2025 off to a truly nauseating start

After this week’s release of the more thoroughly researched article laying out the absolutely horrific details of Neil Gaiman’s (alleged) sex crimes, I remembered I actually still had an old user icon of him and Amanda Palmer from well over a decade ago still sitting around among my other Dreamwidth icons (and LJ icons too, as it turned out). So, that’s been deleted now, on both sites.

While I was in there I ended up culling about 80 or 90 other icons, largely from fandoms I’m not really all that into anymore. I may end up purging more later, but it was nice to free up the space. I might use the freed up slots to house more Good Omens icons.

Good Omens is still very close to my heart and I intend to remain in the fandom, but I’m treating it as a Terry Pratchett property — which is what the Terry Pratchett Estate seems to be doing, as well. All the other Gaiman books I owned have been purged from my shelves. My friend Lenn was a bigger Gaiman fan than I was and she’s done the same thing.

Two sequential screencaps from "The Simpsons" in which the town of Springfield have gathered at the train station to collectively ensure that a man they've tied to a chair (and then tied the chair to a train car) really does leave town with the train. In the original Simpsons episode, it was the man who originally bore the name Seymour Skinner (before Principal Skinner took on his identity). In this image, however, Neil Gaiman's head has been pasted over Mr Skinner's, so that it looks like it was Mr Gaiman that the town of Springfield has securely strapped down to send away. 

The top image is a closeup of the tied-up Gaiman, captioned with him appearing to say, "But I wrote Good Omens!" 

In the bottom image, we see everyone watching the train pull away with Gaiman on it, with Homer / Springfield as a whole replying, "And we thank Terry Pratchett for it. Now, don't come back!"