[russianwholesomeness]

[prettytaako]

Blease look at my very angry baby

[h-ibiscus]

Hey everyone else in the notes, I’m the grandson of a professional cat judge and breeder and you literally have to just. Hold cats. To make them used to being handled. Like, they’re gonna get pissed but you’re not hurting them At All I promise. This lil guy is just miffed he’s not being hurt and he’s not thrashing out he’s just an angry baby pls calm down

[frumpkinz]

Just so y’all know here’s the same cat 7 months later :-)

[bunjywunjy]

[deke-it-like-datsyuk]

so one of the high school buses flipped over and this was the picture they used in the newspaper

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

silentmania-deactivated20191108 asked:

Hi, Neil!! A question about Good Omens: Did either you or Terry consider adding the Archangel Metatron (or any other of the Seraphim) as a character(s)? Also, in the Prime/BBC production, was Crowley being addressed as "Doctor" a wonderfully clever nod to David Tennant's prior role as The Doctor?

neil-gaiman answered:

Metatron is played by Derek Jacobi.

And no. But Danny Mays got such a kick out of calling David Tennant “Doctor” that yes.

[neil-gaiman]

theatredragon asked:

What makes the left the sinister side?

Have lots of essays and opinions on the subject: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning

[neil-gaiman]

gayrefrain asked:

what was the discussion about using "fuck" in good omens? First Aziraphale, then Crowley, then Gabriel. was there a discussion or was it just like "this is the only proper response to discorporation?"

When Terry read that bit he phoned me up and said “You can’t say fuck in a Terry Pratchett novel.” 

“But you can in a Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel,” I said. “They will blame me.”

And he said “Fair enough,” and that was the discussion.

[neil-gaiman]

katbelleinthedark asked:

Dear Mr. Gaiman, I'm the person who made the "and the curtains were blue" comment. I've replied to your comment, which you might not see, but what I wanted to say is that I wasn't trying to imply that people shouldn't interpret things or ask about them; that would go directly against my beliefs as a teacher. I was making a joke for myself and the three people who read my blog and making a tongue-in-cheek comment on how reality sometimes fact-checks detailed symbolism. No offence was meant.

And none was taken. I just thought it would be sensible to point out that it was actually a good question.

[neil-gaiman]

thecuddlycannibal asked:

Hello 😊 I just wanted to inform you of the affect Good Omens has had. I work in a bookstore and since the release of Good Omens we've had so many people come to the shop to buy both yours and Terry's books, new and old fans and people who've read of one of you and not the other and wanted to read the other ones books. We've also had a spike in parents asking which of your books we'd recommend to children (Coraline and The Wee Free Men and your children's flat books are my personal favourites)

That made my day. I’m so glad!

[neil-gaiman]

bdoserror asked:

You seem to have a bunch of scenes which you had to cut "for time" rather than for something like pacing. Isn't a streaming platform like Prime flexible enough to allow you a few extra minutes here and there when it's justified? For example, "The OA" on Netflix has episode lengths anywhere from 31 to 71 minutes, as needed.

Yes. But we were also making it for the BBC, and they have specific time requirements.

[neil-gaiman]

icyblueroses asked:

Hello! So I noticed that throughout the show whenever the camera would zoom in on a scene and phase through a window it would do it seamlessly like going through the bookshop window or the Bentley window, but for the flashback scene in episode 2 when zooming in on young Newt's room it physically hit the window and didn't go through. Is this because of Newt's ability to make computers and electronics go on the fritz?

It is.

[neil-gaiman]

calispanicking asked:

I recently had a heated argument with an older writer, who claimed (very rudely) that "Authors don't actually care about their fan base aside from what they can gain from it. Money. Fame. Etc. Stop talking about Neil Gaiman like he's your friend or mentor or inspiration or something. You do realize that he doesn't actually really care about you, right? You're being foolish." What would you, personally, say to someone like this?

I think someone like that has made their mind up, and that facts aren’t going to change what they think, so I wouldn’t waste my breath on trying to change their mind. And that they sound like they are dealing with more than the usual share of pain and regret.

I’m sure that what they said is indeed true of some authors, but they tend to be in the minority. Mostly, authors care about their readers. Yes, you keep us alive, but you are also all people – nice, interesting people. (And very few authors are not also fans of other authors. We all started out as readers.)