Every time I see a bunch of posts from Neil Gaiman on my feed I think, "Neil... you're procrastinating writing again, aren't you"

Neil.

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1996 photos (a Polaroid and the proposed cover) that were meant to have been on the cover of Wired magazine in the UK. I think I preferred the one they finally used from a different part of the photoshoot because it was impossible to see what I looked like in it, so I was on the cover of a magazine and anonymous at the same time. But these were sweet. I guess they would have painted out the wires if they had used one of them.

It needed to be found

That was it. I found out the hard way why you don't put Builder's Sand on your skin.

Some of these photos were used to illustrate an interview of yours for the former wizard brazil magazine

That’s… unlikely. But there you go. I hope they paid the photographer.

That’s… unlikely. But

there you go. I hope they paid

the photographer.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

James Patterson books are an invasive species humans brought into library shelf environments because we wanted fast-reproducing, easily-digestible food. But at the time, we didn’t know as much about their natural airport environment, which has very few available nutrients. This environment greatly favours the genericalist species like Patterson, so there’s very little bibliodiversity compared to the more specialized library or bookstore environment. This means that each species in an airport has an enormously expanded niche compared to just about anywhere else books can thrive - in their natural habitat, Patterson books may be one of only 3 or 4 species competing for available nutrients. In these low-density, low-nutrient environments, Patterson books occupy vast swathes of territory without bothering other species. This history makes it extremely easy for them to outcompete the more specialized inhabitants of the library shelf, who have often been carefully selected to fill ultraspecific subgenre niches.

Left unweeded, Patterson books will expand their territory over multiple book bays, crowding out or even straight-up eliminating space for competitors and sending contributor-author runners out to other shelves. Contained to a single, planned set of shelves and kept strictly pruned, Patterson books can contribute to a healthy ecosystem. But many curators don’t know or don’t care to do the planning and maintenance, leading to the nightmare of overcrowding and loss of circulation.

Fortunately the forces of airport bibliodiversity in recent decades appear to have been attempting to balance these tendencies by supporting the increased presence of @neil-gaiman​ works. These propagate by employing both much-enhanced multimedia presence (which the B. pattersonis species and subspecies notably lack) to co-opt and redistribute shelf ecosystems, and also a unique author(!)-instigated reader attraction mechanism based on random ink signatures (”autographs”) which act in the idiosyncratic manner routinely associated with negative reinforcement to atypically increase reader interest in such works when visiting the airport bookstore environment. 

Due to the recent cross-media increase in the range and spread of the numerous B. gaimanii subspecies (presently most notably B. gaimanii sinefini and B. gaimanii omeniboni-duum x Pratchett), there is good hope that the more invasive aspects of the encroachment of B. pattersonis may become less of a danger to the bibliosystem in years to come. We have no choice, of course, but to “wait and see”. 

You waited. And here we see Crowley and Aziraphale, inside the bookshop talking to... well, that would be telling. Welcome to Season 2. This time it's ineffable.

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A screencap from GoodReads with the following quote attributed to Neil Gaiman:

‘I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, “There’s no masturbation in the DC Universe.” To which my reaction was, “Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.”’