amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

"The fact that that's my Achilles' heel, that's the bear trap that my leg is in right now, speaks a lot about what I am"

no shit lady

i think cancel culture has gotten out of hand and overblown but I'm happy to make an exception in this case, what can we do?

The feature-not-a-bug part of all this is that if it weren't for her periodic outbursts of horribleness I would have forgotten all about Amanda Palmer years ago. So I guess it works for her on some level.

i didn't know she was married to neil gaiman

she is a sociopath

is she in the CATS! movie? She really should be/have been.

no, because I'm going to be hella stoned when I see that and I don't want her fucking with my buzz

Amanda Palmer = George Costanza

https://youtu.be/egwXofQqQ18

In most of the fan comments on AP's tweets there's all this praise for her honesty, which I guess makes me realize that honesty is not something I seek from artists.

“honesty”

The Lena Dunham of music

man she is so much worse than lena dunham and the only thing they have in common is that they are women narcissists

AP abuses power the way that a televangelist abuses power afaict -- with a facade of phony goodwill and a megaphone that is granted by sad needy sycophants :(

i don't even know if it's conscious or not but it reminds me of gaslighting a bit, like she's clearly someone who gets cornered on an issue and lashes out (cf firing her employee after concerns were raised about her use of the "n" word), and when she doesn't have devotion from someone she feels threatened and uses this facade of goodwill and understanding (creating some level of plausible deniability) and turns unwanted attention towards this person who doesn't like her. she also reminds me of the stepmom from fleabag.

yes, she exhibits the behavior of an abusive person
Deny
Attack
Reverse Victim & Offender

something about the niche adulation she receives and exploits really grosses me out the way that Morrissey's racism is worse to me than, say, Ted Nugent..a sense of trust with their feelings that their fans have

ok then the Ma Anand Sheela of music

xposts

LL otm

Apparently she and Neil Gaiman were quarantining in New Zealand, but he fucked off and went back to the UK. She wrote about it on her Patreon because of course she did: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36720010

Was just coming here to post that. Congratulations to Gaiman for breaking out of the asylum, I guess?

He posted a slightly salty tweet about her patreon post, buddy, you knew what you were getting into

this reinforces my visceral lizard-brain repellence at a salutation like "hey loves" or "my darlings" or "dearest dearhearts" or any sort of hyper-affectionate opener to a newsletter. being lumped into "group of people who love me" by any person makes me feel so gross!
she makes my skin crawl :(

I was actually surprised that it took her so long to do something "newsworthy" considering the circumstances of Covid-19 have created an even larger captive audience for her performance of self ... literally captive.

https://i.imgur.com/isTQfFZ.gif

she is kinda the human embodiment of the new fb "cares" react

Uuuugh this is going to be so ugly, isn't it?

Not sure which was more off-putting, Amanda's patreon post or literally the first reply to Neil's tweet about it being some rando posting a gif from Labyrinth of "Should you need us, for any reason at all...".

They're both going to turn their respectively awful fanbases on each other, aren't they?

don't catastrophize -- it will be ok
we don't actually have to pay attention to these people! i think it's important to remember that

i'm still miffed that she has besmirched the name of amandas worldwide

lol what if there was an amanda class action suit filed against her

what she really wants is Amanda Hugankiss

I liked a couple of things Neil wrote, quite a while back, but any remnant of goodwill from those has been lost by his constant shilling of masterclass courses and enabling of this bullshit.

she is kinda the human embodiment of the new fb "cares" react

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lethally otm

hoo boy

I always forget Neil Gaimen blocked me on Twitter for talking shit about them "selling hugs" to fans

Dan did u sing with her in college xp

we don't actually have to pay attention to these people! i think it's important to remember that

Sure we don't have to but can we still for the MJpopcorn.gif

I am not going to talk any shit about her marriage ending because that shit is super hard and he left her; she didn’t take the kid away from him. That is tough.

I also know that oversharing is her brand so I can’t really fault her for processing this the way she processes everything even though every bone in my body is screaming “WHAT ARE YOU DOING, NO JUST SHUT UP, YOU DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THIS” because… it’s apparent she does. I feel for her and I don’t want to know any more about what’s going on because I shouldn’t know more about her divorce than her kid.

every month, all patreon creators lose a percentage of their patrons because credit cards are declined for one reason or another.

i usually lose a few hundred people.

this month ESPECIALLY, please make sure your account is up to date. we need you.
🙏🏼https://t.co/StKQnUH81K

— Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer) May 1, 2020

kind of fascinated to see how the kid turns out

That poor child — I hope they are emancipated ASAP tbh

this is going to produce such hilarious content i can't wait

does the patreon have to break up with him too? is that where her soul lives now?

.

aw man, i didn't know they had a kid.

She looks really nice with her greying temples and her normal eyebrows

No snark I was reading about all this and saw a couple photos of her and was like 'wow she is aging really beautifully'

Yeah, I feel bad that there's a kid involved, but neither one of these people has ever been a day in the park and one is absolutely reprehensible so my schadenfreude is (slightly) dampened.

beauty is skin deep, but ...

I was actually surprised that it took her so long to do something "newsworthy"

My first thought was that she was feeling upstaged by the pandemic.

I don't bear them any ill will. She's just so relentlessly much.

My first thought was that she was feeling upstaged by the pandemic.

wow lolll

Gaiman’s older kids turned out alright by all accounts - raging narcissism aside, he seems like a pretty good dad.

My guess is he left their kid in NZ because it’s genuinely safer for him to be there than in the UK but wow how bad must things be if he’s willing to get on a plane in the middle of a pandemic just to get away from Amanda Palmer. And not only did she write about it on her Patreon, she also posted the link in a reply to Neil’s tweet just to make sure all his followers saw it too lol.

very excited to see helena bonham carter play the vampire based on amanda palmer in the tim burton movie based on the neil gaiman book based on their divorce

— job haver (@slorrmp) May 4, 2020