There Is No Safe Word
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How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
  • CrisEnglish
    19•1 month ago
    Spoiler

    Gaiman asked her, to sit on his lap. Pavlovich stammered out a few sentences: She was gay, she’d never had sex, she had been sexually abused by a 45-year-old man when she was 15. Gaiman continued to press. “The next part is really amorphous,” Pavlovich tells me. “But I can tell you that he put his fingers straight into my ass and tried to put his penis in my ass. And I said, ‘No, no.’ Then he tried to rub his penis between my breasts, and I said ‘no’ as well. Then he asked if he could come on my face, and I said ‘no’ but he did anyway. He said, ‘Call me ‘master,’ and I’ll come.’ He said, ‘Be a good girl. You’re a good little girl.’”

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    Edit: spoilered for graphic description of sexual abuse quoted from the article

  • Optional
    16•1 month ago

    TW: rape, Scientology

  • @AnUnusualRelicEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    He grew up in scientology, no wonder he’s completely fucked up.

  • @TrickDacy
    2•1 month ago

    Can’t view the original link due to paywall and the archived link never loads :/

    • Optional
      8•1 month ago

      It worked for me, no paywall, but here’s an archive link which should work:

      Archive

  • Porto881English
    -4•1 month ago

    Never liked this guy or the cult of personality he seemed to have behind him TBH

    • @SirSamuel
      12•1 month ago

      I continue to find his world building to be fantastic.

      I also can pirate everything he’s made. So, basically, it’s guilt-free entertainment

      • @LesserAbe
        2•1 month ago

        I can understand having already been into his work, but since I’m not I certainly would pick almost any other thing to read than Gaiman.

        • @Zero22xxEnglish
          3•1 month ago

          I struggle with separating the art from the artist, personally. Even though I was previously a Gaiman fan, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read or watch his work again without thinking about this. I’m getting used to finding out that certain musos or actors are pieces of shit though. I think at this point, Keanu Reeves might be the last famous man left that would absolutely shock me if he turned out to be an abuser or bigot.

      • Porto881English
        1•1 month ago

        Do you have any good recs? I’ve read Coraline and started American Gods and neither really gripped me that much, even if I love the Laika Coraline film

        • gid
          5•1 month ago

          I’d recommend Anansi Boys, Good Omens and if you’re into comics, The Sandman.

          My favourite of his works is Ocean at the End of the Lane, but I’m very conflicted about that one due the parallels pointed out in this article.

          Edit: removed American Gods from the recommendations as you said you had already tried it.