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Destiellarry

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Be nice to nice xx
Love wins, always.
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living life vicariously through watching good omens heartstopper and rwrb within the span of 2 weeks and making my entire personality about these 6000 year old gays, teenage gays and 20 something gays

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neil-gaiman

i have another question because prime subtitles say one thing and all the people quoting it say something else, so: when nina is asking crowley about his relationship with aziraphale, does crowley say “i’m too pure of heart to be anybody’s bit on the side” or “he’s too pure of heart…”?

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He says "He's too pure." The subtitles have it wrong.

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neil-gaiman

this isn't a question so i understand if you don't answer it on your blog, but i just wanna say how much i appreciate the trans and non binary representation on good omens. it's so seamless, no one saying "what do you mean THEY? that doesn't make any sense!" these characters just exist and are non binary openly and everybody just gets it and it isn't a big deal and it simply is everything i could ask for in terms of representation. so thank you Mr. Gaiman, your work is greatly loved and appreciated.

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Thank you so much.

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orpiknight

Neil Gaiman Tumblr FAQ: Good Omens

Tumblr questions that Neil Gaiman has already answered. Yes, it does have some Neil-provided info of S2. But, it is spoiler leak-free! (It also does not have spoilers from early screenings of S2.)

Docs Version: Here Spreadsheet Version: Here

I’m excited about Good Omens 2 and I was already going through Neil Gaiman's blog ( @neil-gaiman ). I initially made it for me and my friends for reference, but then decided to go ahead and throw it out into the Tumblr void, too. I hope it helps.

I made my own FAQ about this here (please check it before messaging me): OrpiKnight's FAQ FAQ

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neil-gaiman

Before you ask a Good Omens question, look here. An incredibly impressive job of research and gathering.

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The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

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Good Omens NYCC panel recap

   - Guests: Neil Gaiman, Douglas Mackinnon, Rob Wilkins, Maggie Service, Nina Sosanya and Guelin Sepulveda, it is said that Michael Sheen will join at the end over Zoom.

About Season 1

- What do they miss most when S1 wrapped and before S2:

  • Douglas: All the cast and all the crew. We were very big and cuddly family.
  • Neil: Yeah. 
  • Rob: David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
  • Nina: Missing the mentioned family and being part of the nuns sisterhood.

- At the beginning they shared several bts stories from season 1 and the book: 

  • First day of shooting in the bookshop was cancelled because of the blizzard and the second day they were foreced to shoot interiors because outside there were people with flamethrowers trying to melt what was there. So they build the set of Soho 2 inside.
  • Rob kept a lot of the vehicles from S1 and S2, all the motorbikes, the cars, and now I have topped it with Crowley’s Bentley.
  • A lot of nuns including Maggie had warts, but Nina didn’t want one.
  • Neil about Nina’s audition (read more here).
  • That both Michael and David both independently suggested that he might like to write a Good Omens stage play so they may swap roles each night.
  • About Michael originally being Crowley (more here and here).
  • About Terry and Neil being Aziraphale and Crowley - Neil: In the creation of Crowley Terry took the things that I did that he thought were hilarious, like wearing sunglasses indoors when I didn’t need to. He put a lot of me into Crowley but then we both put a lot of ourselves into both of them. (here, also this).
  • Michael Sheen is amazing mimic, Neil recalls that during one of the final scenes he had producer headphones on, the guys were acting and sitting on the bench and all of the sudden David Tennant started saying awful things about Michael Sheen, just, you know, there’s Crowley and Aziraphale talking and Crowley is saying all this stuff about how Aziraphale is fat Michael can’t act and all the stuff and I’m like ‘Whaat?! David is the nicest man in the world…’ and then the penny drops and it’s Michael sitting there doing pitch perfect as Crowley.

About Season 2

- What was like for Quelin to join the show:

  • She was a fan. The very first day was a bit like out of body experience, there was a scene where she interacted with David and Michael. So it was like, ‘Concentrate, Quelin, concentrate! It’s okay, it’s okay!’ And it was just overwhelming in the best of ways, honestly.
  • She plays angel Muriel. When Neil and John Finnemore talked about season 2, they realized that they didn’t have another nice, well-meaning angels except for Aziraphale in Heaven, all they had were bastards, all awfull, so they thought ‘Let’s have a nice one’ and so they created angel Muriel, curious, gullible, well-meaning and chatty angel that spent 6000 filing in the same office in Heaven hoping that somebody would come in and the day would get more interesting and it doesn’t.  
  • She’s a 37th order scrivener, bottom of the pily, it’s her first time to Earth.

- They felt Terry’s presence also during filming S2.

- Douglas said that they started doing the ADR post production and that the difference between David and Michael is that David looks at the monitor and whatches what he’s done and Michael never watch, so now Michael saw himself for the first time and he was like a fan doing, ‘Oh look we’re back! And there’s Aziraphale!’.

- Neil about Maggie and Nina returning: 

  • It was a thing where one of the things I was very very certain before I started writing season 2 that there were two characters in it and I wanted them to be played by Maggie and Nina, so in order to make it clear to everybody reading the script, that they were going to be played by Maggie and Nina, I called the characters Maggie and Nina. Maggie and Nina liked being Maggie and Nina so the names stayed. 
  • Douglas joked that he thought that a bit lazy not to think up new names and it was hell on set. Later he jokes that since Muriel is an actual angel name, that Neil didn’t make that one either.
  • Maggie runs a record shop which is beside Aziraphale’s bookshop in Soho, Mr. Fell is her landlord, shop passed through the generations. Her shop looks across shop where Nina works.
  • Nina works in the independent coffeeshop Give Me Coffe or Give Me Death, she is good with dealing with people in Soho who come in, not afraid of dealing with them. Wears great cardigans. Her character is quite grumpy. There is a scene where at the start her love life is doomed and she is getting passive-agressive texts for Lindsay - Neil says writing the texts was some of the most fun they had  - maybe there will be a hope for her love life.

- About more characters:

  • Neil didn’t want to lose people because they are such a family and wanted Miranda Richardson back but Madame Tracy’s story had really finished and couldn’t think of more for here and her story had ended so beautifully so he wrote a new part for Miranda - she plays Shax, demon that was sent on Earth as the replacement of sacked Crowley.
  • Anna Maxwell Martin couldn’t make the filming (was in two shows and a stage play when they needed her), so Beelzebub is played by Shelley Conn. She demanded a lot more flies.
  • Donna Preston plays Mrs. Sandwich, and We’we never quite sure about Mrs. Sandwich’s profession but she’s definitely in Soho.

-When Neil started writing S2:

  •  In August 2019 he told Amazon and BBC at fancy breakfast, ‘This is the plot.’, and they said, ‘Oh, we like that plot.’ 
  • In December he and John Finnemore got together and Neil told him the plot and he said, ‘That is a good plot, but how does it end’ Neil said that he doesn’t have ends until he gets there but John needed one so Neil said, ‘How about this?’ and told him the end and John said, ‘That’s a good end.’ And that is the end we’ve got. 
  • He started writing it in the middle of the pandemic Summer 2020, writing with pencil to his notebook the first scene which is the first scene.

- Neil what will S2 be about:

  • Six episodes, each about 45 minutes.
  • There are some love stories in it.
  • We will learn a lot about Jane Austin we didn’t know before.
  • There is a lot more Heaven, a lot more Hell.

- What could be more eras for Aziraphale and Crowley

  • Douglas: 19th century Scotland, Neil: Edinburgh perhaps around 1827?, Douglas: That would be good, can you write that?, Neil: Oddly enough, episode 3 will take us to the little stint of body snatching in the era. For me it would be like 1941 and we’d go back to those Nazis. Douglas: That would be good and what about something biblical as well, could we do something? Neil: Bible’s good. Yeah back to biblical times, that would be really fun, we could do one of those in episode 2. (they are obviously talking about minisodes :))

- There was a clip from the show but only sound for those watching the stream. 

- Season 2 Release Date: Summer 2023

- At the end on the zoom dropped not on Michael but also David and Jon Hamm! :)

  • Watch here :), their banter was written by Neil, Staged-style.
  • Michael and David found out that there’s going to be S2 probably at the same time from Neil. There was always sort of hope after the end of S1 that there might be more story to tell. Jon found out about it from Neil during press for S1 as potentiality and then during covid Neil said an idea to Jon that we would start by walking down the street in Soho completely nude and he send me the beggining of the scene where Gabriel does not recogni- and the rest is deliberately cut with ‘Lost connection’, to the nude part Neil said, I knew that if he said yes to that he’d say yes to anything and then he says it is not actually there.
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neil-gaiman

Just a reminder that there are actually already things we’ve revealed about Season 2, for those of you wondering.

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orpiknight

Hello there! It is officially The Final Month of the wait for Season 2.

I've been very excited about Good Omens S2. And since I was already perusing Neil Gaiman's blog ( @neil-gaiman ) for extra info on the GO world, I decided to start throwing answered Asks on a doc. It was mainly for me and my friends for reference, but I finally decided to post it to here, too.

As I was going through, I saw there were a lot of repeated questions. A lot of a lot of them. So, maybe this will help a bit? And yes, it does have information for Season 2. (BUT, but not the leak spoiler. It is leak-free!)

I also added some niche extra info and BTS that was buried in there.

Thanks to Neil Gaiman for taking so much time to answer so many questions! I really enjoy the behind-the-scenes info and learning more about the GO world.

I also made my own QnA about this here (please check it before messaging me about anything): OrpiKnight's QnA

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neil-gaiman

What an astonishing work of compilation! Thank you so much.

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do you ever just in the middle of reading a fic start smiling like a fool because it's so well written and for a moment it feels like you're actually there, in the story and you only realise you've been smiling after a while and it feels really nice in a way

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sometimes i think about tk’s little head tilt he does when he looks at carlos

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I headcanon that one of TK’ s favorite things to do is sit on the counter in the loft. He hops up there and lets his feet dangle and talks Carlos’s ear off while Carlos cooks. Carlos half heartedly tried to stop him when TK first moved in but at this point has completely given up and secretly loves it just as much as TK does. He comes and stands in between TK’s legs at various points and lets him taste whatever he’s making. Domestic bliss.

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28 for Tarlos? 💞

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28. Forehead touches or nose nudging or any soft variation on the theme

There’s a fizzing under TK’s skin that’s making him feel like he might burst out of it. Not in a bad way; it’s the buzz of anticipation, of something new, something good.

He has to remind himself to breathe as Carlos moves infestimally closer, the palm of his hand warm and large against the side of his face, Carlos’ fingers curling around the back of his neck.

TK looks at Carlos’ lips, pink and perfectly formed and plush then back up to his eyes, so dark and beautiful, framed by thick lashes. Eyes that look so fondly at TK that it makes his stomach swoop. He licks his own lips and catches the way Carlos’ eyes dip down to track the movement.

Carlos leans in and rests their foreheads together, his eyes closed. “Hi,” he murmurs before taking a breath, as if he wants to savour the moment.

“Hey.” TK nudges his nose against Carlos’ nose.

He’s so desperate to kiss Carlos, he loves kissing Carlos, but he doesn’t want to break the magical spell that seems to have settled around them, slowing time down and narrowing all the wonders of the universe to this moment, to just the two of them, sharing breaths.

They’ve shared a lot of kisses, since that first time. Desperate kisses, hard and claiming and full of passion and lust and want; the occasional chaste kiss goodbye. But nothing like this.

Carlos’ lips sliding against his are pressing gently against his own, slowly coaxing him to open his mouth with the delicate swipe of his tongue against the seam. TK opens to him, like flower petals unfurling and reaching for sunshine. He wasn’t ready for this, for the way that Carlos’ lips would feel against his own, the way Carlos would melt into him, when kissing wasn’t just a stop on the way to more.

This kiss though, this kiss is the entire journey. This kiss says I like you and I want to be with you and maybe even, you make me happy. This kiss makes TK’s heart feel three sizes too big for his chest and that terrifies him because how can he possibly have this, with someone like Carlos?

He pushes the questions away and lets Carlos kiss him and kiss him and kiss him until his lungs ache for air and his lips are numb and when they break apart TK can’t help but smile.

“Hi.”

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