#strange pilgrims

[elodieunderglass]

✅ ⛔️ 😊?

From the fanfiction ask meme!

⛔️ whats something you try to avoid in your work?

In fanfiction I try to avoid political laziness, and the tendency to make background characters all the same kind of person that indicates the writer has a REALLY limited social bubble.

In Strange Pilgrims (Good Omens https://archiveofourown.org/works/19368694/chapters/46082842 ) I needed some disposable demons for a chase scene. The source material TV adaptation took the fairly-lazy route of making disposable demons recognisable stereotypes of British “lower classes” or had them be ugly little disposable creature things. I deliberately decided to avoid that, so I had to think about what kind of person I am instead, and what I should say instead. So that’s why I decided my disposable demons would be horrible rich people/ landlords/ irl scum. I got a sly dig in at what I perceived as perfectly avoidable laziness in the adaptation, and an easy route into their descriptions;

A stereotypical mental image of "a group of menacing people and a dog, following someone in London" might involve shifty-looking people in tracksuit bottoms, and a dog whose rap sheet includes the words "pit bull" somewhere. This group of menacing people is signalling something far crueller. They are white, well-dressed, smirking - they look like Tolly's colleagues. The woman-looking one has long straightened blonde hair, and is genuinely wearing an actual padded gilet. The men-looking ones look like they've never been held accountable for anything in their lives; one looks like he has a portfolio of rental properties, and the other one looks like he has designed a social media platform.

I also liked that this gave me stuff to hang descriptions on! A landlord can be so hateful! What kind of villainous animalistic attribute do we give him? (Demons in the adaptation are given animalistic attributes; Crowley is a snake.) Pfff, no need to malign and stereotype normal animals either! No perfectly good beastie like a toad or fish needs to be put into the position of being shorthand for “vile”, when landlords are obviously black mould.

Under his brushed and shiny property-developer facade, he seems to be a creeping, suppurating mass of black mould, staining and corrosive, the kind that lurks behind paint and smirks back to the surface when you've committed to another year on the lease. The destroyed eye socket is already healing inside, filling up with fungal growths.

There. Everyone hates him, our politics are funny and cutting, we got some great inspiration, no animals were maligned, landlords were maligned, it all goes nicely and shows off a bit. All that from avoiding a lazy choice!

😊✅

relatedly I liked this continuing choice, that the people who help the heroes throughout the Strange Pilgrims are working-class folks with their own lives. Bus drivers and barefoot ghosts and marching bands and security guards and protesters and librarians, and even the sparrows. They all have voices and value, to me at least, despite being throwaway characters in a fanfic for a forty year old book.

[cdrewind]

There’s no audience for Strange Pilgrims memes but nothing is funnier than when I lost my mind reading it months ago.

[fabledshadow]

As always, quoting Strange Pilgrims:

“Something terrible is coming!”

“Yes. Me.”

1.06 // 2.06

[feralforpineapplewomen]

Pricefield❤️

Scott pilgrim but as life is strange (I'm a little late in this trend 💀)

[78miu]

roller derby chloe

[elodieunderglass]

Oh my goodness thank you for recommending Strange Pilgrims, that’s so kind!

Crystal, I feel like you mention a cool fic that I've never heard of every episode; would you be willing to make a rec list?

HIII YEAH SURE. the funny thing is that (given our recording schedule) grey finished ep6 three days ago and i'd been compiling a post-s1 fic rec list for him so i'm just gonna repeat some of those. this is NOT comprehensive it's just what's been on my mind recently and isn't on like the first 3 pages of the sort by kudos for a/c

Strange Pilgrims: Being the Account of a lost Angel, the Journeys of a Demon, the meaning of Free Will, of the Unravelling of a Prophecy, and of Being Unravelled by it in Turn by sousverre (T, 127k words)- love the writing style love the lore cried both of the times i read the epilogue chapters. p canon divergent i feel but it's like its own creature to me

gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom by noodlefrog (E, 10k words)- i call this one the vagina dentata fic that invented love due to how it's the vagina dentata fic that invented love

The Best of Times by indieninja92 (T, 2k words)- they have a Moment in 192 AD and it's very augh. have enjoyed other fics by this author also

Love's Such an Old-Fashioned Word by Lavellington (G, 2k words)- it's just nice

Not a Human AU by maniacalmole (G, 34k words)- makes me wail makes me ache. there's a ring also. i recommend checking out other fics by this author also

A Shifting Spectrum of Grey by PenroseSun (E, 21k words)- the premise is "two asexual immortal beings bumble their way into a friends-with-benefits relationship that neither of them actually wants" and it's very good

help me to say by dotsayers (T, 3k words)- i reread this one today and it's cute. they meet up in a nunnery

Live In Thy Heart, (Maybe?) Die In Thy Lap by larkthorne (E, 33k words)- ace crowley and allo aziraphale make it work

Coitus Interruptus with Paperwork by mountagrue (E, 4k words)- pwp marathon sex that is also so funny and so trans wish fulfilment

for the line is thinly drawn 'tween joy and sorrow by malicegeres (G, 2k words)- what if hanahaki was so funny

and three s2 ones

I would not ask (and neither should you) by mercuryhatter (M, 2k words)- GENDER. also they kiss in edinburgh

affection and other cravings by JustStandingHere (E, 29k words)- hellooo aziraphale and appetite

long distance by thingswithwings (T, 4k words)- I LOVE MISERY

also, the ones that i recall mentioning on podcast

a German song famously covered by 21 year old Wayne Newton in 1963 by spocklee (Not Rated, 13k words)- "Didn't Sisyphus ever get to fuck that fussy old boulder?"

follow me in merry measure by larkthorne (G, 2k words)- lesbian a/c dancing in 1946

A Glittering Instrument by malicegeres (T, 91k words)- crowley has a daughter kidfic

have a good day!

- Crystal :)

[cryptiiid]

hey…you like dr who?

finally got around to watching scott pilgrim takes off and had to hop on this redraw trend asap

[lakesparkles]

Some of my favorite women together because I clearly have a type,,,

[staincastle]

⠀⠀⠀ ★ rina's message is here! minimalist headers

[cynosurus]

I immediately reread the ending of Strange Pilgrims which to me has become *the* post season 1 resolution tbh.

I've finally just finished season 2 of Good Omens so now I can join everyone (I assume) in saying wtf???

[thevaudevilledemon]

I made a small, incomplete, and ultimately useless timeline of Comics... enjoy

[hotchocolatebeforebed]

diversity wins the worst person you know is bisexual

[elodieunderglass]

I was trying to find a post about Strange Pilgrims and found this. Thank you so, so much for this kindness and for sticking through a fic that took so very very long to finish.

this is maybe my favorite good omens fic i’m currently subscribed to, which is frankly stiff competition! but like:

(1) i love this crowley fiercely for his deep well of awkward, resentful, heartfelt sweetness and unexamined yet inviolable conscience, and then of course i’m hugely fond always of snake!crowley, of whom this fic presents a particularly delightful instantiation; (2) for reasons you will rapidly discover if you read this fic, which you should, crowley has three distinct concurrent relationships with aziraphale, and the intertwining complexity of those is hilarious and poignant and compelling; and (3) this fic has a real plot, it has a hell of a plot (pun not intended), and while, don’t get me wrong, i am endlessly willing to retread the fertile ground of ‘our beloved fools have yet to define their relationship! with what exquisite agonies of hesitant misunderstanding will they stumble from point A (for Apocalypse) to point B (for Bliss, comma Domestic)!’ after an overwhelming parade of sweets it’s indescribably satisfying to have some real, rare meat set before you.

[note: this fic does portray a really toxic, coercive relationship (though not between Our Darlings), and while it’s not described in technicolor detail, the shape of it is very clear and very chilling. this is warned for, but seemed worth explicitly reiterating.]

[darkrpfinders]

Hello everyone, hope you're all doing alright, folks!

About me! I roleplay since ten years now, and currently doing it on discord! I live on UTC+2, and I am currently 23 years old. I write on 3rd person, and are pretty flexible when it comes to the lenght of our answers. I would just like to have a partner sending something I can work with. I tend to like playing on a server for the two of us, with using tupperbox. I love OOC discussion, and eventually would be looking for someone who could answer regularly. I am also ready to double rp. To conclude this part, I wish that all people reaching me be over the age of majority! It is possible to do on erp/smut stuff, but more vanilla/simple rp will also be fine to me! About my kinks, it turns a lot about d/s dynamic, as much femdom than maledom and we will be able to talk about it more in dm!

Anyways, about what I am really looking for right now! It will be about some fandoms (I will send my ships on those if you're into those fandoms), so buckle up and here we go!🕺

• DC Comics

• Marvel

• MCU

• Stranger Things (aged-up chars)

• Insomniac's Spiderman

• The Last of Us Pt.2

• Locke and Key

• Scott Pilgrim

• Luca (aged-up chars)

• Life is Strange

• Coraline (aged-up chars)

• Brooklyn 99

• Community

• Gen V

• The Boys

• X-Men 97

• Arcane

• Drive-Away Dolls

• Bottoms

• Alien Romulus

• Challengers

• DnD: Honor Among Thieves

Can't wait to have your news, like this and I will reach out for more talk about what we can rp on!

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[detectivedeluxe]

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