#such interesting thoughts though ty for sending them in!! ❤️

[thelordofgifs]

can i ramble some disorganized thoughts here ok thanks

do you think that reborn elves have scars or any remnants from past injuries

like if maedhros gets re-embodied, does he have 2 hands

i think (and this is just how I'd write it, not what i think is "Canon™") that it depends on how personal the injury was

and how well they dealt with it. like maedhros would still be one handed, but fingolfin wouldn't need a wheelchair

and i think they have some degree of unconscious choice. so if maedhros 'wanted' his hand back, he'd have it (although personally speaking, that seems a bit ooc). because an elf's hroa upon rebirth is based on their fea, and being one handed is part of what makes maedhros who he is

i read a story once where maedhros got re-embodied with one hand, and somebody (feanor? celebrimbor? aule? i do not remember) makes him a prosthetic hand. he tried it out, and immediately took it off and throwed it off a cliff bc it was Wrong

this is semi-unrelated but beren and maedhros best friends au <2

This is such a late answer I’m sorry 😭 but I think these headcanons are great and I fully agree! The fëa remembers the wounds of a past life, and the fëa shapes the hröa, after all. I’ve also seen it convincingly argued that the loss of Maedhros’ hand is a reminder of one of the greatest acts of love he ever received; of course he wants to keep that scar, it symbolises Fingon’s love for him! (Personally I can go either way on whether or not he was re-embodied with both hands – as long as the psychological reasoning behind it is convincing I’ll enjoy either.) Prosthetic hand Maedhros, on the other hand, is one of my biggest pet peeves. Let! him! be! disabled! And people with upper limb amputations rarely even use prosthetics or find them helpful, from what I understand. It is indeed Wrong.

should tfs become a Beren and Maedhros best friends au now

[moonsapprentice]

hiiii! I really liked your writing! :]

can you please do main four x reader who does tarot spreads?

hope you're having a great day ♡

TYSM!! I’d be happy to do this request :) hope ur having a good day too 💕

⋆ ✶ ✷ 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔫 4 𝔵 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔱 ✷ ✶ ⋆

𝔈𝔡𝔡

✩ would definitely think you’re the coolest person ever

✩ I don’t know if he’d believe in it but he’d support you

✩ would let you do readings on him and would admire you the whole time

“so you got ace of wands, which means-… hey wait are you even listening?”

✩ and he’s just staring at you lovingly

✩ finds your voice really calming when you’re doing readings

✩ looks through all your tarot cards to look at the art, then he looks up the meanings later

✩ will send you random card sets if he finds them at the store to see if you want them

✩ also if you have incense he likes to smell them all then complain about a headache later lol

✩ just generally super supportive

𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱

✩ HE’S A BELIEVER‼️‼️

✩ gets terrified if he gets a bad prediction

✩ probably took a bite of an incense stick because he thought it was pocky 😞

“Why does it taste spicy!?”

✩ he had to flush out his tongue with water for 10 minutes straight

✩ but when he actually figures out what it is he likes it

✩ DON’T LEAVE HIM IN A ROOM ALONE WITH IT THOUGH HE’LL SET SOMETHING ON FIRE!!!

✩ probably fell asleep once while you were giving him a reading

✩ if you’re giving yourself a reading he has his head in your lap

✩ asks a bunch of questions about the meanings of each card, then forgets two seconds later and you have to re-explain

𝔗𝔬𝔪

✩ I kinda think he’d believe in it, he’d be a little suspicious but he might believe in it

✩ but he would think it’s super cool

✩ lets you rant all about the meanings of every card, and he’d remember all of them

✩ completely silent if you do a reading on him, literally all his attention is on you

✩ looms over you if you do a reading on yourself, just to see what you get

✩ finds the art on the cards really cool

✩ dislikes incense because the smoke reminds him of Tord 🥱

✩ buys you tarot card packs and randomly leaves them on your bed or desk

𝔗𝔬𝔯𝔡

✩ would 100% tease you

“Hah! What are you, a witch?”

✩ actually finds it really cool though

✩ I don’t know if he’d believe in it per-say, but he’d be super interested in it

✩ surprisingly quiet when you do a reading on him, and he listens to every word you say

✩ holds your hand as you read to him ❤️

✩ points to all the cards with pretty pictures to ask what they mean

✩ if you have incense he also really loves it

✩ I feel like he’s a cinnamon kinda guy

✩ goes out shopping with you and gets you whatever tarot sets or witchy stuff you want

Ty for your request!! This was super fun to write about :)

- xoxo, Artemis

[ingravinoveritas]

Hey, it’s me again.. I took a little time off to elaborate all of this, I went through various stages of disappointment, sadness and anger, but now I’m feeling better (even though it left a bitter taste in my mouth).

I did read all of the comments and reblogs to your posts, they made me cry (in a good way!) and I started to feel less alone indeed, a heartfelt thanks goes to them, definitely ❤️ this is what a fandom should be, whether it is Good Omens’ fandom or Neil Gaiman’s fandom (well I hardly see myself becoming part of his fandom now, even though I like some of his works, i.e. The Sandman).

The fact that he’s a writer is the reason why I weighed his words so much, otherwise I would have thought “okay maybe it was a poor choice of words and didn’t mean that”.. He knows exactly what he did instead, he used his skill with words against someone who barely speaks his language. This was unfair and unnecessary on so many levels imo.

About my ask, in my mind this was a point of view that maybe could’ve been useful for him to consider. I asked that in his interest, I mean, at the end of the day it’s his series, not mine. He didn’t even try to understand, instead. The point he’s missing with Staged is that Staged is not any series, it’s a series where the main characters (the two couples, but there’s also Ty in the third season) are supposed to be the actors’ real personalities and relationships (“supposed to”: I know they’re still fictional), so seeing all of them together in a scene of any series (not only Good Omens) would feel like breaking the fourth wall to me. I know it’s not something that everybody would experience, but definitely some people would. The nepotism thing is kind of connected to this, but mostly I’m really concerned about David Tennant being accused of that (the first “joke” was already there at Basingstoke). I mean, if Georgia had accepted the role and Olive had passed the audition, there would have been four members of his family involved (I know Peter Davison is an accomplished actor, but he’s also part of the Tennants family portrait, especially talking about Doctor Who), they’re just two for now, but the fact that Neil said that in a hypothetical season three, he would like to offer Georgia and Anna a part… The risk was there again. Maybe he thought that it would please the fans who always idolise them no matter what; this part of fans is really loud, but that doesn’t mean that they’re the actual majority. Also, this doesn’t mean that I hate them either, I would never do something like this out of hate, I’m not so miserable.

In summary, I just wanted him to read and consider that, I wasn’t really interested in an answer, tbh. It’s not like I was expecting something like “yeah, this is nepotism on my part! Thanks for asking xx” (though… That would’ve been a funnier response). As I said previously, this might have been an impulsive decision, and even a naïve one.

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Hello, Anon. I'm back from my work trip and finally not entirely exhausted, so now I can answer your Ask and all of the other Anons still waiting in my inbox.

I'm glad to hear from you again, and that you are feeling better. I very much relate to what you said about having a tendency to blame yourself for everything, because I do the exact same thing. But there is a difference between blame and responsibility, and while you are responsible for choosing to ask Neil that question, you are not to blame for how he chose to respond to it.

You mentioned not being sure what to do now, and thinking about sending him Crowley's line about asking questions (which is also something that I thought of when this whole thing happened). My personal suggestion would be not to message him at all, as there really isn't anything else that can be said and I think it would probably just give you more anxiety worrying about if/how he'd respond again.

The thing to keep in mind is that Neil is who he is. Being a writer does not automatically make someone better or smarter than anyone else--Ernest Hemingway was an abuser and a drunk; Hunter S. Thompson was, well..."LSD-soaked madman" is putting it generously; F. Scott Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda made Kanye and Kim K. look Amish, and the list goes on--but what I think has happened with Neil is that there is such a hype around who fans perceive him to be...the "image" of Neil Gaiman as opposed to the actual human Neil Gaiman. What we have now had a glimpse of is the actual human, and that for as calm and cool as Neil always seems to come across, there are clearly things that can still ruffle his metaphorical feathers.

I don't know if you've visited Neil's blog again, by the way, but just a few days ago, he responded to this Ask which I and everyone else who read it would most definitely categorize as "creepy"...and yet he answered it and did not call that person out the way he did with you. What that tells me is that what happened with you was not because of anything you did, but because Neil read it the way he did. And there could be so many other factors at play as well--the fact that he is in the middle of a divorce, the effects of the Writers' Strike and what that will potentially mean for GO 2--that ultimately contributed to his mindset while answering.

The other thing I will say is that I've already seen part of your concerns come to life, as following the release of the GO 2 opening credits, some fans were insisting that the order of David and Michael's names in the sequence and David's name supposedly appearing first (as opposed to Michael's in the S1 credits) was a reference to Staged:

In actuality, both David and Michael's names appear at the same time (but Michael's is less visible due to being in the sky). Neil even seemed to confirm this when someone recently asked about it. Not only that, he did not mention anything about Staged at all, which in all likelihood means it was probably not a specific reference. But seeing fans rush to this conclusion seemingly validates what we've been saying all along, and when I saw it, I immediately felt annoyed. For me, Good Omens and Staged are two very different things, as well as entirely separate things, and I categorically do not like the feeling of looking at anything related to GO and thinking of Staged. Only my opinion, of course, but there it is.

Finally, regarding the nepotism situation, one thing I've also noticed is people saying that this is somehow brand new, or that no one cared before GO 2. As I've mentioned previously, I became a fan of Michael's and "got into" him before I did David, so I will fully admit to being less knowledgeable around the nepotism issues there (Ty in ATWI80D, Georgia getting a part in DW because of Peter, then producing YM&H). But I can say with absolute certainty that concerns of nepotism with Anna were being voiced years ago, as far back as the first season of Staged and then right through to her being in Last Train to Christmas in 2021. So this is not remotely anything new, nor related only to GO, but to every role AL has had (Staged, LTTC, and Sandman), all of which she has gotten because of Michael.

I would also encourage people to read this post from last year on @invisibleicewands' blog for some very insightful tea about nepotism. One commenter is a former actor and shared some extremely interesting information in the notes in particular, of which I'd like to share a few:

I'm very willing to bet that all of the above--especially the part about casting directors and casting practices--are things Neil already knows, and are at least part of what caused his disproportionate response to your question. Because if this is something well-known and common to the industry, you are very likely not at all the first person who has brought this up to him, as well as the fact that four members of the same family (David, Ty, Peter, Georgia) nearly ended up in the same season of one show (GO season 2).

Could Neil have had enough and just snapped? Sure. We all have our limits, our quota of what we can handle at any given time, in any given day. And he would have absolutely been well within his rights to ignore your question entirely. That he read it as being "not in good faith" tells me this is a subject that's come up before, and has led to him being on the defensive. Which, again...also understandable. But the fact that Neil--who is a writer, who has spent an untold amount of his life writing about all sorts of things in painstakingly detail-- couldn't parse a fan asking a genuine question or distinguish it from an attack is not okay, and neither was his choice to respond so condescendingly and set you up as a target for the larger fandom.

But you already know all this, Anon, so let me stop before I repeat myself too much. I am just glad that you decided to write to me again, and that you took such comfort from both my words and the folks who commented on my post. I am sorry that the whole thing has left such a bitter taste in your mouth (though understandably so), but with all the wonderful new things we've gotten in the last few days (opening credits, the new poster), that thankfully gives us happy things to focus on instead.

Sending you lots of love again and the hope that you will continue to feel better and not let this take away your excitement for GO 2 entirely. Thanks for writing in! x