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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 11d

Love to observe how your style evolves with time, both their expressions and body shapes are looking even more exquisite!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 12d

How receiving an e-mail that is not a shipping confirmation from Dunmanifestin feels like these days:

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 12d

Slapping “Crowley is pathetic!” at the end of a post is such a diabolically good marketing tactic.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 12d

Love the socks!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 12d

You’re just speaking the truth out loud!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 13d

That’s such a cool hobby! And amazing results for someone who has started only as recently as a couple of weeks ago!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 13d

And the best Good Omens AO3 tag of the year award goes to @depraveddame.bsky.social for “The Fetishism of Aziraphale’s Balmoral Boots”

The prettiest and most recognisable Balmorals ever.

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Naniiebim @naniiebim.bsky.social · 14d

Catch

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The Ineffable Con 😇🥂😈 @theineffablecon.bsky.social · 18d

Today is #WorldAlzheimersDay

Everything we do, we do #ForACure, for @alzheimersresearchuk.org and in memory of @terryandrob.bsky.social’s Sir Terry Pratchett.

Remember to remember someone when they can’t remember you.

Please share our JustGiving page: www.justgiving.com/page/m2025

#GoodOmens

M2025: Hail the Great Beast! 🔥

Help Rachael Windsor raise money to support Alzheimer's Research UK

www.justgiving.com

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

Haven’t watched the movie, but I’ve read the book it was based on, 84, Charing Cross Road! If you manage to capture at least a fraction of its sentiment, I’m sure that your readers will be more than satisfied. Just remember to enjoy the writing process for your own sake as well as theirs.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

THE WAY I’VE JUST RUSHED TO AO3 TO DOUBLE CHECK (I clearly need a few more shots of espresso in my next coffee)!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

I can only imagine the full extent of it! Plus, even with all of the Easter Eggs saved for posterity by their respective creators, the real question would remain: which ones were a part of the original set design and which ones were fully personal projects, like the Magic Shop’s Wheel of Misfortune?

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

Just to be sure that we’re on the same page here, I was trying to be funny in a very limited word count while suggesting that the cut scene in question might have offered even more Dickensian references than the modern pub scene in the show. Really appreciate your kindness and amount of care though!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

Luckily the official X-Ray material for this episode features those alternative takes for everyone to see and understand! Their cultural context (or literary, in the above case) seems pretty straightforward though, especially with sherry being widely regarded as grandmas’ drink of choice ❤️

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 23d

Bon appétit! 😇

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

Just look at him!

Long-haired Renaissance bishop Crowley. I repeat: long-haired Renaissance bishop Crowley. And Aziraphale looking like a pretty pre-Globe princess by his side.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

The follow-up discussion has moved to Tumblr, but I think that this scene happened between Crowley’s commendation for the Spanish Inquisition and the Leonardo da Vinci scene. Aziraphale was responsible for the witch hunt, Crowley summoned the rain to save the day, this happened not long afterwards:

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch featuring Aziraphale and Crowley posed over a book like a couple of newlyweds at the time, ca. 1500, as shown in the Good Omens Ineffable Edition and on Aziraphale’s desk in the lockdown special.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

The first apology dance happened in 1650, almost half a century after the Globe and around Cromwell’s and Agnes Nutter’s times! So not quite, but I absolutely think that Aziraphale was the one to have fumbled again and unleashed witch hunters on the continent.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

The Ark of the Lord 🤡

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

Hope that you had as much fun with it as possible!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

Always happy to share!

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

All the things that I want you to know about Good Omens 2 concept art can be found in this post: www.tumblr.com/youryurigodd...

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💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 2 · Good Omens 2 concept art masterpost · Unlike my previous pieces analysing individual cut scenes based on the available concept arts of never filmed historical minisodes, this post…

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

Aziraphale was not joking about Mrs Sandwich’s establishment being a pillar of the community. It was apparently open in the same place for quite a long time and, like the Windmill Theatre, throughout the Blitz — as implied by the long line of soldiers on the concept art below:

On the left, there’s a wide shop window filled with zombies stalking a certain angel and a devil. On the right, there’s a narrow entryway leading to a brothel upstairs, filled with uniformed soldiers too focused on their goal to notice their surroundings.

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Yuri Goddess @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 24d

Apart from the infamously cut historical minisodes, an early draft of Good Omens 2 had featured a mysterious Victorian era flashback taking place in the Dirty Donkey pub (Lady Bracknell, perchance?).

Interestingly, the pub hasn’t changed much in terms of interior — but instead of Agnes Nutter’s painting over the fireplace, there’s one of a rider on a white horse.

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