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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Anthony Crowley has known London longer than London has known him. Every cut-through, cab rank, one-way system, theatre crowd, and hidden churchyard.

    That’s the point of the Knowledge: the grueling, multi-part test every London black cab driver has to pass, thousands of streets and landmarks learned so thoroughly the city lives inside one’s head.
    Crowley passed it years ago.

    But when he falls for Aziraphale Fell, a soft-spoken, waistcoat-wearing examiner he has absolutely no excuse to ever encounter, Crowley does the only reasonable thing — he digs out his old birth certificate, registers under a name he hasn’t used in years, and signs up to fail the Knowledge on purpose.

    Just one Appearance, he tells himself. Answer well, withdraw gracefully, ask the man out, done in twenty minutes.

    Naturally, it doesn’t go that way.

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    25 Jun 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    It started, as many such cases often did, as a tickle.

    Crowley woke up feeling it in the back of his throat the next morning and immediately knew he was fucked.

    Not actually, yet; sure, the frog that had leapt and lodged itself between his tonsils and larynx was annoying and scratchy, but he could still ignore it.

    He told himself he would find a way to burn it out before it could set up shop.

    Yes, he was aware that particular statement went directly against his cold-bloodied reality, yes, that included keeping Aziraphale in the dark about the whole thing and no, Crowley wasn’t prepared to talk about it.

    Aziraphale and Crowley moved to their cottage in the South Downs a little over a year ago, and think themselves out of trouble. They’re wrong. Six thousand years is a long time for everything not to happen at least once; and it’s all Crowley’s fault.

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    13 Jun 2026

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  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    Crowley and Aziraphale have finally entered into a romantic relationship, only to discover that was the easy part. Figuring out feelings and sex takes rather more work: Crowley struggles to say things out loud, while Aziraphale worries that increasingly kinky sex might somehow jeopardise their romance. What follows is a series of meals, arguments, reconciliations, confessions, and sexual misadventures as they spend their first few months together stumbling, fumbling, and ultimately finding their way to a happily ever after.

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    11 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    In the bookshop at the beginning of the universe, Crowley and Aziraphale work together to author reality back into existence one handwritten page at a time. It all feels terribly cosmic and profound until the headache begins, followed shorted by the hand cramps. Unable to continue holding the pen, they may finally have to hold a few long-avoided conversations — or perhaps simply spend some time holding hands. [I was challenged to write E-rated hand holding, it predictably grew out of control.]

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    11 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 39

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    Aziraphale sees sound, words and feelings as colours.

    Crowley sees the world without colour at all – only shades of grey, light, shadow and texture.

    When they meet, they begin, carefully and almost accidentally, to show each other how the world looks from their side.

    A story of perception, translation, and the courage of allowing yourself to be seen in full colour.

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    09 Jun 2026