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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    As an up-and-coming post doc, marine biologist Anthony J. Crowley landed a coveted grant from The Eastgate Conservancy to study the lives of endangered sea turtles. When the Conservancy accused him of misappropriation of funds, his research was halted. He’s carried a grudge for the past twenty-five years.

    Now an award-winning researcher with a worldwide YouTube following, Dr Crowley has been offered another grant from the Conservancy to replicate his original study. There’s just one catch—Aziraphale Eastgate, a member of the Conservancy board, will be traveling on the Sea Serpent as an observer for the duration of the project.

    Confined on the ship with documentary cameras capturing their every move, Crowley and Aziraphale can’t avoid each other—or the chemistry simmering between them. What begins as daily sparring over data and methods slowly softens into mutual respect, and then develops into something deeper—and far more dangerous.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    "Once, when Aziraphale was younger and far more of a romantic, he had hoped to be swept off his feet into a whirlwind romance: to feel his heart grow asunder over the passionate thrills of love - a Shakespearean love, filled with flowery words and heated confessions. But such aspirations did not long last. In these circles of society, people married for power. For alliance. To marry for love was to condemn oneself to a life of poverty. And to find that love, out of circumstance, from the stale negotiations of a wedded alliance was above all the greatest privilege, one that could not be afforded by even the wealthiest creature in the world."

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    Sir Anthony Crowley has been living his independent life as a cast-out younger son when he had a baronetcy and failing estate suddenly thrust upon him. Mr Aziraphale, son of a wealthy tradesman, could be the answer to his troubles. A balance of rank and wealth, was this not just what unions were for? A series of meetings in the ballrooms of Bath will determine what fate has in store for these two.

    A (non angsty) Regency era arranged marriage AU

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    22 Oct 2025

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    Anthony J. Crowley isn’t up to much these days.
    In fact, you could almost say his days as a rockstar are pretty much behind him. Rotting in bed all day, with half-written songs plaguing him and no lyrics to speak of, everything points to his career being over for good.
    That is until Maggie, his manager, claims to have found him the perfect lyricist to get him out of his slump. And what better way to get the creative juices flowing than spending a whole month together in a secluded cottage on the Isle of Skye?
    Provided Crowley’s attempts at making the man run for the hills aren’t successful…

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    “You wrote these lyrics,” Crowley repeated just to make sure he’d understood correctly. “The lyrics about sucking dick. You wrote them.”
    The stranger wrinkled his nose, a blush appearing on his rounded cheeks. “Well, it’s actually meant to be an exploration of taste and touch as a way to connect with another person, as well as a metaphor for–”
    “Sucking dick,” Crowley completed for him.
    “Mmh,” the man hummed noncommittally, lips pursed in both annoyance and embarrassment.

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    22 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    Fresh off a bitter divorce, Aziraphale fabricates a perfect marriage to get hired at a wedding magazine—just a stepping stone on the way to his dream career. It's a foolproof plan, until he needs to produce said husband for the magazine's annual couples retreat.

    Enter Crowley, his best friend's mysterious cousin, who agrees, for his own reasons, to play fake husband for a week—no strings attached, no messy complications.

    One problem: the more Aziraphale discovers about the real man behind the act, the less fake his feelings become.

    Aziraphale thought the hardest part would be fooling everyone else…

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    05 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    Crowley has been roped into the latest scheme by Joja Corporate in order to expand their reach and earn new revenue in untapped markets: the "Rural Reliance and Trust-Establishment Initiative".

    Sent to become a farmer in the quaint and quiet Pelican Town, pretending to be the grandson of a long past beloved resident, Crowley stumbles to fit in and work towards his assigned goal. Due to living in the city his whole life, hard working farm life is a difficult thing for him to adjust to. However, the more integrated he becomes into this tight-knit community he found himself in, the more strange things come to life.

    Oblivious and sudden crushes, strange magic and creatures, and an internal moral conflict, Crowley can’t seem to catch a break!

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    30 Sep 2025