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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.

wantonwhale:

image ID . gif from live action hogfather. camera pans out on death and susan standing in a snowy conifer woodALT

Originally posted by acecroft

“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

MY POINT EXACTLY.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

neil-gaiman:

yvecz:

Lost Hat (A short comic) 

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This was the scene that inspired me to draw the comic. The idea has been in my head since June, after the release of the Good Omens episodes. It went lying in my folders for a while, but I’m glad to finally have it finished! 
Thank you for reading :)

That made me so happy-sad. Thank you!

fuckyeahgoodomens: “ From the DVD commentary, episode 1: Neil: So, we’re now in a Chinese restaurant. Douglas: Now tell us about - are you going to tell us the story about you and Terry… Neil: Yes, I will. Douglas: I think that’s important one. Neil:...

fuckyeahgoodomens:

From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: So, we’re now in a Chinese restaurant.

Douglas: Now tell us about - are you going to tell us the story about you and Terry…

Neil: Yes, I will.

Douglas: I think that’s important one.

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.

Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.

ifyouknowmeirlgoaway:

The Truth has a moral lesson running throughout the whole thing that it’s okay if you’re bad at being a good person, so long as you try, and so long as you care, and so long as when you mess up you know that you messed up and you feel bad about it. Because some people are raised by bad people and that’s not their fault, but those habits can still live in your brain.

And sometimes things wound you so deeply that you just close yourself off to your goodness, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

And when there’s goodness in your heart, learning to be better isn’t a punishment even when it’s painful.

And I’m just very emotional about the newspaper man who finds a family with people that his abusive father would barely acknowledge as people, and then uses the things he learned from them to reject his father and the entire social system that his father represents.

pratchettquotes:

“Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!”

“Surely not!”

“If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, what would you prefer, a bag of potatoes or a bag of gold?”

“Yes, but a desert island isn’t Ankh-Morpork!”

“And that proves gold is only valuable because we agree it is, right? It’s just a dream. But a potato is always worth a potato, anywhere. Add a knob of butter and a pinch of salt and you’ve got a meal, anywhere. Bury gold in the ground and you’ll be worrying about thieves forever. Bury a potato and in due season you could be looking at a dividend of a thousand percent.”

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

noirandchocolate:

‘Even so, it would be dreadful if it fell into the wrong hands, Igor.  I wonder if I should present the Glooper to the government.  What do you think?’

Igor gave this some thought.  In his experience a prime definition of ‘the wrong hands’ was ‘the government.’

–Terry Pratchett, “Making Money”