I enjoy compiling Good Omens fun facts and organizing them into a more animated/decorated/me format. So this post is all about the South Downs and The Second Coming. Everything here is very factual, except for the part of the beekeeping being associated with Sherlock Holmes. That’s just a connection I, and many others ,have made.
Beautiful post, thank you op! I want to add (for any others like me who joined the GO fandom around S2) that the ajodasso blog that asked about the South Downs at Terry and Neil's book signings in Sept 2005 to get us this information is @irisbleufic (recap post about it on their tumblr).
In Oct 2005, they began writing what was intended to be a standalone chapter about the cottage but became the 75 chapter, 275000 word short story series, Crown of Thorns, completed in 2019 (fanlore.org article)!
I also just saw that there is a 41 voice actor podfic of it?! With original musical score and art for each chapter?! (listen on AO3 or see this article on fanlore.org for links to listen on other sites)
Yep! The old ajodasso LJ is indeed me. I had a second LJ account at the time that was solely for my fanfic, irisbleufic. That content is now all on my irisbleufic AO3 and this Tumblr. Thanks so much for looping me in on this, @most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer, as I’ve been mildly frustrated with people saying, oh, the person who first got that info and started writing that first fic isn’t around anymore! I am very much still here 💙
@most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer, re: your last tag just above, I like to joke that for once, in this matter of all matters, my bloody-minded force of will was finally good for something 🙃
(And you know what? Maybe it actually was.)