#neil gaiman fucked me up

[hello-god-its-me-sara]

there's been a bit of a renaissance of Neil Gaiman's work on the internet due to Good Omens season 2 but Coraline specifically has always had a bit of a cult following, specifically the movie (the story was already haunting a filled with mysteries and the movie which was made with such dedication added and expanded on what the novella implied)

a lot of people talk about the horror that the Other Mother/Belldam snatches children (she's kinda like an old fae, an old faerietale that was told to scare children into gratefulness and obedience)

but what I always found the most disturbing, the thing the fucked me up most as a kid wasn't the mere concept of a witch snatching children nor the Hansel and Gretel-esque funland she made but the fact that she specifically used the face of Coraline's parents

now admittedly I have a whole slew of attachment and separation issues, anxieties, and traumas that are particularly trigger by forced parental separation so Coraline was already primed to upset me in the worst ways

but for me there was something unsettling to my core that still viscerally upsets me to this day as a 22 yo that something could and would use my parents faces, use and abuse and manipulate my relationship with my parents to attempt to separate me from them

it t r a u m a t i z e d me as a child to imagine something that looked like my mom but wasn't my mom and furthermore for that thing that looked like my mom but wasn't to wish me any type of harm or distress (I mean I guess I'm still traumatized, I did say I'm still upset by this concept to this day)

[p4nishers]

yeah that's uhh that's definitely something

[absent-o-minded]

Just watched 'Dead Boy Detectives' and am painfully reminded of how desperately I NEED to be an Edwardian ghost

[mx-anthony-janthony-crowley]

okay, but neil saying that 'i'll be your mirror' is crowley's favourite song has me so fucked up, especially after realising the song came out 1967. you know, the john-lennon-hair-crowley and holy-water-in-a-tartan-flask year,,, like, i'm thinking of him right after 'you go too fast for me, crowley', hearing this new song (which is about loving someone, and seeing the best in them, and seeing parts of yourselves in each other, and completing each other, and them always being there for you) - and he just goes Yeah, I Like This One <3

[patroclws]

i really. REALLY. hope that the good omens and sandman actors stand against the sex offender it would mean so much

[m0e-ru]

oh god it’s this dude again (dude who is god)

[nastasya--filippovna]

When every darn article and website kept describing Good Omens Season 2 as a Comedy

well nobody's laughing

[morningbloodystar]

@theangel-aziraphale @echosghoast

I have a plan, though currently I'm too disturbed to go through with it.

I believe Asmodeus was the one to suggest a honeypot. I reiterate - as the most attractive and the most shameless among you all, I was perfect for the job.

I regret it greatly. Send help when I need it, won't you?

And don't worry, Echo, you will be getting the therapy you need.

[shoelacesunday]

neil gaiman as a therapist would be crazy cause you'd ask 'will i ever get better? will i ever heal? does this pain ever go away? how will i ever cope with the weight of carrying the limp, heavy corpse of my inner child draped across my shoulders in a world where a burial is too expensive?' and he'd say 'wait and see'

[cuntyfieddemon]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW????

[girlkisserdotcom]

aziraphale more. more like aziraFAIL haha am i right. am i right guys haha.

[p4nishers]

girls (gn) when you heard that? i don't hear anything. that's the point. no nightingales. you idiot, we could've been "us". i forgive you. don't bother.

[blvvdyindustries]

potential authors that may appear in bsd

Arthur Conan Doyle- wrote sherlock holmes, definitely getting into the DETECTIVE manga (maybe apart of the clocktower?, he was also famously gullible in contrast to his work, was friends with harry houdini and genuinely believed he was a wizard even though houdini repeatedly showed how his tricks worked, was also tricked by the first case of photo-editing by two little girls, prime joke material), THEORY TIME: he's going to have the actual 'super deduction' ability and will make ranpo face once and for that he's a normal person but ranpo will be able to out deduce him thus disproving that normal people can't defeat ability users

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- carmilla (the lesbian vampire story that predated bram stoker's dracula by 26 YEARS CARMILLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST, he could show up with a possible cure to the vampire curse in the current arc?, maybe he or carmilla was even the one to bite and turn stoker)

Lewis Carrol- wrote alice's adventures in wonderland

jrr tolkien- wrote the hobbit and lord of the rings

Hans Christian Andersen- wrote the little mermaid and the snow queen

The Grimm brothers- wrote most famous fairytales

Johnston McCulley- wrote zorro (may appear as part of a phantom theives guild in a more lighthearted arc after this one before jumping back into the main story?)

Marice Leblanc- wrote arsene lupine (had a crossover with edogawa ranpo's kogoro akechi lmao ty p5 knowledge AND sherlock holmes, a near guaranteed shoe-in, also part of that phantom theives guild with a potential past involving both doyle and ranpo)

Prosper Mérimée (?)- in the same vein of p5 references, the thief woman in prison may have actually been carmen from the opera carmen by prosper mérimée (soon to be thieves guild member?)

Robert Louis Stevenson- wrote the strange case of dr jerkyll and mr hyde and treasure island (thieves guild member, possible split personality a la jerkyll/hyde, blackbeard and william kid references incoming)

Alexandre Dumas- the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo (also thieves guild member)

Gaston Leroux- phantom of the opera (possible thieves guild member off work only)

toni morrison- we are in DESPARATE NEED of black writers, although maybe not since she only recently passed, wrote beloved and the bluest eye

zora neale hurston- their eyes were watching god

hughs langston- famous poet

richard wright- black boy, native son

Harriet Beecher Stowe- uncle tom's cabin

harper lee- to kill a mockingbird

robert frost- famous poet, wrote the road not taken

emiliy dickinson- famous poet

ernest hemmingway- famous poet (if his ability is for whom the bell tolls we're fucked)

jane austen- pride and prejudice (would probably get along with margaret and Nathaniel)

the brontë sisters- jane eyre, wuthering heights (would get along with jane, margaret, and Nathaniel)

george orwell- 1984 and animal farm

william golding- the lord of the flies

Joseph hellar- catch-22 (his power would be hell, a literal catch-22)

ralph ellison- the invisible man (ability is obvious, thieves guild member, maybe a conflict with tanizaki considering the similar abilities?)

oscar wilde- the picture of dorian gray (this man was a great big bisexual SLUT in life i want him to be the same in bsd)

virginia woolf- to the lighthouse (maybe will reference who's afraid of virginia woolf?)

c. s. lewis- the chronicles of narnia (personally knew jrr tolkien, famously at odds over Christmas, prime joke material)

charles dickens- a Christmas carol, oliver twist, a tale of two cities, and great expectations

arthur miller- the crucible (maybe his ability makes people distrust others?)

Johnathan swift- Gulliver's travels (teleporting ability definitely, new fast travel plot device although maybe not as it could conflict with Gogol's ability)

Vladimir Nabokov- lolita, pale fire (on second thought i don't want him in here i can only IMAGINE how that would turn out, if he shows up he and mori would either get along or HATE each other)

Leo Tolstoy- war and peace (we already know fyodor is surviving this we still don't know what crime and punishment does CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM AND FYODOR TOGETHER HELLWORLDHELLWORLDHELLWORLD) THEORY TIME AGAIN: his power is one that specifically targets only ability users and makes them slowly start acting in either anger or complete affability until everyone is at war or peace, he would be the perfect compliment to fyodor if crime and punishment kills people who believe they're guilty literally the perfect storm of abilities, the absolute worst case scenario powers we're looking at a dark soukoku here

franz kafka- metamorphosis (he's gonna turn into a bug, isn't he)

Harlan Ellison- i have no mouth and i must scream (the horror related ability to replace lovecraft without being horrifically broken)

authors that i desparately want to show up but probably won't bc they didn't write in the 1800-1900s range that asagiri likes, are still alive, or are not globally recognizable enough

homer- the illiad and oddessy (i hope he starts his ability by making an invocation to the muses)

sappho (LESBIANS RISE UP)

virgil- the aeniad

dante- the divine comedy (virgil is a character in divine comedy like how bsd includes authors of other works, prime joke material)

john milton- paradise lost

Gilgamesh or Enkidu- we don't know who wrote the epic of Gilgamesh so the characters themselves could appear

margret atwood- oryx and crake, cat's eye (potentially another animal shapeshifting power, atsushi's gonna have a little cat colony gang at this rate)

neil gaiman- american gods, the sandman ('american gods sounds like a broken ability)

ursula k. guin- earthsea series

stan lee- i know he wrote comics not long form literature but i think the father of american comics and the superhero genre deserves to be recognized in the superhero/mafia/detective noir manga; plus japanese manga was heavily influenced by american comics after wwii, we would literally not be reading bsd in the same state today without stan lee

stephen king- no explanation needed, PLEASE LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT KING IS A GIANT FAN OF LOVECRAFT I THINK HE SHOULD GET TO MEET HIS IDOL

r. l. stein- goosebumps, if literally NONE of these authors make it in PLEASE AT LEAST LET RL STEIN GET IN AND LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT PLEASE GOOSEBUMPS DESERVES SO MUCH LOVE AND PLEASE GOD LET HIS POWER BE THAT FUCKING PUPPET I WANT TO SLAPPY TO BE ABSOLUTELY USELESS AND JUST EXIST TO TORMENT STEIN

chuck tingle- pounded in the butt series guy, he should be the god of the bsd universe this is not a joke

[ecruvianfancontent]

NOBODY WARNED ME THAT AZIRAPHALE KNEW

I don't mind spoilers. In fact, I like stories better when I have an idea what I'm getting into. So, I knew how Good Omens Two was going to end, I knew what the current discourse was, I knew the twist at the end. It wasn't a secret.

But

Y'all

(It goes without saying, spoilers under to follow.)

...

Look, I keep seeing people discussing the Ineffable Divorce. Was Crowley just realizing his feelings, or just admitting them? Did Aziraphale betray Crowley by leaving, or not? But guys, everyone is talking about The Kiss like it was a big confession --

and obviously it was --

for Crowley.

Crowley, who can BARELY keep himself together.

Crowley who looks like he is in hell because of what is happening in front of him.

But Aziraphale...

On to the divorce.

I really need you to look at this exact moment. (I apologize for the gif quality, this is my first time.)

"We're a group. A group of the two of us. And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't."

Do you see those eyebrows at the end? That is the exact moment Crowley says "pretending that we aren't."

and Aziraphale's eyebrows respond what the f do you mean?

Crowley is going on and on about how they're a group, and Aziraphale has no idea where he is going with this, because it seems out of the blue for him -- what's changed?

Crowley is confessing his love to Aziraphale and Aziraphale is completely blindsided because

HE THOUGHT THEY WERE ALREADY MARRIED.

When Nina asks how long they have been together, Crowley gets flustered, backpedals, tries to insist they're not an item.

Nobody asks Aziraphale, but I think he would have given a perfect little smile and said,

"Oh, a long time."

[42kat]

I AM SEVERELY UNWELL Neil Gaiman did this to me, personally. Yes this is about Good Omens. The way Crowley talked in the ending fight was just so incredibly real, the whole nervous forcing yourself out of your shell thing

[fromthewindowtothewally]

No I didn't cry watching the season finale of Good Omens 2, but I did feel like I was dying the slowest, most gruesome death imaginable while desperately surpressing the urge to chuck my water bottle at the TV.