#my inbox overrunneth

[ingravinoveritas]

Hello, lovely followers. I’ve got another conference coming up this week that I have to travel for, and I’m jammed up with prep for my speaking engagements. Also getting overwhelmed with the amount of Anons in my inbox, so I’m going to go ahead and temporarily turn off Anons again until I can clear some of the backlog from the past week.

Thankful to all of you as always for your patience, and for continuing to follow my blog. 💗 Will start answering your questions soon!

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Hi!! Neil Gaiman just answered my question if Anna and Georgia are in GO and the answer is NO. Anna was pregnant and Georgia was offered a part but turned it down for….. reasons? Unknown to us other than that she believed the part should go to someone older and more experienced? Wonder what part she’s been offered and what her character could’ve been. Also, if there was a hypothetical season 3 we have to be worried if they’ll be cast in it now. Cause he said that they’ll definitely get a part somewhere in the show

Wow, okay...my inbox has been blowing up since Neil's post earlier. Well, for those who haven't gotten to see it, @yami-no-kokoro helpfully posted a screencap above, and it seems that Georgia and Anna will not be appearing in GO season 2...but I'm not entirely sure I buy the explanations as to why.

The first thing that struck me was that Neil actually answered this question at all, instead of "wait and see"-ing it as he has done with seemingly every other GO 2-related question. I also noticed that Neil specifically mentioned that Georgia was offered a part, but AL was not. I'm sure there was a reason for it being phrased that way, but had AL been offered a part, it would've been very easy and made sense to say that there.

As for the explanation of her being pregnant and avoiding people because of Covid, we know and have evidence that this is not really true, as AL was in Scotland during filming with Lyra, and was photographed in a restaurant in Glasgow eating with Michael and Jon Hamm. Also, Michael was on set every day with countless people and then with her, so anything he would've been exposed to, she would have been as well. Logically, then, it seems like she was not taking stringent precautions against Covid, because had that been the case, she would have stayed in Wales instead of following Michael to Scotland for six months for a film shoot while pregnant during a pandemic. So to me, that makes Neil's response seem like a PR one, for the sake of glossing over the fact that AL was not offered a part.

In terms of Georgia...again, the explanation given is a curious one. My feeling is that Neil was softening up the truth, which I am guessing is that Georgia was offered the part, looked it up online, found out the person she was asked to play was older than her, got pissed off, and declined the offer. As you said, Anon #1, there don't seem to be many reasons that Georgia would turn down a role or any opportunity to further her career, so had the part been a more glamorous or attention-grabbing one, she probably would have accepted it without hesitation. I do not at all buy for a second that this had anything to do with Georgia pushing for "age appropriate" casting, except in the sense of "I'm too young to play this part and how dare you even ask, go cast some old hag instead." But again, that translated into another PR response (and a nicely finessed one, which is not at all surprising since Neil is a talented writer) that does indeed reflect well on Georgia.

I know tonight was the BAFTAs, so I'll just touch on that briefly, but Anon #2, it seems that Georgia was there at the event, but just not on the red carpet:

Right away, I have to say I'm confused by "I find it all too much" and am not even sure what that means. Earlier in the day, Georgia posted a picture of herself breastfeeding Birdie and hashtagged it #mybaftalook, but it didn't seem to get a lot of traction, as all I saw on Twitter and elsewhere was pictures of David (and Catherine, and Billie) at the BAFTAs. So I don't really know what was going on here, but her entire vibe today just seemed so weird overall. Why would she not want a picture with David on the red carpet? Was she not invited to walk the red carpet? I don't think we'll ever know for sure, but putting out the narrative of "I find it all too much" just seems disingenuous, especially since she was on the red carpet with David only recently at the Olivier Awards. (EDIT: What I wrote here was based on a misinterpretation of Georgia's post that was very different to how other people read it. I have attempted to clarify my thoughts here.)

Going back to GO 2, though, I did see some of the comments that you mentioned, Anon #3, and I find it interesting that people want to categorize specific blogs as "haters" or "anti-Georgia/Anna" when a) More often than not, it seems like I end up saying out loud what others are thinking, but by no means am I the only one thinking it--especially if the results of the recent poll about GT/AL being in season 2 are any indication; and b) I do not categorize myself as anti-Georgia/Anna, but rather anti-the mentality that they are somehow above reproach or criticism simply because of who their partners are.

I have never and will never tell anyone that they shouldn't like Georgia or Anna. If you are a fan of theirs, then by all means, be a fan. Nobody is all bad (or all good, for that matter), and if you like them, that is completely your prerogative, and go ahead and have a gay old time. But I will not be quiet about the things I've seen from Georgia and AL that discomfit me, nor put up with a narrative that I feel is phony. And I think that right there is the nuance that seems to be getting missed--that what I have a problem with and dislike is Georgia and AL's actions/things they've said, rather than just them as people. I think if folks looked at it that way, it might also help them view Georgia and AL as their own person instead of "David's wife"/"Michael's girlfriend" and would enable us to better have these discussions.

If what Neil said is, in fact, true, I do feel relieved to know that Georgia and AL are not in GO 2. To me, GO is something incredibly special, and Georgia and AL just do not "fit" in that world, and them being in the show would have had a detrimental effect on the illusion/magic of the GO universe. I think the analogy that best explains this is Mary Martin as Peter Pan on TV in the 1950s. In the scene where Peter flies, the actor is put in a harness/on wires to give the appearance of flight. It's the illusion that enthralls us, that immerses us in that sense of magic, and in that moment--even just briefly--you don't see the wires and start to believe that human beings can fly. Season 1 of GO and the incredible chemistry between Michael and David created that same sense of magic and wonder in so many of us....but having Georgia and AL in it would be like seeing the wires.

As for a possible season 3, there's about a thousand different factors that will determine if there even is a season 3, let alone if Neil will cast them or even have parts for them to play. We saw how long it took between seasons 1 and 2 of GO (though Covid was obviously a large part of that), but if that is any indication of how long it could be until season 3, a lot of things can change in a few years' time, so who knows what will happen.

So, those are my thoughts on today's developments (and of course this had to happen on Mother's Day, of all days). Hopefully we'll have more GO 2 stuff to talk about in the coming weeks...

[ingravinoveritas]

Has no one in GT’s life ever taught her to cook? Your 38 years old and your still burning food and turning it into a joke? It’s very much not funny, the way she burns and possibly throws away food which is wasteful when millions of people and children all around the world are starving for even one bite. But go off, burn your food, throw it out your rich husband can just get you all the food that you want just to burn it again

Hi, Anon. Well, I know you sent this a few days ago in response to one of Georgia's Insta stories:

But strangely enough, there were two more from just today of the same theme, so we'll get screenshots of those up so we can discuss:

I think what gets me is that when Georgia started making these posts, it was like a "Ha ha, kitchen mistake, so relatable" kind of one-time thing. But there have been so many of these posts since then that it's long since stopped being funny and gone entirely into the realm of unrelatable...and then when you see Anna making an Insta post copying Georgia two months ago (while making a Staged reference, of course), it very quickly starts to seem fake.

Taken all together, what I am thinking is that Georgia is purposely burning these items of food for the sake of planned photo ops. I know that sounds crazy, but ultimately it's about furthering her brand--though I wish someone would let her and AL both know that "being deliberately bad at cooking" is not a personality trait--and she is not worried about wasting food because she (presumably) has something else to feed the kids.

Yet, as you said, Anon, it seems enormously tone deaf to do this when inflation and scarcity is a massive issue in the UK. It seems clear that Georgia is someone who has never experienced food insecurity in any way and rather than showing consideration toward those who are forced to do without and trying to set an example, this makes her come across as self-involved, and her mindset appears to be, "It's fine, we've got the money to buy something else." Which is not at all cute, but...there it is.

So those are pretty much my thoughts on the "Georgia burning food" stories. I also have a bunch of other GT-related Anons still to answer, so I ask folks to be patient with me as I try to catch up. Thanks for writing in! x

[ingravinoveritas]

Hi! Not sure if you saw the recent stories from Georgia’s Instagram where she posted about her step dad’s gig and that Ty and Sandi had come also. Then she posted about her son dancing with her mom and praising him for being so good and nice. Not even a few minutes later, she deletes the story and post from her social media in exchange for a photo of her and her friend, wishing her a happy birthday.

So, she decides to delete a video showing her son to be the “kind hearted young man” she was proud of him to be for dancing with her mom, for a photo of her and her friend, making it all about her….??

I've gotten a few Anons about this and I know it was a couple of weekends ago but I'm seriously swamped with Anons at the moment and wanted to make sure I addressed this.

So, I did see the stories Georgia made about her stepdad's gig, but I did not see the deleted story or post about Ty dancing with Sandi (though if anyone has a screenshot, please feel free to link it in a comment on this post or send it to me via DM). Here are the stories the Anons are referencing, for those who might've missed it:

And here is the post Georgia put up to replace the one about Ty and his grandmother:

The first thing I have to note is that I was struck by the way Georgia wrote about her stepdad's gig. Passive-aggressively suggesting that somehow her stepdad is a loser because no one showed up to his gig...and then she made herself out to be the hero because she broadcasted it live? I don't know. I could entirely be reading too much into that, of course, but that is how it came across to me.

(Also--and I'm not sure why this is something people are overlooking--Georgia's "stepdad" is 54 years old, a.k.a. almost the same age as David. Just putting that out there as yet another thing that makes me side-eye her family/whole dynamic overall...)

Another thing I noticed about the Insta stories was that Georgia posted a picture of Ty looking surly and disinterested (which, to be fair, could just be what most 21-year-olds look like). But if there was some degree of contentiousness between them that night, my guess is that Ty asked her to take down the story/post. He is an adult, so probably has more of a say in what Georgia posts about him (which...when you think about it is a strange thing, because you'd think her kids who are still minors would have just as much of a say in what is posted about them), and if he didn't want that video of him and Sandra up (for whatever reason), Ty might've asked her to take it down.

All that being said, I'm not sure why Georgia so rapidly replaced that picture with the one of her friend. If she'd posted it even a little while later, it would've seemed more like something she was planning to post anyway, but to delete the video of Ty and post this seconds later instead makes one wonder if Ty was embarrassed, or if Georgia was (and for what possible reason, especially considering that she was saying how proud she was of him).

Again, as I said above, I did not see the deleted story/video, so I am missing the context there, and have written my response based on what I did get to see/what was described here. I appreciate you both writing in to share your thoughts with me, Anons. Thanks for writing in! x

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Oof, I wanna give you a hug (provided you're cool with that)! How unnecessary and bitchy that anon was! You so not deserve this! 💋

Thank you, kind Anon! And yes, you can absolutely give me a hug. I am a hugger from way back, and I welcome any and all hug-related activities. So here is a big hug (or cwtch, as they say in the land of dragons and rain) for you!