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Gloria Obianyo as the archangel Uriel
—for @a-poc-alypse
ultimmmmmp asked:
So with a Radio play,a miniseries I feel like next step would be a film,although I'm not sure what kind.
zaxal
“your interpretation is valid” is not a cop-out. sorry you have to hear it this way, but it’s not. it’s an acknowledgement of what the audience brings to any piece of art, intended or not, and how their experience shapes what they see or want to see.
is explicit representation important? absolutely! we need more of it all across the queer spectrum.
but for something like good omens, where the main characters aren’t human, where their relationship in the book has existed and been interpreted for 30 years beforehand – there was no explicit, word of god answer that wasn’t going to leave someone hurting.
for some people, it’s very important that crowley and aziraphale are asexual, that they’re a relationship that doesn’t require sexual intimacy to be the most important relationship in arguably the entire world.
for some people, it’s very important that crowley and aziraphale have sexual intimacy in their relationship. maybe because they see themselves and their queer struggles in the main characters, who have existed since before the world did, and managed to find one another and have the most forbidden romance.
for some people, it’s very important that crowley and aziraphale are best friends, completely platonic, whether that’s because they’re aromantic themselves or because they see something of themself and their best friend/s in these two utter disasters.
who chooses who gets hurt, here? why choose in the first place when the obvious answer is whatever the audience has brought to it and needs to see? and, if @neil-gaiman gave an explicit, word-of-god answer, there would still be dissatisfaction that it wasn’t answered in the canon of the show itself.
it’s okay to have nebulous love stories that leave the exact extent and labels up to the audience. it’s okay to create something where the answer is “what did you see? then that’s what happened.”
there’s room for all of us at the table. there’s room for love that is explicit and labeled, and there is room for love that opens itself up to definition by the people in the audience.
you don’t have to like that answer, but that’s how it is, and it doesn’t mean the creator is a homophobe or #cancelled or whatever else. it certainly doesn’t mean that the work is queerbaiting.
good omens is a love story: between aziraphale and crowley, between the Them, between anethema and newton, between madame tracy and shadwell, and between all of these characters and the world itself. good omens is bursting at the seams with love. the only way to miss it is to choose not to see it.
db5ks-archive
since “angels and demons are sexless” this means i can say crowley and aziraphale are LESBIANS and that they change up their appearances time to time from their male presenting ones to female presenting ones!
neil-gaiman
agent-00-ani asked:
Hi Neil! Kind of a weird question, but should I read good omens before watching the show? I have autism and sometimes reading books(or large chunks of text in general) gets too overwhelming and causes me to shut down. The story sounds super interesting, and I want to make sure I’m not missing anything by watching the show first(since reading the book could take months for me).
I’d watch the show. Then read the book (it may take a while, but it was always intended to be fairly easy reading). Then watch the show again. And I hope you enjoy it!
neil-gaiman
m1dnight-ex1gent asked:
What are your opinions on the Stardust movie? It was such a radical departure from the source material I almost consider them separate entities entirely. That being said, I personally enjoyed both, just for vastly different reasons. Q
That’s how I feel about them. Tristran Thorne from the book isn’t Tristan Thorne from the movie but I’m very fond of both of them.
neil-gaiman
casualpeaches asked:
Did david tennant wear contacts or were the eyes CGI'd in? I've been wondering since I watched the first episode because I thought snake eye contacts had a tendency to roll around/not stay upright
They did. He’s wearing snake-eye contacts, but when they went weird we fixed them with CGI.
neil-gaiman
Just another day writing with additional bears. This is the younger bear. Momma bear was HUGE.
https://www.instagram.com/p/By0y5PmHjLT/?igshid=14peic22fs99h
neil-gaiman
chairicon asked:
Hello Mr. Gaiman! I know you're going to advocate for your own work, but I thought I'd ask regardless. I liked your run on Hellblazer, and I recently enjoyed Good Omens. I hear talk about Sandman, how do you feel about it in hindsight, and is it worth a go? Thanks!
Still proud of it, 30 years later. And definitely, yes.
neil-gaiman
eclecticishstuff asked:
Hi, loved Good omens, currently watching it for a third time, this time with my aunts! Wanted to ask, for ages, did you cast Andy Hamilton as the court usher as a nod to Old Harry's Game and another radio 4 reference, or the person who was most available at the time??
I cast Andy because I thought he’d be perfect. (And I’m a fan of Old Harry’s Game, but I’ve been a fan of Andy Hamilton since about 1989.)
He’s also in Mirrormask, in a similarly animated role.
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