How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Here’s my Good Omens book cover for my final Computer Illustration project! We only had two weeks to do this project and I was ill for one of them so I’m surprised I actually managed to produce something!
So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:
A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.
What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”
After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”
This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:
This is the funniest post I have ever read on Tumblr for so many…many reasons.
Once you stop trying to entertain this imaginary audience and start living for yourself things should get a bit better
When Sheen first opened his script for the episode, it was “so satisfying to read,” he recalls during a joint interview with Tenant in New York City. “I loved it. First of all, I was going, ‘We get to do this?‘”
Tenant nods. “Like, all these different things?” Their excited back-and-forth on the subject is so entertaining, we’ll just let them take it from here.
SHEEN | I remember thinking, “But this isn’t going to be in it, because who’s going to agree to do it?”
TENNANT | Yeah. So expensive to shoot all these different scenes, the massive sets for these tiny scenes.
SHEEN | Because originally, in the French Revolution Scene, that was in a square. The Place de la Concorde or whatever.
TENNANT | Yes, that’s true.
SHEEN | With the guillotine, and thousands of people. [Laughs] That didn’t make it.
TENNANT | That’s true. It didn’t quite survive the first draft.
SHEEN | Or, for instance, the scene with Shakespeare at The Globe. That was, again, originally hundreds of people watching the performance of Hamlet. And they’re like, ‘We can’t do it.’ So Neil then went away and thought, ‘OK… so either it’s a rehearsal, or it’s a flop… It opens up a whole new dimension to the scene. So working within restrictions is actually quite useful sometimes. But I think it was the most enjoyable thing for us to film.
TENNANT | Yeah, because those scenes were sort of sprinkled through the schedule, so they were like little treats. Every few days there’d be, “Oh, we’re going to ancient Rome today!”
SHEEN | It was like, there’s a British kids’ TV series called Mr. Benn, where Mr. Benn would turn up in a different period [each time]. He would go into a gentleman’s outfitters, and he’d put on an outfit, then he’d walk through a door and he would be in a different time period.
TENNANT | Yes.
SHEEN | It was like our Mr. Benn. [Laughs] That’s a nice reference for the Americans!
I keep trying to draw the Tennant & Sheen versions of Crowley and Aziraphale, but my preexisting mental picture of them from the book is so powerful that I end up with this weird amalgam of features
I LOVE the implication in Good Omens that miracles, magic, what-have-you are a resource that is clocked by Heaven and Hell (more so Heaven, since Hell apparently doesn’t followup paperwork very well), and which seems to work in degrees–the bigger the miracle, the greater the “expense.” I imagine this could be what the Master-at-Arms meant when he referred to Azariphale’s missing sword being taken out of his “Heavenly wages.” It’s hard to imagine Heaven would be giving their angels MONEY.
I love this because it means Crowley, Azariphale, and everyone else can’t just snap their fingers to solve every problem quickly. That would have taken a lot away from the plot, kind of like the way super-hero movies paint themselves into corners having to create more and more powerful villains (until it gets to the point of making no sense, quite frankly).
It’s also great for fanfic writing because it suggests that big miracles–big expenses–might necessitate frugality afterward, or resting. After all the hardcore miracleing Azariphale and Crowley do at the end–Azariphale flying a vespa to Tadfield and Crowley stopping time–they end up waiting for the bus. No snapping their fingers to just appear back in London, or materialize a car. Nope, they are temporarily, supernaturally tapped out…and of course Crowley uses his last few pennies of magic to redirect the bus driver.
Plant of the Day
Saturday 15 June 2019
Growing over the wall, winding through the gateway and thriving in a shady corner is Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris (climbing hydrangea). This is a vigorous, large, self-clinging, deciduous climber with flower heads made up of small fertile flowers surrounded by showy white sterile ones.
Jill Raggett
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