Poe!!

Poe!!

I've seen a number of posts where the OPs are taking fans to task for mourning the way their fandoms have been marred by the revelations about Neil Gaiman.

And yeah, what Gaiman's victims went through was way worse, and we should be supporting them and doing what we can where we are to make sure that sexual assault is no longer a thing in our world.

But fans are also entitled to have their own feelings about this. It's okay to feel sad and angry and grossed out and confused when you learn that your favorite creator, who you thought was a decent human being, is a serial sexual predator. It's okay to wonder aloud how you're now going to relate to the media that person created, because it's okay that that media actually meant and/or continues to mean something to you.

Being upset about shocking news is a normal reaction, and it's okay to talk about how it made you feel. Admitting what you're feeling in this situation doesn't take anything away from the victims, but remaining silent about how you feel doesn't do anything to help them, either.

If anything, stating publicly that you are disturbed, angry, confused, or whatever other emotion about Neil Gaiman's behavior and about his work is sending a message to media companies that Gaiman is now tainted goods and that they shouldn't work with him anymore.

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

Oda didn't let Cora and Belle-mere meet in canon because they'd be too iconic of a duo

idk if it’s the mental illness but sharing literally any information feels like oversharing. i’ll be like “i skipped breakfast this morning” and immediately im like “i might as well have told them where i buried the money”

Hey Ken