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eltonlongjohn asked:

Hi sir.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I have to know. Can Crowley read?

(I tried to see if you answered this before but the search feature on this website is about as useful as a stool with no legs)

neil-gaiman answered:

Yes.

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Originally posted by tennant

(Though OP, if it’s important to you for some reason, you’re allowed any headcanon you want.)

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You’re obviously allowed any headcanon you want, but you’d have to do a lot of heavy lifting to get to a Crowley who couldn’t read. Book Crowley sends notes to Hell and reads computer warranties. TV Crowley is seen reading several times, and like the book Crowley, signs his name to a contract in his first solo scene…

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punkcornzero asked:

Maybe it was answered before, but... do Crowley, Aziraphale and angels and demons speak English and always have been (even before English existed)?

Because initially I thought that maybe celestial beings could just speak whatever and being understood by mortals, but the scene in France where Aziraphale has poor French proves me wrong. Also, in the book people mistake Aziraphale for English and that means he indeed has a British accent. And in the series he knows some Japanese. This means that on Earth he speaks the languages that he knows, and that being an angel doesn't mean knowing every language.

So... maybe English in the series is both the language they eventually learn as it evolves on Earth and the language we listen to as an audience when the times are old and the language is unknown to humankind?

I hope I was clear, I'm sorry if I wasn't. And I also know that this is fiction and it doesn't matter if there is an answer, I'm just curious.

I think you can assume that they are speaking whatever the local language is, fluently, and in the opening scene they are speaking the language of Angels. As for why Aziraphale has trouble with French, that’s a wait and see.

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nessademer asked:

Hello! I just wanted to say thank you for Sandman #17, Calliope. I've been listening through Act 1, and the way that Morpheus and Calliope were able to come from a painful past, to being able to realize that while they don't hate each other any more, they don't really have space in their lives for the other, either, really hit home for me. Knowing it was easier to take the small win between them, and move on separately, is painfully relevant, and very helpful to me right now. Again, thank you.

You are so welcome.

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linellin asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman! I find it a little bit sad that you legally can't interact with fan work, even though it's perfectly understandable and you explained it very well. I was just wondering, how do you feel about it aside the legalese. Do you find it sad or do you have no desire whatsoever to interact with it?

I feel fine about it. It’s my job to tell the story that Terry and I started out telling and planned, and I don’t want ever to worry about whether an idea is mine or not.

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seraphinarosewood asked:

Mr. Gaiman, I hope you'll forgive this ask, but in The Sandman, could the demon have won The Game if they would have been quick enough to say something like "I am Pandora, foolhardy, panic-driven, who opened the box, but left stricken Hope trapped inside." I know it probably wouldn't make as good of a story that way, but its just something I was wondering.

neil-gaiman answered:

But in most of those versions of Pandora, the message is surely that all the evils have been loosed, but hope remains. Hope isn’t trapped. It remains after everything else has gone.

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Actually I think the message is that apparently women are the root of all evil at least according to the Greeks /j

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Let’s see what Natalie Haynes has to say about it, for she is wise and funny. This is a talk from her about her book of essays on women in Greek Mythology, Pandora’s Jar:


https://youtu.be/JXpM63DVY2U


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dear-miss-fantasy asked:

how was the process for you appearing on the Simpsons? Like, they called you and asked if they could make some jokes about you?

Basically, yes. They emailed and asked if I wanted to be in an episode of the Simpsons. I said sure, expecting a tiny joke cameo, like the ones Alan Moore and Art Spiegelman had had in an earlier episode. Then they sent me the script.

It turned out that the Exec Producer who got me in had been listening to my audiobooks, and thought I could handle the part they wrote for me.