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promethia_tenkI know nobody in the Good Omens fandom is at a loss for fic to read, but elisi has just posted a story:
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.
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.
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 03:45 pm (UTC)and:
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 Sep 2019 06:27 pm (UTC)And all from a single, simple idea. (Realised I should maybe not post spoilers in a rec post?)
The structure has a kind of eclectic, time-hopping, Moffat-y quality to it.
That might be the most generous, lovely thing you have ever said, what with the structure driving you ACTUALLY insane.
♥
ETA: I sent Owls a message earlier on (to say 'I GOT YOU BLUE') and I think he's just woken up, so he'll be along when 'his head is straight'. :D
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 08:19 pm (UTC)Oooh, yeah, good point. It is kinda absurd when you think about it, though. Also a silly idea. That's important.
That might be the most generous, lovely thing you have ever said, what with the structure driving you ACTUALLY insane.
Oh . . . *genuinely surprised* You're welcome then? <3 I thought the greatness of the structure was just self-evident. Well, the macro structure was great. Hence why I wasn't going to ask you to change the Eliot section to solve the micro-level stuff.
ETA: I sent Owls a message earlier on (to say 'I GOT YOU BLUE') and I think he's just woken up, so he'll be along when 'his head is straight'. :D
Yeah, I think you posted it somewhere around one am his time?
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 09:27 pm (UTC)so ~*now*~ I will sleep and get to this later bc omg it sounds like eevrything i ever wanted i cant wait
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 09:47 pm (UTC)Ah, yes that sounds familiar. (I broke Proton. She has forgiven me, but...)
so ~*now*~ I will sleep and get to this later bc omg it sounds like eevrything i ever wanted i cant wait
♥ ♥ ♥ You'll easily see why it's for you.
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Date: 14 Sep 2019 11:17 pm (UTC)I wasn't angry at you!
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Date: 15 Sep 2019 07:31 am (UTC)(I mean, it was your choice and all, so... tangentially bad?)
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Date: 15 Sep 2019 04:11 pm (UTC)I just didn't want us getting caught in an endless editing loop. Which we would have, because I am exactly that picky and unable to let things go when I know they're not right, and eventually I would have upset you. Which is what actually bothered me. But I've managed to do that anyway, so . . . well done, me.
Anyway, please don't feel bad.
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Date: 15 Sep 2019 04:24 pm (UTC)YE GODS this is ridiculous.
OK, let's focus on the fact that we created an awesome thing. And Owls is happy.
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Date: 15 Sep 2019 04:33 pm (UTC)I suspected as much, but heigh ho, all shall be well.
OK, let's focus on the fact that we created an awesome thing. And Owls is happy.
ITS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL. *sobs* <--- This is your fault, and you should feel bad about it. Just so we're clear ; )
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Date: 15 Sep 2019 05:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 Sep 2019 11:12 pm (UTC)It near did me in the first time I read it, and it's only improved since.