#robouiop

So tagging @robouiop here, as they asked as well,

something happened to me as well with neil where he responded to one of my asks and people just jumped on me and called me so many things. I had apologized and stuff and people took the time to praise Neil for getting an apology, while I was still facing harassment and such. I am hesitant to bring it up though because I don't want to get harassed or anything again. maybe I deserved it but his fans are often just relentless when insulting and demeaning a person. it's disheartening seeing this happen to other people as well.

I’m so sorry that this happened to you as well, and thank you for sharing your experience with me. While I don’t know the specifics of your situation, my immediate thought is to say that you didn’t deserve it, because no one deserves to be piled on and harassed like that. We know that people are going to do what they want to do and Neil can’t control that, but at the same time, he has a platform and a position from which to influence people’s behavior, and I would have thought he would more readily recognize that.

Something you said touched off another thought in my mind, which is that you mentioned “his fans.” It may seem counterintuitive, but Neil fans are not the same thing as Good Omens fans. What I mean by that is that people seem to think that if you are a fan of GO, then you are required to be a fan of Neil’s as well, and that seems to lead to a lot of tension and fandom policing as a result. Yet it is entirely possible to love GO (the show, the book) without also idolizing its creator(s) and by extension creating a cult of personality around Neil that seems to forbid anything other than glowing praise.

We’ve now seen what happens when those things are conflated. You were harassed and harangued. The Anon who messaged me was harassed and harangued over a seemingly harmless question. So I hope that people will see this and think about what it is to be a fan. Does it mean loving your favorite so much that you defend them at any cost? Does it mean demeaning other fans because you think that’s what your favorite wants? Do you expect him to thank you for it? Because being part of a clamoring mob does not at all seem like the best way to stand out.

I have never been more offended in my life. What the FUCK.

hahaaaa centrist loser baby, cringe ass nae nae baby

The only thing I've ever particularly liked about candy has been hard toffee -- I'll try anything, but if there are lots of hard bits, I don't like it, because I'm a bad person and can't be trusted with it (I will eat hard, dry, hard, dry, hard toffee, after having said that I can be trusted with lots of other things that would give other people cavity troubles)

This is true of anything hard, not just hard toffee (e.g. the kind of candy where you have to suck on the hard candy because it's hard, or the kind with really crunchy candy bits, etc.)

There are lots of candy I don't like, but one that stands out to me is these tiny yellow-and-white sugar cubes called Fudgies (I'm pretty sure they are called that because they fudge, but I'm not sure). They have a very thin layer of sugar coating (not much, maybe 1/8 of a millimeter thick?) on top. When I put these in my mouth, they dissolve like a liquid in the mouth, and the crunchiness of the sugar underneath quickly begins to come through. It has a strong and unusual mouthfeel but is still very sweet; this sweetness comes across like it has this strong crystalline quality (in a negative way), in the same way that alcohol's sweetness really tastes "drunk."

Nope. I have a pretty strong aversion to making OCs – the very concept of making up a character like that makes me think I'm going to be the kind of person who will do something ridiculous with them that no one would ever find endearing.