Mir: We'll soon see who stands on their principles and who remains silent and complicit. Allegedly, this has been an open secret for years. Which of his peers will now speak out?

We'll soon see who stands on their principles and who remains silent and complicit. Allegedly, this has been an open secret for years. Which of his peers will now speak out?

This is why we shouldn’t put men on a pedalstool. I’m shocked to see so many people ignoring this. He is an active user on bluesky we have to be consistent. Believe all victims

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault of two young womenwww.telegraph.co.uk The alleged victims claim the best-selling author engaged them in sadomasochistic acts and told them to call him ‘master’

One would think- once married to Amanda Palmer- would have been a red flag

I don’t know who she is?

I don't know the most about her, but some of my friends were super into her (and I loved some of her music) she was indie goth rock and also likes to use the n word and just in general be like "I am being super offensive but like not in the way you think" but of course it's in the way you think

I loved the Dresden Dolls at some point- but wooo she… says things

She lives in my area and owns/runs an important venue (Graveside Variety in Woodstock NY), which results in a lot of people in the local music scene being far more diplomatic about her than they should.

she's very appealing to college sophomores

Hey, I was a high school sophomore… (But yeah)

Bless your sweet innocent soul Mir

What‘s wrong with her? Amanda Palmer seemed always cool to me. Or did anything happen?

There’s a long list of… things

Like what?

oh you are so lovely

👀

Been side eyeing this for a while

Oh very much same. Their very public divorce was at least fun to watch

The war of the narcissists…

I think watching both his marriage with Amanda Palmer and subsequent divorce raised some flags with me. Was hoping I was wrong, but…

honestly this was one of my first reactions when people started wailing & gnashing their teeth in denial

yes these allegations are real and credible, -yes and- his marriage to Amanda itself was a red flag. I went to one of her spoken word tours with a few friends who have known her personally: she made a racist joke, made jokes at the expense of the people who called her put on the racist joke...

Always held him at arms length due to this association

I remember when this was being discussed on twitter, and the cognitive dissonance between her persona and his seemed so bizarre. I liked American Gods, but not enough to pursue more of his writing.

Oh yeah 😮‍💨

Yeah a moot kf mine said he'd been mentioned in her whisper network for a while. I genuinely had no idea and this came as a bit of a gut punch to be honest. He blamed at least one of the accusations on the woman being mentally ill apparently. Vile shit

I always feel so bad when I’ve never been previously aware of these ‘open secret’ stories. ‘Believe women’ is the instant default. Always.

My heart is broken. I had one hero with whom I credited with persevering through my self doubt and I no longer wish to meet him. This one might require going off and having a little cry.

Alan Moore is still a man of principle, at least. They’re weird principles, but he sticks to them.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

This is a bit of a blow. Hadn't heard.

It seems to have broken during the night yank side so not picked up widely

I feel so bad for those women. It sucks; he was one of my favorite authors. For better or worse, though, at this point I've had more than enough experience washing my hands of other creators for being abusive or otherwise shitty that it won't be too hard to do the same now.

Orson Scott Card was cancelled so I could be ready to cancel Neil Gaiman it's fine

It's like these people don't even read books Hemingway was a huge piece of shit

"You have to separate the art from the artist." 1. No I don't 2. That's not actually possible in any meaningful way.

You get to have whatever relationship you want with it and you can't dictate other people's that's art bby

Make no heroes. That said, this is disappointing.

Honestly, at this point I assume anyone in any position of power has done this shit. I no longer have anyone famous that I would trust to have a clear record, but it’s still disappointing as hell to be proven right on that

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