it’s tainted by the knowledge that the creator is a disgusting monster who convinced me that he was just the coolest dude, so i can’t enjoy it anymore.
this is why i think what’s needed is for people to wholesale rewrite things, let the people with emotional investment rip out the good bits and make them their own, it’s both therapy for the new author and rehabilitation for the work.
some googling later
Well, shit. Glad I buy secondhand books at every opportunity, otherwise I would have given money to a human sized pile of shit.
yeah learning about gaiman was hard, his work meant so much to me.
The Sound of Her Wings was an incredibly important story for me. It still is. But goddammit, Gaiman certainly tainted that memory.
The work didn’t do anything wrong
it’s tainted by the knowledge that the creator is a disgusting monster who convinced me that he was just the coolest dude, so i can’t enjoy it anymore.
this is why i think what’s needed is for people to wholesale rewrite things, let the people with emotional investment rip out the good bits and make them their own, it’s both therapy for the new author and rehabilitation for the work.