#just please let everyone be safe

[racingliners]

legit feeling unwell about this restart

[heycrymeariver]

five and many more: a timeline summary

(For legal reasons, all of this is alleged.)

Ref. links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

1984, is the first time Neil Gaiman released a book. 

In 1985, he got married and started his career as a comic book writer and in 1986, he assaulted Julia Hobsbawm.

This took place in Chalk Farm, London, where he forcibly kissed her and shoved her down on the sofa at her own studio flat before she escaped. According to The Crown Prosecution Service, “sexual assault is where one person intentionally touches another person sexually without their consent. The touching can be done with any part of the body or with an object.” In her own words, she described it as “an aggressive, unwanted pass” and that she still remembers it even now. 

Through 1987 and 2002 he progressed his career and published the famous book Coraline. A new year happens and he is in his early-forties and is thriving off of the success of his several money-making works, at a book signing event in Sarasota, Florida. There he hits it off with a young 18 year old (K) and they start dating. Two years later, in 2005, with two more awards under his belt, he forcibly penetrated that young twenty year old who told him not to because of a painful infection.

After another two years, he and his first wife divorced.

It's 2012, five years later and one year into a new marriage and at another book signing, Neil, age 52, immediately assaulted Claire (pseudonym) with a non-consensual kiss. Throughout keeping contact Neil had escalated this with video and phone calls that had a heavy sexual connotation where he appeared to either be naked or tried to instigate something. All of this accumulated into sexually assaulting her on a tour bus. Neil’s contact with her lasted until 2014 where he had promptly accused her in a text message that she had used him for sex.

Within the same year, Neil had enough money to buy a property, and met Caroline Wallner, 55, and her at-the time current husband. With a deal to do odd jobs for Neil and his wife to live there until she could own a five-acre plot, it wasn’t long before things turned sour. A divorce in 2017 sent everything spiraling, with her former husband fired, she in a once financially stable position, was now completely dependent on Neil Gaiman who used that to his advantage. Using her lack of financial stability to get himself sexual favors, he coerced her into a sexual-only, notably uninformed BDSM-entering territory while she was emotionally vulnerable, not accepting denials. This lasted until the summer of 2021, and in December of that year she and him went to court, what awaited her was $275k of compensation and a non-disclosure agreement (nda).

It wouldn’t take long for another woman to experience Neil Gaiman’s repeated offenses as well because in February of 2022, Scarlett (a pseudonym), age 23, a newly hired nanny, was sexually assaulted in the bathtub at his house. Neil, age 61, climbed into the bathtub with her and coerced her into having sexual relations. He too, in his coercion of her, made her financially dependent on him and brought BDSM elements to an inexperienced young woman who could not say no.

Since July 3rd of this year, 2024, five women have come out with sexual assault allegations aimed at Neil Gaiman. They all have several things in common with each other: either being young and naive, a fan of his, or put in a vulnerable spot financially or emotionally. Throughout the years and according to the stories, Neil progressively gets more bold and aggressive in his attempts for sexual gain. There are many more stories out there and whispers on the internet of how predatory Neil Gaiman has been in the industry. However, focusing on the five women who came out to speak and pushing their voice is an important part of the discussion.

Staying silent will only protect his peace.

(If you want to help keep this topic alive, please check out this post by @taraljc to see what steps you can take.)

[phoenixcatch7]

Reading loz/lu fics and it's just so interesting how wide the spectrum is of their personalities.

Sometimes it's got an in universe reason (different past (usually gender or species change), recent or ongoing traumatic events, a spectacularly bad first meeting), but sometimes (often) the characters are just... Weirdly angsty or peppy, there's no in between!

And I'm beginning to think less people have played more than one game than I thought XD.

Not that it's anyone's fault! One game is more than enough to be part of it all, and loz is exclusive to Nintendo consoles - and all the older stuff is frustratingly hard to get hold of. Heck, I'm still looking for wind waker, and that was really popular! And then you have to play it! They're not small games!!

But could people writing wild please ease off just a tiiiiiny bit so he can be a semi functional member of society pretty please XD? He's just as much a polite boy as any other member of the chain! He won't even run in shops! He can't attack npcs! He talks to every single person he's ever seen and remembers every single name. Yes, he's three quarters woodland creature with a hefty amount of trauma but he's also a fashionista who managed to avoid accidentally taking sides in a mayoral election and that's not easy!

[lunarharp]

just random silly stuff today . . qifrey being cool

[wyrm-with-a-why]

What if we all stopped using the phrase “the intrusive thoughts won” and said something like “hyped myself up so hard to this” or “had to do it” or “sorry -insert friends name who doesn’t like the thing-“ or something idk. I vote we stop using phrases about intrusive thoughts winning about like dying your hair or drawing the horny

[caterpillarinacave]

[all-this-panic-still-no-disco]

why does everyone on tumblr hate gbbo… i get paul is a dick but that’s what makes it so funny…

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[comedicjunebreadpan]

JRWI Spoilers MAJOR BITB Spoilers Discussions of Body Horror and Gore

It's just me rambling about a monster design I'm working on and talking about the bugs in the bayou :3

I'm still figuring out my design for the "Kian" monster (with and without skin!), and God I love monster design so fucking much!! The human body is a beautiful canvas for horror.

I've been rolling with the idea that Kian's body is the head/face of this creature and having so much fun with it. The limbs being mandibles for this giant gaping maw in the torso, the ribcage opened up like it's beckoning you to come in. Also, this huge spider-like body growing out of the lower back area. Kinda like a spider crawling out of an eggsack, you know? I'm still contemplating how "human" that part should look, I constantly ask myself how far can I push the "bug made out of human" idea. I want it to be large and imposing, 'cause that was the vibe I got when listening the first time.

I love monsters that mimic people so much, I especially loved the aspect that a lot of them didn't even know that they themselves were the bugs. They just were living their lives, believing they were the originals! Crazy right??? Do you think "Rolan's Parents" were scared when the originals showed up? Like the absolute mindfuck that Rolan experiences is INSANE, brooo. I think he might be my favorite out of the 3, which is funny cause I've definitely drawn Kian the most, lol.

Also, fun fact: while looking up references, I accidentally came across real gore. Kinda fucked me up for a little bit, but hey it's my fault for not being careful. On the bright side(?), I have a better understanding of what an open chest cavity looks like ?? Probably should've just looked up "Saw Angel Trap" and be done with it, lol.

[endlessfuckup]

I originally wrote after seeing a post joking about a very serious thing that happened to dan and phil back in 2012.

I wrote it because the post triggered some really upsetting memories for me. I had gone through that exact thing on a smaller scale and it ruined my life for a long time.

I was going to delete it because it seemed too far and too personal.

But, I think people should read it anyway.

imagine if you posted private thoughts & photos of yourself to a place where you are certain only you and maybe, at most, 20 or so people will see them-

its your only safe place...

now imagine if suddenly a lot more than 20 people find out who you are. like millions of people. and, despite your best efforts, they find what you thought was your most deeply hidden secrets.

oh shit...

your employers see them. your coworkers see them. your friends all know now. oh god your fucking family have now seen that. All of it sent to them by some of the many complete strangers that watch you online.

oh fuck nonono...

What do you even do? What do you even say? You have no idea who or how many have seen.

maybe everyone has.....

There is nothing you can do but try to minimize the damage being done. all by yourself.

its just impossible..

what feels like the entire planet is pointing, laughing, calling you slurs and telling you to kys

you seriously consider it for a moment...

you have to just go on silently pretending that nothing happened at all. Live. On. Camera. in front of the entire fuckin world

How the fuck would you feel?

[nayeliq1]

I’m sorry I don’t wanna offend anyone but why am I seeing so many posts in the Spn community rn making remarks about the GO fans being upset about the leak? So what if people can be dramatic about it, so what if we’re up Neil’s ass or whatever - if this is our genuine reaction then I think that’s a valid feeling to have. 

This is a completely different fandom space, GO is not Spn and yes we could latch onto this and spread it around (as some are doing), we could make funny posts about it instead, but the difference is that we genuinely love and care about the source material here and not to mention its creator. I honestly don’t give a fuck about most of the Spn writers at this point, they’ve pulled too much crap for that, and I’d probably be celebrating if something like this had happened in Spn, not gonna lie. But this is still the one space where we feel safe in the hands of the author to support our love for his work and everything that comes with the fanfom culture around it. 

You have to understand that for a lot of people this is the fandom where we trust Neil to treat the story that he gave us with the same love and care that we feel towards it, we trust him to deliver something that will leave us happy and satisfied. This is someone who hasn’t disappointed us in the past and that is so so rare in fandom these days. So yeah, we stick with him, we feel upset about him and his work being disrespected in this way, and we don’t support the damage that’s already been done being spread further. If that makes us boring, so be it. 

I’m personally very happy with the content of what was revealed in that leak even tho I only heard about the very basics and I want to keep it that way. But I genuinely wanted to experience the story and whatever it brings how Neil and the whole team that’s insvolved in its creation intended, at the time it was intended, and in the way it was intended.

I just wanted to wait and see. 

And I just think that’s valid. That’s all I’m saying. 

[semiotomatics]

one of the main ways my anxiety has manifested this year—presumably due to everything that happened with wally—is this feeling of absolute certainty that someone i love is going to die. and it. sucks. because i know there's no basis for this feeling, i know its just a trauma response, but i still can't shake it. every moment has been spent bracing myself for The News. the news that someone is sick, or was in an accident, or just straight up died in their sleep. and i think the reason its so hard to disarm that fear is bc it could happen. i mean. that's literally what happened with wally. we went from vague concern over him not peeing for a day or two to putting him down in the span of a month. and that could happen again. anything could happen, and theres nothing i can do about it but wait and hope the other shoe doesnt drop any time soon.

[dirtytransmasc]

Pitch for a self-indulgent fix it au that I'm too lazy to write but need for my own sake and sanity:

Because Aegon was close with Rhaenyra's boys, he gets very close to her. It's slow at first; he is still Alicent's child, and she can't help but feel some level of resentment towards him, no matter how cruel it is. But Aegon is still sweet on her and her boys; he still craves his eldest sister's praise and attention, he is still just a child, and she can't bring herself to resent him for very long. Once she comes around to Aegon, she starts to include Aemond in things around the palace grounds, and puts a stop to the bullying, because now that she's let one little brother into her heart, she can't leave the other out in the shit storm that is this family. She treats them like she treats her boys, especially after seeing how deep the trauma runs in both boys. She takes care of Aegon when he's made himself sick and lets him hold onto her after Alicent, or her father has had a go at him . she takes Aemond out on Syrax and helps him with his studies. aemond is most fluent in High Valaryian, so they can almost talk 'in code', and they do it to mess with the others quite often. She makes sure both boys have a safe place with her and her boys. Things are still rocky; they're still emotionally used, abused, and neglected by their parents, the whole kingdom is still filling their minds with poison, and they're angry. angry at the world, their family, fate. they take it out on Rhaenyra and the boys at times, but she never turns them away, she helps them. They're still struggling to keep their heads above the water, but Rhaenyra is there, she makes it easier; she holds them up the best she can as she begins to drown beside them.

Bad shit still happens, Aemond takes Vhegar and loses his eye, Luke is on the other end of the blade, and the fight in the hall still happens, but everything is easier. Because they were truly treated like kids, Rhaenyra had more to lose in that moment than Alicent could truly take from her; she doesn't allow Alicent to turn the attention away from Aemond and onto politics and petty feuds. She protected all of them. Aemond wasn't treated like a pawn and scapegoat, Aegon wasn't thrown under the bus, and Luke was forced to carry some of the blame (a healthy, child-appropriate load).

There's a rift, but it isn't as big. Aemonds doesn't grow up as angry, Aegon doesn't grow up to be as much of a cold and impulsive drunkard with the maturity level of a teenager, and they stay relatively close even as the family grows apart. The boys still grow up together, they still have their sister, and they are less susceptible to Alicent and Viserys's abuse and neglect.

When Aegon is supposed to be crowned he runs to the one safe place he's ever known, into his sister's arms, now with the additional protection of his uncle. Aemond and Luke have a confrontation, but Luke is willing to surrender whatever it takes to bring his uncle peace and Aemond can't do it. He never wanted blood, but he thought he should, as his entire life was surrounded by numb violence, his studies full of carnage, his family line had blood on their hands and were dead set on tearing one another apart. But as he looks at his nephew he just couldn't, doing it made him feel sick. Luke was still so little compared to him, still so young, yet willing to give it all up right then and there. It really just turns into a screaming match, both of them in tears, screaming at the world for putting them in this hell hole (they hug it out after). At the end of it, all of Rhaenyra's kids and siblings are safe at dragon stone (Heleana and her children included, I didn't know exactly how to tie her in, but she's here don't worry).

the 'war', though that's and over statement at best, a straight out lie at worst, is an attempt to out the 'king' back on his thrown. Rhaenyra won't give up her siblings, her supporters behind her, her husband and children both ready to fight rough and bloody for their family.

I can just imagine Aegon, who's always suppressed how caring he can be, standing in front of his pregnant sister, knowing she will fight and die for him if need be, because he won't let her lose anything else. He won't take anything else from her. He won't let someone else get hurt because he's a coward. Luke behind Aemond, Jace in front of Helaena and her kids. Deamon taking a stand next to Aegon, giving him a nod of approval. And even if this means war, this is one of the first times any of them has belonged to a true family.

how it ends I'm not 100% sure. full circle redemption, bittersweet end, something in-between. it could go in a lot of ways. I just know that I'm mentally ill thinking about it.

[meowthiroth]

sure is getting scary for a trans person to just Exist rn, huh

[watercolormogai]

btw if vy account ever gets deactivated its probably because uhh . v am very very tired of being in this community when very big accoujts post shit like "you have to disclose every personal detail about your entore life , every detail of the oppression you experience , your agab and sex , every disorder disability and neurodovergency you have , and your real age and the country / state you live in or else youre actually a horrible person and a liar and transmisogynistic and ableist and racist and a predator and-"

[anadorablekiwi]

Important trigger warning to genshin players:

In Cyno’s story quest, there is mention of a suicide, and they tell you the method. Be safe.