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Good Omens, X/1999, and Characters
Sep. 18th, 2004 03:50 pmHurm. Spent a few hours in the last few days flipping through skyehawke.com, and, ohmigods, Lily-san, I need an invitation-thingy! Please! I need somewhere with, y'know, the good stuff. The really good stuff, not just the less-bad.
Although the HP section is 90% porn, but one HP/Good Omens crossover is worth it. Not like they're not labeled.
Going to work on my 'Illness in badfic' rant now. Good day for it (it's dark at 3:30, and has been raining and winding all day).
Aziraphale and Crowley have finally been declared by my mind to be the anti-Seishirou and Subaru. Exactly the same...except oh-so-different. If you're in any way familiar with both, just think about it for a moment.
Aziraphale : innocenct, powerful, essentially light but darkening, kind : Subaru (Well, TB-Subaru, because you have to start with the characters before they start influencing each other).
Crowley : (sunglasses-wearing), evil, equal and opposite, incorrigible,really really sexy, essentially dark, lightening but won't admit to it, master of fooling self, did we mention evil? : Seishirou
A/C : attraction of opposites, character convergence, Apocalypse, defiance, destiny (death, delirium, destruction, dream, desire, despair), complexity, canon (is SO!), power : S/S
From that, you might say they were analogous, the way Kamui and Fuuma are. But then...they fall out so completely differently.
A/C has humour and fluff. S/S has angst and death. It's like there's two pairings' worth of each to be divided between them; GO got almost all the fluff, and X almost all the angst. There's some of the other, but not a lot. Not enough to destroy the ultimate image.
To my mind, A/C and S/S are antithesis to each other, the same beginning and characters that could seem the same, but such different endings! Good Omens is the X world where everyone (Heaven and Hell excepted) was a lot more sensible. And more prone to tell destiny to stop mucking around with their existence, they were busy. And cared less about the consequences of 'fraternizing with the enemy', which oddly enough made said consequences less severe. Damning (or possibly blessing) the consequences seems to work out better in the long run. Well, they're neither more dead nor more angsty then they were at the Beginning, and that's something, isn't it? (Oh, and did I mention that both pairings have a Capitalized code for their interactions? Only, per usual, A&C drew up a much less angst-inducing one.)
In concurrence with this, I must be sure to balance my depression-inducing S/S reading with an antidote dose of A/C. (What do you MEAN not canon? I don't see the authors objecting to angelslash, do you?)
I may be insane, but at least I'm insane with pretty patterns. And demons.
I have got to work on that X/GO fic. Never mind the fact that GO-tachi could take the entire X universe to the cleaners. I want to watch Crowley steal Seishirou's lines from TB 01 (Where else do so many people enjoy their descent into destruction?)(Well, Ankh-Morpork, for a start, but that's a crossover for another day) (Have I mentioned that Pterry owns a large portion of my soul?)
Although the HP section is 90% porn, but one HP/Good Omens crossover is worth it. Not like they're not labeled.
Going to work on my 'Illness in badfic' rant now. Good day for it (it's dark at 3:30, and has been raining and winding all day).
Aziraphale and Crowley have finally been declared by my mind to be the anti-Seishirou and Subaru. Exactly the same...except oh-so-different. If you're in any way familiar with both, just think about it for a moment.
Aziraphale : innocenct, powerful, essentially light but darkening, kind : Subaru (Well, TB-Subaru, because you have to start with the characters before they start influencing each other).
Crowley : (sunglasses-wearing), evil, equal and opposite, incorrigible,
A/C : attraction of opposites, character convergence, Apocalypse, defiance, destiny (death, delirium, destruction, dream, desire, despair), complexity, canon (is SO!), power : S/S
From that, you might say they were analogous, the way Kamui and Fuuma are. But then...they fall out so completely differently.
A/C has humour and fluff. S/S has angst and death. It's like there's two pairings' worth of each to be divided between them; GO got almost all the fluff, and X almost all the angst. There's some of the other, but not a lot. Not enough to destroy the ultimate image.
To my mind, A/C and S/S are antithesis to each other, the same beginning and characters that could seem the same, but such different endings! Good Omens is the X world where everyone (Heaven and Hell excepted) was a lot more sensible. And more prone to tell destiny to stop mucking around with their existence, they were busy. And cared less about the consequences of 'fraternizing with the enemy', which oddly enough made said consequences less severe. Damning (or possibly blessing) the consequences seems to work out better in the long run. Well, they're neither more dead nor more angsty then they were at the Beginning, and that's something, isn't it? (Oh, and did I mention that both pairings have a Capitalized code for their interactions? Only, per usual, A&C drew up a much less angst-inducing one.)
In concurrence with this, I must be sure to balance my depression-inducing S/S reading with an antidote dose of A/C. (What do you MEAN not canon? I don't see the authors objecting to angelslash, do you?)
I may be insane, but at least I'm insane with pretty patterns. And demons.
I have got to work on that X/GO fic. Never mind the fact that GO-tachi could take the entire X universe to the cleaners. I want to watch Crowley steal Seishirou's lines from TB 01 (Where else do so many people enjoy their descent into destruction?)(Well, Ankh-Morpork, for a start, but that's a crossover for another day) (Have I mentioned that Pterry owns a large portion of my soul?)
