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doonarose · 2 months

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31 Authors. 100 Chapters. Over 100,000 words. Over 100 different journeys.

Written as part of the @goodomensafterdark Smut War!

To watch the cinematic masterpiece that is the trailer - and get a pretty good idea of what this behemoth fic is about - Click Here!(Epic thanks to u/IneffableCrankShaft and u/FourCatsAndCounting!)

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CW/TW: Lots!!! All triggers are clearly listed at the start of each chapter they feature in and the fic is comprehensively tagged on AO3. Major warnings for parts of the fic include: dubcon, snake sex, under-negotiated kink, spanking/impact play, figging, and watersports/pissplay, all of which can be navigated around as needed!

Summary: Having thwarted yet another attempt at ending the world, Aziraphale and Crowley are, in fact, ready to have sex now. Just how successful their sex shall be depends on the discerning decision-making of you, dear reader…

More than thirty authors combine to bring you over one hundred possible ways that the first night at the South Downs cottage might play out. Aziraphale and Crowley - and you - will embark on a thrilling voyage of self-discovery from which no one will emerge unchanged.

Enormous thanks to all our writers: u/Admingumbo, u/AngelZash, u/Blackjeans93, u/-Cheeseplants-, u/Schmengie01, u/Doonarose, u/ElysiumLeo90, u/Fishey_Me, u/FuzzyGoblinoid, u/Gaiaseyes, u/GlitteringPeanut42, u/Hakunahistata, u/Harlotofupdog, u/IneffablyRuined, u/Intelligent-Dragon, u/Kiripin, u/KotiasCamorra, u/Lemon-Tart-221, u/Likeafuckingninja, u/MrsCakeIsHere, u/Natyu0815, u/Niknak90, u/PaperclipNinja, u/Pepper_Bird, u/-Polychrome, u/Savyl_Steelfeather, u/StartledPlatypus, u/TransplantedMate, u/UKCalico, u/WingsofOpal, u/y2bx, and u/Zin_Lynn

Thanks also to our betas: u/SouthernFriedAmy, u/DBacklot99, u/NegotiationReal6508, u/CrystalSilhouette, and u/badbitchbarenziah

And thanks to all the mods and members of this amazing sub and especially those in the Writer’s Guild!

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#good omens fic #good omens smut #ineffable smut war #doonas fic #this has been a big big big thing #but i am so proud and so in awe of everyone and i am exhausted but ecstatic

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indigovigilance · 7 months

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Muriel is a Paralegal, and Crowley is going to need their help

I didn't make it very far into this meta by @ineffablecastielsstuff before I stopped at the bit about Aziraphale reading the entire contract for Hell's torment of Job. Except that, he doesn't actually (as OP correctly notes), Muriel does:

So Muriel, 37th order scrivener, is enough of a legal expert to read and interpret the legality of contracts made between Heaven and Hell.

Why do we care? Well...

There's another contract floating around (credit to @ineffablyruined for first noticing this and posting about it)

Crowley has already fulfilled his half of the bargain:

But Crowley is notoriously not that great with legal agreements, or written documents generally:

(insert book reference here to "apartment leases are for other people")

So while theoretically Crowley could leverage the verbal contract all on his own, I think that the paralegal camping out in his best friend's bookshop is going to be instrumental to him actually getting Hell to deliver on their promise.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #crowley #contracts #ivoc

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hakunahistata · 4 months

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GIF by capinejghafa

Severin’ (Speak So Slightly)

Explicit, 8K

Gentle Dom Aziraphale and Sub Crowley try something new

“Gonna tie me up, are you?” Crowley smirked from behind the rim of his glass. “Truss me up like a Christmas turkey?” “Oh, I am going to do so much more than that.” Aziraphale crossed his legs, sitting back in his chair, and grinned. “My dear, I am going to undo you.”

Written for @ineffablyruined

#good omens #good omens fanfiction #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens fanfic #merry smutmas #my fic

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wee-snek · 4 months

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“I forgive you”

Right, okay, yes, so.

Been rewatching Good Omens and definitely not also listening to sound recordings of a few choice scenes I made and hyperfixated on and listen to on repeat in the car and I just had some Thoughts about the forgiveness stuff. I have no idea if this really means anything, but the hyperfixation won’t stop until I write it down.

There are four instances where Aziraphale directly references forgiveness to Crowley.

In chronological order:

1. “Then god forgive you”: Job Minisode.

2. “May you be forgiven”: bandstand breakup.

3. “I forgive you”: post bandstand breakup outside the bookshop.

4. “I forgive you”: Final Fifteen

1: This one intrigues me. It’s the only time Aziraphale invokes the idea of God’s forgiveness, but it’s also in response to Crowley following, literally, the will of God. It seems that Aziraphale is saying it’s wrong to follow orders that go against your moral compass and/or your moral compass should say that hurting kids is bad WHILE ALSO accepting that God actively wants the kids to be hurt. And Aziraphale thinks that he, himself, will Fall because the went against the plan - he doesn’t think God will forgive him for saving the kids - so why say “God forgive you” to a demon when he doesn’t expect that same forgiveness? Y’all, I don’t know. Aziraphale’s moral struggles and cognitive coping mechanisms are a mess.

2: In response to Crowley insulting the Great Plan. Interestingly, we’ve moved away from God’s forgiveness specifically. Even more interestingly, Crowley actually responds: “I won’t be forgiven, not ever. Part of a demon’s job description - unforgivable, that’s what I am”. Crowley seems almost upset (?) by this fact, and Aziraphale is definitely pitying after he says it. I feel like this is a moment that impacts Aziraphale’s perception of Crowley’s feelings about being a demon - likely that, in his mind, it confirms his own coping mechanism assumption that Crowley must not like being a demon, because being a demon is bad. That Crowley must, deep down, want to be forgiven. What could go wrong with this line of reasoning????

3: The next time they talk after the bandstand, when Crowley wants to run away. Specifically, after Crowley calls Aziraphale stupid. I think Aziraphale moving to “I forgive you” supports the idea that he thinks Crowley wants forgiveness. And this was such a small ‘offence’ that forgiveness doesn’t even seem necessary? But, in context, it reads as words-of-affirmation and an attempt to show affection. God may not forgive demons, but my angelic forgiveness is something I can give to him.

4: So. The Final Fifteen. It’s mean, it’s hurtful, but it sounds like it hurts Aziraphale as much as it hurts Crowley?

And with the assumptions above, is it code? I know you’re hurt, I can see you lashing out as a coping mechanism, I know how hard this is, even if you can’t be an Angel again, I still love you.

GIFs, in order, from @ineffablyruined, @tenthrees, @fuckyeahgoodomens, and @astrhae.

#good omens #good omens finale #final fifteen #I forgive you #aziraphale #Crowley #ineffible hus #ineffible divorce #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #aziracrow

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theravenmuse · 19 days

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Last Line Challenge

Rules - In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like.)

Tagged by: @kotias and @searchingforakeythatdoesntexist

Last Line:

Unfortunately, the less instinctual part of his brain, the part that was hardwired with protect Aziraphale as one of its main directives, kept him rooted on the spot long enough for a strong hand to wrap around his neck.

Tagging (JFC. 39 PEOPLE. I guess. Fml.):

@captainblou @happynachohologram @paperclipninja @thescholarlystrumpet @daneecastle @aidaran-alha @adverbian @startledplatypus @eybefioro @nosferatini @saucysmutpigeon @cordsycords @groovynightstrawberry @ghstptats @azirawitch @demonsandpieohmy @bea-n-art @mrscrazycatman @featheredboaconstrictor @dbacklot99 @depraveddame @doonarose @egyptologist-that-never-was @fuzzygoblin @gaiaseyes451 @whatareyou42 @horsenosefinish @inahc3 @ineffablecrankshaft @ineffablyruined @kiripin-art @the-literal-kj @mrscakeishere @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon @chaoticgo @isiaiowin @smurf-adurf @transplantedmate @wingsofopal

#the raven writes #good omens #tag game

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fluffbyday-smutbynight · 4 months

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~ FluffSmut's Masterlist: Everything Else ~

SHIPPING SHIPS (original ficlets)

Love Hits You Unexpectedly, Sometimes

The Most Beautiful Ship in the World

MADE-UP FIC TITLES ~ fic ideas/synopses/plot bunnies 🐰 (generated in response to this ask game)

Fluffsmut's Totally Correct Sherlock Quotes ~ if you fancy a chuckle. Hehe.

~ BBC Sherlock: Headcanons ~

Fluffy headcanons you can pry from my cold, dead hands

Smutty headcanons that live in my head rent free

Mycroft's Chocolate Stout Cake (for Greg, and Greg only)

“The Dads Are Alright” Headcanon (parentlock/fluff)

221B pets

221B rules (written by @kitten-kin)

Fluffbruary 2022 Trivia Tuesdays: Week 01 . 02 . 03 . 04

~ BBC Sherlock: Rewatch Meta ~

ASiB ~ Why I Love Irene Adler So Much // THoB ~ Pt. 1 - Beware of the Dog / Pt. 2 - Lights in the Darkness / Pt. 3 - Killing the Hound // TAB ~ Way Too Deep // TLD ~ The Morgue Scene: a look at the script // TFP ~ The Coffin Scene

~ BBC Sherlock: Character Meta ~ Molly Hooper has been done dirty (and I say this as a hardcore Johnlocker) // (mini-meta) John Watson, a man with issues: one and two

~ Good Omens Meta ~

Petronius' Oysters (a modest contribution to a post by @ineffablyruined)

When in Rome... - Aziraphale's Hot Girl Summer?

The Hundred Guineas Club (a modest contribution to a post by @niceprophecies)

Analogies with the Divine Comedy - Canto V (a modest contribution to a post by @theonevoice)

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Italian language/culture 101 with Fluffsmut:

Good Omens x Michael Sheen x Ancient Rome - a match made in heaven Italy

The versatility of "cazzo"

"Sticazzi" vs "me cojoni"

Random stuff:

Half-Assed Fic Recs

Martin Freeman Appreciation Posts

Random Thoughts: StartUp (TV show) // Ghost Stories (2017 film) // A List of Things Sherlock and Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son) have in common

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Jump back to FluffSmut's Masterlist

#tidying up my masterlist #fluffsmut's masterlist

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cemeteryangel725 · 3 months

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WIP Ask Game

The rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Let people reply/send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Thanks for the tag, @mellow-cello-charm!

All of these are Good Omens (Aziraphale/Crowley) plot bunnies:

Unbuttoning

A Ride on the Campagna

Atonement fic

Galleria Borghese fic

Toni and Azira sculpt male nudes

Aziraphale and Crowley at the Philadelphia Centennial

Bruce Springsteen fic

Renn Faire fic

Passing on tags to: @adverbian, @transplantedmate, @mrscrazycatman, @disastrouslook, @The_Nerd_Alert, @hakunahistata, @lemon-tart-221, @ineffablyruined

#wip ask game #current wip #fanfic #good omens fic #good omens fanfiction #good omens

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ineffablyruined · 3 months

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DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THAT SMILE?!!?

Gif by @stars-bean

It's at the very end. And it's just a split second. A hint.

But I swear it's there.

You all see it, too, right?

His eyes get a little twinkle, the corners of his mouth twitch up. He wants to spend the night before he realizes he shouldn't.

HE WANTS TO SPEND THE NIGHT.

(Someone help me, I'm unwell)

#i feel like i should be a microexpressions reader at this point #but only Michael's expressions #can i get paid to just notice things about his face?#please?#michael “acting choices” sheen #aziraphale #good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable spouses #otp: ineffable #crowley #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #azicrow #good omens gifs #michael sheen expressions #ineffablyruined

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paperclipninja · 3 months

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My contribution to @goodomensafterdark Smut War

Rating: Explicit (18+ only please!) Summary: Crowley enjoys watching Aziraphale eat but realises he just wants dessert aka Crowley gets horny over lunch and tries to get Aziraphale all hot and bothered too (spoiler alert: he succeeds)

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It started like many other lunches they had shared. An exquisite degustation, each delectable course relished by Aziraphale, Crowley taking a few mouthfuls but mostly savouring the sight (and sounds) of the angel enjoying his meal.

The way Aziraphale’s eyes glistened each time a new dish was placed down, the lick of his lips as he poised to cut into the delicacy in front of him; the angel’s insatiable appetite for fine food stoked an insatiability of a different kind in Crowley. As always there was wine, lots of wine, and the conversation meandered comfortably along well-trodden paths as the light outside gradually faded to the dark of a winter afternoon.

“Oh Crowley, you really must try this souffle,” Aziraphale exclaimed with a delighted groan, “it's simply breathtaking.”

The angel held the spoon of fluffy dessert out hopefully and Crowley leaned forward, making a point of barely allowing his mouth to cross the tip of the utensil.

“Hmmm, ‘s good,” he confirmed with a slow lick of his lips. The former demon remained poised over the table, resting on an elbow as his hand cradled his chin.

“You can't possibly have tasted it properly, you barely touched it!” Aziraphale admonished, playing up the hurt in his tone. “And don't pretend there's not a twinkle in your eye beneath those glasses. You did that on purpose.”

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Thanks to my brilliant beta crew @mrscakeishere @ineffablyruined and @polychromicron-persei-8. My gratitude for your support and encouragement is infinite!

#good omens #good omens fanfic #good omens fanfiction #aziracrow #ineffable spouses #ineffable smut war #crowley #aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #smut fic

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mrscakeishere · 1 month

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I got tagged! Thanks @scholarlystrumpet-blog !

Rules: colour the sentences that are true about you ✨

I'm over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don't often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i've never dated anyone / i have a best friend i've known for over five years / i am an only child

Tagging: @polychromicron-persei-8 @ineffablyruined @paperclipninja

#tag game #I kind of have freckles

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indigovigilance · 5 months

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How to Write Good Omens Meta

Someone left something in my ask box that intrigued me:

My Ask is for insight into the theory of clues and how S2 clues move and build S3. Is there a meta on this? (If not, would you consider it at some point?)

Well, I did consider it, and here’s my first shot at answering this really good question. It's more about the art of writing than of clue analysis, but I may do a second piece in this series, if it feels necessary. Anyway, here we go:

read on Ao3

Learn Something New

People want to read meta to learn something that they didn’t know before. This probably means you will have to learn something that you didn’t know before. Some meta-analysts arrive pre-loaded with a rich background in costuming, tarot, biblical canon, and the wide array of cultural references that appear in the show. We also seem to have a fair number of psychologists (formally trained or otherwise) representing. I (and others: see Chekhov's Contract by @ineffablyruined) happen to have a background in law and so I was able to make a unique contribution via my piece Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the Bookshop. But for other topics, I have to self-educate.

In my personal opinion, the work on direct canon analysis (that is, watching the show and reporting what you see) has largely been done and I don’t think there will be many more breakthroughs until some people go away and come back with a freshly informed perspective. Personally, I’m waiting for someone to go learn everything there is to know about S.W. Erdnase and tell us what they found, because that is a very specific reference that I haven’t seen fleshed out yet (link it in the reblogs if it already exists!).

Don’t Be Afraid of Outside Sources

For example, quite a few times I’ve gone away to read outside source material before writing a new meta. Good examples are: Honolulu Roast, The Lament of the Metatron, and The Hornet in the Beehive. These are topics where I had no particular advantage over anyone else, I just had a question and decided to keep digging until I had something that looked like an answer.

On choosing a topic: in each of these cases I began with an in-show piece of information that seemed both unambiguous in its directness and yet unexplained. Why is there a mysteriously appearing sign in the coffeeshop that says Honolulu Roast? Who is the Metatron? Why is there so much attention drawn to bees when Crowley goes up to Heaven? If I start with a solid question and then follow an investigative pathway, usually beginning with the Bible given the nature of this show but not always, I’ll usually find something.

There are also some Clues that we’re basically told to investigate. The books on the shelves. The movie playing in the background in The Resurrectionist Pub. These are unambiguous breadcrumbs but they’re a lot of labor. I’m not going to read all those books and watch all those movies. So pick one (1) and go read it, or watch it, and then tell us what you found, so I can read your 1,500 word piece to learn what I need to know about it.

Sometimes you get enough information for a meta just by hanging around long enough and absorbing information. That’s how I put together my pieces on Terry Pratchett’s Death and Crowley’s Dream. The trick in this case is to be able to synthesize it, and for that, the very best way to learn how to do that is read other people’s meta.

Specializing

The asker asked the most important question of all: what’s the balance between trying to manage all the Clues or ignoring them entirely? Well, think of it this way (I’m borrowing an XKCD comic for brevity):

The takeaway here is, when you get a PhD, you become a hyperfocused expert in a very narrow topic and you’re relying on lots and lots and lots of other PhD students becoming highly specialized experts in other topics so that together you are expanding the diameter of human knowledge.

We (meta-analysts) are all getting PhDs in Good Omens, one way or another. Some people are doing their theses in color theory. I am doing mine on the concept of memory and identity permanence (though frequently dabbling in law). Yet others have flung themselves body and soul into the topic of Crowley’s gender and God bless them. Heck, there’s a team of people on Discord who are on any given day ripping the Bentley down to its studs and building it back up again. Feel free to explore while you seek out your passionate topic but don’t feel the need to tackle all of them. You’ll find the one that you fit best in.

You do not have to solve the S3 plot puzzle by yourself. You have to find two pieces, put them together, and then go find a buddy that also has two pieces and see if your pair of pairs makes a quartet. Literally. That’s what we’re doing here guys. It’s a team effort or nothing at all.

Organize your ideas into digestible segments

Great, so you learned something new, you have a tantalizing hypothesis, and you’re ready to write! But what does a good meta look like?

Your abstract (which I recommend you write last) will go at the top, followed by evidence in a logically progressive order that finally culminates in your conclusion. If you’ve ever written a five paragraph essay, you have these tools in your toolbox. And yes, sometimes you will even need to rebut counterarguments (“but Neil said” is the bane of my existence) just like your teacher taught you. But it shouldn’t be formatted like a five-paragraph essay. This is not an 8.5”x11” sheet of paper with 1” margins: this is Tumblr.

Walls of text are great and all but reading handicaps come in all flavors and I for one benefit greatly from having section headers that help me navigate a meta. I’m much less likely to read it if all I have to find my place by is paragraph breaks.

Section headers should tell me what the next paragraph or two are about, and if I read just the section headers, I should have a pretty good idea of what evidence you’re pulling from where and what conclusion you’re going to support with that evidence.

Here’s my opinion on gifs: if I need to see Michael Sheen’s micro-expressions to really understand your point, include it. If I just need a reminder of where we are in the story, or what a costume looks like, a still is fine and less distracting. For a lot of things, though, images are unnecessary. You’ll find the right balance but don’t overburden your written work with images. I think there are quite a few people who only read my work on Ao3 because they simply don’t like the Tumblr, image-centric format.

Have a main takeaway

What does all your evidence point to? It may feel like stating the obvious, but state it anyway. Put a little ribbon on top of this gift you have given to the fandom. Label it. Tell them exactly what your conclusion is from all this information you gathered.

…but don’t feel a need to draw a firm conclusion

In my meta Continuity Errors, I conclude that Crowley stops time in order to move something that was hidden in the bookshop out of the bookshop. I do not speculate on what exactly that something is that he moved. I don’t need to. By leading others down this path, I am tapping the collective resources of the hive mind to think about what exactly was hidden with the bookshop’s protection. They may have some information I don’t because they’ve been looking other places. Not having a hypothesis for this shouldn’t (and didn’t) stop me from publishing my work.

Go back to the top and write your intro/abstract

Have you written your main takeaway? Did you support it with evidence? Good. Now take that and write a 20-30 word elevator pitch that you’re going to put at the top of the meta so that people know what it’s about before they commit to 1,000-2,000 words of being led down the garden path. I have a bad habit of burying the lead, and I’m trying to break it. For a moment people were worrying about putting big revelations below the cut so that we’re not interfering with Neil, but I don’t think Neil has ever seen my work and I doubt he ever will, and at this time my opinion is that playing “hide the lead” is more of a hindrance to the fandom than helpful to protecting the integrity of the IP. So be bold. Tell people exactly where you’re going with this and a short roadmap of how you’re going to get there. You don’t necessarily have to “give away the goods” but the theme should be obvious. An okay-ish example of an abstract is the intro to my first meta. My abstract for Continuity Errors is decidedly more tongue-in-cheek. You'll find your own style.

Cite and Tag

If you read someone’s post and it gave you a great idea, cite them as inspo! It’s a feel-good moment for them and it ties the fandom together. If you’re relying on your own prior work or someone else’s work to support a point, link the piece and tag the author. You will probably want to start copying links to metas that you like into a doc or spreadsheet to make this easier. Check out mine to get an idea of how you could organize a spreadsheet, or check out this doc to see an alternative approach to meta database management.

Speaking of which: @cobragardens, @aprilodite, @drconstellation, @vidavalor, and @irispurpurea, your work appears in this... whatever exactly this is idk.

Recruit a Mentor/beta

Various Tumblrites have published comments or posts that they are willing to beta other people’s work. Reach out to those people before you need them and ask if, whenever you’ve written your next piece, if they wouldn’t mind taking a look at it? Have an upfront discussion about turnaround time. Most of us work, and have other obligations, so it’s unlikely we can look at a thing the minute you send it to us, even if we’re active on Tumblr at that moment. Some people have set days off that they know they’ll have time to curl up with a cup of tea and read the first draft of your meta; you may find that having a weekly schedule with someone pushes you to produce and improve at a pace you wouldn’t achieve under your own steam. Writing is a skill; you get better by practicing and getting constructive feedback.

Anyways, I hope someone finds this helpful: maybe meta-analysis seems like an intimidating thing to get into, but it shouldn’t be! This is a welcoming community with room for all shapes, sizes and flavors of contributions. If you have any follow-up questions about this piece, please feel free to drop them in my ask box!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ineffable fandom #writing #on writing #meta on meta

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