#queer michael

[ivyquinnauthor]

My Answers to 2022 Ao3 Unwrapped

My AO3 profile for reference - https://archiveofourown.org/users/legendarytobes/profile

1.     How many words have you written this year?

 I wrote 420,570 words this year.

 2.     How many works did you publish this year?

 I published 400,734 words this year that were new across 23 stories.

 3.     What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

 I really love and intend to return to the Michaelo series because it stretched me into M/M in Lucifer fandom and also doing an original love interest for Michael with Marcelo.

 4.     What work of yours has the most hits?

 A (Former) Archangel Walks into a Bar, but it’s also the longest.

 5.     What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

 Cabin in the Woods got more feedback than I expected. I definitely feel like that’s one of the few one shots of mine/complete novel on its own, but people really wanted or did ask after it was done about sequels.

 6.     Favorite title you used

 Every Blessing Ignored is a Curse because I think it applies so acutely to an angel being saddled with having to control and deal with Fear as an ability.

 7.     If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

 I don’t usually do song lyrics, sorry.

 8.     Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

 Michaella (Michael Demiurgos/Ella Lopez)

 9.     Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

 Michael/OMC because it was a stretch and something different to write. Also, I did a Lucella as well, and that was just really trying to do a different vibe as a writer as well, so that was fun to do a different thing and not be in a rut writing wise or same groove. But I do like writing a gay/queer Michael a lot.

 10.  What work was the quickest to write?

 Seis Abrazos is actually a novella-length story at over 20,000 words, but I wrote it in about three days. It just poured out of me randomly.

 11.  What work took you the longest to write?

 A (Former) Archangel Walks into a Bar. To be fair, this was started in 2020 but over 100,000 words of it was written in 2022. I think it took a long time both because it’s really emotional with a lot of parts setting up into the second novel, and just because it’s hard work to craft a relationship between Michael and Ella under really extenuating circumstances and through mutual trauma.

 12.  How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

 Lost count but far too many. I hope very much so to get things off my plate and be able to finish Michaella and Michaelo stuff for Fuckruary 2022 in February of 2023 and also get back to the “Devil and Trixie Espinoza” series as well. It all really depends!

 13.  What’s your longest work of the year?

 A (Former) Archangel Walks into a Bar. It comes in at about 170,000 words, and 102,000 of them were written this year.

 14.  What’s your shortest work of the year?

 Trust, the first Michael/OMC or Michael/Marcelo fic is only 2,066 words.

 15.  What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

 My three big ones are Every Blessing Ignored is a Curse, The Ruin of Souls, and A (Former) General is Expecting.

 16.  What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

 Probably Michael/Ella and also AU or Alternate Universe tags, since a lot of my stuff really goes off the beaten path.

 17.  Your favorite character to write this year?

 Elaine. I enjoyed being inspired to write the Cousin Capers series of interconnected fics about Elaine and her cousins getting into mischief and Michael’s patience with them…mostly. Writing Elaine as a kid and pre-teen has been a delight. Also, it’s been fun because Michael is a soft, gooey dad and kind of a pushover for his “peanut.”

 18.  The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

 Probably Chloe Decker, who I have always struggled to get in her head space throughout fic. I don’t dislike her; I just never feel I get her voice down right. A close second would be the version of Michael in my The Ruin of Souls fic. There, he’s been sprung from Hell but become demonic and can’t remember things, even some language yet. So not having an automatically sarcastic, sort of Brooklyn-sounding Michael to draw on has been a challenge.

 19.  What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

 One day, even if I’m not great I think at writing either character overall, I’d like to do a Maze/Chloe one-shot. I think they had a lot of chemistry the whole time that series. Either as a post s4 grieving thing or maybe even post-series, not sure.

 20.  Which work of yours have you reread the most?

 A (Former) Archangel Walks into a Bar but mostly because I had to get into that head space to pick up threads for and write part of the sequel.

 21.  How many kudos in total did you get this year?

 I don’t know, but I’ll say a lot or at least enough going back to count is not something I’m gonna do, lol.

 22.  Which work has the most comments?

 Technically, A (Former) Archangel Walks into a Bar has the most at over 700, but of the fics only written and started this year, the most is A (Former) General is Expecting.

 23.  Did you do any collaborative works this year?

 Not exactly, but I was inspired by chatting with JustAnotherFangirl69 over discord and some of the dialogues we came up with together got worked into Cousin Capers fics. Where I could, I attributed her dialogue and inspiration, but it hasn’t been a formal, co-writing partnership.

 24.  Did you write any gifts this year?

 Yes, I wrote a couple Cousin Capers for JustAnotherFangirl69 as well as a fic for a fandom fic exchange.

 25.  Did you receive any gifts this year?

 Yes.

 26.  What’s your most common category?

 Probably AU, angst, or family fluff. It depends on which series I’m working on!

 27.  What do you listen to while writing?

 Movies, actually. I put on a few movies that I’ve seen a lot and are terrible just to be background noise, and they tend to include I, Frankenstein, Underworld, and The Covenant.

 28.  Favorite work you wrote this year?

 Every Blessing Ignored is a Curse because even if it’s only partially done, it’s started me thinking about different things within the series: how the coliseum fight at the end of season 5 horrified and hurt Chloe and Lucifer, how bad a set of crimes that is to come back from, how the twins can ever learn or try to learn to relate to each other again, and also the kind of cost that would have on a nephil/child. Like the patterns of how history repeats itself, especially with Lucifer meaning well but his own son with Fear also becoming a pariah and isolated anyway.

 29.  Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

 From the Epilogue of Seis Abrazos:

 “But we never have to go back to any of that, and the Host here love you…”

“I think they just are glad for reinforcements, but Remiel is teaching me all kinds of aerial stunts in training. I think she finds me interesting!”

Michael stilled at that. Somehow this Remi had glommed onto Ella, probably a novelty to have such a newbie to train again. He was keeping his distance, but one day, somehow, maybe he could get a chance to explain to her all the things…maybe she’d allow him to say everything he’d never said to his own sister. All his horror at how the struggle for Azrael’s blade had ended.

That small voice he still worked to shut up that said it should have been you…

Ella seemed to notice the dip in his mood and that light glittered over her, putting him at ease. “You good?”

“Always, chica.”

“I just…I still don’t get how this,” she said, holding up her hand, still silver and glowing, “opened up the ledger. I couldn’t have locked it. It makes no sense.”

“Neither did Rory coming back in time, messing around for weeks in our timeline, and then changing the course of Sam and Chloe’s future. Both are weird paradoxes, just like Charlie was Celestial enough for my…for the other universe’s Remiel to feel but not enough for Dad to be sure of. I think, maybe, that for once it’s beyond the Presence, something deeper, like the multiverse itself was trying to course correct. Not sure why, but you being the key to a book you never locked…it’s impossible, but it led to good things, like Charlie finally getting his wings or even Rory getting my brother to not only do his job but do it the right way.”

“Finally getting over twin resentment?”

He laughed and set both hands over her burgeoning belly. It wasn’t as far along as it was going to get, but she was almost four months and as this Raphael and also Raziel had confirmed, Ella had twins of her own percolating in there.

Michael fervently hoped they were not identical. That was…too hard, but whatever they were, he would love both of them as he knew she would. And the last thing they’d do would be to pit their twins against each other.

Ever.

Reluctantly, he let go of her and twisted around her. Leaning down, he kissed her cheek. “Mom doesn’t like being kept waiting in any universe, so let’s get cleaned up, chica.”

She snaked an arm around him and pulled him back for a kiss so deep, Michael was pretty sure he’d have to speed through a cold shower to be appropriate for dinner after all. “I love you, Michael.”

“Love you, too…actually,” he said, smiling, and it felt like he did that ear to ear most days now. “I love all three of you,” Michael finished, bending almost in half to plant a kiss to her belly.

And to the promise of new life both for their nascent family and for a war torn yet recovering realm.

 30.  Biggest surprise while writing this year?

 In a way, Trash Panda Translator, because the idea of a punished by his Dad, addled, and very literal for now raccoon!Michael is fun to write because he’s bonkers. However, I also really found that I enjoyed being inspired and playing around loosely with dialogue with JustAnotherFangirl69 to create Cousin Capers and its stories. So I think discovering more comedy was fun this year.

 Finally, I think that Every Blessing Ignored is a Curse surprises me because it has a lot of original characters in it (Deckerstar kids not just Rory) and because it really isn’t a grey Michael or an antihero Michael. He just flat out has been a villain and has to deal with the terrible crimes he committed. But, at the same time, he has to do all this while being heavily invested in protecting his nephew because no one was there to protect him or help him cope with Fear powers. A lot of projection, guilt, and themes of possible redemption in that fic. I did redemption in Cabin in the Woods, but this is at the micro-level, trying to repair familial relationships, and I don’t even know yet in the writing process if that’s possible.

[secretladyobservation]

[beans-in-your-socks]

OK SO OBVI, ALPHA CENTAURI, A, C, AZIRAPHALE+CROWLEY, THE'RE TWO STARS THAT WERE THOUGHT TO BE 1 BY SCIENTISTS FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE OF HOW CLOSE TOGETHER THEY ARE AND AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY USED TO BE ONE CHARACTER BUT WERE THEN SPLIT IN TWO AND ARE LITERAL SOULMATES, BUT WAIT! THERES MORE!!!!

Alpha Centauri A is a class G star, which means that they shine YELLOW to WHITE YELLOW

and Alpha Centauri B is a class K star which means that it is one of the second dimmest classes of stars (the dimmest being brown dwarfs) and they shine YELLOW ORANGE to ORANGE

you can't tell me this was unintentional. you just can't, it's so PERFECT.

[shoemakerobstetrician]

The Importance of Good Omens to an Old Queer

There are so many things about the whole Good Omens experience that make an old queer very happy:

In the story:

- It’s about a couple who love each other, who are by social standards definitely not supposed to love each other.

We exist.

- They have loved each other since time began.

We have always existed.

- They needed to hide their love, even from themselves, for millennia, or risk death.

We hid.

- They come to a safe spot where they can acknowledge their love without fearing for their lives. They can expect to be treated like any other couple.

We don’t always need to hide now.

In the story of the story:

- The book was written in the’80’s, when Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s relationship simply could not be told as a love story if the goal was to have any real chance of popular success.

- It took almost 30 years for it to be adapted for the screen and in that time things had changed so much that it is unequivocably a love story, with huge popular success.

In reality:

- The authors and the actors are outspoken supporters of LGBTQ+ rights.

- Michael and David clearly utterly adore each other, and freely show it. A few decades ago such open affection between two men would have caused rumors that could have ended their careers.

Finally, and this one kills me and makes me so, so happy:

- There are MANY younger fans for whom a lot of the above will absolutely not hit as hard.

They grew up in a different world than I did.

[tampire]

"We could have been us."

[caramel-cream50]

I’ve finally watched all 3

[nicostiel]

You idiot. We could have been... us.

Good Omens (2019 -) // Nimona (2023)

[gayartists]

Man Undressing (1975-76), Michael Leonard

[tawaifeddiediaz]

i don’t know if i know how to word this properly but basically i just really like that buck’s realization shows older people who might be questioning their sexuality that it’s okay to not know in your thirties or older, but i also really like that it shows younger people that you don’t have to know right here and now and there’s no age you have to know by. i like how it emphasises the fluidity of sexuality in the form of a macho firefighter who hasn’t considered men in any conscious (or even subconscious) light, and i think that’s a very important point to put across

there’s something to be said about finding out that you’re queer in your thirties and i love that 911 is showing us that through buck, and showing us that maybe you might always know through hen, and showing us that maybe you’ve repressed it for a good chunk of your life through michael but there’s also something to be said for the younger viewers who are struggling to label themselves - to know that it’s okay to not know just yet and still be valid, and be a member of the queer community. and there’s also something to be said about seeing a thirty year old man slip into his realization all happy and safe with another firefighter who tried to hide that part of him, and basically i love my lil gay firefighter show

[no-more-nightingales]

why do so many men get pissed and personally offended when they see men in make up and long hair, fucking excuse me look at these beautiful fucking men

don’t let your toxic masculinity keep you from being pretty

edit: removed the pic of Kim Dracula from the post. thank you, @electricbullet for informing me that they’re non binary and use they/them pronouns :) 💛🤍💜🖤

[sentientsky]

The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Depiction of Gay Yearning by Neil Gaiman

[edathetublady]

The grand trifecta of heaven/hell shows with queer rep:

- The Good Place

- Good Omens

- Hazbin Hotel

Someone really needs to make a Venn diagram of these 3 shows and their fanbases

[secretladyobservation]

[tarlosislove]

This is the Queer representation on 9-1-1: 🏳️‍🌈

Hen and Karen Wilson are wives and have been married the entire show, they have a son together. Hen is a firefighter.

Michael Grant and David Hale were together for three seasons, both no longer on the show but storyline wise they seem to still be together. (Michael also had a boyfriend for a few episodes before David)

Josh Russo is a gay dispatcher and I need him to get a boyfriend asap please and thank you.

Evan Buckley has just started discovering his Bisexuality, this is him and Tommy Kinard from 7x04.

[alexiaklee]

60s Ineffable wives (My life changed when I saw what we missed here😭)

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[tampire]

#My Various Moods