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blueberry-sunshines asked:

Dear Mr. Gaiman,

I have chosen to read Good Omens as my summer novel for my upcoming AP English class.

Consequently, now I must write an entire research paper about you for my end of year project.

Do you have anything to say for the kid who’s about to spend their senior year reading a plethora of your works and trying to discover all the mysteries of your life?

Thank you for being the most remarkable wordsmith I could ever consider writing about <3

-A Very Stressed Student

Originally posted by o-crowley-o-blog

Us soon? ^

neil-gaiman answered:

Just that I’m really sorry. And I hope it’s fun anyway.

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[healing-is-cool]

Hey, it's okay. You've been through a lot, your mind focusing on surviving, not leaving room for much else. You haven't lost yourself, not at all.

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rainyray asked:

angels and demons can decide what they look like, is there a particular reason why crowley and aziraphale decided on their age? I don’t have any point that would speak against it but i was just wondering, what made them decide to be the age they are?

neil-gaiman answered:

Casting Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

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[delphiniumjoy]

You’ve heard of hopeless romantic? I’m a hopeless platonic

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[iicraft505]

Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any

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[ciderli]

@is-the-snake-video-cute looks like a coral snake (blunt nose) but double checking- is it ?

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

That's indeed a coral snake, good ID!!

This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you're actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.

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[headspace-hotel]

Ok but the guy with the octopus knows damn well how dangerous it is and he's still keeping them as pets. That's like...different than not knowing what something is. He deserves a higher level of idiot shaming

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rosebushelf asked:

in good omens, was the cook at the diner where raven sable introduced "chow" secretly elvis? i spent years thinking it was Death, because he's singled out in the scene and the postman comments on him too, but that doesn't actually make sense. was elvis really alive this whole time right under our noses???

neil-gaiman answered:

Yes.

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[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

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dazzlinghahn asked:

Every day my mind realises just how seriously and deeply devastating that final episode of good omens was. I don’t even mean devastating in the bad way, but in the way where it makes you feel REAL feelings, when you can feel your heart sink with frustration and compassion. Idk i might just be an overly emotional gal but this is my thank you and well done note to you. Not many people have the ability to create a story so fictional yet SO real. Thank you <3

neil-gaiman answered:

You are so welcome. That was what we were all going for: to make people feel real feelings.

I’m glad that people are responding to it like this, too.

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[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay that is a really weird way to put it.

What it’s actually saying is that several subspecies of spotted skunk have been elevated to full species in their own right, bringing the number of spotted skunk species up from four to seven.

It is NOT saying that striped skunks can also handstand, which is a bummer.

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