Delroy Lindo on Neil Gaiman’s Shelved ‘Anansi Boys’ Series: ‘I Don’t Think That’ll Ever See the Light of Day’

Like the one Sandman story where a writer who publicly is known as a feminist is secretly keeping a Muse as a sex slave,  who he repeatedly rapes for inspiration?

The entire character of Sandman is a self-insert. Every single aspect.

"Sure, I intentionally made my first lover experience eternal suffering because she broke up with me. And I didn't even realise that was wrong. But its ok because I'm so artistic and mysterious I can't be expected to have the same sensibilities as normal people." - Neil Gaiman (in his head)

I do appreciate the answer

See Example: Nicki Minaj

Brand is particularly funny considering how much he used to talk about cult of personality and co-opting of people's faiths to curry favour with the public. Shameless.

Russel Brand?! I loved him. What a shame. /s

Jesus christ wtf

Shia LaBeouf probably isn’t too far behind him

Where, according to recent news, he was really defenestrating his value…

Eh I would say that sounds like an excuse to remove a rival. I doubt Scientology has any red lines you can cross if they actually want to keep you around.

Not with his body of work

Agreed. Keep in mind I’m extemporizing, so take it all with a grain of salt: It’s where some of his parallels to Cosby make this particularly painful in that he represented a sort of moral barometer that helped legitimize (not quite the right word in terms of Cosby, but that sort of elevation) of people and subcultures that were treated as lessers. (And still are, but now with more widespread support). So his fall is a bit more than a career thing. And like Rowling, this disgrace touches on generational cross-sections that have a longer shelf life than a comedian or even a music performer whose work is more locked into the era. And while Rowling is causing significant pain to swaths of her audience — one I think is probably MUCH larger than Gaiman’s — Gaiman’s facility across generations, genres, fiction, non-fiction, and anything from children’s literature to horror… touches many communities. So when it’s a Cosby who a generation of mainstream America looked up to as a sort of father figure lifting people up, or a Rowling whose work breathed new life into reading and who guided so many adolescents into young adulthood… or a Gaiman who humanized many other groups who were often othered and dehumanized, driven into the shadows of culture… it’s harder to “come back” than artists whose work may not have been such personal cornerstones. It’s not to say CK or Kanye have not been meaningful or important to some in their audience, but it was less “their brand.” It’s probably still easier to laugh at CK or be carried by Kanye’s music… but they don’t strike me as having the breadth/depth and the empathic reach that can’t be recovered. That’s my TEDtalk.

I mean Bezos's atrocities come from how horrifically he has treated all the workers under him, you don't get to become a billionaire without crushing thousands of people into dust while behaving like a parasitic leech.