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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2021-11-15 11:05 pm
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100 days of enemy recs: 88. Good Omens

Good Omens is the story of a demon who didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downward, and an angel who was just enough of a bastard to be worth liking, and how they fell in love and attempted to save the world and realized that they could just pick a third side to both be on.

I think there was a TV show or something recently? (Just kidding, I did actually watch the show for this one.) So there's a lot of fanfic from the show. But I've been in this fandom since 1998 - I had a sleepover at [tumblr.com profile] shinyhappygoth's house, and read her copy of the book instead of sleeping (we had wild sleepovers, clearly). And the first online slash fic I ever read was Crowley/Aziraphale! And also there's too much show fic, I can't narrow it down, so have some classics of old bookfandom.

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petra: Text from Pratchett & Gaiman's Good Omens: "Bugger alle this for a lark. I amm sick to mye Hart of typesetting." (Pratchett - Bugger alle this)

[personal profile] petra 2021-11-16 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Seeing old favorites on the rec list today made me smile so hard.
princessofgeeks: Shane smiling, caption Canada's Shane Hollander (Default)

[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2021-11-16 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for these. Now I where to come to for Good Omens recs! I had read the book years ago but never looked for fanfic for it until the show.

What do you think about the plans for a second miniseries?
mecurtin: Aziraphale shelters Crowley on the wall of Eden (GO-underwing)

[personal profile] mecurtin 2021-11-16 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want to know a few GO-TV recs?
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)

[personal profile] melannen 2021-11-16 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I have read a great deal of GO-TV fic! I just didn't know how on Earth to narrow *that* down into only three recs. :D (Not that I would say no to recs, especially if it's stuff that's come out in the past year that I probably haven't seen yet.)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)

[personal profile] melannen 2021-11-16 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I am reserving judgement on the new series. The first series it was really obvious how it had become more Gaiman and less Pratchett; I'm sure the second one it will be much, much more so. And I definitely felt the increase in Gaiman-ness as a loss of things I loved about the original. Also, if it is based on the original sequel plans we've been speculating over since the 90s, it's likely going to focus on stuff I'm less interested in (new OC angels, the "Just William" parody.)

But I don't *not* like Gaiman's work, and John Finnemore is also great - he's not going to be Pratchett but a Finnemore-tinged GO could be very good in its own way. And they have definitely realized that the Just William stuff was never the point by now. So it could be excellent!
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)

[personal profile] melannen 2021-11-16 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It was fun to go finding them! I even found that one old ff.net fic that isn't really of the quality I'd rec but I'm really glad *I* get to reread it. :D
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