As a late birthday gift to Earth can you please give us one more out of context word from the GO2 script? The fandom quite literally thrives on this stuff
Erdnase.
fish780543 asked:
hi, if theres a series 3 of good omens, is it going to be everyone on earth fighting everyone in heaven and hell like it said at the end of series 1, or something like that? also is the role of god (other than as a narrator) going to be covered, like where she fits into everything that's happened? (I know you usually answer stuff like this with wait and see so i understand if you dont answer but I thought I might as well ask anyway)
Do you think there's even the slightest chance that I'd answer with anything else than something that explains why I'm not going to answer questions like this? And if so, explain your reasoning.
paperiahma asked:
I recently finished Sandman Act III on audible and wanted to tell you that no story has ever affected me quite in the same way. I've loved Sandman since high school. It's a familiar story for me. And usually I experience stories in a way that's like visiting a different world and then carrying that world and its occupants with me after I close the book. But Sandman... in spoken form, it just has different kind of magic to it. Like it's the best way to experience it, as if I'm hearing it at the World's End Inn. I listen to you and so many wonderful voice actors breathe new life into this familiar story and feel like... Almost like I believe. I have no better words for it. For tiny, fleeting moments how I feel overrides what I know and I fully feel that when I go to bed at night, I will visit Morpheus's castle. That I might see Matthew perched on a branch, or good ol' Mervin driving the bus where I'm nodding off to sleep, or that even if I will never write down all the stories in my head, they will appear in Lucien's library. It's just a strange feeling, because it's almost tangible, and it matters so much, even after it passes. Makes me think specifically of World's End and how this world could use more places like that. So, thank you so much! For creating the Dreaming and letting us experience it in so many wonderful forms! I hope you and yours are doing well.
You are so so welcome.
vbartilucci asked:
I learned in a post today that Pterry wrote letters to a select number of people about five months before he passed, to be delivered after his departure. The obvious question is, did you receive one, and would you be willing to share its contents?
I did. It told me that he was giving me a hat to remember him by. And that he thought he had been good and wished that he had been better.
litrallymad asked:
hello mr gaiman! if you havent already answered this, what book of yours would you recommend for a non native english speaker? good omens was recommended to me by my friends but i feel as though the language in it is far too difficult for me to understand 😠and i have a hard time following the other characters aside from crowley and aziraphale.....is american gods easier to understand by any chance? i really want to read one of your works! the sandman was going to be next on my list but i have yet to get a copy.
No, American Gods is probably harder. Try Coraline.
dduane:
einarshadow:
atlinmerrick:
woolandcoffee:
aspiringwarriorlibrarian:
I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.
The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it's time to make a standard "thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah" speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.
Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says "Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship."
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something "more profitable". She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly "Your empire will fall. And I will help it along."
We stan an icon.
I never knew the whole quote or its circumstances. Lord she was amazing.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." – Ursula K LeGuin
@deadcatwithaflamethrower
That right up there is the essential style of the woman who radicalized me. :) It was a privilege to share the planet with her, though (to my great regret) we never met.
I wasn't surprised. She'd sent me an email the week before, where she said
Dear Neil
Heroism isn't exactly my thing, so please just look at me as your fellow writer, OK? Two grunts in the great war of Art against Insentience, or something.
Anyhow, yes, I did have a question:
I'm told I have 3 to 5 minutes to say thanks. Having sat through 5-minute thankyou speeches that seemed to last 3 hours, I thought I'd enliven the gratitude with some very brief remarks about (for one thing) the big publishers' practice of grossly overcharging public libraries for ebooks, limiting access, etc. I know you're a true library lion. So I wanted to check if you'd welcome this, & if so we could maybe kind of strike the same note – or at least tell you, so that if I do say some things that our publishers will perceive as ungrateful, subversive, unladylike, etc., it won't take you by surprise.
very best wishes
Ursula
(And because I suppose some people might want to know what I replied, I said,
Dear Ursula,
I'm very happy to be a fellow grunt in the war.
I think that anything you want to say is going to be good, because you mean it. I don't think chiding publishers etc is out of place from a public platform - it may even change things - and the world of five (or is it four?) monstrous huge international publishers us not the one either of us grew up with. (I'm with one giant in the UK, another in the US, in each case because they engulfed and devoured my original publisher.)
And we neither of us got where we are, or indeed, anywhere, by toeing any party line.
Love
Neil)
fuckyeahgoodomens:
Michael and Anna went to see the new David's play :). Anna's caption :D.
Today's mood
dduane:
…Screw everything, I'm watching The Sandman again.
…Sometimes you just want to rest in someone else's dream, you know?
baratrongirl asked:
It's too late for me to get your response on this because I have to leave in 2.5 hours, and I'm sure you have an Ask pile 50k high as usual. But, in the extremely unlikely event that you do see this: Should I wear my Death of the Endless t-shirt to a funeral tonight? It would greatly honour the deceased who was a massive Sandman fan, but might offend some people who are Not Nerds. (Note also: it's funeral for friends and we've been told to wear what we are comfortable in.)
baratrongirl:
neil-gaiman:
If you're wearing it to honour the deceased than I would say go with it. If anyone grumbles or looks at you askance you can explain and then they will learn something about their dead friend or family member.
Thank you so much, Neil. I wore my Death t-shirt and an ankh, and all of my friends who I haven't seen for 20+ years agreed that it was an excellent choice. Apparently it was me who got our deceased friend into The Sandman in the first place! I didn't even remember that.
In his short academic career, our friend mentored 20 PhD students, wrote 30+ papers, and authored 2 patents. That was in addition to his wonderful art, sculpture, photography, gardening, and other creative projects. He lived four times as hard as anyone else I've ever known.
Thank you for reminding us that however long you get, you get a lifetime.
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