8 Works by DiminishingReturns
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My Favorite Ghost by cassieoh_draws (cassieoh), DiminishingReturns
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
08 May 2022
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Decades after the world didn’t end, Heaven and Hell got their war — and nearly destroyed everything in the process.
When Aziraphale finally manages to reacquire a corporation and return to Earth, he discovers he was gone longer than he thought and the planet has become unrecognizable. As he searches for Crowley and tries to figure out how he fits in a world that Heaven, Hell, and God have all wiped their hands of, nature works around him to reclaim the bones of an old civilization as the scraps of humanity build a new one.
A lush and optimistic post-apocalypse story, told from the POV of an immortal who can't let go of the past.
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Adam Young may not be the Antichrist anymore, but he keeps stumbling into metaphysical easter eggs that his past self left behind while putting the world right. Sometimes it’s a platonic soulmate. Sometimes it’s water bears.
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Azra Fell has never dreamt his own dreams. Instead, he is pulled through other people's dreamscapes every night, able to observe but never to interact. That is, until a mysterious stranger draws him in one night and throws a wrench in everything he thought he knew about reality.
(it's crowley, the mysterious stranger is crowley)
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Shortly after Stanley's departure, Gustav finds a despondent Stella in the kitchen. They eat cake and talk it out.
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It should have been peaceful, drifting back home on the gentle touch of Death Incarnate. It should have been calm, simple, a decisive end to this ridiculous rebellion— but nothing is ever calm or simple when it comes to Zagreus, and Thanatos is called to collect him again and again. To complicate matters even more, Thanatos starts to long for the moments they steal in the hazy space between life and death...
Or: an AU where everything is the same, except every time Zagreus makes it to the surface, it's Thanatos, not the Styx, who brings him home.
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In the innocent time before the Fall complicated everything, one shy, studious chronicler and one curious, chaotic starmaker fell in love. They were left with no memory of each other, but the soul remembers what the mind forgets, and their experiences together left them with a unique kind of synesthesia— the emotional state, mannerisms, and voice of one having a paired physical response (smell, taste, or color) in the other.
Follow Aziraphale and Crowley from the pre-Fall times to the Apocalypse as these heightened earthly senses continually pull them back together. At first, they meet tentatively under Halley’s Comet, the last thing Crowley created as a starmaker and an excuse to keep returning to one another’s orbit. But over the millennia, their relationship deepens and they find new reasons to seek each other’s company.
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Through the branches there's a son that's always shone by DiminishingReturns
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
29 Oct 2019
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Eleven years ago, the world did not end and Warlock Dowling found himself thrust out of the spotlight. Now, half a lifetime later, he is finally settling into a life that feels right. A modest flat he can call his own, a supportive best friend who just so happens to also not be the Antichrist (anymore), and a bone-deep understanding of the meaning of family.
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An epilogue to Noisome Breath.
Or: the story of how Aziraphale and Crowley end up in a cottage in the South Downs after the world doesn't end. Crowley still asks too many questions, but he's learning to be at peace with not having all the answers - some questions are just about the joy of asking.
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- Part 2 of The Home On My Back