I would be there right now.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Dana - Jan 13, 2025 9:55:31 am PST #28098 of 28127
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The fact that we're getting ready to move is also prompting me to consider getting rid of them. But I guess I would give them to the library, and that feels a little icky because people who borrow or buy them probably won't know the context. But they probably also wouldn't lionize him.


Atropa - Jan 13, 2025 10:50:09 am PST #28099 of 28127
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I haven't read the article YET, but Pete has, and told me it's an extremely rough read.

He also said that, after reading the article, he realized that I was somehow very lucky in the mid 90s when I met Gaiman and hung out with him at conventions, because I was the sort he preyed on.


Dana - Jan 13, 2025 10:54:36 am PST #28100 of 28127
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Seriously, if you have any concerns at all about reading the article, don't. It's really bad.


Steph L. - Jan 13, 2025 11:02:30 am PST #28101 of 28127
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It's very, very bad. I didn't know the specifics of the article before I read it, and it's triggered me pretty hard (I don't mean "grossed out;" I mean "almost called my therapist." But I'm feeling steadier now.). In the interest of preventing anyone else from being triggered like that, I want to be really clear about the content of the article; I am going to whitefont the trigger warnings (because, again, they are just that bad; this way if someone doesn't want to read even the trigger warnings, they don't have to). The article contains graphic descriptions of: sexual assault/rape, nonconsensual activity involving more than one type of bodily fluid, child abuse (which is separate from), child sexual abuse (in the form of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child).

Again, it's very very bad.


Dana - Jan 13, 2025 11:20:38 am PST #28102 of 28127
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It was the stuff with his kid that I was really not prepared for.


Steph L. - Jan 13, 2025 11:23:30 am PST #28103 of 28127
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Dana, same. That's what triggered the hell out of me. He is loathesome.


JenP - Jan 13, 2025 1:00:54 pm PST #28104 of 28127

That was horrific. I don't have any hard decisions to make, because while I wasn't *not* a Gaiman fan, the only thing I ever did was watch Good Omens. And I see they've pulled him from production of S3 and given it only a single 90-minute episode to wrap up. And I guess I saw one episode of the Sandman series.

Completely different note - I came in to say that I have finished all the novels in the Expanse Series. That was a fun romp. I do have a compilation of all the shorter works to get from Overdrive today, so I can continue for a bit anyway, and I'm on S4 of the show and not rushing through. It's a bummer to leave a whole universe like that.


Laura - Jan 13, 2025 1:31:06 pm PST #28105 of 28127
Our wings are not tired.

I was a big Gaiman fan and am just sick to my stomach.

I loved the Expanse novels so very much and was disappointed that the show didn't continue. I may need to check out the audiobooks and listen on my trip north this year as it has been long enough that I will have forgotten a lot.


-t - Jan 13, 2025 2:38:13 pm PST #28106 of 28127
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He also said that, after reading the article, he realized that I was somehow very lucky in the mid 90s when I met Gaiman and hung out with him at conventions, because I was the sort he preyed on.

I had the same thought about you, Atropa. One of the many reasons it was such a disturbing read.

So hard to know what to do about the actual books, Dana. I haven't gotten that far. It's very easy for me to mentally file Good Omens as solo Pratchett, it's honestly how I have always thought of it. Everything else that is not Sandman I can let go fairly easily. Sandman, though, the copies I have are what I gave DH because the comics were important to us both independently and I am gonna take a while to work through how to deal with them now.


-t - Jan 13, 2025 2:39:47 pm PST #28107 of 28127
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Deserves a separate post - hooray for enjoying The Expanse, Jen! I actually haven't finished the compilation of novellas (or whatever they are) because every time I look at it I think "but then there won't be any more" and decide maybe I'll finish that up later