the side of caution.

Pass the Remote, Angel by Mrs_Cake_Is_Here (M)

Aziraphale has returned to Heaven, leaving Crowley a tv binge-watching wreck. However, healing can come from the most unlikeliest of places. While Muriel has been instructed to provide daily reports of the demon’s emotional state, they find that sharing time together, even by watching a scary show, can be the catalyst that builds friendships. And they’d probably both be couch potatoes by now if the Supreme Archangel hadn’t just gone missing.

Christmas Lights by FuzzyGoblin (T)

Christmas Lights is on the agenda at the monthly meeting of the Whickber Street Shopkeepers and Traders Association, but it's not the only thing on Mr Brown's, of Brown's World of Carpets, mind. As he pines for the mysterious bookseller, his efforts are thwarted by the tall ginger goth.

The Book Thieves by ThingsJustHappenSometimes (T)

“Did they steal it? Professional book thieves, probably going around in their car stealing books.” Be careful what you tell an adolescent antichrist who has the ability to warp reality, he might just make things real. - - - Featuring: A confused ineffable duo in ridiculous costumes, a presumed relationship, overpowered magical books, meddling humans, multiple chase scenes, and a generally all around silly action-packed time. - - - [If you like 1920s Costumes, Indiana Jones, Isekai Vibes, and/or That-One-Auction-Heist-Scene from Uncharted 4, you’ll like this story.]

Rattle Those Pots & Pans by Mackaley (M)

“My instructions…” He parted his mouth as he searched for a word. “Instruct that I just get right into it. You all have been brought here tonight because you have one thing in common: you’re all being blackmailed.” A tense hush fell through the room. “You’re all paying what you can afford - in some cases I’m sure more than you can afford - to prevent your secrets from being exposed. And none of you know who is currently blackmailing you.” Gabriel scoffed. “This is ridiculous. I’m an upstanding member of the international finance community - what could I possibly have done to be blackmailed about?” “You’re a member of the international finance community,” Crowley drawled. ----- A Good Omens Clue (1985) AU

through the tides by viperinz (T)

With that thought, Aziraphale takes to asking experts if his feelings are something more or just love for his dearest, most sweetest friend. If he wasn’t sure himself, then surely the experts on the internet will have something for him. Which brings him to the front of his computer, ready to search something up on the search engine he has pulled up. He’s not one to ask too many questions, but he supposes it won’t hurt. He starts typing, and is satisfied with his search of "Am I in love with my best friend?" Straight to the point, and very concise. Aziraphale has no doubt he’ll find what he’s looking for. He presses enter on the keyboard, and a bunch of results flood in. “Oh, dear,” he gasps at the mass amount of answers. Where is he supposed to start?

Aziraphale discovers the wonderful world of online love quizzes and WikiHow, all in the process of wooing and confessing his love to Crowley.

- Mod D

[callmearcturus]

Hi! I was wondering if you could give me some tips on outlining a fic? I have my character backgrounds down to a t, and I've been working on world building, but I've still been having trouble getting my ideas organized in a story format. Yours are always so well written and flow so nicely, I was hoping you had some advice! Thank you! 💕 (PS your newest fic is amazing and I can't wait for more!!!)

God I have been putting off answering this one too long because I Take Outlines So Seriously. In the last week I’ve probably written 30K words, and only about 7K was fic. The rest was the outline rough draft and then the outline final.

HOW TO WRITE MASSIVE FICS LIKE A FUCKING BOSS: THE ARCTURUS METHODOLOGY

So I have literally a Process I use. My larger fics literally have a pre-production period that I have to work through before they are ready to be written.

Stage One: Conceptualize.

Start with the core idea. “What happens when Jake continues to live in Derse, and the trolls come to visit.” “What if Jake was a faerie and Dirk was just tailor made for enthrallment.” “What if--” actually the Core Idea of sex magic island AU is a spoiler, lol.

Write out everything you know about the plot in a paragraph or two.

Write out the cast list with little blurbs by each character. These should be longer than the plot summary. Let this meander and expand your concepts. Characters are the driving force of writing, so some cool ideas should start to form.

See, from my off the cuff Dramatis Personae, I came to several conclusions about the AU:

1. My central characters were Jane/Roxy/Dirk, and the story was happening to them. This is different from ASAFAF in which Jake was the vehicle of the story or the fae AU where it was Dirk. Or TES where fuck me that was complicated.

2. The idea of Dirk’s tattoos happened here, and suddenly a lot of the universe snapped into focus. Small ideas become world-shaping concepts, spinning out and gaining important and providing scope.

3. Dirk would be POV and everyone around him would be the aggressors of the plot. It’s Jane’s discovery of the island that is the impetus of the story, and it’s Roxy’s later discoveries that drive the story. Dirk is more of a reactant.

The ideas from here might get dropped and changed over time. Like, Roxy having a cat. I don’t care. Dirk’s glasses exist but will not be a Thing. etc.

Figure out setting shit. This can take as much time as you want. With ASAFAF I had a basic setting backloaded by A House Built. With the fae AU, the heavy lifting was in the setting’s magic rules, not the setting itself since it was p much Dublin. With sex island AU, there was a fucking lot of worldbuilding. As soon as I was talking to Rosa and figured out “noble = muggle,” everything started domino-ing.

Stage Two: Outline the Lesser.

Write the shittiest outline. Just don’t even bother with chapter cuts or blocking out scenes. Write out what the fuck happens and move on to the next thing that happens. Figure out the plot as far as you can.

If you have a brainwave and need to revise, don’t fucking bother doing it. Highlight the area that needs revision, add a comment/note with what it needs, and move on.

This is a bad outline. But it is the ugly mottled kakuna that is gonna evolve into a beautiful asskicking beedrill.

You finished the outline? Good. Put it away from the night, stop looking at it. If you get any more brainwaves, shove ‘em in a notepad file.

Go build a playlist or pinterest board or something.

Stage Three: Outline the Greater.

Open that bitch in another window and rewrite the entire thing.

Start marking out chapter beats, where you think each one starts and ends.

Integrate all of the notes you left yourself in stage two.

Block shit out on a scene-by-scene basis. Your leftmost bullet should be your chapter heading and maybe a brief What Happens This Chapter sentence.

Your next bullet is essentially your “INT: Dirk’s office.” scene setting.

And then you need to block out the action in the next bullet.

Make sure you space things out so the flow is obvious.

If you have important but minor details to work in, put in another indented bullet.

Then continue with your blocking.

You can and should get as deep into this shit as you can. For a 50K-90K story, my outline is always between 7K-15K. I think my longest outline was either The Hunters Initiative plot outline or The Eurydice Suite. I had everything lined up.

A weird thing that tends to happen: Midway through the doc, I start drafting important twists and conversations. I’ll have a scene going on, and then realize I need it to go perfectly.

“So I start just doing it.”“Writing it in a new indented bullet?”“Yeah. It helps a fucking lot to make sure I hit the beats later. I might have a fabulous idea for how a scene in chapter six is going to do while outlining. I won’t reach that chapter for weeks, but this way, I won’t lose that shit.”

The finished outline should be basically the Cliff Note’s Reader’s Guide to the fic. If you have a friend or beta, show this to them to get their thoughts on it. Listen to the feedback and adjust as needed.

Here is what a single scene in the Final Outline looks like:

It’s like this all the way down. (Or, okay, admittedly, the ending of this fic is not like, but I have the plan written out blow for blow. But that’s for a reason with this one, don’t worry about it.)

Stage Four: Make this shit happen.

Open a new GDoc. Copy the outline for chapter one into it. Above that, start writing it, following the outline. Delete every scene as you complete it, so the next part of the plan is always visible. Write it. Write it all until you have deleted the outline.

Enter enter enter. Type “chapter two.” Copy the relevant part of the outline under it. Continue on.

Congrats! You are now a machine that can churn out a 50k-90k fic in a month or three! Which is great because man I want more fic to read. /fistpump

This is how I do it. This is a method I’ve literally been honing since I was 20. I am aware it is not everyone’s method. Like, I have had several people ask me to beta their outlines and I always always always caution them that, yo, I know what works for me. And I do not stray from that shit. Are you sure you want me in on this.

But I know that for me, this works. I have never posted a fic without someone asking me “how the fuck do you write this quality at this speed” and the answer is literally that I have put in a lot of foundation work before I even start writing.

This process, the outlining, literally takes about a week or two on its own. And that’s pretty consistent, daily work on it.

That is my secret. I worship at the altar of outlines.

I hope this helps.

[ao3feed-bakusquad]

Specificity

specificity by ochako

“Look,” Bakugou had said. “It's like -- scientific theories get accepted when there's nothing else that can explain an observed phenomenon, all right? Back in first year, when you thought Deku could be All Might's kid despite the glaring lack of physical resemblance—” here, Shouto had frowned, which Bakugou had ignored, “—it was because you saw the quirk similarities and obviously had no fucking reason to think that a quirk would be inherited beyond, y'know, genetics. So that was your theory, until it wasn't.”

Shouto remembers that now, with dirt beneath his fingernails.

It's a dream.

It's a dream, because Katsuki is alive, and Shouto wakes up, and he's not there.

It's a dream, but now Shouto has dirt under his fingernails.

It's a dream, until it isn't.

Bakugou is gone, except for in Shouto's dreams. (He thinks.)

—bakugou, todoroki & dreams / an inception-negative-zone fusion canon compliant au

Words: 6849, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Todoroki Shouto, Bakugou Katsuki, Hatsume Mei, Eri, Kirishima Eijirou, Kaminari Denki, Midoriya Izuku, Jirou Kyouka

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto, Kirishima Eijirou & Todoroki Shouto, Bakugou Katsuki & Kirishima Eijirou

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Inception Fusion, Canon Compliant, i realise these tags seem counterintuitive but i'm going somewhere with it i promise, there's also an element inspired by a specific moment in marvel 616 but, i can't figure out a useful tag for that so just jot that down mentally please, Dreams, Dreamsharing, Characters Are Pro Heroes, Eventual Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Character Death, tagging for that even tho it's not exactly accurate bc like. there IS exploration of death, so prepare yourself for people discussing death but like. don't worry about it too much djkkjgakjh, also this is set so far in the future that idt there are any spoilers other than oblique ones, except there May be ref to dabi identity, i'll update character tags next chapter bc more show up, also some of the current ones become more prominent

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36024688