Neil Gaiman Tweeted Me…and Normal People Don’t Care

For those of you who don’t know, back in November Errol and I wrote a musical webseries about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). You can find all the episodes here.

It involved a ton of work that resulted in a lot of sleepless nights and bleary eyed days but it was also a great amount of fun and an experience I will remember for the rest of my life.

One of the songs Errol wrote was called “Neil Gaiman Tweeted Me”. Of course we wrote it for his character and there was a reason in the plot for including this, but it was also a way to chronicle the real life incidence when Neil Gaiman actually tweeted Errol. Errol went rather mad. See the song for proof:

This morning I woke up with about five different notifications on my phone. People were suddenly commenting on the song. I was slightly confused, thinking “that’s nice…I wonder what prompted these new comments” since we had put out the song months ago and traffic had all but halted. Then a new comment came up:

“Ha! Love this. I feel the feels. (Also, Neil Gaiman tweeted this. Meta.)”

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So I checked twitter. And found this had been retweeted by Neil Gaiman:

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This song makes me unreasonably happy. @neilhimself retweets a lot of people How many of them write a song about it? youtube.com/watch?v=4vFWRS…

— Katie Lynn Daniels (@danielskatie) March 30, 2013

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This was just the beginning…

Again, for those that don’t know me, Neil Gaiman is probably my favourite author of anything ever. I’ve been reading his stuff since high school (that’s fifteen years now! Woah!) starting with Neverwhere, plowing through Sandman, and then finishing on his short stories and Anansi Boys. So to see that he saw our song, not just saw it, but retweeted it. Well, it made me Errol Excited. Yes. I’m making that a thing.

I invite anyone and everyone to photoshop a title for this. ERROL EXCITED!

So of course I wanted to do a happy dance and declare it to the world.

There’s just one problem…I’m visiting with family this weekend.

My family are not geeks (save for my Dad, who loves games and Star Trek…I love my dad). I don’t hold this against them. Nor have most of them even seen the musical. Again, I don’t hold it against them, our little musical that could is not everyone’s cup of tea and if I forced my family to endure every single project and play that I’m involved in, I would probably see a decrease in invites to family functions. They love and support me, and that’s always been more than enough.

Unfortunately, it also means that when I get excited about something, I am met with many blank stares and “Oh…that’s nice…” comments. Then they go back to talking about Holmes on Homes.

This resulted in some…pent up excitement. All of which was vented into phone texts. The way I was reacting and tweeting and dancing you’d think Neil Gaiman himself had shown up on my doorstep with steak.

I always seem to end up including food in these posts…

Alas, I am out of town hanging out with a group of people who have barely even heard of twitter or Neil Gaiman let alone followed either.  And so I texted Errol. Then I texted his sister. Then I posted the news on facebook. Then I responded to the youtube comments. Then I told my mom, who had seen the musical and who could actually get a little excited. Then I posted the news to the Nanomusical page. Then I posted it to the weTangent page. Then I texted Errol again. Then I danced a little.

I feel sorry for both my friends and family. I’m still dancing. But now I”m being told I have to finish the dishes. So I”d better do that. Even more hilarious? I was singing Neil Gaiman Tweeted Me and my familiy thought I was making it up as I went along. Poor family. Poor Neil Gaiman. I’m sure the last thing he needed was more fangirling.

Oh yeah! Errol ended up doing the comic about this!

I was actually more excited than this