La pasticherie de Petra

In the second season of the television show Good Omens (released in 2023), sequel to the novel of the same name (1990), and the film Trigger (2010), sequel to Hard Core Logo (1996), there is a prominent focus on a relationship between two female characters who did not exist in their respective preceding properties. While Good Omens explores the space of possibility between an extant uncomfortable relationship and a nascent potentially positive one through focusing on the new and exciting exploration, Trigger digs into the unresolved tensions of the characters' tumultuous history together, introducing the viewer to the new characters by giving them a long and checkered past. In both works, there is a dimension of sexuality and romance between the characters that both parallels and underscores the relationships between the main male characters in each original work, showing a different side of how those characters interact by providing foils and mirrors. The female characters are broadly similar to the males they parallel, but the problematics of differentiating them as separate characters gives their stories both an inherent attraction for fans of the originals and a motive force of their own. This too is yuri. In this essay I will

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Book:

torch's and when he falls, graven on my very soul, the first Good Omens slash I ever read (1999). Tackles angel tackle very gently.

afrai's The Sacred and the Profane, a roleswap that's still as gutting as it was when it began.

Daegaer's everything, but start with Captain Crowley for the WWI feels.

Also Daegaer's always human AU, Ordinary People, a pairing I still ship super hard.

S1:

Triedunture's everything but start with Wings and How to Hide Them.

singlecrow's lest they be angels in disguise and everything else they've ever written, but Crowley's insta is a classic.

Meta on the difference between book!Crowley and TV!Crowley, and where the two versions might have come from Gaiman-wise.

sousverre's epic Strange Pilgrims: Being the Account of a lost Angel, the Journeys of a Demon, the meaning of Free Will, of the Unravelling of a Prophecy, and of Being Unravelled by it in Turn which I looked forward to from chapter 1 to when it finished posting two months ago.

Edward Teach is the Kraken, Our Flag Means Death-style. The wrinkles and the tentacles made me flail in equal measure.

By the same artist, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, so perfectly the way my brain pictures him that it made me gasp.