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Good Omens (hello again)
I just went back and reread the Good Omens fic I wrote in 2003-4. That was quite a weird experience. Not bad, just weird. I thought I'd finally put it on AO3 because people have asked, and upload it with the caveat that it's book canon. But actually there's very little in them that goes against TV canon. I wonder if that's partly because it was a very good adaptation? It's at least partly because I never wrote anything very long or involved in GO fandom, and my stories were often about underpants or porridge or snake babies, and other silly things.
Yeah, now I do want to write something long an involved. My writing efforts have changed a lot in the years since then, going from always short to always long, possibly reflecting the change in why I write. Not that I have written very much in the past year, really.
Anyhoo, I have a metric shit ton of feelings about GO right now. That adaptation has pleased me a lot. As I was saying just this morning, it's really quite something to go back to an old fandom but with a shiny new set of mental imagery.
Yeah, now I do want to write something long an involved. My writing efforts have changed a lot in the years since then, going from always short to always long, possibly reflecting the change in why I write. Not that I have written very much in the past year, really.
Anyhoo, I have a metric shit ton of feelings about GO right now. That adaptation has pleased me a lot. As I was saying just this morning, it's really quite something to go back to an old fandom but with a shiny new set of mental imagery.
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underpants or porridge or snake babies
All very excellent things!
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I'm just so happy they did a good job of it - it's delightful :)
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It really is delightful - I was initially hesitant about the casting, but am now entirely reconciled to it (with the exception of Adam, perhaps, but that was always going to be a very difficult role to cast...). It really captured the atmosphere of the book for me!
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Yes. And also because the TV adaptation was controlled by one of the original authors. And also because that original author absorbed the fanon over the past 20 years.
Good Omens wasn't a book about an angel and a demon. Good Omens was a book with an ensemble cast, of which an angel and a demon between them constituted less than a sixth of the pages. Much of the book was dedicated to Anathema, and the Them and the Four Horsemen, with Shadwell and Newton Pulsifer and Madam Tracy as additional occupiers of lines and words.
But of the ensemble cast of characters, the fans latched onto the angel and the demon. Those were the two who captured the imagination, the two the readers universally fell in love with. Those were the two the authors were continually questioned about in the decades since the book was published. And maybe the authors fell in love with those two as much as the readers did, because when Neil Gaiman talked about the sequel that was never written, he talked about the angel and the demon living in the South Downs.
So when Neil wrote the TV adaptation, he made the angel and the demon the central characters in a way they never were in the book. But because that's the way everyone remembers the book, with the angel and the demon taking centre stage, the TV adaptation feels absolutely perfect.
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I am back on here after getting tired of tumblr's shenanigans.
I enjoyed GO a lot - a lot more than I was expecting to. It's nice to see so many people around me getting all inspired and re-inspired by it!
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However GO is gradually taking over my tumblr dash and it feels really a lovely moment.
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There's also separate tags for book and tv, but you can choose to browse both at once using the parent tag, so in principle you shouldn't really need any disclaimers.
I only ever wrote (remixed) one story, and I've been getting a steadily increasing number of notes on it for like... well, since quite a while before the show came out.
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That is good to know.It's funny, I've been reading some of Daegaer's old GO fic in the past week, and it was really amazing and lovely how they also just slotted right into the tv canon too.
Do you think you'll write more GO fic?
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The adaptation is really close, so I find that most fanfiction can be read as either. The biggest changes are, I guess, the 1960s conversation and Aziraphale's fears about getting too close, which make it unlikelier in the show than in the book that they could get themselves together until after (or at the end of) canon. But there are still people playing around with that date who haven't even read the book, too.
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I think I'd agree. In the book you could easily imagine they'd already had those conversations and moved on. But the show changes all that. Which I like! There's nothing so lovely as opened-ended canon.
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Whereas the clear implication is that they don't have it together, and not only that, aren't in the, shall we say, highest percentile when it comes to emotional self-awareness and clear communication goals, so everyone wants to rush in and fix it and lovingly call them idiots. Fandom LOVES "idiots to lovers", so the hint of obliviousness is like catnip too.
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So much new imagery! It's really such a relief we've finally entered the slow period at work, because , my God I. Am. Distract.
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I've just been endlessly dicking around on Tumblr in the track tag.
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We-ell . . . tryandstopme. I actually have been sneakily writing GO for the last little while, mostly drabbles, but a few somewhat longer bits as well. Only one ficlet that is TV-canon,* the rest are book-canon.
*so far
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As Lou said above, in most cases they can be cross-read without any major issues, I think. I mean, unless you're giving conflicting physical descriptions of them, in a lot of cases someone could read without noticing which one.
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I was a little afraid that I wouldn't care, after so many years since I've been in book fandom, but then I saw Tennant was cast as Crowley and knew I couldn't stay away. (And also that if anyone would, he'd do justice to Crowley.)
I have so many FEELS right now.
(I am also cautiously optimistic watching the collision of new!fans and old!fans. Although... The "Zira" wars, here we go again. XD)
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I do love some of the things Neil Gaiman has done. I can't adore the Discworld more than I do and I have never cried as hard after someone's passing than when Terry Pratchett diEd. But I sort of hated Good Omens. Which I should have expected because I bought the book before reading it in the library, which is something I've never done again after that because it wasn't the first time that I bought a book by an author I loved (or a CD from a band I was a big fan of) to then discover it's their crappiest work (for me, I mean) to date.
So, well, yeah. I'm not into canon, so I'm not into fanon, BUT I'M VERY MUCH INTO YOUR WRITING PROWESS AND IT PAINS ME THAT YOUR COMEBACK HAS TO BE IN THIS FANDOM I'M UTTERLY UNINTERESTED IN, DAMMIT!!!!
I will consider overcoming my misgivings if you decide to publish a link here, though. But I can't promise anything.
(I am really glad you are all happy with the TV adaptation, though. They tend to be tricky. I'm happy to see one of the co-authors is deeply involved.)
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So much love for Discworld. Is there even just the tiniest hint of a sliver of a chance you’ll watch the tv adaptation? Because you might like it more than the book *tempts like Crowley*
It’s so very lovely seeing fandom being happy all over it. It’s a good adaptation and the best part is how the Aziraphale and Crowley relationship is expanded and properly fleshed out as it wee.
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Glad of your re-emergence anyway!
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It's been literal years! I haven't watched a TV series in years, but I had to watch this one and AAAAAAAAAH! *flaps hands*
So goood! Had to binge-watch in one night and then be a zombie at work - all worth it.
Good to meet you again under the wing umbrella of the same fandom!
I've been getting a steady drip-drip of kudos on my ancient and rather tiny stash of GO fics, since the TV series was announced. Looking forward to my favourite authors responding back to a canonical take on the "4 times + 1" :D :D.
Hiiii!
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I'm just SO HAPPY, THEY DID IT SO WELL.
Your fics are lovely. Do you think you'll be writing more?
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I'm trying to write, but I've been having a few years' worth of writer's block, and it shows.
Also, I'm usually motivated by needing to read something that doesn't yet exist. Whereas now the fandom is big, it probably exists somewhere, I "just" need to browse and filter until I find it...
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/creepy stalker comment. This adaptation has resulted in SO MUCH weird fandom nostalgia and memories, it's been amazing.