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UPDATED APRIL 2025 (previous version | oldest version)

the links broke again so this time we're trying the tumblr image links and hope they don't spontaneously break (as has been known to happen) 🤞

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of the codes in a comment (by copy&pasting the code under Keep reading - scroll to the bottom of the post) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

bonus: cookie kudos

SCROLL DOWN TO GET THE CODES (under the cut)!

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like, however you like!

[ if you enjoy them, consider supporting my ko-fi ]

I've received a lot of good suggestions for more variants but can't keep up with them all, so here are some resources to make it easier to make your own.

PSD for easily editable text (there is a color fill layer for adding a bit of white where the stroke doesn't cover small holes. I recommend cropping excess empty space out before exporting as PNG)

and here are PNGs of the kudos button for any other editing needs, with and without white stroke:

Use your favorite image host, copy the direct image link, insert it between the quotation marks in the code, add alt text, and you're ready!

(you can add any image or gif to a comment like this as long as you have the direct image link btw)

if you post your kudos images, I'd be grateful if you'd link back to this post so other people can find the resources too 💗

When you paste into the AO3 comment box, make sure the quotation marks are straight:

NOT curly:

simply deleting and re-typing them in the ao3 comment box should fix this!

Many of the old image links from the original post are broken. I cannot fix them. Please use the new codes going forward ❤️

railtracer30

My FIC fam needs to know about these.

Re-blogging for the greater good.

lilmanicpixiedemon

I'm sure nobody will notice in the big, vast ocean that is tumblr – and what else can I say:

I've missed this. Things have been rough for me since last summer, but to quote Florence: „A year like this passes so strangely somewhere between sorrow and bliss.”

I'm fine again. Up to some shenanigans, doing a lottttt of writer stuff How is everyone? Anybody still here? Fandom still alive? What have I missed? What are Michael and David up to these days? Any fic recs that I just CANNOT skip? Drop me some links if you like. ^^

lilmanicpixiedemon

Btw: apparently I cosplayed too close to the sun those last two years – now I'm an actual bookseller myself ...

#Lil'Ziraphale #I do actually sell books in our store though #How demonic of me

I'm sure nobody will notice in the big, vast ocean that is tumblr – and what else can I say:

I've missed this. Things have been rough for me since last summer, but to quote Florence: „A year like this passes so strangely somewhere between sorrow and bliss.”

I'm fine again. Up to some shenanigans, doing a lottttt of writer stuff How is everyone? Anybody still here? Fandom still alive? What have I missed? What are Michael and David up to these days? Any fic recs that I just CANNOT skip? Drop me some links if you like. ^^

#good omens #ineffable husbands #is this fandom still alive?

vidavalor

Art Does Not Solely Belong to the Artist

For my fellow Good Omens people:

I don't usually write about real-world stuff on this blog but the current stuff is unavoidable and relevant and I write to process things so the result is some thoughts on the horrible mess:

From the moment that art sees the light of day, it does not belong to the artist. It belongs to the world. From the moment that even just one other person sees a work of art, it is no longer just the domain of the artist. The work of art now has a life of its own and it now belongs, collectively, to every person who engages with it.

Everyone who views a work of art comes at it from their own unique perspective. They bring their own background knowledge, their own experiences, their own fears and dreams. If they connect with a work of art, it can be a very personal experience and, in some cases, transformative. People who engage with art can sometimes see that art become part of the fabric of their lives in many ways. They might make art of their own related to the work or use aspects of it, consciously or unconsciously, as a tool to process struggles within their own lives. The work of art might be tied to memories and to new friends they've made from engaging with it. They might view the community built around the work of art as a place of happiness and solace in an uncertain world.

All of these things make it difficult when it becomes evident that the artist's behavior is not in line with what attracted many good people to engage with his work.

It can be a lot to learn that a monster made the thing that brought you joy. It can be a lot to learn that a monster made art that you love but that is so completely antithetical to their own words and deeds outside of the art that the hypocrisy makes your blood boil. It can be a lot to keep that anger and disappointment from turning into cynicism. Letting it is not a great idea-- that is just letting the monster get you, too, in a way, and helping darkness to spread.

Do not cede the stories you love to darkness; they belong to you, too, and to all of us. Do not let any bleak, horrible people behind the stories you love take from you what belongs to you.

It does not actually matter that his name is on the book or the tv show in question; it belongs to all of those who helped make it and to all of those who read and view it. It evolved independently into the product of all who engage with it and of all who engage with one another as a result. Good Omens is not a just a book or a tv show anymore; it's a community of people who have read and viewed Good Omens. People who have made art inspired by its themes and found new friends around the world as a result of engaging with its story. Those experiences are our own and do not need to be denied just because of the repugnant acts of one of the many people involved with the story.

As a rape survivor, I can tell you that two things can co-exist: you can acknowledge and be horrified by the pain suffered by victims of the monster and you can also still enjoy the community of people who came together over a sense of positive connection made by art that was originally made, in part, by that monster. Both can-- and should-- be done. Despairing over the darkness of the world does nothing. Countering that darkness with every bit of love you have is what can actually make the world better. Staying in this community and continuing to be a part of it with the big, open, lovely hearts it is known for would be the best way to be a force for good.

You do not need to give up Good Omens to be supportive of his victims. In fact, I can't think of anything less effective-- that is only allowing the blast radius of his predatory behavior to spread. What would actually be helpful is to believe his victims and, as a community, come together for SA survivors in every way we can think of. The book and the show and this community do not belong to one creep of a guy-- they belong to all of us. There's no reason for us to go because this is our home.

Good Omens isn't just him; it belongs to the late Terry Pratchett, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, the hundreds of people it takes to make the show, and all of us who have made our own art and made new friends as a result of it. It is not okay to diminish the suffering of human beings or to place the fate of a fictional story above them but it is also very much okay to not give up on that story and its community entirely because of the actions of just one of the many people involved with it.

With any luck, there will be some justice in the real world for his very real, very disturbing behavior. That is obviously what is most important here.

As for the show? He is one, very replaceable creep, who didn't even write half of S2 himself. (Not to mention half the book.) It takes many people to make a tv show and S3 is an already-planned last season that just needs to be steered into port. It'll be fine.

In the meantime, it's fine to still love what we love-- because it's ours, too. Make your fan art. Finish your meta and your fic. Be silly and laugh and have fun. Giving up what makes you happy because of one, heinous asshole is not taking the moral high ground-- it is helping darkness win by destroying a community space that positively serves many, a lot of whom are survivors themselves.

Calls to dump Good Omens entirely are empty, performative outrage that serves no actual, practical purpose for improving anyone's lives. It's an attempt to put everyone who works on the show out of a job and to force the cancelation of prominent, trans-friendly media, and to help along any of that would not do anything to hold him accountable, nor is it respecting his victims. If you want to honor their suffering, don't help him and the gross bigots who exposed him spread more pain of any kind. Believe the victims and let law enforcement and the studios deal with the justice. There are much more productive, much more effective ways to respect his victims and one is to not let their suffering be the reason why you give up a source of your own positive connection and joy.

#tw sa #tw rape #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow

bowtiepastabitch

Hey, good omens fandom. Look at me. Take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay. You taking on personal anxiety and moralization about this will not do anything to change the situation. You’re not a bad person if you ignore it or aren’t sure how you feel. It’s not your job to examine all the evidence or pass judgement. Put this down for a bit, if it’s getting to you, and let the people whose job it is do their job. I know anxiety might make that difficult. But listen to me. It’s going to be okay.

stillsurfacequietpond

And you’re not a bad person if you continue to watch good omens right now, or make or reblog good omens fanart/fics. And you’re not a bad person if you need to take a break from the fandom. And doing these things or taking a break does not mean that you are passing judgement on the situation.

It is okay to do what you need to do to keep yourself healthy right now.

bowtiepastabitch

Reblogging for this addition and also to say: believing victims and questioning the validity of a source are not mutually exclusive. You can fundamentally believe in believing victims and fundamentally believe in scrutinizing questionable claims. You’re not a bad person for holding both of these beliefs, because they’re not mutually exclusive. It’s not victim blaming to acknowledge that the podcast this news is coming from has several red flags. And no, you’re not required to go listen to it to justify yourself in that.

Also, what prev said. You’re not a bad person for engaging or not engaging in the way that protects your peace. You’re also not doing something wrong if you choose to block the Neil gaiman tag for now. Deep breath. It’s going to be okay.

#Neil gaiman

bowtiepastabitch

Hey, good omens fandom. Look at me. Take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay. You taking on personal anxiety and moralization about this will not do anything to change the situation. You’re not a bad person if you ignore it or aren’t sure how you feel. It’s not your job to examine all the evidence or pass judgement. Put this down for a bit, if it’s getting to you, and let the people whose job it is do their job. I know anxiety might make that difficult. But listen to me. It’s going to be okay.

taraiha

phoen1xr0se

🤚 Stop! 🤚

This is your designated rest stop. No, don't scroll past, unclench that jaw and drop those shoulders - wonderful - take in a deep breath and then slowly let it out.

Good.

Now.

*unrolls a picnic blanket*

*adds some squashy cushions*

*and fairy lights -- for atmosphere*

*hands out hot chocolates with tiny marshmallows on top*

*passes round Eccles cakes*

Sit down and rest a while, friend.

Relax.

Calm.

Let's tell each other stories and just stop a moment, until we're ready to face the world once more, okay?

greenthena

ah, man, i needed this. it's been a rough day in my own head. thanks. time for fanfic and hot cocoa.

maaikeatthefullmoon

*plops down*

I’ve just taken this banana bread out of the oven. No walnuts in case anyone’s allergic. Help yourself, if you’re too tired, lemme know and I’ll come over and bring you some.

Tell me something good that’s happened to you recently. Can be as big or small as you like. Take your time, but make sure you tell us all. We need to share in the good things in life.

corvidcrafts273

Bringing this back

I like this fandom cuz of how kind and supportive we are to each other

#take a break friends #good omens rest stop #good omens picnic #mental health stop #rest stop #good omens fandom #go fandom #good omens

goosetooths

🌟the before and the after🌟

#what being in the good omens fandom feels like today 💔

midnights-dragon

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

di-42

I feel like something has been taken away from me. Even though I know it's still there -I can just about see it out of the corner of my eye- I can't bring myself to reach out for it. It's like something is gone. Hopefully not forever. And if it is forever something else will come to replace it, eventually. But I don't want it to be gone forever. I want to have your back and I desperately want you to have mine, but it feels like a bubble has popped, and all that's left is the real world with its walls and its closed doors and its ugliness. I'm writing this with no judgement for any of the people involved, at least for now. But I do feel lost. I feel angry. I feel like stomping my feet on the floor. Bring it back to me.

simonezitrone79

So with you. Right now it's just "Wait and see", the whole story feels creepy in both sides, but I don't want to judge anyone without knowing anything. A scar will stay, but I hope we can keep alive what we had.

simonezitrone79

I just hope these days are not our personal "Nothing lasts forever".

#good omens #ineffable fandom

churail

i mean this in the nicest way possible but making pieces of media your whole personality is not a good idea. not just cause individual authors can turn out to be horrible people that you might want to distance yourselves from later, but also because your self deserves to not be flattened by one story (no matter how important it seems to be). you deserve to be a person who cannot be defined in a few sentences.

phoen1xr0se

Whilst this advice is all well and good and meant with the kindest of intentions I'm sure, we need to be mindful that autistic people (of which there are a great many here) do not have control over their hyperfixations or how tightly wound up they become in their identities, and we need to be treating each other with kindness, compassion and care right now, understanding that everyone is going to be processing things differently, landing in different stages of grief including denial, and that knee-jerk reactions aren't going to be the same place that people stay.

This whole situation is awful and painful, and for some of us, not the first time we've been here. The last thing we need is for anger and hatred to tear this community apart when for some of us, it's the only safe and supportive space we have. So I am urging you all to be kind to each other, accept that not everybody is going to experience their feelings the same way you do, and remember that with or without Neil, we're still a community of creative, thoughtful, spirited and well-meaning people and don't need him as a figurehead for that still to be true.

Your feelings are valid and so are everyone else's. You don't know their story or their journey. Be patient and gentle and, above all else, be kind, with your words, your actions, your thoughts and your self-care.