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  1. Rec 30

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    ‘You always take the moral high ground, don’t you?’
    Crowley stood with his hands on his hips, his face impassive. Aziraphale flushed red and looked defensive.
    ‘That is hardly fair, and anyway, you are only saying that because you’re a…’
    ‘Oh, here we go! Not this again. I know damn well what I am, you don’t need to tell me, again. I don’t need this. I don’t need this from you…’
    Crowley was furious, his mouth a hard line. Aziraphale looked perturbed, wringing his hands in front of his body.
    ‘Crowley, don’t be ridiculous, I…’
    ‘No, enough, I’m out of here, Angel, gonna get my foul presence away from your sight. And don’t try to contact me, where I’m going I can’t be contacted,’ he grimaced and swung round to head for the door, ‘and believe me, I won’t be thinking about you while I am away.’

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    03 Nov 2025

  2. Rec 43

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    Aziraphale and Crowley finally get their picnic.

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    01 Nov 2025

  3. Rec 38

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    Crowley scowls. “Angel, if I hear ‘Nimrod’ one more time, I won’t be responsible for my actions.”
    “Tum tee, tum tee, tummmm te, tum tee tum,” hums his Adversary, in time to the sound of the train. “Rather good, that one — though I grant, a smidge overplayed. But Heaven doesn’t want another set of character sketches from Elgar. Heaven wants him to do an oratorio. A proper one. An hour and a half of morally-improving music on the Judgment of the Soul.”
    “Your lot can want Eddie to write a five-act musical performed on the flying trapeze. Naked. Just leave me out of it.”

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    Or: Probably the longest work on AO3 to be (mostly) from the POV of English composer and noted moustache-owner Edward Elgar, who doesn't know how lucky he is to be tagged on here so rarely.

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    01 Nov 2025

  4. Rec 58

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    Aziraphale desperately wants to come clean about his feelings for Crowley, but cannot seem to find the words. On a typical lazy Saturday morning at the bookshop, he decides to try to express his affection in a novel way via a series of clues supposedly for that morning’s crossword. Crowley, gloriously ignorant of the angel’s intentions, reluctantly agrees to assist with the puzzle. The ensuing conversation results in more than Aziraphale bargained for, but perhaps it will all be worth it in the end, if only Crowley can decipher that one remaining clue…

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    31 Oct 2025

  5. Rec 60

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    The London Library is Dr. Aziraphale Fell’s cathedral of calm - the tea in the Member's Room, his notes in immaculate rows in the Reading Room, silence thick enough to hear the dust settle.

    But then a stranger dares to scrawl clever little messages in the margins of his favourite books. Outrageous! Inexcusable! And yet… somehow, utterly irresistible.

    Anthony Crowley loathes his job and rebels against the futility of life by scribbling wicked little asides in priceless London Library books, never expecting an answer.

    Until someone writes back. Someone insufferably prim, precise and ... fascinating.

    What begins as a literary battle of wits might just unfold into an adventure neither of them anticipated.

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    30 Oct 2025