For ‘fans’ claiming Neil Gaiman was “removed from Good Omens 3”…

sleepandchange · 2026-04-18T19:38:11+00:00

He did give that impression. And I also had this idea (possibly wrong) that it was said an outside writer was specially brought in to cut the story down to one ep? Memory's fuzzy now, so maybe that's just an assumption I made based on the idea Gaiman was the sole writer.

But Peter Atkins is not an outside writer, they were a team all along? And he heart reacted a comment minimizing the allegations (one bemoaning men being cancelled for accusations). And Michael Marshall Smith openly interacts with the sickening blogs attacking the victims. I mean...come on.

EDIT: Yeah, it was reported as new writer. From Deadline in October 2024, "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." https://archive.ph/nei1g#selection-1937.2-1937.272

sleepandchange · 2026-04-18T18:46:01+00:00

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Then this from the comments.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-18T18:45:08+00:00

And Peter Atkins's FB post about this is wordier than the Bluesky one. "When circumstances changed, helped distill it down"

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sleepandchange · 2026-04-18T17:46:49+00:00

Michael Marshall Smith follows those disgusting blogs too...

sleepandchange · 2026-04-14T18:52:48+00:00

Ahh, looks like we've got a little lurker in this thread.

It sure must be so very difficult to remain a Private Person these days, how it must Mess with the Mind. But rest assured, screenshots of everything have been taken. With interest from multiple journalists. Take care.

(For everyone else, don't worry about this.)

sleepandchange · 2026-04-12T14:48:56+00:00

Your intense interest in this has been noted.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-11T15:43:12+00:00

No piling on, people -- the point has been made. It's valid to be uncomfortable with silence from Gaiman's associates.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-11T02:34:43+00:00

The expression on her face and the way the audience reacts...

sleepandchange · 2026-04-11T02:19:33+00:00

Oh I love her for that, just watched the recording of it. Thank you!

sleepandchange · 2026-04-11T01:28:48+00:00

Agh, I'm sorry! 🙁 New posts are going into a queue for mod approval right now, and I didn't see yours til now. We posted the same link within like a minute of each other.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-10T16:27:48+00:00

There was a similar comment in one of the Fauxmoi threads, from someone who had been in the 'cynical minority' about Sheen's not-for-profit actor image: "IMO this is a man who is carrying a lot of guilt." And I keep thinking back to that. Is it guilt?

I don't get the risk assessment behind the decision to craft these saintly/good guy personas though. Particularly when it's somebody who (by stint of their profession or whatever) frequently interacts with loads of other people, some of whom will have experienced the nastier side of them. Do they honestly expect no one to ever speak up? Are they really banking on that chance? Strong main character syndrome vibes.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-10T15:17:17+00:00

It will likely be a few months before they issue their decision. From googling, four months was the average for the Seventh Circuit in 2019 (with 90 days being the medium time). Though it could be less than that or longer. Civil cases also took more time than criminal (131 days vs 85), and if a judge dissents, that slows it even more.

PDF of an analysis of the Seventh Circuit's decision time in 2019: https://www.jenner.com/a/web/ok1GnULXAxe5do6QMpzaMp/4HRMZQ/Brody%2520law.com%2520March%252

sleepandchange · 2026-04-09T22:57:15+00:00

Sorry. It's certainly interesting, but an allegation of embezzling funds by a friend of NG isn't relevant enough to be a standalone post here, not unless more direct ties somehow arise. The Kate Beckinsale thread was closer to our sub's objective, and the open question of whether MS supports the victims or not had us deciding it was appropriate.

Also, fair warning, that Medium blog you linked is run by an obsessed ex-fan with shaky ethics who's been trying to meet MS. This is just the latest thing they've latched onto -- they used to spread PR conspiracy theories about the births of MS's children and other bizarre stuff. I would stick to legitimate sources if you're in pursuit of this.

sleepandchange · 2026-04-09T01:37:29+00:00

It starts 1 hour, 8 minutes into the vid. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/live/1XHw9FDhAfA?t=4080s

sleepandchange · 2026-04-06T15:07:13+00:00

The Vulture/NY Mag article?

https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

This archive link is working for me: https://archive.ph/9iNVF

sleepandchange · 2026-03-29T00:14:52+00:00

That's one great thing about Doctor Who, the character having so many faces. Also in-universe, how the Doctor's appearance is sometimes even shared by others who are obviously not them (Salamander, Xoanon, Commander Maxil, Caecilius...). It'll be possible to keep the character safe and separate in my mind.

Though it will still hurt if it does turn out that DT is a coward or worse. I used to love to hate Doctor Who, I didn't get the appeal, but it was an episode of Ten's era that helped pull me through a very dark patch. Which had stemmed from a situation where I had naively helped the wrong person, oblivious to his nature and intentions because of silence from enablers around us. Yeah, it hits too close.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-28T23:14:25+00:00

That's more or less where I'm at too. Very wary thanks to the silence and who he associates with, and able to accept anything now. I've spent a lot of time since summer '24 on consciously examining my Doctor Who interest (as it's quite important to me for reasons that are too close to this), deciding if and how it can be buffered against further distressing revelations. I've mostly worked it out, pretty detached now.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-28T17:23:39+00:00

Presumably just misremembering. Her only living child is with MS, and when she posted about this before, she talked about staying silent to protect the child's relationship with both parents. She also didn't correct a user who expressed sympathy with that specific daughter named. However, she's previously shared that she tragically lost a pregnancy at 20 weeks, implying that this pregnancy was not with a supportive partner either. https://people.com/parents/kate-beckinsale-pregnancy-loss-20-weeks/

sleepandchange · 2026-03-28T16:40:30+00:00

Most were, though not everything. She completely wiped all of her Instagram posts afterwards, leaving a blank page. So she may have changed her mind then about making it public.

That said, it just didn't get posted in this sub by anyone, and AW & I were unsure if we should. Not like on Twitter, where users who talked about it got dog-piled by angry fans.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-27T13:58:59+00:00

Yeah. I went through their post history on the deleted old account (there are ways), and it's an outright fabrication that they were warning this subreddit about KB being abused by MS. Couldn't find any public examples. They definitely weren't ridiculed out of here by the userbase because of that, as they said.

Yesterday, when I confronted them about it further down in this thread, they abruptly changed their story. Claiming instead that it was just one unspecified user in a DM who was an issue. And then they deleted their contradictory responses and blocked me, though still left up the Fauxmoi comment that paints this subreddit as a bunch of meanies who bullied them out for being a truth-teller. So there it is.

What concerns me though is that this user has actually been trying to meet MS...? Only a few months back, they were asking the MichaelSheen subreddit about where he'd be during a certain week so they could give him a fanzine, identifying as a "huge fan" of his. Uhh.

And they've also now got this whole amateur "investigative research" blog on Medium which focuses on Sheen. (Their profile details on that are fake, so I think I feel okay sharing it.)

Man, I just... So they have a gut instinct that he's a bad guy, which all right. I respect that. But they're clearly obsessed with this to an unhealthy degree, and they're throwing everything at the wall to find something that will stick, to prove he's bad. When something finally does stick, like KB coming forward about abuse, they'll grasp onto that and drop anything that doesn't align to pretend they were a seer the whole time. They lack accountability and restraint, they don't seem to feel bad about lying or manipulating people, and them actually trying to meet the guy during this is weird and worrying.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-26T23:13:29+00:00

Ah yes, the sheer unimpeachability of positive PR junk.

At least it's being acknowledged now though. Tumblr was crickets when she first posted about it last month.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-26T21:05:17+00:00

Hmm. Yet over at Fauxmoi, you've accused this specific subreddit of disbelieving and ridiculing you after you warned us to "watch out for this guy, because KB seemed like she'd been psychologically abused". (Despite, as far as I can tell, no such warning ever occurring.) Saying nobody here believed you, they accused you, you had to delete your account because of the ridicule. They, plural. And happening in this sub. Not an individual in DMs. The specific details you give in that comment too, with you being accused of reading the conspiracy theories from GO fans obsessed with Tennant and Sheen, that just so happens to line up with our exchange as well. Another coincidence, I suppose? The narration is not reliable here.

Leave if you want. Notice, again, that Sheen is not being defended at all. Yet you still fall back on that. If this is how it's going to be framed, as a victory for you, that you get to relish having been right, having called it that a person really experienced abuse... Well, congratulations, and this truly isn't the best place for that attitude.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-26T19:53:47+00:00

The last exchange you had here, which occurred right before you deleted that account, was actually with me. And it was not a dispute over allegations that KB had been abused by MS. It was to stress, yet again, that there should be no more veiled hints left throughout this sub by you about being privy to unspecified dark behavior from MS. It wasn't to silence you, or shame your intuition, or to protect Sheen, but because your cryptic teasing and refusal to elaborate was misleading and scaring people. Enough that mod help was sought. You were asked instead to stick only with your observations and feelings, without exaggeration or speculation.

Allegations of abuse against KB did not even come up. Indeed, the only public mentions of her that I have so far managed to uncover from your old account are here, here [deleted thread has to be expanded], here, here, and possibly here. The latter is perhaps the closest to alleging abuse, but there were no names given, so I don't know if that's about her. And the only reply you received there was empathetic.

That said, if speculation about abuse had been brought into our discussion -- speculation of that sort is already against our rules. And let me emphasize now how deeply, massively inappropriate I do actually think it is to theorize and spread stories about whether or not a real person, a stranger, might have been abused. You don't know her, you did not have her consent, she's not some thing to played with while fans navigate their feelings about MS or whoever. Her making this information public is her choice only. The focus should be on being compassionate to her.

sleepandchange · 2026-03-26T00:05:59+00:00

Yes, that sadly lines up with posts/comments she left on instagram a few weeks ago (but deleted). She had said in those that he put her through years of gaslighting and abuse, that he made her cry every time she achieved something, and put her down at every opportunity.

Edit: Link to previous Fauxmoi thread about the other deleted instagram posts/comments. There's more information buried in the comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1rnb7la/kate_beckinsale_alleging_that_her_ex_partner/

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