No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

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Sorry if it’s been asked before. When Crowley says “not the kids, you can’t kill kids” was he referring to the children or the goats?

Yes.

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rosesinmars asked:

Neil, hello Neil! hope you are alright

i’m just here because i’m rather curious… will we ever see Crowley and Aziraphale as pirate and officer of the royal navy?

(i’m asking even if all that i’m expecting is a wait and see 😳)

neil-gaiman answered:

I think that’s what fanfiction exists for.

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So wait and see means yes and fanfictuon exists means no.

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No, wait and see means wait and see. That’s what fanfiction exists for means you’ve just made a remarkably specific and unlikely request and if I were to “Wait and See” it, it wouldn’t really be fair.

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phineasponyaskblog-png asked:

You talked about King novels; I was surprised you didn't mention The Green Mile, as it's far and away my favorite, though I haven't read too many of his. Do you like it?

Yes. I like the vast majority of King’s novels, and read The Green Mile as it came out, in monthly thin books with a chapter or two in them.

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cosmictreadmill27 asked:

Oh I cannot wait and see to wait and see! Terry would be happy to see his friend carrying the torch like you are. Good Omens has touched all our hearts and please know that when we are all badgering you for details we are really saying "I love your writing!"

☮❤

I know that. Like I said, I hear most of the questions as “Are we there yet?” and we’re going to a place I know that you all want to be.

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redlyriumghost asked:

Hello, Mr Gaiman! I'm currently reading American Gods for the first time and I'll admit I have not read any other book of yours except Coraline and Good Omens yet, but I was still very taken aback by the amount of sex (very weird sex) in the story. Cheating, sex with the titular gods, casual talk of breasts, etc. The tone is also so different comparatively, as Coraline is still somewhat whimsical despite how horrifying it can get and Good Omens has a good amount of comedy mixed with dark themes (although I attribute a lot of it equally to Terry Pratchett). Is Coraline the outlier in your long list of literature and you normally write more serious and adult themes or is American Gods the more gritty and dark novel you've written? Also, which would you say you prefer writing? I personally can't handle reading or writing darker themes for very long without some sort of comedic respite, but I know some authors feel differently and I was just curious about what camp you land in.

It’s not exactly an outlier, although it’s the only one like that, or perhaps it would be truer to say all the novels are outliers. They are all very different in tone and texture. I think American Gods is the only novel with that amount of sex and darkness. Neverwhere gets dark, but doesn’t have any sex in it, and is funny. I can’t promise the adult short story collections are safe, but then, they are short stories, and if one is disturbing, the next one should be safe and reassuring.

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amphibeean asked:

Hello! Sorry if this has been asked before but a few friends and I are curious; when (not if) season 2 of Good Omens is a huge success, would you want to create a third season? Or fourth, fifth, given you have enough material and plans from your time with Mr. Pratchett?

No, three seasons (if Amazon and the BBC are up for the third) and then the story’s done.

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alcarohtare asked:

Greetings, sir!

Help an autistic soul obsessed with scents here, if you can. Crowley said he knows how Aziraphale smells like. Have you imagined that smell? What is it? Also, he got a new colone suggested by his barber. Did you think about it and selected something? Could you share, please?

As for Crowley, his fellow demons seem to smell of poo and other not very nicely scented things, so I've always wondered how does Crowley smell. And if it is foul, is he disguising it with magic or perfume? In which case what kind of scent he'd prefer? I've been obsessed by it because I so whish I could know the scents of people in books... It helps me understand them better, relate better and it sooths me, if it makes any sense.

Have a nice day/night!

In my head, Aziraphale and Crowley smell like the Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs scents that bear their names. That’s probably because when Elizabeth at BPAL was formulating them she sent me dozens of scents to choose from, and I would pick the ones that seemed closest in my head to how I envisioned the characters…

(And I don’t think Crowley smells bad, although I suspect that under whatever scent he wears there’s probably something faintly ophidian.)

https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/neil-gaiman/good-omens/

BPAL good omens aziraphale crowley what things smell like Do not order the Shadwell perfume unless you want to smell like that

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lechuza-rosado asked:

Howdy Mr Neil, I haven't read Good Omens yet bc I have a terrible attention span and have 'I can't sit still or else I explode' disease, but I really like Crowley can i adopt him as my dad?

Im a grown adult but he's a eons old being so i think it balances out.

Good with me. It’s rather up to him, though…

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eldija asked:

After watching interviews with Michael and David and especially after watching Staged, we noticed that in real life they behave in reverce to their charachters. Did you think about making Aziraphael and Crowley change place for real, so that Michael would play demon and David would be angel? Maybe do that in season 3?

Didn’t I already get to do that at the end of Season 1?

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azadehbar asked:

Hello there,

First off, thank you, it’s a thank you in general, for your wonderful writing, it engulfs the entirety of your work, that has inspired me over time as a modest writer and journalist, and quite frankly has been the subject of my latest hyperfocus (adhd can be a funny odd thing).

To my question then, in the Good Omens Novel and the Script Book, when introducing Famine, there’s this Sherryl person, in both, she is described as frighteningly or « horrendously » underweight. It has always struck me as lacking in sensitivity and empathy regarding eating disorders, it didn’t make it to the screen, did you reflect on that, or was it just a practical choice, to shorten the scene ?

neil-gaiman answered:

She’s meant to be on the edge of starving herself to death, to the point where we realise what the D in Famine’s “D-Plan diet” book is for, and she dies of starvation in the following scene. In the script book, that’s an instruction to visual effects.

We shot the Sherryl sequence in the original introduction to Famine, but it, like the Pollution and War and the rest of the Death sequences in Episode 1, were cut because they derailed the story (although we used moments of them in the sequences where the Horsemen showed up – and you’ll get an extra bonus shot of Pollution in the weird visual flashback at the beginning of Episode 6).