(((I Will Outlive)))

— Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

My favourite comment:

You Lot: we want a loving queer relationship presented on screen

Good Omens: mkay, here, two beings that don't conform to typical gender understandings and also are very clearly in love with each other

Also You Lot: BUT THEY DIDN'T TOUCH DICKS ON CAMERA THO

On one hand there is just so much there that makes me sad, cause people try to pressure Neil here into something, because for them it’s not clear enough, not queer enough. Just not enough as a whole. And the comment that said, it wasn’t “in the text” that they love each other, was just too much for me. I have talked to people who have no shipping background whatsoever and even they have seen it!

On the other hand, there also also entries there, that give me hope again. Good Omens is just such a wonderful show and it is also a wonderful book. So the show screamed loudly about the love story onscreen, much louder than the book did. I’m glad that some people are getting the message...

Can we talk about how little representation amab and masc-presenting enbies get in pop culture? Even when we do get the rare enby rep, it’s almost always an afab person who presents androgynously. Non-binary people can use he/him pronouns and present ourselves as masc while still being non-binary.

I’ve said it before on Twitter, but I’ll say it again. If Neil had confirmed Aziraphale and Crowley as cis gay men, we’d have people complaining about how all mainstream LGBTQ+ rep is cis gay men and write more enbies, you cowards!

Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

Anything can be canon if you’re brave enough, Neil 💀

With the greatest respect, that’s not how canon works. Canon is what’s on the pages of the book, or what’s on the TV screen. If I were to answer questions about things that aren’t ever told on the page or the screen it wouldn’t be canon. It would be my headcanon (and has been occasionally noted as such) unless or until it’s in a story and on screen or on the page.

If someone asks if fictional character X met real life character Y, if it’s not on the page or the screen, my answer is pretty much always going to be “write it yourself and find out”. (The same rule applies to non fictional and for other fictional characters. Crowley’s shenanigans convincing Arthur Conan Doyle that there are fairies at the bottom of his garden is as much not my story as Aziraphale’s asking Holmes and Watson for assistance after being accused of stealing a rare book from the British Museum.)

Neil Gaiman, “The Sandman”