Fanfic

[ladymouse2]

[Good Omens fiction with Aziraphale and Crowley.]

~ Good Omens ~
What's Blue and Gray All Over?

Comments

[bakaknight]

You are abso-freaking-loutly BRILLIANT! This was GREAT! And highly delighted the Civil War Geek in me who's seen most of those places. Welcome to the wider world of fandom, I hope you enjoy your time here LOTS, and I adored your reasoning for Crowley to even be anywhere near this.
Any change of the war(s. Canada/America, or Britain/France) of 1812 later? Pretty please?

[ladymouse2]

My goodness, my first review! And a very generous one! I'm delighted you enjoyed it so much.

I know the novel mentions Crowley slept through the 19th century but there was just too much scope for stories in the period and frankly too much "devilment" going on for a certain demon's hand not to have been in evidence.

Don't know about visiting the other early wars of the period. This is my first GO fiction; my writing has usually been Star Wars, Harrison Ford films, and PotC. I'll have to see what bunnies pop up.

But thank you for the interest and encouragement!

[ladymouse2]

I am amazed and flattered that you ventured into a fandom you didn't even know to read something of mine!

Thank you so much for letting me know you really liked it. That you got into it without knowing the background of the main characters, delights me!

Thanks so much!

[hsavinien]

Ooh, interesting...I've just been reading American history things too.

[triskellion]

I love this. It's wonderful to see Good Omens so beautifully represented. My only complaint is a lot of the books and stories mentioned in November 1863 are from the 20th century, or at least later than 1863. I don't remember there being anything in the book that implied time was mutable to angels and demons. But the rest is incredible and I really hope you might be inspired to write again soon.

[ladymouse2]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the encouragement.

About the middle scene and all those 20th century books, that was a deliberate run-between-the-raindrops but you caught me, drat! :) I needed the scene to be a short bridge to the bookend scene at the end so I didn't want to have to include a lot of detail for the casual reader about books written before 1863. It needed to be a short, snappy "tennis match" exchange so I went for easily recognizable books where the joke would be apparent.

Er, at least I managed a couple of early books in there with Chaucer and the Decameron...:D Since the novel didn't mention anything against fluid time for angels and demons, I decided it was a loophole. With another story I may make a point of time being immutable. I'm sort of in the school of the whatever makes the plot work.

[triskellion]

Ah ha. I guess for someone nutty like me it's a bit of a hiccup, but I understand what you were aiming for. Ah well. As a short, snappy tennis match it was fun. And I do understand about twisting things to make the plot work. I don't want to admit how much I've been warping Star Trek for some of my latest stories.

Keep up the good work.

[ladymouse2]

>Ah ha. I guess for someone nutty like me it's a bit of a hiccup,< Shucks! Busted!

>I don't want to admit how much I've been warping Star Trek for some of my latest stories.<

Well, "warping" is kind of forgivable there considering Warp speed ;D

[leonawriter]

Brilliant stories! I thought that I'd seen your pic somewhere before - I've skulked a bit around the Star Wars section sometimes. You've really done so well with Aziraphale and Crowley - their characters, temperaments and the way they interact.

Considering anachronisms; I think that if anyone wanted to point them out to you, you can point out the second spoken line of the entire Good Omens story. Just east of Eden, Crawly says "I said, that one went down like a lead ballon". I don't think I need to say that balloons of any kind hadn't been invented yet.

[ladymouse2]

So glad you enjoyed them and feel I caught the right nuances with Aziraphale and Crowley. I've loved the book for ten-some years and was surprised and delighted to discover there was a quite active fandom for it when I started reading online fanfiction. But though, I wrote for printzines in Star Wars, Ford film universes, this is my first attempt to write Good Omens.

I haven't been doing anything online in Star Wars and all my illustration was done for printzines. But some of my PotC art is over on Black Pearl Tales, the archive for Black Pearl Sails community on Yahoo: http://www.blackpearltales.net/

Oh, you're right! You know as many times as I've thought of and chuckled over that line, It's anachronistic nature has always slid right by me. The whole tone of GO is so colloquial and dryly sarcastic, such elements just blend.

Heh, thank you for giving me a perfect defense! It IS "canon"! ;D

[leonawriter]

I think I first saw you when you might have commented on some stuff...

Anyway. Looked at some of your art and comics! They're absolutely brilliant and really witty, by the way.

[ladymouse2]

Oh yes, I try to give authors and artists feedback--at length! Wordy cuss--as much as I can.

Thank you for the kind words about my art! Really appreciate it.