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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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Thank you @drsnowrose and everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!

I love how we can all agree that some how some way Odysseus son Telemachus looks just like him. Imagine Penelope waiting for her husband to come home not knowing if he is alive or dead with no way to find out but to wait. And all you see day in and day out is that person you’re waiting for but it’s not him. Imagine her looking at her son and holding back tears every time he changes as he grows older . That sense of “ it’s not him” “ but it’s a part of him”.

Apart of him is always with me . The best thing he could have left with me .

#5 reblogs #tumblr milestone #thank you

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Don’t mind me with Percy Jackson content and Epic content going back and forth hating how nothing is consistent and everything is just Zeus/Poseidon  was being a menace or couldn’t keep it in his pants.

Anyway thanks Greek Mythology next up going back to Northern Mythology and anywhere else.

#help my sanity

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Keyboard go BRRRRRRRRRR

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Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

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So I’m going through my google drive at musicals I have write outs for which include.

- Hamiltion

-Hamiltion mixtape

-Hadestown on Broadway

-Hadestown off broadway

-Anastasia

-Sweeney Todd

-Epic the musical

-Mean girls

-Moulin Rouge

-Phantom of the Opera

-Mama Mia

-Wicked

-Waitress

-Dear Evan Hansen

-too many more

And of course star kids because why not

I get a text from a freind of mine and they were like hey btw have you heard of Percy Jackson the musical. Of course being the technical theatre kid I was like “no”. So I go into every search engine I have and search . How cool would it be to have this kid come up and be like “ Oi! Listen here gods stop messing with us and deal with your kids!We all need therapy because of you lot!”

Anyway haven’t read the books and listened to some of the songs from the musical but I’ll be trying to figure out some of those write outs and stuff.

As I write this I’m developing a migraine so send brain cells.

#musicals #percy jackson #Percy Jackson the musical #ideas #help my sanity

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Okay okay okay

Here me out

Just listen

I wouldn’t usually condone things like this but

The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC.

We don’t know how much was lost and recovered but historians know that all this information was far beyond our understandings of today.

Example of this :Greek roads

( I can’t put everything I know or this would be a good 200,000 word essay.

It is thought that if it was not destroyed the human being might have been more advanced in science, technology, literature, arts, and culture.

So moral of the story .

#alexandera library

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the internet the second march hits

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RUTHLESSNESS IS MERCY UPON OURSELVES

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I love how we can all agree that some how some way Odysseus son Telemachus looks just like him. Imagine Penelope waiting for her husband to come home not knowing if he is alive or dead with no way to find out but to wait. And all you see day in and day out is that person you’re waiting for but it’s not him. Imagine her looking at her son and holding back tears every time he changes as he grows older . That sense of “ it’s not him” “ but it’s a part of him”.

Apart of him is always with me . The best thing he could have left with me .

#epic the musical #ideas #penelope of ithaca #odyesseus of Ithaca

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Honestly

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Why can I just imagine

“I know of a brilliant profit”

“Only problem is that profit is dead”

*Epic music plays”

I can imagine after walking over to a bush and vines of flowers Circ picks a flower and looks down at it .

“Only problem is that profit is dead”

She crushes the flower and the petals fall .

I love the music that shows that she has control and is using something he said to her advantage.

#epic the musical #odysseus #circ saga #ideas

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10 posts!

#10 posts #tumblr milestone

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*starts animating* *gets another idea* *starts another animation* *goes back to the first one* *gets bored of animating* *opens another file and doodles for a bit* *gets a painting idea* *gives up halfway through and goes back to doodling* *goes back to the first animation* *animates some more* *closes everything, having finished nothing*