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Published:
2025-08-30
Updated:
2026-06-14
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My Own Way

Summary:

Anthony Crowley and Aziraphale Felton are rival Air Racers - professional pilots who race bi-planes for sport. In the world they live in, Air Racing is everything. Success can bring money, fame, power and a level of celebrity stardom unparallel in any other profession. As such, the stakes are high and free will is something they can only dream of.

This is a tale of love and loss, lies and manipulation, where even the most complex lives barely scratch the surface of the twisting truth beneath.

The story gets hairy in places - heavy angst, some violence, drug use, betrayal, bereavement, manipulation - but the truth will out and our heroes will get their happy ending.

Updates on most Sundays.
There will be specific warnings given for each chapter.
No major character death.

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Welcome to my new story and my very first Good Omens AU!

It is also the first one which moves away from my irrational, superstitious reliance on Bastille song titles, which worries me :D. 

This is NOT a song fic, but there are a set of lines in the old Duran Duran song, My Own Way, from 1982 which have grabbed me since the first time I heard them:

 

"I saw you at the air race yesterday

April showers get out of my way

Fear of flying, no not me"   

 

So, maybe not the most exciting lyrics but really powerful because of the world they built in my head. 

Since then, I have yearned to write a story where Air Racing plays a huge part in dictating how the whole of the rest of the world operates, where Air Racing is more popular and influential than any sport or entertainment that we could possibly imagine. I'm thinking the glamour of Ascot, with the global money and reach of F1, the world wide popularity of football (soccer, sorry America, but I'm British :) ) and the fame afforded by Hollywood. That sort of world. 

This is that story! And it works really well (I think!) within the GO world that we know and love. 

I shall also use this chapter to save reference information (dates, names etc) for this world so that they are always easy to refer back to if required. 

I am quite nervous about posting this as it is a little different from anything I have done before, but I am hoping that it remains close enough to all my other GO stories so that people who have enjoyed them, enjoy this. I would also like to thank UnicornBeck for all the help in getting this ready to start posting. Wouldn't have had the nerve to do it without you! <3

Thanks for reading my waffle!!! Haha! Story starts tomorrow :)