Does The Queen Of Hearts Know She Can Name Her Kids Other Than Her Hair Colors?

There's been some discourse going around that tries to connect Neil Gaiman writing about problematic things and him being awful to mean that everyone who writes that kind of thing is also awful or should be placed under suspicion.

Correlation is not causation. You could just as easily blame the fact that he wrote about mythology and fairytales. It has the same amount of weight as blaming dark subjects.

The truth is, there have been tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of authors who write/have written about dark/problematic/complicated subjects who have never hurt a soul and who never will.

Now, you could say people who have endured trauma and abuse are more likely to write about dark subjects. I'm not positive but I think this bears out in statistics. But again, the vast majority of people who have suffered abuse and whose past abuse informs their writing do NOT go on to perpetuate that cycle of violence.

I know we all wish that predators were easy to spot. But if they were, they wouldn't be predators. They'd be criminals operating in broad daylight.

The disturbing fact is that truly bad people who operate for a long time are incredibly hard to spot. They survive by manipulating those around them into providing cover for them and carefully craft personas to make it difficult to accuse them of wrongdoing. They will also use fame and money as a shield and choose victims with the least ability to fight back.

Using what happened in your crusade against dark topics and your push for censorship in fiction is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and risks making writers part of a witch hunt.

It also makes it harder to spot actual predators because it perpetuates the idea that these people have easy tells. They do not. That's what makes them monsters.

In retrospect, can we pick out certain themes in his work that aligns with the allegations against him and hints at who he really was? Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. Someone else could have written about the same subjects and been a saint of a human being.

you guys need to stop letting your hatred (or love for that matter) of certain media/celebrities/whatever get in the way of your ability to feel compassion, empathy and sympathy.

sorry but celebrity culture and some of you guy's hatred for it have made some of you get way too comfortable with bullying, encouragement of violence and other unacceptable actions.

I think my social anxiety is getting worse because i'm finding harder to even post things on my social media profiles where i don't even post my name or face (Twitter or even here where i dont even post on my first language so i'm 100% sure no one who knows me in real life have a way to find me)

This was the moment where i fell in love with them btw

this was their second episode btw bonus:

Although we seem to all agree that there was something off with the trial on episode 5 from all the theories i've seen nobody else thinks that this trial was a punishment for the coven.

I mean the rules say to not get off the road but when the coven try to scape the salem seven by flying they leave the road. Then they are pulled back down straight into the next "trial" witout a diferent road (notice in the other episodes not only does the filming ratio chenges there is always a path leading to the trial's door that matches the house).

I've seen some say it's actually Billy's trial because he is the one who gets his powers at the end of the episode and i believe that could be true as well. But for me this was a punishment, this trial was design to make the coven lose a witch ( "Punish Agatha" "Leave Agatha here with me and go back to the road without her") while all the others were about the witches knowledgeable on the craft.

I know its kinda of weird but i love when Jack acts and rebember us he was a rich kid

There's nothing better than seeing an actor you loved for ages being happy in his new projects

I really don't understand the hype for Coachella and influencers Coachella looks

For me the looks are very ugly and not really festival appropriate, they all look very uncomfortable

And maybe I am too introverted for the idea of going to a 3 day music festival

Is it petty? Yes it is but a really hate that a series about "Greek Gods and mythology" would choose to use a story written by a Roman who wrote so he could defame the two greek gods.

In the actual greek myth Medusa and her sisters were born that way and i really don't see why changed from the original (or why from all of the tales to use choose the roman one)

Medusa was always a symbol of protection already and i really don't see a need to try to paint her as a survivor of abuse bc now you have a bunch of people misinterpreting what her myth was actually supposed to be and now they will have to change or at least expand more on Sally's relantionship with Poseidon and they will have to choose between putting her in two abusive situations or just ignore "Medua's story" (what will make it worse in my opinion)

When Bob says something like “the highs are so high but when it’s low……” I had tears in my eyes. One sentence, that I myself have said so many times but hearing it caught me so off-guard.

If anyone finds the movie’s ending stupid, all I can say is this: sometimes you just need enough people to care. You just need someone to force their presence in your life. You need to hear, over and over again, that you are enough - not because you’re not listening the first time someone says it, but because your own voices are much louder and much more recurrent. It’s someone bringing you back to a consciousness that helps you realise you’re not as worthless as you actually feel… as useless. And sometimes, having that helps so much that it will get me through the day without a black silence echoing all around me. And that’s what Thunderbolts does. That’s why it actually matters beyond being in the MCU and being a movie.