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THANK YOUU CLOSE FRIENDS AND NEW ALLIES FOR ALL THE HELP WITH THIS SILLY LITTLE EVENT?? This is the most fun I've ever had on a platform for awhile now and I've surprisingly made new acquaintances because of this haha!

By the way, you are free to boop me till you reach your own goal!! Or if you are simply bored and want to press some buttons! Don't worry about the spam notifications, I quite enjoy seeing them honestly 🐟

Enjoy the feature while it lasts, happy booping! 🐾

#you can say that this fish has turned into quite the catfish #ba dum tss #I'll see myself out now.#not in my art blog but since it has my art in it...#rawfishart #rawfishscribbles #april fools #boop

Tumblr scares the hell out of me but I feel like I gotta return at some point. but again., terrifying. intimidates me a lot so I've only been lurking

#blub blub 🐟#need to change all my tags too

Well I just died for a good three months! Is everyone still alive or have you all joined me for a moment as well?

#blub blub 🐟#also. lowkey wanna change my profile ngl #I love the username lightthatruins but I also want it to be on theme with my art blog ngl

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Going back to tumblr just to post The Creature and then leave again

#hi nonexistent tumblr fish nation. falls down from your ceiling #would u crush this thing #would you grill this thing

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For context: The ship is Yggdrasil x SoulMusic

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hi I just want to say that I did technically enabled two of my friends to ship these two 😭💀

therawfishthatblubs

How do I tell tumblr that in order for this to make even more sense we'll have to elaborate actual serious lore and worldbuilding

#behind the personifications of discord bots (and this pair specifically) lies an entire system tied to a story #system slash roles slash hierarchy idk

therawfishthatblubs

Y'all think I can finish at least 6 or more turnaround reference sheets in a span of 2 weeks or less

therawfishthatblubs

The answer was no.

#I didn't make a single turnaround sheet I kinda just. made a new fullbody for one oc and called it a day #scratches head. im so good at being an artist guys /s

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-Rumi

#oh /neu /lh #this one has some kick to it #</3 #quotes #splendiferous siren song

Whoever thought that periods, mood swings, and silly thoughts was a funny pairing, I ain't laughing

#lighthearted post btw #oh and also /nav. just wanted to say #blub blub 🐟

Y'all think I can finish at least 6 or more turnaround reference sheets in a span of 2 weeks or less

#yearly art fight prep yk #is it truly art fight if you're not scrambling to finish your refs last minute?#blub blub 🐟

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it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

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for whom good omens is being written

Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:

The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.

And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:

'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."

'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'

He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'

(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'

And, finally, this paragraph:

"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"

I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.

Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")

Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)