No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

Anonymous asked:

If you wanna rec some of your fave Good Omens fics. . . I’d be pretty grateful

okay, I’m still doing a lot of reading but here are a few to get started with. a lot of these, uh, feature Crowley suffering because I’m the person I am and I’m sort of sorry but also not really. I’m consistent, you can say that for me.

this is also just based on, like, a week of really aggressive reading, so I’m sure I’m missing a lot of things.

Eden!verse by ImprobableDreams900

I blitzed through the entirety of this verse in about three days while reading nothing else and crying a lot on the subway. Like…holy shit. It starts with your basic “Crowley gets kidnapped to Heaven” premise, with some crunchy torture/whump, and that’s the easy part. It goes so much deeper, and so much further, from there. Heavy warning for the first fic - I spent roughly 80% of it bawling, and if you’ve ever had a family member or loved one die of Alzheimer’s…well. But oh, it’s so good.

Don’t Play With Holy Water by ImprobableDreams900

Hastur shows up post-canon and he’s got bad plans for Crowley. Some very good classic and nicely creative whump.

Mirror, Mirror by ImprobableDreams900

Mirror universe fic is good in any fandom! And this is Mirror!verse fic, with a significantly eviller Crowley showing up in the main universe, and a significantly less evil Crowley showing up in a very dark future.

I Run Into You and Just Keep Running by meganbagels

I really can’t put this one any better than the summary: “Through the years Crowley and Aziraphale keep running into each other in compromising scenarios or just when they’re on the pull. To be fair, it’s mostly just Aziraphale in compromising scenarios. That hardly makes it better.”

The Last Temptation of Crowley by irisbleufic

Post-book, growing into their new relationship. Awkwardly. (But it’s good.)

Any Other Name by mostlyanything19

So it turns out that Crowley can’t say Aziraphale’s original name because it’s holy, and holy things don’t get along with demons. A little change in name can fix that problem, though. Just some early-days-of-Crowley-and-Aziraphale fic, showing some small development in their relationship.

Those Golden Eyes by NeverNooitNiet

Just a character story, sort of about Crowley and his eyes, and Aziraphale and Crowley’s history, but also about Aziraphale and his perspective on Crowley, and Aziraphale being pretty fond of the snake eyes, really.

such selfish prayers by Lvslie

I don’t really know how to give an appropriate blurb for this one, but mostly what’s important to me about it is the really quality feverish and aggressively cuddly Crowley.

Anytime. by sergeant_smudge

Classic whump, and I’m about it. It’s also really well described.

Black Dog by HoloXam

I didn’t know I wanted fic of “Crowley has a depressive episode” but apparently I did want that, and really I shouldn’t be surprised, and this one really did me good.

where do we begin (the rubble or our sins) by procrastinatingbookworm

Crowley and Aziraphale in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

is it that we are dying? by NeverNooitNiet

Crowley gets the plague. And then someone has to go and bless him. Includes some fairly nasty descriptions of bubonic plague, major character discorporation, and some real nice angst and pre-Arrangement Crowley and Aziraphale.

Modern Love by punkfaery

Apparently I am a sucker for “stories that bounce around historical periods with Crowley and Aziraphale”, and also this is just a really beautifully written piece with the two of them and developing relationship feelings and I’m just very fond of it.

Under the Apple Tree by NotaSpaceAlien

Crowley runs into a bit of a situation with some angels, and Aziraphale helps out. He thinks that maybe things might be starting to change, a little. More early-days (earlier days) Crowley and Aziraphale, more of that hurt/comfort stuff that I love so much.

Game Over, Insert Coin by irisbleufic & procrastinatingbookworm

Am I always going to be a sucker for time loop fic in any fandom? Yes, yes I am. aka - this is the one where Crowley repeats the day of the end of the world over and over until he gets it right, in this case meaning “more hand holding, you dumbass.”

how big the hourglass, how deep the sand by Handful_of_Silence

A severely unfortunately accident results in Aziraphale being kidnapped by a human sorcerer just as his and Crowley’s relationship is starting to get off the ground, and I’m making this fic sound a lot funnier and more light-hearted than it actually is.

such surpassing brightness by Handful_of_Silence

The one where Aziraphale has been a queer icon for centuries, and Crowley finds out about it. I love fic that uses some kind of multimedia/creative formatting, and the way this fic plays with using film summaries/academic articles/fake blog posts in building itself…is just very well done. Just read this one this morning and I love it.

every angel is terrifying by punkfaery

A great fic about cosmic horror angels - or, well, eldritch angels(/demons) and their true forms. I really liked this one, not least for its descriptions of Aziraphale and Crowley’s true forms.

the prophet’s song by ApprenticeofDoyle (WIP)

So this one is still in progress but I really like what’s posted so far - Crowley gets yanked across universes (or rather, swaps universes) into one where he and Aziraphale never had an Arrangement and the Apocalypse is night. (And the corresponding Crowley’s swapped into the other one.)

the still point of the turning world by punkfaery