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I enjoy compiling Good Omens fun facts and organizing them into a more animated/decorated/me format. So this post is all about the South Downs and The Second Coming. Everything here is very factual, except for the part of the beekeeping being associated with Sherlock Holmes. That’s just a connection I, and many others ,have made.

Beautiful post, thank you op! I want to add (for any others like me who joined the GO fandom around S2) that the ajodasso blog that asked about the South Downs at Terry and Neil's book signings in Sept 2005 to get us this information is @irisbleufic (recap post about it on their tumblr).

In Oct 2005, they began writing what was intended to be a standalone chapter about the cottage but became the 75 chapter, 275000 word short story series, Crown of Thorns, completed in 2019 (fanlore.org article)!

I also just saw that there is a 41 voice actor podfic of it?! With original musical score and art for each chapter?! (listen on AO3 or see this article on fanlore.org for links to listen on other sites)

Yep! The old ajodasso LJ is indeed me. I had a second LJ account at the time that was solely for my fanfic, irisbleufic. That content is now all on my irisbleufic AO3 and this Tumblr. Thanks so much for looping me in on this, @most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer, as I’ve been mildly frustrated with people saying, oh, the person who first got that info and started writing that first fic isn’t around anymore! I am very much still here 💙

@most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer, re: your last tag just above, I like to joke that for once, in this matter of all matters, my bloody-minded force of will was finally good for something 🙃

(And you know what? Maybe it actually was.)

Stop trying to be productive

wow. It's like an infomercial for truly inspired 'not giving a fuck'

Someone else come fuck that guy for me

had to nab these tags from @ravenvsfox

And people really do try to interact with fandom like consumers! They want « content ». They act like they can get a refund on reading a fic they don’t like. They add fanfics to goddamned goodreads without a second thought without realizing that’s as ridiculous as adding your friend’s dining room as a restaurant on yelp just so you can post a review about it

'Fandom' is a contraction of 'fanatic' and 'kingdom'.

Fanatic, from Latin fanaticus "mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god."

Fandom is literally the place people go to be enthusiastically crazy about their blorbos! There are no normal people here!

#just opening livejournal would have killed you instantly

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?

Big Things Are Coming

💷🥄🥔 BIG THINGS ARE COMING🥔🥄💷

✨ Abundance Spell✨ 

Wealth, weal, and plentiful spoons are coming to me 👏

✨💰🪙🥄🥔💰🌟💰🥄🥔🪙 💰✨

Like to charge Reblog to cast

The Good Place (2016-2020)

brah

The Good Place’s take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because we’re all people and we all matter.

I’ve been nominated as a candidate for Grand Marshal in my local Pride parade this summer! You can vote for me (if you wish) HERE.

Mazel!!!

Todah rabah!

you gays better give this as much attention as you do with every movie that has barely legal white twinks

Ok so I'll try post my little diatribe before the fic rec! Goodness posting in a new way does take it out of one (fans self):

It's occurred to me now that my 13 yr old son (aka Alex the Gomens Fledgling) has started reading some fan fiction:

I read a LOT of our fandoms fanfiction and neglect to recommend or comment! Sometimes kudos doesn't cut it when the work is so good it is something you want to share with the son you see growing into his own hyperfixations.

Right now we're going through a lot of the older book based fics (Alex has a... systematic approach to things 😁😆) . I have so many to recommend and I'm probably so late to this particular party. But right just now if I could compliment irisbleufic for not just one fic but pretty much everything. Beautiful, beautiful work. Just astonishing.

I don’t do this very often, but a friend pointed me to your kind post, and I just wanted to say: thank you!

Even as I still write new pieces of book fic a few times a year at best, it’s been a surreal (and mostly good) experience watching newer fans of the show discover older and/or book based fic.

I appreciate new readers so much 💙

We will be hete for whatever new you have to offer :-)

Direct quote from the teenage Gomens fan: OK I've now read and liked a story with HASTUR as the ficus! Argh what's going on with this world?!

(You know what you did 🙂😆)

Ahhh, that means you read one of my Hastur/Ligur pieces in my CoT series, or possibly one of my collabs with @whatever-you-can-give-me where we focused on Hastur/Ligur!

(I do know what I did, in all those cases 🤣)

They're going crazy on LinkedIn

He’s just like me for real

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

Salute to our troops (70s careerwomen who put their hard-earned dollars into homemade gay erotica)

It was women with secretarial jobs doing a lot of the heavy lifting, if memory serves correctly.

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

Boss make a dollar, she makes a dime. That's why she's printing Kirk X Spock zines on company time.