The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
Tumblr questions that Neil Gaiman has already answered. Yes, it does have some Neil-provided info of S2. But, it is spoiler leak-free! (It also does not have spoilers from early screenings of S2.)
I’m excited about Good Omens 2 and I was already going through Neil Gaiman’s blog ( @neil-gaiman ). I initially made it for me and my friends for reference, but then decided to go ahead and throw it out into the Tumblr void, too. I hope it helps.
I made my own FAQ about this here (please check it before messaging me): OrpiKnight’s FAQ FAQ
Before you ask a Good Omens question, look here. An incredibly impressive job of research and gathering.
You’ll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its “feed URL”– often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓– and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.
Some feed URLs for social media:
Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using “Download a user’s friends list” on Tweetbeaver)
Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog’s “my art” tag (as an example)
Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)
Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn’t have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it’s not so simple to generate a feed URL.
Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.
(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere…)
Hi. Firstly. I absolutely adore Good Omens. The Book. The Series. The Audio Book. The works. It had me crying. Laughing. Crying laughing. Laughing while crying. Screaming. Very much an emotional rollercoaster and I enjoyed it very much. I have started writing fa fiction theories about what I think happens after Aziraphale leaves to go to Heaven. Obviously you know what your plot is. I’m not asking for that at all.
What I am asking is if you are able to enlighten me. When Jim/Gabriel gets his memories back from the fly from Beelzebub, obviously us as the audience see it on screen. My question is. Do the people in the room at the time see his memories or is it just Gabriel and the audience?
Mr. Gaiman, my friend is claiming that a coralline two is in the makes, am I living under a rock or am I being lied to, misinformation sucks. Thank you :D
You’re being lied to. Or at least, being told something untrue.
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.
In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They’re the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.
I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.
And it kills me that so many people don’t know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.
Over the past decade, there’s been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There’s this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.
Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.
Don’t fear age. Don’t put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.
Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.
With Winnie-the-Pooh and The Battle of Hastings sharing an anniversary today, did you know that E. H. Shepard once drew this amazing scene for an exclusive book bag?
I love that none of them have weapons. Except Kanga, who has a fucking morningstar.
My dad and I are arguing about when the best time to ask an ask is. I say that it is best to post it when you are actively answering asks so that it appears at the top of your inbox. He says it doesn’t matter when I post it because you scroll to find interesting ones. Can you please settle this debate once and for all?
Thank you
I don’t scroll to find interesting asks. But if I’m answering asks you have a 50% chance that I’m not going to refresh while I’m answering, and I’ll just answer whatever’s at the top of the pile.
I’m going to make this quick. I’m about to have an interview for a job and I’m nervous. Is there anything you tell yourself when you’re stressed that helps you calm down?
This, too, will pass.
And if that doesn’t work, I remind myself that pretty soon, in galactic time, the Earth, if it has survived burning, will be cold and barren and utterly devoid of life, orbiting a slowly cooling white dwarf. So not to worry.
I am working on a research paper about your short story “Snow, Glass, Apples”. For the class, we have to compare a traditional tale (in this case the Grimm’s Snow White) and a variation of that tale (“Snow, Glass Apples”). Obviously, the original tale has the Queen as a much more sinister and narcissistic character. She does many things that are stereotypically evil and witchy. In your rendition, she is not only a better human being but her witchy practices are more closely aligned with historically accurate witches. What inspired you to take a less stigmatized approach to the Queen?
Because the whole story depends on upending the story and making Snow White the villain and the Queen the heroine. If that didn’t work there wouldn’t be a story.
Hello Neil Gaiman, I don’t want to waste your time, but if you ever see this: I’ve been thinking about bookstores and how they changed over time. I think that bookstores used to be more …personal. The shopkeepers often knew about books and had some kind of relationship with their customers. And now most bookstores are very commercial. Books are still the same books, no matter how and where they‘re bought but the atmosphere is just… different. Unfortunately, my generation doesn’t really know that… atmosphere/ feeling anymore. I’ve been in a few smaller bookshops (abroad) and just got a glimpse on how it may have been. That just got me thinking: Are we going to lose that completely very soon? And will other generations (maybe someday) not know how it feels to hold a real book in their hands? Things do change but I think it is kind of sad anyway.
What is your opinion on that?
It makes me feel really lucky that I buy my books in The Golden Notebook bookshop in Woodstock, where they know their customers and love suggesting books for us.
