Annie Strange

Just a note to the people who have now seen episodes 1 and 2 to say...

...you know how cool it was to see all that stuff and be surprised and delighted?

Please do your best to keep it to yourself for another 9 days. So that other people can be happy and surprised in the same way that you were.

this is still the greatest season opening in history of television

Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley LION (2016) dir. Garth Davis

KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS as Fiona FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994, dir. Mike Newell)

Keep it up @neil-gaiman, it will be over soon

This has actually been my life for the last two years...

THEY ARE SO CUUUUUUTE

Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola ⤷ “A week later Marie Antoinette and Louis Auguste made a state visit to the opera, which for the Dauphine at least, with her passion for music and singing, was sheer pleasure. … Marie Antoinette showed her natural enthusiasm when it came to the applause. Theoretically, this was forbidden at court performances, so that the few claps in the pit were usually quickly stopped by the guards. But when Marie Antoinette asked the lady beside her to applaud, there was a general ovation. The Dauphine could do nothing wrong.” - Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

I'm going to need y'all to preemptively chill out because the actor's strike is going to mean a lot of things including shows and movies we've been anticipating being pushed way back, and absolutely minimal press tours for the next however long this lasts.

The effects of the writer's strike are months down the road which made it a whole lot easier to support because as third parties we weren't really being affected (yet), the effect of the actor's strike is going to be immediate and we're going to get a lot more propaganda of "these people are overpaid to begin with."

Remember our desire for content does not supersede these people's rights to live.

Support unions, support the strikes.

REMEMBER!!!!! The actor's strike is NOT about the ten or so A-list actors whose names you can rattle off off-hand, this is about everybody else, the people you see on tv shows and movies, who you recognize as often being in the productions you love playing this or that bit character but you have no idea what their actual name is. The guest stars, the background actors (aka 'extras'), and everybody in between. A-list actors can name their own price- this isn't about them. But SAG-AFTRA is *BIGGER* than those people! And this is about them and protecting their incomes and rights.

As this second strike joins the first, remember that!!!

It's about all the "hey, it's that guy"s.

With that said, it’s GOOD that A-listers are also walking off! That creates more pressure! There are always ten, a hundred, a thousand more extras. There’s only one Chris Evans and if he walks, there’s no replacing him. Those folks striking is GOOD for the smaller actors.

They know it, too. Right before this one, literally RIGHT before it, I read a post where Matt Damon said for him it’s about the minimum income requirement to get health insurance, and how most actors only cross that threshold because of residuals. He straight-up called it “a life or death matter for some people.” He knows he’s not “some people,” but he’s also aware “some people” are out there and need their voices amplified.

It has now.

Here is the current advice.

So I thought I'd actually write something as a starting point for ways to watch and discuss Good Omens 2.

To be honest, if I had my druthers, Good Omens 2 would be released daily or weekly. There are mysteries and things to work out and speculate upon that build episode by episode. There are things to think about before the next episode begins.

I do not have my druthers* and when Good Omens 2 drops on the 28th it will drop all at once. Which is good news for people who want to binge and don't want to talk about it until the end.

But there will be people who won't want to go online and have people who watched the whole thing spoil or discuss or reveal. There will be people who will watch Episode 1 and puzzle and hypothesize and imagine. And then, when they are ready, watch Episode 2, and ponder and suppose and so on.

So I'd suggest that the G02 fandom think about ways to be able to discuss episodes up to a certain point. That there's an episode 1 group, and episode 2 and so on, with spoiler warnings, taking you through episode 6, by the end of which most of your questions will have been answered.

I'm throwing this out in a post for people to discuss, come up with suggestion, ignore or reject. There may be ways to make it work, there may not.

Mostly I want people to be able to talk and guess and trade their ideas without being squashed by those who have seen it and without squashing people who are not up to that point.

*If the Writers Strike had not happened it's possible that my suggestion that we drop the episodes daily over 6 days might actually have been acted upon. But it did and it wasn't.

Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.

It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.

Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):

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Neil behind the camera all day tomorrow