Happy Holidays, Japanimaniac13!

[vulgarweed]

Title: Prosperous’s Books
For: japanimaniac13
From: vulgarweed
Characters/Pairings: Agnes Nutter/Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer; Aziraphale/Crowley; an OC, sort of.
Rating: PG-13ish
A/N: From your prompts, I wound up with...let's see, a story-within-a-story that’s historical, involves the angel’s books, has A/C and Agnes/A. Pulsifer, deadlines whooshing by,

Comments

[waxbean]

this is really fantastic, secret writer.

I think you've captured Agnes and Adultery so well here - your attention to details (esp. misspellings!) has rendered both of these characters as people we can care about - I've certainly never felt remotely sympathetic towards Adultery prior to reading this!

I think Agnes' viewing of the fires - her death and the two bookshop burnings is a really clever way to anchor the plot of your story.

all in all, I have enjoyed reading this immensely.

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so much!

I've written a few little drabbles here and there that alluded to Agnes forgiving Adultery in the afterlife - it's always been something that intrigued me and I wanted to develop more.

Since Agnes's expressions of her thought processes were so challenging for her descendants to interpret, I figured a story about her would have to be sort of challenging too. XD

[shifty_gardener]

I absolutely love how Aziraphale would rather steal a book than rip out one of its pages. xD

[vulgarweed]

Hee. "Liberate." "Relocate." "Appropriate for safe-keeping." After all he's an angel, and angels don't steal. ;)

[shifty_gardener]

Riiight. *cough*
Crowley would tease him mercilessly if he ever found out. ♥

[rasetsunyo]

I really love the scope and interactions in this piece. Brilliant!

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so much!

[sticktothestory]

Crowley’s wings struggling to get a good grip on painfully heated and unpredictable thermals

Great eye for detail. And well-written, too!

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so much! (I love to write flying)

[quantum_witch]

Thou-Shalt-Not-Covet-Thy-Neighbour’s-Ass Pulsifer... oh yes, I'd change my name too, and not just because of God XD

The idea that Adultery and Agnes both felt just a bit of something for one another... that's just enough of a scandal at that time in history to cause him to push so much for her death. Almost, almost, feel sorry for him. And good job with the spelling - gods Agnes is hard to write for, a real eye-strainer!

The closest Crowley had come to anything like that was a brief dalliance with some bored Italian aristocrats who fancied themselves quite subversive and daring, and Crowley had wearied very quickly of being invoked out of bed at all hours just to have his arse groped.)

*rofl* That'll teach 'im!

Poor Aziraphale, he's probably faced countless fires and lost books before, and it's never ever easy (I should know) to lose them.

Aziraphale just wouldn’t be Aziraphale again without a collection to be collecting. In so much as angels could be said to have auras, Aziraphale’s was larger than usual and bookshelf-shaped.

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so much! I like to think the Pulsifer family's sins and temptations reflected their unfortunate names. Thou-Shalt-Have-No-Other-Gods-Before-Me Pulsifer was probably a flaming pagan. XD

I always knew the spelling was going to be the hardest part. Big thanks to celandineb for help on that - she's a medieval/early-modern scholar and gave me invaluable advice and corrections - she is both nice and accurate.

I had to give Crowley a Bill Clinton moment there. :D

I'm pretty sure Aziraphale has had to deal with fires before, yes. I feel an impulse to warn for "character death" every time I write it, as I'm sure it's how he feels.