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absolutely hate it when I wake up tired like what the fuck did I lie unconscious for

looks like october is…. octover

i’m queueing this for next year

Its nowvember

As a writer who knows a lot of people in the British SFF scene I really want to push back on the "everyone knew about Neil Gaiman" narrative. I don't know anyone who knew. I don't know anyone who isn't shocked. Yes, we now know there were people who did know, people who created whisper networks, but by their very nature whisper networks can only reach a minority of people. (Which incidentally, isn't a condemnation of whisper networks at all. If you've heard a rumour you have no way of verifying, or even if you know a victim who quite rationally does not want to be outed, what else can you do but warn people privately when you can?) Obviously the victims didn't know until it was too late, so why would anyone else? Gaiman had such a celebrity status that he was "above" basically everyone in the field. He was the famous, powerful person generously dipping into their lives. I'd never met him, but even people I knew who considered him a friend were mostly seeing him on occasions where of course he'd have his charming, gregarious persona in play. There seems to be this impulse, perhaps fuelled by Gaiman's silence, to attack everyone who's not him (and especially women and NB acquaintances, it's not lost on me.) Yesterday a casual friend of his with a minor platform felt she had to apologise, humbly, for not having made a public statement before! She'd done absolutely nothing wrong and had been made to feel ashamed of something he'd done. Yes, there are conversations we can have about power structures and privilege and press organs that told a survivor her experience "wasn't enough." But ultimately Neil Gaiman did this. He made those choices. He owes accountability.

assuming I live under a rock (I do)… what uh… what did he do?

He's been accused of sexually assaulting two different women he was in past relationships with.

spreading these occasionally would be nice…

As someone with major anxiety who can’t fucking stop themself from scrolling, i appreciate posts like this

Opening the gif and zooming in gives is a lil je ne ses quoi

spreading these occasionally would be nice…

As someone with major anxiety who can’t fucking stop themself from scrolling, i appreciate posts like this

reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.

This is a part of genocide.  Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children.  But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.

Another way in which the US is already like the Handmaid’s Tale

Im scheduling this post for 2023 , so Carlos will be old enough to know about his past when he finds this post…

These people are fucking monsters.

Posting this with text of his adoptive name, Jamison Moser, so that with any luck this post will show up if he googles himself in the future.

Jamison Moser

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love