ecc-poetry:

Find a Google doc version of this poem here.

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

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silvermountaingirl:

Neil Gaiman survivor Kitty Kendall/“Claire” posts a statement on charity donations (please share!)

To the Friends of Calliope — Kitty Kendall, MA, LCMHC

Thank you all so much for your love and support. If you are a survivor reading this, know that you also deserve to be believed, beloved, and

Kitty Kendall, MA, LCMHC

the-land-of-women:

shaggydogstail:

That Neil Gaiman statement in full:

“I think it’s time I said something about how I’m the victim here. I haven’t spoken before because I’m guilty the Best Feminist. I take full responsibility for being too sexy and never having done a thing wrong and if I did do a thing wrong it’s someone else’s fault for not letting me get away with it. I’ll imply, but not actually say, bitches be crazy, because I’m the Best Feminist. Believe women me. Now get back to fawning and give me your money.”

Not linking because fuck that dude.

onetimetwotimesthreetimess:

the fact that the news about Neil Gaiman first broke out months ago and it is only now, after the horrific Vulture article are most people finding out about it proves that just speaking out never works out for women; they have to rip themselves out completely apart and relieve the most graphic details for the world to believe them

taraljc:

When Your Hero Is A Monster

So I was pointed toward this video by someone on a discord and it’s really fucking amazing and I wasn’t expecting it to be and while the subject matter is horrifying the video itself is incredibly illuminating and worth your time, especially (if like me) you are currently (still) trying to navigate your emotional response to finding out someone whose work you enjoy and who you may even know personally or professionally has knowingly engaged in abusive behaviour and victimised vulnerable women within his orbit for decades.

crowleys-hips:

@neil-gaiman

how’s life going, birthday boy? was this day as lonely as it was when you turned seven and no one showed up to your party? was it worse? do you have any remorse at all for all the lives you’ve ruined, the hearts you’ve mangled, the dreams you’ve desecrated? or is your only regret that your dark secrets spilled all over your gilded name like expired candy from a piñata made of all the layers of lies and papier-mâchéd charm and chivalrous acts performed only for your own benefit? is your cake as sickly sweet as all your bitter sins? how can you stomach it?

this time last year i wrote you a love letter. one you probably never saw as it drowned in the piles of all the others in your inbox. this time last year, your voice still brought me solace and warmth as the days grew colder. this time last year i celebrated your life.

this year, consider this a eulogy.

unhappy birthday to you, old man.

memento mori

kittynotakitty-blog:

A reminder of the allegations against Neil Gaiman, as shared by Hire Survivors Hollywood, a non-profit group who support survivors of sexual assault. These survivors aren’t just “the victims”: they have names and stories, and their voices deserve to be heard.

Scarlett, who worked as a nanny for Gaiman’s children, revealed that he sexually assaulted her in 2022 when she was 22 and he was 61, initiating an ongoing non-consensual sexual relationship.

K, who met Gaiman at a book signing in 2003 when she was 18 and he was in his mid-40s, describes a similar pattern of rape and sexual assault after they began a sexual relationship two years later.

Caroline Wallner, who worked on Gaiman’s property, revealed that he coerced her into sex by threatening her job and housing, and that he used explicit images and sexual demands to exert control over her.

Julia Hobsbawm was forced to fight off an assault by him in her London home in 1986.

Claire, who came forward anonymously in a podcast series, shared that Gaiman assaulted her during a book tour in the US in 2013. Gaiman took her to a room on his tour bus, got on top of her, kissed her, and groped her under her dress. In a 2022 phone call recording, Gaiman can be heard apologizing for his behavior, and offering $60,000 as a “tax-free gift” to cover the cost of a decade of therapy.

turquoisedata:

You all realise that the last few days of

• Twitter posts saying “we’re back on” but also “we need to share the love to keep it going”
• New pics being dropped from s2
• S3e1 suddenly being listed on IMDb
• “it’s gonna be a film not a series!!!”

It’s all manipulation. You know that? It’s not a coincidence that all of this is happening at once. It’s to make everyone talk about season 3 and not the abuser and not the allegations. It’s to make us forget the survivors. And it’s working.

We have still not had ANY confirmation that NG isn’t involved in S3.

DO NOT FORGET JULIA, K, CLAIRE, CAROLINE AND SCARLETT. THEY MATTER. THEY MATTER MORE THAN FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

Please do not forget them in all the excitement.

turquoisedata:

So I was googling to try and find the original tweet in the screenshot I rb’d the other day about Emily Wilson who translated the Odyssey into English but, like, without the misogynistic reading of it

Instead I went down a rabbit hole and ended up thinking about Gaimangate and the victims, because of course I did.

This article. I want to make everyone read it.

Instead of mourning great art tainted by awful men, mourn the work we lost from their victims

Some sexual abusers made great art. Countless more of their victims never got the chance.

Vox

It’s from 2017. It’s not about NG and his victims but it could have been.

And it’s not specifically about art, either. It could be about anything the survivors wanted to do with their lives.

If Claire hadn’t needed $500 worth of therapy every month. She didn’t know he would eventually pay her back. What might she have invested that time and money in?

If Caroline had just been able to concentrate on her pottery and not what NG did to her and whether she and her children would end up homeless

If Scarlett hadn’t ended up in mental health crisis

If Julia hadn’t avoided him for years after his assault

If. If. What else would K and Courtnee have done. What about whoever else he victimised, because no way have 100% of the survivors come forward. What might they have done if he had left them the fuck alone.

If all the victims of all the abusers in the world could have done what they wanted to do instead of live with the consequences and all the time and effort and money you have to put into healing

What would exist?

What have we lost?

I would feel so much better about this whole situation if this was acknowledged every time people mourned the loss of Good Omens.

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I also want to link this post by @xtasteslikeburningx (heed the warnings; it’s a painful read) about why the loss of GO is so painful to her. Because I’m glad there have been consequences, and I would have been happy to see it all cancelled. But although I’ve said in individual conversations with people that I get why some people are so devastated by the loss, I’ve not really made a point of talking about it in general, because it’s felt like everyone is making that point while comparatively few of us were talking about wanting it cancelled.

But we should be listening to survivors.

And for what it’s worth my own story, or at least part of it, is under a cut in a reblog here. And although I’ve mostly come to terms with what happened, it still hurts, and I’m still processing it and dealing with the fallout, and it’s one of the many reasons that both the allegations and so many people in the fandom not calling him out have been so painful to me.

ranmagender:

your periodic reminder that Neil Gaiman is a rapist

xtasteslikeburningx:

On why I am sad about S03

TW- Child sexual assault, rape, domestic violence, religious trauma, child abuse, self harm.

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A reminder of the allegations against Neil Gaiman, as shared by Hire Survivors Hollywood, a non-profit group who support survivors of sexual assault. These survivors aren’t just “the victims”: they have names and stories, and their voices deserve to be heard.

Scarlett, who worked as a nanny for Gaiman’s children, revealed that he sexually assaulted her in 2022 when she was 22 and he was 61, initiating an ongoing non-consensual sexual relationship.

K, who met Gaiman at a book signing in 2003 when she was 18 and he was in his mid-40s, describes a similar pattern of rape and sexual assault after they began a sexual relationship two years later.

Caroline Wallner, who worked on Gaiman’s property, revealed that he coerced her into sex by threatening her job and housing, and that he used explicit images and sexual demands to exert control over her.

Julia Hobsbawm was forced to fight off an assault by him in her London home in 1986.

Claire, who came forward anonymously in a podcast series, shared that Gaiman assaulted her during a book tour in the US in 2013. Gaiman took her to a room on his tour bus, got on top of her, kissed her, and groped her under her dress. In a 2022 phone call recording, Gaiman can be heard apologizing for his behavior, and offering $60,000 as a “tax-free gift” to cover the cost of a decade of therapy.

recoord:

About the 90-minute episode

The word “deserve” sounds so strange in this context…

It’s sad and bizarre to see this situation reduced to:

what would you prefer?

6 episodes produced with the money of an alleged SA perpetrator

a 90-minute episode w/o the active participation of an alleged SA perpetrator

See Results

Satirical poll ofc.

I understand that fans are sad to have a shortened version of the ending, (it’s okay to feel sad about unexpected changes), but let’s not forget that the fact that Amazon did not ignore the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman and made changes is an important and great decision. There were real lives affected by Gaiman’s actions.

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elven-child:

I’m just saying that if I was sexually assaulted by someone famous and all that their fans reacted with was “BUT MY BLORBOS’ HAPPILY EVER AFTER :(((” I would start killing