News about Neil Gaiman. Not posted by Neil. You can find him replying & posting in person at neil-gaiman on Tumblr, or
@neilhimself
.neilgaiman.com on Bluesky
I joined Twitter in Dec 2008, and loved it. But times have changed and so have I and so has this place. From now on this account will be posting news and information about me, but I won't be here posting or replying. If you need me, find me on Tumblr and Bluesky.
The rumours are true. Netflix is thrilled that so many of you have been watching Sandman, and the thing we were all hoping would happen... has indeed happened...
I woke up to find I'm now blue ticked again. I haven't paid for Twitter or given anyone my phone number. Mr Musk, if you're paying for people who don't want blue ticks to have them,
@StephenKing
's suggestion that you donate the money to charity is excellent. To Refugees, perhaps?
I don't write much about gay sex, as people who have read my books would know. But, oddly, I don't read a tweet like this and feel the urge to convert. Instead I read it and vaguely wish I'd actually written more about gay sex.
@neilhimself
Nor do you listen to the fans, respect the source material, or think rationally. Even if you ignore the OBVIOUS lore issues you are causing, this is still an abomination! almost seem like a parody of LotR! I was hoping all the hater were wrong - but YOU crushed my hope - not Elon
If it makes these folks feel better to think I'm a part-time writer, fine. In which case I'm a part-time writer who doesn't have to have another job. That's actually pretty cool.
Also, if typing is all you think qualifies as writing, well, okay, that's a choice you can make.
What glorious (and dangerous) trouble will our favorite angel and demon find themselves in this time? 😇😈 Good news!
#GoodOmens
is returning for Season 2 on
@PrimeVideo
.
I feared we would get the same kind of outcry we got on Season 1 from a black Adam and Eve and a female voice of God, but so far no petitions to Netflix or HBO to cancel us because of our disabled Angels. People seem to be getting it.
I wanna talk about the disabled angels: there's so many 'in heaven they will finally be free of their wheelchair' and 'they will be made whole again in heaven' narratives around disabled people, so to see visibly disabled angels means everything, thank you
@neilhimself
#GoodOmens
My apologies to
@neilhimself
for any loss on royalties, but, FYI: If you liked the Sandman series, all the comic books are available virtually for free on Hoopla which is available through many public library cards. So check if your public library has access to Hoopla.
You know, it's when people who proclaim themselves as "white supremacists" turn off Good Omens after the first few minutes, and then come on Twitter to tell me off, that I think sometimes a negative review is a marvelous and heartwarming thing.
Crying: I just learned that I've lost the first of my friends and relations to Covid. I lived in the spare room in her flat when I was a baby writer. She was the sweetest soul alive, always encouraging and kind. She deserved a better death, with family around her, and goodbyes.
Not really sure what to do about all of the Elon Musk people who now think I had something to do with Lord of the Rings. Do I tell them that, no, I was asked for my opinion and answered, or warn them that if they think that's bad it's a good thing they haven't watched Sandman.
Tolkien didn't say "The Harfoots spent longer in the sun than any of the other hobbits and were a lot more tanned". He said they were "browner of skin".
@neilhimself
@Chartheegreat
@darrengrimes_
Browner of skin means tanned white similar to people who work in the sun as they are in a temperate environment like England, you are both lying and trying to deceive people Gaimen, shame on you.
You dared to Dream (and, y'know, kept asking me when and whether they were going to show up). And it's happening! The Sandman profile icons are coming to Netflix! Let joy be unconfined! (I'm going to be Goldie. No, Matthew. No, Goldie.)
UPDATED. The sale has led National Intelligence Coodinating Agency (NICA) Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo to red-tag Adarna House, accusing the publishing company of “radicalizing” children against the government.
#NeverAgain
I just saw Everything Everywhere All At Once. See it in a cinema if you can. See it knowing nothing if you can. Best, most wonderful film I’ve seen in ages. Thank you A24 Films for screening it for me. Thank you to everyone who made it. Thank you Michelle Yeoh for existing.
From the mind of Neil Gaiman, a two-part bonus episode of THE SANDMAN, featuring the stories "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Calliope," is now streaming only on Netflix.
It's planned and plotted and if there wasn't a Writers Strike on I'd be writing it right now. Ways to help make Good Omens Season 3 happen are A) watch Season 2, B) get people who know nothing of Good Omens to start watching S1, and C) encourage the studios to negotiate with WGA.
This was just after I’d finished my last scene as Aziraphale. I wanted to take a final picture before I stopped being him and I got a bit dewy-eyed.
#softangels
Because Sandman is a really expensive show. And for Netflix to release the money to let us make another season we have to perform incredibly well. So yes, we've been the top show in the world for the last two weeks. That still may not be enough.
@neilhimself
Neil, it's more than lived up to expectations, thank you.
With all the talk of it being a top streamed show all over for the past 2+ weeks, I don't understand why S2 is even a question.
I give all the fucks about the work. I spent 30 years successfully battling bad movies of Sandman.
I give zero fucks about people who don't understand/ haven't read Sandman whining about a non-binary Desire or that Death isn't white enough. Watch the show, make up your minds.
@neilhimself
Listen to yourself my guy.. like that wasn’t even comprehensive. If you tweet this good I see why the show is a huge letdown and failure.
Stop all the “woke diversity” shit, and give us GOOD Lord of the Rings expanded universe.
@elonmusk
knows what he is doing, you sir, don’t
@neilhimself
Audience have right to critic and they have given you 39 on Rotten Tomatoes. Also, he is far more accomplished than you ever will be. Your show is getting ripped apart
You waited. And here we see Crowley and Aziraphale, inside the bookshop talking to... well, that would be telling. Welcome to Season 2. This time it's ineffable.
#GoodOmens
@PrimeVideo
I'm in the Writers Guild of America. I wish this wasn't happening and support it absolutely. When I wake up tomorrow I'll be on strike. (To forestall the inevitable questions, Good Omens 2 is completed and handed in. Although I may not be able to promote it as I had hoped.)
The Board of Directors of the
@WGAwest
and the Council of the
@WGAeast
, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.
#thesandman
panel at
#CCXP22
just started and they’ve got Gwendoline Christie, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Vivienne Achaempong. Here’s video of them first arriving on stage.
#netflix
I am beginning to wonder at the continual use of the "ramming things down our throats" metaphor by people who seem upset by the gay characters on the TV (or in the comics 30 years ago).
I just learned that a dear friend in the UK has just died, killed by Covid. I'm really sad. I'm going to take a couple of days off social media. Please get vaccinated, if not for you for those who cannot.
someone just told STEPHEN KING, one of the most iconic authors of all time, that twitters verification check is the only reason he’s relevant.
how is twitter even real omg
Apparently
#TheSandman
is trending and so is
#Sandman
and I'm just so relieved and happy that so many of you like it so much. (And I'm amazed that so many of you are already up to The Doll's House.)
You waited. And now you see
@michaelsheen
and David Tennant, being perfectly effable.
(On our Soho set. The bookshop is on the left. Could that be a pub on the right?)
#GoodOmens
Season 2
@PrimeVideo
My friend Paul just emailed to say his favourite placard in the London Trump protests was the one that said was ALL IN ALL YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER PRICK WITH NO WALL.
Amanda: ASH! What are you doing with that knife?
Ash: I must hide it under the cushions. And then the Knife Fairy will come and find it and she will take it away to her castle made of knives.
Amanda: HE'S YOUR CHILD!
Me: That's really good. I think I may use it.
On a day like today it’s worth saying, I believe survivors. Men must not close our eyes and minds to what happens to women in this world. We must fight, alongside them, for them to be believed, at the ballot box & with art & by listening, and change this world for the better.
It's sweet to see it described as "Neil Gaiman's Lord of the Rings" but I really & truly cross my heart word of honour don't have anything to do with it. Sandman, yes. Good Omens yes. Anansi Boys yes. Lucifer and Dead Boy Detectives, kind of. LoTR nope.
Episode 11 was written by Caroline Smyth-Mcmullen. I met her first at a convention in 1998 in Tasmania. She was a nine year old Sandman fan. I'd never met a nine year old Sandman fan before. She grew up to be an astonishing screenwriter.
@Netflix_Sandman
#TheSandman
Watching The Doctor’s Wife. One of my favorite
#DoctorWho
episodes ever. Such a beautiful, bittersweet story from
@neilhimself
. Bonus: knowing the voice of House is the lovely
@michaelsheen
. Does it get better than this?! 🥰💕
I love you all. Even the ones I don’t know. This year I’ve not got a new New Year’s wish. I hope the world is gentler to each of us in 2018, though. And that we do not forget how to be kind.
@hellertrash
My question is: season 2 was based on the unpublished sequel by
@neilhimself
and Sir Terry Pratchett; so was the season 2 ending where the second book was supposed to end? Was there more? If it had been published would we have been in agony like this for 30 years?
Me as a scholar of literature: This is a very common narrative arch which allows characters to evolve and to find a more meaningful end. I’m fine. Everything is fine.
Me right now: I am dead inside.
@neilhimself
and co killed me. I will now retreat into my shell and wither away.
I get on a bus with Ash. It's costume day at school. He's a Zombie. He sees the bus driver & begins to roar.
Me: Sorry about bringing a terrifying zombie onto your bus.
Bus driver: That's all right. I've got two little monsters of my own at home.
And a story started in my head
I just learned that Good Omens is on the
@nytbestsellers_
paperback list. I wish Terry was still here. Good Omens had never made it onto the NYT list in 30 years, and he would have been happy and, I think, satisfied.
@Chartheegreat
@darrengrimes_
Tolkien described the Harfoots as "browner of skin" than the other hobbits. So I think anyone grumbling is either racist or hasn't read their Tolkien. Your mileage may vary.
Terry is here in spirit and hat and scarf. When we shoot in the bookshop we will hang them in there but for now they are here on his chair.
#GoodOmens2
Two years ago today we were shooting these two in a cafe in Penge. We really were blessed by an incredible cast and astonishing crew. You can buy it on DVD now. And you probably should.
The first country in the world to discover Sandman was Brazil. The comics were published there in translation in (honesty compels me to admit it) rather nicer editions than the American comics. 1/3
So there's me wearing 2 woolly hats, a scarf, a blanket, and a coat, crunching through the frost in the dark, exulting in the stars on this clear cold night. Every Pixel 5 astrophotography photo takes 4 minutes to shoot, and I was out there for 90 minutes, and it was glorious.
The WGA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP. Today, our Negotiating Committee, WGAW Board, and WGAE Council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement. The strike ends at 12:01 am. Check out our deal at .
#WGAStrong