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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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LI 🪷🩷 @nualaofthefairy.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Oh, Nuala and Cluracan. We have waited for so long to have you with us 🩷🪷 this is so sureal. After two years of patiently waiting and anxiety whether they will be in it, it feels so good to know that not only they are real but they have been entrusted to great actors 🩵🩷

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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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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

I binged it over a couple of nights recently, it's still great. Plus Paterson Joseph is hot AF as the Marquis de Carabas.

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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Really didn't like the idea of KHB as Death (just the look) , but gave it a chance when I heard you personally approved. Man was i glad to be wrong wrong wrong, she was AWESOME. Every single bit of S1 casting was perfect, can't wait for S2.

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

How wonderful to see Clive Russell in there! Makes me want to rewatch Neverwhere - although, to be fair, the *existence* of Neverwhere makes me want to rewatch Neverwhere!

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 02/07/2024

The one thing we could use more of is signed book Buy it Nows. US citizen/permanent resident authors, if you have 5-10 books that you can ship out, and don’t mind donating to the cause, fill this out: docs.google.com/form...

docs.google.com

Romancing the Vote Buy It Nows

*PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM ONE TIME FOR EACH ITEM YOU'D LIKE TO OFFER*

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

Sandman Season 2. More casting. Are you excited? I'm excited.

them for his own amusement. He’s also the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Indya Moore (Queen & Slim, Pose, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) plays Wanda, a professional driver and security agent for an exclusive travel firm. Wanda proves herself to be an indispensable guide on an Endless road trip to the waking world.
Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) is the voice of Barnabas, the canine companion of the Endless’s Prodigal brother. Barnabas is loyal and loving, but an outspoken cynic. Meaning, he’s both man’s best friend and man’s sharpest critic.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

I trust everyone has been keeping up with these. They always make me smile.

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Life Is Amazing publisher @lifeisamazing.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

A new bit of Tolkien silliness, as I fight off the blues today. "Communiqué from the Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs" - hope you enjoy, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com et al....

Communiqué from the Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs

To all Barrow Wights,

A number of incidents have come to our attention involving unprofessional staff behaviour toward visitors. The Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs is therefore issuing this reminder to all Barrow Wights:

1) Visitors on the Barrow Downs are welcome guests. DO NOT KIDNAP them. (This should not need to be said!)

2) While some visitors will be thrilled to see inside your tomb, please avoid any of the following:

a) kidnapping (as mentioned above)
b) putting visitors in a deep sleep
c) changing their clothes to those of ancient kings while asleep
d) laying them on an altar with a sword across their necks
e) manifesting as an arm with no body attached and walking on your fingers (this is not The Addams Family Experience)
f) definitely NO kidnapping

3) Fog: remember, if you intend to use the fog machine, this should be only for effect. Strangers do not to actually get lost.

4) As a supplementary: DO NOT lure visitors with voices in the fog: it will cause alarm.

5) Saying you “weren’t kidnapping them, you just couldn’t work out the control knob on the fog machine” and “I was just trying out my voices” will no longer be accepted as a reason for luring visitors into fog. This contravenes too many Health and Safety Rules.

6) Bear in mind at all times that you have a wealth of interesting historical information to impart. Visitors want to be amazed and entertained. Most do not enjoy kidnapping.

7) “Do not kidnap me” means someone does not want to be kidnapped. Only a few in a few Special Exceptions and on Rare Occasions does “Do not kidnap me” mean “Do kidnap me”.

8) Special Exceptions and Rare Occasions:

a) You may kidnap someone if they have filled out a consent form. (This is only applicable on adult role-playing nights.)
b) You may put visitors in a deep sleep on adult role-playing nights provided the necessary box is ticked. (You may not tick the box yourself)
c) Adorning sleeping guests in ancient king’s clothes on adult role-playing nights is allowed.
d) Similarly, laying guests on an altar with a sword across their necks is allowed.
e) Severed limbs are allowed to walk during adult role-playing nights.
f) Please remember: the safe word is “Tom Bombadil”.

Barrow Wights who infringe these rules will face disciplinary action. Three marks on your file will be escalated to me.

Yours,
Mrs Goldberry.

(Img is a 17th C engraving of the Rollright Stones, Devon, handcoloured, depicting standing stones in a field with visitors)

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Omega @weregopher.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Closer to the patrol car IMO but any Spectrum car would be safer, even with the Mysterons chasing you.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

Today I saw what I suspect to be my first Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle in the wilds of Woodstock. Now keeping a weather eye out for Mysterons.

An astonishingly ugly car in a pretty little town.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

He wouldn't murder you. Almost definitely.

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

[P] Performers there never realize until too late: it is, in fact, the wolf who has set a trap for *you*.

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Gambit (He/Him) @gambit1.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

For anyone on the fence, I had the pleasure of going to one of his readings and it was one of the best experiences of live entertainment I’ve ever had. We all know how great the stories are and his voice is amazing, but it’s the commentary that really nailed it for me!

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 01/07/2024

If you want to watch me trap a wolf live you will be disappointed. However if you want an evening of me reading cool stuff and answering questions and generally having much too much fun then there are still some tickets available and it is only 3 weeks away. www.wolftrap.org/calendar/per...

wolftrap.org

Neil Gaiman | Wolf Trap

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Danis Neeahlin @danisneeahlin.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

“And on your new album, a line that really jumped out at me was on “Company Commander,” when you say “right-wingers burning their libraries down.” You think, “Here are the things that gave the working class in Wales power and now we’ve got people, as you describe, burning the libraries down.”

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

"The library gave him the opportunity to increase his vocabulary so he could use different words. Literally, libraries gave him power." (Sheen) "This is about finding poetry in the strangest places." (Cale) This was lovely.

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PlantsAreNeat is drowning in vegetables @plantsareneat.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Okay, let's see. Hmm. Douche, jock douche, cult member, manbun in training, Harry Potter's Day Job and... Crowley, is that you? This is your fault, isn't it. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.

Election map 1984. All states red except Minnesota

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/06/2024

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

Tweet from the New York Public Library with a graphic that says "Marked safe from budget cuts today" and the following text:

We love you too, New York. Thanks for fighting for your public libraries. The FY25 budget adopted today by @nyccouncil includes full restoration of funding for NYC public libraries.
We couldn't have done it without all of you!

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

This comic anthology about the asexual experience has only 2 days left, and they’re SO CLOSE to their goal!! Asexuality is so poorly understood in the queer spectrum, and doesn’t get spotlit enough. Let’s come together & help this book get made this Pride Month! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mck...

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutant

The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2024

very curious to see how political commentators metabolize a biden uptick in the polls if it shows up

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

What about the convicted felon, folks? The noted fraud? The rapist? The classified document thief? Should he be standing down? No? Illuminating. Not at all good, but illuminating.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Periodic reminder: What you see on social media is an algorithm-curated echo chamber. Those who shout loudest typically get amplified the most, regardless of whether they’re right. The real work takes place offline. If you’re getting stressed out by today, take a break, focus on what you can do.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 29/06/2024

It was painted by Mr Josh Kirby, who painted all the Discworld covers.

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Abbarach @abbarach.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

It does, but not in the same way that the... er... previous site... did. Notice how the real @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ends with "neilgaiman.com" while the imposters ends with "bsky.social" or something similar. The verification process reflects off a record tied to the domain...

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 28/06/2024

It's a hard-scamming account -- the first I've seen on Bluesky. Please report to Bluesky then Block. This is my only account here.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 28/06/2024

Definitely a fake account. Report and block...

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