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.
hello mr gaiman! i'm writing my high school thesis on queer dGood Omens and my supervisor said it would help for me to get your take on my topic - specifically you're opinion on whether this is a concept shown within the show, or if you're okay with people coming up with these theories. I know that you are, but I thought I should ask anyway. My topic is 'to what extent is Good Omens an allegory for queer deconstruction from an abusive fundamentalist religious environment?'
thank you so much! whether you see this or not know that Good Omens (and most of your works, really) mean so so much to me!
I’m the last person anyone should ask. But I’m fine with any and all academic enquiry, adventure and theories.
Note: the bulk of this thread was posed on 11/5/2020 and was added to sporadically thru 8/13/2021. This is Part 1 because apparently it’s too long for tumblr? Part 2 Part 3
So you want to know more about antisemitism outside the context of Nazis …
99.99999% of conspiracy theories are either rooted in antisemitism or antisemitism is a key component
(Look, I get the impulse. Ben Shapiro is shitbag. So are Laura Loomer, Stephen Miller, Mort Klein, etc. but No True Scotsman-ing isn’t actually helpful.)
(My main critique of both of these is that they’re pretty Ashkenormative and gloss over the effect Israel’s creation had on Mizrahi Jews living in other MENA countries.)
Short thread/statement from a Palestinian activist that succinctly summarizes his distaste with folks using Palestinians to legitimize their antisemitism:
Thread from a Black Jew about how Jews are often perceived by Gentiles of Color, which is a helpful perspective on how positive stereotypes and proximity to whiteness can put marginalized communities in conflict. These conflicts doubly hurt those who belong to both:
So this was the unanswered messages in my ask box a couple of days ago:
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and this is the unanswered messages in my ask box today,
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and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has said such nice things about the season, and I’m sorry to everyone who had emotions they weren’t expecting, and I’m impressed that so many of you have theories and don’t plan to answer, validate or really even comment on any of them, but mostly I’m just sorry because I probably won’t read whatever you’ve sent, not because I don’t want to but because if I was doing nothing but reading Tumblr asks as a full time job I still wouldn’t catch up with the thousands of asks coming in.
So this was the unanswered messages in my ask box a couple of days ago:
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and this is the unanswered messages in my ask box today,
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and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has said such nice things about the season, and I’m sorry to everyone who had emotions they weren’t expecting, and I’m impressed that so many of you have theories and don’t plan to answer, validate or really even comment on any of them, but mostly I’m just sorry because I probably won’t read whatever you’ve sent, not because I don’t want to but because if I was doing nothing but reading Tumblr asks as a full time job I still wouldn’t catch up with the thousands of asks coming in.
I’m glad you care.
That’s 12,000 asks this month, which means over 400 a day. Again, I’m sorry for all of the ones I haven’t read and haven’t seen. I’m sure many of those were important and most of them were interesting and useful. (Also it’s probably time to look at the drafts because I have a lot of unfinished replies in there.)
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