Amanda Palmer

[brianbutterfield]

They did this q&a session when he finally returned to NZ a year after leaving her to parent alone.

The song says everything.

She is willing to swallow so much crap for him. It’s pure self-harm.

 

[skronkywildcat]

Did you know his parents were Scientologists?

 

[Hollaaa]

I only heard of him because of Tori Amos. Chicken and telephones

 

[Cinnabun]

Neil Gaiman loves his writer rock star persona and also writes some graphic sex plus violence weirdness. I know art isn’t the artist but like I side eye GRR Martin’s abuse of women on the pages I do to any overly titillating violent writing.

I don’t doubt at all he has some very willing groupies but may have crossed boundaries.

I agree with you here.

 

[AX808]

Well, I hope she doesn't get a divorce. Because I can feel that she is actually weaker and very sensitive on the inside than she is on the outside.

I like a lot of Amanda's records and some of her personality. She is also very capable, talented and intelligent. But something I could detect about her is that she is very serious and sensitive about everything, literally everything. I felt that she was miserable about it but couldn't get away from it. I still love Amanda, but rarely follow her, and I wish she could have taken it easy.

she is truly a romantic soul. I may not get along with her, or that won't stop me from liking her.

 

[elepal]

 

[skronkywildcat]

She was shagging Andrew O'Neill (as part of the open marriage thing).

 

[ElpisWept]

She made a comment to someone via one of her Instagram posts that she's got tickets to return to America in June. Bracing myself for the many, many posts about how she's so glad to be home and oh, how her country has changed, etc. I feel very sorry for her poor son, who seems to have settled in New Zealand and made friends, to be ripped away from it all.

 

[WinterSolstice]

I read this and came to the conclusion that Katic is a pain in the arse

Omg I really fucked up her name

Sorry for OT dear AP thread peeps, I’ll shurrup now

 

[ElpisWept]

I think I remember Amanda saying that they were getting a divorce. 2 years ago? I forget.

They were going to, but he got back to New Zealand and she stopped saying it and started just vaguely hinting at it, instead.

 

[ElpisWept]

Knowing Amanda, she can drop personal information as easily as saying what she had for breakfast. She's always been an oversharer, he may just not want her discussing the finer details of their relationship and separation to thousands of fans who hang off her every word.

Ah, thanks for explaining it to me!! Yeah, makes sense. I wouldn't want the details of my life blasted across the Internet either.

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Neil Gaiman is brilliant in my opinion.
Writes amazinngly, and the few times I've met him (through work) he has been lovely and chatty and suitably down on himself.

But, go on... accuse me of hero woshipping the white male author

 

[spirals]

I thought she last wrote that she was taking some time off to spend with her son after such a hard year. I guess that it might have been months ago though, I have lost all track of time. Was certainly while Neil was still back in the UK.

 

[PeteM]

She really is a piece of shit.

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Anyone else read this with a tone?

Yes, definitely.
What’s the context here?

 

[sirbenfro]

This is one of the most transphobic sites out there unfortunately, after the net of mums. There are a few of us who aren't though.

Sounds like someone hasn't discovered the farms and imageboards

 

[theleagueofgentlemen]

Considering how she’s usually got something to say about absolutely everything, she’s terribly quiet.
Some of the comments on her instagram are really upsetting too. You can tell how heartbroken some of her fans are.

 

[ElpisWept]

Her husband is in the UK, for the premiere of The Sandman series, and she's in America with their son. Still think their marriage is either over, or getting there. A gut feeling, but I could be very wrong.

 

[CrackingOwlSanctuary]

She gives me Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black vibes:

 

[Copacapybara]

Yes, I mentioned it in my post! I remember following Ellis on Livejournal way back in the day after reading some of his stuff, looking at his little vb forum, and realising it was a sad cult of personality with a host of very specific-looking female orbiters (thin, miniskirt, corsety shit, and most particularly goggles worn on top of coloured hair) trying to emulate some particular image and attitude within his work that he would deign to respond to. It was no surprise to me there was transactional shit going on there.

Then in retrospect, you see it in his biggest work - Transmetropolitan - the lunatic egotistical alcoholic, drug addled writer alter ego Spider Jerusalem with the two young female 'filthy assistants'. One of whom said alter ego Spider accidentally, oh no, shags after an epic binge. Hhahaha. It's always a moment when you realise how much some writers insert themselves brazenly into their work.
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Haven't heard anything bad about Fillion at all. I loved Firefly too and think it has aged pretty well. In retrospect you see the 'crazy waif who can inexplicably beat up huge men' trope Whedon made his entire career on with Buffy in River, who despite all this is a good, interesting character. He resurrected River again in a lesser, unintersting bit equally teeny-waify character in Dollhouse. He has his type, and his type is teenage-looking. Inara isn't his fantasy, it's always the little waif who can end you cos she has Special Powers. Dollhouse epitomized his whole desired female aesthetic with the tiny, bony, zonked out girls in their braless little strappy tops with the only average sized one being sort of talked down to and dressed all frumpy and admitting she isn't 'the gold standard'. And he had his affair partner Eliza Dushku in there playing the special-ist waif of all, Echo! The one with POWERS. Jesus. Talk about wearing out your one idea.

Whedon has done some great genre telly (and some horrible movie and comics writing), but he lets his sexual fixations bleed into everything, and tried to cover it up with a big LOOK AT ME I AM THE BIGGIST FEMINIST )crap with that 'Feminism Now!' thing that he - and people didn't like it when it was pointed out at the time - he made all about Joss Whedon and how cool he is for supporting women.

I liked Inara as a character in a lot of ways. She was independent and confident and interesting. River Tam by contrast I found deathly boring