Phoenix & Pan's Good Omens Meetup

Phoenix & Pan's Good Omens Meetup

Saturday 5th October 2024

Greetings, beloved ineffable fandom!

On Saturday 5th October, @pannotbread and I will be in London (having seen Michael in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit the night before) and would love to host a Good Omens meet up!

Provisional plan thus far is to meet up in St James Park around midday, bring a light picnic if weather is good, take photos and be generally insane near The Bench, then head over to Sky Garden (the setting for Heaven and full of plants to yell at) for more photos ops and drinks at the bar overlooking London. In the evening, we were thinking of heading into Soho for sushi dinner and then we were going to hire a karaoke room for singing and cocktails!

Obviously because of the nature of the day we'd need to book (and pay for) stuff in advance, so right now I'm just trying to get an idea of levels of interest - so let me know if you'd be interested in coming, to some or all of it!

Please give us a wave in the comments if you are able to come so we know who to make arrangements with!

Pan and I promise to be on our best behaviour and keep the heart-eyes to a minimum (at least until the cocktails, then I cannot be held responsible for what my face does around them, lol). We are both so excited and hope that some of you lovely folks can make it!

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

[pleeeease reblog so we can reach as many ineffables as possible!]

reblog for a bigger garden :)

oh no

Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

WHY

I bet that when Crowley saw the news about the new Dorian Gray adaptation, with Basil and Dorian as brothers, he thought "I should tell Aziraphale about this," before he remembered that Aziraphale was in Heaven.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

Please enjoy the Good Omens Script

It's a pretty open secret that I hand out The Good Omens Movie Script (of the never to be made 1990s movie) to anyone who asks nicely or checks my current Dreamwidth. It was published in a small edition, and a pdf of it was very widely circulated in book fandom back in the day.

Someone broke all fan etiquette, and common sense, and the fourth wall and brought it to Neil Gaiman's attention, forcing a situation where people who had already read it would refuse to share it saying it was to respect Neil Gaiman. Me, I never really was very cool with this "I've got mine!" attitude. Incredibly irritatingly, people did circulate out-of-context quotes and used them to portray it as terrible, script!Crowley as abusive, and script!Aziraphale as a doormat. None of these are true: it is an extremely, extremely loose and weirdly Americanised adaptation, but it's fricking adorable, and so are its versions of Crowley and Aziraphale. (The characters who get done badly by are Madam Tracey and Brian, IMO - best to think of them as entirely different characters.) It lacks Terry Pratchett's grace, complex humanity and way with words (see also: GO S2), but it's laugh at loud funny at times and this version of the Ineffable Husbands is a seriously cute grumpy/sunshine couple. Also, it has Business Exec Satan.

All this led to the ridiculous and annoying situation of people who had never read it being derogatory of it, while, despite being published, it was in danger of becoming lost media and a lost opart of GO history. (See also: Revenge of the Old Queen and Rocky Horror.) So I'm sharing the link here. If you want to yell at me, I ask you to first consider why you want to respect Neil Gaiman's wishes on anything and reconsider your priorities. It's a damn pdf of something only eleven people own in hard copy.

Feel free to share, or to archive it yourself. If it gets taken down, let me know and I'll find a new home for it. Just be aware that I'm rarely on Tumblr so it takes me a while.