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New backstage photos are amazing) Azi now has a smartphone! 😂

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That's Michael and David recording a message for me on Michael's phone. Bless their little cotton socks.

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...you can't just say that and not show us the video

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I can easily not show you the video. But for the curious, Michael starts out by telling me just how much thermal underwear he is wearing in order to keep warm. (Quite a lot.) He talks about the beautiful world the lighting (and the horse drawn carriages) have created and how much he feels like it’s like entering a Christmas card. Then there’s a brief discussion of Harry Secombe. Then David turns up and tells us who he ran into waiting for the sleeper train to Scotland and why he had accidentally texted the wrong person about it. They were both tremendously happy. And it made me very happy to get a message from them. Made somehow better because I was many miles away but was still happily watching them acting for take after take in real time on my iPad.

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aladdin asked:

Did you see that MOMA finally fixed their description page for Drowning Girl? Credit given to Abruzzo, and they fixed the title of Secret Hearts as well. Thanks for calling them out on it!

It honestly made my day. And I was so happy that their final paragraph, which had previously been about Lichtenstein’s use of big dots now reads,

“Critics continue to debate the differences between Lichtenstein’s painting and Abruzzo’s illustration. The similarities continue to invite questions about authorship, style, and the value society ascribes to different forms of art.”

Which made me feel like I’ve done two kinds of good. I’ve got acknowledgement of Tony Abruzzo’s existence — as the illustrator no less— but also got MOMA to acknowledge that the nature of the debate has changed.

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canteen-culture asked:

Hi Neil 

Who do you like more

David or Michael?

Which do you feel is more necessary for life: breathing or eating?

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let-me-play-my-guitar asked:

Can we have a Scottish Crowley and Welsh Aziraphale.

It would be funny-

:)

I don’t think that David and Michael could convincingly do the accents, could they?

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cerasum-chrysanthes asked:

Is it causing problems that people are making so many pictures of the takes of GO S2 or is that fine that this is happening? Are you afraid people will spoil something big from it?

I’m not afraid that anything is going to spoil, no. Except possibly what’s in the pickle barrel.

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skeletonsloverockcandy asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman,

I know the answer is likely “wait and see” but will there be any moments or deleted scenes that you wanted to put in season 1 but didn’t make the cut, so you put in season 2 instead?

I only ask this because I recall a deleted scene in 1800 where Crowley tries to keep Aziraphale on earth when Gabriel informs him that he’s being promoted. Someone made an animatic for it on YouTube and it was very funny, so I was just wondering if that moment or other moments like it that were intended to be in season 1 will be in this season instead?

Best wishes, and Happy Holidays :)

No. That one belonged in Season 1. All of Season 2 is new. (Although there was a place where the perfect version of the conversation I needed had been written in the book, so I went and lifted it from there.)

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trinhdrawss asked:

hello Mr. Gaiman

i want to thank you for good omens because if i hadn't heard the word "ineffable," i wouldn't have become obsessed with it, and i wouldn't have noticed it popping up several times in the divine comedy, and i definitely wouldn't have written a panel about it, especially in relation to how the garden of eden is presented throughout the divine comedy.

i presented that panel today, and i was very proud. many people said that my emotional attachment to the word made my panel engaging and unique.

so thank you Neil for using that beautiful word :))

You are SO welcome!

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sherlokiuss asked:

Hey Sir, with all my respect, I have a question.

I've seen that writers of a certain show that I'm a fan of are inactive on social media since they started to write for the second season of their show. They used to engage and interact with a certain section of the fandom, but they don't do that anymore. Comparing their situation with yours, how is that you still interact with tons of people who expect things from your show while you're in the process of filming it? I always thought that the change of behavior of these writers I talked about was because if they interacted with fans they were going to get influenced by them. Do you think it's valid for a writer/creator to be afraid of being influenced by people's expectations?

Thanks for your time ♡

It’s absolutely valid. We wrote Good Omens 2 before anyone knew it was being written. So that was when we could have been influenced I suppose. Now it’s all written and is currently being acted, and I’m cheerfully not telling anyone anything about it. So I haven’t gone away, but I’m also keeping all my secrets.

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merhasstellyrhas asked:

As we speak I've been reading Stephen King's books in order publication date. It's fascinating seeing how a writing style evolves over the years and nice since I'd been meaning to read his books for a long time (I'm currently in 2007 on Blaze). You're next followed by Sir Terry, Ursula K. Le Guin, and CJ Cherryh (read some of each, but not all yet). I have no deep questions for you, but what's your favorite King book since we're on the topic?

I don’t know. There are a bunch of Steve’s books I know inside out, and then there are the ones I’ve only read once. I have an enormous fondness for Bag of Bones – it may be the late period King novel I think about the most. I love the early ones which I read to death, because they were all there was. I think, and I love the collections of Novellas – Different Seasons, Four Past Midnight, and Full Dark No Stars. But ask me tomorrow and you might get a different answer.

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songbirdemerald-blog asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman, this isn't really an ask but I still felt the need to write it. I doubt you'll see this in the sea of questions about good omens season 2, but I frankly do not care. When I was a kid I used to read books in a day or less, the bigger the better. However over time I started to develop a severe form of ADHD, and I couldn't do what I loved any more. My parents decided that I was spending too much time online and they handed me volume one of the sandman comics. At first I wasn't really interested because I thought it was just another book that I would start and never finish, but I gave it a try to make them happy. I read it in an hour. When I put it down, I cried a little, because I could read again. Sir, I would like to thank you for helping me love my hobbies again and I'm very excited for the new sandman show.

Please have a lovely rest of when ever you see this.

That makes everything feel worthwhile. I’m glad.