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I wrote this:
Their Satanic Majesties Request
for thilia
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Request: Crowley/Aziraphale, AU - or not? Crowley is a rockstar, Aziraphale is his groupie. Any rating. combined with: UST (resolved in the end), getting-together fic rather than established relationship, angst, humour, smoking, drinking, possessiveness, focus on the romance part of the story, plot AND smut, dirty talk, flirting, witty banter, dub-con, seduction, kissing, first time, manipulative bastard!Crowley (but still sweet, in his way)
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley’s Arrangement stayed in comfortable stasis for a thousand years. It only took one decade to change it forever. (Crowley and Aziraphale do The Sixties--or do The Sixties do them?)
Warnings: Drug use and consensual sex under the influence.
I stumbled a bit over the "groupie" part, and for a long time I struggled with this story, it was all Crowley being a reluctant grumbly rock star, and Aziraphale was barely in it. Eventually, though he found his own ways in -- as he does--and I think he turned out to be very much the backbone of the tale.
This is more or less the 60s AU (sort of) I've been wanting to write for years.
I've had a few people ask me about the 60s rock jokes and references, so I'm putting some notes about that, and some fine mood-setting YouTube videos, behind a cut.
Crowley's Guitar: Fender Stratocaster. As much as it was worth in 1965, it'd be worth even more today; Fender guitars made before the company's sale to CBS in 1965 are widely held to be vastly superior to anything made later.
Pretty Jimmy the Aleister Crowley fanboy: Jimmy Page. He did get his own band and his dragon trousers-and eventually Aleister Crowley's old house! There was a very very well-circulated legend during Led Zeppelin's heyday that he actually did sell his soul to the Devil (and his bandmates' as well).
Fresh-faced folkie with delusions of mysticism: Almost certainly Donovan. I like Donovan, but Crowley didn't.
The Beatles' rather forward manager: Brian Epstein.
Piercing-eyed Marianne, who doesn't want Mars Bars mentioned in her presence: Marianne Faithfull (The legend isn't actually true, but that never stops a good legend.)
Oh right. Brian. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. The nice young man who took the trouble to bring that hash all the way from Morocco. Found dead in a swimming pool just a little over a month before this scene takes place.
The guitarist who set his guitar on fire at Monterey, whom Crowley couldn't touch: Jimi Hendrix. The “Are you experienced...not necessarily stoned, but beautiful” line is a reference to a lyric of his.
The woman wailing away on the stage who looked like a tiny doll from a distance, with the huge amplified voice: Janis Joplin.
The psychedelic funk band providing the soundtrack to Crowley and Aziraphale getting experienced: Sly & the Family Stone.
"Dunno why they keep tellin' us not to take the brown acid..." The Woodstock Festival was famous for, among other things, the hilarious PSAs in between bands, preserved for posterity on a documentary that became a cult classic movie that was released the following year. The undesirability of the brown acid circulating was a recurring theme. So were chants of "No rain, no rain!"
A Soundtrack, In Brief:
These are the songs I used as section headers. I tried to find videos of them that would give the best sense of the period!
(It was probably their many inferior imitators, not the Beatles themselves, that Crowley meant when he thought about "the latest idiocy from Liverpool." Probably.)
(I think that if Aziraphale were to really truly love one of the great 60s English bands, it would be the Kinks, far more than the Beatles or the Stones or the Who.)
(Not really one of their top songs, but they never got any more sixties than this.)
(This is actual Woodstock Festival documentary footage, so this is exactly what the music sounded like during that moment. There's a limited in-the-dark crowd shot around 9:42. Yes, you should watch/listen to all 10+ minutes of this, because it's the fuckin' jam.)
More as I remember them. Feel free to ask questions.
I wrote this:
Their Satanic Majesties Request
for thilia
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Request: Crowley/Aziraphale, AU - or not? Crowley is a rockstar, Aziraphale is his groupie. Any rating. combined with: UST (resolved in the end), getting-together fic rather than established relationship, angst, humour, smoking, drinking, possessiveness, focus on the romance part of the story, plot AND smut, dirty talk, flirting, witty banter, dub-con, seduction, kissing, first time, manipulative bastard!Crowley (but still sweet, in his way)
Summary: Aziraphale and Crowley’s Arrangement stayed in comfortable stasis for a thousand years. It only took one decade to change it forever. (Crowley and Aziraphale do The Sixties--or do The Sixties do them?)
Warnings: Drug use and consensual sex under the influence.
I stumbled a bit over the "groupie" part, and for a long time I struggled with this story, it was all Crowley being a reluctant grumbly rock star, and Aziraphale was barely in it. Eventually, though he found his own ways in -- as he does--and I think he turned out to be very much the backbone of the tale.
This is more or less the 60s AU (sort of) I've been wanting to write for years.
I've had a few people ask me about the 60s rock jokes and references, so I'm putting some notes about that, and some fine mood-setting YouTube videos, behind a cut.
Crowley's Guitar: Fender Stratocaster. As much as it was worth in 1965, it'd be worth even more today; Fender guitars made before the company's sale to CBS in 1965 are widely held to be vastly superior to anything made later.
Pretty Jimmy the Aleister Crowley fanboy: Jimmy Page. He did get his own band and his dragon trousers-and eventually Aleister Crowley's old house! There was a very very well-circulated legend during Led Zeppelin's heyday that he actually did sell his soul to the Devil (and his bandmates' as well).
Fresh-faced folkie with delusions of mysticism: Almost certainly Donovan. I like Donovan, but Crowley didn't.
The Beatles' rather forward manager: Brian Epstein.
Piercing-eyed Marianne, who doesn't want Mars Bars mentioned in her presence: Marianne Faithfull (The legend isn't actually true, but that never stops a good legend.)
Oh right. Brian. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. The nice young man who took the trouble to bring that hash all the way from Morocco. Found dead in a swimming pool just a little over a month before this scene takes place.
The guitarist who set his guitar on fire at Monterey, whom Crowley couldn't touch: Jimi Hendrix. The “Are you experienced...not necessarily stoned, but beautiful” line is a reference to a lyric of his.
The woman wailing away on the stage who looked like a tiny doll from a distance, with the huge amplified voice: Janis Joplin.
The psychedelic funk band providing the soundtrack to Crowley and Aziraphale getting experienced: Sly & the Family Stone.
"Dunno why they keep tellin' us not to take the brown acid..." The Woodstock Festival was famous for, among other things, the hilarious PSAs in between bands, preserved for posterity on a documentary that became a cult classic movie that was released the following year. The undesirability of the brown acid circulating was a recurring theme. So were chants of "No rain, no rain!"
A Soundtrack, In Brief:
These are the songs I used as section headers. I tried to find videos of them that would give the best sense of the period!
Click to view(It was probably their many inferior imitators, not the Beatles themselves, that Crowley meant when he thought about "the latest idiocy from Liverpool." Probably.)
(I think that if Aziraphale were to really truly love one of the great 60s English bands, it would be the Kinks, far more than the Beatles or the Stones or the Who.)
(Not really one of their top songs, but they never got any more sixties than this.)
(This is actual Woodstock Festival documentary footage, so this is exactly what the music sounded like during that moment. There's a limited in-the-dark crowd shot around 9:42. Yes, you should watch/listen to all 10+ minutes of this, because it's the fuckin' jam.)
More as I remember them. Feel free to ask questions.