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Good Omens + My Favorite Murder : (Some of) Crowley’s Looks

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7

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thesaltofcarthage asked:

hello Mr. Gaiman! thank you for all the joy you've brought us. :) Good Omens show Q: during Warlock's 11th birthday party, Crowley is disguised as a waiter, in white. Aziraphale is disguised as a magician, in black. It's the only time they wear each other's colors. Significant? Symbolic of the moment they realized they were following the wrong boy? Everything in this wonderful show is so deliberate; I thought this might have meaning too. :)

neil-gaiman answered:

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Reason #24501 to read Discworld and assorted Pratchett novels

[hedgehog-o-brien]

I’m reading a book atm (won’t name and shame, sorry) that’s been very hyped up. Like, all of booktube is gushing about it, it’s promoted everywhere, lots of praise in the back blurbs etcetera etcetera

And at first I was like: OK, interesting premise, protagonist seems a bit run of the mill but the story looks promising I guess

And I was right. It’s a cool story. Sure, it’s no Pratchett (nothing is, alas), but it’s tense, thrilling, page-turnery, magical, all the things that would usually make me go zing!

But

It does a thing I Do Not Like

And that is that it keeps introducing me to these side characters (this is Johnny and he owns a bakery and isn’t he a nice normal person baking all his precious little muffins) and then it kills them off in the next paragraph

Johnny the Baker gets his throat slit for calling the Secretly Evil Guards over. Soldier Boy Billy, introduced to me as he’s playing cards with a mate, goes to investigate a noise and never comes back. I say hi to Ellis the landlady of the Great Big Inn and next thing I know, the inn’s burned down with everybody still inside, including Ellis the landlady

Why would you do that

First of all, making me invested in characters that you’re going to kill off anyway is a great way of making sure I’m not going to get invested in any of your characters now because what’s the point

Second, killing off ‘quirky’, ‘normal’ characters for shock value or sadness points? That’s old. Like, GRRM old and I didn’t like it when he started doing it either

And third, and here’s where we cycle back to Pratchett: if you have to kill off a side character, and if you are giving him a name and backstory and everything to make me invested in them, then you’d better send them off right. Pratchett did this incredibly well with Death, but we can’t all be him so I’ll take alternatives. Like, I don’t know. Have another character find them, mourn them and do right by them. 

Like give them a proper burial.

Or vow bloody revenge on whoever did this (bonus points if it’s the protagonist who Did This, bc that would make things interesting)

Or something. Don’t just… ‘and then everything went dark’ me, because that? Boring, done before and it sits not right. 

Basically, what I’m trying to say is:

- Even when side characters die, give me some kind of closure

- If you write a story, you’d better show some care for all your characters, no matter how far off to the side they are. They’re still (imaginary) people, and they deserve to be done right by you, their author and creator

Two things I feel like Pratchett understood and did well. And that concludes my essay about how I’m once again sitting curled up in a corner and fiercely missing the man who made me care about a crotchety old witch, an even crotchetier and frightfully sober Watch captain and a girl armed with hundreds of little blue men and a rage hot enough to boil the sun.

GNU Terry Pratchett

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[thevipersnake]

Hands exercise :) 

[lill-nika]

[myoxisbroken]

[sadillite]

Exciting news.

[princeypeach]

y’all better hype this up because this is BIG and is evidence that the berlin patient wasn’t a fluke, and this could revolutionize medicine (there’s already cases of cancers where methods similar to these have worked), and while you’re at it, please join a bone marrow registry!! (especially poc bc these therapies usually only have been done on white patients due to genetic similarities, and the more poc we get in registries the more access poc patients can have to this for cancers, SSS, etc)

[myoxisbroken]

[thehumming6ird]

Because there are people - new to the fandom - asking the important questions…

Plaster: The True Story

Who, or what, hit Hiddleston?

You probably know by now that Tom Hiddleston was named ELLE Man of The Year at the ELLE Style Awards. A fitting tribute to an actor, writer and ELLE cover star.

Because Tom was filming in Toronto on the night, we filmed his acceptance speech. In a locked hotel room. At midnight. With beer and burgers. Jealous, much?

However, the question people are asking is: why does Tom Hiddleston have a plaster on his head? So here are some options:

a) We beat Tom around the head with a sterling silver candlestick to make him say nice things about ELLE?

b) Sex game gone wrong?

c) Sex game gone right?

d) Having completed the Donmar theatre Coriolanus run – during which he was suspended upside down and has his throat slit – without suffering bodily harm, he was bending over to pick up his bag and someone opened a door on his head.

The answer: Sadly not c) Or even b) for that matter. It is d)

You’re welcome. 😉

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Magic’s a little bit alive, a little bit tricky. Just when you think you’ve got it by the throat it bites you in the arse.

Terry Pratchett - Thud! (via aeshnacyanea2000)

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[asongofstannis]

BROKEN CROWN

by Mumford & Sons

It is a rather fitting song, do you not agree, @neil-gaiman?

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