Actor/Actress with the Most Impeccable "Nerd" Credentials (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

I thought Lucas was inspired by westerns?

I thought the same.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I thought Lucas was inspired by westerns?

Westerns, samurai movies (especially Kurosawa) and pulp serials (like Flash Gordon), footage of WWII dogfights

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Westerns, samurai movies (especially Kurosawa) and pulp serials (like Flash Gordon), footage of WWII dogfights

like Western and samurai movies with a sci fi twist?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

like Western and samurai movies with a sci fi twist?

Well many samurai movies were inspired by westerns - ronin essentially being hired gun types
But most 70s/80s directors talk about the influence is Saturday matinee fare

 

[Optimus Prime]

As an example of this, Neil Gaiman was known by everybody to be banging anything that moved on the con circuit. It was not a secret. People talked about how he had "harems" in various cities. He had goth groupies throwing themselves at him.

Now he's essentially been cancelled because those sexcapades have been brought to light and several women have accused him of sexual assault. Also just really gross and creepy power dynamic stuff. The stories are unpleasant.

Those days of cons are over.

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after accusations from multiple women

‘I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity,’ wrote the ‘American Gods’ author

www.independent.co.uk

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after accusations from multiple women

‘I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity,’ wrote the ‘American Gods’ author

www.independent.co.uk

Yeah it sucks but it’s all coming crashing down for him
Ocean at the end of the lane is one of my favorites ever
It’s been made into a very successful play and I have long waited for it to be released for public rights
Now it’s complicated

 

[Sun Wukong]

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault allegations after accusations from multiple women

‘I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity,’ wrote the ‘American Gods’ author

www.independent.co.uk

He was once one of my favorite writers, but as I alluded to in that earlier post, those of us that knew his reputation on the fan circuit had been waiting for this shoe to drop for a long time. Nobody has that much sex with that many different people without some sketchy sheet being involved somewhere along the line. Even in his "everything was consensual" version of events he's still basically admitting to being a power dynamic exploiting ghoul. The story about his live in nanny made my skin crawl.

He's done now. Sandman used to be my favorite comic series of all time. I get separating the art from the artist but I don't think I can do that with him. I just view him as gross.

 

[Madmarsha]

He was once one of my favorite writers, but as I alluded to in that earlier post, those of us that knew his reputation on the fan circuit had been waiting for this shoe to drop for a long time. Nobody has that much sex with that many different people without some sketchy sheet being involved somewhere along the line. Even in his "everything was consensual" version of events he's still basically admitting to being a power dynamic exploiting ghoul. The story about his live in nanny made my skin crawl.

He's done now. Sandman used to be my favorite comic series of all time. I get separating the art from the artist but I don't think I can do that with him. I just view him as gross.

He's also a scientologist.

 

[Sun Wukong]

He's also a scientologist.

Yeah. His personal life is bizarre even beyond this stuff.

Back in the early 2000's pre-social media era he built his online reputation through constant blogging and presented himself as just a normal married father of three who also happened to be a wildly successful spooky British fantasy and comic book writer and that was arguably the biggest bit of fiction he ever peddled.

In fact, I think his first marriage turned out to be some kind of arranged scientology thing. Once that ended and he hooked up with Amanda Palmer he started being more openly weird and ditched the nice guy family man act.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

In fact, I think his first marriage turned out to be some kind of arranged scientology thing. Once that ended and he hooked up with Amanda Palmer he started being more openly weird and ditched the nice guy family man act.

for a time I thought he and Amanda Palmer had a cool relationship
Silly me

 

[Sun Wukong]

for a time I thought he and Amanda Palmer had a cool relationship
Silly me

It's even worse when you find out she wanted to settle things down after they had a kid and he basically browbeat her into allowing an open relationship so he could gallivant around the world forking everything that moved.

Also when he ditched her and the kid during covid. They were in New Zealand, I think, and he used his celebrity connections to get himself back to the UK at a time when nobody was doing that. He straight up ditched them.

Finding out someone you legitimately once admired is basically a human trash factory definetly sucks.


But his downfall is earned.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I’ve actually only read a few things by Gaiman

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I’ve actually only read a few things by Gaiman

I've only read one thing of his and that's the comic book for Alice Cooper's The Last Temptation.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

It's even worse when you find out she wanted to settle things down after they had a kid and he basically browbeat her into allowing an open relationship so he could gallivant around the world forking everything that moved.

Also when he ditched her and the kid during covid. They were in New Zealand, I think, and he used his celebrity connections to get himself back to the UK at a time when nobody was doing that. He straight up ditched them.

Finding out someone you legitimately once admired is basically a human trash factory definetly sucks.


But his downfall is earned.

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