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Oh Doctor Who is back, baby.

So, obviously the meatiest part of the two episodes that dropped this weekend is the sequence where the Maestro has Ruby strung up in the recording hall . . .

( Come you draw near, listen I'll tell )

Title: All the Good Girls Go to Hell
Fandom: Shadow and Bone (Netflix)
Characters: Inej Ghafa, Kaz/Inej, Darkling/Alina (background)
Music: 'All the Good Girls Go to Hell' by Billie Eilish
Length: 2:45
Warnings: Violence. Many references to canonical exploitation and non-con. Blasphemy? Medically inadvisable levels of yearning. Oh, and the song starts super quiet, so don't go jacking your speakers up.
Spoilers: Season one. Heavily and inevitably influenced by the Six of Crows books, but no need to have read.

Summary: Rough Work if you can get it.

On Tumblr, On AO3

V/N: ijustshipitsomuch If you have ever shipped anything I have ever shipped, get on this fandom, stat.

So, apparently this song is about climate change. Hahahahah . . . sorry? Look, I made 'Celebrity Skin' a song about a nun and 'Sugar Daddy' about a literal tweed-clad angel: I'm clearly a menace. With religious issues.

My great thanks to elisi for overcoming covid itself to finish the show and give this thing a look before I put it out to the world and for generally putting up with me when I'm like this and she didn't need any more fannish obsessions right now. *ahem*

If you are a Good Omens fan and in need of some industrial strength comfort (and who isn't these days?) may I recommend:

Untitled Stardew Omens Fic

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Crowley has decided to give up on life in the city and move to the countryside. Aziraphale is intrigued by the new arrival in Pelican Town. Fluff ensues in such enormous quantities I am compelled by law to recommend a dental check-up after reading.

It's the pure fluff of the sappiest, most uncomplicated of GO fic on top of the comforting, predictable order of a cutesy farming sim where if you just clear all the rocks out of your field and give the person you love a present, all is good.

If, like me, you are a Good Omens fan who has not managed to buy a Switch to get to play Animal Crossing while the world falls apart, this is undoubtedly the next best thing.

(I am attempting to post more than once every six months. Ha! Taking bets on how long that lasts.)

Title: Helsing
Fandom: Dracula (2020, BBC/Netflix)
Music: 'Celebrity Skin' by Hole
Length: 2:57
Warnings: Blood, violence, hard-core gore, including that damn fingernail thing (sorry), partial nudity. Everything the show has, basically.
Spoilers: For the whole show. I strongly recommend finishing it all before watching.
Summary: “You don’t seem like a nun.” "It has been said."

On Tumblr, On AO3

A/N: SISTER AGATHA VAN HELSING. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.

( Blather . . . )



( Lyrics )

Hello, lovely people. I exist! I hope you all still exist as well; I have not read my flist in literal weeks. (December is the most horrid time of the entire year at my job; brain is not brain-ing. Petition to move Christmas to late January when I can enjoy it.) But a happy December to you all.

ANYWAYS. In the meantime, here is Chris Chibnall, out to give me hope for the future of Doctor Who in the form of James Bond tropes, omg:



I have important questions:

1) When did the production crew suddenly realize that being forthcoming with information about upcoming episodes is a strategy that can successfully entice people to watch?

2) Why do I feel so massively hopeful about the exciting James Bond-y-ness of this episode when Time Heist was such an appalling disappointment of a heist episode?

3) Are we actually getting a series after this New Year's special, and if so, when? The next week? Later in January? March? (Dear production crew: being forthcoming with details about the scheduling of upcoming episodes can also be a successful strategy to entice people to watch. Make note.)

I know nobody in the Good Omens fandom is at a loss for fic to read, but elisi has just posted a story:

Thou Knowest Us Happy

Summary: ‘Not going to war because they're still in bed at two in the afternoon, with the sheets coiled about their knees, lying there, smoking a Gauloises inside a Gitanes, and sweating Nice Sancerre.’ x

Or: Heaven goes to check on their errant angel. They do not like what they find. Also contains the complexities of an evolving relationship, nice helpings of poetry and 14th century angst.

I do happen to think it perfect, and that's only partially because I've spent the last several weeks of my life attempting to punctuate it. It manages to encompass both Dylan Moran and Catholic mysticism, with all the tonal range that implies. The structure has a kind of eclectic, time-hopping, Moffat-y quality to it. Most importantly, however, is that it is a proper established relationship fic, set several years after the apocalypse, and therefore does things with the relationship dynamics that I've see very few other fics attempt. Aziraphale and Crowley are my favorite 'good and evil' ship by . . . just ridiculous amounts, and this fic explores why in a really beautiful way.

I dearly wish I could wipe it from my brain just so I could have the chance to read it again for the first time. Alas, I've no way to do that, so I need to live vicariously through others. Go and read.

On the off chance that there is anybody on my flist who is not also on elisi's, she's just written an utterly massive analysis of my Sugar Daddy vid, which then became a more general Good Omens meta and also a bit of a commentary on purplefringe's gorgeous Hallelujah vid, with an emphasis on interpreting the show as a queer fairytale. And it is GLORIOUS AND PERFECT and contains basically everything I think about Good Omens.

Go read and feed her treats.

owlboy has made me a new default icon.



Gaze upon its magnificence and despair.

Good Omens is basically just Steven Universe in Judeo-Christian trappings, isn't it?

Corporeally malleable immortal gays from space defying abusive and authoritarian power structures to side with humanity.

Welp.

*I* liked it.