[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

journal.neilgaiman.com

Letting the cat out...

So, let's see. I was the castaway on Desert Island Discs . This probably doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't from the UK. (You can h...

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Which reminds me... There’s a piece of Good Omens news I’ve been keeping close to my chest, but I think as we prepare to go back to shooting, it’s time to let this particular Cat out of the bag:

When I first started planning Good Omens 2, I thought it would be a good idea to have what I started referring to as “minisodes” – stories that begin and end within a larger episode, ones that dive into history. And I thought it would be fun to invite some other people to write the minisodes. We have three of them.

We’ve announced that I’m co-writing the show with John Finnemore. We haven’t told you that John has also written a solo-story set in biblical times, though. He has. It’s thoughtful and funny and wise.

We haven’t told you that novelist and screenwriter Cat Clarke wrote a story set in Victorian times in Edinburgh, have we? She did…

I asked Cat if she wanted to say something about it, and she replied,

‘When Neil kindly invited me to join Good Omens 2, I bit his hand off. (Terribly sorry about that, Neil. Hope you’re managing to type OK?) It’s been an absolute joy to play in the glorious sandbox that Neil and Terry created. I can’t wait for the world to see our favourite angel and demon get into a wee bit of a pickle in Edinburgh.’

And there’s one other minisode, written by two people working together: Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Jeremy is a writer (and one of the members of the League of Gentlemen – he was portrayed by one Michael Sheen in the League of Gentlemen movie) and Andy’s a writer, a worker of strange miracles and an actor. They are best known as a collaborative team for writing Ghost Stories, as a play and a film. Their story is set in London during the blitz.

They sent me a message too: ‘We’ve had such a great time writing for Good Omens 2. It’s been a true privilege to be allowed to dive into Aziraphale and Crowley’s lives. We hope we’ve been able to bring laughs, magic and a few scares to this wonderful world.’

👀 Wahoo!

[petermorwood]

[bogleech]

On Halloween at our friends house we met a girl who works at the Seattle zoo and she told us the elephant loves Chex mix but only if every pretzel has been picked out and if this largest land mammal on earth finds one tiny little pretzel she will throw it on the ground and then step on it

[petermorwood]

If brown M&Ms were pretzels, this perspicacious pachyderm could work for Van Halen.

[puchun]

[uchihaitachi]

Kern County, California

[catasters]

[hellyeahscarleteen]

[hellyeahscarleteen]

New! Sam gives advice to a user who wants to know if she can be a feminist AND a “girly” girl at the same time.

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Innovators in Wildwood, NJ (May 6, 1981)

[guardian-of-soho]

iamthespineofmybook asked:

While rewatching Good Omens with my partner (who hasn't seen it before), I had a thought spurred on by all I've learned from the Jewish folk I follow on Tumblr: it struck me that Aziraphale and Crowley are very Jewish-like in that they keep questioning The Plan and such, while the other angels and demons are all very Christian-like in that they are very much not questioning anything. Am I just seeing what's not there, or is this a valid viewpoint?

neil-gaiman answered:

I think Crowley tends to be Jewish in outlook, yes. He’s wrestling with God and asking hard questions all the way. I don’t think of anyone else (including Aziraphale) as being of any particular sect or religion in their outlook or behaviour.

[mickstart]

I know it’s his job technically but I love how ds9 crew will just call Sisko IMMEDIATELY whenever they have a problem like “dad help” and he’s ALWAYS like “yes of course I’ll come to your quarters at like 10pm at night because you claim to be seeing Rumpelstiltskin I’m so proud of you for asking me and I’m glad I’ve cultivated a parental relationship where you trust me enough to call me when you screw up”

[mdrambles]

Anyone else in health care being gaslit by the government, society, and their institution into feeling survivor’s guilt because even if things are crappy for you, they’re crappier for somebody else?

Really feeling for my primary care/family medicine, critical care, emergency/urgent/acute care, and mental health colleagues at the moment. This pandemic has been going on way too long, and no one seems to care about the fact that even when things were reopening, you were all still being worked into the ground (and through the crust of the earth into its molten core) by all the ripple effects of this pandemic uncovering the systemic inequities and BS that was just lurking in the shadows before 2019… All the stuff that health care workers, in general, managed to barely keep at bay from their sense of altruism and dedication (now obligation?) to their patients. If I’ve learned anything from COVID-19, it is that everyone will do their best to take advantage of you, and short of doing your job well, you actually don’t owe them anything.

You really do gotta take care of you first, otherwise this system will beat you down to nothing before you even realize it. “Resilience” is great and all, but it’s really just the system shifting all responsibility for surviving its BS onto its victims.

This system has been sick for a very, very long time. It’s gonna need a lot more than a bandaid and some yoga to rehabilitate it.

[mdrambles]

[mysharona1987]

[bookshelfdreams]

Edit: Here's the source.

[doctorfoxtor]

This comment on the post sums up my feelings well:

[cranquis]

Perhaps someday, there will be a retroactive sorrow for how doctors and healthcare workers were intentionally driven to quit their jobs during the pandemic by ignorant fools and intentional maniacs.

Perhaps.