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Way Down We Go by justanothermess
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Jan 2025
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“He’s taken the book to Hell, then?” Aziraphale asks, eyes wide. “Oh, dear.”
“It certainly isn’t ideal," Crowley grimaces. "So, I suppose I’ll have to pop Downstairs and fetch it back. Let’s hope he wasn’t acting under Beelzebub’s orders, but if he was… Well. I might not make it back anytime soon."
Aziraphale is looking at him like he’s suddenly started speaking in tongues. “Crowley, honestly, what goes on in that head of yours? I’ll be going with you, of course.”
“What.”
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Set in early season 1: Aziraphale never notices Agnes' book in Crowley's car. Instead, Hastur steals it, forcing Aziraphale and Crowley to travel to Hell to retrieve it.
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“Has something happened?”
And that’s just the thing; nothing has happened, not really. Not for years, now. “This chair is too soft,” Crowley says, hearing the petulance in his own voice.
“I have other chairs,” Aziraphale says slowly, frowning.
“They’re all soft,” he snaps.
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Armageddon has come and gone, and the Earth still turns; Crowley is having some trouble adjusting to mundanity.
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a place where the bridge hasn't burned by justanothermess
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Dec 2024
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Fire Prince Zuko is meditating with his eyes closed on the floor of the Western Air Temple, and no one is attacking him, or even trying to, and it’s weird. Sokka will admit that even if no one else will.
Or,
Sokka makes some discoveries after Zuko joins the Gaang. Perhaps the Fire Prince has more honor than anyone had realized.
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old habits die screaming by justanothermess
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Nov 2024
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“But you just said honor is about doing what’s right. You must have known that wasn’t right,” Sokka presses.
There’s a long moment of silence. Then, “I knew it didn’t feel right. But I always told myself that if I knew the first thing about honor, I would still be home.”
“I don’t understand."
“I didn’t, either,” Zuko sighs.
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Of course Sokka has seen the scar. It’s kind of hard to miss.
…It just hadn’t occurred to him that it meant anything.
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Crowley stops abruptly. “You want me to be an angel again,” he seems to realize out loud, a bitter twist to his lips that Aziraphale hasn’t seen in a long, long time.
“Well, you were a lovely angel,” Aziraphale tries to explain himself. “Don’t you remember the times we had? How wonderful it all was?”
“If who you want is that angel,” Crowley begins, his voice carefully level, “then who you want is not me.”
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Aziraphale realizes there's been a rather large misunderstanding between them.
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The next time Arthur doesn’t say thank you, Gwaine puts his hand on Merlin’s back, stroking down the long length of it, from the short curls of hair at the nape of his neck to the neat cinch of his waist.
“Thanks,” he praises, throwing a wink to an agape Arthur as he does. It’s wonderful.
So wonderful, in fact, that for the next fortnight, for every brusque word that spills from Arthur’s lips, Gwaine spills three sweet ones.
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09 Dec 2025
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“I want to win tournaments,” Gwaine muses aloud, letting it bloom behind his eyes, “and give Merlin the wreath. I want to be the sword that stands between him and his enemies. I want to swear an oath to him, and be in his service and wear his colours for everyone from here to Caerleon to see.”
Arthur swallows, his shoulders slumping. His blond fringe hangs over his eyes, but something like fresh hope sparks there as well. “Merlin hasn’t got any colours.”
“Yeah,” Gwaine sighs in agreement, letting the curl of amusement he feels find its way to his voice, “so I’ll just have to wear yours until he does.”
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won't even plant a garden by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
24 Jul 2019
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He should have been a moth rather than a snake.
There's something inside him that can't resist the light.
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18 Jun 2025
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She sheds her clothes like he sheds a skin, pulling his hands to her, letting him touch her for what he knows will be the last time. “You weep as a woman weeps,” she tells him, her hands in his hair, her thigh hitched over his hip.
“How’s that?” he asks, tries to keep from choking on the words.
“As if the future rests on your hips,” she says, “and you must walk it forward."
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It was supposed to be Jennifer.
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18 Jun 2025
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Needy lowers herself, nosing Jennifer’s hair out of the way to scrape her teeth against Jennifer’s neck, and what the absolute shit is she doing. “Are you scared?” Needy asks, the first words she’s said since showing up and acting like a total freakshow.
Her first instinct is to lie. It’s always to lie. But Needy is covered in blood and they both still smell of fire and she can’t hear her heartbeat and Jennifer doesn’t have a fucking clue what’s going on, so she’s honest, for once. “Always.”
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Thy Kingdom Come by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Jun 2019
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Crowley is just following orders.
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21 Jan 2025
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“Can you just stand by and do nothing?” she presses. “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
“I’m not a man,” he says, because he isn’t, no more than she’s a woman or She’s a woman or any of them are anything. But they’re close enough, he supposes, in the grand scheme of things.
“You’re good,” she insists, and tears prick his eyes at her conviction, at what should be an insult to him now.
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the art of redirecting lightning by TheRainbowElectric
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Sep 2024
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A realization that’s been lapping at the edges of Sokka’s mind all night finally crashes over him in a wave. “You really hate yourself,” he says slowly, as the cold understanding sinks in.
Zuko’s glare could melt glaciers. “You wouldn’t, if you’d done all the things I’ve done?” he says, which would be fair, except — it’s not just about the things Zuko’s done, is it? It’s also about the things he hasn’t. Zuko hates himself for things that are his fault, and things that aren’t. For who he is, and who he hasn’t managed to be.
And Sokka can see, with sudden, sharp clarity, that if he were to plot the strength of Zuko’s self-hatred alongside the strength of his bending over time, the two lines would hug in almost perfect sync. Which leaves Sokka with only one question: whether someone’s self-loathing could run so deep and unrelenting that it sustains their bending for the better part of a decade.
The night before going in search of Sun Warrior ruins, Zuko starts to doubt that hatred is the source of his bending after all. Sokka helps him figure out what it really is.
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09 Jan 2025
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Sokka scowls. “So you what, hunted him for sport? For fun?”
Zuko scowls right back. “What part of any of that looked fun to you?”
“Then why did you do it?”
“Because my father told me to.”
“And that was enough?”
“It wouldn’t be for you?”