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On the Origin of Creation

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2L0T5WD

by NerdOnDuty

You are God. You are Everything, and there is nothing besides you. And thus, after an eternity of eternities, you decide to play around a bit. You create the Heavenly Host, which is lovely right up until it develops a Host of Heavenly Opinions. Once those are popular, it all goes a bit fallen-pear-shaped. But we all know that story.

Eventually, you create a new one and call him Aziraphale. He doesn’t seem to care much for glorious wars, preferring instead to spend his time singing and wandering. He’s your last one. Ever.
Then, there is he who would become Crowley, who makes his way downstairs more or less on his own. He still prays to you sometimes, though, which you’re quite touched by, to your own surprise.

You resolve to give him an out and assign young Aziraphale to guard the new humans, whom he seems far more interested in than any of his fellows above.
Crowley will come for the tree, of course.
The rest should follow in its own.

Words: 668, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

• Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• Rating: Not Rated
• Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
• Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), God (Good Omens)
• Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2L0T5WD

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[wastrelwoods]

mine& @eternalgirlscout‘s big Good Omens Takeaway: he said it!! he said the fuck word!!!!! oh my god!!!!

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[niahaki]

today is cold in hell

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[polidactilia]

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[sharonagoeswild]

he is the light himself

[sofacrawler]

[ghostarcherthinks]

That scene where Aziraphale and Crowley get shot with paintballs is even more hilarious in the book because of the way it’s dramatized like these idiots get shot and we immediately cut away to an explanation of how Sister Mary Loquacious came to be a successful entrepreneur and when we get back to the ineffable morons Crowley has sunk to the ground, dramatically leaning against a statue and Aziraphale has straight up fallen over on his ass and stays lying down until Crowley, after a quick contemplation of how inconvenient it is to get discorporated at a time like this, realizes Shenanigans are Afoot, tastes the paint and crawls over to him to be like “hey Shenanigans are Afoot” like the adaptation gives them too much dignity in this scene when they both legit thought they were dying for at least a full minute

[wolfiejimi]

There are, shockingly, only a few scenes that are definitively better in the book, but this is absolutely one of them. In the show the paintballs are a mild, albeit gloriously shippery, inconvenience, swiftly understood and moved on from. As if Crowley and Aziraphale are, you know, in any way competent, non-dramatic, sensible beings. In the book they are like aaaaaahhh I’m DEAD I’m DEAD I’ll just LIE HERE and why is my blood YELLOW? Is it meant to be yellow? *Crowley over-dramatically <i> crawls </i> over to a still prone Aziraphale and is like dude your blood is blue something is up here.

Also, in spite of ADORING whipped Crowley miracle-ing the paint from Aziraphale’s coat, I nonetheless am also Very Much Here for TiredTM Crowley being so not in the mood for this bullshit and dismissively telling him to magic it away himself, before sulkily wandering off.

Ahhhhh Good Omens, what did we ever do to deserve not only an insanely stellar book, but a ridiculously stellar adaptation. YAY

[fuchsimeon]

I dug out my copy to give you a little view of how dramatíque it really was.

Now here is where there are two pages following narrating some other plot, leaving you on that cliffhanger after the two of our heros get shot. And then we get this.

So far, except for the last sentence it pretty much sounds like they got shot. Dark stain, thrown back, on the ground, thinking about getting a nw body etc etc

Boom, drama queens in pain. Also the fucking hilarious line where Aziraphale is called a “fallen angel” because he’s an angel that fell over.

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[bi-rothedragon]

Fellas, is it gay?

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

iterumlana asked:

Who was your favorite of the angels who were not Aziraphale and the demons who were not Crowley? I really loved the design of the demons who met Hastur on the plains!

Ohhhh, interesting question! :)

All demons were absolutely fantastic (the one you are talking about is in the Script Book labelled as ‘DISPOSABLE DEMON’ :D), but if I had to choose my favourite, it would be Dagon. I absolutely love their speech to encourage the demons before the war :D.

And the angels… mmm, while Archangel Fucking Gabriel is a truly magnificent bastard, I would probably choose Michael. I think it’s because they remind me  of Missy in Doctor Who :).