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Neil Gaiman Tumblr FAQ: Good Omens

Tumblr questions that Neil Gaiman has already answered. Yes, it does have some Neil-provided info of S2. But, it is spoiler leak-free! (It also does not have spoilers from early screenings of S2.)

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I’m excited about Good Omens 2 and I was already going through Neil Gaiman's blog ( @neil-gaiman ). I initially made it for me and my friends for reference, but then decided to go ahead and throw it out into the Tumblr void, too. I hope it helps.

I made my own FAQ about this here (please check it before messaging me): OrpiKnight's FAQ FAQ

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the new solangelo book SUCKED. here’s why

(all my personal opinion)

as a queer person who’s been invested in the pjo universe and solangelo in particular since around 2015, i cannot tell you how excited i was for ‘the sun and the star’. i was so sure we were about to get another rick masterpiece full of action, rich character detailing and fun, realistic mythology trivia; imagine my disappointment to open the book to almost 400 pages of the DULLEST, most untrue to character story i’d certainly ever gotten from rick, and possibly most other authors.

first off, nico. what the hell did they do to you. nico, a depressed teen who’s sister and mum died when they were 10 years old, with enough angst and trust issues to fill the river styx, turned into this stereotypical gay gen z caricature of his former self. i’m all for letting nico be a kid and be happy, but the turnaround of his character in this INCREDIBLY short time frame for no real given reason apart from his relationship with will (which, hello, romance doesn’t fix mental health issues) is just so unrealistic and tbh it really emotionally distanced me from his character arc, his emotions and his journey. i just didn’t feel like this was nico. it was some imposter who had been given a vague description of his character.

secondly, will. the reason i liked will in pjo and hoo was his chill. his laidback personality with a constant smile and welcoming arms. i thought nico and will worked because will balanced nico, he calmed him, he figured out solutions. but in this book, he became the most boring, cardboard character i think i’ve ever read. think jason in his absolute worst moments.

thirdly, the plot. 1) why the book marketed as a trip to tarturus when they don’t even get there until half way through. and when they get there, tarturus is WAY less scary/intimidating than we’ve seen previously in HOH (one of my all time fave riordan books). 2) i’m sorry but this book was just entirely fan-catering, money getting for me. no real action or cohesive storyline, just a focus on solangelo’s relationship that this book doesn’t exactly help me to love.

finally, i just miss rick’s input. i think it’s great that he consulted with a queer author, but i get the sense especially with how busy rick has been with the tv show and the new trio book etc that this book wasn’t really a riordan book, it definitely felt a bit more like this book had been authored by the queer author primarily, which is ok but i read the book for rick’s writing, which i really enjoy and wasn’t necessarily reading for this other author.

anyway i’m sure there’s more i’m annoyed about that i might post later but i don’t remember right now so that it haha

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the reyna and nico friendship>>> any other friendship

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people always feel sorry for leo bc he was the left out one from the seven, but think about NICO like half of the seven didn’t even want to rescue him in the first place, at least leo had jason and piper but nico had no one other than hazel

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even though i know it won’t happen, i would do anything for jason to be reincarnated in the new solangelo book

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NO SRSLY IM SO HYPEDDDDD APPARENTLY THEYVE ALREADY GOT THEIR GROVER BUT THEYRE WAITING TO ANNOUCE 😩😩😩

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i will not apologise for the person i am going to become when they release the rest of the pjo cast

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i am annabeth i hate it when people don’t just automatically understand the first time i explain

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i can just imagine annabeth offering to teach all the small kids at camp maths but then she quits within a day because she doesn’t get why they don’t understand super complex algebra

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ik this is a pjo page but i need to put this somewhere so im gonna give you guys my queer analysis of ‘18’ by one direction, idk if these thoughts are original or not but i came up with them on my own so yeah :)

queer stuff in 18 by one direction

i got a heart and i got a soul, believe me i will use them both

bascially a commentary on his humanity despite his queerness- he isn’t undeserving of love simply bc it isn’t cishet

we made a start, be it a false one i know

possibly a reference to how open harry and louis were in the video diaries and 2010-2011 era about their close bond. could also refer to simply harry and louis’ perhaps forced closeting, despite maybe having been out/open to family and friends at the time of the formation of 1d. shows the regression of their abilities to express their sexual orientation.

baby i don’t want to feel alone

possibly referring to the loneliness that comes with being closeted, and the isolation you can feel from your peers and society at large.

so kiss me where i lay down, my hands press to your cheeks

i don’t know if this is intentional, but this line, specifically the wording places a more traditionally feminine role on the singer- being ‘dominated’ almost as they lie down almost ‘submissively’, thus implying perhaps a more traditionally masculine partner.

a long way from the playground

this ‘playground’ mentioned i actually believe is metaphorical wording for the x factor show itself. the show was the boys’ introduction to the world of pop and the music industry and they were just at the age where they were starting to leave childhood, meaning as they grew and matured the x factor show was really a ‘playground’ for the boys to muck around in a bit and learn the ropes to the industry while growing into young adults.

i have loved you since we were 18, long before we both thought the same thing

louis met harry when he was 18, but he met eleanor later, aged 20. incidentally, harry has been seen at several shows shouting ‘16’ over the line ‘18’ which is when he met louis. ed sheeran, who worked on the song said that he wrote the song ‘from their [the band’s] perspective’. i don’t think it’s too much of a stretch from that to assume that he would be writing from the perspective of louis, seeing as louis was the only boy who was 18 at the time of the band’s creation.

to be loved, and to be in love, and all i can do is say that these arms were made for holding you

honestly this sounds like a defiance of religion to me. a common argument of christians and indeed other religions is that god did not intend for queerness, and he made everyone straight, so being queer is defying his will and is therefore a sin. to me, this sounds like a clear criticism of religion-based homophobia from a queer perspective. 

i wanna love like you made me feel, when we were 18

from my point of view, this is basically a confession from louis’ perspective to harry that he would never be able to love someone as much as he loved harry, and that he wanted to return to that state of perpetual happiness and passion they had in the ‘honeymoon’ phase of their relationship. the way he says ‘wanna love’ also perhaps provides a hidden double meaning- he could’ve meant it ‘want a love’ in which case proving my last point, but if in fact he meant ‘wanna love’ this could perhaps be euphemism for s3x, and the fact that other people (probably specifically women) don’t turn on louis like harry does. 

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i will not apologise for the person i am going to become when they release the rest of the pjo cast

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i can just imagine annabeth offering to teach all the small kids at camp maths but then she quits within a day because she doesn’t get why they don’t understand super complex algebra

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there should’ve been a sixth hero’s of olympus book where piper gets over her ‘not like other girls’ mentality and nico comes out to everyone by himself in a way that he’s comfortable

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ITS MY BIRTHDAY YAYAYYAYAYA

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jason def tried to connect leo’s freckles with a sharpie while drunk

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new fandom challenge: don’t ship underage characters with older characters 😁

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this is also not a safe space for jasico shippers. no exceptions 😐

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this page is not a safe space for percico shippers ❤️

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