#dwjposting

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Joel Cunningham: This might be internet lore, but I remember reading somewhere that Diana Wynne Jones put you in one of her books.

Neil Gaiman : I’m in Deep Secret as Nick. The scene that Nick eats the breakfast twice is something that Diana and Mary Gentle did to me to amuse themselves one breakfast.

JC: Because you were just that out of it?

NG: I was at a writers’ conference, Milford, this sort of writers’ thing. You had to get up for breakfast because if you didn’t, there was no food until one o’clock when lunch was served. I was fine the first few days, but by Thursday I was getting up in my sleep, going in, and eating these incredibly—

MA: Sleep-eating?

NG: It was, and they were horrible. These greasy, fried eggs that came out in trays. Apparently I would sit there mechanically eating my breakfast and I [one day] finished and Diana and Mary—Mary hadn’t wanted her breakfast because it was so horrible, so she put it in front of me and I carried on eating. And apparently halfway through, I looked up very puzzled and I said, “I’ve eaten this breakfast before and I didn’t like it the first time.”

MA: A horrible déjà vu.

[willowcrowned]

funniest thing about dwjposting on this website is that you can see the exact moment your howell movingcastle post leaves the circle of people who know you’re talking about that welsh fucker. truly instant change from tags calling him a fail king and wanting to switch his $200 purple shampoo for head and shoulders to tags proclaiming their undying cottagecore-themed love for him

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decided to pull all my DWJ books off the shelf to document which ones i have and which ones i still don't have copies of, then put back on the shelf in some semblance of organization (everything got jumbled in the move this summer lolrip) and of course had to take a picture for posterity. jareth wanted to be included as well <3

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Just discovered that my secondhand copy of Everard's Ride is signed 😻 Now I can say I have an autograph from my all time favorite author!

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hold up i just realized that there's only one lettie in howl's moving castle the movie and i'm pretty sure it's the lettie that's actually martha 🤣🤣

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when DWJ said that as a child she insisted that she wasn't going to grow up to be a woman? my queer lil heart felt that. sometimes i wonder how narcissistic is it to look for pieces of myself in every thing that i love? is it vain to look at dwj's life and history and work and think, i wonder what else she would have said about queerness and neurodivergency if she had access to the language we have now? a lot of her characters are actually queer-coded in really subtle ways anyway imo, and she absolutely wrote about characters with learning disabilities as well (with those being more explicit- ex., grundo's dyslexia) anyway i just

the way her worlds work has always just made so much sense to me.