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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/02/2026

Reporting referenced in my statement: technopathology.substack.com/p/neil-gaima...

It’s been a while since I've posted anything anywhere, but I didn't want to let any more time go by without thanking everyone for all your kind messages of support over the last year and a half.

I've learned firsthand how effective a smear campaign can be, so to be clear:

The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them.

These allegations, especially the really salacious ones, have been spread and amplified by people who seemed a lot more interested in outrage and getting clicks on headlines rather than whether things had actually happened or not. (They didn't.)

One thing that's kept me going through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out. I expected that when the allegations were first made there would be journalism, and that the journalism would take the (mountains of) evidence into account, and was astonished to see how much of the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored.

I was a journalist once, and I have enormous respect for journalists, so I've been hugely heartened by the meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing of one particular journalist, whom some of you recently brought to my attention, who writes under the name of TechnoPathology.

I’ve had no contact with TechnoPathology. But I’d like to thank them personally for actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done.

If you are curious about what they've uncovered so far, the link in this post takes you to really good investigative reporting.

It's been a strange, turbulent and occasionally nightmarish year and a half, but I took my own advice (when things get tough, make good art) and once I was done with making television I went back to doing something else I love even more: writing.

I thought it was going to be a fairly short project when I began it, but it's looking like it's going to be the biggest thing I've done since American Gods. It's already much longer than The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and it's barely finished wiping its boots and hanging up its coat.

And I spend half of every month being a full-time Dad, and that remains the best bit of my life.

It's a rough time for the world. I look at what's happening on the home front and internationally, and I worry; and I am still convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind.

Thank you again to so many of you for your belief in my innocence and your support for my work.

It has meant the world to me.

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Kat Calamia @NYCC 4355 @comicuno.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Help Witches of Oz reach 900 backers and ALL SUPPORTERS will receive a digital copy of @brentonlengel.bsky.social and @anemonetea.bsky.social's NPCS #1! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

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Kat Calamia @NYCC 4355 @comicuno.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Witches of Oz #1-3: IN KANSAS?! A Mature Sapphic Fantasy is LIVE on Kickstarter! "Glinda & the Wicked Witch are stranded! Can they find Dorothy—and sort out their romantic feelings—in a world without magic? Mature 18+" www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...

Facebook post by Tyler Robinson's mother of him dressed as a gopnik meme, wearing a track suit and squatting on the ground

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Kat Calamia @NYCC 4355 @comicuno.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Find your new favorite comic book! Support Beast & Snow #3 for as low as a $1 for 11+ digital comics. www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

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Phil Falco @philfalcowrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🔑 BACKER GOAL UNLOCKED: All "RAINBOW CANVAS" backers will now get a digital copy of Durruti #1 by @brentonlengel.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

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Lukas Fauset @lukasfauset.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

TWO DAYS TO GO! Spent a good chunk of today testing out the dimensions of one of the rewards. Not the final design by any means—or materials—but I used Snow White Zombie Apocalypse #1 by @brentonlengel.bsky.social and @hanaroda.net for the fit check since it matched the vibe and I like it!

A comic book in a 3d printed slipcase designed like trees.

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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is probably a really good time to remind everyone there are two special elections in Florida on April 1 for Congressional seats (and another in NY later in the year). If Dems win two of three, we take back the House. Make sure you're registered to vote!! @joshweil.bsky.social

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Brain genius Musk thinks he can just scan the database and delete entries labeled FRAUD

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey from facebook @batdork.bsky.social You have objectively the best handle on Bluesky!

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Atalanta Pendragonne (They/Them) @atalanta.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Raising my hand to say yes I am excited!

A blackwork tattoo of the Key to Hell from the Season of Mists arc of Sandman. For a 20+ year old piece it looks pretty crisp

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Found this in the mail yesterday after seeing #DavidTennant wearing one. It captures how I feel about #TransRights and #CivilRights in general. Perfect timing after the absolute tire-fire of the #TrumpvBiden #debate. #transrightsarehumanrights #pride #pride2024 #pridemonth #lgbt #Whoovian #DrWho

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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Today, June 23, 1593, William Shakespeare and his acting troupe perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Morpheus and an audience of fae folk (The Sandman: Dream Country, by @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and Charles Vess)

Panels from a comic book. It is labeled June 23rd, 1593. A wagon train of actors travels through chalk hills of England. Two characters have a conversation about performing their new play, and reaching their destination soon.

A dark and mysterious figure greets William Shakespeare. The figure says, "You have come, then, Will Shekespear. It is all ready?"

An image of fairies, goblins, and other creatures entering the mortal realm

An audience of fairies watches a group of humans performing a play

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Kᴇɴ Hᴀᴢʟᴇᴛᴛ @kenhazlett.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

ANANSI BOYS #1 comic out We6/26! Adapted from the @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com novel…featuring Mister Nancy from AMERICAN GODS…by the clever+witty @marcbernardin.bsky.social (MACE WINDU) & Co. Great choice. Cover: @david-mack.bsky.social Alts: main artist ShawnMartinbrough @denyscowan.bsky.social.

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Lunggwai @lunggwai.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

My 11 month old's new favorite bedtime book is this signed copy of Blueberry Girl by @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, illustrated by Charles Vess. We bought it at Books of Wonder in 2009, before my wife and I were even married, before our daughter was more than a distant wish.

Blueberry Girl book laying on a hard wood floor with a blonde wood bookcase in the background holding numerous children's books.

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Pulled off the highway on the way to visit family, and I think I may have walked right into @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com’s #AmericanGods, we have: a weird giant tree with a roof on it, a toy train museum, a shrine to #Osiris, and a McDonalds that gets nearly every order wrong. #NeilGaiman

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 14/06/2024

Dead is the only age that's too late to start being an author.

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Found my journal from my 2008 thur-hike of the #AppalachianTrail. Among memorized quotes by #Shakespeare & #Thoreau I (poorly) transcribed “Going Wodwo” by @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com—still one of my favorite poems & served as inspiration to keep my nerve while doing something so objectively insane.

It were as well to be educated in the shadow of a mountain as in more classic shade. Some will remember, no doubt, not only that they went to college, but that they went to the mountains.

- Henry David Thoreau

The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Shedding my shirt, my book, my coat, my life
Leaving them, empty husks and fallen leaves
Going in search of food and for a spring
Of sweet water.

I’ll find a tree as wide as ten far men
Clear water rilling over its gray roots
Berries I’ll find, and crabapples and nuts,
And call it home.

I’ll tell the wind my name, and no one else.
True madness takes or leaves us in the wood
halfway through all our lives. My skin will be
my face now.

I must be nuts. Sense left with shoes and house,
my guts are cramped. I’ll stumble through the green
back to my roots, and leaves and thorns and buds,
and shiver…

I’ll leave the way of words to walk the wood
I’ll be the forest’s man, and greet the sun,
And feel the silence blossom on my tongue
like language.

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Yesterday was an amazing day; heard @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com lecture and met him for the first time, and met Tim Tolkien, sculptor of the amazing Tolkien memorial inaugurated at Pembroke College, Oxford

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Hey @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com don’t wanna blow up your feed but I gave you a (silly) shout-out in my SWZA #5 video trailer @ 2:20ish. Hope you like it! Music is contributed by Rogue of #Cruxshadows who did “Wake the White Queen” on “Where’s Neil When You Need Him” . youtu.be/RJnBKtZ3n5Y?...

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

@richjohnston.bsky.social Hey! Thanks so much for the follow! Good to e-meet you!

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

“There comes Fenris' twin His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns Mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate…” #Eclipse #Ragnarok #amonamarth

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Neil Polowin @neilpolowin.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

To your credit, you were stretching editorial boundaries long before that.

Panel from The Books of Magic #2 with John Constantine reacting to a letter, "Bugger. Blast. Damn. Felching heck..." (Art by Scott Hampton, letters by Todd Klein.)

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

The @scoutcomicsent.bsky.social @ringoawards.bsky.social nom. #darkfantasy series #swza has $1600 to go w/ 10 days left! Trailer music by #Cruxshadows! Watch past 2:00 4 a shout-out 2 @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com who contributed a tone #poem 2 the #graphicnovel! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bre...

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k2-cd1.bsky.social @k2-cd1.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

The wonderful problem of being an adult is that I can walk into a local bookstore, buy as many books as I want AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME

Titles and Authors from left to right:

- The Land of Lost Things, by John Connolly
- Empty Spaces, by Jordan Able
- An Anthology of Monsters, Cherie Dimaline
- Neverwhere (illustrated version), by Neil Gaiman
- The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline
- Hunting By Stars, by Cherie Dimaline

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

art by Robert McGinnis and look at those exquisite fonts, everything about this is sheer perfection

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Benjamin Hunting @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Drive In Kings is in its final few hours over on Kickstarter, and this series (that reads as a love letter to 70s outdoor cinema) is well worth backing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dri...

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DRIVE-IN KINGS OF 1977 (1,2 &) #3 - Cult movie horror-comedy

'Animal House' meets 'Grindhouse' when teen pranksters enter the wildest movies of the '50s-'70s

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Hey @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com! Thank you SO much for contributing an excerpt from your poem “Fairy Reel” as a tone piece for my first ever graphic novel “Snow White Zombie Apocalypse Vol. 1”! Especially since “Snow Glass Apples” directly inspired #SWZA: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bre...

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Brenton Lengel @brentonlengel.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Whelp. I done did it. I made the jump from the absolute tire-fire that is #twitter. How’s everyone else doing?

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