Ppaink

Water is not sliding off his back.

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Sherlock, John, Mycroft and Lestrade are all members of the X-Files division of the FBI, which investigates unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. They have all seen firsthand the strange and unexplainable things that go on in the world, and are dedicated to finding out the truth behind them.

Mycroft is the team's leader, and is the one who assigns the cases to Sherlock and Lestrade. He is always calm and collected, even in the face of the most bizarre and horrifying things they see.

Sherlock is the team's resident expert on the paranormal. He is always able to find some sort of rational explanation for even the most inexplicable events.

John is the team's medical doctor. He is often able to find a scientific explanation for the physical symptoms that people experience during paranormal encounters.