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titothy stoker. i mean timothy

#I raise you Titothy Stroker

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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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Please consider stanning Henry Ashe, seeker of justice, seducer of married men, who calls himself gay slurs in front of a police officer and calls said police officer an ape in the next sentence

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Why is your OC named what they're named? Is there a different reason in-universe than out-of-universe?

#OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #AN OPPURTINITY!!!! #okokok so ill yap about ryoto/rynn and quento/cove for this one #so theyre both from a planet called torsota and a social group called torsotans #(race isnt really a thing in the universe since it isnt really a real-real thing anyways) #and one day the goidros showed up and stole their planet and genocided them claiming a false right to the planet #imagine israel and palestine its very very simmilar #so two groups showed up to save like 20k kids each -- the ormites and OFIPP #so OFIPP killed like 19k of their kids slimming them down to The Perfect Soldier #these soldiers are called greshders and they have ALL of their identity stolen from them -- gender & sex & name & hair & everything #thats what happened to ryoto #they know their birthname is ryoto but because they dont want to talk about their heritage and bc no one calls them that anyways #since greshders are referred to with their serial number #so they go by rynn bc OFIPP prefers that & rynn prefers that and potential owners/managers/renters/hirers/bosses (its complicated) prefer i #now onto quento and the ormites #the ormites are a religious group who basically put their 20k through residential schools #quento was reassigned a name -- cove #and since all their universally-recognized paperwork and IDs and all that calls them cove...they call theirself and everyone calls them cov #big sad for the both of them #and then cove gets murdered and fed to other people so thats also a thing #oh and sin-eating

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something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

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ok so this one thing has bugged me for so long and i NEED TO KNOW what volume people have their devices set to. it wont stop bothering me.

rb for sample size and all that

also: sorry for how its set up. i desire exacter numbers and going up by 8 was the best choice for how many slots i can have in a poll. i dont like it either

#tumblr polls #personally im in the 55-63% gang

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Someone please edit the dashcon ballpit into a photo of the hab

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Shaking and cumming. Reasons to live

#op you are so real

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this line ripped out my intestines and choked me with them

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i need to be put down

#im aware this post is for the history nerds out there but #listen #robert walton is the most underrated character ever #in frankenstein at least #right next to ernest #victor: “my whole familys dead!” #ernest:

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BIG fan of this design choice

#the martian #you get what im getting at #q

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Doodle, twt request request

#HOUSE MD!!!! #wolfy PLEASE do more of this #I k ow you love middle aged men

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

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they're always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there's a standard script for this that's like "I think sex education is important, I'm not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it's far too accessible to our children"

I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don't have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual

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GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

#101 on how not to be sad: #be immortal

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i have gone insame

HEY YOU KNOW THAT HIT 2021 SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL PROJECT HAIL MARY THAT WON A BUNCH OF AWARDS AND WAS THE AUDIBLE AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2021 THE BOOK I CANT SHUT UP ABOUT

I MAKE A PICREW FOR THE ERIDIANS!!!

LOOKIE

I DID IT PAPA

and, for your viewing pleasure, some guys i made with it:

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