Evil.

“There is No Safe Word”How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades

I read the whole thing, even though I hated it after the first section. It’s terrible. Those poor women. I don’t know how to separate this from my previous feelings about his art. I feel like so many things I enjoyed are now tainted and gross. We saw The Ocean at the End of the Lane in London in 2021, and I wept at how beautiful it was. It’s all corrupted now. Time to toss my last few remaining books of his.

And yeah, I do feel some hypocrisy at tossing my Gaiman and Rowling books but keeping a shelf of Dahl. He was an awful person too, who said and did some pretty terrible things. Somehow it feels different, like he’s historical evil rather than today evil. He’s not actively hurting people walking around the world today in the way the others are. That’s  what I tell myself, anyway. 😕


Important Note

This site features content going all the way back to 2000. The posts you’ll read reflect my views and writing style at the time. While I have gone back to clean up a few of them, I think it’s important not to sanitise too much. This site is a record of who I am and how I’ve grown. Any blog post written years ago may not reflect who I am today, nor how I would write about the same topic today.