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minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoWow that’s… What strikes me is how boring the abuse was. Like, boiler plate horror. Maybe this does make me think less of him as an author, not just as a person.
minus-squareBossDj@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 days agoWell I haven’t looked into the 8 other women. But at least one of the others was absolutely raped, and another was paid off in exchange for an NDA
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 days agoRight but like ‘call me master’ DUDE Fucking do better. Not even be less a piece of shit, but a more interesting piece of shit. Like ‘i hired a PI to learn the song you had your first kiss to, then spent a week practicing, so just as the acid and molly kick in…’ Or, idk, a choir? Some chanting?
minus-squareJacksonLamb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoHe’s not glamorous he’s an ordinary creep. One of them was one of his tenants, when her husband left her and the kids she could no longer pay rent so he made her give him blowjobs. It’s about as unimaginative and textbook as it gets.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days ago ordinary creep It looks like, and that’s what’s so extra-disappointing about it.
minus-squareJacksonLamb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoI can’t respect Thiel either. The whole thing stems from lazy thinking and mainlining copium.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days agoAs a person, no. As a fucked up evil monster, i can respect how much of a deranged little freak he is. Or like a roger stone who reveled in being a creepy bastard. Or kissenger! But no. Gaiman is just a rapey asshole who thinks other people exist for his juvenile fantasy.
Wow that’s…
What strikes me is how boring the abuse was. Like, boiler plate horror. Maybe this does make me think less of him as an author, not just as a person.
Well I haven’t looked into the 8 other women. But at least one of the others was absolutely raped, and another was paid off in exchange for an NDA
Right but like ‘call me master’ DUDE
Fucking do better. Not even be less a piece of shit, but a more interesting piece of shit.
Like ‘i hired a PI to learn the song you had your first kiss to, then spent a week practicing, so just as the acid and molly kick in…’
Or, idk, a choir? Some chanting?
He’s not glamorous he’s an ordinary creep.
One of them was one of his tenants, when her husband left her and the kids she could no longer pay rent so he made her give him blowjobs. It’s about as unimaginative and textbook as it gets.
It looks like, and that’s what’s so extra-disappointing about it.
I can’t respect Thiel either. The whole thing stems from lazy thinking and mainlining copium.
As a person, no. As a fucked up evil monster, i can respect how much of a deranged little freak he is.
Or like a roger stone who reveled in being a creepy bastard.
Or kissenger!
But no. Gaiman is just a rapey asshole who thinks other people exist for his juvenile fantasy.