#amandapalmer — Public Fediverse posts

Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/15/trump-artist-protest-fall-of-freedom #MichaelMoore #JenniferEgan #AmandaPalmer #Artanddesign #LynnNottage #AvaDuVernay #DonaldTrump #Culture #Protest #USnews #Books #Art

#BostonWeekend 25x Sat CELLO Zoe Keating in #SomervilleMA - composer who does interesting things like Cello x looper pedals. Also a show in #Brattleboro #Vermont Friday night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jToYxrS0oKw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Keating https://www.somervilletheatre.com/production/zoe-keating/ #BostonMusic #ZoeKeating #ImogenHeap #AmandaPalmer #Composers #Cello #Strings #Vermont #Loop #looping #looper
cc @bones & @rednikki

RIP #OzzyOsbourne #MusicWomenWednesday

Dresden Dolls ripping it up on War Pigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimY82SpGhY

#AmandaPalmer #Brian Viglione #BlackSabbath

Hey you! Yes, you! Do you like Dresden Dolls' music but Amanda Palmer has given you the ick? Let me introduce you to Kat Robichaud.
#DresdenDolls #AmandaPalmer #NeilGaiman
album.link/y/OLAK5uy_l1rFcmeovvJof1-fKXzNjOFX3tPUrmEsY

The Dresden Dolls - “Coin Operated Boy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gPZPKJc0s

#music #TheDresdenDolls #AmandaPalmer

Not only did she not know it, it's pretty clear she didn't know it.

She had no contact whatsoever with #Gaiman between 2020 and 2022, 2022 is when the Pavlovich revealed to #Palmer what happened. That is a bit after Palmer says to her friend the comment about discovering and uncovering what a monster he'd been this whole time.

It is quite clear that Palmer is unaware that Gaiman is a serial rapist until right before their divorce begins.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #Palmer #Gaiman

No, I’m not talking about Dave Grohl; he went down awhile ago. I’m talking about Neil Gaiman. I didn’t know him, but I loved his stories. So much. Dearly.

An article about Neil Gaiman by Lila Shapiro hit the literary world like a bomb yesterday. It’s been published in Vulture and in New York Magazine. If you haven’t read it and feel so inclined, read this list of trigger warnings first. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have any history of abuse or trauma, or if you just ate.

Here is the article, both paywalled and not. Brace yourself.

Shapiro documented eight women who have accused Gaiman of some degree of gruesome abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, physical, economic. Some of it amounts to imprisonment and torture. His ex-wife Amanda Palmer is accused of being complicit in the abuse, of procuring victims for him.

Fantasy lovers were at ground zero in the article’s strike zone. Reactions on the microblogging platforms BlueSky, X. and Mastodon included the following:

• Nausea.
• Shock and horror.
• Inability to read the article or need to take breaks.
• Praise for the quality of the journalism and writing (whether readers got through it or not).
• Praise for the victims’ courage in coming forward despite having signed NDAs.
• Prayers and sympathy for the victims.
• Feelings of revictimization or being triggered; sensations associated with pain of past abuse.
• Overwhelm (“this article is a lot”).
• Feelings of betrayal.
• Warnings to others, whether TWs or “don’t read it.”
• Anger on the victims’ behalf, including OBO their child, toward Gaiman and Palmer.
• Anger at Scientology and Gaiman’s parents for traumatizing Gaiman in the first place.
• Calls for retribution, religious, legal, otherwise, against all abusers and enablers.
• Curses and other maledictions on the aforementioned.
• Questions about what to do with the works and adaptations of the artists responsible, with the usual social media race for the margins: I’m donating, well I’m throwing in the trash, well I’m having a bonfire. For adaptations, “I refuse to watch.” “Okay, maybe I’ll watch ‘Good Omens.’ since Pratchett was in on it.”
• Grief and mourning proportionate to the relationship or closeness to the perpetrator(s) or how much he/they and his/her works were loved.
• Attacks on the grieving, who apparently have no right to pause for even 24 hours before disavowing and pronouncing maledictions.
• Analysis of the works of the perpetrators to try to make sense of it all, including my BlueSky post ending with, “He’s Madoc (from “Sandman”) and on some level he wants retribution.”
• Denouncement of idolizing people: “That’s what I get for having a hero” or “This is why I have no heroes.”
• Summoning dead people whose work you can still revere (“We still have so-and-so”); hopes that associated beloved writers associated didn’t know about Gaiman’s character, so that they are innocent.

This being social media, there were attacks on other people on all of the platforms, aimed at those whose responses to the tragic allegations were seen as less than optimal, virtuous, or acceptable than the poster’s own POV.

How does one make sense of what Gaiman may have done to these women? He doesn’t deny most of it; he says it was consensual. There is no consent where massive power differentials exist, such as the ability to deprive someone of shelter or the employer/employee relationship where a much older man is wealthy and the young woman who supposedly consented is poor, so I am still left sickened at the sight of “Neverwhere” on my shelf if even a fraction of it is true.

As Eric O. Scott writes at Wild Hunt News:

                One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take Gaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the six other women who have accused Gaiman of assault are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario.

How is it safe to love any work of art when it may be irredeemably tainted by association some day? We want to understand, we want to feel safe, we want to not feel like we were duped by a predator. How did we get it so wrong? We want to rescue and redeem what value we can salvage.

I don’t feel as though money was mentioned enough in the discussion. Roxane Gay had it right when she called out labor exploitation as well as sexual abuse on BlueSky.

Also, you smug folks who always knew: I didn’t know. There may be more to come, which fills me with dread. There are almost certainly more victims yet to come forward. I am writing my way through this, and then I don’t want to know more. I can’t think less of Gaiman, or Palmer, or Scientology. I praise those women in advance for their bravery. I hope, with everything I have, for their healing and peace.

It would be less easy to believe victims if abusers were not ALL THE SAME. It’s like Lady Gaga’s “box” analogy on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2018, when she talked about Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Sometimes a survivor’s box where trauma has been stored opens, and the survivor is compelled to share it. And then some of us feel the truth of it in the marrow of our bones.

The same words, same tactics, and same actions, are in the “boxes” of all survivors. Different box, same old shit. Almost always men. They go by the same playbook. It’s wearying, exhausting, and enraging.

I won’t watch Season 2 of Sandman. And I was really looking forward to it. However, the part of Gaiman’s work that went into my heart and mind that felt good and right, and became part of me, I can’t expunge.

I wouldn’t if I could.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #abuse #LilaShapiro #Vulture #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #ladygaga

https://jillsreads.com/there-goes-my-hero/

#abuse #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #ladygaga #LilaShapiro #NeilGaiman #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #Vulture

No, I’m not talking about Dave Grohl; he went down awhile ago. I’m talking about Neil Gaiman. I didn’t know him, but I loved his stories. So much. Dearly.

An article about Neil Gaiman by Lila Shapiro hit the literary world like a bomb yesterday. It’s been published in Vulture and in New York Magazine. If you haven’t read it and feel so inclined, read this list of trigger warnings first. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have any history of abuse or trauma, or if you just ate.

Here is the article, both paywalled and not. Brace yourself.

Shapiro documented eight women who have accused Gaiman of some degree of gruesome abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, physical, economic. Some of it amounts to imprisonment and torture. His ex-wife Amanda Palmer is accused of being complicit in the abuse, of procuring victims for him.

Fantasy lovers were at ground zero in the article’s strike zone. Reactions on the microblogging platforms BlueSky, X. and Mastodon included the following:

• Nausea.
• Shock and horror.
• Inability to read the article or need to take breaks.
• Praise for the quality of the journalism and writing (whether readers got through it or not).
• Praise for the victims’ courage in coming forward despite having signed NDAs.
• Prayers and sympathy for the victims.
• Feelings of revictimization or being triggered; sensations associated with pain of past abuse.
• Overwhelm (“this article is a lot”).
• Feelings of betrayal.
• Warnings to others, whether TWs or “don’t read it.”
• Anger on the victims’ behalf, including OBO their child, toward Gaiman and Palmer.
• Anger at Scientology and Gaiman’s parents for traumatizing Gaiman in the first place.
• Calls for retribution, religious, legal, otherwise, against all abusers and enablers.
• Curses and other maledictions on the aforementioned.
• Questions about what to do with the works and adaptations of the artists responsible, with the usual social media race for the margins: I’m donating, well I’m throwing in the trash, well I’m having a bonfire. For adaptations, “I refuse to watch.” “Okay, maybe I’ll watch ‘Good Omens.’ since Pratchett was in on it.”
• Grief and mourning proportionate to the relationship or closeness to the perpetrator(s) or how much he/they and his/her works were loved.
• Attacks on the grieving, who apparently have no right to pause for even 24 hours before disavowing and pronouncing maledictions.
• Analysis of the works of the perpetrators to try to make sense of it all, including my BlueSky post ending with, “He’s Madoc (from “Sandman”) and on some level he wants retribution.”
• Denouncement of idolizing people: “That’s what I get for having a hero” or “This is why I have no heroes.”
• Summoning dead people whose work you can still revere (“We still have so-and-so”); hopes that associated beloved writers associated didn’t know about Gaiman’s character, so that they are innocent.

This being social media, there were attacks on other people on all of the platforms, aimed at those whose responses to the tragic allegations were seen as less than optimal, virtuous, or acceptable than the poster’s own POV.

How does one make sense of what Gaiman may have done to these women? He doesn’t deny most of it; he says it was consensual. There is no consent where massive power differentials exist, such as the ability to deprive someone of shelter or the employer/employee relationship where a much older man is wealthy and the young woman who supposedly consented is poor, so I am still left sickened at the sight of “Neverwhere” on my shelf if even a fraction of it is true.

As Eric O. Scott writes at Wild Hunt News:

                One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take Gaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the six other women who have accused Gaiman of assault are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario.

How is it safe to love any work of art when it may be irredeemably tainted by association some day? We want to understand, we want to feel safe, we want to not feel like we were duped by a predator. How did we get it so wrong? We want to rescue and redeem what value we can salvage.

I don’t feel as though money was mentioned enough in the discussion. Roxane Gay had it right when she called out labor exploitation as well as sexual abuse on BlueSky.

Also, you smug folks who always knew: I didn’t know. There may be more to come, which fills me with dread. There are almost certainly more victims yet to come forward. I am writing my way through this, and then I don’t want to know more. I can’t think less of Gaiman, or Palmer, or Scientology. I praise those women in advance for their bravery. I hope, with everything I have, for their healing and peace.

It would be less easy to believe victims if abusers were not ALL THE SAME. It’s like Lady Gaga’s “box” analogy on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2018, when she talked about Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Sometimes a survivor’s box where trauma has been stored opens, and the survivor is compelled to share it. And then some of us feel the truth of it in the marrow of our bones.

The same words, same tactics, and same actions, are in the “boxes” of all survivors. Different box, same old shit. Almost always men. They go by the same playbook. It’s wearying, exhausting, and enraging.

I won’t watch Season 2 of Sandman. And I was really looking forward to it. However, the part of Gaiman’s work that went into my heart and mind that felt good and right, and became part of me, I can’t expunge.

I wouldn’t if I could.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #abuse #LilaShapiro #Vulture #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #ladygaga

https://jillsreads.com/there-goes-my-hero/

#abuse #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #ladygaga #LilaShapiro #NeilGaiman #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #Vulture

No, I’m not talking about Dave Grohl; he went down awhile ago. I’m talking about Neil Gaiman. I didn’t know him, but I loved his stories. So much. Dearly.

An article about Neil Gaiman by Lila Shapiro hit the literary world like a bomb yesterday. It’s been published in Vulture and in New York Magazine. If you haven’t read it and feel so inclined, read this list of trigger warnings first. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have any history of abuse or trauma, or if you just ate.

Here is the article, both paywalled and not. Brace yourself.

Shapiro documented eight women who have accused Gaiman of some degree of gruesome abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, physical, economic. Some of it amounts to imprisonment and torture. His ex-wife Amanda Palmer is accused of being complicit in the abuse, of procuring victims for him.

Fantasy lovers were at ground zero in the article’s strike zone. Reactions on the microblogging platforms BlueSky, X. and Mastodon included the following:

• Nausea.
• Shock and horror.
• Inability to read the article or need to take breaks.
• Praise for the quality of the journalism and writing (whether readers got through it or not).
• Praise for the victims’ courage in coming forward despite having signed NDAs.
• Prayers and sympathy for the victims.
• Feelings of revictimization or being triggered; sensations associated with pain of past abuse.
• Overwhelm (“this article is a lot”).
• Feelings of betrayal.
• Warnings to others, whether TWs or “don’t read it.”
• Anger on the victims’ behalf, including OBO their child, toward Gaiman and Palmer.
• Anger at Scientology and Gaiman’s parents for traumatizing Gaiman in the first place.
• Calls for retribution, religious, legal, otherwise, against all abusers and enablers.
• Curses and other maledictions on the aforementioned.
• Questions about what to do with the works and adaptations of the artists responsible, with the usual social media race for the margins: I’m donating, well I’m throwing in the trash, well I’m having a bonfire. For adaptations, “I refuse to watch.” “Okay, maybe I’ll watch ‘Good Omens.’ since Pratchett was in on it.”
• Grief and mourning proportionate to the relationship or closeness to the perpetrator(s) or how much he/they and his/her works were loved.
• Attacks on the grieving, who apparently have no right to pause for even 24 hours before disavowing and pronouncing maledictions.
• Analysis of the works of the perpetrators to try to make sense of it all, including my BlueSky post ending with, “He’s Madoc (from “Sandman”) and on some level he wants retribution.”
• Denouncement of idolizing people: “That’s what I get for having a hero” or “This is why I have no heroes.”
• Summoning dead people whose work you can still revere (“We still have so-and-so”); hopes that associated beloved writers associated didn’t know about Gaiman’s character, so that they are innocent.

This being social media, there were attacks on other people on all of the platforms, aimed at those whose responses to the tragic allegations were seen as less than optimal, virtuous, or acceptable than the poster’s own POV.

How does one make sense of what Gaiman may have done to these women? He doesn’t deny most of it; he says it was consensual. There is no consent where massive power differentials exist, such as the ability to deprive someone of shelter or the employer/employee relationship where a much older man is wealthy and the young woman who supposedly consented is poor, so I am still left sickened at the sight of “Neverwhere” on my shelf if even a fraction of it is true.

As Eric O. Scott writes at Wild Hunt News:

                One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take Gaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the six other women who have accused Gaiman of assault are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario.

How is it safe to love any work of art when it may be irredeemably tainted by association some day? We want to understand, we want to feel safe, we want to not feel like we were duped by a predator. How did we get it so wrong? We want to rescue and redeem what value we can salvage.

I don’t feel as though money was mentioned enough in the discussion. Roxane Gay had it right when she called out labor exploitation as well as sexual abuse on BlueSky.

Also, you smug folks who always knew: I didn’t know. There may be more to come, which fills me with dread. There are almost certainly more victims yet to come forward. I am writing my way through this, and then I don’t want to know more. I can’t think less of Gaiman, or Palmer, or Scientology. I praise those women in advance for their bravery. I hope, with everything I have, for their healing and peace.

It would be less easy to believe victims if abusers were not ALL THE SAME. It’s like Lady Gaga’s “box” analogy on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2018, when she talked about Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Sometimes a survivor’s box where trauma has been stored opens, and the survivor is compelled to share it. And then some of us feel the truth of it in the marrow of our bones.

The same words, same tactics, and same actions, are in the “boxes” of all survivors. Different box, same old shit. Almost always men. They go by the same playbook. It’s wearying, exhausting, and enraging.

I won’t watch Season 2 of Sandman. And I was really looking forward to it. However, the part of Gaiman’s work that went into my heart and mind that felt good and right, and became part of me, I can’t expunge.

I wouldn’t if I could.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #abuse #LilaShapiro #Vulture #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #ladygaga

https://jillsreads.com/there-goes-my-hero/

#abuse #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #ladygaga #LilaShapiro #NeilGaiman #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #Vulture

No, I’m not talking about Dave Grohl; he went down awhile ago. I’m talking about Neil Gaiman. I didn’t know him, but I loved his stories. So much. Dearly.

An article about Neil Gaiman by Lila Shapiro hit the literary world like a bomb yesterday. It’s been published in Vulture and in New York Magazine. If you haven’t read it and feel so inclined, read this list of trigger warnings first. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have any history of abuse or trauma, or if you just ate.

Here is the article, both paywalled and not. Brace yourself.

Shapiro documented eight women who have accused Gaiman of some degree of gruesome abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, physical, economic. Some of it amounts to imprisonment and torture. His ex-wife Amanda Palmer is accused of being complicit in the abuse, of procuring victims for him.

Fantasy lovers were at ground zero in the article’s strike zone. Reactions on the microblogging platforms BlueSky, X. and Mastodon included the following:

• Nausea.
• Shock and horror.
• Inability to read the article or need to take breaks.
• Praise for the quality of the journalism and writing (whether readers got through it or not).
• Praise for the victims’ courage in coming forward despite having signed NDAs.
• Prayers and sympathy for the victims.
• Feelings of revictimization or being triggered; sensations associated with pain of past abuse.
• Overwhelm (“this article is a lot”).
• Feelings of betrayal.
• Warnings to others, whether TWs or “don’t read it.”
• Anger on the victims’ behalf, including OBO their child, toward Gaiman and Palmer.
• Anger at Scientology and Gaiman’s parents for traumatizing Gaiman in the first place.
• Calls for retribution, religious, legal, otherwise, against all abusers and enablers.
• Curses and other maledictions on the aforementioned.
• Questions about what to do with the works and adaptations of the artists responsible, with the usual social media race for the margins: I’m donating, well I’m throwing in the trash, well I’m having a bonfire. For adaptations, “I refuse to watch.” “Okay, maybe I’ll watch ‘Good Omens.’ since Pratchett was in on it.”
• Grief and mourning proportionate to the relationship or closeness to the perpetrator(s) or how much he/they and his/her works were loved.
• Attacks on the grieving, who apparently have no right to pause for even 24 hours before disavowing and pronouncing maledictions.
• Analysis of the works of the perpetrators to try to make sense of it all, including my BlueSky post ending with, “He’s Madoc (from “Sandman”) and on some level he wants retribution.”
• Denouncement of idolizing people: “That’s what I get for having a hero” or “This is why I have no heroes.”
• Summoning dead people whose work you can still revere (“We still have so-and-so”); hopes that associated beloved writers associated didn’t know about Gaiman’s character, so that they are innocent.

This being social media, there were attacks on other people on all of the platforms, aimed at those whose responses to the tragic allegations were seen as less than optimal, virtuous, or acceptable than the poster’s own POV.

How does one make sense of what Gaiman may have done to these women? He doesn’t deny most of it; he says it was consensual. There is no consent where massive power differentials exist, such as the ability to deprive someone of shelter or the employer/employee relationship where a much older man is wealthy and the young woman who supposedly consented is poor, so I am still left sickened at the sight of “Neverwhere” on my shelf if even a fraction of it is true.

As Eric O. Scott writes at Wild Hunt News:

                One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take Gaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the six other women who have accused Gaiman of assault are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario.

How is it safe to love any work of art when it may be irredeemably tainted by association some day? We want to understand, we want to feel safe, we want to not feel like we were duped by a predator. How did we get it so wrong? We want to rescue and redeem what value we can salvage.

I don’t feel as though money was mentioned enough in the discussion. Roxane Gay had it right when she called out labor exploitation as well as sexual abuse on BlueSky.

Also, you smug folks who always knew: I didn’t know. There may be more to come, which fills me with dread. There are almost certainly more victims yet to come forward. I am writing my way through this, and then I don’t want to know more. I can’t think less of Gaiman, or Palmer, or Scientology. I praise those women in advance for their bravery. I hope, with everything I have, for their healing and peace.

It would be less easy to believe victims if abusers were not ALL THE SAME. It’s like Lady Gaga’s “box” analogy on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2018, when she talked about Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Sometimes a survivor’s box where trauma has been stored opens, and the survivor is compelled to share it. And then some of us feel the truth of it in the marrow of our bones.

The same words, same tactics, and same actions, are in the “boxes” of all survivors. Different box, same old shit. Almost always men. They go by the same playbook. It’s wearying, exhausting, and enraging.

I won’t watch Season 2 of Sandman. And I was really looking forward to it. However, the part of Gaiman’s work that went into my heart and mind that felt good and right, and became part of me, I can’t expunge.

I wouldn’t if I could.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #abuse #LilaShapiro #Vulture #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #ladygaga

https://jillsreads.com/there-goes-my-hero/

#abuse #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #ladygaga #LilaShapiro #NeilGaiman #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #Vulture

No, I’m not talking about Dave Grohl; he went down awhile ago. I’m talking about Neil Gaiman. I didn’t know him, but I loved his stories. So much. Dearly.

An article about Neil Gaiman by Lila Shapiro hit the literary world like a bomb yesterday. It’s been published in Vulture and in New York Magazine. If you haven’t read it and feel so inclined, read this list of trigger warnings first. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have any history of abuse or trauma, or if you just ate.

Here is the article, both paywalled and not. Brace yourself.

Shapiro documented eight women who have accused Gaiman of some degree of gruesome abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, physical, economic. Some of it amounts to imprisonment and torture. His ex-wife Amanda Palmer is accused of being complicit in the abuse, of procuring victims for him.

Fantasy lovers were at ground zero in the article’s strike zone. Reactions on the microblogging platforms BlueSky, X. and Mastodon included the following:

• Nausea.
• Shock and horror.
• Inability to read the article or need to take breaks.
• Praise for the quality of the journalism and writing (whether readers got through it or not).
• Praise for the victims’ courage in coming forward despite having signed NDAs.
• Prayers and sympathy for the victims.
• Feelings of revictimization or being triggered; sensations associated with pain of past abuse.
• Overwhelm (“this article is a lot”).
• Feelings of betrayal.
• Warnings to others, whether TWs or “don’t read it.”
• Anger on the victims’ behalf, including OBO their child, toward Gaiman and Palmer.
• Anger at Scientology and Gaiman’s parents for traumatizing Gaiman in the first place.
• Calls for retribution, religious, legal, otherwise, against all abusers and enablers.
• Curses and other maledictions on the aforementioned.
• Questions about what to do with the works and adaptations of the artists responsible, with the usual social media race for the margins: I’m donating, well I’m throwing in the trash, well I’m having a bonfire. For adaptations, “I refuse to watch.” “Okay, maybe I’ll watch ‘Good Omens.’ since Pratchett was in on it.”
• Grief and mourning proportionate to the relationship or closeness to the perpetrator(s) or how much he/they and his/her works were loved.
• Attacks on the grieving, who apparently have no right to pause for even 24 hours before disavowing and pronouncing maledictions.
• Analysis of the works of the perpetrators to try to make sense of it all, including my BlueSky post ending with, “He’s Madoc (from “Sandman”) and on some level he wants retribution.”
• Denouncement of idolizing people: “That’s what I get for having a hero” or “This is why I have no heroes.”
• Summoning dead people whose work you can still revere (“We still have so-and-so”); hopes that associated beloved writers associated didn’t know about Gaiman’s character, so that they are innocent.

This being social media, there were attacks on other people on all of the platforms, aimed at those whose responses to the tragic allegations were seen as less than optimal, virtuous, or acceptable than the poster’s own POV.

How does one make sense of what Gaiman may have done to these women? He doesn’t deny most of it; he says it was consensual. There is no consent where massive power differentials exist, such as the ability to deprive someone of shelter or the employer/employee relationship where a much older man is wealthy and the young woman who supposedly consented is poor, so I am still left sickened at the sight of “Neverwhere” on my shelf if even a fraction of it is true.

As Eric O. Scott writes at Wild Hunt News:

                One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take Gaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the six other women who have accused Gaiman of assault are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario.

How is it safe to love any work of art when it may be irredeemably tainted by association some day? We want to understand, we want to feel safe, we want to not feel like we were duped by a predator. How did we get it so wrong? We want to rescue and redeem what value we can salvage.

I don’t feel as though money was mentioned enough in the discussion. Roxane Gay had it right when she called out labor exploitation as well as sexual abuse on BlueSky.

Also, you smug folks who always knew: I didn’t know. There may be more to come, which fills me with dread. There are almost certainly more victims yet to come forward. I am writing my way through this, and then I don’t want to know more. I can’t think less of Gaiman, or Palmer, or Scientology. I praise those women in advance for their bravery. I hope, with everything I have, for their healing and peace.

It would be less easy to believe victims if abusers were not ALL THE SAME. It’s like Lady Gaga’s “box” analogy on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2018, when she talked about Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. Sometimes a survivor’s box where trauma has been stored opens, and the survivor is compelled to share it. And then some of us feel the truth of it in the marrow of our bones.

The same words, same tactics, and same actions, are in the “boxes” of all survivors. Different box, same old shit. Almost always men. They go by the same playbook. It’s wearying, exhausting, and enraging.

I won’t watch Season 2 of Sandman. And I was really looking forward to it. However, the part of Gaiman’s work that went into my heart and mind that felt good and right, and became part of me, I can’t expunge.

I wouldn’t if I could.

#NeilGaiman #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #abuse #LilaShapiro #Vulture #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #ladygaga

https://jillsreads.com/there-goes-my-hero/

#abuse #AmandaPalmer #fantasy #ladygaga #LilaShapiro #NeilGaiman #NewYorkMagazine #RoxaneGay #Vulture

#KathleenHanna, #TeganAndSara, More Back #InternetArchive in $621 Million Copyright Fight

Over 300 artists signed #FightForTheFuture's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of #78rpm records

by John Blistein, December 9, 2024

"Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and #AmandaPalmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the signatories 'wholeheartedly oppose' the lawsuit, which they suggest benefits '#ShareholderProfits' more than actual artists. It continues: 'We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.'

"Palmer, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, says, 'It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like #MTVNews, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important #historic #archive.”

Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/19Hz4

#BigMusic #BigRecordLabels #Music #Archives #Lawsuits #SaveTheArchive

#KathleenHanna, #TeganAndSara, More Back #InternetArchive in $621 Million Copyright Fight

Over 300 artists signed #FightForTheFuture's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of #78rpm records

by John Blistein, December 9, 2024

"Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and #AmandaPalmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the signatories 'wholeheartedly oppose' the lawsuit, which they suggest benefits '#ShareholderProfits' more than actual artists. It continues: 'We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.'

"Palmer, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, says, 'It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like #MTVNews, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important #historic #archive.”

Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/19Hz4

#BigMusic #BigRecordLabels #Music #Archives #Lawsuits #SaveTheArchive

#KathleenHanna, #TeganAndSara, More Back #InternetArchive in $621 Million Copyright Fight

Over 300 artists signed #FightForTheFuture's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of #78rpm records

by John Blistein, December 9, 2024

"Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and #AmandaPalmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the signatories 'wholeheartedly oppose' the lawsuit, which they suggest benefits '#ShareholderProfits' more than actual artists. It continues: 'We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.'

"Palmer, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, says, 'It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like #MTVNews, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important #historic #archive.”

Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/19Hz4

#BigMusic #BigRecordLabels #Music #Archives #Lawsuits #SaveTheArchive

#KathleenHanna, #TeganAndSara, More Back #InternetArchive in $621 Million Copyright Fight

Over 300 artists signed #FightForTheFuture's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of #78rpm records

by John Blistein, December 9, 2024

"Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and #AmandaPalmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the signatories 'wholeheartedly oppose' the lawsuit, which they suggest benefits '#ShareholderProfits' more than actual artists. It continues: 'We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.'

"Palmer, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, says, 'It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like #MTVNews, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important #historic #archive.”

Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/19Hz4

#BigMusic #BigRecordLabels #Music #Archives #Lawsuits #SaveTheArchive

#KathleenHanna, #TeganAndSara, More Back #InternetArchive in $621 Million Copyright Fight

Over 300 artists signed #FightForTheFuture's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of #78rpm records

by John Blistein, December 9, 2024

"Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and #AmandaPalmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the signatories 'wholeheartedly oppose' the lawsuit, which they suggest benefits '#ShareholderProfits' more than actual artists. It continues: 'We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.'

"Palmer, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, says, 'It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like #MTVNews, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important #historic #archive.”

Original article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/19Hz4

#BigMusic #BigRecordLabels #Music #Archives #Lawsuits #SaveTheArchive

#AmandaPalmer #MapOfTasmania #AmandaPalmerGoesDownUnder

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=J9zkAHiPLpE

the Dresden Dolls are live streaming tonite's concert for free on their web site.

June 15 at 9:00 pm

https://dresdendolls.com/

Amanda says the show will be up for 24 hours (I guess until 9 pm EDT June 16) #dresdendolls #amandapalmer #rock

This was NOT the song I set out to complete this morning – in fact, I had a much more elaborate project going on around this one. And then my brain said, "Yeah, but what if...." So here's a recently rediscovered Amanda Palmer song that suddenly captivated me. This is "In My Mind."

Make some art today!

#kala #KalaUBass #KalaUkulele #Singer #CoverSongSinger #AmandaPalmer #AmandaFuckingPalmer #CoverSongs #musician

https://youtu.be/MTQxscikuO4

In Berkeley to see The Dresden Dolls tonight for NYE.

#NewYear #DresdenDolls #AmandaPalmer

Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel LIVE in LONDON - Full Show

https://youtu.be/9HXYXgV6nd8?si=2oeuMtv-N2S5-0Hm

#AmandaPalmer #EdwardKaSpel #TheLegendaryPinkDots #Music #Concert #London

For #TuneTuesday's theme of #PowerSongs I'm going with a song that works best when you sing/play along. #AmandaPalmer - "Ukulele Anthem" #Music
https://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec?si=d5tNza4cTlahq6Jf

For #TuneTuesday's theme of #PowerSongs I'm going with a song that works best when you sing/play along. #AmandaPalmer - "Ukulele Anthem" #Music
https://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec?si=d5tNza4cTlahq6Jf

For #TuneTuesday's theme of #PowerSongs I'm going with a song that works best when you sing/play along. #AmandaPalmer - "Ukulele Anthem" #Music
https://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec?si=d5tNza4cTlahq6Jf

For #TuneTuesday's theme of #PowerSongs I'm going with a song that works best when you sing/play along. #AmandaPalmer - "Ukulele Anthem" #Music
https://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec?si=d5tNza4cTlahq6Jf

For #TuneTuesday's theme of #PowerSongs I'm going with a song that works best when you sing/play along. #AmandaPalmer - "Ukulele Anthem" #Music
https://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec?si=d5tNza4cTlahq6Jf

DISPO QUE QUELQUES HEURES SEULEMENT

The Dresden Dolls - Live from Toulouse Theatre in New Orleans
https://consent.youtube.com/ml?continue=https://m.youtube.com/live/5pwDQeq3-W8?feature=share&cbrd=1&m=1&gl=CH&hl=fr&cm=2&pc=yt&src=1

#DresdenDolls #NowPlaying #Musique #AmandaPalmer

Absolutely fantastic Dresden Dolls opening show of tour, last night! Quite the full ranging spectacle of melancholy truths. #music #dresdendolls #amandapalmer #punkcabaret

Going to throw this on in anticipation of tomorrow night’s Dresden Dolls show. Looking forward to seeing Amanda live! #music #vinyl #vinylcollection #nowPlaying #dresdendolls #amandapalmer

WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES
by Mary Oliver

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

- https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/09/23/amanda-palmer-mary-oliver-when-i-am-among-the-trees/

#MariaPopova with #AmandaPalmer and #MaryOliver #Poetry #Poem
#AmongTheTreees #TheMarginalian

Pas beaucoup d’artistes sur Mastodon.
Comme nous sommes le jour des sorties d’albums et aussi du #followfriday, je vous présente Amanda Palmer. Je l’ai découverte dans Dresden Dolls où elle est accompagnée de l’excellent batteur Brian Viglione. Je suis vraiment fan de ce duo. Les albums sont superbes mais attardez-vous surtout sur les lives (audio/vidéo)! Ces deux-là sont des bêtes de scène!
#NowPlaying #Musique #DresdenDolls #AmandaPalmer

From: @amandapalmer
https://home.social/@amandapalmer/109876770526299357

#NowPlaying #AmandaPalmer #AFP #AmandaFuckingPalmer "There Will Be No Intermission."

#Music #WAV #HQ #HQAudio #HQMusic #Audiophile #DigitalAudio

Thank you, @Skoop, for reminding me of this album by Jack Palmer & @amandapalmer.

The title song, You Got Me Singing*, a Leonard Cohen cover, is perhaps the more seasonal song but my favourite (also because of the video) is Wynken, Blynken & Nod: https://youtu.be/bWa2w9pYuWQ
That's a lot of Amanda in one day but this time it was Stefan's fault, so go blame/praise him!

*https://youtu.be/78kJk28QU80

#JackPalmer
#AmandaPalmer
#leonardcohen

Bin immer noch #documentafifteen-bewegt …
#BillyBragg #AmandaPalmer #Commons #Diggers #Levellers #lumbung

https://youtu.be/RN2c_V0uySg

Bin immer noch #documentafifteen-bewegt …
#BillyBragg #AmandaPalmer #Commons #Diggers #Levellers #lumbung

https://youtu.be/RN2c_V0uySg

#ActuLibre Ah, les personnes qui croient encore dans le modèle de financement publicitaire des contenus sur Internet :) -> http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/?p=20177 #financementpublicitaire #leDebunkerdesétoiles #bloqueurdepublicité #Questiond'Histoire #PrimumNonNocere #Informatique #amandapalmer #Linguisticae #Trucsdegeek #Astronogeek #geekeries #AlterHis #NotaBene #8BitGuy #patreon #tipeee