They are studying us in petri dishes
The way Aziraphale almost can’t look away after Crowley pushes him against the wall melts me
Good Omens: a gentle reminder
Your headcanon is your headcanon. The characters in your mind are what they are, and nobody is trying to take them away from you. Think of the Good Omens TV series as a stage play: for six full hours, actors are going to be portraying the roles of Crowley and Aziraphale, Shadwell and Madame Tracy, Newt and Anathema, Adam, Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian and the rest. Will they look like the people in your head? The ones you’ve been drawing and writing about and imagining for (in some cases) almost 30 years?
Probably not. Which is fine.
The people in your head and your drawings are still there, and still real and still true. I’ve seen drawings of hundreds of different Aziraphales over the years, all with different faces and body-shapes, different hair and skin, and would never have thought to tell anyone who drew or loved them that that wasn’t what Aziraphale looked like. (And a couple of years after we wrote it, I was amused to realise that the Aziraphale in my head looked nothing like the Aziraphale in Terry’s head.) I’ve loved every instance of Good Omens Cosplay I’ve seen, and in no case did I ever think anyone was doing it wrong: they were all Aziraphales and Crowleys, and it was always a delight.
Good Omens has been unillustrated for 27 years, which means that each of you gets to make up your own look for the characters, your own backstories, your own ideas about how they will behave.
The TV version is being made with love and with faithfulness to the story. It’s got material and characters in it that Terry and I had discussed over the years, (some of it from what we would have done it there had been a sequel). Writing it has taken up the greater part of my last three years. You might like it – I really hope you will – but you don’t have to. You can start watching it, decide that you prefer the thing in your head, and stop watching it. (I never saw the last Lord of the Rings movie, because I liked the thing in my head too much.)
Remember we are making this with love.
And that your own personal headCrowleys and headAziraphales and headFourHorsemen and headThem and headHastur and headLigur and headSisterMary and all the rest are yours, and safe, and nobody is ever going to take them away from you.
I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks
Just don't fly too close to the sun.
Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant
Fellas (gender neutral), you heard him. Ready the catapults.
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Thinking a little too hard about how Neil and Terry wrote good omens about their friendship and since then it lead to David and Micheal becoming close friends just like they were.
If that isn’t amazing I don’t know what is.
huggingrey asked:
Mr Neil Gaiman why do we have to wait for season 2 💔 im too inpatient for that why cant we have it now?? /j
neil-gaiman answered:
Because we’re not there yet.
the reason that arthur looked at dragoon and went "your eyes, we've met somewhere before" is because of the sheer amount of eyefucking the two of them do. man spends half his time staring into merlin's eyes he better have recognized them
@neil-gaiman. I once wrote an essay for an advanced composition course about my favorite author, and It was you. As a child, I spent many days outdoors and in my imagination. Your books have always been the reason that books became my escape as I got older, just as imagination was my escape as a child.
Also, it's fucking rad that after almost a decade of me having a Tumblr account, I see you are still on here answering people's questions.
Writers deserve fair pay for what they contribute to the world.
Sometimes, when I’m feeling sad, I think about how Aziraphale probably participated in so many women’s rights marches throughout the years, as well as queer and POC rights protests.
It just sounds like something he would do, and it’s really such a wholesome and comforting thought. Good old Zira, never really understanding how humans can be so delusional and hateful towards each other, always fighting to try and help make a better, more loving world.
He really said “I am aggressively gay what the fuck are you talking about”
I just wanted to draw Crowley with his little ponytail and then I realized it looks like they're ordering at McDonald's so I doodled them with their food after lmao
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