The accusations against Neil Gaiman are so shocking that I don’t think I can ever interact with a piece of literature that he touched ever again. I cannot separate the monster from the art. Neil Gaiman is a sadistic rapist. I hope he is shunned from society for the rest of his life. - ThreadSky

pearlmania500.bsky.social • 41 days ago

The accusations against Neil Gaiman are so shocking that I don’t think I can ever interact with a piece of literature that he touched ever again.

I cannot separate the monster from the art. Neil Gaiman is a sadistic rapist.

I hope he is shunned from society for the rest of his life.

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skenasky.bsky.social•41 days ago

Like, could you even read th first chapter without visualizing nightmarish stuff. Not I. Depressing how a tiny bit of power is so easily exploited.

gingerlizard.bsky.social•40 days ago

Looked around my office last night and realized his influence extends beyond my books. I have a print of Princess Mononoke on my wall; he did that script’s English translation. Lots of Tolkien memorabilia; he did the Tolkien Lecture at Oxford last year. I have *perfumes* based on his characters.

sheenax1031.bsky.social•40 days ago

Like a month or 2 before all this stuff started coming to light about him, I had finally bought 1 of his books to read & I was so excited. Now idk that I can read it, even though it's not putting anymore $ in his pocket since I already own it 🤦🏻‍♀️😢😂

annawithtwons.bsky.social•41 days ago

I never read most of his stuff except "Good Omens" and I read that because I loved Terry Pratchett. But yeah, Gaiman stinks. I wonder how Tori Amos feels mentioning him I. Several of her songs?

firemoth.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh it’s RUINED her songs. I tried.

shinyshep.bsky.social•40 days ago

She feels awful, there was a piece in the guardian and she hadn’t known but she knew in that article. She also understands abusers enough to know he hid it from her.

annawithtwons.bsky.social•40 days ago

Yeah, she has personal experience with abuse and has done a lot for survivors. Abusers can be skilled at hiding it. What a betrayal to her.

shinyshep.bsky.social•40 days ago

When I read that I felt in my heart it must be true from her reaction.

annawithtwons.bsky.social•40 days ago

I love Tori. My heart breaks thinking of his fake feminine empowerment. It's bad enough when some athlete or Hollywood exec gets outed for abuse but he so misrepresented himself and it's nauseating

shinyshep.bsky.social•40 days ago

Exactly this.

shinyshep.bsky.social•40 days ago

Here’s the link https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/03/tori-amos-on-trauma-trump-and-neil-gaiman-a-heartbreaking-grief

bunnehood.bsky.social•40 days ago

I'm selfishly disappointed because Coraline and the Graveyard Boy were two of my all-time favorite books growing up and I wanted to share them with my own kids one day. Hell if I'm uttering his name in my home now unless I'm following it with "is a piece of shit".

jambulance.bsky.social•41 days ago

I will never excuse anyone for using a mental illness/neuro-diverse traits as a scapegoat for any horrible thing they have done it’s embarrassing and disgusting.

drsb123.bsky.social•40 days ago

It is so frustrating and heartbreaking because of how formative and life changing some of his works have been for me. No heroes. No idols. No gods.

maurateague.bsky.social•41 days ago

It was just so much worse than I imagined. I am genuinely shocked. And really apalled.

orangerrific.bsky.social•41 days ago

nah fr because like

I do not shake easily from reading about or seeing scenes of SA/rape in books or film. I just really never have had that strong of a trigger regarding that kind of thing

but goddamn, reading all that shit earlier made me feel *physically* ill for a few minutes. He’s VILE

taboocandy.bsky.social•40 days ago

Gaiman needs to fuck all the way off…and get extensive therapy. The need to abuse is not normal, Neil. It means you are fucking broken!!! Hoping these women can heal and get justice.

caydab.bsky.social•39 days ago

I have such a hard time deciding if we should or shouldn't separate the art from the artist, in terms of ANY of the horrific artists / creators of the past... what's your take typically?

katty-sladen.bsky.social•38 days ago

I threw the two Neil Gaiman books I had in the trash this morning. He's cancelled IMO.

dragonflyatx.bsky.social•41 days ago

We live in a simulation. Can the aliens just activate already. Just MAD us all. I’m so done 😭

firemoth.bsky.social•41 days ago

I’m actually considering getting rid of my favorite tarot decks because of this. It won’t read the same I’m sure. The Vertigo tarot, even though done by Dave McKean, the connection, I just can’t.

hiimwyatt.bsky.social•40 days ago

That Bastet scene in American Gods is starting to make a lot more sense

lukealtonr.bsky.social•41 days ago

Honestly it sucks because I see so much of myself in Lord Morpheus

shinyshep.bsky.social•40 days ago

He’s always been a terrible role model to be fair.

alexblackwood.bsky.social•40 days ago

If are disgusted by Neil Gaiman and mourn the loss of The Sandman, this thread by Matthew Boroson is for you:

https://bsky.app/profile/alexblackwood.bsky.social/post/3lfqrdbzz7k23

kebrightbill.bsky.social•40 days ago

I'm kind of at the same place because I don't know how you can even separate the art from the artist when 'Calliope' is a comic that exists as part of Sandman. Knowing what we know now, that issue feels like a serial predator taunting his victims.

leftegrove.bsky.social•40 days ago

It’s so damn sad.

waywardenby.bsky.social•40 days ago

It’s so upsetting because his collection of work is some of my favorite horror literature, at least I still have James Tynion IV

pearlmania500.bsky.social•41 days ago

Here is an archived copy of the article. It is graphic and horrific. Don’t read if you have any sexual trauma. Neil Gaiman is a monster:

https://archive.is/2025.01.13-141009/https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

rossanawyatt.bsky.social•38 days ago

So incredibly sick, he is a monster.

laiken75.bsky.social•41 days ago

I do audiobooks and I tried to listen to Stardust, couldn’t do it.

firemoth.bsky.social•41 days ago

I read it and have trauma but I SERIOUSLY misjudged how much I could stomach. Like the fact I read his books and some of my life memories are hinged on his books just floors me, so to have survived his abuse?? I cannot stress enough how I hope they’ll be okay.

markmahowald.bsky.social•41 days ago

Goddamn it. Why did I read that before bed? It would have been there in the morning

thegiantcatlady.bsky.social•41 days ago

Jesus, that poor woman. Who knows how many others he had done that to to be that comfortable doing any of that to her

satanne23.bsky.social•40 days ago

Amanda palmer. So fucking disappointed. I loved the dresden dolls growing up. Holy hell.

octaviolet.bsky.social•40 days ago

Same here.

dawnringer.bsky.social•40 days ago

@eleknor.bsky.social tagging you in this one as the original is behind a paywall.

thebookn3rd.bsky.social•41 days ago

I saw an article from USA Today about the initial five allegations and now the latest four. It's so disturbing.

vbrown.bsky.social•40 days ago

I can’t read it. SA in my past. Mostly deal with stories fine but got to a personal trigger and had to stop

captainswordface.bsky.social•40 days ago

I knew it was bad but I still regret reading it. I hope he goes to jail.

maureenmouton762.bsky.social•41 days ago

Wow I'm horrified 😱

ethan82.bsky.social•40 days ago

I mean we can say the same thing about trumps bitch ass

danceswithpugs.bsky.social•41 days ago

I couldn’t even finish the article. Such a terrible fucking person.

pinkodykebomb.bsky.social•41 days ago

Same with Amanda Palmer

firemoth.bsky.social•41 days ago

THIS PART right here. She fking knew, and she fed him victims, and that makes her worse in so many ways.

drakonislumen.bsky.social•40 days ago

This needs to go to court with ACTUAL proofs and not an incredibly well written article. Acts of BDSM are shocking- but the article shows consensual texting, an NDA dated for their relationship, photos shown for emotion- this requires an investigation and possible sentencing.

orionkidder.bsky.social•40 days ago

This was precisely my argument. I want to burn all my copies of his books. I don't want them to fall into anyone else's hands. I don't want to be materially or causally responsible for one more penny in his pocket or an ounce of prestige. He can fuck off into the sun.

racheldis.bsky.social•41 days ago

I’m so sad for the disappointment the reality of yet another author. I raised my babies with Blueberry Girl and countless other children’s books by him. I’m beyond disgusted. Terrible human!

designerplant.bsky.social•40 days ago

I have never read a piece of his work despite the efforts of many people to get me to do so. I feel vindicated that I have never supported this monster.

satanne23.bsky.social•40 days ago

Amanda palmer WOW. What the hell. Fuck

chad4rdbrad4rd.bsky.social•41 days ago

Disturbing.. did we lose track of the definition of "allegation?"

bertrand-mowbry.bsky.social•40 days ago

Being in Scientology was all I ever needed to hear.

kaylinyx.bsky.social•40 days ago

Ugh...OF COURSE he was

madebysquirrels.bsky.social•40 days ago

Not that I'm defending him because that article is abhorrent, but he was born to Scientologist. I don't think he still is one.

bertrand-mowbry.bsky.social•40 days ago

He still has connections. His sister works for the them in LA. Functionally, he is no different from a scientologist.

loveyourview.bsky.social•41 days ago

Running to google.

propheticnexus.bsky.social•41 days ago

Share what you find with the class 🙏🙏🙏

loveyourview.bsky.social•41 days ago

Ugh. It’s bad. He had sadistic sexual preferences. Took advantage or vulnerable women over which he help power - babysitters, young women he met at book signings. And grossest of all he seem to have a thing about getting off when his kids were in room. This was stated from different victims. 🤮

propheticnexus.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh my god 🤮😵‍💫

enby-rage.bsky.social•40 days ago

I still feel the same grief now, that I felt a few months ago when I first heard about his vulgarity. It stings.

akima07.bsky.social•40 days ago

It’s so horrible and disgusting. As a literature teacher, I’m going to have to retire the story of his that I used to teach.

manchildalorian.bsky.social•41 days ago

Stardust is one of my favorite films & zi can never watch it again.

beanthedeceiver.bsky.social•40 days ago

He’d be right at home in the GOP

samidoesitnow.bsky.social•40 days ago

Netflix loves to cancel shows willy nilly, yet it's continuing with Sandman putting money in a rapists pockets. It's so frustrating. I liked that series but I can never look at it the same again. Nor Coraline

lukvik.bsky.social•40 days ago

If we block the art of all the predators in the movie 🎥 and music 🎼 industry we will have nothing 😢!!!! The same form we should cancel works from Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso …

ukobarrywewa.bsky.social•40 days ago

The big difference is that those guys are dead. You're not actively supporting them by enjoying their works. Don't give money to rapists.

lukvik.bsky.social•40 days ago

Their decedents are profiting from that!!!

endoftherepublic.bsky.social•40 days ago

You watch it then cuz I’m not

lukvik.bsky.social•40 days ago

Good 👍 for you!!!!

whelmingest.bsky.social•40 days ago

If all the predators were shamed out of creative industries, there would be many, many people just waiting for a break to take their spots

lukvik.bsky.social•39 days ago

Do you understand that it is not the case of a few bad apples 🍎🤔???? It is more like the film 🎥 and music industry forge a environment where this kind of behavior fester similar to religious, military and sport institutions.

samidoesitnow.bsky.social•40 days ago

Exactly!!

flipnop.bsky.social•40 days ago

If it’s any condolence, no one actually likes Neil Gaiman that much, he’s a mediocre writer, people people confuse his lazy direction for thoughtful creativity, the endings always suck, panders to trends too much, cheesy, his worst crime was convincing a generation he was worth their attention.

witchofthewood.bsky.social•40 days ago

I’m disgusted, Ocean at the end of the Lane is one of my all time favorite books. My kids and I love Coraline and Fortunately the milk. My teen and I watch good omens together. I love Sandman, the list goes on and on and it’s all ruined.

austinezhan22.bsky.social•19 days ago

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.I'll be amazed to be your friend, if you don't mind 🌹 .

trickylake.bsky.social•40 days ago

And after he styled himself as such a wholesome guy (there was a tag group on that other platform called "Neil Gaiman being wholesome again" even that was full of screen shots of him being lovely to people on the internet) it's so much more sickening.