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rey-jake-therapist · 7 months

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Kids are wonderful.

I bought Neil Gaiman's "Fortunately the milk" for my son. He's 8 years old and it's his first Neil Gaiman's book, but he knows Morpheus because he saw me read the comics.

There's Neil's picture on the inside cover of the book. He's all dressed in black.

When he saw the picture, my son immediately said, "it's funny, he looks very much like the king of dreams and nightmares!"

I smirked and nodded. I never told him I had also noticed that, a while ago.

☺️

#Smart kid #We've been saying Morpheus is Neil's self insert #fortunately the milk #neil gaiman

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myketheguy · 5 months

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Sure, Good Omens and Coraline are good, but have you read

Fortunately, the Milk

You haven’t lived until you have read

Fortunately, the Milk

By

Neil Gaiman

#good omens #coraline #fortunately the milk

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givemegoodomenss3orgivemedeath · 7 months

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"If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads."

Small victory for me!

I recently finished "Fortunately the milk" by Neil Gaiman.

It's not much you'll tell me, and you're probably right, but it should be noted that I'm french, and it was the very first book I read in english.

So I checked a dream off my bucket list: to read an entire book in english.

I must therefore thank Neil Gaiman, and especially the recent discovery of Good Omens (that I adore), which made me want to get back to english and take lessons again, almost 25 years after my last lessons in high school.

And as I want to continue discovering Neil's other books, I bought a few, still in english, and I'm going to build on my momentum.

#fortunately the milk #neil gaiman #neil gaiman books #bookcase #proud of myself #good omens #chris riddell #bookshelf

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aaravos-answers · 7 months

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We all know why Viren chose not to do the spell, if he dies it's like the equivalent of my dad going to get the milk and never coming back, now you gotta deal with Sparklepuff

Incredibly rude of him, yes.

Wait, sorry, one moment. Your father did what?

#aaravos answers #ask #anonymous #mod bee #fortunately the milk #???

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smallhandedartist · 3 months

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I had to find a kids book for a class (I genuinely could not tell you what for, nor could the teacher, probably) and I was digging though my bookshelf to find my old kids books. And then I found this

He's fucking everywhere.

#neil gaiman #fortunately the milk #good omens #Hes in my house

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godzilla-reads · 2 years

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We’ve got a lot of… uh… Neil Gaiman here.

I might be on a collection roll….

Top to Bottom

🤍 Fortunately, the Milk

🤍 Art Matters (with Chris Riddell)

🤍 M is for Magic

🤍 Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)

🤍 Neverwhere

🤍 Smoke & Mirrors

🤍 Trigger Warning

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picturebookshelf · 10 months

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Fortunately, the Milk

Story: Neil Gaiman -- Art: Chris Riddell Original Edition: 2013 -- This Edition: 2015

#fortunately the milk #neil gaiman #chris riddell #dinosaurs #vampires #pirates #this book really has it all #2010s #10s #kidlit #children's literature #kid books #children's books #children's novels #kid novels

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khorazir · 2 years

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Three Fics Tag Game

Thanks a lot to @meetinginsamarra for tagging me.

My most popular fic (by hits and kudos): Enigma

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1991325/chapters/4313418

My WW2/Codebreaker AU set partly at Bletchley Park where Sherlock is a codebreaker, featuring a murder investigation, espionage, mysteries, and Sherlock falling in love with Navy officer John Watson. Written over the span of four years, this story is my most ambitious work so far as it required a lot of research and more story plotting than originally anticipated.

Hidden Gem #1: The Summer Boy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8460733/chapters/19382227

A hommage to Sir Terry Pratchett and particularly his Tiffany Aching novels, this story linking Sherlock’s past and present is set near the mysterious Chanctonbury Ring on the South Downs in Sussex. Probably my most personal work.

Hidden Gem #2: Fortunately the Milk

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1015760/chapters/2017246

A short, silly fic inspired by Neil Gaiman’s story with the same title describing that one time Sherlock set out to buy milk ...

Since I don’t know who’s been tagged already, please feel free to post your three fics if you like.

#three fics tag game #sherlock #fanfic #johnlock #enigma #summer boy #fortunately the milk

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 11 months

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JOMP BPC - June 18th - Favourite Book Dad

I love the dad in Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman 😂 such a wonderful, fun, underrated book of his

#fortunately the milk #neil gaiman #justonemorepage #jompbpc #trcc original #booklr #bookblr #portraits

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samayla · 7 months

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So I'm walking a class of 8 year olds down the hall after reading the "wumpire" scene in Neil Gaiman's wonderfully chaotic "Fortunately, the Milk."

There's a bit of whispering and indistinct muttering in the line behind me. Not a big deal, as long as they don't disturb the classrooms we're walking past. We're running late, so I keep going.

A fellow staff member gives me the weirdest look.

Another look from a high school student.

A middle schooler stifles a giggle.

I turn around to see fully half the class following me on cartoonishly exaggerated tiptoe, hands clawed in the air, fangs bared, hissing things like, "Ve are wumpires!" or "Ve eat viggly vorms!" on repeat.

#neil gaiman #fortunately the milk #i love this book so much💕#teaching #kids

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carriagelamp · 1 year

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The books I read while clinging to sanity by my fingertips. I didn't get enough read during either month to warrant their own posts, I was just too busy and way too stressed, so here's my November and December reads combined.

The Animal Rescue Agency: Cast File: Little Claws

I’ve been on an Eliot Schrefer kick, though so far I haven’t read anything that topped Queer Ducks for me. This was a very cute youth novel about the dashing Esquire Fox, who runs the Animal Rescue Agency, who are sworn to help any animal in need. In this first case, Esquire — and her fussy rooster friend, Mr Pepper — find themselves adventuring out into the arctic to rescue a baby polar bear from a sinister poacher.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

I’ve seen this book celebrated but didn’t really know much about it. I bought it on a whim, wanting something cosy to read, and it delivered. It’s a collection of little passages that form a loose narrative, and is centred around being a positive, uplifting view of life. It occasionally feels a little trite, but ultimately if you’re willing to take it for what it is without being overly critical, it was a very charming experience. It has an old-fashioned Winnie-the-Pooh vibe, and the artistry of each page is lovely, so combining that with very gentle and loving affirmations it makes a nice book to sit under a blanket and read on a rainy day.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

My mom found her old, original copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from when she was a kid, and since this was something I had been meaning to read for years I decided now was the time. You can definitely see Ian Fleming’s fingerprints all over it — who doesn’t love a cool, gadget-y, semi-sentient car in a battle against horrible mobsters? Add some explosions, a bit of flying, and a sweet shop theft, it really is a fun little adventure. Very different from the film, but both are good in their own unique ways.

A Christmas Carol

I love reading a Christmas novel in December but it was way too busy for me to do anything new or complex this year, so I decided to reread A Christmas Carol. You really can’t go wrong with it, Dicken’s turns of phrase and the way he portrays humanity is wonderful and it just pulls you right in. It’s such a quick, fun read that I really do recommend anyone who enjoys the films to give it a try — it’s not as intimidating as it might seem.

Failed Princesses v6

Finally, the last volume of the series! It was very overdramatic but in a quintessentially shoujo way. If you’ve ever wanted an almost cliche shoujo, but with lesbians, then this is the series for you. It starts with two very different girls — a prep and a nerd, essentially — finding themselves pushed together and slowly developing a friendship as they try to understand the other’s point of view and way of living life. As the series progresses, so do their feelings for one another.

Fortunately, the Milk

An absolutely hilarious novella about a father and his excuses for being a little late getting home from the shop with the milk his kids need for breakfast. Obviously it’s not because he got chatting with a friend, no, he was definitely dedicatedly on his way home, absolutely determined to save his children’s milk-less breakfast, only to be abducted by aliens… and it gets sillier from there. A very fast, very adorable read; it had me grinning the whole way through.

The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog

This was a series I remember loving as a kid but haven’t seen since. I stumbled across the first book again and decided to see if it stood up to what I remembered. In some ways it very much did! It’s about Hank, a cowdog who takes his job as Head Of Ranch Security very seriously… but unfortunately does have the intelligence of an average dog and more often than not gets himself into a lot of fuss and bother. It’s a fun mystery adventure, written to mimic a jaded private eye and the humour that a child might miss comes through for any adults reading it. Unfortunately, they’re portrayal of First Nations oh, sorry, I mean coyotes, is seriously very, very uncomfy. Like, deeply racist. So… probably wouldn’t recommend, leave it as a childhood memory.

Nintendo Adventure Books: Leaping Lizards

My brother has an old copy of a Nintendo choose your own adventure book so we decided to sit down and play it over the holidays. Written in the Super Mario Bros 3 era, this book is just completely buckwild, and the results of your choices are completely bizarre. Did it make sense? No. Was it well written? Also no. Did we laugh a lot while reading it though? Yes, it was a blast.

Orphaned

More Eliot Schrefer. This story is about a young gorilla named Snub, who lived back in prehistoric Africa and had never seen a human before… until catastrophe strikes and she finds herself separated from her family and forced to care for her little brother as these strange human creatures stalk the trees. But when Snub sees the humans violently cast out one of their own, she has a challenging decision to make. Schrefer really seems to know what he’s talking about when it comes to animals, and I like how this book is handled. It’s not a “talking animal” book, and he does a great job of portraying the world as a young gorilla like Snub might perceive it.

My Father’s Dragon

It’s been turned into a Netflix film, so of course I had to go find the book before watching the movie. The book was charming, and had that very classic 1940s kidlit vibe. Did not bother explaining any of the weirdness, just a had a fun time taking you on an adventure to Wild Island, where the narrator’s father sets about with only his cunning and a strange mishmash of supplies to try to rescue a young dragon who had been enslaved by the other animals.

Prince of Song & Sea

I was hesitant about this book — I was never a huge Little Mermaid fan and every Disney prequel, sequel, triquel is wearing on me — but I’m pretty much willing to follow Linsey Miller wherever she intends to go. And I was pleased that I did. This book focuses on the story of Disney’s Little Mermaid as told from Prince Eric’s point of view, but with a bunch of new world building and twists built into it. In this version, Ursula is a much more pervasive and threatening force, and Eric has to figure out how to protect his little kingdom from encroaching threats, fend off the increasing pirate threat, and deal with his own curse that is related to his mother’s early death. Honestly, my main complaint is that it is inherently Disney. The weakest parts of the book came from Miller’s interesting characters and lore bump up against the “pre-rendered” Disney scenes — they didn’t always mesh that well and it left me floundering occasionally. Honestly, it made me wish this was just a pure re-imagining without the movie baggage at all. But! I can’t fault anyone from getting that ~*Sweet Disney Money*~ and I honestly don’t think anyone could have handled this better. I enjoyed reading it.

The Hound of the Baskervilles // The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Well, my last month has been, in a world, hell. So we’ve returned to the ultimate comfort media: Sherlock Holmes. I reread Hound and The Return of Sherlock Holmes and I’ll probably be continuing with this into the New Year because my personal hell doesn’t look like it’s gonna let up any time soon.

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ineffablemossy · 8 months

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I may have birthed a demon child

We went to the library this afternoon. It has a huge kids section. I went to browse and came back 10 mins later to this:

If that's not demon sitting I don't know what is.

Oh and in case you're wondering. The book he picked up is:

Fortunately, The Milk

By Neil Gaimen

I am so surprised. This lil ND kid doesn't read much. He got into Dogman a few years ago but nothing's really clicked since then.

By the time he wanted to leave he was a 1/4 of the way through. And read more at bedtime!

Thank you Neil <3

Thank Somebody for libraries <3

But yeah also this child does not know how chairs work

#books & libraries #public libraries #libraries are the dogs bollocks #libraries are for everyone #neil gaiman #fortunately the milk #demon sitting #cuteness #reading #kids #parenting #personal post #how do chairs work

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a-ramblinrose · 1 year

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || April 22 || Three Word Title: Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

#Fortunately the Milk #Neil Gaiman #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos #bpc catch up

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lexie-squirrel · 2 years

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#иллюстрации #Fortunately the Milk

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runningoutofbooks · 1 year

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I was talking about how some of the books that I read are so short I’m not sure if I should count them towards me reading goal and I said, “I finished Fortunately, The Milk in 40 minutes. That book is like 100 pages soaking wet” like the addition of water would make a book longer

#sometimes I don’t make any sense #reading #reading goals #and yes I’m still going to count it towards my reading goal #I’ve read 80 books so far this year #fortunately the milk #neil gaiman

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godzilla-reads · 2 years

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One of my favorite books:

🥛 Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

“There was only orange juice in the fridge. Nothing else that you could put on cereal , unless you think that ketchup or mayonnaise or pickle juice would be nice on your Toastios, which I do not, and neither did my little sister, although she has eaten some pretty weird things in her day, like mushrooms in chocolate.”

#godzilla reads #fortunately the milk #Neil Gaiman #books and flowers #book quotes #middle grade books #reading #favorite books #book blog #book blurb #bookworm

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