neil-gaiman
azriacrow asked:
Dear Mr Gaiman,
Simple ask here truly. I'm not sure if you've answered this but we've seen that Crowely has an apartment with a bed so that's where he lives however Aziraphale only has a bookshop. Does he perhaps have the upper floors as a house. If not where does Aziraphale live?
Wait and, well, at least see a lot more of the bookshop, and come to your own conclusions.
neil-gaiman
lonewolfshowlings
simodelaranja asked:
Hello! :) I was re-watching GO for the ??th time, as one does, and there's this scene in ep. 2 where we see crowley from behind for a second, and I may be wrong but to me it really doesn't look like the back of david tennant's head, and the hair kind of looks like a wig. Am I imagining things?
neil-gaiman answered:
You aren’t. That was his stand-in. I have no idea why (Douglas would know). Possibly because people might have thought that there would be demon-monster-head VFX on the back of the head as well. I do remember getting grumpy in the edit, and being disappointed we didn’t have David in that shot, but that was the first week or so of shooting, and Good Omens had not yet bcome the smooth-running machine it is today.
If I were to speculate, I imagine it might be a wages issue. If it was Tennant in that scene, the studio would have ended up spending a lot more to have him in that scene than just his body double.
You don’t pay actors per scene. And he’s in that scene – we’ve seen him from the front already…
neil-gaiman
here-i-lie asked:
Hi, Mr. Gaiman. I’m a huge fan of your work and I really look up to you. I’m a writer (I hope to publish novels like you one day) and something really upsetting happened recently. I was hoping you could please give me some words of wisdom.
I wrote a fiction piece that has really explicit stuff in it (like, sex scenes and things of that nature). I published it online anonymously and was only comfortable with people reading it who didn’t know me personally. Then today I learned that my mom had found my account and read it. She is only saying supportive things about how good my writing is, but I am absolutely mortified and feel violated and extremely embarrassed that she read that subject matter from me. I don’t know what to do. How did you / do you cope with the idea that people read work of yours that can have explicit / embarrassing subject matter? I’m really upset and confused, and I would greatly appreciate some guidance.
I remember realising that my dad had read a story of mine with a lot of sex in it, as he said something about it. I was 24 and mortified. But then, whenever I’d write anything with sex in I’d have shadowy parents and elderly family looking over my shoulder, at least in my imagination.
It took a long time to banish my parents from my head when I wrote, and about the time I managed it I realised that my real life children were getting old enough to read what I had written and that brought with its own set of embarrassing problems.
And now I’m old and I figure that if someone is going to read what I’ve written that’s not my worry. My job as a writer is to make the best stories I can, ones I’m proud of and stand behind, and to send them out into the world. Some of them will have sex in, or weirder. Caveat lector: let the reader beware.
You’re writing things you’re proud of. That’s good. You don’t want people to know you’re writing them — that’s your right. If you don’t want them to read them, you need to hide them better in future. One day you may not mind anyone reading your stories. But that’s not yet. But it’s something for you to look forward to.
neil-gaiman
fuckyeahgoodomens
All of the official info we got about Good Omens season 2 in one place (for the unofficial stuff, like photos of the shooting I’ve got the gos2unofficial tag).
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman started planning sequel to the book in 1989 - even before it has been published. But because they careers took off and they had an ocean in the between them, it was never realized it in the 90s. In 2005 they made another plans to write in a year or so but in 2007 Terry was diagnosed with Alzheimer so again the the plans did not come into fruition.
In 2010 Terry and Neil agreed to let people go forward with making Good Omens as a TV show, they talked about the shape of the show as a whole and where it would go.
The purpose of the second season is to finish the story which Neil and Terry planned.
The sequel planned in 1989 is a hypothetical Season 3. Season 2 is how we get from the end of Season 1 to the place where we could start Season 3.
Neil stared plotting the second season in 2018, a year before the first season came out.
Three seasons is the plan - as Neil said ‘if Amazon and the BBC are up for the third’.
The casting begun in March 2020 with Suzanne Smith as the casting director.
Writing: Neil Gaiman and co-writer John Finnemore, with also Cat Clarke, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman writing minisodes.
Showrunners: Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon (who directed and executive produced the first season) are going to co-showrun.
Executive producers: Neil Gaiman, Douglas Mackinnon, Rob Wilkins, John Finnemore and Josh Cole (BBC Studios Productions’ Head of Comedy).
Music: David G. Arnold, S1 music composer is returning
Director of photography: Gavin Finney is returning.
Production: BBC Studios Productions, Amazon Studios, Narrativia and The Blank Corporation
The opening titles: are again being made by the Peter Anderson Studio
Cast:
Who is not returning is Paul Chahidi (Sandalphon in S1) because he was unfortunately shooting something something else in the time they’d need him. Neil said: Fingers crossed for Season 3.
The filming started on the 18th October 2021, for eighteen weeks with three weeks hiatus over Christmas, until the 11th March 2022.
The entire second season is being shot in Scotland - it’s based in Bathgate and the Central Belt of Scotland.
A big set was built in the studio in Bathgate to include for example Aziraphale’s Soho.
Outside the studio they were so far filming in the Edinburgh Inverleith Park, Stirling and Old Stirling Town Cemetary, Hopetown House, Dumbarton, Edinburgh Stockbridge and Edinburgh Circus Lane.
Six episodes.
No release date yet, but the first season took 16 months from the start of shooting… so perhaps the second quarter of 2023?
In August 2021 Neil said to an ask: In Season 1 of Good Omens, the part of a demon named Crowley was played by actor David Tennant. Budget cuts in Season 2 mean that the part of Crowley in Season 2 will be shared between a glove puppet, a dear friend of the production manager’s named, I believe, Raoul, and five trained fennec foxes wearing an overcoat. Why fennec foxes? We figured nobody would notice the difference.
This joke keeps growing since then - We will make the fennec foxes ginger by special effects. Or perhaps just put the gingerest one on the top. - with wonderful fan art, comparisons and we learned from Neil that David will actually be there as a stuntman and will be set on fire to protect the foxes: For actual death-defying stunts we’ll have the actual David Tennant come in for the day and risk life and limb for us. I can promise that there will be no pyrotechnics anywhere near the fennec foxes. Apart from anything else, there are rules about that sort of thing on set. Whenever you see Crowley burning, it will be a lovely Scottish actor named David Tennant who will be in for the day in order to be set on fire, struck by lightning, immolated, or otherwise hurled into the blazing heart of an inferno. He seems to quite enjoy it.
You can check my five fennec foxes tag :).
Poster:
Selection of promo and bts photos:
Updated! :) Can I hear a wahoo? :)
neil-gaiman
joyandotherstories asked:
Hello and thank you for your engagement with fans! Andy Nyman’s tweet today noted that we would see his Good Omens minisode “later in the year.” Since we are all under the impression that Good Omens S2 won’t release until 2023, does that mean that one or more minisodes might be released alone in 2022, as sort of a “first look?” Or was Mr. Nyman simply being optimistic about the S2 release date? (In any case, we are excited to see the new season whenever it releases!) Thank you!
Andy was optimistic.
severalcuttingremarks
watchingds9forbashir
I gotta say I am entertained when Damar has a whole *moment* upon being informed that Garak is Tain's son and everyone else is like, "Yeah that was two seasons ago. Catch up." He stands there and just stares at Garak while the rest of them have moved on.
doctorfoxtor
doubleca5t
[ID: a tag reading, “#don’t eat citrus if you have any mental health problems #the vitamin C is so bad for you” end ID]
losing my fucking mind over how people will come on here and say just the easiest to disprove absolutely inane lies. for no reason at all
This is so funny because of how long a chain of telephone it is. The starting point is that grapefruit juice SPECIFICALLY can interact negatively with several mental health medications (notably, not amphetamines). Then this tumblr post* and MULTIPLE NEWS ARTICLES got popular, stating that consuming anything acidic (including vitamin C) within an hour of taking your ADHD meds would render them ineffective. In reality, a large dose of vitamin C taken directly with an amphetamine-based ADHD medication has the potential to cause a minor dampening effect, but has no effect on other ADHD meds.
These presumably got filtered/combined into the idea that vitamin C is bad to take with ANY mental health meds, which then got turned into the idea that if you have mental health problems, scurvy may be right for you!
morallydiseased
gallusrostromegalus
i forgot the furnace guy was coming today. right. so i answer the door and im in my dino pajamas right out of bed and when hes working on the furnace he fucking. he cuts his finger on the furnace. so i take him into the bathroom to do some first aid bc its looking pretty bad and i forgot about the fucking. shadow the hedgehog nice cock sign on my wall. so im standing there. cringing out of my mind. what an impression. youre maintenancing someones furnace qnd you hurt your finger and this person is very adamant about first aid protocol and you walk into their bathroom and just see this shit. what the fuck
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ALTdont do this to me
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I personally saw this go from 500 to 7000 in a matter of hours
I have a friend who is an HVAC guy and I asked him once while he was fixing our furnace, what the weirdest thing he'd ever seen on the job was and he rattled off a dozen stories, including:
So I would like to reassure you that "NICE COCK" Shadow The Hedgehog is not the weirdest thing the guy saw that week, but it might have been the funniest.
chubbycattumbling
dxmedstudent
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