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“I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am - the special ones, the wise ones, sometimes just the ones who got there first.”

— Neil Gaiman

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Edendale strategies ramping up the PR machine again

Ew i just saw a victim-blaming sponsored post on my tumblr dashboard to defend Neil Gaiman. :/

Interesting that a "Neil Gaiman fan" who is a survivor of rape would pay money to make this post more visible as a sponsored ad. Would any actual survivor fight this hard to try to discredit other survivors? I really hope not

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It's possible they were just renting then. It doesn't really matter either way. My point is they're never going to willingly return to NZ for questioning.

The NZ police do not want to pursue the case. Unfortunately, this means money is the only way to punish someone like Neil. Taking him to court will also make more evidence publicly available through discovery. That's why he'll try to settle. I think Scarlett has exactly that kind of rage you mention, personally.

But I also disagree the "real ones never stop". Sometimes you just want to forget and move on with your life, rather than be victimised again and again. People react to trauma in different ways.

There's several other victims who are not suing him (yet). These women did not know each other. They're all different ages. Some of allegations happened decades ago. Then there's also the Whisper Network that has existed around him for decades. Amanda too.

Plus, even the behaviour Neil has admitted to is just awful. The absolute best case scenario is he regularly befriends and sleeps with young fans, engages in "BDSM" without prior consent or a safeword (confirmed even by women who consensually slept with him), and propositions women who are reliant on him for employment. and housing.

Oh Neil is being sued by someone anon?

The USA is the land of delulu where they think if they sick a lawyer on someone to intimidate them into doing something it will motivate them to make it go away

The whole Mafia style intimidation......

Do people in the USA realize that it's literally one of the only countries in the world where you can litigate like that?

You can't even do that in my country unless a law has been violated, the crime has been proven in an evidentiary court of law, and you are seeking compensatory damages

I hope he counter sues

Isn't it amazing how all of this came out right around the time he was renegotiating the terms for season three of his latest program....... And then for some weird reason it got cancelled?

Yeah that's not suspicious at all

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I admire your optimism. Unfortunately, police forces are often lacking the resources to pursue rape cases and so they rarely go to court, and even rarer still result in prosecution. Especially when the defendants have refused questioning and left the country the crime was committed in. I expect they'll quietly sell their NZ property in due time and never step foot in that country again.

There are also ongoing criminal investigations in the UK and the US too. CPS might also be involved due to some of this allegedly occurring in front of Gaiman's child.

Oh Neil is being sued by someone anon?

The USA is the land of delulu where they think if they sick a lawyer on someone to intimidate them into doing something it will motivate them to make it go away

The whole Mafia style intimidation......

Do people in the USA realize that it's literally one of the only countries in the world where you can litigate like that?

You can't even do that in my country unless a law has been violated, the crime has been proven in an evidentiary court of law, and you are seeking compensatory damages

I hope he counter sues

Isn't it amazing how all of this came out right around the time he was renegotiating the terms for season three of his latest program....... And then for some weird reason it got cancelled?

Yeah that's not suspicious at all

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Dear lord...

Oh Neil is being sued by someone anon?

The USA is the land of delulu where they think if they sick a lawyer on someone to intimidate them into doing something it will motivate them to make it go away

The whole Mafia style intimidation......

Do people in the USA realize that it's literally one of the only countries in the world where you can litigate like that?

You can't even do that in my country unless a law has been violated, the crime has been proven in an evidentiary court of law, and you are seeking compensatory damages

I hope he counter sues

Isn't it amazing how all of this came out right around the time he was renegotiating the terms for season three of his latest program....... And then for some weird reason it got cancelled?

Yeah that's not suspicious at all

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She is indeed being advised by a US lawyer. That's not surprising, seeing as she is suing him in the US. The country in which Neil currently resides.

I can't claim to be familiar with NZ civil court but nothing in this link mentions the requirement for a criminal conviction.

Oh so you were talking about The Sandman, rather than Good Omens. The Sandman also wasn't in negotiation in July. At that point, S2 was in post-production. Netflix almost never renews for another season until after airing, as their main metric for renewal is viewing figures. The crew already suspected it S2 would be the last season and had planned it to be such before the allegations came out.

The idea this is a smear campaign by Netflix is... A first, I've got to say. So you're saying Netflix has found women connected to Gaiman over a 30 year period and... What exactly? Paid them to lie about him sexually assaulting them? But then how would that explain the messages, emails and voice notes. And the NDAs. This is a very grand conspiracy over what wasn't even that high of a performing show by Netflix's standards.

Sorry, but I did also see your previous post that you have only just discovered the allegations a few hours before you made this post. I really think you need to read up more carefully on them. I think you're in the denial stage a lot of us were in back in July.

Oh Neil is being sued by someone anon?

The USA is the land of delulu where they think if they sick a lawyer on someone to intimidate them into doing something it will motivate them to make it go away

The whole Mafia style intimidation......

Do people in the USA realize that it's literally one of the only countries in the world where you can litigate like that?

You can't even do that in my country unless a law has been violated, the crime has been proven in an evidentiary court of law, and you are seeking compensatory damages

I hope he counter sues

Isn't it amazing how all of this came out right around the time he was renegotiating the terms for season three of his latest program....... And then for some weird reason it got cancelled?

Yeah that's not suspicious at all

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It was not around the time he was renegotiating for S3. Not sure why that'd even be relevant even if it was.

Suing someone in civil court is something you can do in many countries.

He is welcome to counter sue but I doubt he will. He'll want to avoid court altogether by settling. He does not want more evidence to get out.

Oh Neil is being sued by someone anon?

The USA is the land of delulu where they think if they sick a lawyer on someone to intimidate them into doing something it will motivate them to make it go away

The whole Mafia style intimidation......

Do people in the USA realize that it's literally one of the only countries in the world where you can litigate like that?

You can't even do that in my country unless a law has been violated, the crime has been proven in an evidentiary court of law, and you are seeking compensatory damages

I hope he counter sues

Isn't it amazing how all of this came out right around the time he was renegotiating the terms for season three of his latest program....... And then for some weird reason it got cancelled?

Yeah that's not suspicious at all

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Not the only one

am I the only one who's sad we haven't seen michael??? it's been a blast analyzing david's hair for a whole week but I expected to see both of them and their hair

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It's a reference to Rivals, I'm pretty sure, with a Scottish twist. Tony Baddingham wears a very similar cut suit but pinstripe.

I don't hate the tartan suit but the the long line of the jacket alongside the wide trouser does give it a 'child raiding their parents wardrobe' vibe

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Casanova

what was the first DT role you watched? excluding nativity 2, mine was actually inside man??? which I know is a bit weird

(sorry I don't want to add too many options)

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Might be the first time I've felt excited about anything Good Omens in over 6 months.

I live in Edinburgh and went to spy on the Good Omens filming location today. I come bearing GIFTS for the fandom. Spoilers after the jump!

(The photo with the red arrow on it is pointing to Derek Jacobi aka Metatron behind an umbrella, I wasn’t quick enough on the draw)

Edit: apparently tumblr only allows you to share one video so post has been updated with the better of my two featuring DT!

@fuckyeahgoodomens

@goodomensafterdark

@whickberstreetwriters

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Quite a clever way to completely disavow Neil without explicitly having to say anything.

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Reblogging because I'm still seeing so many people burying their heads in the sand regarding Neil's involvement, or possibly they genuinely do not know.

I am not telling people not to watch GO. But let's avoid the silliness of pretending Neil had nothing to do with GO. It is not all Terry's, even though he did write the bulk of the novel. Good Omens would not exist without Neil. The show certainly would never have been made without him, and Terry, unfortunately, had very little to do with it due to his passing. We cannot change this reality.

Nor has he been completely removed from GO3. Although it is my hope the Pratchett Estate might be able to do something similar to the graphic novel so he will no longer get royalties (although this will likely involve a one-time payout). But that has not happened yet (and it might not ever happen).

Hey, fam, just FYI that even though Gaiman isn't the showrunner for GO3 anymore, he still owns the IP and therefore still gets a bunch of credits and will still be paid for his work on the show.

More info at this link, with receipts: https://www.reddit.com/r/neilgaiman/comments/1i6s6yk/neils_involvement_with_amazon/

Gaiman will continue to get residuals from all three seasons of GO and from any other show that has already been produced as long as they are streaming or broadcast anywhere. Presumably he will also continue to get royalties from sales of his books, along with advances for anything that anyone publishes in the future, assuming anyone still wants to publish his stuff at all.

Streaming any show Gaiman worked for, including GO3, will give more money to Gaiman. Buying Gaiman's books will give more money to Gaiman.

It's not possible to divest Gaiman of his own intellectual property, no matter how much we might want to do so. If you want to avoid supporting him financially, you need to not stream the shows or buy any more of his writing.

Please note that I'm not telling people that they shouldn't stream the shows or buy the books. It's up to each of us as individuals to decide whether or how we want to interact with Gaiman's work going forward.

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Dafuq is this? So blatant.

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Dafuq is this? So blatant.

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"She first learned of the assaults in October 2023 and did nothing with them for several months"

I hold no love for Rachel Johnson - and this is an embarrassment of an article- but I must clarify this point. The Tortoise podcast team spent those 9 months researching and wading through the potential legal issues. That's just how long these stories take. Look at the Vulture article, which took around 7 months (and had the benefit of previous research done by Tortoise to work off). There's also several other articles in the works that are still not ready for publication.

I can assure you it had nothing to do with the UK election. Neil Gaiman is not that politically important.

Do I wish Rachel Johnson was not attached to this story? Absolutely. At the same time, regardless of her actual motivations, she is the first journalist Scarlett approached who actually pursued it.

This is absolutely despicable. Rachel Johnson, who put out the Tortoise podcast last year that first addressed the allegations against Neil, now says that she didn't want Neil to be "cancelled" and admits there was an agenda behind the podcast after all.

To be clear, the concerns people expressed last summer did not and have never had anything to do with the allegations themselves, or not believing the survivors. It is crucial and imperative to believe survivors, but believing survivors does not mean that the people presenting these stories have good intentions. It felt like these stories were being sensationalized/treated as true crime "entertainment" instead of being taken seriously, and sadly this article confirms that those suspicions were merited.

What Rachel has done here is center herself instead of the survivors. Not only is she now defending Neil, she states in the article that she first learned of the assaults in October of 2023 and did nothing with them for several months. And in doing so, she has made it clear that when the podcast was released (on the eve of a UK general election) and how it was presented was entirely intentional and aligned with a TERF specific, transphobic agenda.

This is what many of us feared, and it seems that those fears have now been realized.

Since the release of the Vulture article, Neil has (rightfully) been excoriated and cancelled. It should never have even been necessary for the survivors to give such detailed accounts of their ordeals, but we now unfortunately see why it was. Rachel Johnson's comments and the Tortoise podcast now stand to undermine the survivors and the Vulture article alike, and it is beyond shameful and disgraceful...

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I think the real reason they haven't posted any hair pictures yet is because they're being respectful in the wake of the Vulture article and/or aware drawing attention to the filming could receive negative backlash.

We'll see the hair eventually. Just give it time. It's not even been a fortnight since that horrific article.