Apparently I haven’t had anything to say about Neil Gaiman’s sexual assault debacle from a few months ago. I wouldn’t call myself a megafan, but I always did find him interesting to follow on social media… which I can’t do any more cos he’s gone into hiding, and, well, understandably so. That’s a new article about him that’s just come out on the subject, which I think I can’t not say something about… but what is there to say? Gaiman’s absolutely fucked now. The details in the article are suitably horrible, but the most interesting part is the Scientology-related stuff, cos Gaiman never says anything about that and it’s kind of easy to forget that he grew up in HubbardCorp. And it evidently did him no good in the long run… (EDIT: apparently as well as paywalling the article—12ft.io is your friend here—they cut the whole Scientology bit. David Miscarriage doesn’t like the dirty laundry about abusing kids being aired, evidently. Wonder what his wife thinks.)
The whole story is so grotesque that I can’t see any way he’ll bounce back from it; good thing he’s made so much money from his career in the last few decades cos it’s more or less over now… as it pretty much is for the people that have been working on TV and film adaptations of his work; another series of Sandman and one of Anansi Boys are still waiting to be aired, but a bunch of others have been put on hold or cancelled and the ones that do get shown are hardly going to get much push now. Nice one, Neil, you fucked it for a lot of people. Anyway, that’s enough for this story, I just find the whole thing so awful I don’t want to say anything else.
