We enjoyed the Good Omens miniseries (in spite of some difficulty in stopping thinking about maybe buying this house we want in order to think about it) and I thought it was really very good, although I spotted some flaws I want to enumerate later, and I do understand some of the reasons people might be justifiably dissatisfied with it as an adaptation (although, that said, I've also seen a few complaints that are still baffling to me).
I want to reread the book before I make an actual review and reaction post though, in order to do so in more detail. I used to have the book nearly memorized, as around 15 years ago now between 2004-2006(ish?) I was very active reading and participating in the lj-based fandom (and once remixing, which definitely contributed to the nearly memorizing bit, because of all the rereading and note-taking I had to do). But now I haven't read it in years, so the details have gone a bit fuzzy.
I'm already enjoying the discussions and meta, and have been especially thinking about the fact mentioned by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
brownbetty here that this canon presents an unusually and uniquely explicit case of a canon romantic relationship that is also canonically asexual (although as she also points out, not exactly in the sense of asexual humans). The reasons for stories like Crowley and Aziraphale's to be rendered in erotica in fanfiction are obvious, of course, but it's still a bit surprising that I've encountered so few serious attempts at a full-fledged and explicitly asexual romance in this fandom (particularly compared to other fandoms which have seen more ace exploration in spite of the ace element being mostly speculative). I'm also a bit bemused that that discrepancy didn't strike me more strongly fifteen years ago when I spent so much time in the fandom, but this is probably simply due to the increased visibility of asexuality and a great many more ace fics out there in the rest of fandom.
Still, this question is interesting to me, and we're seeing so much new fanfic already (already before the show even came out, if you want to get really specific - my one Good Omens fic was already getting a higher rate of notes a year ago or more and they've been increasing steadily since) that I think there's good reason to hope we'll see it explored more in the near future.
I want to reread the book before I make an actual review and reaction post though, in order to do so in more detail. I used to have the book nearly memorized, as around 15 years ago now between 2004-2006(ish?) I was very active reading and participating in the lj-based fandom (and once remixing, which definitely contributed to the nearly memorizing bit, because of all the rereading and note-taking I had to do). But now I haven't read it in years, so the details have gone a bit fuzzy.
I'm already enjoying the discussions and meta, and have been especially thinking about the fact mentioned by
brownbetty here that this canon presents an unusually and uniquely explicit case of a canon romantic relationship that is also canonically asexual (although as she also points out, not exactly in the sense of asexual humans). The reasons for stories like Crowley and Aziraphale's to be rendered in erotica in fanfiction are obvious, of course, but it's still a bit surprising that I've encountered so few serious attempts at a full-fledged and explicitly asexual romance in this fandom (particularly compared to other fandoms which have seen more ace exploration in spite of the ace element being mostly speculative). I'm also a bit bemused that that discrepancy didn't strike me more strongly fifteen years ago when I spent so much time in the fandom, but this is probably simply due to the increased visibility of asexuality and a great many more ace fics out there in the rest of fandom. Still, this question is interesting to me, and we're seeing so much new fanfic already (already before the show even came out, if you want to get really specific - my one Good Omens fic was already getting a higher rate of notes a year ago or more and they've been increasing steadily since) that I think there's good reason to hope we'll see it explored more in the near future.
