Hello Ineffable Fandom!!

Hello ineffable fandom!! 💜

I can't believe that you've managed to get the crowdfunder up to almost £9000 already! My family and I are absolutely blown away by your kindness and generosity, especially at a time that's not been easy for any of us. It just goes to show that this is the heart of what this fandom is, love, and nobody can take that away from us.

ANYWAY

This is my 11 year old nonbinary kiddo, Finley:

They have pledged that for every £1000 mark crossed from now on, they will draw a Good Omens picture for you all to enjoy (they say they aren't the best artist as they have dyspraxia - mummy totally disagrees - but they'll try their best!).

So please keep donating, and whether or not you have or have simply reblogged, choose what you'd like Finley to draw for when we cross that £9000 mark - cast your votes below!

We hope that in some small way we can make you smile and thank you for the unspeakably, unbearably kind generosity you have shown to our little family in our time of need.

1) neil gaiman probably did it

2) this is a disgusting and awful thing to do, and his denials were pathetic. he should own up, apologize, cooperate with investigation, and accept the consequences, whether those be prison time, fines, public denunciation, whatever.

3) i am not letting his actions take good omens or this lovely fandom away from me. i *am* centering my fangirling squarely on the story and the fanwork, and not on neil gaiman.

Obviously a lot of people are just being straight up shitty and also- I think what a lot of people are struggling to verbalize is that whenever a powerful man who’s publicly supported oppressed people is reveled as a sexual predator, there is a loss of trust in your own perception. There’s a loss of trust in your ability to determine who is and isn’t safe.

And as much as he may have been problematic prior, by and large he expressed values that led people to think he was on the right side of things and an overall good guy. It’s disorienting when you find out you can’t trust something you thought you could, and that’s gonna take processing.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot

Yeah. John Oliver mentioned this on a recent episode of Last Week Tonight:

He is quoting from Project 2025, a plan by right-wing groups to wreck democracy, put a lot of power in the president's hands, and make very conservative laws if T*** gets elected. This suggestion of banning smut is a fairly blatant sign of authoritarianism, as are the plans to take some power away from Congress/courts/government agencies and give it to the president. It's bad in itself, and it does not bode well for other policies.

Anyway hold your breath and vote for Biden (ew), then keep pressure on him+Congress to hire good people and make decent policies.

Just a reminder for anyone who thinks voting isn't important, and the guy who said he'd be a dictator is the same as the guy who said no one is above the law:

Archive Of Our Own would be banned in your country, too. All those Explicit and Mature fanfics would be illegal. All the gay fiction would be illegal, explicit or not).

can we talk about the costume design 🤩

I can't believe so many Good Omens fans and content creator are being guilt tripped into dropping the book and show as a whole in fear of being seen as a Neil Gaiman apologist, it is completely fine to separate art from the artist people have been doing it for YEARS ( see harry potter, miraculous ladybug etc. ) If it's a purely personal choice then I understand but if people are doing it out of fear of being judged then that's a problem. Also is everybody just gonna leave out the fact Terry Pratchett also wrote the book? It wasn't just Neil. We can still support the amazing person and writer that was Terry, the performances of Michael Sheen and David Tennant plus everybody else that was involved in the making of the show. Stop giving Neil ALL the credit.