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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 6 hours

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Dear Good Omens fandom friends,

can we please agree to keep our sand in our sandbox?

We have a great sandbox. It's big and full of people building castles and villages and roads and stuff. Some of that is big and complicated and detail-oriented, some of it is strange and weird and funny, some if it is off-the-rails in any and all senses of the word. All of it is lovely. Some of it tries to rebuild Neil Gaiman's sandcastle as faithful as possible, either to build onto it or to try and find out where the secret rooms might be hidden. Some of it looks a lot like his but has its own little turrets and courtyards and gardens added everywhere. Some of it looks completely different and doesn't try to hide it. Some of it isn't even meant to be taken seriously and just exists to make people laugh. But there is so much of it that everybody can find something for themselves; and if we don't we just find a free space and start shifting sand ourselves.

Neil Gaiman has his own sandbox. He has built something brilliant and beautiful in it, and he is currently busy building another storey onto it. He doesn't want anybody to see the new part before it is finished, and I know that sometimes the excitement of finally wanting to see it is hard to bear.

But that is why we have our sandbox. To make our own stuff until he reveals the rest of that sandcastle we all love so much. To pass the time, to have fun with it, to meet new people and find more brilliant little sandcastles. Never again will there be as much creativity, as much activity, as many people around in this sandbox than there is now, in the time before the last bit of his castle is revealed. I am sure most of us will be delighted and surprised at what he will have created. Some will be disappointed because they were expecting his sandcastle to look different, some will be disappointed because they saw a castle in our sandbox they liked much more, but most will be delighted because after all we came up with he will still have managed to surprise us.

Our sandbox. His sandbox.

The two are separated for a reason.

Because if you keep throwing sand into his box to get his attention, or keep trying to get a good look at what he is doing over there, or keep yelling at him to look over to ours and tell you which one looks like the one he is trying to make, or which one is the best, or how stupid one of the others looks (last one would also make you a dick), you are quite simply risking the new part of his sandcastle to collapse. Or for him to have to remake it in a way he didn't plan to, or simply dislikes, or that we will all dislike.

And just because he is glad we are enjoying ourselves and proud that his work inspired us to create all these things, doesn't mean he wants to see (all of) it. Some things he definitely wouldn't want to see; other things the creators definitely don't want him to see.

I'm proud of our sandbox. It's huge. It's brilliant. It's creative. It's collaborative. And it's ours.

Have fun in it. But keep it apart from his. Keep out of his. And keep him out of ours. Stop trying to drag him over. He has stuff to do. Important stuff. Stuff I, for one, am waiting very impatiently for.

And he will never show us the parts of the castle that aren't finished yet, no matter how often you ask. And just because he is making an effort to be funny about it doesn't mean we aren't annoying him when we keep asking.

#🥹🥹🥹

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 1 day

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The weather has been going up and down the last few weeks, but for today it is expected to get fairly hot. My toes & feet aren't exactly summer ready, though, so I decided to go full German™️ today. And yes, I don't know anything about fashion, but I am aware that this is a crime punishable by death in some countries. 😅

#nikku #irl #nikku's photos

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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@goodomensafterdark

nikku's fanfics

My Good Omens smut fanfics (yes in my head I like to make my millennia old eldritch beings fuck nasty, sue me):

Playing with Fire (AO3, 4417 words; tags: explicit, porn with feelings, fluff and smut, first time, both use he/him pronouns and have penises, top Aziraphale, missing scene / canon-divergent)

Finally Home (AO3, 7033 words, 2 of ? chapters; tags: explicit, porn with feeings, fluff and smut, first & second time, both use he/him pronouns and have penises, they're switches, post-canon, South Downs Cottage)

Dance for Me (AO3, 2091 words; tags: explicit, a little bit kinky, a little bit rough, implied consent, established relationship, both use he/him pronouns and have penises, top Crowley, post-canon, South Downs Cottage)

Devour What's Truly Yours (AO3, 2826 words, tags: explicit, plot what plot, smut, first time, cunnilingus, Crowley has a vulva, Aziraphale has a penis, but he uses his mouth, Job's basement and the ox rib)

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 2 days

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Fanfic: Devour What's Truly Yours

Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Plot What Plot, smut, first time, cunnilingus, Crowley has a vulva, Aziraphale has a penis, but he uses his mouth, Job's basement and the ox rib

Excerpt: "Can I … touch it?"' The demon suddenly felt his whole body going hot. As if his blood had turned to water from a hot spring. This curiosity was exactly what he had been trying to inspire in the angel. And yet, now that it was happening, he was somehow lost for words. "Ngk", he said. Aziraphale looked up to his face. Crawly nodded, making sure his face didn't look as flushed as it felt. Aziraphale reached out with his hand, hesitantly touching Crawly's pubic area with his finger, gently stroking his curly, red hair and the skin beneath. Then he moved it downward and slid it slowly, carefully, into that wet spot - Crawly just realised how wet it had become during the last couple of minutes - and hesitantly moved his finger up and down the slit. Crawly thought he was gonna discorporate. He tried not to let it show, all he allowed himself was to let a little bit of air audibly escape his lips. Dear Satan, what had he gotten himself into here? And yet… "Do you want to lick it?" he asked the angel, breathlessly.

Read it on AO3 (2,826 words).

@goodomensafterdark

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 3 days

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Next try.

Today was my first day after my vacation, early shift, I got up at 3:20 am.

Making this kept me awake in the afternoon.

Made on Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 with Krita.

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 3 days

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I like to think they stayed a while and watched the sunset together. And maybe the moon rising.

So I haven't drawn anything since almost 20 years. It feels like I'm starting out like a toddler again, so I thought I might as well start with digital painting and actually learn how to colour stuff. (I never liked oil or acryl or things like that, couldn't paint in colour to save my life.) Because my old problems with perspective and proportions have worsened, I started with simple things like silhouettes. This is the first one that isn't completely terrible. Still sorry to inflict it on you all. 🙃

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 4 days

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In 2015 I got 2 opportunities:

Yes. Same TARDIS, only two years later. 😂

But that same year I also got the chance to get to see Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet in London (and he was not out sick 🤪), and I did find the London TARDIS:

I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

#tardis #fedcon #fedcon 24 #fedcon 2015 #doctor who #whovians #benedict cumberbatch #hamlet #london tardis #shakespeare plays #shakespeare #william shakespeare #london #theater #theatre #london theatre #nikku #nikku's face

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 4 days

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In my job training there are a lot of very young people, but also a few my age (and those are all single parents), I am the only one with an academic education, though, and / or any inclination towards geek/nerd culture, and so far none of them seem to be any kind of queer.

They quite often talk about relationships, raising children, and love, dashing out the most conservative takes imaginable in the process.

And I am just sitting there, staring into my phone and going 'ohdearlord make it stop I AM NEITHER CISHET NOR BINARY ENOUGH FOR THIS CONVERSATION'.

#nikku #nikku@work #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 5 days

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(via @screwtheprinceimtakingthehorse & @stormy-seasons)

Yes! Thank you.

Dear Good Omens fandom friends,

can we please agree to keep our sand in our sandbox?

We have a great sandbox. It's big and full of people building castles and villages and roads and stuff. Some of that is big and complicated and detail-oriented, some of it is strange and weird and funny, some if it is off-the-rails in any and all senses of the word. All of it is lovely. Some of it tries to rebuild Neil Gaiman's sandcastle as faithful as possible, either to build onto it or to try and find out where the secret rooms might be hidden. Some of it looks a lot like his but has its own little turrets and courtyards and gardens added everywhere. Some of it looks completely different and doesn't try to hide it. Some of it isn't even meant to be taken seriously and just exists to make people laugh. But there is so much of it that everybody can find something for themselves; and if we don't we just find a free space and start shifting sand ourselves.

Neil Gaiman has his own sandbox. He has built something brilliant and beautiful in it, and he is currently busy building another storey onto it. He doesn't want anybody to see the new part before it is finished, and I know that sometimes the excitement of finally wanting to see it is hard to bear.

But that is why we have our sandbox. To make our own stuff until he reveals the rest of that sandcastle we all love so much. To pass the time, to have fun with it, to meet new people and find more brilliant little sandcastles. Never again will there be as much creativity, as much activity, as many people around in this sandbox than there is now, in the time before the last bit of his castle is revealed. I am sure most of us will be delighted and surprised at what he will have created. Some will be disappointed because they were expecting his sandcastle to look different, some will be disappointed because they saw a castle in our sandbox they liked much more, but most will be delighted because after all we came up with he will still have managed to surprise us.

Our sandbox. His sandbox.

The two are separated for a reason.

Because if you keep throwing sand into his box to get his attention, or keep trying to get a good look at what he is doing over there, or keep yelling at him to look over to ours and tell you which one looks like the one he is trying to make, or which one is the best, or how stupid one of the others looks (last one would also make you a dick), you are quite simply risking the new part of his sandcastle to collapse. Or for him to have to remake it in a way he didn't plan to, or simply dislikes, or that we will all dislike.

And just because he is glad we are enjoying ourselves and proud that his work inspired us to create all these things, doesn't mean he wants to see (all of) it. Some things he definitely wouldn't want to see; other things the creators definitely don't want him to see.

I'm proud of our sandbox. It's huge. It's brilliant. It's creative. It's collaborative. And it's ours.

Have fun in it. But keep it apart from his. Keep out of his. And keep him out of ours. Stop trying to drag him over. He has stuff to do. Important stuff. Stuff I, for one, am waiting very impatiently for.

And he will never show us the parts of the castle that aren't finished yet, no matter how often you ask. And just because he is making an effort to be funny about it doesn't mean we aren't annoying him when we keep asking.

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 5 days

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After this one I kept digging for all my other TARDIS pictures. Here are the next ones from 2013:

I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

#tardis #fedcon #fedcon 22 #fedcon 2013 #doctor who #whovians #nikku #nikku's face

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 5 days

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Hi,

2,6,10,11,14,19 for the ask game!

Hello, thank you for the ask! 😊💙

(2) do you have any merch?

Yesss, I do. 😁 Apart from the 2006 paperback, the 2019 kindle edition, and the illustrated version of the original novel, the audio book, the full cast production audiobook, the 2015 BBC 4 Radio dramatisation, also the kindle versions of the script book and the tv companion, and the first season on bluray, I have Aziraphale's mug and some pins I found on Amazon for my bag and my jacket. Though I would really like the official pins from discworld.com, and I would also love to have a poster of the show for my new flat, but I haven't found a good one yet.

(6) who is your favorite side character?

In the book and season 1 it would have to be Agnes Nutter herself, that crazy old bastard. 😏 But now that we have season 2, I would have to add Muriel. She's like the angelic version of Arthur Shappey from Cabin Pressure. 😁

(10) have you ever imagined or created a crossover with another fandom for good omens? which one, and what was it about?

No, I'm not a big fan of crossovers. I feel they only really work if it is already a shared universe.

(11) what is (if you read) your favorite type of human au for good omens? (ex. coffee shop au, surgeons au, plant store au)

I have to admit I do not like AUs, at all. But if I had to choose a setting I would probably stick as close as possible to the original, like Soho bookseller/unsuccessful rockstar or something like that.

(14) what is your favorite good omens-coded song?

If we put aside all Queen songs that are mentioned in the book or played in the show, as well as "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", then "Love of my Life" by Queen is very appropriate for the Final Fifteen™️ (who knows, maybe we'll get it in season 3, but I personally think the moment's over). For season 1 I like "Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle, and also Hozier kinda hit it out of the park with "From Eden". I recently discovered "As The World Caves In" by Matt Maltese, which is totally Aziraphale & Crowley during the Apocalypse, and "Drink with a Friend" by Mustard Service, which has Azi & Crowley drinking in the back of the bookshop / going to the Ritz vibes.

(19) have you ever read the crowley therapy fic (the most-read fic in the fandom)?

No.

The Good Omens ask game - give me a number

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 5 days

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What does it say about me and my life that the mere fact that yesterday two really good things happened (I bought the Macbeth ticket and Neil Gaiman liked another one of my posts), which made me really happy actually, also makes me really, really anxious that something bad is waiting in the wings to catch me unprepared. 😰

#nikku #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 5 days

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I am glad you all (including Neil Gaiman) like my sandbox post, but I am afraid that like all the other posts with similar content it is a case of "speeches that convince the people already on your side and bore the ones that aren't". 😅

#good omens #neil gaiman #good omens fandom #good omens fans #fandom #fanworks #creators #fandom sandbox #nikku.txt

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 6 days

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I've started to reminisce a little, and while I didn't get to see David Tennant live on stage in 2008, it was still a really lovely trip.

I met new friends (We had never met up irl before, just on livejournal, but we all wanted to go see the play. Alas after LJ went down we lost contact.); I got to see Patrick Stewart, who unsurprisingly was very good as Claudius (he didn't come out at the stage door after the play, though, but rather secretly fled 🤨); I got to see the really good production of Hamlet itself, live, in which DT's understudy (Edward Bennett) was also very good, and he also came out at the stage door later and was really nice and lovely.

There was also the Doctor Who Expo in London that time, where I got my very first picture of me next to a TARDIS. 😊

And the year after they produced a DVD of the play for all the people who wanted to see David Tennant and couldn't, so at least I kind of got to see him in the role.

I might panic a bit because of bad experience, but even though it was disappointing, in total, it wasn't actually bad.

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 6 days

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Ticket bought

Flights booked

Hotelroom booked

Train (to the airport) - reservations not yet open

Requesting paid leave for that time not yet possible (for me)

😁

#david tennant #macbeth #the scottish play #harold pinter theatre #shakespeare plays #shakespeare #william shakespeare #theatre #theater #london #london theatre #west end #nikku

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 6 days

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Also, as airline/airport staff I approve of ticket prices going up because you have no idea how many overworked and underpaid people are working on one flight alone and on top of that having to deal with passengers who think their super-duper low discount price somehow included the right to claim them as their own personal assistant as a "service".

But as someone who has to get to London in November on a budget but with at least one change of clothes and a pair of pyjamas, I'm going 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel · 6 days

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Ok,

who else has a ticket for November 7th?

I will be on my own and it's more fun when you can meet up with people before and after.

(And I swear to God if David Tennant gets sick again that day... I'm blaming Georgia. And I will set up an Instagram account just to yell at her for not taking better care of her husband. That option didn't exist last time 🤪 But I actually think him having a caring wife - not to mention the loving husband 🤣 - now will improve my chances of actually getting to see him this time. 💙)

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