#about loo

[hydrus101]

One of my favorite things about season five so far, especially after everything that happened with the Witch, is how John talks to Arthur.

He sounds so gentle, so genuine, so concerned for the well-being of his friend, and it breaks my heart to pieces. Listening back to the previous seasons really nails home how much John as a character has shaped himself and grown, even in an episode that revolved primarily around Arthur's guilt and grief. John sounds at peace almost, having found and cemented the parts of himself that he wants to keep, having finally sculpted out that identity he has been fighting tooth and claw for this entire time.

It's so unshakably obvious that isn't the Entity from Part One, smooth and suave and viciously angry at the world and the things beyond his control. This is John, kind and caring and, perhaps, maybe, a little petty in regards to a certain rotting skull.

[penaltyboxboxbox]

refusing to believe the news until i see lewis in a ferrari race suit with my own two eyes but jesus i am not happy with it AT ALL

[coochiequeens]

There's something satisfying about when an abusive man is called out by other men. Or at least one man.

Rest In Infamy, You Haunted Castle

Why I believe the Neil Gaiman accusations

By GRAHAM LINEHAN JUL 19, 2024

I only met Neil Gaiman once, at an upscale dinner party where Derren Brown had been hired to do magic tricks like in the old-timey days. Between astonishments, Gaiman and I withdrew to a quiet corner where I pretended to be pleased that he was giving me a signed copy of ‘Sandman’. One of the unexpected advantages of being cancelled is telling people who took part in my harassment what I really think about their work, but this was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, so I said the right things and we went back to being bamboozled by Brown’s invisible craft.

To give credit where it’s due, I later read Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ to my kids which had them simultaneously terrified and hooked, and thanked him for it. Whatever my feelings about his earlier work, he was a real writer, practising his own invisible craft. From the evidence of that book, I thought he was probably a decent person too, an impression that continued until 2022, when we started to get into it over The Issue.

I may have asked why he wasn’t speaking out on behalf of JK Rowling, who was undergoing one of her regular cancellations for refusing to pander to the spoilt brats who loved her books but missed their meaning. A big name like his might have shifted the conversation and given her some much-needed support. He might perhaps have persuaded some of his fans to give the matter another look. This was when I assumed people like him acknowledged biological reality but worried about ‘coming out of the closet’, as it were. It took me years to realise that almost every celebrity mate of mine believed, or was pretending to believe, in the fashionable, American mind-cancer of ’gender’.

But back then, I was still astonished to find that he was a carrier of the virus, the mass delusion that by sheer coincidence, turned up after the arrival of the Internet. Whether it was Bill Bailey or Neil Hannon, Robin Ince or Matt Lucas, Arthur Mathews or Jimmy Mulville, it was always the same story. A sudden cloud of amnesia would form around my celebrity mates, a real peasouper, from which they suddenly could not see why we need female-only spaces, or why unhappy teenage girls will not find a miraculous cure for their woes in a double mastectomy. Far from sharing any of my urgency in the need to stop children from being irreversibly harmed in gender clinics, they instead downplayed, deflected and dismissed. “I never ask you to join in with my animal activism” grumbled Neil Hannon on one of the occasions I begged for his support.

“Couldn’t you pretend women and children are animals?” I thought.

My usual trajectory during these conversations saw me shifting from gobsmacked disbelief to fury and despair. The disloyalty made me angry, but knowing my friends did not care about their own daughters, wives, sisters and mothers was, and continues to be, destabilising in the extreme.

Gaiman went one step further. I can’t find the tweet, so I may be paraphrasing, but he said

"I hope you're kinder if your daughter ever hopes to transition."

I can think of no uglier thing to say to a parent. For girls, ‘transition’ means double mastectomies in their teens, hysterectomies in their mid-twenties, early menopause and a four times greater chance of having a heart attack than males of the same age. To have this decaying goth wish that horror on my daughter was more than I could bear. I wanted to rip his throat out.

Like a pair of grappling cowboys falling off a rooftop, our fight spilled into email. I sent Gaiman this article about the Tavistock. It was clear when he wrote back that he hadn’t absorbed it Like most celebrities in this fight, he appeared to have lost the ability to read.

“As I said before Graham, I hope that you'd be kinder if it was one of your kids who wanted to transition. “

He actually said it again. The piece was right there, detailing exactly what was happening to the children unlucky enough to wander through the Tavistock’s doors, and he chose to repeat that disgusting thing. Why?

That same year, just months before Gaiman was advising me on the value of kindness, a 22-year-old woman (‘Scarlett’ in the podcast) arrived at his Waiheke Island home in New Zealand for a babysitting job. Upon her arrival, she discovered that Gaiman’s wife of the time, Amanda Palmer, had suddenly remembered a sleepover, an appointment the child was apparently eager to attend.

So she and junior drove out of view, leaving the 23 -year-old Scarlett alone with Gaiman for the night. Within a few hours the 61-year-old man, without warning or invitation, appeared fully naked and slipped into the other end of her bath. Scarlett alleges that over the next three weeks, they embarked on a semi-consensual relationship, where Gaiman routinely ignored the boundaries she set. She alleges that he became angry when she would refuse these demands, used a belt to beat her, insisted she call him ‘Master’ and once sexually assaulted her so violently that she lost consciousness.

“… (the sex) was so painful and so violent that I fainted. I passed out, lost consciousness, ringing in the ears, black vision, the pain was celestial, you know, which is a strange word to use, but I couldn't even describe it in language. And when I regained consciousness and I was on the ground, I looked up and he was watching the rehearsals from Scotland of whatever they were filming, I don't fucking know. And he didn't even notice that I was passed out. And you know…there was blood. It was so so, so traumatic, and I asked him to stop. I said it was too much.”

Scarlett is a compelling witness despite, or because of, her contradictions. Certain things paint a picture of consent—she sexted Gaiman, to which he would send careful replies—and she laughs nervously when she talks about the alleged abuse. But when Gaiman’s side of the story is put to her, she turns cold as a knife and shows flashes of fury that she—in her telling—young, inexperienced and dazzled by Palmer and Gaiman’s fame and lifestyle, was used so casually and so brutally.

A few years back, I wrote about becoming a sort of Jessica Fletcher figure on Twitter. ‘Murder, She Wrote” but with paedophiles and predators. “Just as murderers seemed drawn to any location Jessica presented herself, “ I said. “My opining about women's rights and safety on Twitter appeared to attract the kind of men who can't sit still during a spelling bee.”

Among my adversaries was Peter Bright, the Ars Technica writer now doing twelve years for trying to buy two children to abuse. Luckily the children didn’t exist and the parents were actually FBI agents. Our exchange was brief and concerned safeguarding. I’m sure you’re all astonished to discover that he was against it.

Then there was ex-Labour MP Eric Joyce, who argued with me about the safety of mixed-sex loos in schools and was done for possessing the worst kind of child abuse images. More recently, I tangled with ‘Lexi’, who is now serving time for rape.

They all had one thing in common. They couldn’t leave alone those of us who were actively opposing the trans movement's assault on safeguarding, an assault that chimed nicely with their plans for the future. Each was returning to the scene of a crime not yet committed, each picking at a scab on their own character.

In 2018, at the height of #MeToo, Gaiman tweeted “On a day like today it’s worth saying, I believe survivors. Men must not close their eyes and minds to what happens to women in this world. We must fight, alongside them, for them to be believed, at the ballot box, and with art, and by listening, and change this world for the better.”

Well said. I certainly believe the women in ‘Master’. During my Jessica Fletcher period (a period which continues) no-one except Gaiman ever mentioned my kids. I think he knew it would cause me distress, and the second time he said it was just a twisting of the knife. Many of my colleagues in the media joined in with the trashing of my reputation, but Gaiman went that extra mile. I believe this is because he is a sadist. I think he is a man who finds pleasure in the suffering of others, and a man who does not see women and girls as fully human.

This was my final letter to him.

Dear Neil

I notice you’re still pretending you can’t read the Tavistock story. If you ever try and lay that curse on my kids again I will certainly share our exchange. Your privileged beliefs are harming children so to paraphrase Will Smith, keep their names out of your fucking mouth.

Thank you for giving me one last chance to say that JK Rowling will be remembered as a hero and you as a traitor to the kids who loved your books.

Rest in infamy, you haunted castle.

All the best,

Graham.

[puckpocketed]

how we feelin dellandrea gang … </3

[thoughtfulfangirling]

My sister is watching spop and the other night I watched the episode "Pulse."

You know the one. Where if Catra were any slower than she is, Glimmer would have straight up murdered her. I was giggling like a maniac and flailing a bit. Both my niece and nephew yelled at me to calm down lmao. But I just cannot sit still and quiet watching Glimmer be the fucking badass she is.

And it just strikes me again how much Catra is determined to think as little of Glimmer as possible. She was in real fear there under Glimmer's rampage but it still took Double Trouble remarking they didn't know Glimmer had it in her for Catra to actually consider that yeah, Glimmer did something hardcore.

And Catra right notes that it marks tension among the friends.

Because Adora and especially Bow have been what's kept Glimmer in check to avoid tarnishing her hands for the sake of protecting her people, but they'd been leaving her behind. Proving to her she can only take her own counsel if she doesn't want to be left on a cushioned throne.

So they're not there to tell her she shouldn't murder the person who took her mother from her and has been terrorizing her people for so long.

And for real. Glimmer was aiming to fucking murder in this episode. But Catra is just really effing fast.

And I looooove Glimmer for that Hehehehe

[the-mpreg-guy]

Off anon I haven't seen Supernatural I just know about it from years on tumblr and that post about how letting him down is like letting down like good kind loving masculinity and I was like. Ah he's like the Virgin Mary but a fucked up bisexual man. I get wh I people like him

I KNOW WHAT POST YOURE TALKING ABOUT AND YES YES YES YES YES OKAY YES I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND YOU ALSO SEE THE VISION THIS IS DEAN WINCHESTER STUDIES!!!

Supernatural's core tenant is that everyone is in love with Dean like sorry I don't make the rules thats literally all 15 seasons of Supernatural and he's so integral to so many peoples redemption arcs in that show and his pretty little face has started actual wars between heaven and hell and he's a mother and a father and brother and a daughter and a son and a slut and a virgin and a metaphor for jesus but also for the adversary and also for!!! the virgin mary!!! so true!!! and to love him is to love all things good and to hate him is to hate things good and also he's bisexual

[spocksgotemotions]

I saw a stupid post on instagram about how being called skinny made this person change how they dress and wrecked their confidence and blah blah and with very few exceptions all the comments were like “oh mean fat people! It hurts just as much getting told to eat a burger than being told to stop eating burgers.” And its like I’m sorry you feel bad about your body, but until skinny people are consistently being told to get invasive surgeries or to take potentially dangerous medicines to get fat I will not feel bad for you for being skinny. Like genuinely, I do feel for anyone who is insecure about how they look, that is a shame. But you cannot tell me that it’s because you get bullied for being skinny.

[ratatatastic]

local man haunts (me) open practise yet again more news at 11

[krokaxe]

Sampson posting for @irradiatedpiratebooty

[kittykatninja321]

I take this with a grain of salt because Sheila is a known liar ruthless enough to give up her son to the Joker, so she could be lying for sympathy here. But if she’s telling the truth it kinda sounds like Willis stole their kid and decided to raise him with another woman?(might’ve been for the greater good considering the type of person Sheila is, but objectively kinda fucked up). Again she could be lying but that’s wild if true

[sarcastic-clapping]

lot’s wife was the first fujoshi

[odysseys-blood]

concerning the fact that devils in whb traditionally cant lie (or rather lying being something that had to be learned from an outside influence, like with leviathan an orias after being kidnapped and tortured in the heaven lab) i do like that its often shown that they still circumvent this however they can, ESPECIALLY beelzebub. it makes him seem very wishy-washy but in most of his conversations that veer towards the personal he just will not answer or will give a non answer. because it doesnt feel wrong to him like lying would. he can just refuse to speak. it honestly makes me want to know how much personal information we do know about him because its seeming like....not a lot at all.

on another note i wonder if its something that we've also seen mammon do. he seems the most open and truthful out of them all (all in reference to the kings anyways), and it doesnt seem like he ever worries about keeping his thoughts to himself but i wonder all the time if he evaded so hard on breaking his contract because of how it would affect his health. like he gave a straightforward answer about not needing to break his contract because his strength was overwhelming even with it, which is true he didnt lie about that! but i do think often that its possible that the contract has kept him more stable for the time he's been under it (looking at the conversation about the clone lab in tartaros that was shut down). if his life is constantly under threat by the fact that his body can't physically handle all of his power then it would make sense that he wouldn't give up his contract, especially when there are no other stable options available to him right now

[crocsandbitches]

A modern day Dracula where the plot is my boy Vlad realising that remortgaging his entire castle in Transylvania buys him a one bedroom flat in London with a sink for a toilet and he has to chose between having electricity for the month or buying a muffin from Prêt a Manger

[kangals]

way back in 2014, probably a few weeks or months after you posted that picture of boone with the stick on his head, i checked your blog out and so dearly enjoyed all the dogposting that i followed. i think you were the first dogblr blog i actually followed at the time, but it's been ages and my memory is bad, so i'm not fully sure. it wasn't long before then--2012 i think?--that i had gotten a new dog of my own, a border collie. iirc he and boone were just about the same age.

in 2018 i lost that blog i'd followed you with, and a lot of connections with it. i didn't return until 2021, and when i did, i didn't refollow most of the old blogs; i don't think i even really went looking for them. it took me a while to get back into the swing of using tumblr.

last september, my border collie had a sharp health decline, and i had to say goodbye. it's not the first time i've had to put a pet down, but i think it was the hardest. i'm still not over it. even just typing this now, i feel raw.

then in march or so, i made a new fandom friend who knows you, and i enthusiastically recalled following you before and how much i enjoyed it. i didn't even know about stellina, and now there's kep too! but... i also didn't know you'd lost boone. i followed because i still really enjoy your blog, and i love your collies too. and butters!!! so glad she's still here!

idk what made me look tonight... maybe because i talked about my old border collie with someone today. i went looking for the posts immediately around when you lost boone, because i guess some part of me wanted to know what happened. i spent the better part of an hour (maybe longer?) reading posts from the weeks before the decline, and then the loss, and then the deluge of old boone pictures after, and i've been crying pretty much the whole time just reading your posts and tags about him.

and this is a long and windy way to get to saying thank you. i'm glad you shared your grief, though that seems like a weird thing to say. there's something cathartic about crying over someone else's dog when you still hurt about your own, and knowing you're not alone in that kind of sorrow. boone was such a beautiful boy. i'll never forget that silly post that made me check your blog out in the first place, or the years of posts i stuck around for after. i wish i'd remembered to follow sooner, but the archive is still there, and it's so fun looking through all those old posts about him and his quirks and antics. he was amazing.

sorry for the length of this, i just... really wanted you to know that he touched yet another life, i guess. and i've been so deeply enjoying your posts about stellina and kep. i know it'll be a year soon... i hope there's some peace in how things have gone since he passed, and i hope the anniversary isn't too hard on you. thank you for sharing him with us.

i've been on tumblr for 14 years and this is, genuinely, the nicest ask i think i've ever been sent.

thank you - sincerely. there's been a lot of times over the course of this blog that i've felt like i was oversharing, or talking about pointless things only i cared about. i still so frequently start typing out a post only to stop mid-sentence and delete it because i can't help but think "no one cares about this." possibly it's why i like to talk about my pets so much - they're not me, but i'm the one who knows them best, so i get to say "hey look at this" and ramble and have people say "i'm looking" back. when boone passed, i lost that filter and i poured my grief out into this blog because it was the closest outlet i had. and to have hundreds of people not only acknowledge this but to commiserate, to reassure, to share their own stories - that helped healed me more than i can put into words. it's exactly as you said: there's a catharsis in grieving together.

i am sorry you also had to say goodbye. i wish i could say it gets easier, but i think that would be defeating the point of grief. your grief is your love and damn it if there isn't any act more loving in the world than choosing to say goodbye to an old, loyal dog. you think of how dogs were domesticated tens of thousands of years ago, of how human society and dogs have developed intertwined, of how we have records of ancient greeks and romans carving loving epitaths on their dog's graves, of how a prehistoric dog's skull was found with a bone placed in it's mouth after death, and you wonder if grieving a dog isn't one of the most consistent experiences in the whole of human history that there is.

i'm glad to know that this could bring you some comfort, in some way. it's incredibly touching to know that you kept me and boone in your thoughts for all this time. i am doing ok - i've been reflecting a lot as we approach the one-year mark. i'm not sure if i'll be able to condense those thoughts down into coherent words, but i'll do my best. i hope that my silly little pets continue to bring you some happiness, and that you've found peace with your own grief.

thank you, again - this is extremely touching and means a hell of a lot to me.

[looz-y]

didn't eat turkey, yet still enjoyed this Autumn Harvest feast today! hope everyone has a sane, comfortable, and safe day 💗🔮🧹🐈‍⬛

(he/she pls)

bonus +!

POV: you are turkey

[kingxgarm]

How mad would you be if we started writing for Hazbin Hotel?

Don't get us wrong, the show is visually ugly, lazy, rushed, none of the characters are likeable, they all pretty much look like shit, but the concept of literally EVERYTHING is very interesting

We have an au about the shows redemption (cuz why would you make a show about how "everyone can be redeemed" and then make a character like valentino) it's where Val (before ep 4) goes to the hotel to spy on Angel and is upset that Angel wants to be redeemed but then starts wanting redemption for himself (the reason why will be VERY flushed out) but after everyone learns what kind of guy Val is, Charlie must decide if everyone is truly worthy of redemption or if everyone even CAN be redeemed (multiple povs, from Val, to Angel, to Charlie, and maybe Vox)

We also have an idea inspired by unstoppablegrish's edited screenshots of Val in the hotel, go check them out, it's where Val and Al team up and both work in the hotel together (it's kinda self indulgent lol)

Then I have the obligatory swap aus lol

The everybody's swapped au

Val and Alastor swap (which is my favorite, Val is actually cool asf here lol)

Vees swap (they all swap with each other)

Val and Vaggie swap (Angel Val weeee)

Owner swap (angel and Val swap, and alastor and husk/Nifty swap)

Bug swap (Val and nifty)

70s swap (Val and husk)

Sin swap (random people [mainly overlords] swap with the 7 deadly sins)

Tall swap (zestial and Val)

"Why are they all Val focused?" Cuz hot take: we like Val, he's funny, he's cool looking, he's fascinating, he's dumb, and he's a comfort character (lol trauma go brrrr) and we have like tons of fictives of him, and they wanna see something cool be done with source, THIS IS FOR Y'ALL! 🖐🖐!!

Anyway yeah, let us know if we should or shouldn't or if you really don't give a shit lol