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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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... so anyway I finally got to see Macbeth

................ I was Not Prepared for how lifechanging it would be

............................... still recovering&at a loss for words but probably going to rant about it in the next few days

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i wonder what it's like to be emotionally stable. anyways [thinks about fictional characters to survive] i am fine

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ever think about uhhhh the parallells between crowley being rejected by god for asking questions and then uhhhhhh he asked Theeee question of all time (6,000 years) to aziraphale and

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Interview with Scarlett

Scarlett, an alleged victim of Neil Gaiman (the nanny in New Zealand), was interviewed for a Sept. 14 article by Julie Bindel. Bindel is known for her transphobia, so many (including me) are choosing not to circulate the article in full, but I felt that Scarlett's own words are important to read. I excerpted those passages here.

"When I spoke to Scarlett last week, she told me how it felt impossible to not be impressed by Gaiman’s fame and status, while at the same time not feeling at all sexually attracted or drawn to him. “I’ve never read any of his books,” Scarlett tells me. “He just talked about himself all the time.”

For Scarlett, “Gaiman’s superfans somehow seem to think that they have personally been betrayed by the allegations because they see him as sharing their own tick-box ‘progressive’ values,” she told me. “It’s beyond belief for me that people just aren’t acknowledging that a man in his sixties has admitted that he got into the bath with his 23-year-old employee within the first few hours that they met.”

Scarlett, as with the other women who have come forward, was vulnerable at the time she met Gaiman, and, as she describes it, “desperate for love”. “Pretending to myself I had fallen for him was a way to kind of trick myself to think that I had not been sexually exploited,” she said.

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How did the big corporations who profit from Gaiman’s work respond? While Disney and Netflix quietly paused their Gaiman adaptations, it took Amazon until last week to announce that filming of the final series of Good Omens had been halted due to the allegations. “I may be cynical,” Scarlett told me, “but I don’t imagine that Amazon or Disney have paused production because they altruistically care about allegations of abuse. Amazon and Disney have likely suspended production because they are a business, and the only thing that drives a business is cost. This is about cash and not care.”

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Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver

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this bronze medallist dilf has never missed doesn't miss and shall never miss

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#If you're looking for me, don't. David Tennant just killed me.

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David Tennant looking gorgeous on the red carpet for the BAFTAs this afternoon... (anyone else thinking another nod to Crowley, this time plants instead of stars??)

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    Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,”

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The pinnacle of my self indulgence, regency era Crowley

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(original post by @mansku11 which i think about every day of my life)

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His slutty walk and transgender swag have bewitched me, body and soul

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Once again asking why there was a music festival at the edge of the world's largest open air prison where people were dancing and partying while people were being starved and imprisoned so close to them. How is that a "peaceful" festival.

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Headmaster Aziraphale Fell struggles to contain his attraction to former classmate turned rock star Anthony Crowley - now teaching music at their old school.

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I felt the urge to draw aziracrow drinking tea from samovar 🥺

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Happy Friday! I'm writing this with a cat sat on my chest which means I, of course, cannot move. It's the law or something.

I love making these, but life is getting busier so I'm going to move to posting once a week instead of twice. In the meantime, enjoy!

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