#Crowley is Orpheus

[rainecreatesstuff]

uh oh. I imagined Crowley and Aziraphale as Orpheus and Eurydice.

[actual-changeling]

do you think yourself to be better than the people written into myths?

do you think about orpheus and eurydice and laugh at their tragedy?

do you think yourself to be above orpheus' mistake, knowing better than to turn around, to lose everything simply to see if your love is following?

aziraphale followed god in his faith, praying, believing, begging her to take the shape of his wishes so his faith would persist. make it to the top, follow your faith to the end of the line, and your life will begin anew, better, solid, not a belief but a promise.

yet as he walked for six thousand years, he kept turning around, never stopping but hesitating, loosing his footing again and again. keep walking, crowley told him, walking along his own string of faith.

was orpheus' mistake truly turning around? we know how the myth ends, not how it could have gone, which means every belief carries a piece of truth in it.

upon reaching the earth, would eurydice appear behind him, warm, alive, real, or would he fall to his knees and weep in the shadow of a shade?

maybe he should have clung to his faith. maybe he should have turned around again and again and again, until he stilled and came face to face with his eurydice, his crowley.

faith in the gods, faith in god, is a never-ending staircase with a light always just out of reach. just one more step, one more prayer, surely now they have reached the surface? more dirt. always more dirt. no voice in the silence, no footsteps either, but when he turns he can see him breathe, can hear the air rushing through his body.

every breath a prayer answered, every step proof of faith, and orpheus never saw his eurydice again, so are we above them? are they? could you believe in someone and follow them out of hell based on nothing but a prayer?

one day, aziraphale tells him, one day. so crowley follows. so he prays. they slow, walking side by side, one forwards, one backwards, and with the first touch of light on his skin, hope begins to bloom.

at last, crowley thinks, and then he stops. orpheus turned, yet that is not what breaks their faith, it is aziraphale's foot sliding down a step, one single step. faith in the dirt they escaped, faith in the hells, faith in the voices echoing in the dark, faith in god.

never, he realises then, never faith in me.

eurydice returned to the shadows, but crowley is no orpheus, he will not dig with bare hands and bruised knuckles until the earth swallows him again. he will not sing a song of mourning and broken hearts.

crowley sits in the sun and waits. he won't climb. he will wait and he will offer a hand back to the light; it is his turn to turn around.

aziraphale faces another staircase and begins to walk, step after step after step. faith? after the next corner, surely. faith? any moment now. faith in the silent sound of his steps, faith in the love resting on the surface.

orpheus or eurydice, both damned, torn apart for eternity? whose faith broke and who persevered?

does it matter?

[faith-f0rgotten-land]

“If I was Orpheus I'd never turn around” no. NO. that is not the tragedy of it. It is not that Orpheus turned around. It’s that YOU would too. It’s that we all fancy ourselves better than that hungry, depraved sinner, it’s that we all think we would love in just the right recipe, the perfect motherly blend of never-hugging you and always-trying-to-save-you-from-me, when we won’t. Orpheus and Eurydice are history’s finest lovers because they are the Grecian chorus that sings of your nature, the cosmic vastness, the throbbing, quiet yearning inside of YOU_ if you were Orpheus, if any one of you were Orpheus, you would always turn around. That is what love is. Always too much. Always depraved. Always hungry. Always foolish. Always ephemeral. Always a famished act of worship.

@nastasya--filippovna (remember how I said I'd start writing? anyway, thank you for giving me the push I needed! here's a little something, I guess 😉)

[iam-sol-emnlyswear]

wine got me thinking about if Crowley was the snake that bit Eurydice

[aestophobia]

watching hadestown again and it's got me thinking about my ineffable husbands orpheus and euridice au

[fandomflux33]

HEAR ME OUT. HadesTown x Good Omens AU. I am no artist but I had to draw a lil Aziraphale, I had to get this thing out of my brain space. Hadestown is a great musical about abusive capitalistic systems and tragic separations. good omens is a great show/book about abusive capitalistic systems that involves a tragic separation, they both have themes of hope versus realistic pessimism… I just think Hadestown and GOmens should kiss.

Look look look Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship up until the end of season 2 is Orpheus and Euridice’s romance. The tragedy, the looking baackkkk. Persephone and Hades’ fraught relationship could be a dark timeline for Azi and Crowley after the ineffable divorce where Crowley’s a drunk Persephone and Hades’ parts are split between Aziraphale (sad, romance) and the Metatron (evil capitalistic songs).

IT COULD BE BEAUTIFUL I’M TELLING YOU.

Or you could go a different route and do Nina and Maggie as Eurydice and Orpheus and the ineffable husbands as Hades and Persephone.

Or you could make ineffable bureaucracy Hades and Persephone with the ineffable husbands as Orpheus and Eurydice! Or-! Or!

Look, I’ll scribble out some notes, all I know for sure is that Agnes, Tracy, and Anathema would obviously be the fates :3

[embracing-the-ineffable]

I just checked my activity after a trip, and what does it look like? A strange spike, given that I've been away, and a thousand+ new notes over the past few days on this post from weeks ago. Weird! This should be fun, let's check my feed:

Whoops! Sorry about all those feelings, everyone, I didn't mean to retraumatize the GO fandom 😭 I meant for that to be a positive, hopeful thing... at least @parkerquil1969 liked it:

We're now in a club of two. A group, if you will. A group of the two of us.

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[pupsmailbox]

GOTH ID PACK

NAMES︰ abby. ace. addam. alister. amelia. amoret. ange. angel. angelo. anubis. arch. archette. ash. aslan. aspen. astor. astoria. astrophel. atticus. axelle. azazel. azrael. bael. bat. batsy. bella. bellatrix. blade. blair. blanchette. brahms. branwen. cain. callan. calliope. cannibelle. caskeite. casketta. caskette. caspian. celeste. celestia. chaos. charlotte. cherry. chira. chiraelle. chiro. chiroptairre. chiroptelle. chiropteranne. choir. christian. cofette. coffin. coffine. constantine. corbin. corpse. crimson. crow. crowley. damian. damien. demonesse. divina. dorian. draven. edgar. elatha. elijah. elix. elwin, elwin. elwood. ember. emmaline. etienne. evan. evangeline. eve. faith. forest. forrest. frill. frille. frilleine. frilliette. frilly. genesis. ghost. gothita. gothitelle. gothitess. gothitesse. grey. gwen. gypsy. hades. hawthorne. hecate. hemlock. imortalle. imortella. iris. israel. jakob. jet. jett. johnas. josiah. judas. kain. kane. kedi. keir. lacey. laciene. laciette. lazarus. leo. lilith. lilithe. lolita. lucid. lucien. lucifer. lucius. luscious. lynx. maeve. malice. mana. martyr. max. melancholy. merle. micah. michael. misery. mordred. morris. mors. morte. mortis. mourge. mourgette. myrette. nightshade. noah. noctre. nocturne. noir. obsidian. oleander. omen. onyx. orion. orpheus. ozul. ozzy. prince. prophet. raven. ravenie. raveniette. rook. rowan. ruby. saber. saint. salem. samael. samuel. scarlet. secrette. seraph. serenity. shilo. shiloh. silas. silver. silvester. skelly. skulliene. skulliette. skully. sorrow. sylvester. syn. thorn. thorne. tobias. tommy. trix. umbriel. valkyrie. valo. vervain. vesper. victoria. ville. violetta. vito. vlad. woundie. zeon. zephyrine.

PRONOUNS︰ abby/abby. ae/aer. ash/ash. bat/bat. bleed/bleed. blood/blood. book/book. bug/bug. burn/burn. chain/chain. chap/chapel. chill/chill. claw/claw. cloud/cloud. cob/cobweb. cof/coffin. coffin/coffin. corps/corpse. creep/creep. cri/cross. cro/cros. cross/cross. cross/crosse. da/dark. dae/dae. dae/daem. dark/dark. decay/decay. dee/dark. des/despair. devout/devout. div/divine. dust/dust. echo/echo. edge/edgy. en/envie. fae/fang. fang/fang. fe/fear. fie/fiend. fog/fog. fri/frill. frill/frill. ghost/ghost. ghoul/ghoul. gore/gore. goth/goth. goth/gothic. gra/grave. grave/grave. ha/haunt. halo/halo. hie/hiem. ho/holy. holy/holy. horn/horn. hx/hxm. hy/hym. ink/ink. lace/lace. lae/lace. lost/lost. mist/mist. moon/moon. net/fishnet. ni/night. night/night. null/null. par/parasol. parasol/parasol. pray/pray. pray/prayer. proph/prophet. ro/rose. rose/rose. rot/rot. rust/rust. sac/sacrifice. saint/saint. scar/scar. shx/hxr. shy/hyr. si/sinister. sin/sin. sku/skull. skull/skull. snake/snake. spider/spider. spike/spike. sto/storm. stud/stud. thou/thorn. thron/thorn. thxy/thxm. vae/vaer. ve/ver. velvet/velvet. vo/void. whis/whisper. whisper/whisper. witch/witch. wood/wood. x/x. xae/xaer. × . ♠️ . ♣️ . ⚰️ . ⛓️ . 🌑 . 💀 . 🕯 . 🕷 . 🕸 . 🖤 . 🥀 . 🦇 .

[emihotaru]

Hey! do you like Christmas fluff? Dreamling? Teacher Hob? Writer Dream? "Ghost stories"? single dad Dream? widowed single dad Hob? pets? christmas cookies? snow storms? and cross over with Good Omens? Well, our first chapter is here!

it's cosy, it's teacher Hob and writer Dream, it's bookseller Aziraphale and baker Crowley, it's Orpheus and Robyn are best friends, it's sweet, it's hot, and it's gonna be a long ride!

Please, tell us what you think about it, it's our first fanfic together and for this fandom and we're very stressed^^;

And yes, I'll do some art for this story!!

[soleilpirate]

Oh my Lord that is painful. THAT IS PAINFUL! But beautiful as well. Yes love exists and that is the point.

[taliesin-the-bored]

Arthuriana never gets old, and there's always something new to be written and always something which you would not have guessed exists already.

That said, finding an Arthurian poem by Aleister Crowley where Palamedes gives birth to the Questing Beast after killing it, gets pelted with eyeballs, learns music skills equal to Orpheus', rides on an eagle, has a vision of Pan and hears the voice of Christ, becomes a hermit in Finland, and kills his own son out of necessity in the Welsh mountains was not on my bingo card for today.

[maeviuslynn]

Are you new to Thelema?

Are you new to Thelema and looking for good beginner resources? Here is helpful list of beginner friendly books, podcasts, YouTube channels, and other online resources. They are listed in no particular order. Beginner Thelema book recommendations: Easier Crowley texts to start with: * Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley * Magick without Tears by Aleister Crowley * The Law is for All by Aleister Crowley Other great intro books to start with: * Living Thelema by David Shoemaker * The Magick of Aleister Crowley by Lon Milo Duquette * The Chicken Qabalah by Lon Milo Duquette * The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley by Richard Kaczynski * Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski * Abrahadabra: Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thelemic Magic by Rodney Orpheus * Thelema: An Introduction to the Life, Work & Philosophy of Aleister Crowley by Colin D. Campbell

Thelema resources online: YouTube channels: * Maevius Lynn: https://www.youtube.com/c/MaeviusLynn * O.T.O. USA: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdoTempliOrientisUSA * Blazing Star O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@BlazingStarOTO * Horizon O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@horizon-oto * Sekhet Maat O.T.O.: https://www.youtube.com/@sekhetmaat5987 * Dionysius Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/@dionysiusrogers3548 * Living Thelema with David Shoemaker: https://www.youtube.com/@livingthelema5221 * Temple of the Silver Star: https://youtube.com/c/TempleoftheSilverStar * Speech in Silence: https://www.youtube.com/user/speechinthesilence * Entelecheia: https://www.youtube.com/@entelecheia * Lon Milo DuQuette - Arcanum Luminarium: https://www.youtube.com/@Arcanumluminarium * Sword and Serpent Oasis Learning Library https://www.youtube.com/@swordandserpentoasislearni8589 Podcasts: * Living Thelema on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-thelema/id935174735 * Thelema Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thelema-now-crowley-ritual-magick/id325185715 * Speech in Silence: https://www.speechinthesilence.com/

Website resources: * Internet Sacred Text Archive: https://www.sacred-texts.com/ * Hermetic Library: https://hermetic.com/ * Thelemapedia: https://www.thelemapedia.org/ * O.T.O. Online library: https://lib.oto-usa.org/ * Ra-Hoor-Khuit Network's Magickal Library: https://www.rahoorkhuit.net/library/ceremonial/ * Zero Equals Two: http://zeroequalstwo.net/ * Qabalah resource: https://nofaithinthehumanrace.com/ * From the Mouth of the Beast. Introductory Thelemic texts: http://lapis-mercurii.org/motb/ * Occult meaning of colors and high res art: https://keepsilence.org/colors/ * Scans from the Equinox: https://keepsilence.org/the-equinox/ Thelemic Organizations: * Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.): https://oto.org/ * Typhonian Order (T.O.): http://www.starfirepublishing.co.uk/ * A∴A∴: * https://onestarinsight.org/ * https://outercol.org/ * https://www.thelema.org/aa/ * Temple of the Silver Star: https://totss.org/ * College of Thelema: https://www.thelema.org/college_of_thelema/

[tryan-a-bex]

100 fics

Today I posted my 100th fic on Ao3!

My first was Pottery; or Function, Purpose and Heart on Mar 11, 2023. It was a retired Dreamling fic with Destruction (who I call Joe) as the main character.

I moved fairly quickly into my Spy x Family crossover series. Anya is so cute, and throwing her in with Dreamling and the Endless family led to a lot of fun shenanigans! (Generally you don't need to know Spy x Family canon to follow these.)

Next I started on my Sandman x Scooby Doo shenanigans! I really like the Scooby Gang, and there are definitely some mysteries to solve surrounding the Endless! (With awesome art by @sab-draws!)

Gaulcienne caught my eye next. Lucienne, my beloved librarian, and the shape-changing dream-fairy? Oh yes! A Quiet Love with Wings has most of my commissioned art, with pieces by @athymelyreply for Sometimes when You Fall, You Fly, @ibrithir-was-here for Fireflies and a Missing Person, and @designtheendless for The Dragon Rider!

King of Night and Prince of Day, for @nathanwonderwolf's wonderful art, has the second highest kudos of all my fics.

Then I invented an OC who is the preteen personification of the consciousness of humanity, aka Social Media. I thought this was pure crack but people liked it and now it's a series! Dinner and Play was created with @carnelianmeluha's food ideas in mind!

My Dreamling works tend to be short and sweet, often prompted by something on tumblr or discord, and are collected as Dreamling vignettes.

I have recently written (but not yet posted) my first honest to god smut, but early dabbles in the craft were mostly crack, like my Helm Fucking Crack series. I'm unreasonably proud of how cracked it is, and thank everyone who enabled me (notably @sleepsonfutons, @windsweptinred, @tickldpnk8, @zzoomacroom, read their fics!).

My obsession with Fuckboi Dream (mind the tags) is ongoing, and included creating a chapter index with notes so I can find things, a series about Murphy's childhood (somebody please read these, they are so cute), and others, fanart as well!

In The Dragon's Tongue, Lucienne takes on Titania! I commissioned @lostelfwriting to write the bdsm continuation of the scene, and she did a fantastic job!

A Reunion in the Dreaming (picnic recreated here) was the first fic in Walking with the Walkers, my series about Rose, Jed and Unity. It features Rose and Ara (Barbie transformed in Life is but a Dream), Rose and Jed meeting their Endless family members, Jed and Gault having adventures, and Unity throwing family parties in the Dreaming (with art by @ilya-halfelven).

Trials of a Shapeshifter in Love (in which Gault tries to surprise Lucienne with a romantic dinner) was my favourite fic from October 2023 -- Femslash weekend (by @sandmanfemslashfans ) and Monsterfucktober (by @seiya-starsniper and friends) made it a really fun month! I also wrote Chantal and Zelda, Johanna and Death, and zombie Lyta (my most angsty fic, I believe).

Just Get Me Off the Damn Mountain was written for designtheendless' contest and omg, I won! It is my most popular fic, at 185 kudos!

I also wrote an OG story for NaNoWriMo! At 23k, Wander Witch is by far my longest story (the next longest is under 9k).

After a bit of being stuck, I got started again by writing continuations of @gabessquishytum's asks! Thank you to Gabe and to all the anons and contributors who allowed me to post their parts of the story!

Asmi, @weirdly-specific-but-ok, argued that he does not have a fandom, so (with permission) I proved him wrong by writing fanfic where he meets Crowley and the Maggot Fam. I love you, Asmi and the maggots!

Heading on an Adventure, the story of Rose and Orpheus' road trip, led to a series of library adventures for Lucienne (often featuring Meowpheus), starting with The Library Cat and continuing in the Lucienne my Beloved series.

I wanted more Lucienne and Walkers content, so I started a side blog, @lucienne-my-beloved, and am open to prompts there! On ao3, the series is called ficlets for lucienne.

Hob Meets the Doctor June 7, 2389 and The line I will not cross and the line I will (Gaulcienne) are my space fics, and I am unreasonably happy about them!

I'm now writing for @augustwritingchallenge! (They got me over 100 in my wips a week or two ago!) I combined prompts so you'll see a fic every 2-5 days in various series and fandoms, including Good Omens (Aug 30) and Dead Boy Detectives (soon).

And my 100th fic! Why are you whispering? a Jed and Rose fic for the late night call prompts. Woohoo!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported my fandom journey! I'm the least depressed one in my long covid cohort, due to your support and friendship! I cherish every kudo and comment and bookmark and reblog, and the art and fics you all create as well!

[yelenasvestpockets]

THE HADESTOWN LYRICS ARE LITERALLY MAKING ME TEAR UP STOP

come home with me

its you

its me

[writtenmisfits]

Muse List

updated 1/23/2025

Italicized are strongest muses, bold and italicized are primary. Muses on this list are subject to change, biographies will be added soon, please feel free to send an ask about any of the muses.

*Note: I am in the process of moving the info of my Tavs/Durges and Rooks over here. Some links are to their previous blogs. If you have any questions about any of my muses (such as canon divergences and compliances) please reach out to me.

Primary Fandoms

These are the fandoms I focus on the most. They are the ones I have the most muse for and you'll find me fawning over, as well as having the most interactions for. The most active fandoms have a * next to them.

BG3*

Canons: Astarion - Gale - Lae'zel

Tavs: Tryck - Felyn

Durges: Jaez

The Witcher (mix of canon from books, shows, and games)*

Jaskier - Geralt - Jan Konstantyn - Yennefer - Yarpen

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (spoilers tagged as datv spoilers)

Canons: Emmrich - Lucanis/Spite

Rooks: Shan Ingellvar, Jin de Riva

Hellblazer/Constantine/Legends of Tomorrow*

John Constantine

The Originals

Elijah Mikealson - Rebekah Mikealson

True Blood (show canon, I have not read the books)

Lafayette Reynolds - Eric Northman - Pamela Swynford De Beaufort

Other Fandoms/Request Muses

These are characters I have either written in the past and occasionally have muse for, or muses I want to test out, but the fandoms are dead or they aren't my strongest and are far more sporadic and are more request muses than anything.

Criminal Minds

Dr. Spencer Reed - Derek Morgan - David Rossi

Doctor Who

The Master/Missy - Jack Harkness - John Hart - The Doctor

Kaos

Orpheus - Dionysus - Hera - Prometheus

Leverage (Original and Redemption)

Eliot Spencer - Tara Cole

The Magicians

Penny Adiyodi - Mischa Mayakovsky

MCU

Logan (D&W variant)

Prodigal Son

Malcolm Bright - Martin Whitly

Supernatural

Crowley - Gabriel

Side Blog Muses

These muses are not everyone's cup of tea and can sometimes be a hyperfocus for me, though activity is so I've decided to give them their own spaces.

Cazador @rhapsodyandwoe

Husk @helluvabartender

Blitzo @the0isfuckingsilent

Moxxie @deeplyunsettled

Ozzie @trustdesire

[crowleysgirl56]

Just need to recommend this utterly stunning two part Good Omens fanfiction The Place you Need to Reach by Zetared.

This fic is written right before the first season of the show was released.

First part is called The Persephone Clause. Set after the Non-Apocalypse Crowley is recalled to Hell and Aziraphale traverses the 9 circles of Hell to rescue him.

The Orpheus Cure is the second part of the story and you need to read the first part to understand what’s going on. I don’t want to describe this part because it gives away what happens in the first part, but let me tell you IT IS EPIC. It definitely rivals anything I think we will ever get out of season 3 and is now on my list of fics of “What I would like to have if season 3 doesn’t go ahead”.

If anyone has read these fics can you please point me in the direction of any fanart that’s been made, because it they surely be amazingly epic and gorgeous if any has been made, especially of the later chapters.