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Frustrated, angry, horrified, and unsure of how to proceed after learning a favourite author is not who you think they were?

You are not without means to help! Fandom gave Neil Gaiman the celebrity that he then weaponised against vulnerable people. We gave it to him; we can help take it away.

THINGS WE CAN DO AS INDIVIDUALS

Repost articles and transcripts as they appear in the trades and the mainstream press, and tag them with the appropriate trigger warnings and content warnings.

Keep amplifying the voices of the survivors, and showing up with compassion and empathy and support for the untold numbers who have yet to come forward.

Keep talking about the allegations of abuse and sexual assault levelled at Neil Gaiman. Do not let it fade into the background, or be drowned out by vigorous promotion of his upcoming works. Boost the signal, particularly to raise awareness across fandoms so fans can do their best to protect themselves from potential abuse in the future.

Make donations to RAINN and The Survivors Trust, and find out what you can do on a local level to support survivors of sexual assault and abuse.

Do not tag fan works such as fanfic, fan art, quotes, gifsets, and meta discussions about Gaiman's work or live-action adaptations of Gaiman's work with #Neil Gaiman so that you are not doing the expensive PR team's work for them by helping to bury the story of Neil Gaiman's abuse of vulnerable women on social media.

Do not bully Neil Gaiman's peers in the industry, friends and family, or actors currently involved in live action adaptations of his work for not immediately making any kind of public statements.

Do not bully fellow fans. Everyone is working through their very complex feelings and relationships with both the text and the man at their own speed. Please give them the space to grieve that loss, but continue to center the stories of the survivors and express sympathy and empathy for all of the survivors who have yet to come forward.

As others have noted, The Tortoise Media Slow News podcast that initially broke the story is run by a group of well-respected journalists, and Ms Johnson is not a full-time member of the staff but was only given a shared byline on the story because one of the survivors contacted her privately which is what kicked off the year long investigation.

Filter out noise such as kink-shaming, anti-BDSM discourse, and other editorial comments and instead focus on the actual words of survivors recounting their experiences.

Remember that despite using the language of BDSM, what the survivors have recounted is in fact examples of coercive control and abuse cloaked in the language of kink. It's very important to note that BDSM nearly always includes extensive negotiation of consent to specific acts is ongoing, partners check in with one another, establish safe words, and engage in aftercare. That is absolutely not what was described by the survivors thus far.

Sexual assault is not about sex so much as it is about power. In every instance reported thus far, the common thread has been predatory behaviour toward vulnerable women. In more than one case, women who were employed in Neil Gaiman's households and were reliant on him for their housing and livelihood.

Do not guilt trip or shame people who are attempting to separate the art from the artist. allow people to love what they love about the novels comics and media adaptations, value the friendships that they have made because of them, and keep the joy that those projects brought them. Do not let Neil Gaiman's behaviour rob generations of fans of the stories that meant so much to them. he has already taken so much from so many; don't help him take more from yourself or others then he already has.

Do not invite him as a guest speaker to your events, a guest of honour at your conventions, or a guest lecturer at your institutions. without jeopardizing the financial future of your institution or theater, do not book speaking tours, book signings, launch parties, etc. as these events have proved to be a fertile hunting ground and provide ongoing income directly to Neil Gaiman.

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wanted to post this when season three got picked up.

they’re in my heart forever.

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"Stede Bonnet has no game."

Begging your pardon, Stede Bonnet has all the game. Stede Bonnet treated a man accustomed to being feared and admired but never loved or respected with all the love and respect in the world and that man fell head over heels in love with him within, like, a day.

You don't write words like "we wrote our names on each other in permanent ink" and mean them and not have game.

Cringe-fail loser? You wish you were a cringe-fail loser like Stede fucking Bonnet.

He’s also got big dick energy, but that’s another conversation.

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Here's the full video for anyone else who may need it for....reasons and doesn't have it.

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One of the things that I love about Stede Bonnet is that the world tried to make him mean and didn’t succeed. It hurt him and kicked him and told him to smaller than he was, to be less than he was, that he didn’t deserve what he wanted but had to accept what he was given. And instead of becoming cruel and hard, he stayed kind. Through all of it, he stayed kind, and eventually found people who loved him so much for that kindness.

He’s a special little guy.

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things that have been taken from me -

- mermaid scene face cupping

- boyfriends

- boyfriends flirting and saucy winking

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STEDE CALLED ED HIS BOYFRIEND!!!! (x)

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i just wanna say tho that it was all worth it. the energy and the passion and the refusal to go down without a fight were worth it. giving some studio executives hell was worth it. showing the cast and crew how much this show means to us was worth it. giving a shit about queer stories is worth it.

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Anyway, just watched the extended scene again and Stede is the motherfuckin' captain. He became captain and he saved them and then he went home with his boyfriend.

Gonna go cry now.

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THE FUCKING WINK!!

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ofmd 2160p torrent links

follow up to my previous post about how to torrent ofmd in ridiculously high hd, since some people couldn't access the website where i got the torrent links. i uploaded them to my google drive, you should be able to download them and open them directly in qbittorrent by going to file -> add torrent file. if anyone has any issues let me know!

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OFMD resources post

(Yes, you can reblog this post - no need to ask!)

I have both seasons here.

@chuplayswithfire puts the episodes here

@msilverstar puts the episodes here

@merryfinches puts the episodes here

@smol-ish-rose puts the episodes here

@solar-powered-potato puts the episodes here

@hubblegleeflower puts the episodes here

@bookshelfdreams has the first season with English subtitles here and recommends opensubtitles.org as a source!

@dickfuckk has a wealth of links to episode hosts and more here

For those who may have encountered messages saying you can't watch or can't download the files because the limits have been exceeded, there's a neat workaround that will allow you to watch in your browser or download to your device, so long as you have a gmail account. (And you can make one of those for free, if you don't have one.)

How to help your fellow fans by circulating the tapes

Here's a post about why you can trust me as a source

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OK, let’s say it, because we all know is it: Our Flag Means Death was cancelled because it’s gay.

It is a big gay show that eschews queer stereotypes and tropes, that doesn’t indulge in the straight cishet fantasy that being queer means being fundamentally unhappy, that refuses to queerbait or bury your gays, that doesn’t even glance at the idea that it would be better or easier to be straight.

It’s gay. It’s a gay show with a romance between two men as the main plot arc, and minor arcs about other romances. It shows queer people having fun and going on adventures and having complicated, rich lives in a fantasy world usually reserved for straight people. And it’s not a fantasy with hard-bodied twenty-somethings being cute and plastic and untouchable. It is people who look real, who look like folks in the neighborhood, who are middle-aged and BIPOC and disabled and fat and slender and short and tall. And they are gay.

If Max didn’t know how to market it, it’s because OFMD is gay. It’s not a workplace comedy or a buddy show or a pirate adventure that just happens to have queer characters - its queerness is baked into it. It is a critique of toxic masculinity and abuse and straight society, and it is gay. Super fucking gay. Stede Bonnet levels of gay.

They cancelled it because it’s gay and that should indeed worry anyone in any other fandom because the powers that be think that this is disposable, because much worse, much less successful shows where straight and white is the default just stride into another season without a pause.

And if you buy the narrative that this is anything other than real honest to fucking God homophobia, you are about to get hit with some real tough truths in the near future.

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In 'things that Erin did not expect to say today', Psychology Today has published an article about the campaign to save OFMD.

And it has this slam-dunk in it.

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Some encouragement from Chaos Dad. Twitter

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hey dumplings!

just some of the posters i’ve been working on to pitch Our Flag Means Death (a tv series by @davidjenks ) to various streaming platforms 👀

Let’s find a new ocean for our crew to sail to next 🫡🏴‍☠️❤️‍🔥