The Squire's Wife
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The Greater Tadfield Friends Of Music Autumn Concert by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
05 Oct 2020
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Anthony Crowley, marketing consultant and competent amateur flautist, finds he can at least flee the smoke and congestion of London if not the golden handcuffs of his job. He’s got no personal life to leave behind; he likes things anonymous, and rough, and even a little dangerous, and far enough from home that he won’t have to deal with entanglements. So what’s he doing obsessing about a mannerly, daintily groomed, kindly man who he’s not even sure is gay? And how’s he going to cope with a hotbed of gossip, a lovelorn tubist serenading the witch next door, and an irascible music director with a Black Belt in baton-throwing?
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- Part 1 of The Squire's Wife
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Scenes From Country Life by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
17 Feb 2021
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Some light snacks between courses for readers who wanted more of my human musician AU The Greater Tadfield Friends Of Music Autumn Concert-- a bit of sexy married life, a bit of wistful remembrance, a bit of kitchen disaster, a bit of pillow talk. Tadfield is about to claim Crowley even more firmly.
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- Part 2 of The Squire's Wife
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A Day In The City by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
11 Jun 2021
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Before Anthony Crowley left London for the countryside and married Aziraphale Fell, AKA the unofficial Squire of Tadfield, his personal life had devolved to a string of random pickups and risky one-night stands. He still feels a little abashed about bringing that history to a relationship, but his mannerly husband’s thought of just the thing to reassure him. It’s time for a day out in London.
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- Part 3 of The Squire's Wife
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The Squire's Wife by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
02 Aug 2021
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A couple of years on from The Greater Tadfield Friends Of Music Autumn Concert, Anthony Crowley, AKA the Squire’s Wife of Tadfield, finds himself adapting to a new role –– mentoring the young. The Them and their contemporaries are navigating puberty; the truculent little impresario of Tadfield’s amateur orchestra hosts an old girlfriend with a knack for creating discord; Gabriel’s nose is out of joint, and second chair French hornist Harv Hastur is dead sure he’s about to get lucky.
CW: There is zero "live" depiction of nonconsensual activity or underage sex, but a single offstage incident of unwelcome kissing is complained of by an underage character.
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- Part 4 of The Squire's Wife
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Froggy And Lizard, or, A Tadfield Tale by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
08 Aug 2021
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A brief coda to the most recent fic in the Squire’s Wife Tadfield AU Series, featuring Drs. Hastur and Liguri and their love of puerile pranks.
“I have been placed on something called administrative leave,” said Dr. Lizard. “I cannot go and teach the young how to explode things until I go before a review board. And I dare not explode anything myself before that is done. My life is very dull and I miss my work.”
“I know,” said Dr. Froggy. “We do not have to explode things to have some fun. Let me think of some jokes to play."
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- Part 5 of The Squire's Wife
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Tying The Knot, or, The Sergeant's Wedding by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
20 Aug 2021
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The sixth in the Squire's Wife series, an amateur-orchestra AU which opened with The Greater Tadfield Friends Of Music Autumn Concert (pining, farce and Rocky Horror) and then just... grew.
The Squire of Tadfield has his "wife," and Newton Pulsifer has long settled into wedded bliss with his witch and his tuba (we are not sure if he still plays her serenades). But there are still Tadfield couples in courtship mode. It's time to perplex the hapless Canon Crossley, appall an Oxford bespoke tailor, and recruit Crowley's
marketingbest-man skills.Just a short little feelgood fic in my most durable AU.
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- Part 6 of The Squire's Wife
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Serenade by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
18 Oct 2022
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A brief return visit to the Tadfield of the Squire’s Wife series, in part 4 of which Mother Shipton, an aptly named stray, made the husbands godfathers, more or less. One night about six months after the events of that fic, she has a mission to complete. Or, to repeat Neil Gaiman’s celebrated remark, cats do whatever the fuck they want to.
Unrepentant, lightweight feelgood fluff.
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- Part 7 of The Squire's Wife
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Masterful by CopperBeech
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
21 Jan 2023
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Part 8 of The Squire's Wife, a musician AU. The unofficial Squire of Tadfield and his husband have settled into comfortable domesticity, but that doesn’t mean they’re jaded, or that Anthony’s outgrown his tendency to feel anxious outside his comfort zone. Changing careers from self-employed consultant to secondary-school teacher involves the kind of bureaucratic scrutiny we could all do without. Aziraphale, on the other hand, knows what calms his husband’s nerves, and does a little shopping.
No cats were scandalised in the writing of this fic.
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- Part 8 of The Squire's Wife