Neil Gaiman: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the kitsune in love Kij Johnson: oh this sounds great Lafcadio Hearn: AHEM Hearn: i'll be the judge of that Hearn: you baka gaijin - ThreadSky

midnightpals.bsky.social • 476 days ago

Neil Gaiman: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the kitsune in love
Kij Johnson: oh this sounds great
Lafcadio Hearn: AHEM
Hearn: i'll be the judge of that
Hearn: you baka gaijin

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shechemist.bsky.social•476 days ago

Omg. Kij is gonna be so thrilled

aceckhouse.bsky.social•476 days ago

randomly picked up one of her books recently (At the Mouth of the River of Bees), incredible how the stories alternate between “wow this is so sweet & cute” and “wow this is so disturbing & creepy”

billstewart.bsky.social•476 days ago

"Ponies" won the short story Hugo a few years back...

jlkaufmann.bsky.social•476 days ago

I love that Lafcadio Hearn has turned up to heckle.

darthhellokitty.bsky.social•476 days ago

I had forgotten all about him and now I have the fun of looking him up again!

midnightpals.bsky.social•476 days ago

Gaiman: this is a tale of that ineffable madness that seizes the young and emboldens the old, cruel in its kindness and kind in its cruelty
Gaiman: beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty
Gaiman: i speak, my friends
Gaiman: of love
Gaiman: simply love

midnightpals.bsky.social•476 days ago

Gaiman: i speak of love as a singular force spiraling through the cosmos, unemcumbered by modular time
Gaiman: love which speaks in gentle tones but will not be denied
Gaiman: so powerful as to make a pauper of a king and a king of a pauper

midnightpals.bsky.social•476 days ago

Gaiman: to understand my story, you must remember the feelings of love
Gaiman: to feel in the depths of that frenzy, unable to breathe for feelings too big to contain
Gaiman: do you understand? can you feel it?
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Gaiman: then i'll begin

robdamnit.bsky.social•475 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

marypcbuk.bsky.social•476 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

midnightpals.bsky.social•476 days ago

Gaiman: so it came to pass in the mysterious cloudlands of the distant east that a kitsune and a badger made a bet-
Hearn: IT'S NOT A BADGER YOU BAKA GAIJIN
Hearn: IT'S CALLED A TANUKI
Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!
Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!!!

midnightpals.bsky.social•476 days ago

Yoshitaka Amano: hey i illustrated your story, what do you think?
Gaiman: huh, good but
Gaiman: could you make the figures more wan?
Amano: which ones?
Gaiman: oh you know
Gaiman: all of them
Amano: ok how's this
Gaiman: no no
Gaiman: more wan

teeaitchare.bsky.social•476 days ago

The little SD Neil and Yoshi-san figures at the end of that book are probably my favorite Amano illustration ever

chompmancobra.bsky.social•476 days ago

You have to pay extra for that. As Elvis says:

It's wan for the money

phostetlerart.bsky.social•476 days ago

Gaiman: GIMME SO MUCH WAN YOU COULD MAKE A DUMPLING SOUP OUT OF IT.
R.F Kuang: That's racist.
Lovecraft: Hey!
R.F. Kuang: What? He IS!
Gaiman: [breathes again]

azhanti.bsky.social•476 days ago

Uh-oh gaiman saw this

darthhellokitty.bsky.social•476 days ago

Fun fact: Tanukis (in folklore, not the actual animals) are known for tremendous scrotums which they can use as a sails, nets, and if necessary parachutes.