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freytful:

Theres an implication in the sandman netflix TV show that Hob is really unique for living so long ("Why would anyone want an eternity of this" as Dream says), while in the comic, in #43, its explicit that there are thousands of immortals or Old Ones. Is this worldbuilding change intentional? While some degree of anti aging magic clearly still exists with the Ruby and Mad Hettie still being ancient, is it significantly rarer in the TV show universe?

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neil-gaiman:

Hob is unique in that Death isn’t going to take him until he wants to go, per the terms of the bet. He’s not unique in being very long-lived. There are people in the Sandman universe much older than Hob, and you’ve met a few of them – a lot of them, if you include Dreams, Gods and Muses. But statistically, a few hundred or a few thousand people out of billions means show or book, it’s incredibly rare.

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morrigan-le-faye:

Hello!

So I’ve read a couple times in different places that while you and Terry were doing press for the good omens book, you came across an interviewer who didn’t realize the book was fiction and thought you were a couple of people actually predicting how the world would end. Does this interview exist anywhere or was it never published after people figured out you were not in fact doomsaying prophets?

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neil-gaiman:

It was a Talk Radio interview in NYC – WABC if I remember correctly (I probably don’t).

neil-gaiman:

And the interviewer wanted to know who Agnes Nutter was, and all about her prophecies. We only realised he was taking it seriously when we mentioned her Doo nott buy Betamaxe prophecy and he was amazed that someone in the 17th century had been that accurate.

fuckyeahgoodomens:

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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

cedarboughs:

Did you all know that Neil Gaiman released a reading of a Shakespeare sonnet about the inevitability of time, set around the FourPlay string quartet simulating the ticking of a clock and the haunting rhythms of time? And that there’s a whole album releasing tomorrow? I searched for like twenty seconds and it seems like this isn’t big news on Tumblr which is wild because I would have thought that that’s the place it would be the biggest news. Anyway, listen to this track.

breelandwalker:

fuckyeahgoodomens:

From Neil Gaiman’s Conversation with Michael Chabon 2015:

In the years that followed, we would have the kind of conversations where Terry would say to me things like, “So I’m done with the Discworld and now I’m going to do this big science fiction series, I’ve come up with it, and this is the plot of the science fiction series.”, and would tell me all about it and get to the end, and I’d say, “Well, that’s all very well, but you should do a book about Death.” And then a week later my phone would ring and I’d pick it up, and a voice would say, “You bastard, it’s called Mort.” and he’d put the phone down.

The very best kind of friendship walks a careful line between “I’m With You To The End Of The Line,” expressed verbally or otherwise, and “You Utter Bastard,” expressed verbally and with sincere, if temporary, loathing.