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Likes fantasy, folk music, classic adventure games, painting, frolicking about with my horde of goblins. They do not get a choice in the matter. Frolick, my lads and lasses!
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Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
He who controls the press controls the message.
I am a believer in the idea that adults could learn a lot from children's books. Here is one such book which trusts young readers to comprehend the often difficult topics of political intrigue, censorship, and betrayal. It is a whirlwind of escapades that does not end until the final page. As with Plain Kate by Erin Bow, there is simply something about young heroines with animal companions that make a story work so well.
No matter your age, read this book. When you are done, read more books, and always with an open mind. Never stop thinking. There is no right or wrong way to judge a book; the only wrong you could do is to ban it.
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... Sense and Sensibility, that's the book where a woman flies off on her rocket in a magical adventure across the countryside - but she experiences trials along the way, when her coat becomes one with the rocket and her boot melts.
I'm glad they included her sassy and daring extra elongated peaked hat. That's important.
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Femme au violon, 1922 by Jean Delville (Belgian, 1867--1953)
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Maeve Binchy here to summarise the departure scene from Good Omens S2 ...
#good omens season two#good omens s2 spoilers#good omens#good omens season 2#neil gaiman#crowley#aziraphale#terry pratchett
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Why the Confirmation of Crowley and Aziraphale Hits Different Than Other Romances | Tor.com
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"My word," she said, taken aback. "That's the biggest cock I've ever seen, and I seen a few in my time."
- Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
#nanny ogg#she never had no proper upbringing#legba the cockerel#witches abroad#Discworld#Terry Prattchett#no context Terry Pratchett#out of context Discworld
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My goodness, I would be doing the exact same thing ...
So there’s this beauty salon near me and every single time I drive past it I hear this bitch trilling, “Salon NoRRRELLLLL!”
(gif by @fengshuismirke)
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Regarding the Arrangement between Aziraphale and Crowley in Good Omens -
“If one was going to Hull for a quick temptation, it made sense to nip across the city and carry out a standard brief moment of divine ecstasy.”
I love to imagine how each of them would play the opposite role, as needed. I can’t imagine either of them would be very good at it.
My head-canon is that Crowley would be very blasé; throughout history there will be a string of confused but blessed individuals speaking wistfully of their holy encounter with an angelic being who scowled and kept checking his watch …
Aziraphale would be the opposite, if he was going to play the demon then he would do the job properly! Perhaps he would even raid a joke shop for demonic props and accessories to assist in his role. Sinners throughout time, if they tried to remember it, would be able to pinpoint their descent to a strangely apologetic eldritch entity.
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Nods and Winks: Good Omens and Stairway to Heaven
… Plus Observations On A Plane!
Good Omens Series 2 was brimming with little nods and pastiches in a way that Terry Pratchett fans can particularly appreciate, considering how his novels especially are best read with an eye always open for pop culture references! A lot of these are mentioned in Amazon’s X-Ray feature. I like to speculate on my own, such as deciding whether that scene in Episode 2 with Crowley/Crawley and Aziraphale is visually like that famous scene in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal where Death appears to the Knight on the beach …
…but I digress!
There is one film that becomes something of a Motif throughout S2 and that is A Matter of Life and Death, or Stairway to Heaven (US title – for clarity, I will use this title going forward).
Powell and Pressburger films are nodded to a lot throughout the series, but Stairway to Heaven is the most repeated and can be found in all sorts of places; film posters in Maggie’s shop, the book ‘My Best Games of Chess’ being dropped from a (slightly less extreme) height, and even Crowley-Angel’s hairdo.
Which got me thinking about when a Nod becomes a Wink. When a reference becomes thematic. And does this just apply to motifs throughout this series, or does it also become a Clue (with a capital C) for the next one?
I do not like - and I’m not very good at - speculating about things that haven’t happened yet. To me, that’s like trying to peep at somebody getting dressed through a crack in a door; it makes me weirdly uncomfortable, and I can’t tell arse from elbow anyway! I’d love to hear what other fans think on this and what cleverer clogs can make of it.
Obviously, we haven’t got and will not get a retelling of Stairway to Heaven, but I would be interested to see if there will be or are more direct parallels. “The dead shall walk the Earth” sounds portentous and we know the Second Coming will be in the plot of S3 - and once again dead walking the earth is also what starts the events of Stairway to Heaven. Regarding themes, I think we already can say that both works share the concept that Love on Earth beats the rulings of Heaven or Hell! Lord Beelzebub and Gabriel proved that one already. (Incidentally, that conversation about gravity and flies was very fun and very clever in hindsight, as they both gravitated to each other on Earth and then flew off together!).
There is one little thing that stood out to me … a plane (that appears to be on fire? Or just highly reflective) named ‘Thy Kingdom Airways’ is in the opening title animation.
This is weird because there are no planes in Good Omens Series 2. Stairway to Heaven starts with a plane crash … a different type of plane, mind you! Is this a bit like the rains of fish in Series 1, something that was later dropped in this series? Is it something that is yet to be? Or is it all just a (pickled) red herring?
#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens analysis#good omens season two#go2 spoilers#good omens season 2 spoilers#good omens s2 spoilers
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The Dance of Death, 1910 by Sidney Harold Meteyard (English, 1868--1947)
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Neil on "you were right" dances ... From way back in 2011!
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I just realised, if one thing came out of the whole disastrous Ball, it's that Aziraphale performed the most blessed unintended miracle of his career when ensuring that there will never be another Whickber Street traders meeting ever again ...
If you are ever obligated to go to voluntary or community-lead meetings, you will almost certainly have encountered a Mr Brown. Mr Browns are everywhere.
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The Worlds Of Terry Pratchett - At the British Library
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The Worlds of Terry Pratchett: with Neil Gaiman and Rob Wilkins at The British Library
Date: Tue 21 Nov 2023, 19:00 - 20:30 (Bar opens at 18:00)
Location: Pigott Theatre, The Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
A special celebration of the remarkable creative life of Sir Terry Pratchett, 40 years after the publication of the first Discworld novel The Colour of Magic.
This event takes place in the British Library and will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person, or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
Soon after The Colour of Magic was published, it inspired a young journalist Neil Gaiman to meet Terry, beginning a long collaborative friendship that was epitomised by their joint novel Good Omens, which appeared in 1990. The TV version of Good Omens was created by Neil Gaiman, with the first season on screen in 2019 and the second earlier this year.
Neil is joined Terry Pratchett’s biographer and former assistant Rob Wilkins, in a conversation hosted by Kat Brown.
We'll be sat intently listening and cheering Rob on from the cheap seats!
This event is an In Person and Online event.
Tickets are available from:
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aziraphale and crowley both think they're exempt from rules and can bend them at their will but they still didn't turn a fucking cardboard box upside down basically just because a sticker said "⬆️this way up⬆️"
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There's a random thought ... If the fly was a container for Gabriel's memories ... was the fly conscious of them?
Did the fly have memories of being Gabriel? Did the fly have thoughts like Gabriel? Was Gabriel-Fly buzzing around and cursing it's previous vessel for having a tasteless woolly vest on?
I ask important questions.
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