Midnight Pals: Kitsunes in Love (Patreon)

Neil Gaiman: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the kitsune in love Kij Johnson: oh this sounds great Lafcadio Hearn: AHEM Hearn: i'll be the judge of that Hearn: you baka gaijinGaiman: this is a tale of that ineffable madness that seizes the young and emboldens the old, cruel in its kindness and kind in its cruelty Gaiman: beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty Gaiman: i speak, my friends Gaiman: of love Gaiman: simply love

Gaiman: i speak of love as a singular force spiraling through the cosmos, unemcumbered by modular time Gaiman: love which speaks in gentle tones but will not be denied Gaiman: so powerful as to make a pauper of a king and a king of a pauper

Gaiman: to understand my story, you must remember the feelings of love Gaiman: to feel in the depths of that frenzy, unable to breathe for feelings too big to contain Gaiman: do you understand? can you feel it? King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Gaiman: then i'll begin

Gaiman: so it came to pass in the mysterious cloudlands of the distant east that a kitsune and a badger made a bet- Hearn: IT'S NOT A BADGER YOU BAKA GAIJIN Hearn: IT'S CALLED A TANUKI Hearn: GET IT RIGHT! Hearn: GET IT RIGHT!!!

Yoshitaka Amano: hey i illustrated your story, what do you think? Gaiman: huh, good but Gaiman: could you make the figures more wan? Amano: which ones? Gaiman: oh you know Gaiman: all of them Amano: ok how's this Gaiman: no no Gaiman: more wan