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the-rear-admiral-reborn asked:

Hi Neil. My dad just died yesterday and things are raw. He knew and worked with a lot of famous musicians at the height of his career in the 90s and he was always so proud of it. As a famous person yourself, how cool/uncool is it for a family to reach out in a situation like this? Is there an etiquette to follow? He's the only person I know who'd have an answer and he's not here anymore.

If there are people who knew and liked your dad who would care that he’s dead, then reach out and let them know. That applies whether they are famous or not, or whether they are anything or not.

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bitterconscienceshen asked:

Hi Mr. Gaiman, I read a bunch of Discworld books after watching Good Omens and in one book Death says something like, "At the end of time I'll turn off the lights and lock the door behind me". Then I got the first volume of the Sandman Omnibus and the Endless Death says almost the same thing! So who came up with it first? Or is it a "great minds think alike" situation?

neil-gaiman answered:

Probably a Neil-and-Terry-talking thing. There are places where lines that were mine showed up in Terry books and lines that were his showed up in my books, because we talked a lot and that was where the lines turned up first: in conversation, and really the lines weren’t his or mine, they were ours. The “all cassettes left in a car eventually turn into the Best of Queen” thing was a standing joke of ours from conversation – I put it into Good Omens, but if Terry had been writing something at the time where it would have fit, he could easily have put it there as a Discworld footnote.

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Actually, I think Terry Pratchet did sort of use the "Best of Queen" joke in a short story from 1990 titled "Hollywood Chickens".

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I think he did, yes. Which is kind of my point. I took the joke and put it into a story about a demon driving a car, and he took it and put it into a story about chickens using technology to cross the road. And it’s not that either of us had taken it from the other one: it was our joke.

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astherthepagan asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman, hope you're doing well!


Sir, after Morpheus got all his stuff he said something among the lines of "I don't know what to do anymore" and the story did seem like it ended there (or at least a part of it did).

I was watching this interview that the interviewer said smthg like "you had to write 75 pieces, didn't you got tired?"

So, my question is: did you had a moment where you felt like the main story has been told and there's anything else to do with it but create a whole other arc?

(Btw: I've been in love with Sandman for at least a decade and a half! Thank you for the work and effort put on it!)

Yes, that was where the first storyline ended and the rest of it began. But the Main Story ended at the end of The Wake (that’s volume 10). You can (and should) read Dream Hunters, Endless Nights and Overture, though.

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avidcollectorofdust asked:

Hello! Do you think the Disposable Demon will be making any appearance in S2? Even just walking across the background or something

(and if the answer is wait and see, can you instead answer the question of ‘where did you get the idea for the Disposable Demon?’)

When I was writing Season 1, I came up with the idea of Hastur killing several demons on the trot, and it seemed funny to me that it would be the same demon being repeatedly killed. And I just liked the idea that whenever I need a demon to be killed it would always be Eric…

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kellukekellll asked:

Hello Neli!

I go by Charlie and I do hope you're not busy, if you are then I'm sorry to bother you. But I have a question about this one apparent thing that is also in the Good Omens book, but is it true that Aziraphale didn't call Crowley "My dear" in the show itself because Michael Sheen said it so softly that David Tennant broke down? I'm genuinely curious and it's totally alright if this doesn't get answered, but I also hope you're having an amazing day/night!

No, someone’s been telling you fibs, I’m afraid, Charlie. It wasn’t in the show because in the book it’s only used once, as a “Really, my dear” at the moment in St James’s Park when Crowley kills the duck and then brings it back to life. It was in the script, but I cut it from the final shooting script when I learned how many hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost us in realistic duck-and-water-animating-CGI to do something that was sweet but not essential to learning who they were.

The second “my dear boy” was cut because the story of the bird and the mountain was too long for TV, but I added a “my dear fellow” in Episode 3 to make up for it.

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maria7potter asked:

Hello Mr Gaiman. I have a possibly silly question: why does Crowley get angry at Aziraphale when he uses the word "fraternising" in episode 3? Does the word have some subtle meaning that eludes me as a non-native English speaker, or is he hurt that Aziraphale used such a detached word to describe their relationship?

It probably does, yes.

1: to associate or mingle as brothers or on fraternal terms fraternized with the other guests at the party

2a: to associate on close terms with members of a hostile group especially when contrary to military orders were ordered not to fraternize with the enemy
b: to be friendly or amiable

These days, although fraternize can still refer to a brotherly association or simple friendliness, it often occurs in contexts, such as fraternizing with the enemy, implying friendliness toward someone who would be better avoided.

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headless-beast asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman, what sort of food is on set? I always wonder about that. Do you get caterers and a lunch menu or is it just sort of a surprise?

Yup. There are caterers there. Normally there are three lunch options, a meat or chicken, a fish and a vegan option, along with salad and a dessert or two. We learn what they are early in the day, so we can order, so they can prepare them and they can be picked up all packaged up, in a Covid safe way. (In the olden days you’d stand in a line and make your mind up when you got to the front of the queue.)