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Rec: Fic "Until the End That is To Come"
Title: Until the End That Is to Come (go_exchange link. Also here at the Good Omens Library)
Author:magicicada
Pairing/Characters: Anathema/Newt, also most of the whole cast of the book, past and present.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some suspense and violence, a couple of deaths
This was the last story to come in for the 2005 GO Exchange, just under the wire (magicicada was a pinch-hitter) and it took my breath away. The style is rich and dreamlike and the use of time is strange and it may take more than one reading to get it all to sink in. I’m usually wary and picky about second-attempt-at-the-Apocalypse stories—there has to be a good reason. This is one of my all-time favorites, because the way it uses humor and suspense has a feel that’s very close to the book (if even more surreal) and yet goes its own way, particularly with the voice of Anathema. It’s very funny, and it has moments of sheer terror, and it’s very moving.
It also uses almost the entire cast of the book and no one is acting in isolation here, even separated by time and geography. Anathema and Newt have a passionate but awkward relationship; they’re still getting to know each other, they bump into each other emotionally all the time, and the writing doesn’t flinch from the clumsiness. Newt is heroic by accident again. Greasy Johnson plays a key role, he and Adam have some common understanding on the proper care of wayward exotic species. Poor Crowley’s been abused by Hell again in a particularly ironic way and Aziraphale has to help him calm down and deal with it. And the end…comes, and it’s not what anyone expected. Anathema’s interior monologue has a bittersweet joy about it that’s almost Tolkienesque, and the character whose Big Moment actually moved me to tears? Dick Turpin’s. That’s right, the Wasabi.
Title: Until the End That Is to Come (
go_exchange link. Also here at the Good Omens Library)Author:
magicicadaPairing/Characters: Anathema/Newt, also most of the whole cast of the book, past and present.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some suspense and violence, a couple of deaths
This was the last story to come in for the 2005 GO Exchange, just under the wire (
magicicada was a pinch-hitter) and it took my breath away. The style is rich and dreamlike and the use of time is strange and it may take more than one reading to get it all to sink in. I’m usually wary and picky about second-attempt-at-the-Apocalypse stories—there has to be a good reason. This is one of my all-time favorites, because the way it uses humor and suspense has a feel that’s very close to the book (if even more surreal) and yet goes its own way, particularly with the voice of Anathema. It’s very funny, and it has moments of sheer terror, and it’s very moving. It also uses almost the entire cast of the book and no one is acting in isolation here, even separated by time and geography. Anathema and Newt have a passionate but awkward relationship; they’re still getting to know each other, they bump into each other emotionally all the time, and the writing doesn’t flinch from the clumsiness. Newt is heroic by accident again. Greasy Johnson plays a key role, he and Adam have some common understanding on the proper care of wayward exotic species. Poor Crowley’s been abused by Hell again in a particularly ironic way and Aziraphale has to help him calm down and deal with it. And the end…comes, and it’s not what anyone expected. Anathema’s interior monologue has a bittersweet joy about it that’s almost Tolkienesque, and the character whose Big Moment actually moved me to tears? Dick Turpin’s. That’s right, the Wasabi.
