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emeraldaxisof7 asked:
Hey I'm pretty sure that seemingly rude age question was supposed to be a joke. The "why tf are you still on Tumblr" thing became a meme for a while and I think the person who asked that thought you would get the reference
They did. And they explained on Twitter and I deleted the ask and the answer.
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chaoticomens asked:
hello neil have you been posting less recently or have I just missed your posts (perhaps due to the new bans on ios) ?
I think I’ve been posting more over the last few weeks.
neil-gaiman
The sky here as the New Year happened. Clouds scud past (4 minutes of clouds in a second.) May your troubles in 2022 pass like these clouds.
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arts-butthound asked:
Mr. Gaiman, I wanna learn how to beat the snot out of my characters when I write. To really make the reader FEEL the beat down. Viscerally. Problem is, I don't know how to do that...and none of the books I've read have major beat downs in them. Would you have any title recommendations that I could learn from?
Don’t worry about how to beat them up. Just love them and care for them and make sure that when the plot takes you to places where they get hurt that you feel for them, because that way your readers will feel what you feel.
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2021… a year of me posting pretty much nothing but god have I loved seeing all the amazing work from those I follow! Amazing art, writing, the talent - and the love! - is real and I’m frequently blown away by it. Happy early 2022 all! ♥️ I was surprised by a late Christmas present from my mother today… think I might have mentioned my love of Good Omens to her one too many times this year 🤷♀️
In the absence of authorized merchandise, I love that people are making their own. Even if this one looks like it says “I am an angel, you are a lemon. We’re hereditary enemies”. Which is a very different show.
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mikeyshairindesolationrow asked:
Im sure this has been asked before, but I have been looking for an hour now and haven't found it. Maybe I'm just a history and religion nerd, but a lot of sources say that James Ussher said that the Earth was created on October 23rd, and I've watched the show a lot, and I'm still pretty sure it says the 21st. I looked for an important date on that day (not very well), I was just wondering why this was changed? Or if it was just a mix-up in facts, which I understand happens sometimes.
I was using the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. That was what it said. (Also it spelled Ussher Usher, which has had people telling us off every since, starting with Dave Langford, the first Beta reader, and after him the sub-editor. I wish I’d listened.)
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corvidinthewoods asked:
are you interested in seeing merch people have bought/made, or would that put you in an awkward position legally?
I like that people are making it. And no, don’t show me.
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ludthemumrik asked:
Hi! First, I want to thank you for your work, that has really helped me through hard times.
I don’t think so. I love The Screwtape Letters, and even wrote an introduction to a graphic edition, but Screwtape’s Heaven isn’t a bureaucracy, his Hell isn’t an assemblage of screw-ups. And the demons of Good Omens aren’t invisible mind-reading creatures…
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lilysbrain asked:
Hi Mr Gaiman,
I was watching The Witchfinder General (a folk horror film from 1968) and the main villain is a witchfinder called Matthew Hopkins. I noticed that his character design is similar to that of Witchfinder Major Pulsifer from Good Omens. I put some pictures :) i was wondering if this was an intentional thing or just an odd coincidence. Maybe all witchfinders took fashion inspiration from Adultery Pulsifer or maybe all witchfinders dressed like that for practical reasons, or to recognise each other in large crowds…
And then there’s this…
and this…
Look what’s on the TV above and to the right of Shadwell’s head…
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prismatic-bell asked:
Question about a change from book!GO to show!GO: in the book, Madame Tracy's "spirit guide" is Geronimo. I 100000% understand why this was changed (I was honestly pre-cringing right up until I heard the change and then I was like "oh thank G-d"), I'm just intrigued why Little Colleen O'Leary specifically was chosen--is it a joke I'm missing because I'm Americna, did you just think it sounded amusing, did you need to throw something in there and Colleen was what stuck?
neil-gaiman answered:
I thought Madame Tracy would probably enjoy pretending to be a little Irish girl during her seances. No particular joke.
“pretending “?
Whatever are you trying to imply?
That Madame Tracy is, in the TV show as in the book, a fraudulent medium.
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