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Neil GaimanFrom Tumblr. I might as well post it myself...
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@neilhimself it’s definitely a gift.
sortius@neilhimself I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks actual magic are the words we speak and write. They have the power to make people feel joy, feel sadness, to comfort those in dark places. They construct the very world around us
Gretchen Anderson@neilhimself we look at marks on a page and imagine whole new worlds. Reading is magic!
wpieper@neilhimself pretty freaking magical, I agree.
Shu Daizi@neilhimself At the risk of making this more sordid than it could or should be, I write happy smut. People I don't and never will know have let me know that reading my stories led to orgasms. That's a pretty cool superpower, ain't it?
JasonDTremblay@neilhimself On my first readthrough, I wept like a baby at the honorable passing of the first Dream. No other author before or since has succeeded in moving me so. A magician you are, good sir, and we thank you for it.
The Lady (La Donna)@neilhimself Writing IS magic. Thank you for bringing magic into the world.
New year, do you@neilhimself that’s just it. And thanks so much for making that magic real to us. ❤️
Spooky Panda 🏳️🌈@neilhimself Well said! Every writer is a believer in the /magic/.
Guitarsophist@neilhimself Well, but that doesn't actually defy the laws of physics, does it?
DrKiki@neilhimself words are pathways to the dreams in our heads.
Afif R.@neilhimself you're a wizard Neil
nailsthatglow 🏳️⚧️🦇🖖
J Lam 👩🏻💻👩🏻🎨
padraigd@neilhimself Great answer, believing in literal magic.
famousringo@neilhimself “literal magic” oh, you cad.
Elias Mårtenson@famousringo @neilhimself Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't realise what an absolute genius of a post that was until you mentioned it.
Chris Dudley@neilhimself I realized recently that the songs I write that make people cry are mostly about imaginary situations. I even put that in a song. Then I made someone cry with a song about what really happened. That was magical.
Canzonett@neilhimself Once you add the effects on readers not just across such giant gaps of space, but those of time as well, this idea becomes even more stunningly full of wonder, awe and beauty. I tell my students that writing means throwing messages in text bottles into the ocean of time and space, and that the challenge is helping their future bottle discoverers on distant shores decode the stories they tell …
Cam@neilhimself "It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works." - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Mori@neilhimself Bingo! Magic in deed indeed
The Barking Shark@neilhimself I swear Gaiman is some kind of Druid or something.
Ryan Egesdahl 
@neilhimself Okay. You win the “make your job look awesome” contest.
Cykonot@neilhimself Neil Gaiman, Chaos Magician.
Edit: Grant Morrison eat your heart out /s
Jaguarior Jones
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philip 🌻@neilhimself so true, I cry everyday for fictional characters
Adalwin@neilhimself There is little that brings an author more joy than to let other people partake in your own little delusions, especially when they feel the same as yourself
Kavana RamaswamyThis post and the fact that it has an added image description was the wholesomeness I needed this morning. Thank you 🩵
Claudius (legacy account)@neilhimself The odd quality of that spell is that this will, at some point, outlive you. The thoughts and words of Neil Gaiman will continue to inspire people.
psybertron@neilhimself
Literally literal / literary
Literally literal / literary
Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈
👩🦯The Blind Fraggle@neilhimself We are all magical beings, and shame on all the people and systems that have tried to make us believe otherwise!
🌈 breaking ranks.@neilhimself Yess! And also Stephen King argues in On Writing that, edit: telepathy of course! exists, because he can make somebody somewhere think of a white rabbit with a blue sprayed number eight on its back sitting on a small table with a cloth under it's paws. <3
Robotistry@neilhimself I became an engineer because I wanted to be a wizard. The wizards always seemed to have much more interesting and fun lives than the princesses.
Rob Bos@neilhimself
To paraphrase Pterry, it doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
To paraphrase Pterry, it doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Alexander Knochel@neilhimself Do you feel a sense of responsibility to have such an influence?
Red, Fat Horse@neilhimself Well, as the greatest of the wizards once declared, "the power of the sorcerer is in his words."
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@neilhimself Damn. You just made me well-up, which kind of proves your point.
ᕲᗩᖇᖽᐸᘿᘉᘿᕲᑢᕼᗩSᘻThis!!
Fuck yes! And, this is only a tiny "snapshot". Gather up all the little sparks and mysteries, it's impossible to deny the presence of magic. I don't want to remain in this world without it. Consider: An undisclosed, unselfish and unclaimed act of kindness on behalf of someone disliked and disregarded that goes against human nature. I understand there are opposing forces. There always will be. So...
Alex, the Hearth Fire
Sayuri 💛⬜️💜🖤 ΘΔ@neilhimself Literal Magic, if you will
Ichdochnich@neilhimself
Writing is painting pictures in peoples brains by using letters.
Writing is painting pictures in peoples brains by using letters.
MistherFrenchFries@neilhimself I remember hearing Alan Moore and Warren Ellis answering this question. I don’t know if I want to read Grant Morrison’s answer, but I might like to hear it.
Kevin Marks@neilhimself
https://epeus.blogspot.com/2002/04/i-can-read-peoples-thoughts.html
I can read people's thoughts.
Using an ancient technology, handed down over millennia, improved and refined along the way, I am able to read people's thoughts. And not just people nearby, or people I know. I can even read dead people's thoughts.
This gives me a great deal of power and knowledge - I can learn from their lives, their experiences, their dreams and fears, their insights and imaginings.
https://epeus.blogspot.com/2002/04/i-can-read-peoples-thoughts.html
I can read people's thoughts.
Using an ancient technology, handed down over millennia, improved and refined along the way, I am able to read people's thoughts. And not just people nearby, or people I know. I can even read dead people's thoughts.
This gives me a great deal of power and knowledge - I can learn from their lives, their experiences, their dreams and fears, their insights and imaginings.
@neilhimself
I can study their successes and failures, learn from their great ideas and their mistakes, absorb their experiences, laugh at their jokes and wince at their pain.
This may seem like a scary idea - you may feel nervous and want to avoid me, but don't worry. I can only read your thoughts if you want me to. You need to be part of this too. You need to write your thoughts for me to read them.
eklem@KevinMarks @neilhimself "Tell me your name and your address, and I'll tell you what you are called and where you live" 😁
Chris Mahan
Hubert Chathi@neilhimself Any sufficiently advanced literature is indistinguishable from magic (with apologies to Arthur C Clarke)
JonathanAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. —Barry Gehm
Erin O'Riordan@neilhimself And somehow "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" scared me and made me laugh at the same time. Further evidence of magic.
zendao42@neilhimself
Definitely magic
Definitely magic
ursuula@neilhimself “literal magic” 😂
ISeeWhatYouDidThere.gif (:
Lisa Hay@neilhimself I’ve just finished #americangods I’m a bit late to the party but glad I picked it up! Such great #storytelling #shadowmoon #wednesday
SpeedStar@neilhimself I feel sorry for the people that don't believe in magic.
They are the one who is missing out.
Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas@neilhimself the supernatural sort isn't something i put a lot of stock in, but for sure this is exemplary practical magic of the finest kind.
Tales from Absurdia@neilhimself This is wonderful.