Oh, and...

[vulgarweed]

I've been thinking that if I could ask Gneil and/or PTerry one Good Omens-related question, it would actually have nothing to do with the theology of the changed world or a second apocalypse or the mysteries of the Horsepersons or anything related to whether or not Aziraphale and Crowley are So Doing It (tm). Those are all things for fandom to play with, which it does quite nicely.

It would be a fairly straightforward question.

Who was Adam's mother?



If there's any fic or meta on this subject anywhere, please point me!

Comments

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

They're both basically of the we-know-people-do-this, we-don't-get-it, have-fun-but-don't-make-me-read-it persuasion. Which was why lower_tadfield spend a week or so dodging wank bullets over slashy extrapolations in, of all things, Aziraphale's Wikipedia entry, which Gaiman seemed less than thrilled about.

Which, y'know, I'm very sympathetic to his annoyance. A place for everything and everything in its place, and that place ain't Wikipedia.

Fortunately, Anne Rice-style hissyfits are not at all their style, either of them.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Yup, yup and yup. Wikipedia has enough problems with vandals (I once found the entry for Thomas Chatterton was trashed, so I took it upon myself to find the last clean version and reset it to that); it doesn't need fandom wankage.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's actually good for my faith in human nature that Wikipedia manages to be as useful as it is, considering the potential for mass competing-agenda clusterfuck.

[empy.livejournal.com]

(Poking in another reply here.)

Which was why lower_tadfield spend a week or so dodging wank bullets over slashy extrapolations in, of all things, Aziraphale's Wikipedia entry
They what? Thank God Satan the little green mice I managed to miss that one. I moved L_T to another filter a while back, as it tended to set my teeth on edge about once a week.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're really morbidly curious, it should all still be there about two weeks or so ago. But it's pretty tooth-on-edge setting.

[onefrabjousday.livejournal.com]

Rather, I have a feeling the "don't make me read it" is more for legal reasons rather than personal preferences.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember having heard or read somewhere a hilarious and possibly very apocryphal story about Terry at a con once literally hiding under a table from someone who was brandishing Discworld fanfic at him.

It was all in good fun, not an actual serious crucifix/vampire reaction.

[onefrabjousday.livejournal.com]

I can just picture him doing that. It's just a relief that he and Neil deal with it so well.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It sure is...which is why it's important not to cross the line, y'know.

And also...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

In Neil's case, a high-horse attitude towards fanfic would be most misplaced coming from a man who's written Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu crossovers and a Narnia fic that included a Aslan/White Witch oral sex scene. To his credit, I think he's well aware of this.

Re: And also...

[onefrabjousday.livejournal.com]

0_o Okay, the Study in Emerald I've read, but where is this Narnia fic? Can you point me to this...er, shattering of my early Christian brainwashing?

Re: And also...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Here's a link: JPGs, beware!


And here's Neil talking about it: http://www.thestonetable.com/articles/224,1.html

And a review of the anthology it's in:http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_09_006548.php

It's actually a pretty serious story about Susan and why she fell away from Narnia...but it's that dream sequence everyone remembers! (Neil is the king of "you can get away with anything in a dream sequence!) Raspy big-cat tongue, yum.

AFAIK, no one in the GO fandom has ever written something that kinky and that blasphemous at once.

Re: And also...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

yessh. DAMN inability to preview.

review:

http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_09_006548.php

what Neil said:

http://www.thestonetable.com/articles/224,1.html