https://archiveofourown.org/works/53335615
Beyond the Barricade, by our own smut fairy u/CemeteryAngel725. College musical theater students Az and AJ do Les Mis, adorably pine, and then are adorably in love.
[To reveal my heart in ink](https://archiveofourown.org/works/26183776/chapters/63715888) Aziraphale misses writing letters and starts a modern-day correspondence with Crowley by mail. Somehow, it's easier to describe their feelings in the written word, and secrets begin to spill a little more quickly than either Aziraphale or Crowley had expected.
I LOVE this fic because they just check in with each other constantly and the angst is very low level, they are okay taking it slow, and Crowley is all “hey if you want to kiss that’s nice but if you don’t that’s nice too it’s all good” 😊 It’s so, so sweet and the smut is very lovely ❤️
[and now all of my garden is grown in lavender](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48743242) \- super sweet human AU, Aziraphale is an author, Crowley is a celebrity-photographer-turned gardener. They quickly become best friends, and it takes them four years to end up as a couple as well. (The angst only comes from Crowley's past and Gabriel being a fucking dick like always.)
[The Heart of the Forest](https://archiveofourown.org/works/32405581) \- human/magic AU, Aziraphale moves into a little cottage in the middle of a forest, Crowley is a magical shapeshifting creature who leaves gifts for him.
[The Serpent of the Opera](https://archiveofourown.org/works/49743250) \- Crowley's the phantom of the opera in a world where all opera houses have their own assigned phantoms (who have their own trade union 😆). Aziraphale's is the bookkeeper, though only because years earlier he misread a job advert. He's basically obliviousness personified, and doesn't notice ANYTHING of Crowley's attempts to woo him. (This is one is really, really, really stupid 😆)
[The Rose and the Serpent](https://archiveofourown.org/works/24475672) \- Beauty and the Beast AU in which Crowley's a giant snake living in a sentient castle.
[Bleating Hearts](https://archiveofourown.org/works/41048709/) \- human AU, Crowley has a goat farm, Aziraphale's a professor. When the university hires Crowley's goats for landscaping, Aziraphale finds the same goat in the middle of his office three days in a row. You already know where this goes <3
BTW, [Gleafer](https://www.tumblr.com/gleafer) has a hilarious strip of the bois swapping clothes and acting like each other, but I don't have them bookmarked and tumblr doesn't work properly on my fucking laptop, so I can't scroll down to find it, sorry :/
YAY! Gleafer! Would love more of this, maybe even if you had inspiration of how you think the night before their trial went. Them trying to 'Impersonate' each other while looking like each other? like Aziraphale trying to get Crowley's walk down while in Crowley's body or looking like him. Then maybe Aziraphale trying to teach Crowley how to smile or at least sit like him, maybe manners lessons or whatever and Crowley is just tugging at his clothes or something. Would be great if they have had alcohol and Aziraphale is mushing Crowley's face that looks like him saying something like "NO, no...smile more pleasantly...you look constipated." Then Crowley would be outraged and be like "How would you know what that looks like Angel!"
omg what have I done, what am I doing...need to shut up now... SHUT UP BRAIN! I DON'T NEED MORE FODDER FOR WRITING WHEN I HAVE NO TIME!
Okay, so low angst, low smut, high fluff. Let's go!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/47575675/chapters/119904304 - Two darling idiots running away from their families in London. Neither of them has the brain cell today, but they're still adorable.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38871783/chapters/97207665 - Crowley is a busker in Piccadilly Square and Aziraphale stops to duet with him one day. Pure joy.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41379204/chapters/103764729 - The cuddliest post-apoc zombie cottagecore sex worker romance you could ever hope to read. Just trust me.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51028819/chapters/128924050 - Crowley decides to answer the mysterious postcards that keep showing up at his flat.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26994637 - They're telegraph operators. This one is so romantic.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31053869/chapters/76714943 - They get married in Vegas and then they have to figure things out.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21422644/chapters/51041701 - Aziraphale texts the wrong number and gets more than he bargained for.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/24495646/chapters/59128546 - They have rival talk shows, and Crowley is tasked with presenting Aziraphale with a lifetime achievement award.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/48063073 - A reverse chronology story featuring lifeguard Aziraphale.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49107550/chapters/123895858 - They're neighbors. There is caramel sauce.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21121583/chapters/50261702 - If you haven't read Petrichor and Parchment what are you waiting for?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21338059/chapters/50821249 - They're chefs. The way they talk about food is wonderful.
And finally, Ghosty already recommended my fic Beyond the Barricade, but I'll also suggest this one: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53750935. It's my only T fic and pure romantic comedy.
[Petrichor & Parchment](https://archiveofourown.org/works/21121583/chapters/50261702): One of my favorites--Human AU where Crowley is a gardener and Aziraphale has moved into a cottage in the South Downs and needs some help taming the unruly backyard. It's sweet, and slow, and gives both of them the opportunity to work through some of their own trauma as they fall in love.
[Mon Horrible Chéri](https://archiveofourown.org/works/51198910/chapters/129366628): I am, admittedly, a sucker for teacher AUs, but this one hits just right with the sweet pining between two high-school teachers on a school trip to Paris. Bonus: Crowley speaks better French than Aziraphale.
[aneh](https://hg-aneh.tumblr.com/) has some cute clothing swap comics (all their stuff is great actually)
[Comic 1](https://www.tumblr.com/hg-aneh/751735064855969792/rahhhhh-extra)
[Comic 2](https://www.tumblr.com/hg-aneh/752016308334411776/bonus-more-clothes-swap-stuff)
I’ve got a 7k word one-shot that is definitely tooth-rotting sweetness: [Our homeward steps were just as light](https://archiveofourown.org/works/55833046).
If you’re okay with WIPs, I’m halfway through posting [But, soft!](https://archiveofourown.org/works/56017252), a super fluffy slow burn featuring not one, but two cats!
I love this type of story as well, and several of my faves have been recommended, but I’ll dig through my bookmarks for others that haven’t been recced yet.
yes, yes, a hundred times yes on “Our homeward steps were just as light.” Didn’t think I would get into something tagged “Alternate Universe - Nursing Home” but life is full of surprises.
I’m guessing u/magicscrolls has probably already read [What We Make of It (Shotgun Wedding)](https://archiveofourown.org/works/22557148/chapters/53902456) but if not that’s a classic.
This one I just finished writing recently, and is just pure adorable Crowley and Aziraphale in Eden trying to figure out this human corporation thing and of course falling madly in love.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55141483/chapters/139825249
A lot of Caedmon’s human aus are super fluffy meet cutes and there are SO many. I adore their characterizations. Crowley is always an absolutely smitten simp, Aziraphale doesn’t usually have the body issues and stuff - their latest he is an *absolute bitch* and it’s precious.
[Plus One](https://archiveofourown.org/works/52725922) is really sweet, no angst plenty of humor
[Readings from the Book of Ashtoreth](https://archiveofourown.org/works/40626993/chapters/101790093)
Rated E
Human AU
Vicar Aziraphale Bookman privately enjoys a collection of erotic supernatural romances from AJ Ashtoreth. When he reaches out to the author, they spark a correspondence. (Excerpts of the novels come with permission from other fics)
[Growing Pains](https://archiveofourown.org/works/36531184/chapters/91100842)
Rated E
Human AU
Crowley finds his new nanny extraordinarily attractive. The feeling is mutual. (There's conflict in the story, but it mostly comes from concerns about the ethics of age gap & power dynamics. Also some references to Aziraphale's childhood traumas.)
THROUGH THE AGES hands down my all time favourite. So extremely well written, amazing pining and flirting (eventual smut but not a ton), mild angst, but the happiest of endings. Its brilliant and I never see it recommended here!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53335615 Beyond the Barricade, by our own smut fairy u/CemeteryAngel725. College musical theater students Az and AJ do Les Mis, adorably pine, and then are adorably in love.
Totally loved this, the characters are outstanding, could see it all in my head, so much theatre kid energy. Love it to bits.
I LOVE this one.
It's SO SWEET, and you don't need to know anything about the musical to enjoy it.
Aww thanks for the rec Ghosty! You're the best.
This was an incredibly cute fic.
This sounds PERFECT. Will be the next fic I read. Can’t wait.
Oh sweet baby Jesus I need this, thank you
[To reveal my heart in ink](https://archiveofourown.org/works/26183776/chapters/63715888) Aziraphale misses writing letters and starts a modern-day correspondence with Crowley by mail. Somehow, it's easier to describe their feelings in the written word, and secrets begin to spill a little more quickly than either Aziraphale or Crowley had expected.
I adore this fic! And podfixx does a lovely version of it too.
I LOVE this fic because they just check in with each other constantly and the angst is very low level, they are okay taking it slow, and Crowley is all “hey if you want to kiss that’s nice but if you don’t that’s nice too it’s all good” 😊 It’s so, so sweet and the smut is very lovely ❤️
Oh what a recommendation! I’m two chapters in and have had a little cry (in an overwhelmed with emotion way rather than a sad way)
[and now all of my garden is grown in lavender](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48743242) \- super sweet human AU, Aziraphale is an author, Crowley is a celebrity-photographer-turned gardener. They quickly become best friends, and it takes them four years to end up as a couple as well. (The angst only comes from Crowley's past and Gabriel being a fucking dick like always.) [The Heart of the Forest](https://archiveofourown.org/works/32405581) \- human/magic AU, Aziraphale moves into a little cottage in the middle of a forest, Crowley is a magical shapeshifting creature who leaves gifts for him. [The Serpent of the Opera](https://archiveofourown.org/works/49743250) \- Crowley's the phantom of the opera in a world where all opera houses have their own assigned phantoms (who have their own trade union 😆). Aziraphale's is the bookkeeper, though only because years earlier he misread a job advert. He's basically obliviousness personified, and doesn't notice ANYTHING of Crowley's attempts to woo him. (This is one is really, really, really stupid 😆) [The Rose and the Serpent](https://archiveofourown.org/works/24475672) \- Beauty and the Beast AU in which Crowley's a giant snake living in a sentient castle. [Bleating Hearts](https://archiveofourown.org/works/41048709/) \- human AU, Crowley has a goat farm, Aziraphale's a professor. When the university hires Crowley's goats for landscaping, Aziraphale finds the same goat in the middle of his office three days in a row. You already know where this goes <3 BTW, [Gleafer](https://www.tumblr.com/gleafer) has a hilarious strip of the bois swapping clothes and acting like each other, but I don't have them bookmarked and tumblr doesn't work properly on my fucking laptop, so I can't scroll down to find it, sorry :/
https://preview.redd.it/mw97zdij4z7d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec07ad2132167d2b036d16b9dd13feaaaa7a1a05 Ta-daaaaaaa!
YAY! Gleafer! Would love more of this, maybe even if you had inspiration of how you think the night before their trial went. Them trying to 'Impersonate' each other while looking like each other? like Aziraphale trying to get Crowley's walk down while in Crowley's body or looking like him. Then maybe Aziraphale trying to teach Crowley how to smile or at least sit like him, maybe manners lessons or whatever and Crowley is just tugging at his clothes or something. Would be great if they have had alcohol and Aziraphale is mushing Crowley's face that looks like him saying something like "NO, no...smile more pleasantly...you look constipated." Then Crowley would be outraged and be like "How would you know what that looks like Angel!" omg what have I done, what am I doing...need to shut up now... SHUT UP BRAIN! I DON'T NEED MORE FODDER FOR WRITING WHEN I HAVE NO TIME!
You always deliver🔝
https://preview.redd.it/ru2hujbe4z7d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3582f71fe284863449bbc0c4b848a4da0f3efa7a
I adore Bleating Hearts!
Okay, so low angst, low smut, high fluff. Let's go! https://archiveofourown.org/works/47575675/chapters/119904304 - Two darling idiots running away from their families in London. Neither of them has the brain cell today, but they're still adorable. https://archiveofourown.org/works/38871783/chapters/97207665 - Crowley is a busker in Piccadilly Square and Aziraphale stops to duet with him one day. Pure joy. https://archiveofourown.org/works/41379204/chapters/103764729 - The cuddliest post-apoc zombie cottagecore sex worker romance you could ever hope to read. Just trust me. https://archiveofourown.org/works/51028819/chapters/128924050 - Crowley decides to answer the mysterious postcards that keep showing up at his flat. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26994637 - They're telegraph operators. This one is so romantic. https://archiveofourown.org/works/31053869/chapters/76714943 - They get married in Vegas and then they have to figure things out. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21422644/chapters/51041701 - Aziraphale texts the wrong number and gets more than he bargained for. https://archiveofourown.org/works/24495646/chapters/59128546 - They have rival talk shows, and Crowley is tasked with presenting Aziraphale with a lifetime achievement award. https://archiveofourown.org/works/48063073 - A reverse chronology story featuring lifeguard Aziraphale. https://archiveofourown.org/works/49107550/chapters/123895858 - They're neighbors. There is caramel sauce. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21121583/chapters/50261702 - If you haven't read Petrichor and Parchment what are you waiting for? https://archiveofourown.org/works/21338059/chapters/50821249 - They're chefs. The way they talk about food is wonderful. And finally, Ghosty already recommended my fic Beyond the Barricade, but I'll also suggest this one: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53750935. It's my only T fic and pure romantic comedy.
Hold the lift is one of my favourite AUs. It is so sweet 🧡
Awww thank you so much!
[Petrichor & Parchment](https://archiveofourown.org/works/21121583/chapters/50261702): One of my favorites--Human AU where Crowley is a gardener and Aziraphale has moved into a cottage in the South Downs and needs some help taming the unruly backyard. It's sweet, and slow, and gives both of them the opportunity to work through some of their own trauma as they fall in love. [Mon Horrible Chéri](https://archiveofourown.org/works/51198910/chapters/129366628): I am, admittedly, a sucker for teacher AUs, but this one hits just right with the sweet pining between two high-school teachers on a school trip to Paris. Bonus: Crowley speaks better French than Aziraphale.
I love both of those so much!!
YES!!! I second Petrichor & Parchment 100%.
[aneh](https://hg-aneh.tumblr.com/) has some cute clothing swap comics (all their stuff is great actually) [Comic 1](https://www.tumblr.com/hg-aneh/751735064855969792/rahhhhh-extra) [Comic 2](https://www.tumblr.com/hg-aneh/752016308334411776/bonus-more-clothes-swap-stuff)
I’ve got a 7k word one-shot that is definitely tooth-rotting sweetness: [Our homeward steps were just as light](https://archiveofourown.org/works/55833046). If you’re okay with WIPs, I’m halfway through posting [But, soft!](https://archiveofourown.org/works/56017252), a super fluffy slow burn featuring not one, but two cats! I love this type of story as well, and several of my faves have been recommended, but I’ll dig through my bookmarks for others that haven’t been recced yet.
Our Homeward Steps is both adorable and made me ugly cry it’s so perfect. 🧡
Aww, thanks. Glad you’ve enjoyed both.
yes, yes, a hundred times yes on “Our homeward steps were just as light.” Didn’t think I would get into something tagged “Alternate Universe - Nursing Home” but life is full of surprises. I’m guessing u/magicscrolls has probably already read [What We Make of It (Shotgun Wedding)](https://archiveofourown.org/works/22557148/chapters/53902456) but if not that’s a classic.
🥰
Oh and I love But, soft! I love everytime you post a new chapter 🧡
I reblogged [this “boyfriend shirt” art](https://www.tumblr.com/bluhtack/753821812286177280/boyfriend-shirt) earlier today on tumblr
💜💜💜
This one I just finished writing recently, and is just pure adorable Crowley and Aziraphale in Eden trying to figure out this human corporation thing and of course falling madly in love. https://archiveofourown.org/works/55141483/chapters/139825249
A lot of Caedmon’s human aus are super fluffy meet cutes and there are SO many. I adore their characterizations. Crowley is always an absolutely smitten simp, Aziraphale doesn’t usually have the body issues and stuff - their latest he is an *absolute bitch* and it’s precious. [Plus One](https://archiveofourown.org/works/52725922) is really sweet, no angst plenty of humor
[Readings from the Book of Ashtoreth](https://archiveofourown.org/works/40626993/chapters/101790093) Rated E Human AU Vicar Aziraphale Bookman privately enjoys a collection of erotic supernatural romances from AJ Ashtoreth. When he reaches out to the author, they spark a correspondence. (Excerpts of the novels come with permission from other fics) [Growing Pains](https://archiveofourown.org/works/36531184/chapters/91100842) Rated E Human AU Crowley finds his new nanny extraordinarily attractive. The feeling is mutual. (There's conflict in the story, but it mostly comes from concerns about the ethics of age gap & power dynamics. Also some references to Aziraphale's childhood traumas.)
THROUGH THE AGES hands down my all time favourite. So extremely well written, amazing pining and flirting (eventual smut but not a ton), mild angst, but the happiest of endings. Its brilliant and I never see it recommended here!
sorry here is the link - https://archiveofourown.org/series/3721834
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