It's heaven and hell

~~call me Joni || they/them~~

[angelcore-bitch]

Wow ok I actually liked that

[dirtandspace]

Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

Reddit - Dive into anything

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.

[dirtandspace]

Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

Reddit - Dive into anything

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.

[turquoisedata]

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

[faustandfurious]

I’m not here to go «told you so» with regards to Gaiman as a person, because I genuinely assumed he was a decent guy and enjoyed some of his work before the allegations broke. But I will say that the parasocial relationship some people on this website had with him, always made me a bit concerned, and similar for other fans’ parasocial relationships with other celebrities. Originally my concern was that some fans seemed to forget that celebrities are human beings and strangers with boundaries and private lives they’d like to keep private. In light of the Gaiman allegations, there is another concern, that some fans may forget that celebrities are human beings who can be just as abusive and exploitative as any random stranger on the internet, but with more power to carry out abuse and get away with it due to their celebrity status. If any thing, this just highlights the importance of having healthy boundaries with people, including your favourite celebrities.

[ghostlynightking]

There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

TW: rape, sexual assault, child abuse

Archived version here, in case you hit the pay wall:

https://archive.is/HJtxW

[fellshish]

at least we’re getting an ending (article)

[mermaid3n-heaven]

azirafem!!

do not zoom in on the line art I beg, it's so crunchy

[alizaphale]

Hi Tumblr void!

Anyone any input on using Good Omens for lessons in school? Or The Graveyard Book? Or Coraline? Which age group is best for those books? I'd love to read a Neil Gaiman book with my class but I feel like I need more input to make a case for it with my boss... Any experience or tips you like to share will be appreciated! 😊

[angelcore-bitch]

Hi!

My teacher read us Coraline in 3rd grade. It went pretty well I'd say. We were all scared but that's the point of the book, right?

[heylena]

Crowley (drunk on a bar): sometimes I can’t believe myself. I mean, I slithered here from Eden just to what? Hide outside his damned door?

Hozier (taking notes): tell me more…

[technicallyonappletreeduty]

Crowley, after his 5th drink: and sometimes I just want to kiss him, like- like, you know, humans. Real humans. Like people. It that too much too ask?

Hozier, already filling his second note book: No, no, go on

[heylena]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT!!!

[awritersrejections]

Crowley, after his 10th drink: and it’s like, I fell for asking questions, and so you’d think, you’d think I could just ask him. but there are these questions I can’t ask, even now, at last, with the worst over. I just see the way he holds himself… and idk, maybe we should just run away. someday.

Hozier, on his fifth notebook, fighting back tears: UH HUH SURE

[mosstrades-deactivated20240523]

Aziraphale, trying to put into words what hes finally allowing himself to think after millenia of repression: of course itd be simply apalling to… to ever see him try to be a saint, of course, in the traditional sense of the word. but he does have these moments where… see, i have… i have been to every place on Earth and done so many things while on the job. and still i find no…. no love like his love, and the way he… the way he misbehaves, i see now it’s not just malice or nature, no…. and i simply couldn’t… feel this way for someone who didnt do those things…………..

hozier, scribbling furiously: oh yeah totally

[mantis-the-shrimp]

hozier: *releases From Eden*

Crowley, breaking his door down: I TOLD YOU THAT IN CONFIDENCE YOU BITCH

[thestrangestperson]

Another day of finding you vintage queer references for your Good Omens fanart!!

Some ineffable wives content! If you draw it, let me know!!

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

I'm sorry if you're tired of thinking about ofmd and that whole mess but goddamn... it's incredibly painful to see so many people trying to set up fundraisers to get their families out of gaza and the sudan and desperately trying to get their loved ones to safety, I've seen so many and everyday I check to see how much progress they've made, most of them still haven't hit their goal. It hurts to see people rally around a tv show and raise all this money for a billboard, and it's very frustrating to see how people have reacted to this criticism. Like bro tv shows get canceled sometimes there's more important stuff going on

Someone else said it better but to see a fundraiser for tv show renewal advertisements raise $20,000 in less than a day while it takes days/weeks/months/years/never for fundraisers for actual causes that help real people in need reach a goal of less is absolutely dystopian and shameful

[gothhabiba]

Organisations currently providing food, water, and/or medicine to Ghazza:

Taawon Association (in partnership with the Bank of Palestine) are distributing hot meals in Ghazza.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is getting food parcels into Ghazza, though I can't find them sharing a more specific location anywhere. Donate here.

The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) is providing medicine, food, and water. Their website specifically mentions food relief in north, central, and south Ghazza, and water delivered to north and south Ghazza.

Direct aid to people in Ghazza:

Help Christians in Ghazza get visas to leave

Help Hala Abu Ramadan's family of six leave Ghazza (organized by Mohammed Samhouri, vouched for by @psychoticgerard)

Help Shayma and her family of 16 leave Ghazza (organised by Fardowsa. You may remember a link to a paypal going around to help Shayma; however, paypal has frozen those funds)

Help Shaymaa's family of 13 leave Ghazza (organised by Shaymaa herself, who is in Canada)

Help Sanaa and her family of 5 leave Ghazza and establish themselves in Belgium (organised by Eyad M, vouched for by Motaz Azaiza)

Help sisters Duaa and Deena leave Ghazza and get medical treatment in Cairo (organised by Shereen Alhayek, @.littlestpersimmon's friend's acquaintance)

Help Ahmed (@90-ghost) and his family leave Ghazza via ko-fi, paypal, or gofundme (@unionfish is offering stickers and prints in exchange for donations)

Help a family of Ghazzan refugees in Egypt get medical care and relocate

Buy an e-sim for use in Ghazza

Organisations in Sudan:

Sudan Solidarity emergency fund

HomeTax Sudan helps internally displaced people in Sudan with food, medication, shelter, and travel

Sudan Relief Fund is supplying medications and medical supplies

One Million Sustainable Pads is supplying menstrual products

FAH (Financial Assistance to Sudanese Hospitals) is providing funds and supplies to Sudanese hospitals and displaced Sudanese families in Egypt

The Citizens' Call for Emergency Evacuations Committee evacuates South Sudanese people from Sudan

Direct aid to people in Sudan:

Help Mohamed Farah's family leave Sudan (posted by @Kandakat_alhaqq on twitter)

Help a Sudanese family get visas (@Kandakat_alhaqq's family)

Help an internally displaced Sudanese family get food, shelter, and medicine

Help @.niqabisinparis's displaced family afford basic necessities

[clownngutzz-deactivated20250919]

BISAN HAS CALLED FOR A GLOBAL STRIKE

January 21-28th

[an2e77e]

“I thought your lot didn’t dance.”

details

[sentientsky]

last one, i promise. i’ll be completely, unwaveringly Normal after this (i am lying thru my fucking teeth)

[goosetooths]

mechanic crowley x biker aziraphale + also theyre sapphic

[beemojis]