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starbaby-7 · 3 months
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Sometimes I get weird about labeling my gender then I remember Crowley exists and I’m like omg gender doesn’t even fucking matter I can go through life as Crowley would and then I’m fine again
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unrighteousbooks · 8 months
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Be Warned: An Impostor is Among Us
I recently finished reading Oliver Darkshire's book Once Upon a Tome. Mr. Darkshire is an antiquarian bookseller at Sotheran's Rare Books in London. While I greatly enjoyed the book, I was deeply disturbed to read this passage:
"Of all the nice letters I've ever received, the ones I hold particularly close to my heart were sent from a mysterious stranger masquerading as the bookshop-owning angel Aziraphale from the novel Good Omens."
I do not understand why Mr. Darkshire describes me as being "from the novel Good Omens," as though I were some sort of fictional character. Setting that aside, however, it is unnerving to realize that a complete stranger is wandering the streets of London, writing letters and pretending to be me.
I can offer no proof, but I believe that the likely suspects can be narrowed down to a very short list.
A few years ago -- well, I suppose it was actually many years ago -- there was a book called History of New York. It was subsequently revealed that the author of this book, one Diedrich Knickerbocker, did not in fact exist. Perhaps "Mr. Knickerbocker" has moved on from creating fictional personas, and is now hijacking the identity of legitimate booksellers such as myself. (Regular readers will recall that I have previously commented on Mr. Knickerbocker: https://www.aziraphale.com/post/143753123162/a-curious-bit-of-satire-in-an-unvisited-corner-of)
Meanwhile, I have also been informed that there is a man named Buster Poindexter who is notorious for falsifying his identity. I have it on good authority that Mr. Poindexter has openly confessed that he is suffering from a personality crisis. It should also be noted that the name "poindexter" is often used to refer to someone who is enamored of books. Coincidence? I think not.
Another likely suspect -- or possibly "suspects," plural -- is a person or persons going by the name Pratchett Gaiman, or possibly Gaiman Pratchett. Again, I have no proof, but I have lost count of the times someone in the shop has asked me about so-and-so Gaiman or such-and-such Pratchett.
Finally, I cannot completely discount the possibility that my friend Crowley might be playing some sort of elaborate prank. He insists that this is not his doing, but it is just the sort of device that he would employ to rile me. He knows that pranks are anathema to me.
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asmeesh · 3 months
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have you got any lines from a story thats really stuck with you? ive always loved the last unicorn film and book, and i think about one of the unicorns last lines a lot. "i have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. i am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although i cannot weep, and i want nothing, and i cannot die. i am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but i do. i regret." i don't know, the melancholy really gets to me and i love it
Thank you for sharing, that's beautiful. I also think this is a very sweet question.
Books often move me to tears, but truth is I have a terrible memory for quotes. I love stories that make me laugh (The Day the Saucers Came by @neil-gaiman is a favourite), and stories that make me pause to take it all in.
I recall reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things, and falling in love with the word 'emberant', only to learn Rothfuss had completely made it up. Which I suppose applies to all words at some point.
I highly recommend Slow Regard, it's full of so many perfect things. “To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
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crowleys-aziraphale · 16 days
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Sir Terence David John Pratchett, known to all of us as Sir Terry Pratchett. Was an english author, humorist, satirist and novelist. Best known for his work such as good omens, Discworld, night watch and many more. Sir Terry Pratchett was the UK's best- selling author of the 90s.
The good omens series was Sir Terry Pratchett's dying wish to Neil gaiman, he wrote Neil a letter, in the letter he told Neil to make the tv adaptation of good omens. Unfortunately he passed away before he ever got a chance to see it. He will always be part of the good omens series, his hat and scarf is in the show, and so is his spirit.
"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy"
@neil-gaiman
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luci-the-android · 3 months
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Did several tumblr users decide to gaslight tumblr today about Gaiman? I saw a screenshot of a tweet or whatever the hell their called now, went to X/Twitter, it doesn't fucking exist. I see a news article screenshot, I go to the news website the screenshot is of, the article doesn't exist. They claim there was a blog post that is now deleted, but again there is only screenshots.
But then again why would anyone on the internet lie?
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shirley gaiman new goncharov of 2024 real not clickbait?
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yoursghouly · 8 months
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yeaaaah soooo i guess i’ll just be over here for the next few years clinging to the spiked coffee theory like it’s the last lifeboat on the titanic if you need me…
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pademelonluck · 19 days
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*Sends Neil a weird ask for fun*
*Neil replies*
*Instant regret*
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fuckyeahgoodomens · 1 year
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Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?’
- Neil Gaiman   
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geoanomaly · 8 months
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a quiet moment
hard to believe the campaign is 2 and the characters just hit level 18. now if we can just find our way back out of the faewild...
pose reference via @adorkastock
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bullshit-bulltrue · 11 months
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im literally never going to shut up about this
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rhiflux · 5 months
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raiquen · 2 months
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Book Review: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
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My Review in a Tweet:
It feels like cheating when you point out the similarities between two works then the author himself mentions a character by name, but this book truly feels like a Lewis Carroll or even James M. Barrie story. Lots of suspension of disbelief tho.
My Full Review:
I truly dislike saying this about a book, but I have finally finished reading "Neverwhere". There are a couple of reasons why it took me so long, but the main one is the constant and intentional nonsense you are forced to deal with.
The biggest responsible for that is the worldbuilding (or the lack of it): Gaiman cheats when he describes the "Londres de Abajo" (I'm guessing he named it the "Under London" in English or something like that?) as this mirror reality under London (not very subtle) that just happens to have anything the plot needs and works with simple and straightforward rules, the most important one being the owing of favors. The randomness of the characters and locations they visit constantly throws you off.
In favor of the novel, I did like the "clasic fairy tale" feeling of it, where our protagonists meet some perilous tests, fierce foes and unexpected allies. All of these also had a certain "greek myth" or "folk tale" nature to them, like the Beast of the Labyrinth or the Huntress and the Warrior.
The characters are very likeable, but they fall a little short in being fully developed or having truly great moments for themselves. "This thing happens, then this other thing happens and we are done", the characters don't seem to notice any of it or truly react to the events around them, they just stroll through the plot. Only in the ending I felt like they were experiencing real consequences of the events in the story.
It was a nice enough reading, but I don't know if I would recommend it, except maybe for teenagers. I remain curious for the rest of Gaiman's works, specially "American Gods", "Good Omens", and finishing "Sandman" (of which I read the first two volumes).
5.5/10.
My Other 2024 Readings.
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