#pairing: ineffable husbands

[chameliyun]

Fic Rec Friday - #37

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Rec #37: When Worlds Collide - Somewhere_in_Wales Fandoms: Good Omens, Staged Rating: T Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley Word count: 20,550 (6 chapters) Summary (copied from fic): "Who the Hell is this?" Crowley asks irritably, thumb pointing back at David. "David, I presume. And this is Michael." "Angel, who the HELL are David and Michael?" "Yes, well, that's certainly the question isn't it?" OR As the filming of GO Season 1 comes to an end for us, Aziraphale and Crowley find themselves unexpectedly transported to our world. They find help in the form of two familiar actors, but it comes at the price of mistaken identities. How can they get back to their world and, as they consider what our world can offer them, do they want to? Other notes: if you don't know, Staged is a show featuring Michael Sheen and David Tennant as themselves during the covid quarantine (so this story is about the exaggerated versions of them from the show). and if you like this, definitely read the sequel, Worlds Apart! about twice as long and this time the pairs switch universes. also features some Terry Pratchett characters!

[13ag21k]

What if I was a lonely brooding man but my features softened as I stared at you adoringly?

[clefadrylcorner]

Obsessed with lovers and piners calling the object of their affections their best friend. Like yessss blur the lines between platonic and romantic love. show how important they are to you in a multifaceted way. Cover up your feelings with another kind of love that is just as true. One type of love does not negate the other and but tragedy can rip both out from under you single handedly, and it will hurt so much more that way. Losing a friend and a lover. Gaining both and not needing any labels for what they are. Using labels but having it be so much more than a title. Were they friends before they were lovers? Or were they lovers whose friendship grew inside of their love? Unclear! Who cares!

[crowlixcx]

[mizgnomer]

Good Omens - Season 1 and Season 2 - Parallel Posters (click for larger images)

[lineffability]

the worst part of that moment where crowley puts his glasses back on is that aziraphale does not understand immediately. his gaze follows the motion so intently, he looks at the eyes disappear behind the glasses with a sad but hopeful smile on his face (nothing lasts forever, he just told him, we'll have to leave the bookshop eventually, but that doesn't matter as long as we're together, right? maybe he should have said the quiet part out loud) . i think, for a moment, he takes the gesture as an affirmation, as crowley's way to say 'let's do this, let's go' but then he hears him say 'good luck' and that's when it drops, only then does it dawn on him,,, only then he understands what the glasses mean and his hopes come crashing down, i----

[casebasket]

catatonic thinking about how in every love song there's a little bit of aziraphale and crowley because they've loved for so long they've encompassed all the love humanity has ever experienced and it's bled everywhere

[katiefrog217]

No I didn't spend an impulsively large amount of money for them, why are you asking?

-coughs

[febelinlove]

Well, I just want to talk about this because *insert important reason here*Michael Sheen is an incredible actor, simply impossibly professional in a good way... But as a person, even better, God

He literally deserves the love of the whole world, kind, sincere and slightly closed.

For some reason he is unsure, but he is truly unique and wonderful. Thanks to his roles, I understood at one time what high quality of a good game means

Everyone talks about how sweet David is, and it really is true. They are both.

Two brilliant professionals in their field and wonderful people Kind, gentle, wonderful and simple ineffable [anyone]

Their roles, themselves - I'm so grateful for what they do because it's beautiful They helped me a lot at one time, simply by existing. Thanks to their couple, I still believe in love, friendship, sincerity and kindness

We love them and I just wanted to remind you of that ❤️

[namelessmap]

The kiss, but it’s Crowley and Aziraphale

[chameliyun]

Fic Rec Friday - #32

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Rec #32: Price Paid - Jennistar Fandom: Good Omens Rating: M Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley Word count: 2,402 Summary (copied from fic): Maybe if it was a good kiss, Aziraphale thinks halfway through the minutes of a meeting that happened two centuries ago, it would be more easily forgotten. Maybe because it was so bad, so sad, it became less forgettable. Like a sentence half said. If he could get the whole sentence, perhaps it might settle in his mind like the rest of his memories and fade gently in time. Or: Aziraphale can't stop thinking about the kiss and decides to remedy this in the worst possible way. Other notes: were you hurt by the end of s2? would you like to be hurt some more? this is the ficlet for you! (incredible writing; incredibly painful)

[laurashapiro-noreally]

Looking for something to read?

Oh look, it's another recs post! This time I'm featuring two stories per author. These are writers I always make time for, whose work stands out as unusually hot, clever, funny, or smart -- sometimes all of the above.

I'm gonna start you out strong with two by @werpiper: After Hours takes Aziraphale and Crowley to the baths after their oyster supper, and all sorts of interesting pleasures are there for our angel to sample. Piper's Crowley is one of my favorites: always evaluating the situation, not quite aware of what his own heart is doing but feeling it anyway.

Fitting In is a new story, still a WIP, but I am utterly tantalized by Muriel's first taste of love -- and tea. This is already rich in detail, soft and fragrant, and I can hardly wait for the action to get going in earnest. The pairing seems surprising but when you think about it for ten seconds of course it makes sense. Sex workers help the curious, the awkward, and the inexperienced every day, bless them.

If you enjoy these, check out @werpiper's back catalog -- they have done a ton of ineffables-through-the-ages, and their series Miracles and Heresy is worth many delightful hours of your time.

I love what @copperplatebeech has been doing lately:

He's Not My Friend is a T-rated story that explores Aziraphale's constant refusal to acknowledge his relationship with Crowley, and Crowley's mirror of that, and how things glacially shift over time. It is subtle and yet specific, it will make you ache and smile.

All Of The Above, also T-rated, is a warm and fuzzy alternative to that, a hilarious celebration of true friendship that made me laugh out loud and still got me right in the feels.

@copperplatebeech can do everything, from quiet, gentle, and romantic to devastating plotty AUs to extraordinarily horny established relationship to absolutely ridiculous humor. Do dive in if you haven't already.

Next up, @cumaeansibyl, master of kink:

better living through technology manages to shove everything I want in a dirty story into less than three thousand words: uptight Aziraphale reduced to sodden wreck, Crowley gleefully showing him what he's been missing, character-driven erotics, and exceptionally funny dialogue.

indulgentiam peccatorum nostrorum is somehow all that and more, turning the "I was wrong" dance into a kink (something I can't get enough of, recs welcome). This one is post-Bastille so it is extra-juicy. Mind the tags!

@cumaeansibyl has a gift for established relationship one-shots, which readers of mine will know are my entire jam. They also have a mind-meltingly hot inverse!omens AU that features different variations of angelic/demonic Crowleys and Aziraphales for our ineffables to play with.

A new-to-me author, Calico, has me hanging by a thread with their Ineffable Romans series. If you want to remember that your ineffables aren't human, that they are inordinately clever but very stupid, that the feelings they have for each other are truly beyond what anyone alive has ever felt, Calico may be the writer for you. This stuff is deep. Also hot af.

Sub Rosa reads like a nasty shag at Petronius', but there's so much more going on here. It is Extremely Queer, driven by power dynamics, and Crowley is fully demonic here and absolutely in control...or is he?

The Intemperance of Liber Pater continues on this theme, with dialogue-driven smut that reads less like a seduction than an inevitability. There's another story in this series, unfinished, and I can't wait to see what happens next.

Last but not least: two short pieces by @ineffabildaddy. I stumbled on their stories just this week and I absolutely love their approach, which I've not seen done quite this way before.

take me as your wife has a tight first-person perspective as Crowley meets Aziraphale for a meal and imagines (or is it his imagination?) that Aziraphale is suggesting Certain Things about how they might occupy themselves later. Indeed, is he suggesting even more? Something about their relationship? Or is it all in Crowley's head?

Only in Dreams is kind of a companion piece, from Aziraphale's point of view -- though hundreds of years later. This one's set after the events of S2 and although just as romantic as take me as your wife, it also offers an ineffable take on the ol' glory hole concept. Just in case you thought I was getting soft. 😏

@ineffabildaddy has a whole series of poems and ficlets like these and I can't wait to explore them all.

[coinsauce]

i miss good omens and what better way to liven myself up in a boring class than to mix TWO OF MY BRAINROTS TOGETHER!

doodled them during class lmao

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as Crowley from Good Omens Season 2 (with some Michael Sheen as Aziraphale)

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

[amagnificentobsession]

I only want you to focus on the first 2:30 of this video. I have Completely Staged. The Complete Illustrated Scripts (it’s wonderful btw).

David introduces the idea of “sabotage” to Michael, and that is where this section of the script ends in the book.

From :38 -2:29 the whole conversation about Michael’s dad, the playing catch (or throw) David talking about doing the same thing to their dog, all of it IS NOT IN THIS BOOK. I searched everywhere looking for the possibility that maybe it was accidentally printed in a different area, a footnote that it was “accidentally left out, a printing accident?”

But a WHOLE conversation, an important one to the storyline? Therefore I have to go with its improv. And this is the lead up to this absolute iconic connection:

And David is the one in control of it ♥️ look at that twinkle…….🤩

Say what you will, the fire between these two burns brighter than the hellfire Gabriel tried using to destroy Aziraphale. 🔥

The first time/photo of them together as the pandemic is winding down. Social distancing my ass! It wasn’t going to happen. ♥️✨

Palm to palm may be holy palmers kiss, but shoulder to shoulder will start a fire as well. 🔥

[spockcock]

Actively disturbed by the fact Dan and Phil are t'hy'la (Vulcan word used to indicate people with a close bond; essentially translates to a combination friend, brother, and lover. Used most often to reference the characters Kirk and Spock as something like soulmates or spouses)