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Midnight Pals: Kitsunes in Love

Added 2023-11-19 22:05:22 +0000 UTC

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

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

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

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

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!!!

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