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If anyone wants an indepth dive, but doesn't feel like listening to the original podcasts or dig through a lot of Tumblr Links, Council of Geeks has created two videos:

About those Neil Gaiman allegations (and the outlet that broke the story)


More Neil Gaiman Allegations (form a clear pattern)


^Excellent in all respects, takes care to separate the women's stories from the outlet that broke the news and so on. And yeah, NG just seems to be yet another one of Those Guys. (sigh)

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Sidebar: I am very happy that Dead Boy Detectives is basically free from Neil Gaiman (he has had no input since, like the turn of the millennium, and the new TV show is the creation of Steve Yokey).

However, the bigger issue is obviously Good Omens, and I'm not sure what to do about that. It's the thing of 'I don't want to support this creator', but also the show is so much more than just Gaiman, and I love Michael Sheen & David Tennant... Ah well. I guess there's plenty of time to figure it out, it'll be a year or two until anything appears.

With thanks to masakochan, the new trailer for S4 of Umbrella Academy:



Looks fabulous.

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And then I stumbled across this Good Omens video and remembered all the reasons I love this show and Good Omens:



(It's a proper old-fashioned vid - no TALKING - and the editing is 👌👌👌

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GQ MAgazine - interview with Ncuti Gatwa: Ncuti Gatwa Rising
Playing the lead role in Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa shoulders the weight of one of pop culture’s most feverish fandoms. But it’s nothing compared to what he’s carried to get here

(I haven't written much about the new season, mostly I am just blown away by how good it is. Thoughts probably to follow once we have seen all of it. But let's just say that the latest episode destroyed me in all the best ways. 😍😍😍 Oh my heart! Oh show! Oh Doctor!)

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Finally, a very random thing I came across: Most popular Brno souvenir is for free <3

Season 3 confirmed!

https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/736697289177972736

magnavox_23 posted loads of beautiful icons (Doctor Who, Our Flag Means Death, What We Do In The Shadows (tv), Staged, Sherlock, What We Do In The Shadows (movie), The Mandalorian, Good Omens, The Last of Us, Flight of the Conchords.) MANY SPOILERS

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And voting is now open for TV Choice Magazine's Awards. ETA: Very UK centric. *g*

There are many many categories and I realised just how little mainstream TV I watch...

The WGA strike is over, and they won!

Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA

ETA:
The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

Which means...


(x)

Neil's response. :)

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Daily Dimash: Dimash & Tía Ray - Jasmine Flower | 10th Silk Road Film Festival 27 Sept 2023



(It got blocked, but it's on Dimash's Instagram here)

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The author of The Therapy Fic (Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach* - or: 'Crowley Goes To Therapy') is writing a companion fic for Aziraphale:

Angel-Centered Therapy Through A Multicultural Lens: An Integrative Approach

Only 4 chapters so far. I AM NOT OKAY. GIVE ME MOAR. *grabby hands*

*If you have not read this, then... go. read.

(I should probably check out Inside No. 9)

Also probably the only comedian to *actually* have Crowley's hair.

What made the difference was this poster by Rory Kurtz. Isn't it amazing?

The poster for S1 has been my wallpaper for the past 4 years, it's almost a part of me.

So a new poster means actual change.

My 17 year old has left for a Halloween party dressed as Crowley, complete with bb!antichrist in a basket. I feel I must have done something right. :)

ETA: Clarification - the 'party' was 5 teenagers in a room, eating pizzas & chupa cups and watching Twilight. (But all dressed up!) ♥

Feel I ought to write something, so here goes.

Watched 'Legend of the Sea Devils'. Spoilers under cut.

( Um, not terribly positive )

ANYWAY. Onto GOOD and WONDERFUL representation. I watched Our Flag Means Death which is exactly as delightful and enjoyable as everyone said.

There is a lovely article here:

How Our Flag Means Death’s creator made a period romance disguised as a pirate comedy
David Jenkins opens up about everyone’s favorite queer pirate show
^MANY MANY SPOILERS

And such_heights has a vid:

Bohemian Like You
summary: No I haven't heard your band, 'cause you guys are pretty new.

All I can really say is: Watch it! ♥ ♥ ♥

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Sidebar: Amazing Good Omens icons here by magnavox_23 who is incredibly talented.

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What else? Oh yes. Then we binged the first three episodes of S2 of Russian Doll and ohmygodilovethisshowsomuch

I don't think I ever wrote about S1, partly because it was simply so perfect that I had nothing to say. S2 looks like it's equally inventive and SO CLEVER OMG (although going in a different kind of direction, no Groundhog Day this time). Partly I am just in awe of the ingenuity, but the other half of me just adores all the characters to tiny tiny pieces and I simply just want to spend more time with them. I'd watch them read the phone book, they're that wonderful and complex and real.

It's sort of... the opposite of Chibnall Who.

ETA: Watched episode 4, and it's just so gooood. Crazy, crazy clever and inventive, as well as just crazy. It all just runs off the sheer chaos energy that is Nadia.

Thought: There must be cross-over fic with Doctor Who. Esp since Nadia is probably one of the few people who a) could understand what the Doctor is on about (like, the science) and b) is more chaotic than the Doctor. Ye gods, the sparks would fly. <3

(In OFMD world, Ed would love her. She would make Stede very nervous.)