#gaiman

[veronica-rich]

It's concerning to see people come blazing out of the gate at fans of someone who's just been reported to be majorly problematic or criminal, or outed themselves as such, with sentiments like "If you're not wholly invested with the victims and shed immediately of that thing you loved, I hope you choke on a dick!" It's not helpful, it's not productive - and it's not realistic.

Even when a fan reads the news and is willing to accept their fave did the thing, it's hard to process. It's like grieving that someone died. You shouldn't expect someone to get over their mom in 24 hours, and you can't expect them to throw away part of their psyche so fast.

At my age I've unfortunately seen a LOT of Regarded People fuck themselves into revilement or obscurity, yet there are times I'm still surprised when news comes out, even if I'm not personally invested in their work. When you see a fan still struggling to come to terms and it's only been hours or a few days, especially, take a breath.

[dyke-will-graham]

Sometimes I get weird about labeling my gender then I remember Crowley exists and I’m like omg gender doesn’t even fucking matter I can go through life as Crowley would and then I’m fine again

[fox-bright]

Today I'm working myself into a proper tizzy because all of a sudden that everyone hates him, people have Realized that Gaiman badly ripped much of The Sandman off of Tanith Lee's glorious Tales From the Flat Earth.

She's dead now and it's too late to give her justice.

Twenty-year-old Gen, reading Sandman for the first time, knew that he was just a poor copy of Azhrarn the Beautiful, Lord of Wickedness, and that Death was Azhriaz, and Delirium was very like Chuuz, Lord of Delusion, and that Destiny was nearly a one-to-one copy of Lee's Destiny, and that aesthetically and structurally the Sandman just...stole, hand over hand, from Lee's masterwork. It was obvious.

I just figured nobody cared.

I have loved a lot of Gaiman's work. I won't pretend I always hated him, even if for the last fifteen or twenty years I've thought he was largely up his own butt. I'll probably have some of his poetry memorized for the rest of my life. But it galls me that now that everyone is taking up pitchforks and torches, NOW he's being called out for stealing from a woman who deserved much better, when it was obvious to me when I was barely out of childhood, more than twenty years ago.

[postmariannizm]

I love how silent you all are about Neil Geiman ❤️ you were riding his dick like what, 6 months ago? He was your feminist icon? I want to vomit on you

Tw rape, sexual assault

[narwhalsdisguised]

Let's be clear: there can be no separation of art from artist here. Neil Gaiman is alive and will directly benefit from people buying, renting, streaming, fanfic-ing, and otherwise giving attention to his creations. It won't matter if you post a performative piece about how awful he is while watching his shows or reading his books - you'll still be supporting him. Don't read or watch his stuff. Don't even pirate it. All forms of attention will benefit him and hurt his victims.

I'm saying this as a former fan. The first time I ever saw my partner was across a convention hall where she was dressed as Crowley, and I thought she was the hottest thing to ever walk this earth. Good Omens has always meant a great deal to us (and I've loved many of his other books too). It hurts to learn that a creator you had respected is capable of such evil, and you should give yourself space to grieve the loss of something you've enjoyed - but the loss is nothing compared to what the victims have gone through, and will continue to go through because people will continue to support him. Don't be one of them.

[elspethdixon]

I’ve been deeply disappointed by things I’ve learned about people whose creative work I loved before (MZB, Johnny Depp, Vic Mignona, Sophie from Mars, plus a long list of writers and artists and actors who went off the MAGA deep end or who revealed themselves as homophobes or transphobes or racists or abusers), but the information that’s come put over the past month about Neil Gaiman has been especially distressing because Neil has been present in so many different internal social circles I’ve been on the edges of. It feels more personal than previous discoveries because his creative work and that of people adjacent to him or inspired by him has shaped so much of my adult fannish life. I’m a “death of the author”/“separate the artist from the art” type when it comes to fiction, so unlike many this doesn’t ruin Sandman or American Gods or Good Omens for me, just as MZB’s Sword and Sorceress anthologies and Darkover books remain beloved teenage memories of mine, but I’ll never be able to look at Gaiman’s interactions with fandom in the same way again. No more reblogging his tumblr posts or following his blog or any other parasocial interaction. Not now that I know how he’s treated people in his personal life.

I think this tweet says it best:

That’s the best case scenario, and the actual truth is likely much worse:

[pacingthroughouthemptiness]

"American Gods:

Want to read Gaiman's books without him profiting from it? Buy them second hand!"

People's Bookstore, Durham, UK

[ghost-nugget-11]

BILDAD THE SHUHITE!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!

this was like a 20sec sketch ignore the fact that i did david tennant DIRTY

anyway!

BILDAD! THE SHUHITE!

[snitling]

Hiiiii I just want to say Edwin was so brave, for real someone told him he was in love with Charles and immediately he was like I have to tell that boy even if it costs me everything, even if I have to do it on the staircase on the way back up from hell, I haven't been so proud since Crowley's hmmm

[seapiglet]

lmaoooo not the sentence tacked on at the end. shut the fuck up. please PLEASE shut the fuck up. just keep your self-pitying on discord or in the priv gc or something.

[confrontthefamiliar]

For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. He later recalled that "I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader, where he would just talk to you ... I'd think, 'Oh, my gosh, that is so cool! I want to do that! When I become an author, I want to be able to do things in parentheses.' I liked the power of putting things in brackets."

Wikipedia

I remember reading the Chronicles of Narnia at recess on the playground and learning how the English version of the series had a different order than the American version and how odd that was

[ira-online]

EYE think dealing with misplaced guilt over having a meaningful connection with (the works of) someone who turned out to be a predator is difficult but maybe we should centre the conversation on the abuse and its signs. death of the artist is relevant and youre not a bad person for liking good omens or whatever the fuck but too many posts are about the morals of being a fan. its not about you

[crowleys-aziraphale]

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, known to all of us as Sir Terry Pratchett. Was an english author, humorist, satirist and novelist. Best known for his work such as good omens, Discworld, night watch and many more. Sir Terry Pratchett was the UK's best- selling author of the 90s.

The good omens series was Sir Terry Pratchett's dying wish to Neil gaiman, he wrote Neil a letter, in the letter he told Neil to make the tv adaptation of good omens. Unfortunately he passed away before he ever got a chance to see it. He will always be part of the good omens series, his hat and scarf is in the show, and so is his spirit.

"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy"

@neil-gaiman

[biestcallisto]

Someone: my god, gaimans statement is infuriating

me: looks it up.

He should have stayed fucking silent. There is nothing of value there. fuck that guy

[luci-the-android]

Did several tumblr users decide to gaslight tumblr today about Gaiman? I saw a screenshot of a tweet or whatever the hell their called now, went to X/Twitter, it doesn't fucking exist. I see a news article screenshot, I go to the news website the screenshot is of, the article doesn't exist. They claim there was a blog post that is now deleted, but again there is only screenshots.

But then again why would anyone on the internet lie?