what we’re not gonna do
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letslipthehounds:
rosy-avenger:
I don’t think I need to say this, because the Good Omens fandom seems to be pretty chill. But I’m going to anyway. As someone who hasn’t been in the fandom since the beginning, but since well before the show was a twinkle in Gaiman’s eye, I’m asking the rest of us book-fandom-members to practice patience and compassion with the flood of new fans we’re about to get. Some of them will only be watching for the actors, or because they liked American Gods and want to see what this other Gaiman project is about. Some of them might not have heard of the book, or Pratchett, or Gaiman, but they watch the show because it looks like it might be interesting.
And what we’re not going to do is gatekeep. We’re not going to tell people they aren’t real fans because they came to it later. We’re not going to tell people they have to read the book. We’re not going to schism and divide into “book fandom” versus “show fandom”.
What we are going to do is watch all these new people being introduced to the world and the characters for the first time, and remember how it felt when it was us reading the book for the first time. How we laughed at the jokes we understood and puzzled over the ones we didn’t. (I still don’t get the principality joke.) How we shipped Aziraphale and Crowley (romantically or platonically) from the moment we saw them on the page together. How this story of humanity and hope affected us, and changed us.
And we’re going to be welcoming, godsdamnit.
I love all of this, but I do have a potential answer to the principality joke, so I hope you don’t mind the hijack.
A Principality is both an angel and a region ruled by a prince. So that might be the answer?
(And side note, I hope the Good Omens fandom gatekeeps as well as the Discworld fandom does. In that the Discworld fandom- I’ve heard said- gatekeeps as well as Ankh-Morpork- they take them in and before they know it they’re part of the city. I’m not in either, but I do love all of it.)
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letslipthehounds:
rosy-avenger:
I don’t think I need to say this, because the Good Omens fandom seems to be pretty chill. But I’m going to anyway. As someone who hasn’t been in the fandom since the beginning, but since well before the show was a twinkle in Gaiman’s eye, I’m asking the rest of us book-fandom-members to practice patience and compassion with the flood of new fans we’re about to get. Some of them will only be watching for the actors, or because they liked American Gods and want to see what this other Gaiman project is about. Some of them might not have heard of the book, or Pratchett, or Gaiman, but they watch the show because it looks like it might be interesting.
And what we’re not going to do is gatekeep. We’re not going to tell people they aren’t real fans because they came to it later. We’re not going to tell people they have to read the book. We’re not going to schism and divide into “book fandom” versus “show fandom”.
What we are going to do is watch all these new people being introduced to the world and the characters for the first time, and remember how it felt when it was us reading the book for the first time. How we laughed at the jokes we understood and puzzled over the ones we didn’t. (I still don’t get the principality joke.) How we shipped Aziraphale and Crowley (romantically or platonically) from the moment we saw them on the page together. How this story of humanity and hope affected us, and changed us.
And we’re going to be welcoming, godsdamnit.
I love all of this, but I do have a potential answer to the principality joke, so I hope you don’t mind the hijack.
A Principality is both an angel and a region ruled by a prince. So that might be the answer?
(And side note, I hope the Good Omens fandom gatekeeps as well as the Discworld fandom does. In that the Discworld fandom- I’ve heard said- gatekeeps as well as Ankh-Morpork- they take them in and before they know it they’re part of the city. I’m not in either, but I do love all of it.)
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