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Fiction helps build empathy. You are making in your head another person who isn’t you and you are looking out through their eyes. In attempting to change people’s minds, that’s incredibly important.

Neil Gaiman, in a 2016 LA Times interview

Fiction helps build empathy. You are making in your head another person who isn’t you and you are looking out through their eyes. In attempting to change people’s minds, that’s incredibly important. Human beings are built to be xenophobic and tribal. We like people like us; people who aren’t like us are dangerous. It made an awful lot of sense back in the caves and back on the plains. It makes less sense now. When we need to find the things we have in common, when we need to see that people who are not like us in some way are still people too, reading is a great tool for that.

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NEIL GAIMAN GETS IT

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prokopetz:

Headcanon: I can muster a cogent argument for why it would make more sense or make for a better story if this were the case

Heartcanon: I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies

Gutcanon: it’s not that I actively want this to be the case – it just unaccountably feels like it should be

Junkcanon: I like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the other kind of warm fuzzies

Spleencanon: I insist that this is the case specifically to spite the author, because, like, fuck you, sir or madam

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winterofherdiscontent:

👻 a haunting tune 

[ been super over worked this past week so i’m pausing my drawlloween prompts for the next two then returning for day 10 which is – lagoon {creature} and for the rest of the prompts through the month ] 

– i combined the prompts: ghost + haunted object from #mabsdrawlloweenclub list for this one  

instagram: @winterofherdiscontent