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== Authors and Websites ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110126052147/http://irisbleufic.livejournal.com/tag/good%20omens irisbleufic's Good Omens Fanfiction @ LiveJournal]
* Recommended by Kelliannm
* ''Comments'': The best Aziraphale/Crowley slasher I know of, this author also writes superb gen fic (relating to the Them, Adam and Pepper in particular; however, she's written a few amazing Shadwell/Tracy and Shadwell-centric pieces, too). She also occasionally crosses GO with other fandoms (notably ''Hot Fuzz'' and ''Sherlock''). Everyone is unbelievably in-character, but her Crowley-POV pieces shine brightest.
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* ''Notes'': Most of Daegaer's works focus on Aziraphale and Crowley, and she gets their relationship down pat with the right doses of character quirkiness, snarkiness, and sweetness. She's also frighteningly talented at pulling off even the most [http://daegaer.livejournal.com/33102.html crack-headed] [http://daegaer.livejournal.com/47289.html ideas]. (For those of you who don't like slash, rest assured that ''Going Home'' and nearly all of Daegaer's other works don't make Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship any more suggestive than their canon one was, [[Ho Yay|unless you really want to make an effort.]])
[https://web.archive.org/web/20131210232137/http://archive.bent-halo.net/browse.php?type=categories&catid=4 H.J. Bender's GO fanfics]
* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley (sometimes gen, sometimes slash)
* ''Notes'': Saying these are funny is like saying that the original book has a slightly lighter approach to the Apocalypse. Even the shamelessly smutty fics are far more hilarious than [[Porn Without Plot]] have any right to be. As a bonus, Quantum Witch has [http://community.livejournal.com/halos_horns/ illustrated some of Bender's fics] for even more comedic goodness. (Be forewarned that while humor is the main staple of Bender's works, even the technically gen ones are packed with [[Ho Yay]] that ''barely'' stops short of actual slash.)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927185609/http://ww38.library.good-omens.com/viewuser.php?action=storiesby&uid=14 Fanfiction by Vulgarweed]
* Recommended by JAMoczo
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley with the occasional mixup
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[http://archiveofourown.org/series/8151 The ''Gray Areas'' series] by Macx
* Recommended by Kereea
* ''Status'': The series itself seems discontinued, but all the stories are complete.
* ''Pairings'': Aziraphale/Crowley (established relationship), {{spoiler|Beelzebub/Michael}}
* ''Notes'': Amazing. Takes the [[Not So Different]] vibes from the original to some interesting conclusions, with God and Satan meeting up for chats in several of the 23 stories, and God seems to be going for some ultimate end (which we never quite find out due to the unfinished status, but it's clear enough if you look at the subtext). It also looks at how different Aziraphale and Crowley are from normal angels and demons, including using Beelzebub and Michael as [[foil]]s, shows how "demonic" and "divine" are similar but different (ex: angels can heal themselves and others, including demons, demons can heal themselves, but Beelzebub trying to heal someone else...doesn't go well). On the comedy side, Crowley (along with Azriaphale and Satan) gets a lot of snark in and is sometimes a bit of a [[Cosmic Plaything]] for everyone who isn't Aziraphale (he's most likely to be attacked without really doing anything, leading to him pointing out that 'Zira gets nowhere near as much abuse).
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''[http://xylodemon.livejournal.com/376499.html Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot]'' by Xylodemon
* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Summary'': Gaiman and Pratchett actually wrote [https://web.archive.org/web/20090825085559/http://www.harpercollins.com/author/
* ''Comments'': Chock-full of Crowley-snarkiness, and that's all that's needed.
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* Recommended by Hekateras
* ''Summary'': Other people plan 100 things to do before they die. Crowley planned 100 things before EVERYBODY died.
* ''Comments'': Exactly what it says on the tin, except not. What starts out as a humourous and light-hearted series of loosely connected drabbles quicky progresses into a poignant, thoughtful, touching plot involving trust, bad decisions and the Second Apocalypse. The writing is phenomenally in-character and follows very believably from where Aziraphale and Crowley left off in the book.
''[http://community.livejournal.com/go_exchange/51785.html Of Wishes and Fishes]'' by Googlebrat
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* ''Comments'': Has an entertainingly original plot guaranteed to leave you grinning.
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120413141718/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3547876/1/When_Summoning_Please_Watch_The_Wording When Summoning Please Watch The Wording]'' by Ryuuza Kochou (Crossover with ''[[Supernatural]]'')
* Recommended by Echo Garrote
* ''Summary'': A capture, a ritual, and a small mistake in terms lets Sam and Dean become 'sacrifices' to another demon with yellow eyes. Things don't exactly end how you might expect them to.
* ''Comments'': Brilliantly written in a style that sounds just like Pratchett and Gaiman wrote it themselves. Everyone is in-character and it's absolutely hilarious.
** Seconded by cg12345. Style is spot-on (for both 'Verses), and Aziraphale is shockingly badass at the climax. [[Beware the Nice Ones]], indeed.
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* ''Comments'': I've already recommended Daegaer's fics in the Authors and Websites section, but this fic of hers deserves special mention as a work that pulls off the common "Aziraphale and/or Crowley are recalled by their superiors" plot brilliantly without descending into melodrama. In fact, you won't find any angst here, just light-hearted, humorous drama that's surprisingly poignant in showing just how much Aziraphale and Crowley mean to each other.
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927185613/http://ww38.library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=185&chapter=1 School Daze]'' by Musegaarid
* Recommended by feral
* ''Summary'': a [[Drabble]] involving Adam, Crowley, and "show and tell."
* ''Comments'': [[Crack Fic]]. Also the other stories by Musegaarid are recommended.
''[http://daegaer.livejournal.com/tag/good+omens:+world+war+1 Daegaer's WWI series.]''{{Dead link}}
* Recommended by feral
* ''Summary'': Hell sends Crowley to [[World War
* ''Comments'': It's an amazing, historically accurate period piece that [[Noble Demon|really nails]] the characterizations of the canon characters.
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* Recommended by feral
* ''Summary'': Crowley teaches Aziraphale [[Griefer|about]] [[GIFT|the Internet]] [[Troll|in his own]] [[The Internet Is for Porn|special way]]-lessons that come back to bite him in the arse...
* ''Comments'': [[Crack Fic|Cue giggling into keyboard.]]
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927185651/http://ww38.library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=416 After All]'' by AmberDiceless
* Recommended by Lokis Scribe
* ''Summary'':Of course everyone knew there would be consequences, and that the world would have to end sometime. A story about What Happened After, with guest appearances by Him Below, the four Archangels and the Big Cahuna Himself.
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'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4996073/1/The_Viennese_Job The Viennese Job]'' by A.A. Pessimal.
* Recommended by Ag Prov
* ''Summary'': In turn of the century Austria, Crowley is ordered by Hell to befriend a struggling young artist. Whose mind had already been prepared for Hell by a hideous upbringing and the tender affections of Hastur and Ligur. Features Nostradamus and a cameo by Agnes Nutter.
* ''Comments'': In the opening years of the twentieth century, in a Europe that has been at peace for forty years, what storm could possibly disturb the idyll of the fin-de-siecle? Hell knows... a well-researched historical fanfic that garnered very good reviews.
''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7138995/1/Hastur_Baiting Hastur Baiting]'' by Laburnum Steelfang
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''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6990232/11/Agglomeration Ducks! and When Jim Met Seb]'' by Silver Pard
* Recommended by SelinaCatz
* Pairings: Sarah/John and John/Sherlock as [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].
* ''Summary'': [[Sherlock]] [[Crossover]] featuring Sherlock, John and Sarah as ducks at St James's parks. Aziraphale takes Crowley to meet and name their ducklings.
* ''Comments'': It's about ducks, it shouldn't be this funny. It is anyway.
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''Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.''
''[http://quantum-witch.livejournal.com/53361.html Bad Grace]''{{Dead link}} by Quantum Witch (Contains an Aziraphale/Crowley slash subplot)
* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Newt/Anathema, Crowley/Aziraphale, Brian/Pepper, Adam/OC, and some other relationships between OCs
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* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': Armageddon comes around again and Aziraphale and Crowley can't escape it this time.
* ''Comments'': The aftermath for Aziraphale and Crowley, for whom Earth felt more like home than Heaven or Hell ever did, is dealt with in a manner neither preachy or melodramatic but humorous and sneakily serious in a very canonesque way. Really, that's the best way to describe a fic with two opening quotes, one from ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' and one from a rock band, that can ''both'' be used to sum up the story. (Plus, the slash's well-integrated and the story arguably wouldn't be as emotionally powerful without it.)
''[http://irisbleufic.livejournal.com/71610.html Survivors' Guilt]'' by irisbleufic
* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Implied Aziraphale/Crowley at the end, easy to miss.
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* Recommended by 0 Wraith.
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': Aziraphale and Crowley move into that cottage together in the South Downs. Cue people treating them like a couple, fawning over their pet-names for each other, and generally believing them to be life-partners. Eventually, they just decide that, really, they've technically been dating for six thousand years and might as well give it a go.
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* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': A remix of Daegaer's [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU fic]] ''[http://daegaer.livejournal.com/50924.html Ordinary People]'' that takes the original's basic concepts and ties them back to canon.
* ''Comments'': The [[Slice of Life]] events and gradually developing romance are done gracefully without ever losing sight of the fact that Crowley and Aziraphale are ethereal beings who, while being the most "ordinary" of their kind, are still [[Title Drop|anything but ordinary]] compared to humans.
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* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Pepper/War ([[Crack Pairing|yes, really]])
* ''Summary'': Pepper's all grown up, but she's restless about her life until she meets a certain Horseperson who has [[Lonely
* ''Comments'': Makes the [[Crack Pairing]] work beautifully by showing how the two redheads' personalities attract and play off on each other, and how humanity might just be affecting War as it did a certain angel and demon.
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* ''Comments'': Proof that a fanfic doesn't have to be of epic length to be funny, romantic, and thoughtful at the same time. Done with excellent footnotes, a precise blend of the silly and the serious, and Aziraphale/Crowley interaction that's just understated enough to work.
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927185651/http://ww1.library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=262 Traditions]'' by UseTheForceEm (Slash)
* Recommended by Solandra
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
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* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': Crowley accidently gets Aziraphale into some serious trouble. [[Hurt
* ''Comments'': Good job at examining the emotional toll of living a double life especially after (quite literally) going through hell. Manages to mostly avoid [[Wangst]]. Somewhat humorously plays with [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and Crowley is awesome]].
''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4906566/1/Gifts Gifts]'' by murderofonerose (Slash)
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': The Arrangement is exposed. [[Transparent Closet|Nobody bats an eye.]]
* ''Comments'': Short, [[Crack Fic|cracky]], played for laughs.
''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4765061/1/Trust_Charity_the_Fine_Art_of_Incompetence Trust, Charity, & the Fine Art of Incompetence]'' by violet gallagher (Slash)
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': Crowley and Aziraphale are given new assignments to tempt / redeem each other to the other side. Though it is actually {{spoiler|a set up by both sides looking to scapegoat someone for the failed apocalypse.}}
* ''Comments'': [[So What Do We Do Now?]] [[Continuation]] Fic with a [[Relationship Reveal]]
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927185650/http://ww38.library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=32&chapter=1 But For the Grace of]'' by AmberDiceless
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': implied Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': ''"In the Eternal Conflict between Heaven and Hell, some beings inevitably get caught in the middle. How they deal with this conundrum varies as much as the beings themselves."''
* ''Comments'': Crossover with ''[[Hellblazer]]''. Funny, cute, and everyone's in character.
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100814183958/http://library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=434&textsize=0&chapter=1 Manchester Lost]'' by JAMoczo
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': Aziraphale is captured by Hell. Crowley, [[Psycho for Hire|War]] and [[Leeroy Jenkins|the Archangel Michael]] [[To Hell and Back|break in to save him]] and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|set off a second apocalypse.]] Also introduces entertaining [[Original Character|characterizations]] of other angels such as [[Small Name, Big Ego|Michael]], [[Stupid Good|Raphael]] (Aziraphale's [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|adopted]] [[Papa Wolf|father]]), [[Deadpan Snarker|Gabriel]], and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Uriel]].
* ''Comments'': A very funny and engaging story. It also engages in gleeful [[Lampshade Hanging]] / playing with tropes.
''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5187755/1/Barghest_The_Three_Heads_of_Cerebus Barghest: The Three Heads of Cerberus]'' by Secret Weapon
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': Adam/Pepper and Aziraphale/Crowley
* ''Summary'': The Antichrist is going off to college and needs Aziraphale and Crowley to look after Dog. Involves petsitting [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], [[UST]], and their [[Evil Counterpart]] bosses putting them both through [[Mind Rape|psychological torture]].
* ''Comments'': Watch your head with the [[Mood Whiplash]], [[Black Comedy|it manages to pull off dark and funny at the same time.]]
''[https://web.archive.org/web/20061014153440/http://library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=39 The Casefiles of Dr. Darryl Birkett: Counsellor to the Immortal]'' by Dreya Uberwald
* Recommended by feral
* ''Pairing(s)'': [[Pair the Spares|Hastur/Ligur, Aziraphale/Crowley, Famine/Pollution, Shadwell/Madame Tracy, Adam/Pepper, and Brian/Wensleydale]]
* ''Summary'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Couples counseling for immortals]] starring [[Original Character]] [[Captain Obvious|Dr. Darryl Birkett]], [[Expy]] for [[Doctor Phil|Dr. Phil]]. This is why [[There Are No Therapists]]. Takes place about a decade [[Incredibly Lame Pun|post-abotchalypse]].
* ''Comments'': [[Crack Pairing|Utter]] [[Crack Fic|crack]], hilarious.
''[http://icarus-chained.livejournal.com/156327.html#cutid1 Arrangements]'', by Icarus-Chained (Crossover with [[Supernatural]])
* Recommended by PitViperOfDoom
* ''Pairing(s)'': Aziraphale/Crowley, Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel
* ''Summary'': Team Free Will meets everyone's favourite angel and demon, and it all spirals from there.
''[http://seablue-eyes.livejournal.com/?skip=10&tag=a%20diamond%20sky%20above%20titanic A Diamond Sky Above Titanic]'' by Seablue_eyes
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* ''Comments'': Yes the plot comes from the James Cameron movie, but this fic manages to capture all of the magnificence and drama of the movie while maintaining an original plot thread, and portrays Crowley and Aziraphale wonderfully in their roles as star-crossed lovers without descending into melodrama or wangst. Just a warning, you're going to need tissues by the last few chapters, particularly if the movie hit you pretty hard to begin with!
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