Sometimes I just sit and think about how Aziraphale and Crowley spent several years giving some ordinary human kid THE weirdest possible upbringing of all time.
uhhhhhhh fic of Warlock as an adult where he mentions things offhandedly in therapy sometimes and his therapist is EXTREMELYY???????? CONFUSED????????????
“My parents couldn’t always make the time for me. Well, Mum couldn’t, for a lot of reasons. Dad… didn’t. It was hard to tell the difference from that age, and she made excuses for him, but I understand it now that I’m older.”
The therapist nodded. She wasn’t taking notes, simply leaning back in the comfortable chair across from him, and she was always doing something with her hands. It’s crocheting today, she says she’s making a baby blanket for a friend. Sometimes it was origami, or knitting, sometimes she’d be sewing, and once she was doing some kind of leather work. Braiding something for some reason.
He’d sat on about every chair and couch in the room before settling on the overstuffed couch. He could sit sideways and not look at her react, or sit up, or whatever. Sometimes he didn’t want to see her face when he said something, and sometimes he had to.
“Was there anybody who did?” she asked. Her voice was smooth and soothing. She was paying attention to her work, but also paying attention to him. She said that if she’s writing it makes some people nervous, but if she’s doing something else then the conversation feels more casual, even if it’s not.
Every once in a while, she got this look on her face that he suspected means he said something extremely interesting (or upsetting, or whatever) and was trying not to show it, but it never showed in her voice. He liked that about her.
He nodded. “When I was younger, we had this nanny. I used to just call her Nanny, I don’t remember if I ever knew her name. She was Scottish. She was real weird, but she’d spend as much time with me as I liked. She was always there, if the gardener wasn’t.”
“A gardener as well?”
He nodded. “He always had time for me. No matter what. He’d drop whatever he was doing to talk to me. He was from… I don’t remember. Very rural, this fellow.” He thought about it. “I don’t know what happened to them. I think they left to do other things, not too long before my eleventh birthday. I never saw them again. He was kind of boring, sometimes, but he always talked to me like I was the most important person he ever saw.”
“Really?”
He nodded. “Nanny would too, actually. I sometimes think that they’re why I’m, you know, not as fucked up as I could be. That just knowing I could go find the gardener and he’d tell me what the rabbits were doing today, whatever he was doing, that I could tell him about… whatever. Or Nanny. She used to tell me to smite my enemies, I was never sure how to take it.”
It was just a moment and gone, a single expression of sheer bafflement, which made Warlock laugh a little.
Look I’m keen on 100% of of this but let’s take ONE TINY THING AND MOVE IT SLIGHTLY TO THE LEFT.
So I’m going to suggest taking this therapist and turning her into Linda Martin, Psychiatrist.
From Lucifer.
Fact: if you start planning an epic fantasy story, then get sidetracked by a coffee shop AU, and the second one actually ends up getting written first, you don’t have a coffee shop AU of an epic fantasy story: you have an epic fantasy AU of a coffee shop story.
Pattern Release 6.20.19
It’s time to reset the glaring error counter! Fry is going on vacation for a little less than two weeks and we absolutely forgot to coordinate the Freespace Friday pattern while they are traveling today. So, for the sundae fucks with a cherry on top there will be a bit of a wait until we can recombobulate. However! We still have two patterns that are not lost in transit! As per usual they are pay what you want/what you can. This week we have:
Move to the Moon
Which can be found here.
Gender Prison
Which can be found here.
Happy Stitching!
Forgot to add that these patterns are the first two that we are offering a single page .pdf for! It’s still a work in progress so please leave us some feedback if you have any. We will work on getting these formatted for previous releases as well as future ones. The single page versions are cleverly labeled as “single”.
Kinda states the obvious, i.e., Aziraphale’s food consumption is indicative of his intimate connection to humans— but it’s an interesting read. I did not know the bit about the canon Bible!Gabriel and his issues with food. (LOL!)
you know the other thing that I really enjoy about Good Omens? Despite being messy af and bad at talking about their feelings and using their words, Crowley and Aziraphale are just like… actual grown-ups. Like, their defining character traits are that that they would risk literally everything to avoid a change in their daily routine. They literally defy Heaven and face down Satan to stop the Apocalypse because after a long day they just want to unwind at home with their significant other and a nice glass of red. Like they are SO decidedly middle-aged that actual paradise to these two immortal beings of immense otherworldly power is an early dinner out with your sweetie at your favorite restaurant and then going DIRECTLY home to open a bottle of wine and throw on your favorite album. and honestly, hard same?
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