COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
It’s morning. Astoria wakes up, first thing she sees is Draco’s face, eyes closed in a deep sleep, and she feels like she doesn’t want to get up. However, she has the habit of drinking something and read a newspaper. A naked man on the other side of the bed wouldn’t change that. She gets up, puts her robes around her body. She approaches the table in the bedroom and skillfully conjures what she needs to drink with her wand. She sits down to enjoy the coffee and a reading. Only when she turns the page - five minutes later - she realises Draco is awake, though still in bed and heavily asleep.
“Well, good morning” she says, smiling.
He’s eyeing her with lazy curiosity.
“Splendid” he replies, and points to the newspaper she’s holding. “Something more interesting?”
She notices the ton of his voice. His way of saying I want your attention. “I wasn’t sure how long you like to sleep so I didn’t want to wake you unnecessarily.”
“I’d hate that” he says ironically and then in the next minute he’s walking to the window to open the curtains for her. "Do you know, reading in such dark room can damage your eyesight?”
“I’d hate that.” She’s completely aware he didn’t bother to put any clothes on. “Thank you. Join me for breakfast?”
“Yes.”
This time he puts his robes and comfort himself in front of her on the small table in his bedroom. Draco drinks her coffee, but immediately makes a disgusted face.
“Sugar completely ruins the experience of drinking it for me” she explains, laughing about his expression.
“Very peculiar.”
“At least you didn’t pretend you liked it.”
“You will never see me pretending anything.”
He says that with such seriouness in his voice, Astoria looks at him intently and deeply and she knows that’s why she’s there. That’s why she slept with him.
“That can be too much, sometimes” he warns, even though he doesn’t seem worried about that. Astoria decides that’s what Draco likes about himself, and that’s what she likes as well. “If I’m too honest, and I hurt you-”
“You wouldn’t hurt me with honesty, Draco. I can be brutally honest, as well.”
“I’ve seen that. Any other examples?”
“Like what?”
He pretends to take time to think.
“Like when we were fucking.”
Astoria didn’t blink.
“A constructive criticism, then.”
“Criticism?” he raises an eyebrow, and without noticing, he drinks the coffee again. “I don’t know why I drank that again.”
Why couldn’t she stop smiling? So stupidly smitten. He was genuinely preocupied when he begins defending himself before she could say anything about last night.
“It’s been a while since I practiced.”
“Oh cut it. You knew exactly what to do.”
He doesn’t pretend that her statement made him feel better.
“Well, it’s easier when the person on the other side is absolutely…”
She waits for his word. He just didn’t know how to describe her insane beauty, body, movements, lips, kisses, without sounding too cheesy.
“Loud.”
She laughs, and this time he joins her. Seeing him laughing feels intimate and nice and she doesn’t want to leave so soon. She doesn’t have too.
“I was surprised about that as well” she admits.
There is no denying they had a great night, maybe like no other before. It’s just different, when there are feelings. Astoria knows it.
“Is there something you like, especifically?” he asked.
“In sex?”
“Anything. It’s just extremely satisfying to satisfy you. I want to know everything I can do.”
“Somehow I trust you will know.”
“You trust too much in me.”
“Somebody has to.”
He finds her hand over the table, brushes his long fingers over hers and stays quiet for a while. He observes when she touches the Death Eater scar on his pulse. He likes that with Astoria he never expects her to run away.
Do you like poems?
yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem
I am so excited for this Good Omens Celebration week of Fandom! I have loved all the fan content created for Good Omens. Thank you so much to all the creators out there who bring us so much joy! Here are some of my favorites:
So, to start off, I run a weekly fic and artist rec series that can be found here:
Dannye’s fic recs Dannye’s artist recs
ALSO @prolix-principality runs an ongoing series of GO fic recs, so definitely check them out!
An Album of Our Life series by @satincolt , Rated G (C & A are professors)
Big Plans and Little Additions series by @hope-inthedark , Rated T (Astronomy professor C and bookshop owner A)
Coffee, Wine, and Textbooks-Verse by shaniacbergara, Rated E (C & A are professors)
Corporate romance series by @stubbornjerk (Ao3 stubborn_jerk) Rated T (Lawyer C and security guard A work for rival companies)
Demon and Angel Professors by Ghostinthehouse, Rated T (C & A are professors)
Ineffable Husbands Oneshots series by EmeraldAshes, Rated T (series contains some human AUs. Part 2: C is a client at A’s office; Part 3: C buys a flat haunted by A’s ghost; Parts 6 & 8: C & A are officemates; Part 9: A runs into the Bentley with his car)
Ineffable Teens (Good Omens) series by @sedehaven (Ao3 gypsyweaver) Rated T (C & A - plus Dagon, Gabriel, Michael, and Beelzebub - are high school students with summer jobs at the mall)
Interdepartmental Cooperation series by @bestoftheseekwill (Ao3 Seekwill) Rated E (C & A - and Beelzebub and Gabriel- are professors)
Our touching, our stories ; earthy and holy both by @mortuarybees (Ao3 deadgreeks) (This is a series of nonsequential ficlets in one work; in the earliest part of the stories, C & A are college students)
Recovering series by @summerofspock Rated E (C & A are doctors)
Soft Comforts Series by @servantofmischief, Rated G (Artist A draws an anonymous portrait of C in a coffee shop)
So Long We Become the Flowers series by @allonsy-gabriel (Ao3 allonsy_gabriel) Rated G (flower shop owner C and antiques/bookshop owner A)
Sweet Series by @shay-moonsilk (Ao3: Shay_Moonsilk) Rated E (Lawyer C and cam worker A)
Tailored Temptations series by CruelBeauty Rated E (Actor C and costume designer A)
The Blind Date AU series by @mygalfriday Rated T (Nightclub owner C and museum worker A)
Their Affections series by @servantofmischief, Rated M (Lord Crowley and Lady Aziraphale in the Regency era)
Til We Loved series by @cardinaldaughter (Ao3: Cardinal_Daughter) Rated E (Victorian age with military officer C and aristocrat A)
A bookshop is not a business by @itsevidentvery (Ao3 anactoriatalksback) 5070 words, Rated G (C is a customer at A’s bookshop)
Acts of Service by @bestoftheseekwill (Ao3: Seekwill) 51968 words, Rated E (Mysterious man C - no spoilers!- and vicar A)
A Different Kind of Arrangement by mar_map; 19393 words, Rated G (Flower shop owner C and bookshop owner A)
Against Better Judgement by @weatheredlaw; 6443 words, Rated E (Aristocrat C and bookbinder A)
All’s Fair In Love And Serial Killing by @wyvernquill, 10216 words, Rated M (Detective Inspector C and possible serial killer A in a dark comedy)
An Absence of Stars by @mllekurtz (Ao3 TheKnittingJedi) 56426 words, Rated E (C is an author with a secret and A owns a bookshop)
Angel by @holycatsandrabbits (Dannye Chase) Self-rec! 10841 words, Rated E (Flower shop owner C and nurse A)
Anthophilia by @fortinbrasftw; 49446 words, Rated E (Flower shop owner C and neighboring bookshop owner A)
Continua a leggere
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if you love me, you don't love me in a way i understand
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