starry eyed over new good omens fans. oh the ship name was ineffable husbands? cool we’ll keep it. Oh there’s 2500 fics on AO3? we’ll double that in a month, sure. oh you like fanart? here’s 100000 different styles and headcanons WAIT THERE ARE FANFIC CLASSICS PRE SHOW? let’s love them and share them and add them to rec lists. BUT ALSO - WE ALSO HAPPEN TO BE INCREDIBLE WRITERS - HERE’S A HUNDRED MORE INSTANT CLASSICS FOR YA
we are such a happy fandom family
I’m new to Good Omens fandom. Okay, wait, I’m pretty new to participating in fandom in general (lurked for 17 years and finally crawled outta hiding) and I’ve gotta say that being here is just the greatest pleasure and honor and everyone is so so so incredibly kind and welcoming and talented. So just - I don’t know. Thank you for creating this wonderful art/writing/meta, this incredible culture, this amazing home. Thank you for accepting new fans with open arms. Thank you for warning me that my heart would get ripped out with The Sacred and The Profane. Seriously.
All of this…I’ve been involved in fandoms off and on 20-ish years and honestly the overflowing positivity combined with the absence of some elements that can make some fandoms off-putting really blows me away.
And honestly it’s no coincidence…I see fandoms as kind of like gardens which are shaped by the soil that spawned them, and sure it’s partly the themes of the story and its hopeful message, like attracts like and all that,
but then you add this whole OTHER meta layer of how and why it even exists, first with the book and Neil and Terry’s friendship and then with the show being a literal labor of love of one of those friends to fulfill the other’s dying wish <3, and then you have the incredible positivity of the actors and especially Michael “Captain of the Good Ship Ineffable Husbands” Sheen who literally got to live his own 20-year-old-self’s nerd dream playing his part and is out here yelling about love every chance he gets and validating fanart and fanfiction…
the whole thing is just imbued with love from every angle it’s balancing all our serotonin and I’m just glad I discovered it




