Slow Show

by Mia_ugly

In which temptations are accomplished, grand romantic gestures are made, and two ineffable co-stars only take four seasons of an award-winning television program to realize they’re on their own side (at last, at last.)

The ineffable showmance nobody asked for.

A special edition copy of Mia Ugly's "Slow Show". The cover is an original Dorywhynot the artist composed for the story.

All proceeds go to printing and The Coalition for The Homeless.

Genres: Fan Fiction, LGBT, Fiction

416 pages, Unknown Binding

Published November 1, 2020

Reviews

[Matty Cameira]

yes. it is a 90k word fanfic. yes i absolutely loved it. i was sobbing by the end of it. the angst. the fluff of it all. anyways, iconic.

[Emma Tweitmann]

I have read this story four times now. And each and every time it takes my breath away.

This is a story that is unafraid to show brokenness, and pain, and love, and identity in all its ugly beautiful complexity.

You’re still here. I’m still here. We are worthy of love and we are not alone.

Few stories have me feeling so seen—leave me hopeful and wrecked all at once. It’s a masterpiece. Thank you Mia for writing it.

[fatema !]

loved this sm but they banged so much i just couldn't take it anymore 💔

[liv]

the characterisation was stunning and the writing was so gripping and poetic i feel like im going insane i need to tattoo this fic onto every inch of me AHHHH

their love felt real and their choices felt so human and they were written with so much care and even the plot of Warlock was perfectly written

the ending was perfect and i sobbed, especially at crowley’s bit to The Guardian

crowley was allowed to be a mess and have faults and have to ask for help, and aziraphale was allowed to be human and have his own problems he needed to deal with before he could get his happy ending and i appreciated the care that was put into it. the ending felt earned

i am so unwell this doesn’t even make sense if u need me i’ll be sobbing in the corner

[gianna]

don't judge me. i deserve this after the season 2 finale.

[ev]

going absolutely crazy.

[clay]

god i love this fic my brain is exploding
i wasnt sure abt rereading it bc i knew some things that were coming and i didnt know if i wanted to put myself through that again but im so glad i did bc it felt even More the second time
definitely gonna come back to this again and again

[HASTISTIC]

I didn't expect it to hit me so deep -

[Imke Verschuren]

I swear I’ve been reading it’s just all fanfic lol

[rizel]

Nothing to say actually like when something is that good what is there left to say?

[Chelsea]

Yeah, this is probably the best thing I've ever read.

[Jenny]

One of the best love stories I’ve ever read in my life. I was not ready. The reputation it has in the fandom is earned. You don’t even have to be one of us to read this. It’s so good. How am I supposed to go to sleep now?
Oh also it has smutty bits AND they’re some of the best written I’ve come across.
Can be found on AO3.

[Chloe]

i need to scream into a pillow for eternity this is everything

[Manjari]

Hah! Looked this up on a whim, and I can’t even tell how I feel about the fact that fic is showing up here, but omg does this ever deserve the recognition.

This was my third time reading this story, and it was still as stunning, engrossing, DEVASTATING, and ultimately beautiful and heartwarming. I am endlessly impressed with this author’s creativity, imagination, and unbelievable lyricism of prose. I was just as captivated as the first (and second) time, and it filled the need I had for more Good Omens content after the (much condensed) series finale (which I thought was magnificent and wonderful, but so tragically short)

So yeah, this is a Good Omens AU, where Crowley and Az are human actors who end up working on a fantasy/drama series together, and both have very different but matchingly traumatic histories, and it’s like 90% angst. (CW: this Crowley has a past full of substance abuse and self harm)

[Becca]

I feel like people don't understand the words I am saying when I tell them that some of the very best books I have ever read in my life are fan fiction produced by anonymous people on the internet, for free. This is one of those god-tier works.
The twisty inner world of complex people, the slow painful waking and breaking and remaking of hearts-- growth! Change! True love! Wow. Just wow.

[Ale✝]

yes, here goes another fanfiction. this was 213 pages long so i'm glad i can log it. and yes, i fell down the good omens rabbit hole. that being said, i could never say no to celebrities!AU and this was not an exception!!! loved it until the very end and for some reason this fic has over fifty fics about it??? that is how good it is.

[Jangyvee]

What a damn masterpiece.

Incredibly funny writing, great characterisations, big feels, moments so relatable you want to throw cookies at the characters (hard.), clever re-writing/integration of the original story, and really nice scene building.
I have slept 3 hours tonight to devour this in one sitting. I regret nothing.

95.505 words

[Chiara]

if this was printed on paper and there was a fire i would want to save it before everything else. it's the most deeply human, deeply intense and wonderfully all-consuming thing i've ever been so lucky to read. my forever favorite

[Daisy]

si Mia_ugly tiene 5 millones de fans yo soy una de ellas
si Mia_ugly tiene 100 fans yo soy una de ellas
si Mia_ugly solo tiene una fan, esa soy yo
si Mia_ugly no tiene ninguna fan es porque ya no estoy en este mundo

[Paige]

the end of season 2 got me reading fan fiction for the first time in nearly two decades 😩 we deserved this one after our collective trauma

[Sarah Crowe]

One of the absolute best Good Omens fics I've ever read.

[Lidia]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOH BOH BOH BOOOH B O H BOH BOHHHHHHHH B O H B O H
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B O O O O O O O O H
B O H
BOH

(IM BITING MY OWN HANDS)

[Laja☆]

I demand my sanity back

[Coralie]

fanfiction is the best thing that happened to our generation and this is living proof!!!

[lizgrenat]

ho pianto come una pazza mA SI PUÒ DICO SI PUÒ????

[Eden]

Read it over six times
Still crying

[Sabela]

Ahhhhh loved this fanfic af. It made me feel so many emotions, my heart stopped several times. Beautifully written and in characters. Thanks for this.

[Sreyoshi]

i listened to the podfic version of this by Podfixx on ao3 and had such a delightful time. i rate everything based on my enjoyment of it so you may not be able to trust my rating on it but it really was just so fucking fun. (there was a good amount of angst though that’s partly why it was so enjoyable.)
it’s just so unbelievably good