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neil-gaiman

wet-socks-jpeg asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman,

I have a rather niche question about the typesetting of Good Omens that I wonder if you could answer.

Throughout the book, scene changes are characterized for the reader by using small page breaks and drop caps consisting of a few words in a different font. At first I thought it was a choice if the books designer (listed as Betty Lew) but after reading the following page that shows the title page of The Nice And Accurate Prophesies, I wondered if you and Terry Pratchett had a more direct hand in the typefaces and such used in the book?

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I’m curious too looking at all this, what you originally wrote good omens on and what that copy text looked like when it went to the printer, although that’s pretty vague so I don’t expect a direct answer by any means

Im reading Good Omens for the first time, and am enjoying it immensely, thanks!

Well on that page the instructions to the printer are actually part of the text of the book.

neil-gaiman

shezzarus asked:

Hi I completely get the not-reading-unsollicited-fanwork rule, however how does that go for theories? By that I mean that we can often find articles online of medias such as BuzzFeed (wild example) listing up fantheories; sometimes bringing them up to authors to check with them if some of said theories are accurate or not. How does that work, then? Does confirming or disconfirming it prevent you from ever using it as future plot material? Some Reddit threads can gain a lot of popularity after a show comes out, and entertainment medias knows how to boost their reading audience with it; wouldn’t you inevitably find some of those in your way?

I’m not very interested in them. Mostly I see Coraline theories, and never find myself thinking anything other than, “well, aren’t people imaginative?” I don’t remember seeing any Good Omens theories that made me think anything other than “well obviously” or “I’m glad they are enjoying coming up with theories”. And that’s because people send questions about the Coraline ones here, and the Good Omens ones tend to show up in the comments.

neil-gaiman

southomens asked:

Hi Mr. Gaiman! Thank you for taking the time to answer many of our questions and comments. In case you didn't have enough of them already, I've got one for you: is David Tennant using contacts for Season 2 like he was in Season 1 or are the snake eyes going to be edited afterwards? I'm wondering as I haven't seen any pictures of him wearing them yet.

Well, you have, but he was wearing dark glasses over them.

He’s wearing them. Season 2’s snake-eye contacts are slightly subtler than Season 1’s, and slightly less off-putting. But only slightly less.

neil-gaiman

donewithstyle-deactivated202301 asked:

I'm very aware I might get "Wait and See" 'd on this, but I'll try my luck. Was it an intentional choice that we never saw what was across the street from the bookshop in Series 1, where the mysterious pub from your first picture tweet is now?

More or less. Our first set, built on a disused airfield in Bovingdon, only existed from Aziraphale’s shop on. There was nothing over the road, which was why you never saw it. We would have had to create something in the computer for you to see.

The current set, in a studio in Bathgate, was built after the scripts were written for Season 2, which meant that I could say to Michael Ralph, the production designer, things like, “We’ll need a pub, a magic shop, and I thought we could put a French Restaurant over the road…” and he could incorporate all of those things in his initial plans, so we now get, essentially, the street south of Aziraphale’s bookshop, and not just the street to the north.

We’ve actually seen the pub before, or at least the back room – it’s the Dirty Donkey pub, as seen in 1967.

And you’ll get to enter places in Soho you’ve only seen from outside until now, like the coffee shop over the road.

neil-gaiman

grandalchemistpt asked:

Hi! Just subscribed after seeing multiple reblogs mentioning you.

I have two questions for you.

First: Does the no fanfics rule apply to loreless fanart? Like, would you get in legal trouble for watching one of those pieces where they swap the clothing of two characters as a drawing exercise? I was just curious.

Second: How often had you had to deal with tumblr bots and other website-related drama?

Second: Almost never. Possibly even never.

First: I can’t imagine anyone ever trying to sue a TV show on the basis that we’ve stolen our plot from their drawing. But perhaps I’m naive.

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eldritchcatpossumamalgam asked:

As a native denizen of Schenectady I can confirm you are pronouncing it right. Also absolutely gobsmacked you are coming to our humble ‘burg.

neil-gaiman answered:

I’m looking forward to it. There will be (Covid permitting) a lot of gigs that month, but that’s one of the first and it will be so strange getting up in front of an audience for the first time since March 2020.

miss-kitty-fantastico

Wait, wasn't the writers thing in Auckland with Amanda this year? Time confuses me...

neil-gaiman

There was! I’d completely forgotten that one. And it was also weird.

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everwizard

Guys what happened to Passerine??

It's just??? Gone???

boygirlctommy

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this pops up when you search for it??

fernvictor

oh my god it got approved to add to someones collection and that person made the collection private, therefore removing passerine

maxile0-deactivated20220923

WHAT.

ethotv-archived

is this not a known thing anymore? please god if youre a fic writer DO NOT LET RANDOM PEOPLE ADD YOUR FIC TO A COLLECTION!!!!!

if you are a READER who enjoys bookmarking fics, you can put your BOOKMARKS in a collection, which can be privated without hiding any of the original works

hallsoffandom

ITS BACK BUT LISTEN TO THE PERSON ABOVE ME

ineffectualdemon

I will say you can also revoke permission and remove your fics from collections

geekmom13

A good thing to remember. Check your collections, my friends.

geekmom13

TO CHECK :

Go to your profile, click works, then click "works in collections"


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If a work has be hidden, it will display like this :


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Then, if you wanna remove a collecting, go to edit, scroll here, and click the x on the relevant one

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xantissa

The same, hard same


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bendingsignpost

I just went to go check to see just how many random strangers have tried to put my fics into their collections, and it was four pages of people. Only two were things I had opted into participating in. About 15 different people, most of whom I’ve never spoken to, wanted to put Four Letter Word For Intercourse (aka my most popular fic) into a collection and I am very YIKES about that.

naryrising

1. Go to your Preferences and turn off "Automatically agree to your work being collected by others in the Archive" if you don't want to have your work added to collections unless you choose to add it:

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2. It isn't possible anymore, and hasn't been for several years, for people to add someone else's work to an anon or unrevealed collection. They can only add a work (assuming the creator agrees to it, either by selection the option above or manually agreeing to the invitation) to a revealed, non-anonymous collection.

3. If a collection that was previously open and revealed changes to become unrevealed or anonymous, *everyone* with a work in that collection is emailed to inform them of the change, so they can choose to remove their work if they wish.