Jul. 6th, 2005

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Note: While the concept of the Dream Books and their contents are mine, the dream-book image used in this chapter is from La Sorciére by Jules Michelet (printed in Paris in 1911), and was engraved by Martin van Maele. The image is not work safe.

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4
Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7


Nothing Constant, Chapter Eight )
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Note: While the concept of the Dream Books and their contents are mine, the image used in this chapter is from La Sorciére by Jules Michelet (printed in Paris in 1911), and was engraved by Martin van Maele. The image is not work safe.

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4
Chapter 5 - Chapter 6


Nothing Constant, Chapter 7 )
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Title: Nothing Constant, Ch. 3
Rating: PG, probably upgrading to R eventually
Fandoms: Lovejoy (by Jonathan Gash), Hellblazer (featuring John Constantine), Lord Peter Wimsey (by Dorothy L Sayers)
Summary: Lovejoy has never met an antique human being before, but John Constantine has bigger worries on his mind than what one divvy thinks. Lord Death Bredon Wimsey has a book he wants, but that poor antique book is only the beginning of the trouble for the three men caught in its grip.
Note: Some people may have noticed that these chapters are far shorter than my normal chapter-length; because I'm doing this mainly for my own amusement, I basically write until I come to a likely stopping place and then post. So it's not your imagination :D

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2

An extremely effective calling card. )
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Title: Nothing Constant, ch. 2
Rating: PG, probably upgrading to R eventually
Fandoms: Lovejoy (by Jonathan Gash), Hellblazer (featuring John Constantine), Lord Peter Wimsey (by Dorothy L Sayers)
Summary: Lovejoy has never met an antique human being before, but John Constantine has bigger worries on his mind than what one divvy thinks. Lord Death Bredon Wimsey has a book he wants, but that poor antique book is only the beginning of the trouble for the three men caught in its grip.

Chapter 1

'You can't be half a divvy.' 'Technically, you can.' )
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Fic in progress; this'll be updated sporadically in segments, probably.

Title: Nothing Constant, part 1
Rating: PG, probably upgrading to R eventually
Fandoms: Lovejoy (by Jonathan Gash), Hellblazer (featuring John Constantine), Lord Peter Wimsey (by Dorothy L Sayers)
Summary: Lovejoy has never met an antique human being before, but John Constantine has bigger worries on his mind than what one divvy thinks. Lord Death Bredon Wimsey has a book he wants, but that poor antique book is only the beginning of the trouble for the three men caught in its grip.
Warnings: None.

PLEASE NOTE: This story is incomplete, and I have no intentions to finish it at this time.

Lovejoy, Meet Constantine. )
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Summary: It wasn't as though Upstairs actually frowned on actual sex.
Warnings: None.
Author's Note: please enjoy this short Good Omens fic in the grand tradition of Going Nowhere and Doing Nothing on a Saturday Morning. It would have been longer but I ran out of words and have not been to the store to buy more yet.

Commandments )
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Summary: Aziraphael's good deeds don't always look that way.
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

Pity )
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Summary: Church, and Sunday lunch.
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

Risotto and Fishes )
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Summary: Aziraphael's new body is causing some problems.
Warnings: Light bondage.
Author's Note: Yes, I'm aware that the whole "bodies" thing in the Good Omens universe more than likely doesn't work this way, but it DID say that sometimes they have to go get new ones. And also I'm aware Buddhists aren't the only ones who are all over the reincarnation groove, but I sacrificed veracity for alliteration. :D

Also available at AO3.

Goodbody )
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Summary: Aziraphael and Crowley are a new breed of angel.
Warnings: None.
Rating: R
Notes: This was previously two separate stories, Some Strange Race and The Seconds Slim. It was rewritten in 2013 to form one single story.

Original posting date unknown.

Now available at AO3.

Some Strange Race )
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Summary: The true story of how Bernard Black acquired his bookshop.
Warnings: None.

Now a podfic by [livejournal.com profile] blueyeti! And available in Russian.

Also available at AO3.

That's Why They Call It A Gift )
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These are unrated but generally fall in the PG to PG-13 area.
Warnings: None

2.13.04 ) GO/Queer Eye: Four Horsemen ) Iulius ) Shaving ) Tetris ) Cake ) Next Year In... ) Aziraphael Fell )
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Summary: Remus likes books, and dark-haired men.
Warnings: None
Rating: PG

Unpredictable )
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Title: Required Reading
Fandom: Good Omens
Summary: Aziraphael has a book recommendation for young demonologists everywhere.
Notes: Inspired by [livejournal.com profile] hija_paloma. Sorry there isn't any sex in it, Dove.
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

Required Reading )
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Title: Act of Redemption
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: G.
Summary: After the world failed to end, Crowley got depressed.
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

Act of Redemption )

Author's Endnotes: I feel that this is probably gratuitous, but one never knows. I poke fun at Crowley's depression, but I mean no offence to those who are diagnosed or struggling with clinical depression. I am myself. Thankfully I tend to have a sense of humour about it.

And I know it's spelled "-phale". I am a willful youngster and do not care.
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This was coauthored by myself and [livejournal.com profile] villainny some time ago.

Summary: Aziraphael knew better than to go drinking with Crowley.
Warnings: None

Corrupted File )

On Storytelling:

Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk.
-- Henry Jenkins

Life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language.
-- Tom Stoppard

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- G. Bernard Shaw

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
-- J. Michael Strazynski

Here's how to become a great artist. First, get miserable. Misery drives you to become a great artist, but the art does nothing for your misery, which drives you to drugs, which makes you a lousy artist.
-- House M.D.

Humans? They're long gone. Vanished. Extinct. They only exist in stories.
-- Ferngully

Anton Chekov, who was a doctor, said, "Medicine is my wife; writing is my mistress."

Se non e vero, e ben trovato. (Even if it’s not true, it’s a good story.)
-- Italian Proverb

The recipe for becoming a good novelist is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook. One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary. One should write down anecdotes every day until one has learnt how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer. One should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise for some ten years; what is then created in the workshop will be fit to go out into the world.
-- Nietzsche

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
-- Samuel Butler

What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure.
-- Samuel Johnson

Same story, different versions, and all are true.
-- POTC: Dead Man's Chest

I am a humble artist
moulding my earthly clod,
adding my labour to nature's,
simply assisting God.
-- Piet Hein

Every archaeologist knows in his heart why he digs. He digs, in pity and humility, that the dead may live again, that what is past may not be forever lost, that something may be salvaged from the wrack of the ages.
-- From "The Testimony of the Spade"

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-- Seneca epistles 88 45

When asked how she acquired her knowledge of science, Octavia Butler replied, "I read."

Imagination is more important than information.
-- Albert Einstein

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