Ineffably Sleepy

Good Omens HQ on TikTok posted this video clip of Aziraphale’s bookshop- with the caption simply being ‘Soon’…

Time to get excited, folks!!!

And what could I say? What a year.

12 months ago I would‘ve NEVER guessed the impact this fandom would have on my life, how many people I‘d suddenly have who scream about Good Omens, and a the wonderful friends i gained during this year. @riathedreamer @hopelesslysleepy @nonamejustlurking thank you so much for your friendship ❤️ I‘m so glad I met you ❤️

Good Omens is more than a show. It‘s a fandom full of crazily talented people and wonderful goblins like me.

Thank you so much for sticking with me and to a wonderful year 2025 ❤️

I have big plans - stay tuned👀

TO OUR WORLD 🥂

What an absolutely breathtaking collection you’ve created in just one year in the GO fandom! Miez, your talent is truly unparalleled!! I’m obsessed with your style and the stunning way you bring both of them to life! I’m SO excited to see the magic you’ll create in 2025!

do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like “I guess I’ll watch that show” can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life

All. The. Time.

The series of events that caused me to watch Good Omens is wild and especially when I consider the impact it has made on my life.

Back in 2001: American Gods is published, and my then-boyfriend is really excited about it. So I go to the bookstore with him. They have a display of other books by the same author. “Oh,” say I, picking up a paperback, “there’s one co-written with Terry Pratchett? I’ve enjoyed a couple of Discworld books. I’ll grab this one to read while you read American Gods, and then we can trade.”

Eighteen years later: Watching the TV adaptation with the same boyfriend-turned-husband. We both adore the Tennant/Sheen Ineffables. I read a good deal of fanfiction about them.

Four years after that: Unexpectedly, we get a Season 2. I watch in cautious excitement.

The last fifteen minutes destroy me.

I write a fic to cope. In fact, at first, I don’t even clock that it is a fic. It’s just a scene playing in my head so loudly that I have to write it down. I write it in my journal, like I do with most things I can’t stop thinking about. I figure I’ll get it out of my head, and then things will settle down.

Lol. Lmao, even.

In fairly short order, it occurs to me that yes, this is fanfiction. It also occurs to me that there is a website for that. I read over my fic and think to myself, “Well. It isn’t the best fic I’ve ever read. It is also, very definitely, not the worst fic I’ve ever read. People post all kinds of stuff on AO3. After all… why shouldn’t I?”

One year after that:

I have revived my long-buried love of writing fiction, and it feeds a part of me that has been starving. I have a thriving new hobby and a whole bunch of new friends. I have driven hours to meet two different bunches of them in person, and they are wonderful. Truly, thoroughly wonderful.

I know now that I am still capable of play. Of doing something just for the joy of it. I know now that loneliness isn’t inescapable, and that community — even family — is still findable.

How we all doing this morning? Hope we’re all getting some sleep, hydrating, remembering to breathe etc.

Remember we got each other

It’ll be okay, better than! We have each other.

*leans uncomfortably close*

FOREVERRRRRRRR

AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER

so, the hurricane has left me at my house with no power for what could be days. monday is apparently the latest eta. it’s so hot here i don’t think i want to gamble with it, so if i can gather some extra funds i would feel secure enough to grab my cat and go to my friends place a couple hours away until then.

buying a print or stickers from my shop would really help out, and sharing always appreciated 🙏

I did celebrate in the server yesterday, but I forgot to scream here!

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the official Footnotes server! I remember being so anxious about attempting to start a Discord server for my fic - would people be nice, would there be drama, would people care, would people even join?

I expected maybe a handful of readers and I would be grateful for every one of them.

And now, a year later, we are almost 150 people in there, and I cannot imagine not having this amazing community full of kind, supportive, funny talented people! People who comfort each other, who hang out, who praise each other, who inspire each other! All the lovely movie nights and voice chats! The chaos after dropping a chapter, and the speculation - Oh the speculation! Writing a mystery fic, I always hoped readers would have fun finding and playing with clues. I am forever amazed seeing how clever and observant my readers are when they share their thoughts in the Spec Hub - which has *28K messages alone* in that channel!

The fact we have a channel dedicated to resources - timelines, summaries of theories, conspiracy board!

That we have a fanart *archive* because we ran out of pins in the main fanart channel!

But most importantly - that I wake up always having someone to talk to. It's been a tough year personally, and according to my parents, this server has saved me. This place has given me friends, a sense of purpose, so many souls willing to listen and be supportive! The fact that I see people in the server becoming friends with each other is so so heartwarming. The fact that some have met in real life - and that more are planning to do so!

The internet can be a rotten place most of the time, but the Footnotes server is such a light in the dark, and I am so grateful for all of you.

Man, this post is just pure gushing, but I still cannot believe I am lucky enough to have all of this.

Anyway, join the fun and become a sad, gay bird in the Footnotes server!

To the stars we haven't seen yet!

So six weeks ago this happened (I cannot for the life of me remember context):

And now - after six weeks of constant messaging, video chats so long our phones gave up before we did, and the most inept, ridiculous, blustering attempts at flirting known to humankind - I am so freaking proud and happy and excited and awed and amazed to say that neither of us belong in that club anymore.

@pannotbread was very brave and asked me to be her girlfriend and, after I'd finished blushing and stammering, I said yes 🥰

I am grateful to @maaikeatthefullmoon for recommending UTSS, because as soon as I read it I knew I had to talk to the person behind it: they wrote about love, loneliness and longing in the exact same way I did, it felt almost like reading my own heart in fragments. And then as soon as we started talking, we were writing essays, punctuated with "omg me too!" and "Yes, you get it!" - within days I knew I was, as my Crowley would say, utterly fucked.

Six weeks from being sure I was dying alone, to suddenly and completely unexpectedly feeling seen, understood, and cared for in ways that scrape me to the bone.

I adore this human with my whole heart and although we don't have an easy or conventional road ahead of us, I am just so freaking grateful for her, for her huge heart and bravery, her glorious bastard streak and delicious sense of humour, and a smile that never fails to knock me for six. It's more than I could ever have dared to hope for.

And, in related news, we might be working on a top secret project together, too... (also grateful for helping me find my joy in writing again)

For us at least, the nightingales are singing.

To our world 🥂

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

LMAO! I am literally cackling. Happily, of course! The AO3 tags are practically writing themselves in my head right now...

ineffable wives, ineffable fandom, ineffable romance, fanfic writers to lovers, there was only one brain cell, soulmate au, requited unrequited love, oblivious phoen1xr0se (good omens fandom), oblivious pannotbread (good omens fandom), pining, angst with a happy ending, not really though, fluff, nightingales sang in berkeley square, all the feelings, late night chats, will there be puffins?

I'll stop right here, before this gets completely out of hand! 😉

Congratulations! I am so happy for you! To your world, indeed! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

BAHAHAHAHAHA this made me laugh SO much 😆

Please please PLEASE donate to @phoen1xr0se’s crowdfunder! Even the finest bit helps. She has done so much for our little (or, not so little) fandom and is just sosososi wonderful. It’s a super difficult situation to be in, I can speak from experience as a kid growing up with similar circumstances. She is sososo wonderful for reaching out so much and I wish her absolutely nothing but the best for everything going on. Thank you, fandom mom <3

Oh my goodness, nobody has ever drawn me before 🥹🙈

Thank you for this, it means so much that you'd go to this much trouble to help out! As @lvndrlondonfog said, we are over three quarters of the way there now!

I've been absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and care from the community; this wonderful, ineffable fandom that has saved my life on countless occasions with its warmth and kindness and doing so again now. I don't know how I'll ever be able to thank you.

Please, if you have anything at all to spare, throw it our way, there's literally no amount too small that it wouldn't make a difference. You can find our crowdfunder here.

And my kiddos are back on the drawing wagon and want to know what you'd like them to draw for you next:

Vote and reblog, especially if you're not able to donate or have done already, try and get this into new corners of the fandom.

Thank you, always, forever, yours,

What a fantastic art and for such a precious cause, too! Loving it, beautifully done!!

Silly little edit that came from a Facebook post 😂