Never meet your heroes, etc.

I am not particularly given to hero-worship, luckily for me, but there has been more than one artist whose work I admired a lot in the past who turned out to be a pretty terrible person later on. Orson Scott Card, J. K. Rowling, and Joss Whedon spring to mind, along with any number of others.

An article came out in Vulture either late yesterday or early today about the accusations of sexual assault against Neil Gaiman. I'm going to put the rest of this post behind a cut just in case, because the article itself gets into some gruesome subject matter, but for what it's worth I don't plan on providing any graphic details or anything like that.

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