#thavron

[lumiereandcogsworth]

saw these and thought of you!

WHAOGHAGHSKDJ HEY DUDE HEY BABEY WHERE DID YOU SEE THOSE I GOT MY WALLET RIGHT HERE HEYYY ARE THEY FOR SAAAALLEEE 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

[gypsi-kat01]

Waiting.

Today is as grey as yesterday and tomorrow forecasts rain.

I arted. My first proper digital painting on Procreate, to go with my Second Coming fanfiction that I will one day finish.

[curiouspupsicle]

Good Omens Fan Fiction Friday (4/18/25) - Texting

For someone who barely texts, it's amazing how much I love a good text thread in a Good Omens fan fic. There are tons of great text threads out there. But today, I'm highlighting fics in which texting is primary.

Since you probably assume these will all be human AUs, I thought I'd start with our angel and demon texting each other in Lockdown Texts (G) by the smashing @klikandtuna. Isolated by the Covid lockdown, Crowley has a cell phone delivered to Aziraphale and teaches him how to text. I was LMAO at all the things Aziraphale thought LMAO could mean.

The first text fics I ever read were the Wrong Number AU series by GaryOldman. They begin with Texts from an Unknown Number (T) in which Aziraphale tries to text his brother Gabriel at a loud halloween party and ends up reaching Crowley instead. After this meet-cute, we follow them through the first year of their relationship in Sorry, Right Number (T). And finally, we read their text thread all the way to their wedding in He's My Wrong Number (T).

It's a short series of the fluffiest fluffiness.

In Of Size and Other Matters (E) by LCWrites, Aziraphale's friend Tracy is trying to fix him up with a date for a family function. When he accidentally texts a reply to one of her spicy comments, he reaches Crowley instead. Yes, the title is relevant to the content if you're turned on by something other than silly text threads.

And since I'm already on the topic, I might as well hit Sorry, Right Number (aka The Dick Pic Fic) (E) by @thavron. Be warned this fic is accompanied by NSFW artwork if you read fics on the subway. And yes, it's just what it promises in the title. Crowley accidentally texts a dick pick to Aziraphale who replies. It's silly. The banter is ridiculous.

Finally, let's end on a sweet note. This next fic does not feature tons of text threads, just one very important one. The Angel I Knew (M) by @captainblou is one of those beautiful fics that hits you in all the feels. I loved it so much. Aziraphale gets a text from his former spouse nearing the 20th anniversary of their child's death asking to meet. At their meeting, Aziraphale finds that his spouse has transitioned and is now Anthony. The pair navigate the deep wounds inflicted when their child died. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. But in all the best ways. This is the kind of fic that will stick with you.

I'll be back next Friday with more great Good Omens fan fics on a new theme. In the meantime, check out my other favorite fics on this pinned post of weekly Good Omens fan fiction recommendations. And if my faves appear to be your faves, check out my bookmarks on AO3--all the fics I rate in my top 10% (two of the fics from this week are on this list).

Don't forget--always thank your favorite fic writers. They're a gift to the fandom.

[enthusiasteditor]

What a wonderful date Crowley had in 1941!

Within a few hours he...

Walked on consecrated ground with an epic walk

Saved his love from the Nazis changing the trajectory of a bomb

Made one of the most romantic gestures one can make for Aziraphale (and he touched his hand, of course)

Didn't understand a very explicit proposal (oh my god, Crowley...)

Took his partner to the theater (to sell illegal alcohol, but never mind...)

Saw this beautiful smile (Aziraphale is no stranger to the art of prestidigitation)

Was amazed by the miracles of Mr. British man

Has been a supportive partner

Was so caught up in the love of his life and his enthusiasm that he didn't notice a nazi zombie behind him

Touched again his love's hand

Pretended to volunteer to help his partner

Used a gun for the first time

Brought joy to Aziraphale with their magic trick (he trusted him)

Shared a dressing room with a truly charming magician, an "old friend" and three nazi zombies

Decided to spend his last night on Earth (at least as far as he knew) with Aziraphale, and then he found out that it would not be his last night on Earth

Had a very romantic toast with the love of his life

He had the best time of his Life 🥰

Related post here

Thanks @thavron and @weirdly-specific-but-ok for the suggestion

[vidavalor]

So I was just reading one of your metas about possession and you mentioned the Bentley being part of Crowley and how Aziraphale hadn't realised he was messing with Crowley's mind when messing with the car. I just wondered if you'd noticed that the Bentley is black with grey panels in S1 and the beginning of S2, but after Aziraphale turned it yellow, it came back completely black (and also has extra doors). Just wondering what your thoughts were on that.

Hi there, @thavron 💕Hope you're doing well! Tea and blueberry cake today. Requested musings on the appearance changes of The Bentley are below.

As you pointed out, in the later half of S2, The Bentley is black with four doors. I am not a car expert by any stretch of the imagination 😂 so, please bear with me here. My research, though, tells me that this is actually a model of Bentley that was first released in 1933.

1933 is the year that Crowley is said in the novel to have bought The Bentley, which also seems to hold up in the tv series as well, with Aziraphale referencing "90 years ago" in S2.

From this, we could say that the original form of The Bentley might be the way that it looks throughout the second half of S2. The model of Bentley that Crowley bought in 1933 was likely actually an all-black four door. This would mean that every time we've seen The Bentley look different from that throughout the series has likely been the result of either Crowley or Aziraphale changing it as an in-joke to reflect the goings on between them.

It would be pretty Good Omens to only show us the original form of the car towards the end of the story and play with our assumptions that we knew what we were looking at the whole time. 😉

Not to mention the paralleling significance of Crowley saying "change it back" and Aziraphale restoring the car to full original Bentley status ahead of The Final 15, in the same season that began by showing us a glimpse of Before the Beginning.

The season starts and ends with wheels and with "starting the engine"-- the stars of The Universe in Before the Beginning and Crowley starting the engine of The Bentley in the last moments of S2. (The Voice of God: "It starts, as it will end..."). Having The Bentley change back to its beginnings in the end would fit with that.

You know the S1 scene where Aziraphale, in Crowley's body, sees The Bentley is back after Adam has shifted things in S1? The way it's filmed is really interesting when you consider that we technically did not really know the original form of The Bentley at that time.

We don't see the car until after Aziraphale does. We're looking at Aziraphale look at the car but, for a moment, we don't see at what he is smiling. By the time we see The Bentley in the scene, it's after we've seen Aziraphale looking at it. It's dove grey and the bike rack is back on the back of it. Adam may have brought it back like this, as it last was... but he also might not have. We don't really know.

It's entirely possible that Aziraphale, in the moment when we see him smiling at the car, is actually changing it from its original, black four-door model to the way that he and Crowley had it. We wouldn't know the difference because, until S2? Just like how we hadn't glimpsed Before the Beginning before, we also didn't know what The Bentley originally looked like.

There's definitely a significance to the number of car doors on The Bentley at different times because it's hard to imagine a story more obsessed with using doors as a motif than Good Omens.

Given that The Bentley is to Crowley as The Bookshop is to Aziraphale, the fact that he might have bought a four door car that is then almost entirely seen in the modern era as a two door car could have a bunch of different interpretations.

One is that if the car = Crowley, then having two doors is having two access points, in a similar way to the bookshop, which also has two doors. In a car, the passenger seat door is often called "the side door"-- this would be Aziraphale's usual door in The Bentley. "The side door" is also what we'd call the bookshop door across from Mrs. Sandwich's place, which exists mainly for the purpose of helping Crowley slip out of the shop before dawn.

The Bentley has always had a back seat. How it's accessible is tied to how many doors the car as at any given time. If it has two doors, it means that people would have to go through Crowley or Aziraphale to get into the backseat-- literally, metaphorically, and euphemistically.

I think Crowley left it the four door, all-black, original model that Aziraphale had restored the car to in Edinburgh the way it was for the rest of the season because he was visually joking with him about Gabriel. It took Crowley a couple of days to adjust to Jim being allowed in the residence in their house but his eventual acceptance of this situation could be said to be reflected in how Gabriel now, technically, has his own door in The Bentley, too.

And, like with the show, you can't have a three door car-- it's either a two door or a four door-- so making it a four door for Gabriel means the fourth door is Beez. Shades of Agnes' 'three come together and four rise' prophecy in there and such. You let in the people of the people you let in.

A door is also part of the face of a house or a building so you're "choosing your faces wisely" if you're listening to Agnes-- your people, your places/doors/paths. When we're talking about people, you have to choose them wisely because letting them in means giving them access to yourself. It means that you're also letting in who they have let in, in a way. You're taking them on the way that they are taking you on.

The Bentley always has a backseat, which shows that Crowley has always been willing to give people a lift. The difference is that a two-door means that only the driver and his trusted passenger-- only Crowley and Aziraphale-- decide who gets into the car. A four door has come to mean the presence of a third person they can trust. The car stays a four door when Crowley is beginning to (slowly lol) start to admit that Gabriel might be going from "we can bundle him into The Bentley and leave him for dead!" to "Jimbriel is family" status.

Speaking of family, the little girl in the backseat that Aziraphale passes and the Maggie's great-grandmother mystery that seems to be suggesting they had a child in the 1920s might be something that winds up retrospectively tying into why The Bentley was a four door to start?

The Bentley is usually shown to be a different model with two doors that is in a shade of what is a genuine vintage Bentley color-- dove grey.

Bentley developed that specific dove grey shade from observation of the colors of the feathers of the mourning doves for which it is named.

So, why is The Bentley usually the color of mourning doves?

Probably because these two mourning doves, Crowley and Aziraphale, are mourning their inability to figure out mornings. We see throughout the series that they make a point to not be together in the mornings as a way of trying to hide their relationship.

Mrs. Sandwich knows about them because she works at night in the alley adjacent to the side door of the bookshop that Crowley sneaks out of before dawn. The nightingale & the lark from Romeo sneaking out of Juliet's bed so as to not be caught and killed. (They weren't inspired by it-- they're Shakespeare. They wrote it.) Crowley parking The Bentley on side streets when he's staying into the evening, like in 1.01, so as to not give anyone watching them the impression that they're lovers. The fact that, even with everything happening with the start of Armageddon: Round One in S1 and the two of them separated when they were trying to sneak out for a date in the sushi restaurant? Based on the clocks chiming in the background, they don't meet in St. James' Park until noon the next day. Their "nightlife", as Crowley referred to it more than once.

Being together would mean they'd stop hiding but they haven't known how to do that, exactly, because while the human world has gotten a bit safer, the supernatural one has not.

The events of S2, though, see Aziraphale zooming towards trying to make that happen, probably a bit too fast. The Meeting Ball is, as we all know, not just about Maggie and Nina. While they're not coming out of the closet in the queer sense as that's a bit unnecessary where they're concerned lol, they're stopping hiding their relationship.

Aziraphale invited the whole neighborhood over, gave membership to Mrs. Sandwich, had Maggie and Gabriel under the same roof, and danced openly with Crowley. Ironically, Crowley going missing for the night? That was the exact opposite of what was supposed to happen. It was supposed to be a night that led to mornings together for however much time they had left.

Crowley knew that was Aziraphale was intending, even if he didn't realize that The Ball wasn't just to get Maggie and Nina to dance but so Aziraphale could ask him to dance. Mornings had been in play since Aziraphale went to Edinburgh and Crowley stayed in the shop through the morning. It was clear to Crowley that Aziraphale's intent was to get through the week and, in the process, get to have a morning where they weren't apart.

Because of this, they're no longer really mourning doves, and Crowley doesn't change the car to the dove grey. He likely doesn't change it at all because the car being openly as it is reflects what he and Aziraphale are trying to do about what they are.

I think that it is probable that Crowley only made some sort of psychic link between himself and The Bentley after S1. Crowley watched both the bookshop and The Bentley burn down in S1 and we see in S2 that he's not really been doing well at times with the aftermath of those things.

We have the whole thing in S2 about how Crowley's terrified of the bookshop going up in flames again to a point that Aziraphale now has battery-operated candles and 9 trillion fire extinguishers to try to help Crowley feel more relaxed.

It's not just the bookshop that went up, though, but The Bentley, and Crowley loves that car. It seems likely to me that he'd try to do something to prevent the car from going up, too-- maybe like linking it to himself so that if some demon or something came after him and tried to damage the car, Crowley would feel it and be able to prevent it.

This would also explain how Aziraphale is surprised that Crowley can actually personally feel what's happening to the car in S2 when, prior to S2, that wasn't really the case.

[slurpi13]

❤️🎄Merry Christmas all my ineffable friends!🎄❤️

If you saved any room for something extra sweet, please consider this cozy holiday domestic fluff I wrote to celebrate.

I Saw Nanny Kissing Santa Claus 💋🎅

Rated G, 2.2k words.

They both lied about it, as Warlock found adults sometimes did for some reason, but he had long understood that Nanny and Brother Francis were in love.

But all that was gone now. He saw Nanny kissing Santa Claus. On the mouth.

Thank you to my bestie @pixiefairy15 for her love, support, and betaing on such short notice. And thank you to @thavron for the oodles of writing encouragement and friendship. Make sure to check out both their Christmas fics under the cut!

[itsscottiesstark]

10 people I would like to know better!

Thanks for the tags @sabotage-on-mercury @katspause @curiouspupsicle @fadedpages-fallingpetals @edit-by-riley @mamamissy ! I finally have some time to do this, let's go!

Last song: "Teach your children" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Favourite colour: Give me any shade of blue and I'm happy.

Last book: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"

Last movie: I don't remember? 😂 I think it was "Love Actually"?

Last TV show: "Masters of Sex" hehe

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Hmmm a balance between sweet and savoury. Don't like too much of either.

Last thing I searched online: .......... "Michael Sheen Nye"....

Current obsession: Good omens lmao.

Looking forward to: Seeing "Nye" in August!!

10 people I would like to know better:

@eybefioro @captainblou @thavron @bellisima-writes @crowleys-hips @axetlotl @gaiaseyes451 @no-paperwork @angie-words @ngkiscool

[pixiefairy15]

AO3 WRAPPED

Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death was my most popular fic in 2024! My goal for the next year is to finish it, it has unfortunately fallen to the wayside and is currently on hiatus. I promise not to completely abandon it!

Of course my favourite fic to write was Selling South Downs, a collab with @slurpi13 which brought me my bestie 💖🥰💖 I am forever grateful that she agreed to collab and I could not do without her encouragement and our shared brain cell 💖

My goal is to publish 5 fics next year (and finish Coffee/Death!) which I hope will be achievable! I've got a few with deadlines which I hope will spur me on to finish 😂

This year has not been the easiest for me in terms of writing; my ADHD medication was affected by the shortages in the UK from July and my ability to write pretty much fell off a cliff as a result. I struggled with very bad writers block until November when @thavron helped to kickstart my brain - I have been trying to build the habit back and managed to publish a fic in time for Christmas morning (Santa Claus is Coming) which is a huge achievement given my capacity at the moment.

The medication shortage is ongoing so I currently have no idea when I'll be back at full writing capacity - in addition I am starting some part time courses to work towards my new career. In short, please be patient and watch this space. I promise there will be filth in 2025.

[handyowlet]

Cute little one shot with art showing a very naked Crowley. Thanks @thavron!

🍆🦆❤️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64333006/chapters/165146356

[anxilly]

part 1 because tumblr is STUPID and won't let me post the whole thing wtf

thanks for the tag @thavron! i don't have ten people to tag, but mostly because im scared to bother anyone and also because you've tagged a lot of the people i would in this, haha

last song: oh boy. im pretty sure it was 'taste' by sabrina carpenter- im not massively pop girlie, but there's something about her that i can't really get off my mind? yes i know haha insert espresso joke here, but my taste in music has always been much more personal than it should be- i was, for a very long time, that emo chick who never listened to pop or anything "mainstream" because it was cringe or whatever the fuck i was on. in recent years i've learned to loosen my stranglehold on the labels that i used to define myself with because of how harmful they actually ended up being in figuring out my identity, so im slowly getting to a point where i can openly admit that yeah actually, pop IS cool and there's nothing wrong with enjoying certain genres of music just because they don't blow your eardrums out whenever you listen to them favourite colour: funnily enough, teal! black is my go to for everything because it's very hard to make black look bad, but teal is pretty af and a perfect mix of sea green, grey and blue which are all colours i love last book: i've picked up.... so many books.... during 2024 that i never finished, by the most recent one that i've picked up (not counting manga here) is a book called "les jolies choses" by virginie despentes. she's an author i like quite a bit, because her literature is rough and real, and it's not afraid to poke at topics that are incredibly uncomfortable. reading her feels like she's the kind of person who'd just understand what a messed up ND 20 something year old is going through 100% last movie: seoul station, i've just been watching a ton of zombie/monster horror as (mainly) background noise while i do craft stuff lol, the youtube video essays don't do much for me anymore last tv show: currently watching sweet home, but the show i just finished was all of us are dead which are both fantastic adaptations of webtoons of the same name- but let's not get started on korean webtoons because they're one of my favourite things to talk about x) sweet/spicy/savoury: spicy!!!! my partner is allergic (genuinely) to spice so i haven't been having as much as i would like, but i have pretty messed up tastebuds so spice is not only something i can tolerate, but also one of the few things that gives food flavour last thing i searched online: the name of the author i mentioned previously because i couldn't find her first name on any of my books LMFAO current obsession: good question, i don't actually think i have one atm. i've been really into doing creative stuff, but i wouldn't call it an obsession, necessarily. my love for good omens starting fading a while back and while i still love it, i definitely haven't been nearly as invested as i used to be. i both do and don't hope for another hyperfixation because i can't figure out whether im prepared for my life to come to a standstill again or not lol

[lumiereandcogsworth]

What’s Belle and the fam got him for his birthday this year?

sorry it took me so long to answer this my brain just would not cooperate with this particular question. ANYWAY:

my mind keeps going to the theatre. every time. i think maybe they made plans to go to a performance he really loves. maybe hamlet or maybe something else

could also be that his kiddos put together their own little production and performed it for him and the rest of the fam. which they are often prone to do. very little women of them

adam also reaaallyyyy likes the opera, so i think he and belle go to a performance as well.

beyond theatre, i think his birthday this year was same as always! (wonderful and full of love!!)

there’s always a ball, because he loves a place where he can dress in his favorite outfit and dance with his wife

the ball is usually at their palace in paris, their home away from home, and depending on the kiddos’ ages, they may be there too. (i mean, they’re definitely IN PARIS with adam & belle. i more meant whether or not they attend the BALL depends on their ages)

anyway, i was also thinking about the fic i posted today, that’s his 24th birthday (irrelevant, really, other than the fact that he’s such a young baby) (yes i know i am currently 24. i am aware of my baby adultness) i was thinking about how he & plumette gush about the new suit he’s wearing, and how excited he is to wear it for the ball tonight. it made me imagine a conversation he & belle had earlier in the day, when he was either just about to change into it, or had just done so. and belle suggests that maurice should paint his portrait wearing it, since he loves it so much.

and this is kind of a big deal to him, because he hasn’t had an individual portrait of himself done since they were first coronated. and up until now he really kept insisting on no singular portraits of himself — only ones with belle (and the baby, since at this point, they have a baby!!!) but belle suggests this and he’s like huh. i guess that would be kind of cool. but also i don’t NEED a portrait !!! it’s fine !!!

and belle tells him it’s okay to want a portrait of yourself sometimes. it doesn’t mean you’ve fallen back into your old vain ways. think of it more like you want to remember this suit you love so much!

and well, anyway, i think adam agreeing to that portrait was a good step for him :) so that also happened on his birthday (making that choice, not the actual portrait, of course)

the day probably ended the way every birthday ends for him these days: dancing and laughing with his wife, holding her hand as they return to their bedroom in the small hours, kissing her and kissing her and kissing her… because he’s just so darn happy to live another year.

[thavron]

Dreamcatching

Human dreams weren’t usually as lifelike as Crowley’s would appear to be, the vividness calling forth a rush of memories that nearly toppled the angel. Once he’d quieted his mind, Aziraphale looked up into the sky. It must be one of the first days—he recognized the hues. This was back before God delegated the job to a cherub and took the time to paint the sunsets Herself; brilliant shades of burnt orange and pink cotton candy clouds lingered in the sky, the splendor of which was unlike anything Aziraphale had seen in the blandness of Heaven. Only Crowley’s stars had ever dared to compare.

Aziraphale turned his head as if pulled by an invisible thread, and sure enough, there he was. Atop the wall he stood, wind whipping through his black tunic, his hips cocked to the side, and crimson curls cascading down his slim frame. Crowley glanced over at his mind’s manifested version of Aziraphale who was wringing his hands, still fretting over giving his sword away despite Crowley’s reassurance. It startled Aziraphale then, how little difference he saw between the demon beside him and the angel he’d known, how little that unidentifiable tether urging the angel toward him had changed, and how little their respective sides seemed to matter when it was just the two of them.

Extract from Dreamcatching by @slurpi13

Art by @thavron

[tiptopticketyboo]

I saw this cute animated quiz to discover your CosmosPersona (spoiler - it contains cats in space 🐾). My result feels rather accurate especially about daydreaming, speaking in lowercase and self-esteem therefore today I feel it's saying too nice things about me.

In case you'd like to try it out, gently tagging (as always, no pressure, feel free to take part only if you'd like to and also please let me know if you don't want to be tagged anymore because I don't want to bother anyone) @aziraphalesdiaries, @ineffableleo, @thavron, @the-ineffable-dance, @fellthemarvelous and anyone who'd like to take part

[anxilly]

@thavron i feel like this piece of information could be wildly beneficial to your drunk loch ness fic!!!! 😆

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[slurpi13]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

tagged by @thavron

They danced in the streets of Paris, swaying to an accordionist playing one of Aziraphale’s favorite arias in the evening breeze, leaning on each other and stealing kisses.

You caught me off my game. I'm still fiddling with Dreamcatching. Usually, it would've likely been something absolutely filthy, lol.

tagging @ineffablymanic if you want, of course.

[itsscottiesstark]

You are given a word - share 1 sentence from your wip(s) that begins with each letter of that word.

Thank you @gaiaseyes451 for tagging me, the word you gave was RING and thank you @eybefioro as well, your word was BINGO so let's do this.

R- "Right," she snorted, ignoring the daggers he shot at her. "Big, old man you are, I forgot. And big, old me don't fall asleep in their cereal bowl."

I- "If my level of drunkenness is in question, the good company is solely to blame for my heightened state."

N- "Now," she straightened her back, fixing him with a challenging stare, "any other indisputable reasons why Anthony Crowley couldn't possibly compose a piece to your standards?"

G- "Giraffes!" Crowley exclaimed triumphantly.

Aaaaand

B- "Breathless, he blinked blearily up at the ceiling, trying to clear his vision from the blurry, dancing spots."

I- "I would certainly appreciate some assistance, if you're offering. That's awfully kind of you."

N- "No, no, that's another friend. From school, we, uh... We have an assignment."

G- "Give me your hand," the violinist repeated, the words slower and more clipped than before. "Please," he added softly.

O- "Oh, hush." Aziraphale shook his head at her, though he had to bite down on his lip to hide his own smile.

TWO WORDS WITH "ING" KILLED ME! 😂😂 I've been scrolling through my WIPs for 30 minutes.

Your word is DUCK!

No pressure tags: @captainblou @edit-by-riley @ineffableword @katspause @thavron