#zaxal

[snoozelocke]

i binge read burn away tonight and fell in love with it. thanks for making and sharing it with us!!

AW MAN THANK YOU i'm really glad you enjoyed it ( ;w;) always makes me happy to hear that folks still enjoy my nuzlocke comic <3

[transfemmbeatrice]

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beatrice fashion aesthetic~

okay i know you hate this but i will forever love "80's power suit" beatrice. give that woman shoulder pads.

i think big, in general. big long coats, capes or wraps for formal events, something she can be dramatic with. lots of red or purple.

also because of tatetennant i often imagine her in overalls.

[speremint]

me when i saw the beige dress: oh no mei i'm too gay for this,,, / me at the end of the episode: MEI I'M TOO G

ME LAST DEECMBER EXPLAINING TO MY EDITOR THE CONCEPT ART FOR BEA’S DRESSES AND THIS BALL ARC AS A WHOLE LMAO

[ileolai]

zaxal replied to your post: 1abbynewth6 reblogged your...

let him be fragile for once in his LIFE. he was made as a weapon, as a shield, unbreakable, unshakeable, let his walls come down, let him be human

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crowley already has a mental breakdown like twice a day, aziraphale is the one who needs to snap

[go-events]

GO Rom Com Spotlight: @zaxal​

The most excellent @zaxal​ (also zaxal on AO3 and zaxalrie on twitter) has claimed Hello, Dolly! to adapt for Good Omens in the Good Omens Rom Com Event.

For reference, here’s a little background about the source material!

About Hello, Dolly!: In 1890s New York City, the bold and enchanting widow Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) is a socialite-turned-matchmaker. Her latest clients seeking assistance are the cantankerous "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) and a young artist named Ambrose (Tommy Tune), who is in love with Horace's niece, Ermengarde (Joyce Ames). Dolly's scheming soon involves Horace's employees as well as a New York hatmaker, as she tries to cover up her own secret romantic designs.

We spent some time chatting about how the adaptation is coming so far, as well as future plans for it! Now, get to know @zaxal​ a little better!

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goromcom: You chose to adapt Hello, Dolly! as your rom com. Has this movie been a favorite of yours, or is there some other reason you chose it?

zaxal: I actually hadn't seen Hello, Dolly! until the last year when I saw the movie for the first time and then saw the play live, but when I was considering a prompt, I was really drawn to the chaotic scene at the Harmonia Gardens when the three main plot threads intersect and ends in a huge brawl. The image of Aziraphale calmly finishing his meal at the Ritz while utter chaos rains down around him before he gets up to deal with it stuck itself in my head, and I couldn't resist trying to make it real.

goromcom: What's your favorite moment of Hello, Dolly!, and are you looking forward to presenting it in your adaptation? Any loose plans for that scene that you can share?

zaxal: My favorite moments of the show and of Dolly as a character is her fast-talking and friendly manipulation of the world around her, but it's not something Aziraphale (in her place narratively) can replicate. Rather than trying to bend him out of shape to match her character, I'm allowing him to twist the world more organically with friendly suggestions and some light miracle-work as needed.

goromcom: Do you plan to stick very closely to the beats of the original story, or make bigger changes?

zaxal: There's quite a bit of creative liberties being taken with the story beats of Hello, Dolly! especially with regards to Dolly herself. Dolly's personal story is driven by her love and devotion to her deceased husband Ephram who she asks to give her a sign if it's okay to pursue a romance with Horace Vandergelder. Rather than have Aziraphale with a deceased spouse, I decided that Crowley would be playing both the roles of Ephram and Horace. Aziraphale's personal plot thread is driven by trying to understand why Crowley suddenly, several years before the story, began to act as though they were nothing more than distant friends due to the Arrangement, and if he can do anything to rekindle a romance that's been forgotten.

goromcom: What's an interesting decision you've made in your planning so far--a notable casting decision, a changing of venue, or some other plan you have to paint Good Omens all over your rom com?

zaxal: I'm shifting the story from New York to London, the Harmonia Gardens to the Ritz, and I'm definitely not shying away from using Aziraphale and Crowley's supernatural powers to cause more mayhem as needed. Anathema and Newt are filling in the shoes for Ermengarde and Ambrose, but rather than have a tertiary romance plot in the form of Barnaby, Irene, Cornelius, and Minnie, I have a slightly-aged-up the Them meeting a slightly-aged-up Warlock and going on a big adventure in the city alone and unsupervised whether they're supposed to be or not.

goromcom: I am blatantly stealing this last question from The Good Place: The Podcast, but here goes: Tell me something "good". It can be something big or small. It can be a charity you think is doing good work, or you can talk about how great your pet is.

zaxal: I'm gonna be a lil predictable and brag about my cats. They're named Sonia and Simon; they're both rescues, and I love them to death. Sonia doesn't know how to meow; she beeps and hums with her mouth closed instead. She's very adventurous and extremely cuddly. Simon is a big boy who came to our home with severe anxiety and has opened up more and more in the few years we've had him. He still runs and hides from everything, but he's quicker to come out now, quick to meow for food and prime lap real estate, and he's finally seemed to accept that this is his home and we are his people. I'm very proud of him!

goromcom: They sound adorable, and what’s more they LOOK adorable! See, everyone (Simon left, Sonia right):

goromcom: When you’re done gazing at the lovely felines, make a note to catch the GO adaptation of Hello, Dolly!, coming soon!

[poundfooolish]

zaxal replied to your post:The surreal realization that not all children were...

yall had bright orange DONT SHOOT ME vests??

Yeah, thinking back on it I’m pretty sure my mom made them herself and it didn’t occur to me that they weren’t like. Standard-issue childhood gear until relatively recently.

[queerpunkcryptid]

Man, sometimes I really miss Tumblr from years ago. Not the site, but the lil group of fellow Psych fans I knew and got to talk with all the time and we traded fanfics and fanart and it was just lots of fun.

Then adulthood had to happen and all of us just had to go do boring adult shit. I think this is the first time I remember Psychtober not showing up a single time on my dash before October even started actually.

I kinda even miss my Christmas-turned-all-year url from back then; fallen-angel-candy-cain.

[gruntsandpoetry]

im starting the magicians and it's 100% your fault. i didn't even know this show existed until you started posting the good good boys

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