Don’t let tumblr make you think it’s okay to

not-a-space-alien:

• Lose the newborn antichrist 
  
• Spend 11 years mentoring the wrong child with your supposed enemy 
• Hypnotize a Satanic Nun
• Turn fake guns into real guns
• Sit moping about organizing your Soul music CDs while you wait for Hell to come beat your ass
• Drop a bucket of holy water on a Satanic Duke
• Drive across the M25 while your car is on fire
• Stand around being useless while the antichrist saves the world

glyph-of-wolves:

writing-prompt-s:

“You had ONE job!” both Satan and God scream at you.

Good Omens

not-a-space-alien:

justasloblikeoneofus:

bravinto:

not-a-space-alien:

Who was Adam Young’s infernal mother????  Like was there some demoness who got a really important job or did Satan go to some random human woman like “hey wanna be the evil Mother Mary?”??  Or did he create Adam by like….budding or something?

yeah i’ve been thinking about it a lot too

What’s your fucking problem??

If you don’t like his music, you don’t have to listen.

oh.  oh my god.  I’m so sorry

I 100% can’t tell if you’re joking or not but we’re not talking about Adam Young the American singer and songwriter behind Owl City

We’re talking about Adam Young the fictional antichrist from the 1990 British absurdist comedy novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 

sit-down-hamilton:

in all my life, I have never encountered such an astounding act of trolling as the time I spent an hour and a half downloading what I thought was a Good Omens fanmix and then discovering that it was a Best of Queen album.

Happy Little Translation Error?

neil-gaiman:

tio-trile:

So I lent my friend my mainland Chinese copy of Good Omens, and she’s been commenting on various stuff in the book to me as she read along. One day she messaged, “Crowley’s so cute, chasing after the hedgehogs like that.”

And I said, “……………..what?????!?”

So she told me where in the book it was, and it was the part after Cr&Az realized that Warlock isn’t the kid, talked to the nun, and got out of the hospital. It did say that Crowley was “trying to hit a hedgehog and missing”, but I soon realized that the “second line” she told me that’s about the hedgehog is, “The angel stared out at the rushing hedgerows.” Apparently the Chinese translator read “hedgerows” and thought it was “hedgehogs” again. Obviously it didn’t make a huge change to the plot line, but basically, in the Chinese version of Good Omens, Crowley chased a hedgehog while convincing Aziraphale, “drove in silence for a while”, and then chatted with Aziraphale some more. Meanwhile Aziraphale saw everything but decided to let Crowley do his thing.

So…yeah.

You know, between life and what’s happening in politics and work and too much travel and missing my baby son (he and Amanda are at a conference in Canada and I am hiding to try and make a deadline) it’s been a rotten week.

This, for the record, suddenly made everything really good. It may be my favourite ever Tumblr post.