Excited About This!!

Couldn’t resist a morning stroll in the first snow of the season ❄️ I may have a new tradition! #soloadventure #ileftmyapartment #robinlearnsaboutwinter (at George Washington Bridge)

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.

Vulture

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.

Two BB units in the same house never gets old #bb8 #chisai #starwars #shewillnevernotbeconcerned

New addition to the #fooditemsonthesubway series! As always, caption away, my friends!

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It’s been quite literally a decade since I’ve had this simple Brazilian treat, and I have changed a LOT since I was that awkward, definitely-had-anxiety-and-other-fun-mental-things-that-were-untreated 18 year old that couldn’t stop stealing spoonfuls from the pot. My trip to Brazil had things happen that I’m still healing from, things that have made it too hard to go back to a place I adored. But I made beigadeiro last night, and it made me happy, and that’s a step in the right direction #brigadeiro #mentalhealth #healingjourney #metoo #songbirdbakingadventures https://www.instagram.com/p/CHIozHlDXsX/?igshid=d59imcrpmvjk

A relaxing last Sunday before I head out of this lovely state #backroadvines #postgishwes #doihavetogobacktoschool (at BackRoad Vines)

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To my tiny beanie baby self, who smiles at cats and loses a tooth by biting cotton candy. You don’t understand why things have happened the way they do, and neither do I, but maybe the words of this trusted adult will help ❣️

Mr. Gaiman, I know you mostly get asks about Good Omens these days, but I am a long-time fan. Of your work Coraline. I am a survivor of severe parental neglect and abuse, and I must have read the book hundreds of times in my childhood and I found great comfort in the movie, despite my now complicated feelings about Time Burton as a person. I guess I just wanted to thank you for creating a piece of art that made me feel less alone in my very isolated adolescence.

Do you have any advice for healing after such a traumatic start to life?

I'm glad Coraline has helped. (Tim Burton didn't have anything at all to do with the Coraline movie though.)

When I was young I believed that the way you healed was just to move on. Now I'm 63 and you realize that stuff never heals on its own. It's still there, waiting to jump out at you. But there are things that help: other people help, especially other people it's safe to talk to. Building a life can help. And making art out of trauma. That's good too.

I wished Coraline had been around when I was a child, and that was why I wrote it as an adult.

Well shit

I miss when I could get reassured :/