In Hindsight

That's exactly what I meant. Oh, there are so many of these scattered through the last 3 years of Tumblr posts.

It’s really stunning. When it came to casting Brant Tucker I knew I needed someone who could act, and narrate, and narrate while acting. The Worlds’ End storyline relies completely on whether or not he can pull off the final description of the procession and make you believe it. I thought of Wil first, asked him, and then spent about 18 months hoping he’d pulled it off as well as I had hoped he would. He did.

If it's anything, it's nepotism from a long dead bulletin board called GEnie. When I turned up there in 1992 (I'd just moved to the US. You couldn't get into GEnie from the UK) I joined the SF Forum. I looked in the comics Forum and saw that there was a Sandman discussion topic thread, started a few years earlier by ROQ LOBSTER (if I remember correctly). That was Wil. So I knew he existed and was a Sandman fan back then. And when I met Roger Avary he sent me a film he'd made called Mr Stitch, that Wil starred in. And after that we had blogs at the same time, and I wrote the original introduction to Wil's book Just a Geek, because he asked. So the Tumblr connection at this point is almost incidental. I like that we use Tumblr in different ways, too.

I love this exchange so much.  I love that these two, Wil Wheaton and Neil Gaiman, are on tumblr even more!

I can not overstate what a privilege and pleasure it is to know Neil and call him my friend. Just ... I look up to him so much, and I have for decades, so this means a lot to me.