Good Omens (hello again)

[louiselux]

I just went back and reread the Good Omens fic I wrote in 2003-4. That was quite a weird experience. Not bad, just weird. I thought I'd finally put it on AO3 because people have asked, and upload it with the caveat that it's book canon. But actually there's very little in them that goes against TV canon. I wonder if that's partly because it was a very good adaptation? It's at least partly because I never wrote anything very long or involved in GO fandom, and my stories were often about underpants or porridge or snake babies, and other silly things. 

Yeah, now I do want to write something long an involved. My writing efforts have changed a lot in the years since then, going from always short to always long, possibly reflecting the change in why I write. Not that I have written very much in the past year, really.

Anyhoo, I have a metric shit ton of feelings about GO right now. That adaptation has pleased me a lot. As I was saying just this morning, it's really quite something to go back to an old fandom but with a shiny new set of mental imagery.

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[louiselux]

Yay, thank you!!

That is good to know.It's funny, I've been reading some of Daegaer's old GO fic in the past week, and it was really amazing and lovely how they also just slotted right into the tv canon too.

Do you think you'll write more GO fic?

[cimorene]

I would like to, and I feel vaguely excited without having any particular ideas, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish anything. The last time I did was 4 years ago!

The adaptation is really close, so I find that most fanfiction can be read as either. The biggest changes are, I guess, the 1960s conversation and Aziraphale's fears about getting too close, which make it unlikelier in the show than in the book that they could get themselves together until after (or at the end of) canon. But there are still people playing around with that date who haven't even read the book, too.

[louiselux]

Oh much empathy with the not being able to finish anything problem. That's been me for the past couple of years too. Ugh! But I hope you do. I'd love to read another GO fic by you.

I think I'd agree. In the book you could easily imagine they'd already had those conversations and moved on. But the show changes all that. Which I like! There's nothing so lovely as opened-ended canon.

[cimorene]

Yes! Of course the book wasn't explicit, but the emotional tension between them was pretty resolved. They didn't have any, like, feeling betrayed or anguished about each other, even implicitly, so it kind of felt established, and that didn't stop people from writing first time fic of course - whether before or after the book - but there's less feeling of urgency when the characters in canon seem to have it all together.

Whereas the clear implication is that they don't have it together, and not only that, aren't in the, shall we say, highest percentile when it comes to emotional self-awareness and clear communication goals, so everyone wants to rush in and fix it and lovingly call them idiots. Fandom LOVES "idiots to lovers", so the hint of obliviousness is like catnip too.