Apparently some people are putting China Mieville on their "decent author person" lists. Also, in an ENTIRELY unrelated issue, here's a post some author's lawyers got scrubbed from the internet. - ThreadSky

didichanoch.bsky.social • 136 days ago

Apparently some people are putting China Mieville on their "decent author person" lists.

Also, in an ENTIRELY unrelated issue, here's a post some author's lawyers got scrubbed from the internet.

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theworldofrpgs.bsky.social•136 days ago

I was already wary when I saw that he had done a collabo with Zak Smith

dswwwwillow.bsky.social•135 days ago

theworldofrpgs.bsky.social•135 days ago

Yeah OK so they were sued by ZS to change their position. That's not an argument but a threat.

pvttommyatkins.bsky.social•134 days ago

You realise how that makes you sound?

dswwwwillow.bsky.social•135 days ago

There is a mob of harassers admitting they lied about Zak.

a) article by a research psychiatrist (https://archive.is/0Nv3c)
b) the audio clips: (https://youtu.be/8GJAJNbF2Tg?si=aa_LzVrNCLllArNf…)
c) the confirmations from harassers that they are real (https://x.com/machineiv/status/1752010444712128749… - - https://x.com/pjamesstuart/status/1751884833867890952…)

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•136 days ago

... urgh, I think this one I will read if only to keep myself informed, I knew he was on the list of No Absolutely Not but I don't know even a few specifics as to why.

didichanoch.bsky.social•136 days ago

It's really hard to find details on it. Dude's laywers are AGGRESSIVE.

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•136 days ago

And I have now remembered to make sure Another Guy is out of my follow lists, and he is. 'kay.

Speaking of aggressive lawyers.

malurion.com•136 days ago

Seriously? Is this another thread in the Tapestry of shitty fantasy authors that I didn't know were shitty?

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•136 days ago

So it seems!

didichanoch.bsky.social•136 days ago

I see and appreciate what you did there.

croifox.bsky.social•135 days ago

Ah man
This guy was like Jesus to my professors first year of uni :')

poeghostal.bsky.social•136 days ago

I think such lists are just tempting fate anyway.

That said, being cynical and trusting no one doesn't feel like the right answer either. I don't know.

callidusdominus.bsky.social•134 days ago

I'm not sure that I heard about China Miéville before, but it's worth putting this out, as even if we think that someone is clean there may well be something that they stopped getting out.

filbyhead.bsky.social•136 days ago

China Mieville? Really? Oh no…

electricland.bsky.social•136 days ago

Oh shit! I didn’t know.

tomsydi.bsky.social•136 days ago

Nice to know my vibe radar is still working.

merrystarchild.bsky.social•136 days ago

... is Terry Pratchett still on that list? Please say yes please say yes...

pvttommyatkins.bsky.social•134 days ago

He’s dead so I imagine so.

didichanoch.bsky.social•134 days ago

Bad shit can come out about people after their deaths. This is a bad dunk attempt.

pvttommyatkins.bsky.social•133 days ago

Not a dunk attempt. I was just acknowledging the fact that post mortem the likelihood drops off dramatically.

merrystarchild.bsky.social•134 days ago

After all this time, though, I'd like to think that we would have heard something.
PTerry always struck me the same way as Carol Channing- another celebrity who didn't have a single mean or bad story released after their death.
I hope I am right.

didichanoch.bsky.social•136 days ago

As far as I know, there are no such stories about him.

wrestleurtrembles.bsky.social•136 days ago

I didn't know that Mieville had allegations against him. But even so, I can't imagine using this moment to push someone to read something like Bas Lag which is just filled with depictions of misogyny and really messy handling of issues that warrant a trigger warning or five.

v3lig3r.bsky.social•129 days ago

Ugh. I didn’t know. Another bit of shitty news on top of everything else. I guess, on the bright side, we now live in a fascist dystopia, so reading such fiction is unnecessary.

auferre.bsky.social•136 days ago

There's a reason I don't make lists like that anymore.

sparkcrusher.bsky.social•136 days ago

Well, crap.

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