The outcome is only uncertain for those who disbelieve.

Crowley + book quotes

#this scene ALWAYS gets me#bc it’s settled in. aziraphale is gone#and now he somehow has to just. deal with it. alone. knowing he’ll probably die#everything is going to end and he’s alone and there’s nothing left to do#and saving the world doesn’t even matter anymore#bc what is the world worth without the one person who matters?#who knows you??#not much

Ghahh those tags tho I mean in the book he doesn’t think Aziraphale is dead, just “out of the picture”  and he’s kinda pissed at him and he does consider going on a drunken bender and letting it all run out but he doesn’t, he goes to Tadfield on his own when he discovers Aziraphale’s notes because he’s the eternal smeggin’ optimist who thinks that if they have a chance then it’s going to be all ok because it can’t be any other way, even if it ends up  just being him against both heaven and hell so he doesn’t go drunken depression….but in the series he thinks Aziraphale is DEAD. DEAD DEAD DEAD. And all that speeching about “no more book shops, no more cafes where they know your name” all of it is exposed as a big fat lie because while he likes the world and he likes humans and he likes dolphins and apes an all those wonderful little human things, they absolutely pale compared to how much he loves Aziraphale’s company, and now Aziraphale is gone.   And it’s all ashes.  So he goes and he gets absolutely shitfaced drunk and waits for it all to end. 

Do you enjoy hurting me?

FUCKING OUCH YA’LL 😭

Oh gosh 😭

YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT MY AVATAR FOR ALL THIS TIME IS FROM THIS DELETED SCENE?!

Dark Sonnet by Neil Gaiman.

I love that Chris Riddell is drawing illustrations for some of my poems for no better reason than pure enjoyment (and what better reason for making art could there be?)

How about we pick people we’d like to hug in the near future!

Jane Espenson, Jaqueline Rayner, Helen Raynor, and Karen Walton all look very huggable to me!

In the meantime, can I give you a high five for being awesome?

To anyone who’s having a bad day, remember: Neil Gaiman cares and wants you to carry on.

And more importantly (at least from this end), I can have rough days too. We all can. The important thing is the being human, and reaching out.

"What Russell did that was so brilliant was make the companion our way into the story. And the companion was Rose." -Neil Gaiman, The Doctors Revisited - The Ninth Doctor

— Neil Gaiman

last night @neilhimself and i got into a heated debate at a celebratory birthday dinner party at a friends house. i kept insisting that everything that motivates human beings stems from a deep-seated need to feel safe.

then i accidentally punched him in the nose. 

it was really funny.

#PassionateGesticulating #Marriage #Humans #Irony

Possibly slightly less funny if you were the one with your nose wrapped in ice. But still funny.

I love the hell out of her.

My hypnotherapist (not as weird as it sounds) said it's a fear of rejection, back from cavemen times (legit terminology) when if you were rejected you'd basically die, because they needed to hunt etc. in groups, so you had to get in close to the fire to ensure your safety. Which is what Amanda was saying. Just thought I'd specify the fear aspect. Fear makes people do crazy things.

Also this is linked to how people crave power, I think it's all linked to fear of rejection and, as Amanda said, need to feel safe, in control, and in your place etc.

ETA:

also

In which Bryan Talbot, Mark Buckingham, Steve Craddock and I protested, in comics, something that Margaret Thatcher’s government did.

Clause (later Section) 28 is, I am glad to say, dead.

First published in AARGH! (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia!).

Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem. - neil gaiman

Wrapped up in a Good Story

So this is what I made for the Calendar of Tales. It’s for the July story, because the idea of being both comforted by and perilously lost in books hits pretty deep with me. Books and stories have been my companions as long as I can remember, and when the world walks out on you, they can be a shelter and an exile.

I designed and stitched this wrap dress in the buttery shade of old  paperbacks and wrote out the words to Neil Gaiman’s story on it. 

This just dropped my jaw…

James McAvoy as Richard - Natalie Dormer as Door - David Harewood as Marquis - Sophie Okonedo as Hunter - Benedict Cumberbatch as Islington - Anthony Head as Croup - Bernard Cribbins as Old Bailey - Romola Garai as Jessica - Christopher Lee as Earl of Earl’s Court [x]

Radio 4’s adaptation of ‘Neverwhere’ beginning March 16, 2013

Yup. That’s the cast all right.

Should I read it first or