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They're making new Good Omens tv episodes, written by Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore (!!) and I have gone from "hmmmm not sure" about it to WILDLY OVEREXCITED in the course of one afternoon, wow. I mean, on the one hand Good Omens is a complete miniseries-length story and late-in-the-day sequels don't always work out well? But it occurred to me that whole bodyswap plot from the first series was all new, too! And I would never have guessed Finnemore as the replacement for Pratchett but the more I think about it the more excited I am. Obv we all know he can do comedy brilliantly well but I'm delighted that it was less than three of your earth weeks ago that I was oohing and aahing at series 9 of the Souvenir Programme and how apparently he can also do... deeply, profoundly moving comedy-drama? oh no.

EXCITED, in conclusion. And delighted at a friend pointing out that Finnemore has also written a lot about nightingales singing in Berkeley Square! He's not Pratchett - no one ever will be - and he doesn't have that unsettling, disturb-the-comfortable edge that was so formative for me, in Pratchett; no witches doing what they have to and all the little angels rising up high. He's the first to say that his comedy is Radio 4 comedy aimed at the people who listen to Radio 4. But, I don't know, Finnemore's world is a kind one, where people are good to each other, and witty while they're doing it, and things come out all right. I'm here for that always.

(Also: I want to tell Phoebe about it. A few weeks ago I wanted to tell her about series 9 of the Souvenir Programme which she would have loved, and I'm reading the new Natasha Pulley and wishing she was live-texting me while she read it too, and now they're making another series of Good Omens, and she's.... not here? for some reason?

the reason is because she's dead, I know, but I miss her. No sympathy required, honestly, but I try and note how much I miss her, because I do, and to not miss her would be much worse.)

I apparently haven't posted a vid since, uh, 2014. (I have made vids in the last five years, but for various not-that-nice reasons have not posted them.) But as you know friends I have completely lost my mind to Good Omens and, well, here we are. Many thanks to purplefringe, for encouragement, beta and ice cream in St James's Park.

(The outside source in this vid is comic panels from Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries, with art by P. Craig Russell, but it's not actually a crossover vid.)

[vid] waking hour [Good Omens]
by Raven
Things that matter too much to take anything but lightly. Aziraphale, Crowley, and ways of falling. Also at the AO3.

music: "Daughter", Vienna Teng, from Waking Hour
content notes: a snake in the opening shot
password to stream daughter / download from mediafire

( notes, lyrics and embed )

I'm losing my mind. I just. I was off sick for a couple of days, and my phone is autocorrecting "aripiprazole" to "Aziraphale", so there you are.

a cantata for all angels
2500w, Crowley/Aziraphale. London is all glitterpunk and angels; Crowley and Aziraphale go to Pride.

I can't stop thinking about how MUCH I loved the Good Omens miniseries, my god. Here's a random list of things:

( spoilers for the miniseries )

I will probably think of another half-dozen things! tl;dr I am in LOVE.

I had a surprisingly eventful day, considering I didn't talk to anyone and didn't get up until two. (Hi, brain, not useful, thanks.) Here are my purimgifts recs:

First of all, these three stories were for me:

Caifornia Girls, Code, Midnight Radio, gen, Star Trek (2009).
These are about Gaila and Uhura, apart and together, and I really, really like them; they're very simple snippets, but the writing is so elegant, and the execution so neat. Also, Gaila and Uhura = win.

And from the others:

A Certain Slant of Snow, gen, Sports Night/The West Wing.
Amy Gardner meets Dana in an airport bar. This is so great; so smart, so much like them, and I really enjoyed it. It's the first of three, and while I did like the other two, I haven't seen enough Sports Night for them to make entire sense to me, so the rec's limited to the first. But it's great: sharp and fun.

I'm Blushing on the Inside, gen, The West Wing.
Ainsley likes hamantaschen. Also pwning people. Lovely.

End of the Rainbow, Gaila/Kirk, Star Trek (2009)
Gaila has some questions to ask Kirk. I really, really like this for the depth it gives to Gaila, and to Kirk as well for that matter, but to Gaila: it thinks through her motivations with such clear-eyed writing. I like it a lot.

Moving To The Country, gen, Star Trek (2009).
Sulu shows Chekov around San Francisco. Really understated, really nice.

The Final Message, gen, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
When the people of the Milky Way Galaxy first heard that God's Final Message to His Creation was being displayed, the Jews of the Galaxy were among the first to seek it out. This is... highly strange, and strangely nice.

Untitled (day 1, day 2, day 3), gen, Vorkosigan.
Helen Natalia, the daughter of Count Vorkosigan, has worked something out: she is the best-placed person to take on the countship. Cordelia and Gregor help, in their own ways. It's a lovely story, this, just right in style and tone.

(Also, I was reading this and thinking, huh, it's a complete three-part story, I wonder why the author didn't give it a title?

...then I thought, this is a story about a woman trying to take on a countship, which she doesn't have at the moment. Aha.)

1 Kings 12:3-15, Exodus 7:8-13, Esther 6:1-5, gen, Good Omens, Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible, with the amendment of a certain angel and a certain demon, and a certain amount of judicious snarking. The style of these is ludicrously, effortlessly seamless; the biblical language is resonating along, ringing from the rafters the way it always does, and then suddenly the dark scribe didst grin widely, saying unto him, Trust me, this shalt be one for the books. If they weren't a gift for daegaer I would have thought that she wrote them; as it is, they are a delightful mystery.

That is all. My heart hurts, I hate advocacy, why do people need defending in court anyway.