#which is weird because she is also a diehard harry potter fan

[the-whimsigoth-witch]

The beef between me and my ultra-religious coworker is so silly to me because once again, she finds ways to throw religion into everything and again I’m being victimized by my workplace’s Question of the Day.

Today’s question: “what book do you recommend”

My answer: “The Humans by Matt Haig” (this book follows an alien as he learns about humans and what makes humanity so complex and yet beautiful. It involves a lot of math and scientific concepts while still remaining science fiction)

My coworker’s answer: “The Bible by God”

[the-somewhat-rambling-reviewer]

I recently heard about the accusations against Neil Gaiman, and I'm not going to tell anyone what to feel or think about him or his work.

Some people, when someone is accused/exposed, they claim they always knew the person wasn't good and/or that they never liked the person's work anyways.

And I'm not that type person, but there is something kind of weird that has happened to me a few times.

I was a Harry Potter fan. At one point, I had several hardback covers, and I bought all 7 ebook editions. Some of my first fanfiction works were in the HP fandom.

However, I was never a diehard fan, and I distinctly remember trying to talk to some people about some things in the books I found problematic long before her terfdom came into prominence.

I've hated and distrusted Dumbledore since the third book, completely missed any hints of his sexuality, and when he was confirmed to be gay via Word of God, I was unhappy, because, I knew, if I talked about not liking him, everyone would assume it was the gay thing.

I've had several online debates, some rather heated, about how much I didn't agree with Hermione's actions towards Marietta or Rowling's comments about Marietta being permanently scarred and how Rowling despises snitches.

Anyway, I don't know if Johnny Depp is guilty of abuse towards Amber Heard or not. I deliberately didn't watch any of the trial or look into what the verdict was. If he is guilty, I hope he gets his comeuppance, and if he isn't, I hope she gets hers for lying about such a thing.

But long before this all happened, I could never get the hype about Depp. I recognised he's a talented actor in that I never felt like I was watching someone acting, much like Leonardo DiCaprio, but I could never connect with any of his characters.

In addition, while I've never thought he looked unattractive, I never understand what great beauty everyone else saw. Outside of roles where he drastically changed his appearance, he looked like an ordinary man to me. Not bad looking, I guess handsome would be an apt descriptor, but just a regular looking man.

And so we come to Gaiman.

Let me stress: I don't if he was lying about this one particular thing.

But I've never believed he and Terry Pratchett had plans for a sequel for Good Omens.

Maybe they did. I didn't think, 'oh, he's lying,' when I heard that. But I did have a feeling of, 'Really?', and I did have a feeling this contradicted something I'd known before.

At any rate, I loved the book but couldn't get into the first season of the series. Maybe, I'll be able to someday. I haven't watched the second season aside from the kiss scene, which I loved.

I'm happy, though, for all the people who were happy with getting a second season, and I understand the hurt some feel about not getting a third. There have been pieces of media I loved that were cancelled due to actor/creator/someone involved misconduct, and it hurts.

Sometimes, I struggle with it, but ultimately, I land on the side of separating art from the artist. If someone does a terrible thing, I don't think they should get a pass just so that they can give the world more art, but I'm not going to yell at someone for continuing to love the art already put out into the world, and I'm not going to think badly of them for wishing there could be more of this art despite whatever the person did.

I was looking forward to Build and Bible in 4 Minutes, and even though I understand why Build was replaced, I still mourn what could have been. I'll always love Guy and Nawa's scenes from Dangerous Romance and part of me will wish the two actors would have future projects together, but I'm also glad it seems GMMTV is not giving any work to the person undeniably guilty of domestic violence.

I think the line should be: Are you championing for this person guilty of doing horrible things to be given a free pass? Or do you wish they'd never been exposed?

If so, that's not good.

But if it's: I wish they hadn't done this, I'm going to miss what I'd have if they hadn't, then, to me, that's very understandable.

I want more bad people to be exposed, and I understand that means certain things I love might be tainted and/or discontinued. I just also wish that were less bad people who needed to be exposed.

And like I said, it's weird that I didn't know certain people were problematic but that there were a few things that sort of pinged years before anything happened.