#also sorry for the kinda late reply i am toiling my ass off over 4 one and a half hour math lectures

[fearandhatred]

He can’t use ANY of the ideas we send him?? Or just the ones he posts? I would think between all the asks he gets surely there’s some stuff he was already planning on doing

hi anon! you can read more on neil's post here, but as far as i know, yeah he can't. it's also very hard to disprove any accusation of him using a fan's theory/idea, even if he hasn't actually seen it -- worse still if he has acknowledged it previously.

the article linked to that post about an actual case also says:

...since if they ended up using an idea randomly pitched to him on social media, even by accident, there could be grounds for a legal claim.

and a tweet from the writer in question involved:

...please do not provide story ideas; they can't exist where I post for legal reasons, so tweeting story ideas 100% guarantees that I won't use them.

anything sent in or even anything neil happens to see can be considered "pitches". i'm really not fully sure on the exact extent of this, but it would make sense for him to take every precaution to not get into legal trouble, so it wouldn't surprise me if he just decides not to use any ideas that have been sent to him at all.

(honestly, no idea how he manages to avoid all of them, it's a question i've had for a while too. i don't think blocking the good omens meta tag is sufficient for that. maybe none of us have even come close to what the plot of s3 will be lol)

but yeah, it's a miracle he's still on tumblr interacting with us considering the risks tbh.

tldr; shut up <3 don't send him ANY theories, and also don't ask him for spoilers please, do y'all really think he'll reveal anything. be serious