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Happy Holidays, greedslave!

Dec 25, 2014 16:35

Title: Memory is a Curious Thing
Recipient: greedslave
Rating: R
Warnings: possible dub/con
Word count: 6586
Disclaimer: Not mine

Summary: Aziraphale is irritated with all of the bids for Crowley's attention that he's witnessing, so he starts to accompany Crowley on his outings. He's got his hands full monitoring and deterring Crowley's popularity ( Read more... )

2014 gifts, aziraphale/crowley, fic, 2014 exchange, rating:r

Comments 13

thekeyholder December 26 2014, 21:35:44 UTC

What a lovely story! I like the structure, with bits from the present and from a year earlier. So glad Crowley reminded Aziraphale of their fun times in Austria. ;) Great ending.

secret_kracken December 27 2014, 05:57:45 UTC

Thank you so much, I very much appreciate it! The structure was one of the things I was committed to from the moment I decided to combine prompts.

thekeyholder December 27 2014, 11:19:17 UTC

Also forgot to say that coincidentally I drank some Glühwein before reading the fic. xD

secret_kracken December 27 2014, 17:33:40 UTC

Crowley and Aziraphale approve of this.

greedslave December 26 2014, 22:50:22 UTC

Omg, I'm half way through but I just had to leae a comment beause this is so incredibly good, it goes over my wildest expectations, I'm really so grateful you can't even imagine. This also incorporates so many things I love and I actually thought about passingly in relation to Aziraphale and Crowley, it seems like you've been reading my mind! I'll leave a more serious comment afer I finish reading but, wow this is really well done, I'm awed.

secret_kracken December 27 2014, 06:03:17 UTC

I'm so incredibly delighted that you're enjoying it! I kept thinking of you and reread your brilliant prompts over and over and over trying to make sure I was staying true to the spirit of them. I'm so glad that this fit in with your ideas! This was a pleasure to write and I'm so grateful I got your prompts in the exchange.

greedslave January 7 2015, 21:17:33 UTC

sorry for taking so long, my life during the holidays got very "interesting", but, damn DAMN! I can't stop thanking you and I actually saved this fic on my pc because I wanna read it again and again. Ok how did you know I had had the passing thought of: "yeah, 50 shades of gray is shit, but what would Crowley think of "the Boss" trilogy?", you are a mind reader, and I can't believe you mashed two of my prompts so wonderfully, I feel like this fic has been tailored exactly around me and by someone who, idk how, really got me, really knew what they were doing, you are an amazing author and now that I know who you are I'm so glad because I actually love your writing. If I had to make a list of all the perfect things about this fic I'd be writing for hours. I feel really lucky, this is one of those gifts that I'll cherish forever, it's stunning the thought and care you put in it, I'm forever thankful!!

hsavinien December 29 2014, 02:48:56 UTC

I like the build-up and the notes about their routines. The little snatches of Hallstat memory that Aziraphale keeps getting are great. Aziraphale and Crowley's bickering is always a treat.

meganbobness January 4 2015, 01:45:33 UTC

Thank you! Aziraphale really is trying not to be a dick. It's not something he's great at though...

irisbleufic January 3 2015, 04:50:04 UTC

“I’m not! I just like to check in on what she’s doing. She’d been writing all of these books that got young people to hang out in graveyards, wear black, and pretend to drink blood and then she “found” your lot and stopped. I just wanted to see that she’s firmly back in our camp.”

BRB, dying a little bit from laughter because I did the same thing. I requested "Blackwood Farm," "Blood Canticle," and "Prince Lestat" on ILL last week, because I think the last VC book I read was "Blood & Gold." I was honestly pretty pissed off after "Merrick" (useless Louis-torture: that did not go over well with me), but I'd always thought the first three books made a brilliant trilogy and kind of wish she'd just stopped there. Anyway, I'm not very far into "Blackwood Farm" and can't decide if Tarquin is intriguing or annoying.

/end strange Anne Rice rant

This is one of the sweetest stories to turn up this exchange; your details in the flashbacks are so loving, and there's a very physical, grounded sense to all of this <3

meganbobness January 4 2015, 01:59:45 UTC

Hah! You and Crowley obviously know who requires supervision! Thank you very much! I was actually worried about it seeming out of character but I think Crowley likes to keep tabs on people as much as possible, just in case...

I really wanted to do something loving and evocative of how we remember important things. Particularly how memory acts as this weird other limb of the self that can't be controlled and is for the most part just ignored until it's not operating correctly. I'm so glad that the groundedness worked! For me, the magic of Crowley and Aziraphale is at least 70% the fact that they exist in something approaching the real world and that comes with all the same little vagaries that the rest of us navigate. That mix of prosaicness of life and the poetic nature of them being supernatural is what I LOVE about this book and these characters.

greedslave January 14 2015, 09:01:02 UTC

Jan. 7th, 2015 09:17 pm (UTC)
sorry for taking so long, my life during the holidays got very "interesting", but, damn DAMN! I can't stop thanking you and I actually saved this fic on my pc because I wanna read it again and again. Ok how did you know I had had the passing thought of: "yeah, 50 shades of gray is shit, but what would Crowley think of "the Boss" trilogy?", you are a mind reader, and I can't believe you mashed two of my prompts so wonderfully, I feel like this fic has been tailored exactly around me and by someone who, idk how, really got me, really knew what they were doing, you are an amazing author and now that I know who you are I'm so glad because I actually love your writing. If I had to make a list of all the perfect things about this fic I'd be writing for hours. I feel really lucky, this is one of those gifts that I'll cherish forever, it's stunning the thought and care you put in it, I'm forever thankful!!

meganbobness January 16 2015, 03:08:20 UTC

No problem! I know the holidays can be warfare just to get through. I'm SO incredibly glad that this worked for you! During the writing, I went back to your prompts again and again and again and really thought about what you were asking for and tried to make sure that your request was the guiding principle in this fic. It was a tough holiday season for me and it meant a lot to be able to focus on *giving* something that was tailored to a particular person so thank you so much for putting your request out there! I actually went back to last years fic and saw that you'd left the first comment on it! I was like "oh thank god, at least I know she already likes my writing style ( ... )