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This is a bit of an obscure question, but in the Sandman comics was there any connection intended between Ruthven Sykes and Ruthven the rabbit-headed vampire man who lives in the Dreaming, or were the names a coincidence?

They both take their name from Lord Ruthven the Vampire, by Polidori. But Ruthven Sykes was loosely named after the character in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.

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I've loved Good Omens for over 15 years. I'm in my 30s now and finally had the time and money to make my favorite book and show a permanent part of myself. Thank you for everything ❤️

Beautiful!

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I'm sorry it's genuinely been bothering me but.. when did Aziraphale and Crowley switch bodies in ep6 S1??? in which bit of the episode? Cus while eating the icecreams they seemed to act as themselves.. just can't figure it out myself!!

They've switched when you see them the morning after the bus ride back to London.

#good omens #good omens spoilers

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Crystal Palace Surname-Von Hoverkraft? I love the show and want to get the books if I can source them but like why you do Crystal dirty with that name 😂

I didn't. Crystal was created (and named) by the team of Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham, in the original Dead Boy Detectives comic series.

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When you were writing doctor who episodes, did you have freedom to come up with the whole story or did someone say "so the general thought is there's a sentient planet that eats tardises, and try to work in a reference to the Corsair"?

For The Doctor's Wife I had free rein. For Nightmare in Silver, I was asked to reintroduce the Cybermen, make them faster, harder to kill and capable of upgrading themselves on the fly, but that was about it.

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hi mr neil gaiman! did you make it to the magnetic fields show in san francisco?

i managed to get tickets for my friend and i because you posted about it a while ago, so thank you. <3

I didn't -- i saw them do the show in New York's town hall though.

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with a lot of politics flying around the US these days, I just wanted to say thank you for writing "The Golden Boy" in The Sandman all those years ago. I was talking to a friend just now and brought it up as a story that helped me realize how easy it is to treat politics as mythology instead of reality, and how it encouraged me to think critically when giving support.

It's also a fine story regardless, DC ought to let ol' Prez Rickards out of the vault more often

Thank you!

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In Italy, this year, for the Diversity Media Awards, among the foreign series candidates there is also Good Omens.

"The Diversity Media Awards reward the characters and media content that have contributed to a valorising representation of diversity in the areas of gender and gender identity, sexual and emotional orientation, physical appearance, ethnicity, age and generations, disability."

Did you know that?

Good luck to all the nominees, but to Good Omens in particular!

I didn't know that. It's wonderful.

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Hello, mr Gaiman;

I've had a thing in my brain ever since I started reading Discworld, and as a close collaborator to mr Pratchett, I thought you might be the best person to ask: did Mr Pratchett ever meet Douglas Adams? There is this quite familiar sense of deeply thought out, seemingly irreverent yet intensely relevant patter to both of them that I can't get off of my head, and I'd be interested to know if you and Mr Pratchett ever spoke about or with him, and/or if you found any kinship with Mr Adams through his work, or if either of you even enjoyed his writing

I believe they met once at a publishing party and didn't have much to say. I wish I'd been there as a friend of both of theirs.

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I think your boop badge is taking a lot of the space that your bio was supposed to go, you might wanna get that fixed.

I'm sure you are right. Farewell boop badge, if I remember to unboop it.

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What do you do with the praise then?

You write the next thing.

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Hi,

To come back on my question about "the Sack of the Gods" in Dead Boy Detectives ; a post from @avelera explained that actually it was indeed referenced in the Sandman comics! :)

It was!

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In the writing of season 3 of Good Omens (and maybe even the previous seasons) are you completely free on what you write or does Amazon Prime prohibit you from certain things and limit you/ encourage you to introduce particular things (which are not particularly planned by you originally) ?

Are you alone or accompanied by people from Amazon in the writing?

I hope this is understandable

Nobody from Amazon Prime has suggested anything be put in to Good Omens or removed from Good Omens. They are keen to discuss the practicality of making things, of budgets and such, but they seem very happy to let us make the show we want to make.

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I'm confused about the GO timeline. When Crowley and Aziraphale first meet, we learn that They will be "shutting all this down again in about 6,000 years.". But Crowley tells Nina and Maggie that he and Aziraphale have been talking for millions of years. How is that possible?

Because there was lots of Good Omens angel time before Earth Time started.

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My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.

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On the American Gods playlist, that would count as doing your homework for you, I'm afraid. But there are a lot of songs in the book.

hi neil! i’m reading american gods for an english assignment (i got to pick the book, so of course i picked my favorite!), and in the end i need to make a small playlist of songs relating to the story. do you have any suggestions or genres?

also, on a more unfortunate note, i was a little disappointed by dead boy detectives. the writing and dialogue just didn’t seem like you! did you just create the characters, and someone else did the writing? i was very excited to see Death though, she is phenomenal :)

i hope you and yours are well!

I didn't write much of Dead Boy Detectives at all. It's not my show, although I love it. (For the curious, I wrote one scene in Episode 1, one in Episode 7, and one in Episode 8.)