[thegoodomensdumpster]

Anonymous asked:

Hey, I know it’s random, but I just saw your post about how sometimes a character is extraordinary because they are ordinary, and I just want to say, I 100% agree. Sometimes the best stories come about with just normal characters, and they don’t always need a backstory. So you are not alone. That’s all I wanted to say, sorry :).

tartan-thermos answered:

Thank you!

And I mean, it’s not like Crowley doesn’t have a backstory. He was a random angel who helped design the stars; who was curious and easily bored; and who got swept up in something terrible and vast and traumatic more or less by accident, because he had a few questions and he hung around with the wrong people and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That’s already pretty heartbreaking, and makes it all the more moving when, at the end, he’s ready to stand up and intervene on behalf of humans - who are also ‘small’, and ‘insignificant’, and about to be swept up into a terrible destruction simply by virtue of existing on the planet at the wrong time. He’s… nobody, really. Just a field agent who got lucky, and then got really good at bullshitting. And he’s still ready to go down fighting all the forces of Heaven and Hell in a parking lot on an airstrip because he recognizes that this is wrong.

Like, just in general I tend to dislike fanon that puts too much weight on Crowley-as-an-angel, or Crowley becoming an angel again, or et cetera. Because - well, it’s kind of the point. That whoever Crowley was as an angel isn’t really especially significant. That the Fall hurt him deeply, but that Crowley the Good & Pure Angel wasn’t really him, any more than Crawly the Evil Demon is him. He chooses his own name. Even when he’s not supposed to, he finds ways to be himself, and to learn who that is.

Just… oh, Anon. Maybe this is just the Pratchett fan in me, raised on a diet of Sam Vimes and Granny Weatherwax and Rincewind; the courage of the coward, and the power of saying, “Mine!”, and the unbendable steel of an ordinary man deciding that enough is enough. But I just really, really feel that making Crowley Someone Special™ does him a disservice, and actively undermines so much of what is remarkable and wondrous about his character.

[thegoodomensdumpster]

Yes.

[petimetrek]

Anonymous asked:

People older than 20: *exist* Randos on tumblr: "Uh pretty fucked up that you'd ask me, a person who approached you first, to resolve a dispute privately :/ you're like, old, and that makes you creepy" bruh wtf is with people on this fucking site.

ngl, the thing about age was a bit ridiculous bc how I was supposed to know how old that anon was? 

Anyway, young fans should understand that fandoms are composed of “old” people too… I mean, this book was published 30 years ago so is logical to think that some fans are going to be, at least, that old. If they are uncomfortable talking to older fans, then they should block all of us?

[good-omens-fanart]

[petitpotato]

Watched the show, loved it, had to contribute something!

[neil-gaiman]

A Letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil

[mostlydeadlanguages]

This remarkable letter of unknown provenance surfaced recently in the cuneiform collection of the University of West Wessex.  Addressed to Azirapil from a Mr. “Crawly,” it appears to be begging for the other’s return to Ur from a western journey with another individual, Abiraham.  The relationship between the two (brothers? business partners? friends?) is unknown, and all three names are quite unusual.  The letter also mentions a Mr. Ea-naṣir in Ur; if this is the same Ea-naṣir as the merchant mentioned in UET V 22, 29, 71, and 81, then the original letter would be dated to the Larsa period, around 1800 BCE.  However, this particular copy appears to be a scribal exercise; the writing is relatively unskilled, and the cuneiform is Neo-Assyrian in form.  It is unclear whether the text is based on a historical letter, or if its unusual names and content were invented for scribal practice.

Text:

Tell Azirapil [1]:

Thus says “Crawly” [2]:

When will your time in the West be finished?  Abiraham [3] seems very dirty, and I am weary [4] in Ur.  [There is] a talented mirsu-maker [5] on Wide Street!

Watch out, for I have acquired a new friend.  His name is Ea-Naṣir [6], and I may play wickedly with him if you do not return.  

Come quickly!

Keep reading

[neil-gaiman]

So many people have sent this to me.

I wish that Terry was still alive to see the amazing things that people are creating inspired by what we made so long ago.

[neil-gaiman]

alligatorprince asked:

Did David wear contacts or was it all special effects? I honestly can't tell at some points either way. (Also, can Crowley control his eyes/amount of sclera visible or is it a subconscious thing like cats do when they're excited?)

It’s mostly Contact Lenses, but with VFX support when the contacts when wonky.

[neil-gaiman]

krayt-spitter21 asked:

What was the thing that made you decide it was finally time to tell Morpheus’ story on the screen? P.s. I’m a film student and I hope to work on Sandman one day, I actually was hoping to be the one to adapt it but Netflix beat me to it

Making Good Omens, really, and it being a crazy success. People then actually had enough confidence that I was the best person to helm something of mine, which had never happened before Good Omens.

[neil-gaiman]

charliewillow asked:

Dear Neil, I have a question I was wondering about for some time. Is Good Omens' Death also Disc World's Death, since both were written (or, in GO's case, co-written) by Terry Pratchett?

No.

[neil-gaiman]

the-explorers-journal asked:

Is Azrael a version of the Endless Death?

Not really. He’s his own Death.

[neil-gaiman]

keeperofseeds asked:

Hello! In the 60s flashback with Crowley and Aziraphael, the Bentley has bullet holes in one of the windows. Were those the James Bond decals he got when he paid for petrol the one (1) time?

They were.

[neil-gaiman]

candy-cure-deactivated20201228 asked:

how many scenes had to be redone because David Tennant’s contacts would twist?

None. We fixed it in CGI.