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I haven’t posted on my blog in a while, but this has been on my mind so much lately that I want to add something.

The thing is, I’m so conflicted about Michael Sheen tweeting in celebration of the Season 2 anniversary, and I would have really liked to have seen some discussion about it on tumblr (I’ve only seen a couple of posts that didn’t really gain traction). Because — *does* it count as “silence” if you’re kind of actively pretending nothing happened/is happening? What kind of a silence is it? Even if the tweet was supposed to be something like “wanting to celebrate art only, and not the artist”, it was too vague for that to clearly be the case, and came out on the same day that new allegations were made public. Which, ok, that specific date was the anniversary, but to me it just felt kind of tone-deaf, and it definitely resulted in a lot of content on here that felt like we were in a world in which nothing at all had happened (at least from what I’ve seen), and it just felt really weird. And at this point… I just don’t know if I care about being gracious towards the way he went about it, and excusing it in my head.

I guess time will tell where he or David Tennant stand, but I’m kind of dejected and feel that it just might be a taste of things to come…because I have a hard time seeing a scenario other than:

a) the show gets cancelled and they move on, saying or not saying anything based on how the situation unfolds and how accepted it becomes to say something or not

or,

b) the third season gets made, they need to do interviews for it, and they go along with it as usual and talk about how amazing Neil Gaiman is as a writer and as a creative and so on — which was a huge aspect of PR for both Season 1 and 2.

I just feel like a hypothetical scenario in which Neil Gaiman’s work gets produced into a TV show that the studio wants to have an audience for, but is simultaneously trying to distance from him in interviews, even though he still would have written and helmed it during the making of S3 and post the allegations…it’s too complicated to succeed in a PR context? Especially when, as I said, so much of the interviews for previous seasons were in a large part focused on the significance of Neil Gaiman as the show’s writer and showrunner. Or is it possible they just won’t do promo for it…? Or could they publicly say something against him and then just continue working on his project…? But how would that make sense?

But that’s just my question…IF I choose to think it’s just professional courtesy on their part to go along with these standard talking points, to continue working on the project and collaborate with him after all this… Is it still silence? Or what does silence from them as public figures mean on top of these things they have to do as actors hired to work on his project?

And don’t get me wrong, nothing would make me happier than to see them publicly support the victims, especially now that more and more of them are voicing their experiences of abuse. A part of me is so upset about all of this that I literally want them to announce they are leaving Good Omens all together, and to just go scorched earth on Neil Gaiman. But, yes, contracts and obligations…it’s not a thing that I know a lot about, but if that’s a factor, then I don’t see how the situation could play out in a way that won’t be either disappointing or frustrating, unless the entire show is just cancelled.

But who knows what will happen… Still, I would really love to hear people’s opinions, and I’m kind of sad that there hasn’t been more discussion around this (even though I understand it’s a turbulent time, and in many ways too early to tell how the media response/coverage will turn out).

I didn't think that we would still have to remind people that David Tennant and Michael Sheen don't owe us an explanation for Neil's actions. They are under no obligation to speak up, comment on it or discuss the situation publicly. Chances are they knew as much about it as we did a little over a month ago. Being quiet about it is not weird or suspicious. It's none of their business.

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I'm crying my eyes out

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WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THERES A CYAN HEART EMOJI NOW 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 ARE YOU SEEING THIS 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵LOOK🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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every opera production would be made funnier/possibly better if you had one of the characters give a powerpoint presentation

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Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

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✨It's time✨

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open a new window somewhere in the world. 

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you go to block a porn bot and it has a picture of you as its icon

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what if a rat said cheesus christ

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casting a spell of finish your wip rb to pass it on

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“AI art isn’t real art” boring, pedantic, relies on defining the undefinable and an ever changing goalpost of what Real Art is.

“AI art is fueled by massive art theft” correct, concrete demonstration of the harm it’s doing to actual human beings and not just the nebulous concept of Art Itself.

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me remembering niche bits of lore about my mutuals