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A little bit in late but I wanted to try the @pinkpiggy93 ‘s sweet “Draw this in your style” <:)

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Hi Neil!

I just finished my thesis which was based on The Graveyard Book and I'm still quite proud of it, so I want to show it to you. https://eggdrawsthings.tumblr.com/post/751518831575515136/the-graveyard-book-2024-thesis-project-part-1 https://eggdrawsthings.tumblr.com/post/751519243950047232/the-graveyard-book-2024-thesis-project-part-1

Sorry for the long links. I hope you like it. Have a great day!

They are beautiful. Thank you.

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I created a 3D model and floor plan of Aziraphale’s bookshop in Good Omens!

I really wanted one for reference and it seemed like many others did too, so I put together my best approximation of where everything is. Beneath the color version, you’ll see I’ve included two simplified, labeled versions of the plan. The verbal labels are so you know what the object is. The numerical labels are there to make it easy to find more information about the object. I’ve put a numbered index below the cut that features the relevant reference images I used for each object and some more information about why I put it where I did/why it’s relevant/etc. I want to be very clear that I did not add anything to this from my own imagination; every single item and feature represents something I actually saw in the shop.

If you have any questions or want more information about this, PLEASE do not hesitate to ask! I put so much time into figuring it out and I would be more than happy to be a resource for anyone who needs it. Also, if you notice any errors, let me know and I’ll update the post. I hope this is helpful!

Update: Here’s a link to an interactive view of the shop! It takes a moment to load. You can click the “3D” tab in the top right to view it in first person and walk around inside. Double click a spot on the floor to move there and pan around by clicking and dragging. The oval symbol next to the person walking gives you a birds-eye view.

Update 2: Here’s a higher quality rendering of the first person perspective! Update 3: I made an alternate first person render here complete with a ceiling, light fixtures, and ambient lighting from outside. This one is optimized for making it seem more like you’re actually there, whereas the previous one is for maximum visibility. This render also has some minor accuracy improvements, which are detailed under the cut in the relevant sections. (The first interactive link with the birds-eye view updates automatically.) Update 4: In case you’re interested in Aziraphale’s books specifically, I’ve made a catalogue of those here.

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#good omens bookshop #floor plan #good omens reference #bookshop questions

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Happy pride month!!

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Who’s down for some body snatchin???

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Day #926 of David Tennant as a Fennec Fox 🦊 @neil-gaiman

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You don't write fanfiction from what I remember, so when I saw this I wanted to send it to you. It's a screenshot of my textbook for my children's literature class.

Link to text (free online): https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/childrens_lit_textbook/

page 217 of the text, but 233 of the .pdf

I think it's fair to describe A Study in Emerald or A Case of Death and Honey as fanfiction.

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Hello, I was just wondering if you heard about The University of the Arts closing abruptly on June 7th?

The closure is a shock to the community, as you can imagine. Staff, students, and alum were given no warning, so there's bound to be lots of questions as to what happened. It's just a really sad outcome as the university has been supporting the growth of the arts for over a hundred years.

I graduated two years before your "Make Good Art" speech, and it's still one of my favorite graduation speeches of all time.

Thank you for your speech. I watch it whenever I'm feeling unmotivated.

I heard about it this morning and I'm still in shock.

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Nervous Reunion

Bonus:

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Crowley in 1941 was a studmuffin, wasn't he?🔥

My dear, a portmanteau comprised of stud + muffin? Horses and cake? A stallion but also a muffin... are we certain Aziraphale didn't invent this word just to describe Crowley? 😉

But, yes, perpetually studmuffin, Crowley is. Especially in 1941.

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I am a grownass adult with a problem talking to people I admire (which is why I'm using this instead of ever having the courage to talk to you at an event). I am normally outgoing and I have no problem speaking in public under any other circumstances, but get me around someone whose work I enjoy and I'm incoherent or completely mute.

You seem like a fairly quiet person under most circumstances, if you have any tips for how not to feel like a complete turnip, I would be grateful.

Just that it's okay to tell people you like what they made. Most people will be really happy to hear it. And then pick a new subject and say something normal.

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From Locus in 1991 on tour, Terry Pratchett & I talk about how Good Omens was written...

Pratchett & Gaiman: The Double Act

Neil Gaiman: “The first radio interview we did in New York, the interviewer was asking us ‘Who is Agnes Nutter? What is her history? Is Armageddon happening?” and so on and so forth. After a while, we twigged he hadn’t realized this was fiction. He thought he’d been given two kooks who’d come across these old prophecies and were predicting that the world was going to be ending.“

Terry Pratchett: "Once we realized, it was great fun. We could take over the interview, since we knew he didn’t know enough to stop us.”

NG: “And at that point, we just did the double act.”

NG: “We’re working on seeing how many smart-alec answers we can come up with when people ask us how we collaborated.”

TP: “I wrote all the words, and Neil assembled them into certain meaningful patterns… What it wasn’t was a case of one guy getting 2/3 of the money and the other guy doing ¾ of the work.”

NG: “It wasn’t, somebody writes a three-page synopsis, and then somebody else writes a whole novel and gets their name small on the bottom.”

TP: “That isn’t how we did it, mainly because our egos were fighting one another the whole time, and we were trying to grab the best bits from one another.”

NG: “We both have egos the size of planetary cores.”

TP: “Probably the most significant change which you must have noticed [between the British and American editions] is the names get the other way 'round. They’re the wrong way 'round on the American edition [where Gaiman is listed first] –”

NG: “They’re the wrong way 'round on the English edition.”

TP: “Both of us are prepared to admit the other guy could tackle our subject. Neil could write a 'Discworld’ book, I could do a 'Sandman’ comic. He wouldn’t do a good 'Discworld’ book and I wouldn’t do a good 'Sandman’ comic, but –”

NG: “– we’re the only people we know who could even attempt it.”

TP: “I have to say there’s a rider there. I don’t think either of us has that particular bit of magic, if that’s what it is, that the other guy puts into the work, but in terms of understanding the mechanisms of how you do it, I think we do.”

NG: “There’s a level on which we seem to share a communal undermind, in terms of what we’ve read, what we bring to it.”

TP: “In fact, people that have read a lot of the 'Discworld’ books and a lot of the 'Sandman’ comics will actually find, for example, Neil put into one of the 'Sandman’ comics a phrase lifted out of a 'Discworld’ book. I spotted it in a shop and said, 'You bastard! You pinched my sentence. Everyone liked that line, and you pinched it.’”

So how did the collaboration on Good Omens begin?

TP: “Neil wrote several thousand words a couple of years ago, which was part of the main plot of Good Omens.”

NG: “I didn’t know what happened next, so I put it aside and I showed it to Terry. One day I got this phone call from Terry, saying 'Remember that plot? I know what happens next. Do you want to collaborate on it, or do you want to sell it to me?’ And I said, 'I’ll collaborate, please.’”

TP: “Best decision he ever made! I didn’t want to see a good idea vanish. It turned out, more and more things kind of accreted 'round it as the book was written. Also, Neil went and lost them anyway, so it all had to be retyped.”

NG: “I’d lost it on disk, so I gave him a hard copy, which meant he had to type it in. He kept changing it.”

TP: “I changed it so I could make the next bit work. The thing kind of jerked forward quite quickly, as both of us raced one another to the next good bit, so we would have an excuse to do it. Both of us cornered certain plot themes which we stuck to like glue.”

NG: “Like the reluctance with which I handed over the Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse to Terry when they got to the airbase.”

TP: “I seldom let Neil touch any of the bits involving Adam Young himself.”

NG: “When we got to roughly the end, we could actually see which characters we hadn’t written. So we made a point of going in and writing at least one or two scenes with any of the characters that up until then we hadn’t written.”

TP: “Insofar as there’s any pattern at all, we worked out what the themes were and then we each took a theme and wove that particular strand.”

NG: “The other pattern, of course, was that you’d do your writing in the morning and I’d do mine late at night.”

TP: “Which means there was always someone, somewhere, physically writing Good Omens.”

NG: “It took nine weeks.”

TP: “We look upon Good Omens as a summer job. The first draft for nine weeks was sheer, unadulterated fun. Then there were nine months of rehashing, then there was the auction.”

NG: “When you have situations when you’ve got three agents, five publishers, all that kind of stuff….”

TP: “Our friendship survived only because we had other people to shout at. So I could say, 'Take that, you bastard!’ and hit his agent.”

NG: “One thing Terry taught me, when we were writing the book together, was how not to do it. Too many funny books fail because people throw every single joke they can think of in, and have an awful lot of fun, and eventually it just becomes a collection of gags.”

TP: “The big problem you face if you’re working collaboratively on a funny book is that you start with a gag and it’s great, it’s very amusing, but with the two of you discussing it, eventually it’s not good anymore. It’s an old gag from your point of view, so you avoid it and you take it further and further. What you’re putting in is a kind of specialized humor for people who work with humor. There’s an old phrase, 'Good enough for folk music.’ As you work, you have to stand back and say, 'Never mind whether we are bored with this particular gag, is the reader going to be bored with it, coming to it fresh?’”

NG: “One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they’ll go along with you, and they’ll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.”

TP: “The book has got its gags, and we really enjoyed doing those, but the core of the book is where Adam Young has to decide whether to fulfill his destiny and become the Antichrist over the smoking remains of the Earth, or to decide not to. He’s got a choice, and so have we. So to that extent I suppose he does symbolize humanity.”

TP: “Bear in mind that we wrote Good Omens while the Salman Rushdie affair was really just coming to a boil in the UK. But no one’s going to go around burning copies of Good Omens, no on would think about that.”

NG: “Yet everything is blasphemous. Technically speaking, Good Omens is blasphemous against religious order, as blasphemous as you can get. And Gollancz have just bunged it in for the big religious award in the UK, which we find very strange. They actually asked the archbishop of Canterbury to send vicars 'round to have serious tea with us.”

(More at http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/1991_Gaiman_Pratchett.html)

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a helpful tutorial

I was taking with my friend about good omens and we were wondering how the hell aziraphale-as-crowley managed to get into that bath without getting his socks wet and so I drew this ‘helpful’ guide.

I like to imagine that all the demons had to just awkwardly stand around watching him clamber around getting into this bathtub… @neil-gaiman can you confirm?

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Greetings and salutations, Good Omens fans! We have excellent news about the Ace Omens Zine - our shop is open now! Click here to purchase the second edition of our zine, which includes all new asexuality-themed fanfic and art, and merch! As with our previous edition, this is a charity zine. All proceeds will go to the charity our contributors chose: Palestine Children's Relief Fund. We are so excited to share this zine with you! Shop open from May 15, 2024 to June 15, 2024.

You can find the shop here: https://aceomens.bigcartel.com/

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#good omens good art!

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Hello Mr.Gaiman

I need some... advice, i think, but i don't really know what i need you to tell me, is just... Ok, look, i'm writting something and i think is really good, it has to be a short story cause the deadline is in like a week or something and i haven't started yet, cause i did started, but i've been delating every try cause i think is awful. I already have like the plot and everything planed, but everytime i try to write the actual story it just is not what i want, like, the story and the idea is really good, but when i try to execute that idea it is just not... good, idk if you understand...

Thank you for your time, sorry for botherin and sorry if my english has any mistake.

Just start it. And get to the end. When it's done, start to revise it. But not until then. Otherwise nothing will exist to fix.

You can always make something better. You cannot improve a blank page.

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Hi Neil,

Snail mail is such a satisfying method of communication, and, despite being born after 2000, I find myself gravitating back to it. Sending letters to people has always felt much more intentional and sincere. Do you send letters for fun, or is it all bank notes and taxes?

Hope you're well,

Laurance

I like sending notecards, with brief messages on them.