#Neil Gaiman notice me

[kaylinelizabeth4004]

One of the best parts of the Good Omens book, and series in general, is the way it flows. This is my 2.5 (hard to explain) time reading it, and I’m annotating.

If you were to read my annotations and see that at the top of 76 I had a sticky note for “gay” then just down the page you get into these themes about Good and Evil, what does it mean to be human, creativity’s benefits, Satanic Panic, and then all the way back to this crazy Armageddon plot with a sweet little gay couple, you’d be like what the f*ck. It seems like a bad B movie with an AI generated script but it’s NOT. It’s beautiful and brings you into the story and connects you. You feel like you’re thinking with Crowley, the way our human minds can wave in and out of these huge concepts without even realizing.

THIS is the type of writing I love, THIS is what I want in my works if I ever fully write my own. I probably didn’t explain it well enough, this reread is just showing me more and more why I adore it

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

"Will you please stay?" | "I need you."

TED LASSO | GOOD OMENS

[destielcowboy]

has anyone else noticed that in s2 of good omens during the bullet catch when crowley’s finger is hovering over the trigger, it is definitely not david tennant’s hand holding the gun? i know they do that kinda thing all the time in television and film, but usually it’s not so glaringly obvious to me

[liv-uwo]

I just realized how much I love tumblr. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shit hole, but by god is it a good shit hole.

Most everyone here understands how to interact online in a polite fashion, there’s hardly any elitism (it’s just a bunch of 20 something year olds talking about sexymen and gay shit), and the tagging system is so frickin EASY once you get used to it.

This site has a lot of flaws, but overall, I’m glad to be here with you guys!

[apologydanceenthusiast]

Guys, I'm rewatching Good Omens rn and

How did I not notice Hastur's wig on Crowley's desk (after Crowley traps him in the phone line) before?? What does that mean for Good Omens physics?? Why did he lose his wig in the process but not his clothes?? I have so many questions???

[canetinhas]

I'm watching Good Omens and I almost lost it to Crowley listening to Bohemian Rhapsody

[cheeekycharchar]

Crowley's Perfect Day - based on this LOL

[beecass]

I started watching good omens when i was 13 and now im 17 and ill be 21 when the s3 arrives(hopefully)... a tv show that was at first just an interesting small ridiculous and fun thing to watch when i was bored after my eight grade philosophy teacher mentioned in class now became something so important to me for the amount of queer representation that it has. i still cannot believe that they really did the kiss. even after seeing so many queer kisses in tv I still get surprised when it's done specially for queer people. good omens has been in my life even before i knew i was queer and was already bringing me comfort and peace and now it's just this amazing thing full of sentiment feelings caring and complicated things... a very pretty mess.

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

can we just take a moment to appreciate the lighting in season 2? whoever decided they were done with dark scenes and put green light in hell and yellow/warm light in the bookshop and just a lot of light outside needs a trophy bc I could barely distinguish anything in s1 cause my living room is full of windows and everything reflects in the screen which makes it horrible to watch

[oldbookshop]

had a dream that neil gaiman reblogged one of my posts last night

[kaylinelizabeth4004]

I’m working on a fanfic right now… currently just shy of 5k words and I’m only about 2/6 MAYBE halfway done with it. So might accidentally be releasing a whole ass novella soon, you never know

[buzzingbeepboop]

GUYS PLEASE TELL ME WE'RE ALL HEARING THE ORCHESTRAL BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IN EPISODE ONE AND ORCHESTRAL RADIO GA GA IN EPISODE THREE IN THE COFFEE SHOP

[moki-dokie]

You 🤝 Me

Riding the high of a Neil reblog

Thanks for your addition on the post btw! ❤️

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thank YOU for making it!

(tbh i'm still a lil sad it wasn't actually about crowley but we can still dream LOL)

[metaphysicpareidolic]

OPINION TIME because i need to know i'm not the only one who feels this way:

i'm gonna be perfectly honest and many of you might hate me for this but. i. did not like good omens season 2. so if you don't want to read, i'll just write my essay under the break dlsjfdh

OKAY.

i mean i understand why people like it, the two (mostly) male-presenting characters that everyone has been smashing together like barbie dolls for decades finally get a canon kiss, great. yeah, as a trans gay guy, i can't deny that i love seeing any kind of queer representation, especially from such a popular show, from such an influential author. but this? did not. feel good to watch. and it's not just because of the soul-destroying cliffhanger ending.

i lived and breathed good omens when the show first came out, it was one of the most intense hyperfixations of my life, i was completely obsessed with it and i recommended it to everyone i knew, both the show and the book. it's the entire reason i got tumblr in the first place and the first fandom i actually participated in. quite a good portion of my waking thoughts were consumed by the ineffable husbands and all the other characters. i was a young teenager at the time and this story shaped my view of the world for over a year, and i will always love it. but even then, i hoped to god (ha) that they wouldn't make a second season. but inevitably, they did.

i went into the first episode hoping i was wrong, and i finished it just feeling disappointed. i kept watching and got through the whole thing, hoping it would get better as the season went on, but it just got worse and worse. granted, i did enjoy the little historical throwbacks (i think the entire second season should have just been aziraphale and crowley through the centuries with michael and david improvising the whole thing like that one post) but the actual plot was bland, the characters had lost all their depth, and on top of that the budget was obviously cut by a lot so the rich visuals that were so captivating in the first season were gone, as well. that and issues with sound, which probably were more noticeable cause i was wearing headphones, but this is one of the most popular and profitable shows on a leading streaming service owned by one of the biggest fucking companies in the world. shouldn't they be putting money into it?

i'm not upset that beelzebub was recast. i'm upset that their entire character and personality was forgotten in favour of a romantic side plot, which exists, why? again?? to somehow emphasize a point already made by the other rushed romantic side plot?? that has barely anything to do with the actual story other than being accidentally dragged into it by aziraphale, whose entire character development from the first season has been entirely pushed aside because we need a third season, because we want more money! hehe they are kissing, gay people kissing ooh look, give us your money and attention so you can see them kiss consensually this time! i could continue but i will spare you the entirety of my spiel because i could write. PAGES. about how much this season hurt my soul not because Oh No They Broke Up but because i believed in this world and i believed in these characters and i don't like seeing them like this, wrung out and milked for cash and fanservice. everything that made the first season good is dampened by the knowledge that i now have to consider this fucking thing canon, that this is what the story turns into.

neil gaiman i love you but for the love of god get off of tumblr. he just wrote a fucking fanfiction of his and terry pratchett's work because he knew he would get money from it. and we are eating it up, because we love the story, we love the characters, and we love the author and we always want more. if you want more, draw fanart. write fanfiction. create your own version of a story. please, don't give your money to a company just because it's Officially Legit Canon when you could create a much better, more compelling, and more satisfying ending for yourself, for free. i lied earlier, i don't understand the appeal of this season. i don't understand why people like it. it feels fake. it feels wrong. it feels like an entirely different universe than the first season, and the book, and that wouldn't necessarily even be a bad thing if it was at least done with some level of concern for quality and consistency.

i know not everyone wants to be critical of their favourite show and would prefer to just enjoy it for what it is. i understand that, at least. i don't want to ruin anyone's fun. if you enjoyed this season, good. i'm glad you did and i love seeing all the fanart and fanfictions happening everywhere. i just really wanted to talk about this and maybe spark a little discussion if anyone's interested. anyways if you read all of this, thank you.

tl;dr: i hate capitalism, i hate streaming services

[xsilversugar]

All I want in life is to see Ocean at the End of The Lane adapted by Studio Ghibli to make my relationship with animation, art, and storytelling come full circle. Obviously unlikely but it honestly surprises me that Mr. Gaiman's work hasn't hit anime yet? I'm not a style mimicker but I wanted to try my hand at more digital background painting as well as creature design and this was really fun. I've wanted to see manta-wolves for ages and while I know I went at it very literally, I hope it still fits. This book means so much to me. I hope I did it some small justice.

[setssuo]

So we know Crowley is a woman in this particular scene. AND we know the glasses are his walls. AND we know he’s not wearing glasses.

Our baby is comfy being a woman isn’t he? 🥺