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hkblack · 2 days

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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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hkblack · 14 days

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Let's irresponsibly breed a dog together!

Share as much as possible that dog gotta be atrocious by the end of the week

#are we ... just building a fat chihuahua?#because right now this is just... a fat chihuahua

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hkblack · 20 days

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-forgets every word ever-

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opossum

Because that silent vowel start means that there is a joy in spelling out a word and saying "O, as in opossum."

no pressure tags! @mirjam-writes @ambrasue @cassieoh @anonymousdandelion @aethelflaedladyofmercia

Quick ! Think of a word you like !

Not necessarily your favorite word, it doesn’t even have to be a word you usually like ! Just a word that right now, at this moment, you look at and think “ooh what about this one”.

It can be a word you find funny, pretty, strange, scary, anything really ! You don’t need to tell me why you choose that word (though I’d love to know if you want to tell me), just give me a word !

(It’d be lovely if we made this into a chain but there’s no pressure <3)

uhhhhh sanguine? (literally the only word that popped up into my head rn but it’s prettyyy and sounds like summer to me in some inexplicable way 😌✨)

oh sure! Tagging @daydream-of-a-wallflower @silence-between-seconds @re-is-back-in-black @jaaklops @annotated-catastrophe @vintagetee13 @cherryswift13 @dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies @lost-in-reveriie @moonlightt444 @art-of-fools @good-oldfashioned-lover-girl @addsalwayssick @miseryoforpheus @justafanbutcurious + anyone else who’d like to join in :)

(but no pressure ofc <3)

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hkblack · 21 days

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So now that the Good Omens Silver Screen Bang has been announced and I don't have to operate in secrecy, I want to just throw out there to fans across the fandoms that I have created a pretty slick google form and spreadsheet system that is automating a significant amount of the work for us to reduce human error and to more easily see who claims what and make for a fast and fair matching process.

I very much believe in sharing this kind of stuff, and have created a pretty comprehensive guide on how to set up the spreadsheet for use, as well as a different guide on how to use it during the running of the event.

But it needs some testing, and I'm sure the instructions could use some cleaning up, before I go publishing everywhere for folks to use.

So if you are running a fandom bang event in any fandom and would like to test out this system and give suggestions, please, please, please DM me! I'll help you get it set up for the first time, and make myself available for questions while you're using it!

#fandom #fandom event #bang #big bang #creative collaboration #good omens #fanfiction #fanfic #fanart

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hkblack · 22 days

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Do It With Style Events Presents: The Silver Screen Bang!

Have you ever watched a movie only for your brain to say: "But make it Good Omens"? Well now's your chance!

The Good Omens Silver Screen Bang brings writers and artists together to retell a movie through a Good Omens lens!

Which of your favorite characters are having Breakfast at Tiffany’s? How is Beelzebub handling zir new Neighbor Totoro? How did 007 react to meeting Crowley, Anthony Crowley?

AUs, fusions, Good Omens characters just dropping into the story--any way you want to tell it is welcome here!

Writers, this is your chance to introduce the fandom to your favorite movie. And artists, you get to show us that classic scene burnt into our brains, but with our favorite supernatural beings.

How it works: Writers will pick a movie of any genre and submit a proposal on how they will retell the story of that movie with their favorite Good Omens characters. Artists will then choose their favorite proposals and create two (2) pieces of art for it: a movie poster and a scene from the fic.

Detailed schedule coming soon, but you can read the full Bang Information Doc here! Signups open April 19 for all creators!

Excited already? Join our Discord Server here!

#do it with style events #good omens #Good Omens Bang

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hkblack · 26 days

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I am pausing my booping to let you know I once worked at a very fancy summer camp that spent lots of money on student productions and the director of the middle school program one year went:

"Julius Caesar, but prep school"

That was the year that he had only one boy enrolled in his program. So it was Julius Caesar in Middle Grade Prep School, where they did have phones (some of the dialogue was shown via projectors as text messages), and the one boy played Octavius.

10/10 best production of Caesar I've ever seen. The second it became about school politics they understood the play instantly.

i like the idea of doing shakespeare adaptations set in high school a la 10 things i hate about you or she's the man but i feel like we're missing some opportunities by only doing the comedies. i wanna see macbeth but it's about a really high stakes student council election

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hkblack · 1 month

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Have some more tattooed Crowley lying in bed 🤍

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hkblack · 1 month

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(h/t to @liquidlyrium for their help with this v important list)

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hkblack · 2 months

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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hkblack · 2 months

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FOUR HOURS!!! WOOOO!

FTH 2024

She's feeling better and bidding is open, so let's make a proper post about it!

If you've read my stuff and gone "Gosh I wish she'd write..." well now's your chance to make it happen!

I am participating in Fandom Trumps Hate for the third year in a row! This year I'm offering one written fanwork, between 10 and 20k words, and up to an E rating.

The world is hurting, and I am tired and overwhelmed, so you can bid to any of the supported charities this year, and combine your donation to me with a donation you're making for another auction to help stretch those dollars further!

Last year I offered my first written work (my first year I only offered beta reading) and wound up writing my most favorite fic ever. Getting the prompt idea from @andromeda4004 for Ever-Fixed and being allowed to run with it to create two additional stories was an amazing experience!

I'm excited to get inspired by your idea and see where it takes me next! And you know, I have this really bad habit of offering to my second place bidders, so it's worth getting in on the race!

Want a G rated fluffy Human AU featuring farm animals? Perhaps a tender E rated smutty canon fic with lots of laughs? I can't wait to hear your ideas!

If you've got any questions about what I will and won't write, or if I think I can do your idea justice, don't hesitate to reach out here! :D

Bid on me using this link and don't forget to check out the other excellent offers from other incredible folks in the fandom while you're there! I'll see you all in those bidding spreadsheets!

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hkblack · 2 months

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Last day! Get your bids in! Let me write for you!