stonepicnicking_okapi

I like Good Omens. I liked Season 1 of the TV show (I haven't seen Season 2 because I don't have Netflix) and I like the book and I like the audiobook version narrated by Martin Jarvis.

But if I'm honest, what I really like is Crowley. In fact, I just like Crowley and Aziraphale, but as I'm not very interested in Watson without Holmes, I'm not very interested in Aziraphale without Crowley. And David Tennant is Crowley for me.

I don't write much Good Omens anymore but I was inspired by kingstoken's gift basket (but not on the ball enough to get it done by the deadline) to write a Good Omens wing fic where Crowley has amnesia. Here's my favourite Crowley fanvid, a cover I did for a fic a long time ago, and my new fic.

The theme of these posts is supposed to be Mystery & Mayhem, and Crowley definitely qualifies as the latter.





Of a Feather (8902 words) by okapi
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Wing Kink, Wingfic, Angel Wings, Alternate Universe - Wings, Feathers & Featherplay, Amnesiac Crowley (Good Omens), Hurt/Comfort, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), Aziraphale Has a Vulva (Good Omens), Top Crowley (Good Omens), Not Season/Series 02 Compliant, Post-Season/Series 01, Aziraphale to the Rescue (Good Omens), Sexual Content, First Time, First Kiss
Summary:

Aziraphale is brought to Crowley's side by a pair of girls who have rescued the demon after he has been struck by lightning. Crowley's wings are charred and he can't remember who he is, but it's nothing a little ethereal TLC can't fix. :)

Wingfic. Hurt/comfort. Not Season 2 (TV) compliant. Aziraphale has a feather kink. For my Season of Kink bingo square I-4: Fabrics/Feathers.

( Fannish 50 list )

For moonstone, I decided to focus on the Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone [1868]. This novel is one of the pioneering works in detective fiction in the English-speaking world. It's an epistolary work, told from diaries and accounts of different persons involved, so the reader gets to play detective, figuring out from all the perspective what is going on. Very nice plot work. Very intricate, which I love. Ironically, the moonstone is a diamond, not a moonstone. It's a gem looted from India by colonizers and brings misfortune to an English countryhouse. I listened to audiobook version [narrated by James Langton, who does an excellent job with so many voices]. I also watched two TV versions one from the 1970s and one more recent (which makes Betteridge and his daughter POC, which was nice). The solution (or part of it) is about as credible as Edgar Allan Poe's solution to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," but, hey, it's Victorian sensationalism and They Did It First. There is a character named Drucilla Clack, who is a Christian zealot, spinster, who has the unendearing habit of hiding, scattering, and thrusting her evangelizing pamphlets all about. Like many zealots, she's a funny caricature until she isn't and I was painfully reminded that people like Clack are many and in very high places.

So, I did a moodboard and a double drabble (for the Drabble Zone prompt of Angels and Demons) of Clack crossing over with Crowley and Aziraphale of Good Omens [rating: Gen].

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( Good Omens double drabble )

I'm very happy with how my fic for the Unconventional Courtship turned out. I love writing in noir voice.

yours in black lace (20525 words) by okapi
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Detectives, Alternate Universe - Detectives, Private Investigators, Alternate Universe - 1930s, Detective Noir, Alternate Universe - Noir, Case Fic, Eventual Smut, Wall Sex, Desk Sex, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, First Time, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), Aziraphale Has a Penis (Good Omens), Letters, Anal Plug, Sleep Sex, POV Crowley (Good Omens)
Summary:

Hardboiled, hell-fried private investigator Anthony J. Crowley is just trying to survive a hot, boring August, but a new case and a series of anonymous naughty letters signed only 'yours in black lace' are about to make things interesting.

Chapters 1-3 are case fic. Chapter 4 is smut.

For the 2020 DW Unconventional Courtship challenge based on a summary of the Mills & Boon novel Yours in Black Lace by Mia Zachary.

It's been a good Sunshine Challenge. I enjoyed the colour prompts very much. In keeping with the suggestion in the original post, I am offering an English sonnet to anyone who wants one. Give me a prompt [e.g., a color, maybe one not covered in the challenge, pink, grey, brown, etc. or a shade, e.g., dark turquoise; or a fruit; or an image; or a fandom, see mine on AO3] and I will do my best to get you 14 lines of iambic pentameter by August 30. Ta!




blackberries by okapi

on vines, plump blackberries hang heavy, low
along an ant-hilled road, fat honeybees
crisscross, drunk-dance in circles, steady, slow
through swollen, hot-hazy, late summer ease

worn bucket fills, plump fingers, lips are stained
hard sun twists into blisters, ancient thorns
hook, snag, cake-thick air innervated, drained
distorts all but sharps tips which fruit adorns

fine trickle of sweat, wide swipe of rolled sleeve
dark purple trove collected, fetched away
for rich dessert while more are left to cleave
on brambling vines, hanging heavy, stray

how faded far-off is the memory
of blackberries’ late summer husbandry

And grapes! They're called 'red' and 'black' but they look purple to me!



grapes and pearls (3800 words) by okapi
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Dirty Talk, Fluff and Smut, Post-Rome, Scene: Kingdom of Wessex 537 AD (Good Omens), Post-Almost Apocalypse (Good Omens), Snake Crowley (Good Omens), Sex with Snake Form Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale doesn't make An Effort, Crowley Has a Penis (Good Omens), grapes, Not beta read we fall like Crowley, Short Chapters, Oysters, POV Alternating
Summary:

Crowley and Aziraphale meet again in Rome, which leads to confessions, tokens, and fluffy sexytimes.

For the Season of Kink bingo. I am formatting this now, so I don't have the headache whenever I finish.

( list of works )

A variation on an exercise from thisbluespirit. Here are the steps.

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER [Note: Random Poem is the fourth tab from the left]. Write down the 5th line. Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list them in alphabetical order!

3: Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the drabble - it's just inspiration. [Note: I did a full drabble for each]

My fandoms:

Agatha Christie
BBC Sherlock
Good Omens
Jeeves & Wooster
Sherlock Holmes (ACD)

My random poem 5th lines:

He never misses a Degree— [Dickinson, “The Moon is distant from the sea”]

His thoughts were bare, his words were brittle [Robert Service, “Rose Leaves”]

That sowed the flower, he preferred— [Dickinson, “Although I put away his life”]

through wire and fog and dog-bark [Charles Bukowski, “Love & Fame & Death”]

--"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks, [Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”]


( the fills )

I did some cover art for maniacalmole's fic Very Good Omens! which is a Good Omens fic written in the style of P.G. Wodehouse. And my art is an imitation of the Overlook Press covers, specifically the one for Aunts Aren't Gentlemen



Very Good, Omens! (6607 words) by maniacalmole
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, WODEHOUSE P. G. - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Various Others
Additional Tags: in the style of Wodehouse, Not a Crossover
Summary:

Aziraphale and Crowley in the style of a P.G. Wodehouse story, in which they get into some very Wodehousian shenanigans. They technically were around during Wodehouse's time. That doesn't mean they would have actually talked like Bertie Wooster. But if they had...