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Warning, this story is really horrific and will be heartbreaking for any fans of his, but Neil Gaiman is a sadistic [not in the BDSM sense] sexual predator with a predilection for very young women.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (35 children)

Yup, big fan of his work, really pissed off to find out he's such an asshole. But I'm glad we live in an era where creeps can get their due. Fuck this guy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The sandman audiobooks were so good. I don't expect they'll be finished now, if they were, I don't expect I'd be buying them.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I didn’t heed the warning and regretted reading the whole thing - there are very detailed and gruesome first hand accounts of his alleged assaults on multiple women. Excellent reporting throughout, which only makes it more sickening.

Also, as a former Amanda Palmer fan, fuck her, too. It’s clear she enabled this and committed, at minimum, wage theft crimes. Both of them deserve to do jail time with even the most generous best-case-scenarios. I’m sure she was also abused by him, but that is not an excuse to abuse other women. Some feminist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait what happen with Amanda Palmer? I've looked her stuff for a while what did she do?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Idk how to format, but I want to save you from reading if you need that. So here’s a brief list of claims in the article:

  • she frequently and repeatedly recruited homeless, impoverished female fans to provide childcare without any payment
  • she repeatedly left these women alone with Gaiman, without the child present
  • she warned Gaiman to “keep his hands off” at least one woman
  • she said that at least 14 women had come to her for help with Gaiman
  • she subsequently wrote a song about how much of a chore it was for her to deal with the multiple “suicidal mess”es Gaiman created
  • she routinely controlled employment/housing of these women and knew Gaiman was, at best, sleeping with them (this cannot be consensual when housing/employment are in the mix)
  • when notified of an assault that happened with her child present, only questioned whether the child was “wearing headphones”
  • refused to cooperate with at least one police investigation
  • refused any material help to assaulted women after repeatedly assuring them she would “take care of” them, get different housing/employment set up, etc.

Just…awful stuff, and this is best case scenario, FFS. She is fucking trash.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

She was married to him and enabled him.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I have enjoyed Gaiman’s writing, also the Sandman show was excellent, but I am glad that in this era that I’m not the type of person to be a fan of anybody. I guess it is natural to ascribe virtue and look up to people who create thing you resonate with, but there’s no reason to think someone who wrote a book is worth praising or emulating other than in the book you liked.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welp, that's yet another maker of incredible art that turned out to be an absolute monster. Fucking hell.

If what he says about The Ocean at the End of the Lane about the kid representing him is true, then he's just another case of keeping a vicious cycle of abuse going. He should've sought psychological help. Hell, he should seek psychological help now, the media would love to write about his RL redemption.

Serving for his rape crimes would also be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I never liked his books. Just kept trying and trying to get into them, seemed like everyone was reading Sandman and American gods and I was just struggling to finish Neverwhere. Like there was something just...wrong about it. Now I'm thinking I saw something under those words he wrote. Something I didn't like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The sandman tv show was pretty good

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

This was a very disturbing read. I'm glad some of the survivors found each and other and are coming out with story, and I hope wierdo gets prison time so he won't be able to do this to anyone else

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Sounds like someone who suffered from serious abuse, never went to actual therapy in a meaningful way but instead got into a position of power where he could feel good by being the abuser instead of the abused. Which does not excuse any of it. On the contrary, his writing shows very clearly that he understands that what he did was wrong, but he did it regardless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of good books written by awful people. I guess Gaiman might be one of those awful people

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is certainly going to have an effect on Tumblr.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have no evidence, but I believe Orson Scott Card has a thing for little boys. I devoured his books when I was a tween, but began to feel uneasy over time. There was a reoccurring theme of young boys being put in graphic situations that just, I don't know, but I've never been able to shake that feeling. Song Master pushed me over the edge. A 'beautiful young boy' being castrated so he doesn't go through puberty was when I stopped reading. My Spidey sense had never stopped going off about him since then.

Aaaand I just googled. I'm not the only one who picked up on that. Ew

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Huh. I never noticed, but that actually explains Ender's Game.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

yeah some of those authors...Like Heinlein's later novels, what was with the fucking incest?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Card is also a giant piece of shit in other ways, which is unfortunate because he is a good writer and his essays on the methodology of writing are excellent.

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/enders-game/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find it difficult to reconcile how the writer of Speaker for the Dead is such a bigot. Dude took a hard swerve at some point.

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