Interesting thoughts on character from Neil Gaiman’s Ask Box

paperlanternlit:

Would you agree that characters in any story don’t need to be likeable, they just have to be interesting?

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I would. And they do not actually have to be interesting: they have to keep the author and the reader interested, which is slightly different.

Mr Pooter, in George and Weedon Grossmith’s Diary of a Nobody is neither particularly likable nor in any way interesting, except to himself. But reading his diary is a delight.

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schwarze-katzeasked:

hey! this is lauren from bakeddd. just wanted to let you know i posted some chocolate mousse cake recipes like you requested :)

Thank you so, so much! I appreciate it (and I hope bro will, too)!!!

studio-ghibli-animations:

You who swallowed a star, oh heartless man.

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Wow. Never knew what he was saying.

ananinou:

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Cigarettes and chocolate milk

These are just a couple of my cravings

Everything, it seems, I like’s a little bit stronger,

A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

If I should buy jellybeans

Have to eat them all in just one sitting

Everything, it seems, I like’s a little bit sweeter,

A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me

And then there’s those other things

Which for several reasons we won’t mention

Everything about them is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder

A little bit deadly

It isn’t very smart

Tends to make one part

So brokenhearted

Sitting here remembering me

Always been a shoe made for the city

Go ahead, accuse me of just singing about places

Or scrappy boy’s faces have general run out of town

Playing with prodigal sons

Takes a lot of sentimental valiums

Can’t expect the world to be your raggedy andy

While running on empty, you little old doll with a frown

You got to keep in the game

Retaining mystique while facing forward

I suggest a reading of a lesson in tightropes

Or surfing your high hopes of adios kansas

It isn’t very smart

Tends to make one part

So brokenhearted

Still there’s not a show on my back

Holes or a friendly intervention

I’m just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish

A little bit… Tower of Pisa

Whenever I see ya

So please be kind… if I’m a mess

Cigarettes and chocolate milk, cigarettes and chocolate milk