#cw: Neil Gaiman

[badaziraphaletakes]

NO GOS3 UNLESS N*IL G*IMAN IS GONE!

Cannot stress this strongly enough. To whoever is watching and analyzing these things to make a decision: We want a Season 3 WITHOUT N*IL G*IMAN.

[ecc-poetry]

Find a Google doc version of this poem here.

For a plain text version (no footnotes), see below the cut.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE WARNED (OR: INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT OF NEIL GAIMAN, HEREAFTER "DECEDENT")

prepared by Elisa Chavez 

I.  Do you know how much beauty there is in the world that you didn't create?

II.  The whole time, I wanted to put my hands to the screen to stop you coming through. In 2007 while you squirreled away another victim, I met you in San Diego. Asked a question. She and I were both 18 that year,  our hair and skin the same shade and more in common with each other than we'd ever have with you. But of course, I didn't know that. Then.

III.  I have read your poems.

Yikes.

If you understand you have failed, and if you pretend not to understand you have also failed. Eating is not sacrifice. Even birds know how to mimic. For years I wished I'd never seen those poems of yours, but I couldn't forget what they taught me: your hollow. Your knowinglessness.

IV.  Some of us are starting to feel like all these stories that gleamed stardust were really bits of ground-up glass you tricked us into swallowing. This is complicated by knowing that watching us swallow ground-up glass would probably get you off. When I cut myself on something in my house, the blood is scarlet. Once I stepped on a pin, saw an inch of it vanish in the meat of my big toe, and all I thought was, That's got to come out.

V.  Other men got to me, of course, which I think is my point: Even at your worst, you are replaceable.

VI.  In the forest, just past the thorned-over castle where the princess sleeps, there is a woman. Do not rape her. Turn left, where there is another woman. Do not rape her either.

Do not trust the you that breaks the wishbone of no between his fingers and spells success with it. Do not trust the little chorus you raised up from radishes.

Sometimes the act of handing out instructions demonstrates why they will not work.

VII.  Don't worry. Most of us will outlive you, and then we'll get to tell the story. I'm drafting your eulogy as we speak: It's an anthology  of tricks women learned to survive you,  how they chewed through your paper cages to hold each other, how they are putting out new leaves.

VIII.  I get my mushrooms from the supermarket  or the farmer's stand. I am not a myth about creation. Just like you are a master of holding the truth underwater until it stops moving. You ghost. You could strip a thousand women and you still wouldn't have anything.

[ingravinoveritas]

I'm going to say this as kindly as I can, but it's already gone too far. For at least the past week--since filming on GO 3 started, but even before then--there has been a nonstop demand for hair dye pics from fans. In particular, I have seen comments on Georgia and Anna's dedicated posts on Insta over and over harassing them about hair dye pictures. (This is not even including comments on stories, which we can't see publicly unless they share them, and how many of those likely involve requests for hair dye pictures.)

All of this in the wake of the Vulture article being published, and the sudden disappearance of discourse around Neil's actions in tandem with a resurgence of discourse around GO 3 filming. And what I have not seen is any consideration or discussion of how this could be affecting Georgia and Anna. They knew Neil, albeit in a different capacity than David and Michael. They worked with Neil on that Dream of a Thousand Cats bonus episode of Sandman, and had at least a professional relationship with him. Yet everyone expects them to jump enthusiastically into GO 3, regardless of whether they've had time to process or grieve, or how they might actually feel about the show themselves.

I genuinely do not think that Georgia or Anna are "teasing" the fans or "playing" with us, at least not in the way people seem to think. I think they are fed up at this point (and rightfully so) and truly don't care if fans are upset about not having hair dye pictures. And I think the difficulty that some fans have with seeing this stems from an inability to see Georgia and Anna as individuals/judge them by their own actions, but instead as extensions of David and Michael. All four of these people might (and likely do) have vastly different feelings about Good Omens/this entire situation, and this behavior from the fandom has a good chance of making Georgia and Anna resent the show and the fans more than anything else.

When it comes down to it--and as difficult as it might be to accept--we are just not going to get the behind the scenes tidbits or posts that we got for the first two seasons. The circumstances now are much more complex, and there are many more reasons for everyone involved to stay quiet/on the down low regarding production--especially given that legally speaking, there are likely major restrictions on what can/can't be shared on social media. And if/when the day comes that something can be shared, hopefully it will be from the guys themselves, when they are ready and able to do so. Until then, and unless the goal is to make them stop engaging with the fandom for good, let's please leave Georgia and Anna alone...

[ilivebyshipping]

I'm so tired of ppl complaining about season 3 only having 90 mins.

Is it enough?

No. Absolutely not.

But it's better than what most queer show fandoms get. After the Neil Gaiman accusations I was sure we wouldn't get anything. Can you guys imagine GO ending at that kiss? Beacause that was a very real possibility, so yeah, 90 mins will have to do.

[e-rated-beardo]

Do we need another voice added to the conversation about The Thing? I guess it can't hurt.

I have about every feeling on Earth. I'm frustrated it's going to be shorter than we thought. I'm wary, because we've all learnt this year that a green light can be un-green-lit with no warning. I'm so relieved they've removed That Guy. I'm relieved we're getting something. I'm angry that That Guy had to secretly be a shit (judging from the info I have) which has caused all this bloody anxiety for all of us IN ADDITION to the actual proper shit things he's done to others in the past (given the info I have) and that his shittiness is going to sully people's enjoyment of this thing in big or small ways. I'm cautiously optimistic that we might get something faster, because fewer minutes means quicker work, maybe. I'm worried (as I always was) that it isn't going to be what I've hoped for. I'm frustrated that it's still so very quiet in media regarding what That Guy has done and mildly worried his ex-fans might never know a lot of things that might have led to closure.

I've never been in fandom before this and I have a vague understanding of how lucky I am that this was the one that sucked me in. I'm told not all fandoms are created equal. This one is a bloody marvel. A real fucking marvel. I'm not talking about the art and writing (which are just fantastic like I can't believe), but about how last night I first read The News in a Discord server and thus had other fans Feeling All The Feelings around me right from the start; how I went on Tumblr and found the early discussions and shock and complicated emotions from people whose handles mean something to me, and how I went on Reddit and saw other people gif-screaming in frustration while simultaneously trying to comfort each other. This is such a wholesome place. HOW is this such a wholesome place. Can we keep cultivating this? All of this? Keep welcoming the randos posting on Tumblr about experiencing the Final Fifteen for the first time with avalanches of emoji hearts and fanfic? Keep patiently explaining and re-explaining new and confusing news to commenters who haven't heard all of them yet? Keep showing strangers how to code on AO3 or how to be a lovely fanfic reader or introduce them to the metas people thought up in 2015 or encourage them to post their own loving, scrunckly first art piece and give them love and appreciation for it?

We've Had A Fucking Moment Year, haven't we? And somehow, as an overall experience, to me, this has been an absolute GOOD. Because there's a whole bloody world of other obsessed folks around me now, feeling the same conflicted feelings as I do, largely speaking, and mulling them over in open blogs and private servers and fanfics and comics and DMs.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. (Or more than half of you, more likely. We're not Hobbiton.) I really like y'all, anyway. You're neat. Can we be frembs? ❤️

If you want a little comfort fanfic escapism, I'm told this 7k-word, E-rated silliness I made once is a balm for S2-related wounds. (There's a podfic of it, too.) This thread on GOAD cropped up with great timing yesterday and is full of people's comfort fic recs. There's tons more of this everywhere. This fandom, man. This fandom. 🖤🤍

[crowleysgirl56]

Ok, so here are some of my rather long rambling thoughts. I’ll start off with some pros and cons and then provide some speculation:

My initial negative reaction:

- Compressing 5 hours worth of content into 90 minutes feels like things will be rushed and we won’t get a good story.

- HOW do you take a month to rewrite six 45 minute long scripts into a movie length feature and have it still be good?!

- the compression of the story means we will likely not get any more flashback sequences. Admittedly I actually thought we probably wouldn’t get more flashback scenes in season 3 anyway, but this definitely proves the case that we won’t. There won’t be time for it.

- who has re-written the script? Because here’s the thing about Pratchett adaptations. They’re fucking shit. No one (in my opinion) has been able to successfully transfer that man’s unique sense of humour and writing style onto screen. Every single Discworld adaptation has been on a scale of awful to kind of meh. EXCEPT for season 1 of Good Omens. As much as we hate him now. As vile as he has become in our hearts, the thing about NG is that he understood Terry’s unique style. He understood what worked and how to transfer that to the screen. And that breaks my heart on so many levels. Because he was all we had. And we certainly didn’t want him any more. But still, who THE FUCK has written the finale script now?

Now here are my positive thoughts on the situation:

- NEIL GAIMAN GOT HIS SORRY ASS FIRED! GOOD!

- Consequences. The industry has signalled consequences. Finally!

- We are getting a conclusion! It could very well have been cancelled and we would have been left with the final 15 forever. We get to see them again. That deserves a Wahoo!

- thinking back over season 2, which I enjoyed, I actually do have to say a lot of it was kind of unnecessary filler. The flashback sequences were great. But the actual core of the season’s arc involving Gabriel was just a bit boring. I’m forever grateful for it because we got to spend almost 6 hours watching Aziraphale give Crowley heart eyes and Crowley do beautiful acts of service proving his love back. But the meandering stuff with Nina and Maggie and trying to work out why Gabriel lost his memory wasn’t all that interesting. I was here for A&C.

- so I think MAYBE that means the compression of what had already been written for season 3 means it’ll cut out the plot bits that drag. Hopefully this means it’s faster paced and tighter and more focused on A&C.

Speculations:

Thinking back to the last time NG interacted with the fandom, he had confirmed the first three episodes were written and were with Amazon for approval, episode 4 was almost done, the last part of episode 6 had been written, and he had started plotting episode 5. We never got a confirmation if he ever finished them. So this maybe indicates that the finale is lifted exactly out of these scripts. My assumption is they’ve brought in a script doctor to edit what they’ve already got and wrap up plot points. In which case, on the one hand it gives us close to the story and idea of what Terry imagined. On the other, the far more negative connotation, it’s still NG’s work. The articles that have all come out so far merely states “Gaiman is not involved with the production and the finale is based on his work”. This could be Prime distancing themselves without actually confirming how he’s contributed. Which is still largely disappointing.

So, once again I feel very conflicted. A lot of the fandom have been very adamant about not wanting to support the show if Gaiman was involved, and in the end he wrote the show. Even if he had been removed as producer and showrunner and wasn’t allowed on set (thankfully it seems all three of things have happened), I know that wouldn’t have been enough for some fans because he would still have ultimately been responsible for the product that we eventually see. And I don’t know how to feel about that.

I’m happy he’s gone, I’m disappointed the show has been gutted, I’m glad we get a conclusion, I’m sad it won’t be exactly what we wanted.

I’m SO THANKFUL that the women get some semblance of justice, that there is a consequence for a perpetrator, that a big ass company is finally listening to fans and moving with the times and signally this kind of behaviour isn’t appropriate and that repercussions can and will be felt.

Finally, I’ll remind everyone that there are going to be a lot of different and conflicting feelings from the fandom. I would ask that everyone try to be nice to one another. If you have a differing opinion, maybe rather than debating it you just allow that person their feelings and move on. Do not go after someone if you feel like they’re not reacting the “right way” to the situation. Just be kind please. It’s what Terry would have wanted.

[worrynoodle]

A few months ago, before all the news came out, I had commented on one of ng's Instagram posts and had gotten a response from him. At the time I was so excited about it. Now I just feel gross.

But even now, with all the atrocious things that have come out that he's done to people, I STILL get likes on that comment. I ignored them for a while but I couldn't anymore, so I deleted my comment.

I just can't believe that there are people who either (somehow) don't know (because plenty of people in the comments have brought it up) or just don't care and still interact with his accounts. It doesn't make sense to me.

I can understand still loving the stories, making sure he doesn't financially gain from say, purchasing tickets to Coroline or whatever, but ignoring it all completely to continue to like HIM is wild to me.

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

I love that my dashboard right now is split in half: - Just a measly 90 minutes? At least NG was booted out. - Ehy I'm actually happy we get a conclusion! Also fuck NG

[just-sauntered-vaguely-downwards]

If you’ve seen me post and delete a bunch today and yesterday I apologize. My brain is just a jumble and I’m fighting off fun ptsd shit telling me my airway is closing up so I think it’s best I just keep it brief-ish

It kills me that my post is 2nd on his page and I have this like, permanent connection. Like, to the point I was dissociating last night and anytime anything even remotely negative happens today I’m on the verge of crying. I’ve addressed the post itself before so I’m not going to delve into that again (you can go to my pinned post if you want to know about that). I’m actively trying to get tumblr to take it down because just knowing it’s there is just like, the simplest thing to say is literally nauseates me and I’m not fucking okay about it.

(I’m safe, I just am trying to breathe and when I’m home let my cat do her ESA thing and at work burying myself in monotonous tasks like practicing suture over and over. But I just needed to say something on here with the updates)

be kind to yourself and take care

[anneangel]

I still don't know how to deal with everything that's happening, but, for the fans, I wanted to digress about the conclusions I've reached so far!

I do not intend to say here what each person should do in light of the facts, I will simply explain how, in my opinion, this works FOR ME. This is only my opinion and anyone can disagree, as long as you are polite when arguing against it.

About what Good Omens means to me:

An angel and a demon who join forces to prevent the apocalypse because they believe that the Earth is worth living just the way it is.

Good Omens talks about good, evil, morality, destiny, free will and providence. It emphasizes the importance of unity in times of crisis, turmoil and chaos. It celebrates differences as something positive and is based on the idea that diversity should unite us instead of pitting us against each other. The plot proves that sometimes we find friendship, help, support and companionship in the most unlikely people. It emphasizes that “the right thing” is no longer “the right thing” if it is done for the wrong reasons and through the wrong means, showing that appearances can be deceiving and that sometimes evil disguises itself as good (and vice versa), After all, it teaches that no such as someone inherently good or bad/evil, only people who are sometimes good and sometimes bad/evil. A plot that teaches us how we should do what is best for the world and for ALL the people who live in it, even if they move heaven and all nine circles of hell against us, after all, wrong does not become right just because the majority believes it is. Good Omens is all of this together in a comical and satirical plot that states: no matter how much it seems that we are trapped by some destiny, what really moves us are our own decisions, choices and actions outlined by our free will. And if in the end everything we do or fail to do is part of some divine design or not, that is ineffable and it is not up to us to know, only to contemplate.

Good Omens, as a work, will always continue to evoke these meaningful messages for me.

What I think now that I've heard about the allegations against NG:

Now that I have discovered that one of the authors of this book is a predator and abuser who has been accused of unspeakable crimes, I am trying to deal with the shock: terrible people can produce beautiful works, they can create a story full of morals that they themselves do not possess.

About the oficial work:

I thought about getting rid of the work, but after deliberate reflection, I decided not to do so. Why?

I have noticed movements to "deny" reality or "dissociate" oneself from it.

Regarding denial, is simple: I cannot deny it. The truth is that I unfortunately bought the work of a human being who, in his private life, did horrible things. Getting rid of 'the book' and 'the show' now does not erase that reality.

Regarding dissociation, erasing the author's name from the book and "pretending" that he was not the one who wrote it, in whole or in part, is a form of dissociation, in my opinion. Erasing his name does not change the reality: he wrote something that I love very much. That is the reality, whether I like it or not.

What I can do now is reflect. So, no, I didn't throw the book away, nor did I erase his name. Want to do something useful? Just circle his name in the book and in the show and write:

"accused of sexual violence by multiple victims";

(1) How can I effectively help the victims?

(2) How do I feel about having, for a period of my life, enjoyed a work that I now know was created by someone abusive?

(3) Do I intend to acquire more of the author's stuff? If the answer is "yes", don't forget that this is a profit for him.

Yes, if you are one of the fans who removed his name, I UNDERSTAND YOU. I also want to remove his name from wherever it is stamped with a knife. However, we must remember that just "erasing" his name is not enough, erasing his name does not exempt us from continuing to actively fight so that the victims see justice and that he no longer profits with Good Omens.

I believe that having these issues is much better than simple denial (getting rid of the book and show) or dissociation (erasing his name). Because every time I open the book, or if someone else need it from me, we will be confronted with (a) the reality of the facts, (b) how we feel about it now, and (c) what we can actually do about it!

Besides, the answer to each of these questions is TOTALLY personal to each person. It's not like it would be polite to force a fan to answer these questions online.

About work made by fans and the existence of fandom:

I believe that art is plural, multifaceted and transformative, so that (even if the fandom hates the author), the art continues to live on through what fans do with it and the way they reinvent the work and their love for it, inside or outside fandom spaces. And this is not something that anyone can prevent, history has already shown that authors go/die, but the work remains and changes through what the public makes of it.

I believe that Fandom has already become aware of the facts, that they have already disowned the author, that the majority has already reached a consensus not to buy anything new or official from now on, and that the art they make as fans is theirs for other fans, just to warm the hearts of other fans, but in no way aims to promote or finance the author.

It turns out that, as a fan, I feel much more like a 'hostage' to the positive feelings I have towards the work created by a vile person. So I don't see Fanarts or FanFictions as marketing for the author, but primarily as people who, like me, used this work as escapism and have much affection for it, and now we can't get rid of that feeling.

If you believe that I'm horrible for feeling this way, I'm sorry, but the truth is that I feel this away and I can't change that now just to satisfy you.

The allegations will continue to exist, as will the fandom. That's the reality, one thing doesn't cancel out the other, whether we like it or not.

You can't just pretend, deny or dissociate, and say no about it. What we can do is continue to reflect:

This is not a matter of erasing the author and the work from existence, the things that we tend to "pretend no longer exist" always come back even worse, sooner or later. So it's not a matter of pretending that the author is "dead" and that his works "were buried with him".

Whether I like it or not, his work is in the world, will be available in the world, and will continue to live in the minds of thousands of fans around the world (whether they are in fandom online places or not), despite the author not being a "model human being" and still being alive. So,

(4) how are we going to treat the author from now on in light of the allegations?

(5) what are we going to transform his work into now? What does it mean and represent from now for the world and for ourselves as fans of this work?

For ME, this type of reflection is much more useful than intimidating fans into destroying the work and/or never talking about it again.

As for still liking content created by fans for fans (FanFictions, Fanarts, FanVideos, FanEdits, FanComics, Cosplayers, FanAnimatics, etc.), it's crazy because, yes, it's fiction, it doesn't exist, the characters aren't real. I know that.

But the feelings I have towards this fiction are real. The story isn't real, but the laughs and tears I've had towards this fiction are. The people I met on Fandom continue to be good and welcoming people. And the works made by fans for fans continue to be beautiful and continue to gain their own meaning through the creative minds of fans who reinvent the work every day.

Entering into denial or dissociation towards reality doesn't change that reality.

The reality is: Unfortunately, for a time in my life, I developed an affection for a work, characters, fandom and universe, written by a horrible person. And now I'm in a middle space of "sincere nostalgia for the work (and fandom) and what it means to me" and "deliberate contempt due to the abusive person who create it". That's the truth. There's no way I can pretend otherwise. I'm sorry if that disappoints you!

If you think that the fact that I can't "automatically turn off the love I have for the work" is a flaw. That's fine, it's your opinion, I'm not going to try to change your opinion.

But keep in mind that I'm not perfect, I've never been perfect, I'm not trying to be perfect (because no one is), and I'm not going to try to appear perfect just to get in someone's good graces.

If you think you're a perfect human and better than me, ok.

About who should we attribute to blame for everything that is happening:

As a fan of the work (Good Omens fan), I don't feel guilty for any crimes the author committed, for the simple fact that I wasn't there and didn't connive at anything. It's not the fans' fault if the author is a piece of shit in his private life.

I didn't commit any crime, I just consumed a product he created (And I consumed the work before I knew about these allegations).

I have nothing to do with what he did wrong in his private life or how he used the money that comes from his fame. What he does in his private life and with the money from his work is his problem and his conscience, he must answer in court for the allegations.

I'm pretty sure I'm not responsible for his shit and fault. I don't answer for him and his acts. No one can penalize me, and other fans in general, for the crimes committed by the author.

People trying to oppress fans of the work for something the author did doesn't make any sense. This seems to me more like a pointless offensive attitude. But attacking one or another fan doesn't change anything in the grand scheme of things.

If you want to attack someone, perhaps it would be smarter to attack the author, or the companies that still support and finance him, or the publishers that still publish him, or even the 'influencers' and the media that are making money and audiences through this situation involving the author. Many are approaching the situation in a sensationalist way and in order to generate an audience and money, only (this is happening inside and outside English-speaking countries), and that is horrible.

It's not fair that the target of hate is the fans. The fans, who didn't know anything, didn't agree with anything, aren't complicit in anything, nor colluding with anything wrong that he has done secretly in his private life. So why is the fans who are punished? This doesn't make sense and it's not fair.

The point is that whoever makes the crime must pay and be condemned for that crime. The penalty is individual, not collective. So if he did something wrong in his private life, he must answer for it individually and in proportion to the crime committed.

However, unfortunately, there are people here who are trying to screw with my psychology by trying to make me think that I am guilty of something! And that's not true. That's not right! This is cruelty!

Should fans disappear from fandom spaces out of respect for the victims?

Well. In my opinion, Fandom spaces are still a space for dialogue and dissemination of information and taking action. As bad as it may seem, it's still better that people are here arguing with each other about what they're going to do in relation to the work, the author, in relation to the allegations and the work' fandoms.

The saddest thing isn't the debate in fandom spaces, the saddest thing is not having that space.

I can tell you that there are thousands of people still buying his original and official works without even knowing about the allegations, for the simple fact that not all fans like to participate in fandom spaces, and not all you even have access to the news (especially if they are not from English-speaking countries). Therefore, being in a fandom space is still more useful than not being part of one and being oblivious.

Treating fans/fandom as an enemy does not help the cause. I've said it before, art continues, even though its authors dead: history has already shown us this. So it's not something that people can fight against, you can't stop the fandom from existing.

So instead of trying to oppress fans and demand that they leave fandom spaces (which is unlikely to happen, even if they left Tumblr we would still organize on another platform), then perhaps it would be better to advise them that, If the fandom is not going to 'die', then at least help to not let the allegations against the author remain 'in the past'. Let them keep the tag against him 'alive'. You understands?

It is helpful if you help us come up with ideas that help the cause, rather than treating us as an enemy of it.

That said, do you have any practical ideas? Any ideas on how to help fans deal with this that are better than what has been done so far? Any ideas on how to help victims more effectively?

About the work also belonging to Terry Pratchett:

Whether I like it or not, although Neil Gaiman is truly a scoundrel, he has also produced good works that have perpetuated good things in the world. And, in the specific case of this book, he is not the only author.

Good Omens was written in conjunction with Terry Pratchett, an author who gave the work as a whole the tone of satire and humor that is so characteristic of him and is, and will always be, a writing style most commonly seen in the works of Pratchett, who died in 2015 of Alzheimer's. Therefore, remember that Good Omens is not only a book of Neil Gaiman's hoax, but also the result of multiple partnerships that made it the work it is, both in the literary universe and in adaptations.

The work is ours too, but in the sense that it is we, as the audience/public, who will decide what we are going to do with it and what meaning to give it. It is our responsibility to make the right decisions and actions to help people deal with and survive this situation, supporting the victims, and also supporting each other in whatever way we can.

#Anti-Neil Gaiman (don't buy anything from him anymore).

#Justice for the victims (Donate to victims of abuse).

#The fans deserved better (we deserved the person NG pretended to be, not the person that he is).

All that said, if you've made it this far, and if you don't agree with me (in whole or in part), remember to be kind. Be kind to each other!

[ecc-poetry]

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE WARNED Elisa Chavez 

1. Do you know how much beauty there is in the world that you didn't create?

2. The whole time, I wanted to put my hands to the screen to stop you coming through. In 2007 while you squirreled away another victim, I met you in San Diego. Asked a question. She and I were both 18 that year,  our hair and skin the same shade and more in common with each other than we'd ever have with you. But of course, I didn't know that. Then.

3. I have read your poems.

Yikes.

If you understand you have failed, and if you pretend not to understand you have also failed. Eating is not sacrifice. Even birds know how to mimic. For years I pretended I had never seen those poems of yours, but I couldn't forget what they taught me:  how little you knew.

4. Some of us are starting to feel like all these stories that gleamed stardust were really bits of ground-up glass you tricked us into swallowing. This is complicated by knowing that watching us swallow ground-up glass would probably get you off. When I cut myself on something in my house, the blood is scarlet. Once I stepped on a pin, saw an inch of it vanish in the meat of my big toe, and all I thought was, "That's got to come out."

5. Other men got to me, of course, which I think is my point: Even at your worst, you are replaceable.

6. In the forest, just past the thorned-over castle where the princess sleeps, there is a woman. Do not rape her. Turn left, where there is another woman. Do not rape her either.

Do not trust the you that breaks the wishbone of no between his fingers and spells success with it. Do not trust the little chorus you raised up from radishes.

Sometimes the act of handing out instructions demonstrates why they will not work.

7. Don't worry. Most of us will outlive you, and then we'll get to tell the story. I'm drafting your eulogy as we speak: It's an anthology  of tricks women learned to survive you,  how they chewed through your paper cages to hold each other, how they are putting out new leaves.

8. I get my mushrooms from the supermarket  or the farmer's stand. I am not a myth about creation. Just like you are mainly a master of holding the truth underwater until it stops moving.

You ghost.

You could strip a thousand women and you still wouldn't have anything.

[ingravinoveritas]

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...

[iamadequate1]

My next villain origin story is if anyone tries to say that if NG's in progress adaptations are binned or canceled, that it's due to homophobia, and then tries to compare it to something like OFMD or Kaos

You know, like how it was when the one episode season of GO was announced

[donutcare564]

Was going through my screenshots and found this, thought the good omens Fandom could use this rn

[crowleysgirl56]

Gaiman continuing to be a piece of shit I see. I hope the courts land favourably for Wallner. This is exceedingly unfair and must be so stressful for her.

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

Small post to end this evening's Gomens posting: NG is getting his money if there is a sequel. Legally, he owns the character's rights. So I really don't understand the virtue signalers who say that it's more virtuous to ask for a GO sequel AND for firing NG's ass from the show in every post they make vs. the fans who aren't mentioning NG in every. single. post. they comment/make/reblog about s3, cause apparently it means they don't care enough so they're bad people or whatever the rationale is. No involvement whatsoever from NG in the sequel is impossible. Even if he's completely fired from the show, the book's rights he owns legally are still getting paid because that's the law. Maybe he's already been paid those. There's not a more virtuous way of hoping for a sequel. If you really want s3, accept that NG getting his bag is and will always be a condition to fulfill, to have it.