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Scorn and the Saint-Maker, chapter 41: I’ll never get caught

Scorn and the Saint-Maker is a murder mystery/ineffable husbands romance/who-turned-them-human Good Omens fanfic, set at a university in Scotland, with lots of (as-yet skippable) level-5 smut, ✨sexy maths✨ (passed peer review ✅), and one trans angel

Chapter 41 summary: Did anyone say ‘date’? As it happens, our boys aren’t the only ones dining at one particular restaurant tonight.

Rating: Chapter rated T. Fic rated E for skippable smut and instances of M-rated, heavy topics (please see tags).

Excerpt and fun art stuff below the break!

Excerpt:

“God hates me,” Crowley hissed. “The hell’s she doing here? Out of every bloody restaurant in this city—” “Ought we” – Fell glanced at the plant wall; made an abortive little gesture – “announce ourselves?” Crowley jerked up. “No!” he breathed, aghast. “What the – no! She’s barely spoken to me after trying to tear my arm clean fucking off; I am not about to—” “What else do you suggest? Sitting here, quietly? Eavesdropping on—” “Nice place,” Beatrix remarked in a tone both actively conversational and extremely exhausted, and Angel fell silent, visibly clenching his jaw.

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Happy first-half-of-pride-month! 🏳️‍🌈

Have some old gays going on a date in their Sunday finest (although the chapter takes place on a Saturday)! Yes, this chapter is indeed used as an excuse to play dress-up with the blorbos and give a footnote lecture on How To Wear A Kilt™️ and also talk about Angel eating dessert sexily can you blame me?

This was originally a project to show Fell's nice kilt getup, then after I'd struggled with drawing that for about half a day I googled up a photo of David Tennant at the Baftas and whipped up a decent Crowley in about thirty minutes. Why am I like this.

Anyway Anthony is just wearing A Black Suit™️ but true to form he makes it look slutty AF. Well done. Once a demon always a demon. Meanwhile Fell is eyeing him like he hung the stars because the reference for his face and hands is when angel!Crowley was literally doing that. More on Angel's pretty outfit (and references!), which I absolutely want for myself (so y'know if you ever need to get me a birthday present or anything, just saying, kilt stuff):

And here's a slightly smitten Angel face, which I sized up a bit and coloured in separately (since I have a scanner now and can scan and print my line art and paint over it as many times as I like it's amazing). I just cannot with this happy little face:

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GOOD OMENS "The Ball"

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ASTROBLEME - Collab - Page 67

astrobleme [ as-truh-bleem ] - an erosional scar on the earth's surface, produced by the impact of a cosmic body, such as a meteorite.

A collab between @daneecastle and me! New pages every wednesday and Sunday!

First | Previous

https://astroblemecomic.carrd.co/ <- Read the full comic here.

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Still We Know Each Other So Well - Ch 12

It's been a while between updates (I got distracted working on a gift exchange fic that turned into a multi-chap, sorry!), but I'm very happy to bring a nice chunky chapter to the table this time!

Thank you to anyone who is still following this story as a WIP and for the lovely messages and comments 💕

Rated: E

Fic summary: There have been ponderings about what would happen if Aziraphale or Crowley's memories were wiped, but what if both their memories were wiped? This is a story of that what if.

Chapter excerpt:

It was late when a sudden influx of pedestrians parading past the café caught Maggie's attention, and she pushed the box of teas she was unpacking aside to take a closer look.

The extended opening hours over summer brought in enough extra income to support any slumps throughout the year, so there was no choice but to tend to stocktaking after closing. Mid-July, that meant the clock was nudging eleven, and even with Maggie there to help, they were barely halfway through.

“Theatre crowd,” said Nina from the shelves behind the counter. “Looks like a couple of shows finished at the same time.”

“Oh right, of course,” Maggie replied. Her gaze remained on the passers-by, more out of habit than in search of anyone in particular, when two familiar figures caught her eye.

“Look! It’s Mr. Fell and Mr. Crowley! Mr. Fell mentioned they were going to see Oliver tonight. Said that seeing Dickens on stage was worth it, despite the singing.”

Nina chuckled and made her way over to Maggie’s side.

“And they’re holding hands!” Maggie exclaimed. “I know it’s silly and it’s been a while now, but I can’t help it, I’m such a romantic.”

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Eternal thanks to beta extraordinaire @harlotofupdog for being so excellent at all times.

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Vavoom

I painted this specifically so that I could print it and have it signed by David at the Kansas City Comicon. It was an amazing experience I'll never forget!

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infatuation makes your heart race love is quiet. love sets you at ease.

and because most of my pieces are mental screenshots of little scenes in my head, here's the scene:

Crowley was tugged into consciousness bit by bit. The afternoon light slowly filtered in, as well as the hum of music from the other room and the weird angle his neck was at. He was warm and content and wanted to sink back into his nap, but the threads of sleep fluttered away the more he tried. Finally, he took a deeper breath, shifting in the armchair, and cracked an eye open just a sliver. There he was, the angel, sitting at his desk. Had hardly noticed Crowley was awake, engulfed in his task of retouching a damaged page. Looking at his hands, Crowley became aware of the fuzzy warmth covering his own and peeked down to see a blanket tucked around his shoulders.

The feeling hit him so hard he let his head loll to the side, eyes closed. His chest tightened and he just…buckled. Finally came undone under the weight of his love for Aziraphale. Its inexorable, steadfast pull which he had been pushing back against for millennia, it had finally caught him off guard, sleepy and vulnerable and so tired from holding back, from refusing to name it. It was a quiet surrender. Crowley looked back at Aziraphale with the understanding of a man meeting his end and embracing it.

Perhaps he could gently pull the blanket to the side and get up. Perhaps he could cross the few steps to the desk and place a freshly made cup of tea to Aziraphale’s right. Perhaps he would hold his gaze, for longer than needed to answer “Don’t mention it”. Perhaps he would ask him if he would like a scone with that. Perhaps Aziraphale would understand that this was not about the scone at all. And yet, what Crowley was asking of him was also exactly about scones. And tea. And quiet afternoons together. Perhaps the angel would finally put down his sword, too, and the world would let out a breath it had been holding for millennia.

the soulmate to this piece, i guess.

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Slightly more Crowley memes this week! I'm putting this down to the fact I've been writing a Top/Dom Crowley fic where not only is he a priest but also a total mess. Wet Cat Crowley is my favourite

The quality always gets squished on mobile, so click on the images if the text is blurry 💜 There's a couple of mildly angsty/Final 15 ones below the cut: you have been warned!

Last meme post

Angst below!

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Behind the scenes pictures on the set of Good Omens 2 shared by classicaljgh on instagram (who works for DenOfGeek)

“I was lucky enough to be asked to cover a set visit to the goodomensprime set last week, and it is amazing, so gorgeous and so detailed!”

“Most gorgeous of course was Aziraphale’s bookshop”.

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Celebrate Good Omens' 35th anniversary with the fandom!

We're having synchronous picnics on May 10th and everyone's invited.

There are several public picnics planned in our pinned post, but you can also have a picnic with you and your hereditary enemy... Or just yourself in your own back garden! There's no wrong way to be part of this celebration.

Tag us and #GO For A Picnic. We'd love to know what you're planning. Cosplay? Themed foods, mm? 👀

Fan art and fic with a picnic theme also encouraged for any and all Good Omens characters.

AO3 collection archiveofourown.org/collections/GOforapicnic

😇🥂😎

Join us on The Ineffable Society's Discord server, where hundreds of fans around the world are getting ready and making plans for a great day: https://discord.gg/wJqEsk9tnD

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!Good Omens Finale PLOT SPOILER👀!

Doon Mackichan (Archangel Michael) on the The Lewis Nicholls Show (10.4.2025) about the Good Omens Finale :)

I: But is there anything else that you can tell us about? Some projects that you're working on that you can kind of... tease us with?

Doon: Well, I've got - I've just finished filming Good Omens Series Three, but it's not a Series Three, it's six episodes that have gone down to an hour and a half so it's basically an hour and a half film. Because Neil Gaiman - I don't know if you've heard but he's sort of up for allegations of... not great allegations around his name - so Amazon first cancelled it and then went actually we are going to do it but we're going to do a cut down version. So the great thing about the cut down version is I've got a really, really good part of, of the angel... I play Archangel Michael in it but I go... I go rogue so it's... it's a great part for me because I've never had to play a complete psycho. So that's, that's fantastic. I'm not sure when that's coming out. They have to do a load of special effects so I would think the autum.

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Crowley's Rank

This one's gonna be controversial, isn't it. Actually, let me pre-empt my rant with (another rant): It's not that I mind if Crowley was an Archangel or Dominion or whatever before he Fell. I don't think it makes that much difference. It could perhaps serve some narrative purpose but I don't really see it. To me, it makes no real sense for the story and I do see people using this idea so Crowley can be smarter, more powerful, more insightful, more aware and just you know, full of wisdom and knowledge that Aziraphale should have sat down and learned from a long time ago. This is my main gripe with this HC.

So. Here we go: I am baffled by how people assume and often even claim it is as good as canon that Crowley:

was an Archangel

or even more high up (which I don't think is possible in GO Universe)

knew all Heaven's dirty secrets (and that's why he knows SO MUCH more about Heaven than poor innocent Aziraphale*)

created the Universe

*who a) should have listened to Crowley when Crowley tried to tell him about it or b) Crowley didn't tell him about it because he didn't want to hurt poor Aziraphale with the truth about Heaven

When what we see in canon is (IMO) the opposite of all of that? Also, did Aziraphale somehow forgot that Crowley was high up?

We meet this sweet angel in Before the Beginning. He was sent to start up a Nebula in a remote corner of the Universe and he needs a helping hand.

The angel who meets him finds him adorable and enquires whether he designed the pretty *waves hands around* colours and stuff. And Angel!Crowley admits that...well he did not design it as such but... he did have an input! Angel!Crowley does not introduce himself which is definitely a deliberate move, however, it seems like he's simply too distracted and excited by his project for such proper niceties so he does not notice when his new friend looks a little put out by that.

So. Did Aziraphale know who Crowley was?* I like both yes and no answers. I think a crush at first sight is adorable; after all, Aziraphale's careful demeanour seems to suggest he does not meet carefree happy angels often. But perhaps he did come across him before and was hoping to make his acquaintance properly sometime and look, what luck he was nearby just now...

*Did Aziraphale know who Crowley was in Eden? Absolutely. They recognised each other (and I wonder what happened in the interim we did not see) and Aziraphale carefully waits for the demon to offer his new name.

Did Crowley create the Universe?

No, he started up a nebula, and he's clearly very excited about his job.

Angel!Crowley has not heard of the Earth, the humans, or what the whole project/universe is for, or how long it is planned to last.

That tells me, given that Earth and humans and the 6000 year Plan is literally the goal of it all; that he did not sit high up on the Universe planning committee and if anyone told him about it before, he did not pay attention. Which, honestly, is on brand for ADHD Crowley.

How come Aziraphale knows that certain suggestions and ideas would be unwelcome, should the two of them be overheard?

We don't know. But clearly whatever circles Aziraphale moves in, have alerted him to the fact that suggesting to improve things, would be a bad idea. And he did pay attention to the whole - we are creating a vast Universe to host a tiny planet for a human project that will last 6000 years and then be destroyed.

He also breaks the news about the Plan to Crowley who is clearly heartbroken about it. Much like the angels designing dinosaurs must have been I expect, working on them just so their bones could be buried in the Earth for a joke.

Next up for the argument for powerful Crowley:

Our lovely husbands aim for a tiny miracle to hide the runaway Archangel and its power creates mayhem in Heaven (and I assume in Hell too).

So why did this happen? I've heard of three possible explanations:

The husbands made it powerful, because they are (or their love is) powerful together, they just did not realise it. And that's my favourite one.

Gabriel inadvertently helped cos he's the Supreme Archangel (unlikely since he can't deal with his angel self while he's a 'Jim' for the rest of the season).

Crowley is so powerful he did it himself. Even though he insisted on making it very small, (I guess he just could not help himself).

Now, when he quips, how do you know I didn't do it - to the suggestion only a powerful Archangel could do it with Shax... it's just that. A joke. And a way to confuse.

After all, the Archangels laugh at the mere suggestion Az could do it too, but then HE CLAIMS HE DID and they believe him. Kind of.

So I don't think miracles are as clear cut as all that.

And anyway, it's impossible Hell would have forgotten if Crowley has been an Archangel in Heaven and second of all, it was funny, and a typical Crowley retort. Obviously Hell suspected Gabriel did it (and so did Heaven).

Crowley himself seems to think it's THEIR COMBINED fault. (If that is not foreshadowing, especially the way he throws it out there....)

Crowley can stop time.

And that's pretty cool. Very impressive. I wonder who else can do that. But does he have this power/knowledge because of his past high rank or because he worked at building the Universe? (And clearly loved his job?) ---- A small idea to share after a lil chat with my bestie @seaweednpeanuts who suggested that nobody actually knows if Aziraphale can't stop time. Perhaps he can, but he prefers that his darling does it for him. Because their precious dynamic works like that. Aziraphale adores to be indulged and Crowley loves to feel needed.

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And now for the main course:

And:

"They never change their passwords."

Ok so I mean... you don't exactly have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce triumphantly that Crowley was one of those.

Which, given Good Omens is anything but obvious and predictable, is exactly what Crowley is (was) not (yes, that's my HC, obviously).

How did he get to know the passwords then? Oh so many delicious possibilities. And so much more interesting (I think) than - he was so high up he knows everything.

Did he get them cos he wanted to check something? Did he get them for Lucifer and/or 'the guys'? Did he get them for Aziraphale? Did he get them from Aziraphale? Did he find out by mistake cos the 'high ups' did not pay attention to a lowly angel around important documents? Did he simply believe he can open the files?

And one more little thing:

Apparently, God on angel time was very limited if they are both in awe of Job being able to speak to God.

I mean we have no idea if Metatron ever actually speaks to Her, or the Archangels, but this seems to imply these two were not especially important.

And. I like that.

I want them to be two middling nobodies who overthrow the system because they came to love one another. It's such a running theme in Terry Pratchett books too. It's not the ministers and generals who overthrow governments, is it. It's someone in the crowd asking questions, and another someone wanting a proper kiss and deciding they'd wage a war for it. That's how revolutions start.

If I sound in any way disparaging towards Crowley, please note - I am not. But I am disparaging to fanon Crowley who I believe Crowley would despise.

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quick psa

I needed some time to get my bearings, but, in light of recent events I want to make clear that I support everybody and everyone is welcome here on this page, no matter their gender, sexual orientation race or anything else.

I always strive to be a kind person who supports everyone and I hope I've shown that in the time I've been part of this fandom and can continue showing that in the future.

Fuck transphobes, fuck homophobes, fuck aphobes and cancel culture, yeah, fuck that too. thank you for listening.

If you don't agree with that, you can fuck right off, too.

Especially in these times we can't afford to tear our own community apart over nonsense. We need to stick together!

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Michael Sheen. Bloody brilliant.

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Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

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Truly hate the way "did this person do something that actually harmed someone" and "do they deserve to be unpersoned for it" are considered the same question

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David Tennant at Kansas City Comic Con today