[neil-gaiman]

oldguardians asked:

Hi! Have you ever read George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo? I'm curious because I thought it had striking similarities to The Graveyard Book, as both shared the concept of a concerned community of ghosts in a cemetery collectively caring for a child (under somewhat different circumstances).

I have, I love it. George told me (in a men’s room in Santa Barbara, oddly enough) that reading The Graveyard Book to his children had unlocked his book for him. And I was very happy to hear that. And then we finished washing our hands and I learned no more.

[neil-gaiman]

skateurgency asked:

Mr. Gaiman, are you okay with people getting tattoos based off of your books and stories? I've been wanting to get "The sound of her wings" because I adore how you write Death (and the Sandman comics in general) and work as a mortician so I found it fitting. Thank you for your time!

I’m very okay with it, yes.

[rafaelafranzen]

[rafaelafranzen]

Me and @cephalxin: yes lets make real progress on the Good Omens Merch Kickstarter! Lineart on merch art! Product images and campaign visual headers! Plans are laid out and by god things will happen today.

Us in reality: We have just spent 2 hours of our morning subtly colour grading skin and hair and eyes on this angel and demon. For something that’ll end up being printed on a thing that’s only 2 inches wide. Wat. 

[rafaelafranzen]

It’s the next morning and we are still colour balancing the same art. Ffffff. Backgrounds and stroke opacities this time.

This is what happens when two collaborators run on different schedules and have to work remotely folks. 

[roachleakage]

Anonymous asked:

do you have thoughts on alton brown. not necessarily on his sexiness. just in general.

beetledrink answered:

LOVE good eats but he has intense weirdo energies

[beetledrink]

he has the exact same energy as a really cool science teacher in high school everyone loves but there’s always the thought hanging over everyone’s heads as he lights shit on fire at the front of the class that maybe he doesn’t care if any of us live or die

[azira-crow]

[returnsandreturns]

I LOOKED UP VICTORIAN PET NAMES AND I’M GONNA WRITE A THING, I GUESS

“You can’t just go around calling people my dear these days,” Crowley says, sitting back in his seat and crossing his arms over his chest. “People get—thoughts in their heads.”

“I’m surprised you worry so much over what humans have in their heads,” Aziraphale says, sounding content. They’ve just finished lunch and a bottle of wine between them and the waitress told them they seemed a lovely couple. Lovely. A lovely couple of somethings—that—that’s for sure. “Big bad demon like you.”

“I just don’t want you calling the wrong person darling,” Crowley says, rolling his eyes. “and upsetting the status quo, angel.”

“You’re one  to talk,” Aziraphale says. “Calling me that.”

Occasionally, he gets this checkmate! look on his face when he thinks he’s one-upped Crowley—which he rarely does. Sometimes, Crowley lets him win, of course, because he can be accommodating if he wants to be—downright  friendly if he makes the effort, which he does for exactly one being on this—well, once-intended-to-be godforsaken planet.

“You are an angel,” Crowley says, gesturing vaguely. “I’m essentially referring to you by name.”

“That certainly isn’t how humans take it, my dear,” Aziraphale says, smiling beatifically.

Crowley makes an incoherent grumbling noise. It’s all this conversation deserves.

“Who’s the right person to call darling, Crowley?” Aziraphale asks.

“I—pardon?” Crowley asks, raising his eyebrows.

“You said I shouldn’t call the wrong person darling,” Aziraphale says. “Who’s the right person?”

Crowley goes still, flitting his eyes up to see that Aziraphale’s got that face on again.

Checkmate.

[enby-distortion]

[calicocottage]

this club has everything! sea shanties, a lighthouse, homoeroticism, madness from the sea, a giant squid

[enby-distortion]

my kind of club

[fuckyeah2000s]

[azira-crow]

[azira-crow]

[azira-crow]

[purewanderlust]

Good Omens, Gender, & You

It sounds fucking stupid, but the Good Omens tv series and consequent revival of the fandom has been incredible for my mental health. Not just dopamine from shipping, either. Like, I feel actively more comfortable with my identity as a non-binary person because of this show.

Good Omens' two main characters are canonically genderless. The showrunner literally said "they present as men, but they don't identity as men." Like!!! Even five years ago, I would never have dreamed of this kind of representation, especially with active endorsement and support from the actors playing these characters.

And never once is it played for a joke. When Aziraphale and Madame Tracy share a body, the inherent humor is in two souls occupying the same body, not a joke about a man in a dress. Nanny Ashtoreth is played completely straight too. Hell, Crowley presents in female clothing at the crucifixion and it's so banal as to not even be mentioned in the scene outside of the visual! Imagine a world where that kind of gender fluidity is so run-of-the-mill as to be completely unsurprising!!

I've never ever seen characters in television interact with their gender identity in the same way that I do, or show writing that treats it so appropriately. Six weeks ago, I would've told you I was mostly okay with that. But damn if getting that rep hasn't been one of the nicest things to happen to me in a long time. Mad props to everyone involved with this wonderful, wonderful show.