#the discs

[clairecannot]

what was c!dream after again

[k1ng-0f-h3arts]

and the alternative

[provivat]

My Discs

It was during the war I lost them.

I gave up my discs, so my country could live. I smiled happily afterwards: maybe I could still grin. Though I missed the harmonies of sweet, sweet innocence, I couldn't help but smile to the lights within.

But I couldn't forget them.

I gave my music to the green-skinned monster, who would torture me with them for a very long time. The country for which I fought, and more importantly, sacrificed, fell like it wasn't even worth a dime.

Do they all want my discs?

Am I going insane? I see their hands, reaching towards them. Why are they trying to steal it, like it's some silly prize? It's not a prize; it's my past. My childhood, my innocence, everything I was before the wars and the lies.

The discs are worth more than anything ever will be.

It's not just material. It's not just the music. It's not just the songs, which they sing, just for me. It's the important memories. The only reminder that I'm a kid, and nothing else. The only reminder that I too deserve life's ease.

I don't want problems. I just want back my peace.

[live-from-flaturn]

"But you already wrote that trope."

[natsumipocket]

Music comes in many formats

[infamouslydorky]

It still fascinates me how DJ is short for Disc Jockey, as if to ride the waves of music like a stallion

[san-sebastienne]

With truly all the love and empathy in my heart: crying daily over the sexual assault allegations against Gaiman isn’t healthy. I’ve seen multiple people –especially fans of GO – saying this since they came out, and it’s really fucking concerning me.

I wonder if it has to do with the insidious ideas that 1) people are either Bad or Good, 2) Bad people can only do Bad things, and 3) liking Bad things or Bad people makes you Bad.

None of these things are true.

People are mixed up and incredibly complicated. Someone can be an incredible artist/friend/chef/ally against racism/drag queen and still be predatory/homophobic/antisemitic/never tips their wait staff. People do things that harm others in big and small ways all the time. You do too. I promise.

(Also the idea of anyone, even people who do genuinely insurmountable harm, becoming somehow less than human is an inherently fascist ideology)

The fact that you (yes, you!!) do harmful things doesn’t immediately make you Bad. There are certainly things that someone might do that causes more harm (say, assault) versus less, but that doesn’t somehow infect all the things they’ve done in the past with their Badness. Gaiman helped write Good Omens. There’s no way now to say “I was wrong and this book was Bad all along” or even “oh, all the parts I like were written by Pratchett, the Bad parts must have been Gaiman.” You didn’t miss an inherent evil by liking the book in the past. It doesn’t make you Bad for liking it now.

(It also doesn’t mean that people associated with Gaiman, like David Tennant, are also Tainted by inherent Badness. Tennant isn’t, you aren’t. Saying otherwise is also a slippery slope argument into dehumanization and fascist ideas)

By all means: if it feels right, stop giving Gaiman your money. Stop tagging him in your Azi/Crowley fanart. But do this as a way to disentangle yourself from parasocial relationships that are actively causing you grief and to vote with your wallet, not because unlinking yourself from Bad Art and Bad People will somehow absolve you and make you Good again. If you already have a copy of Good Omens or Sandman, whether you reread it is between you and your gods. Interacting with a text you find important doesn’t make you Bad or Good. It’s just reading. What you do with the stories is what matters (ironically, that’s the message of a lot of both Gaiman and Pratchett’s work).

Maybe take a peek at Good Omens and re familiarize yourself with its other core message: People are not Bad or Good. People do bad and good things.

Then maybe drink a cup of tea. You need to rehydrate.

[yoan-le-grall]

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