And A Little Glass Vial Goes Into The Gun Like A Battery

And a little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery

That is more or less *exactly* what he is.

[We're looking at a huge jet black cat. And I mean huge- it's larger than a panther. But it's a cat, not a panther- the proportions are different]

---The Annotated Sandman I, Sandman 18 - Page 14, Panel 2

Okay, hear me out, hear me out. HEAR ME OUT

YOU CAN'T TELL ME HE'S NOT A GIANT MAINE COON LIKE LOOK AT HIM

Okay I would never smoke but they Did kinda go off with the aesthetics

Keep it up @neil-gaiman, it will be over soon

I love the thought that in two, maybe three hundred years when the Internet, Neil Gaiman, and Larry Welz are a distant hazy memory, The Innkeeper's Soul will be told with the same folktale reverence around fires as Stingy Jack O'Lantern and the darker versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales: an amusing fable about the power of human love trumping the petty squabbles of Heaven and Hell

I don't expect this one to get answered, but a friend who I recently introduced your work to asked, and I was curious:

Have you ever dabbled in writing erotica, or possibly better termed, smut? Maybe under a pseudonym?

Given the wide breadth of topics you've written about, and given that most artists of any type tend to dabble at least a little, I would guess that the answer is yes, just curious if any of it ever got published anywhere?

Thank you for your time, good sir. I've been a fan almost as long as you've been writing. Still looking for a copy of The First Four Years of the Fab Five for less than a billion dollars, and looking for a replacement for my stolen (and signed, in person, long ago) copy of Don't Panic.

There's a story called "Tastings" in Smoke and Mirrors, and a few bits of American Gods, but that's all I can think of so far.

Okay... but y'all, as dark as it was... CRWBY could have made it so much darker

They could have cut up and bruised Ruby's face after her Aura broke and she took all that physical abuse, especially with Ozpin brutally caning her like an abusive father or uncle

We could have heard squishing and crunching noises when Neo stomped on Little

They could have painfully, heartwrenchingly, drawn out Ruby's suicide with the poison making her jerk and choke and dribble bile in a disturbing parallel to IRL suicide by ODing or drinking bleach/antifreeze

They would have been forced to up the maturity rating if they did, so they didn't, but can you imagine...?

EDIT: And oh dear... how could I forget all the rape imagery around the Curious Cat standing on top of Ruby, penetrating and violating and dominating her in multiple meanings of those words at once. They could have made it so much worse by having the Cat purring, nuzzling, and licking Ruby as they brag about the act of being inside and a part of her, how much they will enjoy it...

I am not okay...