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Okay, so I don't often do fic recommendations and never before on this blog, but my readers, I have found a fic so near and dear to my heart I cannot imagine why I didn't think of this myself. But I didn't, and this writer did, and I am so happy my chest might burst.

So let me lay out the warnings first: this is fundamentally a ravishment fantasy fic, although the author doesn't use those terms, and as such is kinky as fuck. It is also the first time our bene elohim have done something properly kinky, and the fic is a beautiful roadmap of How To Do Your First Kinky Stuff Correctly. There is explicit negotiated consent, boundaries set, a safeword chosen, and they even both discuss aftercare *for the top too* ahead of time and then actually do it. There is so much consent. There is a realistic 'top drop' moment. This is juicy and amazing and relatable and slightly awkward in that way that first scenes are. Given that I read Aziraphale as the bottomiest power bottom to ever bottom and Crowley as a service top, this was perfect and amazing. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Downfall (4442 words) by idiopathicsmile
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Kink Negotiation, Sexual Roleplay, Cuddling & Snuggling, Rape Roleplay
Summary:

From the kinkmeme: "rape fantasy, Aziraphale might have fantasized a fair amount about Crowley tempting him quite forcefully, with lots of talk about how he'll be tainted, how he'll Fall just like he did so long ago. When they get together post-Apocalypse, Aziraphale shares his fantasies with Crowley and he's happy to indulge them."

Established relationship, feat. consent, negotiation, safewords, and cuddling after.

 

They didn’t choose a particular time or place, but that Friday, when Aziraphale let himself into his upstairs flat after a long day of refusing to sell a single book to find Crowley sprawled in the most comfortable armchair, he just sort of knew.

“Angel,” said Crowley by way of greeting.

“Demon,” said Aziraphale, trying hard to remember the polite, distant way he’d addressed Crowley several thousand years ago. Smiling was right out, he knew that much. He could already feel his breath quickening.

Not very hurt/comfort-y, though.

Call Me A Doctor - Doctor Insano gets to stretch his M.D., on his archenemy no less. Warning for medical stuff, general blood and gore, and offscreen violence.

There are moments in one's fannish life when one needs to ask, "How did I get here?" (*Pauses for a moment to let David Byrne repeat "Same as it ever was," to fade-out.*)

Being a person who is On The Internet, I had been aware of Doug Walker/The Nostalgia Critic/That Guy With the Glasses in a vague sort of way for quite a while, and The Angry Video Game Nerd in an even vaguer one, back when LJ was still a thing and I had never heard of Tumblr. But prior to late 2011, I rarely if ever paid attention to web video as a medium, partly because if we went much further back than that my broadband connection wasn't really good enough. The first of what we might refer to as the denizens of the Reviewerverse that I actually started watching was Yahtzee, somewhere around the fall of 2011; from there, I discovered MovieBob via The Big Picture and Escape to the Movies, Jim Sterling via the Jimquisition, and a few others (Extra Credits and Loading Ready Run in particular, although EC made their exit from the Escapist not long after).

I became a fan of MovieBob in particular, and found his other long-running series, the Game OverThinker; this was the first time I went back and schlurped up a reviewer's entire canon - and the first one with story segments. It took them a while to grow on me (especially since his early ones were, to be blunt, terrible), but grow they did. At some point, one of his fans on whom they had not grown, not even a little, told him to stop trying to be Linkara. This piqued my interest, but upon investigating, I decided I wasn't sufficiently interested in comics for that to be worth my time. More fool me.

MovieBob and Jim Sterling were why I, as someone who was profoundly Not The Target Audience, decided to go to SGC 2013 anyway. (Dallas is a cheap trip from here.) I know I saw at least one panel with Spoony on it, but I'll be honest - I don't remember anything about it. I have a vague memory of MarzGurl also being on a panel, but I could be mixing her up with someone else. Getting to have an actual conversation with MovieBob and a small group of other fans was worth the trip, but I haven't been tempted to go back to SGC since then.

I drifted out of fandom to some extent in the back half of 2013 through the first half of 2014. Around October-ish of 2014, my housemate stumbled across Todd in the Shadows on Twitter and followed the link to Blip. This resulted in us mainlining both Todd and the Rap Critic over Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks that year. That was, after all this time, our entry into the TGWTG/Chez Apocalypse/Channel Awesome web video world. And that led to Brows Held High, and that led to - finally - Atop the 4th Wall. It was at this point that I found out what MovieBob had been palely imitating, and what Lewis had done with it in the intervening two and a half years. It also led to the Channel Awesome anniversary movies, and while most of them are various shades of terrible (from just amateurish to entertainingly awful), I do think Suburban Knights mostly holds up as a story on its own and I wish there were more to the shared 'verse in that vein.

The rest, you can see here, more or less. After my standard method of tripping over people on the web far later than they deserve, though, I have found one more to add to this pile of web personalities, and I have Lindsay to thank for it.

After some kerfluffle involving the hotdogs-to-the-face gif being used without her permission (in February-ish? of this year), she mentioned that she had properly licensed it to someone else, and then in April linked to that video when it came out. The video in question was a brief educational video about framerates, using a parodic homage to the hotdogs in which the host takes a lovingly-restaged faceful of frankfurters - to a curiously silvered face, in an accent I couldn't place. I filed this away for later, it having aired after Spring Break and me having no time to investigate. More or less by whim of the Algorithm, the same video resurfaced in my YouTube recommendations, and my curiosity about why this CD dude who looked a little like he could be the older brother of Alec from Technology Connections (another YouTuber worth a look, BTW, but persona-less and therefore not fair game for fic even by my admittedly loose standards) and was covering semi-adjacent material was wearing a half-face of chrome.

It turns out he's a viral video debunker, the last skeptic-community YouTuber left standing who has neither turned fashy nor fallen into the protective orbit of the Vlogbrothers, working on a semi-pivot into proper Educational YouTube, and he's been here since 2007! Even better - he's had at least vague hints of storyline since the beginning, and since digital visual effects are (well, were, before Patreon) his day job, they were never terrible. Like MovieBob and Linkara both, he starts with white-dude politics that leave a metallic bitter taste across several of his early videos - and like them, he largely outgrew them when the online world turned into a trash fire around him. (Again, praise to Lindsay; without her implicit stamp of approval I might have choked on some of the early stuff.) Like MovieBob but unlike Linkara, Captain Disillusion does not have nearly enough fanfic, and I think it's high time that changed.

Progress on "Geometric Proof" will continue on Tuesday or Wednesday. Trying to get back on an academic sleep cycle.