In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
10 Oct 2025
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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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- Part 1 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Confession by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
24 Oct 2025
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A lonely Senior Lecturer and an angry book-loving solicitor have found each other - and love - through secret, forbidden notes tucked into priceless London Library books.
This is what happens next.
Story One: Some very important confessions, elegantly executed. In the margins, of course.
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- Part 2 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: Moving in by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
29 Oct 2025
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After a courtship that was equal parts unconventional and somehow perfect - love notes hidden in library books, mischief, and mild chaos - our couple is apparently ready for the next big step. Or not. Who can say with them?
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- Part 3 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Fight by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
05 Nov 2025
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A wonderful opportunity. And a less-wonderful fight.
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- Part 4 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Distance by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Nov 2025
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Long Distance Relationships are hard.
Sometimes very, very hard ... 😉Series
- Part 5 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Hunt by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Nov 2025
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It's their second Hatchards Anniversary and Aziraphale has prepared a surprise ...
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- Part 6 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: Edinburgh by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
19 Nov 2025
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First week of living together again. Our lovely bibliophiles celebrate with a literary stroll through Edinburgh.
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- Part 7 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Wedding by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
26 Nov 2025
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Finally a wedding.
A very literary one.
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- Part 8 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The German Honeymoon by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
03 Dec 2025
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A honeymoon - full of literature, aggressive mustard, good beer and very sweet confectionary. It's Germany, after all.
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- Part 9 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Kindle Incident by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
08 Dec 2025
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Crowley buys an e-reader.
Aziraphale is ... unimpressed.
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- Part 10 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Other Anniversary by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
10 Dec 2025
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Crowley and Aziraphale have a habit of celebrating life’s milestones in peculiar ways. The day Aziraphale discovered the first snarky comment in the margins of "Paradise Lost". The day they first met in Hatchards. Their wedding day.
And then there’s the day they first… well. Today happens to be the third anniversary of that particular day. A celebration is in order, naturally - and, of course, literature must be involved.
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- Part 11 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Bad Book Hunt by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
17 Dec 2025
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On their fourth Hatchards anniversary, Crowley invents a new tradition: the Bad Book Hunt - a gleeful treasure trail through their most embarrassing, beloved, utterly indefensible reads.
Every guilty pleasure will be dragged into the light. The question is: can our heroes survive the truth … or will it make them love each other even more?
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- Part 12 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: A Christmas Carol by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
23 Dec 2025
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Newlyweds Aziraphale and Crowley take a stroll though London.
A literary stroll. On Christmas Eve. In full Victorian costume.
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- Part 13 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: Poetry for Two by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
31 Dec 2025
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Aziraphale writes a love poem for his husband. Crowley does too.
It does ... not go well.
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- Part 14 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Scandinavian Problem by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Jan 2026
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Aziraphale knows next to nothing about Scandinavian literature.
Crowley, naturally, considers this a situation requiring immediate intervention.Series
- Part 15 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: Lost (and Found) in Translation by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
14 Jan 2026
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An argument about translations becomes a long walk through languages, where both sides turn out to be right – and wrong.
A story about translation, marriage, and why arguing is sometimes a love language.
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- Part 16 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: What's Cooking? by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
20 Jan 2026
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A burned piece of toast turns into a lesson in love.
When Aziraphale decides to teach Crowley how to cook, the kitchen becomes a classroom, cookbooks become literature, and food becomes yet another way of caring for each other.
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- Part 17 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Children's Hour by thisisshiny for yokohamama
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
28 Jan 2026
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Aziraphale agrees to talk to primary school children about reading and immediately realises this is a terrible mistake. Crowley intervenes – with spreadsheets, graphic novels, and an aggressive defence of toilet humour.
Together, they attempt to convince a room full of children that books are not, in fact, rubbish.
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- Part 18 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: New Voices by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens - All Media Types
04 Feb 2026
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After forty years of reading and more than five years of happy bickering, Aziraphale and Crowley think they know quite a lot about literature.
Then they start reading Black authors, queer authors, new voices. They falter, argue, get confused, get uncomfortable - and discover that getting it “right” might not be the point.
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- Part 19 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story
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In the Margins: The Silver Screen by thisisshiny
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - All Media Types
11 Feb 2026
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Our beloved bibliophilic husbands turn a dinner-party argument about screen adaptations into a weekly viewing challenge. Complete with strong opinions, snacks, and academic overanalysis, of course.
Along the way, they once again learn that for them arguing about stories always means “I love you”.
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- Part 20 of In the Margins - A Literary Love Story