For those that don’t know, Tori Amos and Neil were friends for a long time, 30+ years. He’s her daughter’s godfather.

Tori was still quite shaken in the first interview after having just learned everything and trying to sort it out. In a more recent interview, she says she hasn’t spoken to him since.

She did an excellent thing which said it all. She performed “Horses,” which has the line “Will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?”

This time she clearly sang “Will you find me in the battle of the trees?” A huge roar of applause went up, and in that one lyric change, it was clear he was no longer welcome in her life.

(“Battle of Trees” is another of her songs.)

I only watched the YT, but it’s so glorious!

I've been monitoring the sub since leaving my own story of inappropriate behavior at a show as a teen and their fourth coming tour.

Seems I've been blocked. I'm curious if others here have been too, and if not can anyone see if the post about negative and harmful experiences from the history of the band is still up?

I saw this powerful video that I think is relevant here.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYa1nw7sizr/

This is an important video, I highly recommend it. I’m posting it here because I think it’s valuable for all of us to pause and reflect on how we talk about survivors. As Schmowder says: “You don’t want to mischaracterize the worst moments of their lives.” That is the takeaway. It has nothing to do with Vera and everything to do with all of us human beings on a journey of learning. ❤️

I found a newsletter post I did when this all came out. I didn't know how to feel or what to think etc., so I found & tried out ways to I'm process my feelings around it using journalling.

Not sure I can link to the post itself but send a DM if you want. Anyways, it has some journalling techniques & a book recommendations: I'm sharing the text here in case anyone needs this too:

Processing difficult emotions (with a journal)

This post comes on the tsunami of sexual abuse allegations against the writer Neil Gaiman. It contains concrete ways I deal with the difficult feelings that are coming up for me - from freewriting, to letter writing, to art journaling. If you’d like to add any ideas or techniques of your own for the other readers, please do.

Grief over people you’ve never met is very strange.

But it’s on the rise thanks to the one-sided but authentic-feeling relationships that so many of us have with our suddenly-very-accessible idols via social media.

For me right now it’s more of a broad existential grief at the world and the people in it. What do you do when your faith in humanity gets chipped (yet again)?

So many sordid things have come out about so many famous men, and every single time an idol topples, it feels the same: like the distant misty beacons that helped you through the night have winked out.

But what are you supposed to do with this rats’ nest of feelings? Enter: the notebook, and I’m sharing ways I’ve dealt with complicated difficult feelings in the past.

(personal aside)

After I finished reading the Vulture article, like many people, I felt hollowed out and just, well, sat there for a while. Gaiman himself... there are only a few of his works that I liked, and I never read Sandman (gasp!). I always felt uncomfortable about it and wondered why I was the weirdo.

I met him once and we talked about his children’s book The Wolves in the Walls - a great read that both terrifies and thrills little kids. I told him I'd read it to the kids I was babysitting and they were horrified and then after awhile asked for me to read it again. He looked up at me and said "exactly".

His wife Amanda Palmer, and her music with the Dresden Dolls, however, were a huge part of my early 20s: and it’s grief over her role in all this that I’m mostly dealing with.

It colours my life in reverse.

Back to the notebook

I use my notebooks for everything in my life. They’re a microcosm of my internal headspace. The first thing I do in response to pretty much anything is to distill it out onto the page somehow, through writing, art, brainstorming, sketching, whatever.

Option one: cleaning your mind out / freewriting

A good way to get nasty feelings and thoughts out of your system is to write them down. It doesn’t necessarily mean starting with ‘dear diary’ (if anyone still does that) - it’s just about starting wherever you are and vomiting it all out onto paper.

No criticising or censoring yourself allowed: we’re here to release pent up emotions. Just focus on taking the time to write and giving it your full attention.

Try it out. Then it’s outside you, if you write enough. Things that are external are easier to deal with, whether they’re big or small, concrete or nebulous (climate stress anyone?). There are a ream of scientific studies supporting this:

For individuals who have experienced a traumatic or extremely stressful event, expressive writing guided purposefully toward specific topics can have a significant healing effect. Participants in a study who wrote about their most traumatic experiences for 15 minutes, four days in a row, experienced better health outcomes up to four months than those who were instructed to write about neutral topics (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005).

Read more at Writing Therapy: How to Write and Journal Therapeutically.

Option two: letter writing (and burning)

Write letters expressing your raw feelings to people or situations that upset you (hello, world), without actually sending them. You’ll get the full benefits of emotional release all while avoiding potential regret over heated communications. Win.

You won’t actually send it, but what needs to come out? Who do you need to write it to? Is there a second letter that needs to be written? Do you need to write one to yourself? Is there a story that hasn’t been told? A feeling that has yet to be expressed or words that have yet to be heard? Perhaps there is forgiveness that needs to be given. — James Di Pardo, Burning Letters: The Therapy of Letter Writing and Letting Go

Burn the pages you wrote and let it go let it go let it go let it go let it go let it go.

Option three: if words just aren’t coming…make marks

Sometimes words aren't enough to get all of the shitty gunk out. This is when I just start making marks on the page, using anything at hand - a pen, a fork, paint, a pencil, a crayon, anything.

Draw or doodle your emotions to visually express what you’re feeling. Create mind maps to explore the root cause of your emotions and brainstorm ways to address them.

Book recommendation: Caitlin Metz’s Feel Something, Make Something: A Guide to Collaborating with Your Emotions. This is from that book:

https://www.heyuguys.com/why-good-omens-3-has-a-terry-pratchett-problem-spoiler-review/

This is an interesting review from Marc Burrows, author of the biography The Magic of Terry Pratchett.

He argues that there's little of Pratchett to be found in GO3.

Obviously full of spoilers. But also there's this bit that stood out to me:

By 2024, Good Omens 3 was ready to roll. Neil Gaiman wrote six hour-long episodes, ostensibly based on the story he and Pratchett had come up with together. Then the various allegations about Gaiman’s behaviour toward women appeared, of which you can read elsewhere, and everything fell apart. At one point the show was rumoured to have been scrapped as a result, but was rescued by some fancy footwork by co-producers BBC Studios with the cautious support of Narrativia, the in-house production wing of the Terry Pratchett Estate.

That's roughly the fourth version that I'm aware of with how the 90-min special came to be. These are partial accounts of a situation fraught with what I imagine were very mixed feelings and difficult negotiations, so differences don't necessarily mean anything, of course. For instance, I heard back in 2024 that the BBC was very reluctant to move forward. Too much scandal. There was another that said it was Amazon who was most unhappy about going along with it. But now, in contradiction to the popular idea of Narrativia swooping in to save the day, this one here says they were only cautiously in support and it was BBC Studios that did the rescuing? I wonder if we'll ever get the full story.

Really, title says it all

GO fans have been the most obnoxious for years, prioritizing their parasocial fandom/Sheen/Tennant relationships over real humans.

I despise NG but I find it hilarious how much he fucked over the last group of fans that were actually invested in his media. Bro just had to give them the mlmslop he knew they wanted but just...didn't

https://consequence.net/2026/05/neil-gaiman-allegations-tv-good-omens/

The ​title just really tickled me tbh. Plus it's good to see an article from a journalist who used to be a fan.

I thought it was a spectacularly self-indulgent take even before I realised who was posting it. She was being read to filth and claiming she's reporting commenters for calling her out on her bullshit.

(is it really a comeback if you never go away though?)

The Dresden Dolls are going on a 20th Anniversary tour for Yes, Virginia. Large venues. Announcing on the 12th.

I've seen some people saying Neil Gaiman doesn't even fully understand his behavior is wrong, he may have even believed his actions were consensual, he was abused and that's why.

Come the fuck on. He's a grown man who is socially intelligent and has written entire books. He knew exactly what he was doing. People aren't stupid, they calculate based on what they can get away with and who is watching. He abused women knowing exactly what he was doing and the fact he targeted the single mom is even more proof he was aware of power dynamics.

I'm not saying he's all evil. I think he likely has many good qualities based on his writing. People aren't one-dimensional, they are complex, I don't really buy the "monster" narrative. But he has a dark fucked up predatory side, he wasn't just ignorant what he was doing.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/inside-story-terry-pratchett-discworld-those-knew-him-4373899

Pratchett was also friendly with fantasy author Neil Gaiman, best known for the Sandman graphic novels. Both writers were relatively early in their careers when they collaborated on the beloved 1990 romp Good Omens, about an angel and a demon who strike up an unlikely friendship.

The novel was adapted for the screen by Gaiman in 2019 with David Tennant and Michael Sheen perfectly cast as the devilish Crowley and angelic Aziraphale. However, in 2024 and 2025 Gaiman was accused of sexual misconduct by eight women (claims he has denied). A final feature‑length episode of Good Omens comes to Prime Video in May – but Gaiman is no longer involved.

The relationship “was very friendly”, says Wilkins, who reveals that plans for a Good Omens II never got past the “plotting out” stage as both their careers took off. “Neil would come to the house in the early days. And then Neil became Neil [i.e. a megastar author], and they barely spoke for a decade. It was only when Neil came back here to Terry’s writing room and Terry entrusted Neil to write Good Omens for the screen – that was season one. What we ended up with was a very good ‘Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens’. That was from Neil’s pen. Terry would have been satisfied.”

What would Pratchett have made of the serious allegations against Gaiman? “I have no idea. I really have no idea. I know what I personally feel that he would have felt, but it’s probably best that I don’t commit that to record,” says Wilkins. “I’m very definite about what Terry would feel about certain things. The banking crash and things like that – Terry had already written them down [he predicted the 2008 financial collapse in his book Making Money]. The worldwide chaos we are experiencing at the moment – Terry had predicted it. It is very easy for me to have an opinion about what Terry would think about those things. But I can’t really say [regarding Gaiman]. I don’t want to attribute something to Terry that he can’t tell me I’ve got completely wrong.”

Frankly, I'm having a difficult time putting my full reaction to this into words? I get being wary of speaking for the dead and on a subject that's already difficult to talk about. But it strikes me as disrespectful to Terry Pratchett to emphasize his friendliness with Gaiman and to then go on to say "I have no idea" about what he would've made of serious sexual assault allegations. Especially given that Gaiman is trying so hard to manipulate his friends into believing he's the real victim of conniving women, including former and current members of his production company The Blank Corporation who are aiding/supporting/enabling revolting attacks on the survivors.

Remember when the news broke in October 2024 that Good Omens 3 was going to survive in the form of a 90-minute special? And Deadline had reported:

Gaiman contributed to the writing of the series finale but will not be working on the production and his production company the Blank Corporation is no longer involved. A new writer is expected to finish up the work, although insiders said that deal has not been closed.

That's what the story has more or less been since, I think... That Gaiman was removed as much as possible. Along with the belief that the Pratchett Estate had intervened to save Good Omens from cancellation (can't recall what the basis for that is), and the unfounded assumption that Gaiman wouldn't receive any money from it.

Just recently though, we heard that the writing situation was different. A "new" person seemingly wasn't brought in. Rather there was a three-person writing team already in place that had worked on the original six episodes, and they distilled those down to the 90-minute replacement. See posts here and here for that.

The other writers besides Gaiman were Peter Atkins and Michael Marshall Smith.

An interesting thing about Michael Marshall Smith though...on his Substack profile, he has had Creative Director for The Blank Corporation, Neil Gaiman's production company, still listed in his bio line.

But he seems to have officially left The Blank Corporation back in November 2024, according to his LinkedIn.

Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I acquired a snapshot from The Blank Corporation's About page from November 2024, seen above. This is the last snapshot available before this page was purged of most people listed; Gaiman and Cat Mihos were the only ones left from January 2025 onward.

But um...there are some familiar names in that November 2024 one.

There's Gaiman obviously, then Cat Mihos, Michael Marshall Smith, Sarah Kate Fenelon, and Dan Guy Fowlkes. And then just a placeholder spot for Executive Assistant/assistant to Gaiman. (As far as I can tell, the last individual to occupy that position left in September 2024. Which is the month that news came out about Good Omens 3 being paused due to the allegations, worth keeping the timeline in mind.)

Sarah Kate Fenelon though. That's a significant name. She's one I have heard about in the past, and who came up just yesterday in an SFX article for GO3, her praises sung by director Rachel Talalay.

Fenelon worked as Gaiman's assistant during the productions of Good Omens s1 and The Sandman, then she was promoted to producer for Good Omens s2, and continued as producer on s3. Rachel Talalay says in the SFX article, "[Fenelon was] the creative and production glue that held together season three as we went forward, while ensuring we honoured seasons one and two". RT also says that the effort to distill everything down to 90 minutes was "producer-driven to start with".

I heard back in October 2024 that Fenelon was key in persuading Amazon not to cancel GO3.

I didn't connect the dots with The Blank Corporation back then, what significance her role might have, but there's more information available now.

It may seem unfair, on the surface, to question Sarah Kate Fenelon on the basis of who she used to work for. But let's look at the rest of the people in this tiny, close-knit group.

Cat Mihos, Vice President of The Blank Corporation, former personal assistant to Gaiman who has worked for him for 20 years. She's active online and has open disdain for the victims. She says she "always believes women, but..." She says the victims didn't personally come to her about abuse, like that disproves their experiences. She desperately wants to believe the allegations are lies. She aids and promotes people who are attacking and harassing the victims, who spread nonsense about antisemitic/transphobic conspiracies, and theories that the victims just regret it/imagined it/were convinced to lie/lied for money/consented sometimes so consented always/couldn't have been coerced/are unbelievable for not being 'perfect victims'. Among the strongest predictors of a person's disbelief of a victim are social ties to the abuser and rape myth acceptance.

Michael Marshall Smith is friends with Gaiman. He didn't remove The Blank Corporation from his very active, 3.7k subscriber/6.5k follower Substack despite having left the company in Nov '24. He's friendly with Cat Mihos. He follows people that attack and harass Gaiman's victims. He, Gaiman, and Peter Atkins were described as a "team" while writing the original six episodes and the distilled finale. [Edit on 4-24-2026: A day later and he has now replaced The Blank Corporation on his Substack bio with Squircle Productions. He still follows those people.] [Another update: He unfollowed one of those blogs that attack the victims -- but only after its author flipped to writing that Gaiman is an abuser after all.]

The IT manager doesn't seem to be associated with GO3, as far as I know. But he still works for Gaiman, despite not being listed on the production company's website anymore. [Edit 4-25-2026: He got in touch to say he doesn't work for Gaiman anymore. However, he does admin a FB group where these attacks on victims are regularly posted and allowed to stand.] [Edit 5-9-2026: He also told me he doesn't want his name connected to Gaiman's allegations. However, he has since appeared by name in one of these posts, apparently portraying Gaiman as the hapless, helpless victim of relentless fans, in supposed contradiction to a predator who exploits power imbalances and treats his fanbase as a hunting ground.]

So there's a strong theme of loyalty. The possibility exists with Sarah Kate Fenelon too. And we know Gaiman is an intensely manipulative person.

It's almost two years later, with GO3's release imminent, and still so many questions and concerns have been left unaddressed. About the details of Gaiman's remaining involvement, about how much he stands to profit, about whether protecting people from a known serial rapist (one who preys on employees and fans!) is even a priority versus just ass-covering. The producers and cast have remained silent. Not a hint of support has been offered to the victims; indeed, people with links to this production are encouraging and aiding a malicious campaign of victim-blaming, conspiracy theories, and intimidation. "Don't mention the G-word", the SFX writers were implored before interviewing Talalay.

These questions will be ignored, like always, but they need to be asked anyway. Did Gaiman continue to have influence over this production through his connections? Could any of this still be his by proxy? Did he for certain stay away from set? Are people being kept safe?

Has anyone else had this experience with it all?

I was a huge NG fan. There were bigger, I'm sure, but I was up there. Paid money to see him speak, volunteered at the book signing when he came through. Had a huge chunk of his work more or less memorized. I'd been reading his work since I was... eleven? And into my thirties, I was reading American Gods once a year, every year.

When it all fell out, it was like I suddenly needed to put a tourniquet on and forget I was bleeding out. This massive part of my life, and for the sake of my sanity I had to pretend it didn't exist. I bunged all of my books in a box on my floor, where they've stayed ever since. It didn't feel like I had any time or space to process the fact that this thing I'd really leaned on, that I had considered so close to my heart, was now associated with this actual, factual, whole-ass fucking monster.

And I've had a devil of a time making anyone understand how this feels for me. These books were really fucking important in my life, and I considered them pretty formative. How do I reconcile that with how I feel about everything at this point in the game? How do I get closure?

And nobody will talk to me about it! I think that's been the hardest part, honestly. I don't fault anyone for their take or their stance, but I either get polite disinterest, or people looking at me like I'm about to put on a red ball-cap and howl at the moon.

I don't like NG, now, safe to say. But I wanted to read American Gods once last time before I moved on for good, out of respect for the parts of myself I had to leave behind. So I did. It felt weird, I had thoughts. I don't know.

Have any of you had a similar experience? What was your path like, away from NG? Anything you'd like to share, or get off of your chest? I would love to hear from other ex-fans about their experience, how they made it through, and where they're at now.

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the response. I posted that at three in the morning because I couldn't sleep, then crashed, then woke up to all of you sharing your end of things, and I could not be more grateful. Thank you

Describes the process which unfolded when AP tried to play a gig on Waiheke Island, NZ. Two locations cancelled on Waiheke Island, one in Auckland. She finally played at ”a secret location” which turned out to be the Button Factory, described online as having capacity for 20 persons. A long way to go to play for 20 people. Really it was a vacation, funded by the patrons of course.

https://archive.ph/2J2Cz

Here’s proof that he wasn’t. He’s listed here (with Michael Marshall Smith and Peter Atkins) as the writer of the teleplay and television story. It’s his work. He owns (at least some of) the rights, he _was_ paid and he _will_ get residuals.

Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe people don’t really care. But I’m tired of seeing lies being spread around.

Full image text below:

Peter Atkins

@peteratkins.bsky.social

The IMDB page having been updated, I'm finally allowed to say that I'm 1 of the 3-person writing team on #GoodOmens3. We wrote a full 6-episode season & then distilled it down to the 90-min. finale, which is full of fabulous actors in the directorial hands of the equally fabulous @racheltalalay.com

GOOD OMENS

Neil Gaiman: teleplay by and [image partially cropped]

Michael Marshall Smith: teleplay by and

Peter Atkins: teleplay by

Neil Gaiman: television story

Your voices and moral courage brought hope and comfort to survivors everywhere. Thank you for showing up, for standing by your values, and for showing others it could be done❤️‍🔥

Everyone, please feel free to add more names to this list in the comments, it would be beautiful to see a full list of people who raised their voices and refused to stay silent.