Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman divorcing
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Anonymous
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He's self-quarantining in England and she's holed up in New Zealand with their 4-year-old.
Apparently she decided to announce it on her Patreon. 
https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/amanda-palmer-patreon-neil-gaiman-breakup.html |
Anonymous
| She's mental. I'm surprised he lasted that long. |
Anonymous
| Reading between the lines, it sounds like he cheated, then left her and their kid in NZ to go back to the UK. If that's the case I don't blame her for being pissy about it. |
Anonymous
There was no reference there. If anything, it sounds like he got tired of being holed up in a country that he has no connection to. Neil is British. Amanda is American. Why would she insist on going to New Zealand (assuming it was her bcs he left)? From their Instagram it looks like she's been there since early March and before that they were in Australia. |
Anonymous
Maybe you're right. I was reading into this line:
https://10daily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/a200505goadb/im-heartbroken-amanda-palmer-announces-split-with-neil-gaiman-via-her-patreon-20200505 But who the heck knows what that refers to. |
Anonymous
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For the illiterate, here's the first paragraph from his wiki entry:
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman[2] (/ˈɡeɪmən/;[3] born Neil Richard Gaiman,[2] 10 November 1960)[4] is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008).[5][6] In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[7] |
Anonymous
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He says on his Twitter "I see @amandapalmer
has told people that we (like much of the world) are going through rocky times right now. It is true, we are. It's really hard, and I'd like to request privacy (as I'm not going to be talking about it publicly) and kindness, for us and for Ash." |
Anonymous
| She says "neil moved to the UK, my heart has been broken, and I'm really struggling". Sounds like he's the one who left. |
Anonymous
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Masterclass promo for online video course with Neil Gaiman:
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/neil-gaiman-teaches-the-art-of-storytelling |
Anonymous
In a joint interview last year, they talked about having an open marriage. That doesn't mean it's impossible to cheat within an open marriage, but it's more complicated to understand what happened. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-gaiman-reveals-slutty-marriage-to-amanda-palmer-qnxn7cnxc |
Anonymous
| The term "open marriage" is an oxymoron. |
Anonymous
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Disney is working on The Graveyard Book. Ron Howard loves the book and is involved in its adaptation—so excited! That book made me cry when he leaves Graveyard as adult, and I’m a 50 yo woman:
https://screenrant.com/graveyard-book-movie-disney/ |
Anonymous
| Twilight compared to Gaiman’s work is even better. Omg some of you need to pick up a book. |
Anonymous
| Gaiman isn’t hurting for fans, so he doesn’t give two shits if some nitwits in NoVa haven’t heard of him. Except he’s actually a really nice guy, so he’d laugh it off and maybe send you a book. |
Anonymous
| I went to college with her and she's incredibly abrasive. While I suppose one might argue that she's a creative genius, she's not an easy person. I can't imagine what that marriage was like. |