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edosianorchids901

AO3 has been nominated for a Hugo Award!!

This is super cool news. It’s great to see fanworks acknowledged, and we should all be celebrating! *applauds everyone*

For my fellow fanfic writers, what’s your favorite thing you’ve written? What’s one of your favorite fics by someone else?

Mine: From Fancy to Truth

A favorite by another author: A Problem of Phonetics by DG_Fletcher

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My favorite thing I’ve written:  Perspective Passage

My current favorite thing by another author:  Love in a Time of Oppression

thebluemeany

My favorite thing I’ve written: In Times Of War. 

My favorite from other authors: I really like Proof by @alphacygni-8… however I think everyone’s probably already read that. 

A short DS9 one I do like which hasn’t got enough views is 331 Hours, 32 Minutes, 7 Seconds by @captezridax.

Plus I’m only half way through but I started reading Scorched Earth by Altariel yesterday and it’s got really great language, particularly when describing Cardassia. Not a lot of views for the length of time it’s been on A03 either.

captezridax

[lays down on the floor] oh my god, thank you @thebluemeany!!!

my favorite thing I’ve written is probably that, 331 Hours, 32 Minutes, 7 Seconds.

my favorite things others have written:

our love keeps the things it finds by myleavesstars on Ao3 because it’s EXCELLENT jezri hell stuff

alibi by @adigeon because I had to pick just one and it’s garashir. (It’s not my fav thing they’ve written EVER but that’s not on Ao3 so it doesn’t count 😅)

I also second Proof by @alphacygni-8 because it’s the best AU that ever AUed.

OH and if you ever cared about Daredevil (Netflix) you should read Marci Stahl, Avocado at Law by igrockspock because it’s wondeful.

alphacygni

Oh, geez, thank you to everyone who mentioned Proof :)

My favorite that I’ve written: I mean, yeah, I’m pretty proud of Proof, but I’m proud of Happy Itask’haran, Mister Garak, too.

A favorite by another author: It’s too hard to pick just one, so here’s a smattering of fics (not already mentioned) that I have read and re-read and loved: The Smallest Things by @tinsnip; Scenes from a Disaster Zone by wobblycompetencies; How We Land There by @conceptadecency; Three and a Half Days by prariecrow. 

I also second the recs of Love in a Time of Oppression by @apolesen and  331 Hours, 32 Minutes, 7 Seconds by @captezridax…both so wonderful.

fic recs garashir so many fics to love
vonlipwig

i love reading a good omens fic and knowing immediately that the author has never touched a single drop of alcohol in their lives because it’ll be like

‘aziraphale and crowley sat opposite each other with 173246 empty wine bottles between them. they were slurring a little’

o r

‘after slowly sharing one bottle of cabernet sauvignon slowly over the course of a 3 hour dinner at the ritz, the pair were utterly fking blasted yo’

and like i know it's fiction but like Come On good omens
pratchettgeek

Aziraphale didn’t rise to it. “What are we going to do now?”
“Try and get some sleep.”
“You don’t need sleep. I don’t need sleep. Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant.”
“Evil in general, maybe. This specific part of it has got into the habit of getting its head down occasionally.” He stared into the headlights. The time would come soon enough when sleep would be right out of the question. When those Below found out that he, personally, had lost the Antichrist, they’d probably dig out all those reports he’d done on the Spanish Inquisition and try them out on him, one at a time and then all together.

- Good Omens by Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman

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Hey you know what I just realized? This breakup scene seems to be the equivalent of the car scene in the book in which Crowley drops Aziraphale off at the bookshop and Aziraphale is unresponsive to Crowley’s wish to keep in touch. In other words, if the show follows the narrative beats of the book, this scene is the catalyst for their not communicating for the final two days before the apocalypse.

And granted the show might change this, but if, IF it follows the same track as the book, Crowley spends two days trying to process the breakup, gets a brief call from Aziraphale without knowing why, runs to the bookshop after escaping Hastur and Ligur because what did that mean, has Aziraphale changed his mind, is it possible he wants him back? And that is the state he is in when he arrives to find the bookshop in flames.

Just a fun thought.

good omens good times this is fine