Neil Gaiman, GenCon giftage
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craigoxbrowThanks to Cat attending GenCon, I now have The One Ring, about which more later, and a funny Doctor Who T-shirt that I won't spoiler you on.
We were at the Book Festival to see Neil Gaiman talk with Audrey Niffenegger about fairytales, how myths decay into fairytales, how characters in fairytales generally only have one defining characteristic - "this character eats people! And you don't really ask why..." and how heroines have to be brave and clever and patient while heroes tend to just inherit things, and about stories getting away with you and how that was informed by ten years writing comics and how "you have let the cool stuff in", and about how Steven Moffat stopped the "hypothetically speaking..." part of the Doctor Who writing conversation "by saying "Oh, Rude Scottish Word it, you know." ... Yes, it was fuck." And aout why Amy and Rory didn't think to hold hands, which he discusses in the DVD commentary.
It then took a mere hour and a half to get through the signing queue. Picture by kind person behind me, who I hopefully managed to likewise photograph on her smartphone. I resisted the temptation to post the one that caught me looking up at the ceiling as the rain really started hammering.
We were at the Book Festival to see Neil Gaiman talk with Audrey Niffenegger about fairytales, how myths decay into fairytales, how characters in fairytales generally only have one defining characteristic - "this character eats people! And you don't really ask why..." and how heroines have to be brave and clever and patient while heroes tend to just inherit things, and about stories getting away with you and how that was informed by ten years writing comics and how "you have let the cool stuff in", and about how Steven Moffat stopped the "hypothetically speaking..." part of the Doctor Who writing conversation "by saying "Oh, Rude Scottish Word it, you know." ... Yes, it was fuck." And aout why Amy and Rory didn't think to hold hands, which he discusses in the DVD commentary.
It then took a mere hour and a half to get through the signing queue. Picture by kind person behind me, who I hopefully managed to likewise photograph on her smartphone. I resisted the temptation to post the one that caught me looking up at the ceiling as the rain really started hammering.
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Date: 2011-08-17 11:06 pm (UTC)