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piplupcola asked:

Hi Mr Gaiman, the children's literature class I'm taking is doing a banned book week and teaching us about reasons why people end up getting their books banned. One of the common reasons was because an author, despite doing their research, wrote about something they personally did not experience (ie a white person writing children's books teaching them about the history of MLK, or making their protagonists disabled when they personally never experienced it)

What do you think about this? Do you think people should only write about things that they personally experienced (like only write what you know) or should everyone be free to write anything as long as they did their research?

I think whoever told you that didn’t do their research on why books are banned and on what books get banned. Here’s the ALA, who run banned books week, and keep track of that sort of thing.

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/statistics

They do visual guides to what challenges were received and what was being challenged and what the top ten most challenged books were – here are a couple of the most recent up on that site…

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marrymejasonsegel asked:

How do you deal with people reacting negatively to your work--- not just in a matter of opinion, but in the sort of ways that lead people to try and ban your work in schools and such, and the ensuing online mob that accompanies thought processes like that? I have an author friend named Jonathan Evison who is currently under a firestorm and is recieving tons of hate and harassment because his book, which deals with a gay coming of age story, had been protested and banned in school districts across the US. People commenting on pictures of his kids calling him a pedophile, telling him he will burn in hell. How do you emotionally deal with this level of misguided vitrol from total strangers?

When things like that happen I go away from social media and let it burn itself out, and make art if I can in the meantime. But I don’t try and make things for everyone either, and console myself that if some people love my work and some people hate it I’m probably doing it right.

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chaoticomens asked:

Hi Neil! How was the first day of filming? Is it nice to be back on a set with familiar faces?

It is. But I mostly don’t get to see their faces, because everyone on set except the actors are wearing masks.

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dott-de-la-torre asked:

Hola Señor Gaiman!

I just finished watching Good Omens and I was wondering, in the last episode, wasn't it incredibly painful (physically) for Crowley to step into Heaven? I mean, it was hard enough for him to go into the church, I imagine there is no more consecrated ground than Heaven itself. I guess it was hard for him to keep his cool in front of the angels.

I don’t think so. I like the idea that Heaven and Hell are just one building. Heaven gets the nice rooms at the top with the views. Hell gets the awful basement rooms, with the damp.

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fandumbug asked:

Hello! Big fan, I loved Neverwhere back in school. I once heard someone, another well-known author I think, say that if they’d put a project away and haven’t made any progress on it after X amount of time, they’d throw it out as it wasn’t worth writing at that point. I have a series of projects that I’ve been working on for the past 9-10 years that I haven’t been able to work on in a very long time. I still think it’s worth finishing, but that quote nags at the back of my mind. I’m curious to know what you think. Thank you

I keep everything, don’t throw anything I write out, and sometimes decades pass between one paragraph and the next.

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assbutthasthephonebox asked:

What are your opinions on cosplay based off your own works? (Photos are ones I snapped during my NYCC 2021 off hours.)

Honestly, it’s joy. Pure joy.

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v7cks asked:

Her Mr.Neil just a quick question. With all these new COVID-19 restrictions, what time do yall start shooting and end compared to 2017??

The shooting day hasn’t really changed.

What has changed is the first thing you do when you get to set in the morning is have a barcode scanned, and then have a Covid test. Then, if you are not an actor on set acting, you spend your day in a mask, socially distanced from other people, possibly with a plexiglass shield between you and the person next door to you.

We have a Covid department who are running the tests and the laboratories, who are making sure that people are masked and making sure that all Covid guidelines are being followed. The biggest loss of time shooting would be if somebody got Covid. (Especially if somebody irreplaceable got Covid.) Sandman shut down three times during filming (once for about a week, the other times for shorter periods) and their Covid protocols were as tight as ours.

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blooddragon24 asked:

The scene in Good Omens where they are getting ice cream are they getting the treat that they themselves like or are they getting the one that the other likes because they are pretending to be one another?

You know, that’s one of the Good Omens questions that people ask the most.