#i didn't write any of my thoughts on how Neil being trans changes this story. it's mostly not that important iirc

[nutella-icecream]

hello what's Trans vampire slayer Neil Josten

It's another one of my story ideas that's entirely bulleted outline with no parts written. I'm just going to share it all here

I think Nathan should be working for The First Evil, bc that would be fucked up. Mary realizes he might be able to track down Neil after weapons practice/ritual slayer murder with the Moriyamas and decides to flee with all Nathan’s money

Neil goes to high school in the US. but is Andrew a vampire or a student?

I think Andrew as a vampire could be really fucked up

His eidetic memory led him to give himself a soul, to protect what he wanted as a human

Let’s go with student Andrew for now. We’re in Columbia, SC. Allison, Renee, Seth, Dan, and Matt are seniors. Andrew and Aaron are juniors. Neil is a sophomore, as is Janie Smalls, the first victim of a vampire attack in the story.

Nicky is the guardian of Aaron and Andrew. Neil squats in an abandoned house. Wymack is either the librarian or the gym teacher at the high school…I want to make him the buff librarian bc it would be funny

If the Moriyamas work with The First Evil, then Kevin was trained for that after his mom died. What was her morality like in this setting?????????? Does Exy exist???? I want to say no. in that case, Kevin grew up with Wymack but kept his mom’s name. Wymack is training him to become a Watcher.

Neil knows the very bare minimum about vampires and demons from traveling constantly and living on the run for 6 years. He knows they’re real, he’s staked a vampire. He goes to a fictionalized Dreher High School bc there’s enough death associated with it that I can excuse Columbia being a hellmouth (:

I feel like a Hush premise would be really funny with Neil, who lies all the time and suddenly can’t do that anymore!

ANDREW AS WILLOW ANDREW AS WILLOW ANDREW AS WILLOW

Andrew already knows he’s gay but. Magic as a way of learning to control the chaos in his life. Magic as a way to express the good he sees in others. Magic as the connection between him and Neil when they ask “yes or no.” Magic as protecting his family and Neil

No Xander, all my homies hate Xander

Seth becomes a vampire bc of Riko at the end of the first arc and Neil stakes him

Renee would probably be one of the first people to find out about the supernatural, other than Andrew. Dan and Matt would find out together. Allison needs to find out before Seth turns.

[jimmythejiver]

I don't really have the stomach to talk about Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. The information is out there and irrefutable. Nobody listened to the victims before and not enough of us questioned why he was on this website in the first place and made himself extremely available to take on fans as critics and wield his swarm of defenders against them. I should know, I was one of the people who didn't care for Gaiman's shitty Poison Ivy origin and saw original poster darvo'd about it by Gaiman and fans.

Amanda Palmer's music was played to me by a friend and I didn't care for it. She sounded as toxic as she turned out to be, I guess. Sorry we can't write about these things without being too close to the source. To anyone who found it cathartic, I'm sorry.

Neil Gaiman was to me that wave of Brit or Scot writers who took over American comics and proceeded to change it, but in less bad ways than Moore, Millar or Morrison, but still bad, but good comics came out of it so that's nice. At least he stayed mostly in his lane writing Sandman and Books of Magick. Of the big three he wasn't crippling Barbara Gordon so Joker can get his rocks off like Moore or writing two types of fascists in Batman vs. Superman like Miller. Gaiman would eventually pivot to writing books, many I just didn't take time to read for whatever reason. Same with Rowling and her work no matter how much educators and friends tried to push it on me. It took the last Harry Potter book for me to read it and then read backwards when it was supposed to be older. You know why? Because my biggest Draco-Pansy Parkinson ass acting bully read and lived them and thought she was Harry and Hermione. To me that is indicative not so much of my bully's warped sense of the world but that there is something wrong with Harry and Hermione. Off topic, I bet Rowling is crowing that a man who acted like a champion of gay and trans people is a rapist and abuser of women. Never mind the accusations of her works being derivative of his and that's another thing.

I couldn't even bring myself to read Sandman (I had an issue from the 90s as a hand me down from oldest brother and that's it) because I resented it being the graphic novel to shove into percieved women's faces if I so much as entered any comic shop. This was before Scott Pilgrim took its place. I was an anti-hype hipster who liked basic bitch capes shit what can I say? I also didn't need the writer of pop folklore influencing how I'd someday tackle myths and the dream realm, etc. See Rowling above. Yeah it was hard to escape this guy's influence whether you knew it was him or not. It was how I wanted to see Stardust but couldn't get anyone to drive me so I didn't, but I could for Coraline, not aware it's this guy's work. I had overtime appreciated Gaiman's commitment to his craft whether it was for me or not, that he included queer characters even though he wasn't, that he championed low brow entertainment as worthy of telling stories through put him in esteem with me even if he was otherwise a douche. In that he was speaking my language, it sucks that in reality we were speaking past each other. I am burned that we live in a society where I can't speak my mind without being ripped to shreds ad accused of vile shit while not being known, while Gaiman is insulated enough but integrated enough to slip under the radar. He was both too close but above us that he can weaponize that. He can lure women who have nothing with the help of his wife to lord over them financially and through reputation. It is bleak that any criticism of him made him stronger to be defended, to be excused, to have no dirt dug up except on a Sci/en/tology expose blog average people not in the know ignore that these women couldn't get any hits searching his name with Metoo after she was raped before she came forward. That is fucked.

Don't lie now and claim his work is worthless, own it. I own the Coraline film adaptation. I used to own HP books. When are we going to stop being shocked picachu face that your favorite sucks.