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

[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.

clay feet suck

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

The only comfort I take from this is my favorite thing he wrote was Good Omens and I can attribute it to Terry Pratchett.

 

[The Nomad]

American Gods is my favorite novel. As a fan, this sucks. As a human, this is disgusting.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The only comfort I take from this is my favorite thing he wrote was Good Omens and I can attribute it to Terry Pratchett.

Doesn’t help me. American Gods, Ocean/Lane, Norse Mythology, Sandman, Marvel 1602, Wolves in the Wall, Mr Punch

 

[Sun Wukong]

The only comfort I take from this is my favorite thing he wrote was Good Omens and I can attribute it to Terry Pratchett.

Pratchett was legitimately responsible for like 80% of that book. It's mostly his stylistically and in terms of language. Gaiman came up with a lot of the story aspects, but Pratchett did the bulk of the actual writing because Gaiman was still doing Sandman full time and Pratchett was on a break from Discworld.

Also, Pratchett said some things over the years about Gaiman that can be...open to interpretation in terms of how he viewed him. I've also read where a lot of people have claimed that the two were nowhere near as close as Gaiman liked to portray they were. And I did always find it odd that in the 25 years between the publishing of Good Omens and Pratchett's death, they never really collaborated again despite Pratchett being an absolute machine in terms of output and collaborating with other people.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Uhoh
It looks like Ocean at the end of the Lane is available for production
And I have REALLY been struggling with a title for Fall ‘25

My art and my ethics are about to have a bit of a row

this will be interesting

 

[LonghornSaint]

I just realized he wrote The Doctor's Wife - one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Some of my favorite comic book writers... Gaiman, Max Landis, Warren Ellis, Chuck Dixon (all-time favorite Batman writer)... All great storytellers... All equally Grade A butt crevasses.