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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I expect he’s consulting with very good lawyers and is going to make a very considered next move.
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Writes criticism (TARDIS Eruditorum, Neoreaction a Basilisk, Last War in Albion) and comics (2000 AD, Britain a Prophecy) while being a polyamorous occultist transsexual weirdo.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I expect he’s consulting with very good lawyers and is going to make a very considered next move.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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It’s an astonishingly low-dignity island.
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Emily St. James
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I like that the UK seems to have, like, three people with an actual shot at the seat, then another three people who have Bits.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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So the only question becomes "did he inherit his father's litigiousness." You suspect Todd McFarlane would say yes.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Because a public inquiry designed to have optics but no consequences is far less dangerous than a private action from a Scientology scion you just accused of rape based on fabricated text messages.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Oh he absolutely was. But the biggest thing he was wrong about was whether it was a hill Gaiman was willing to die upon.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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The only thing I’m willing to conclude is that Gaiman’s next move will be carefully considered and advised by very good lawyers.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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No, but he has enough money that he doesn’t need them to. But ask Todd McFarlane whether he inherited his father’s litigiousness.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I am not confident that he sexually assaulted anyone. But he clearly had a sexual relationship with his kid’s fucking nanny, and that’s at best a catastrophic lapse of judgment, and “at best” is quite optimistic based on the last fifty times a powerful man did this sort of shit.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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There’s a lot that’s deeply dubious about this Gaiman story, but if you think establishment dinosaurs like Johnson and Harding are going to run fabricated text messages from a Scientology scion they’re accusing of rape you’re delusional.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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But climbed into a hot tub with his employee without thinking about whether she’d feel safe doing so.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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There’s a world of difference between a fake historian quote about an archaeology story and fabricated texts from a world famous author being accused of rape. These are people who understand how not to eat a historically massive libel conviction.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I have been thinking a lot of that “what should I wear to seduce a writer” Tumblr ask and going “woof.”
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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The podcast itself is Boris Johnson’s sister edited by a Cambridge educated former BBC exec. They’re a different flavor of evil.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Very much same. I’m confident he abused power dynamics in upsetting ways. I’m not remotely confident he assaulted anyone.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Power isn’t as Old Establishment as these fucks though.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Yeah, the UK media’s ethics are a fucking toilet. But the libel laws are such that their evils have particular shapes. Much like the Empire, there’s a lot of “ah but we have an elaborate code governing our evils so it’s ok.”
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Yeah. I’m very precisely at “oof, he sure is a creep who abuses power dynamics” and absolutely no further.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Though it’s not like I’m sitting here longing for UK style libel laws, which are awful.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Same.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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No one with any track record whatsoever in UK news is going to be fabricating text messages.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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The nanny was 2022.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Oh, extremely not. But I doubt she’s gonna jump headlong into the most slam dunk libel lawsuit ever either.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Yeah, to be clear I’m skeptical of most of this because of the source. Which is evil, pursuing this to do harm, framing it appallingly, and doing a bad job of presenting it. I don’t trust most of the details. But I still don’t think they fabricated texts, and those confirm the relationship itself.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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It’s a UK right wing upstart outlet, but it’s got a former BBC exec at the head and Boris Johnson’s sister as the lead reporter on this. So, terrible people, but not going to fabricate text messages. Which only validates a small part of the accusations, but it’s a pretty key and bad part.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Scummy as the podcast is, the names attached are not so reckless as to fabricate WhatsApp messages, so I’m willing to treat the direct quotes from them as accurate.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I both understand and sympathize with Eccleston’s side and think Davies is validly entitled to have taken a few months to get things running well.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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In the specific case of Eccleston I have a lot of sympathy all around, because the issues seem to have basically come down to “it was just a huge production on a comparative shoestring budget done by people working at a scale they’d never done before.”
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Neither do I. I’m an Alan Moore scholar for a reason. But he’s also someone it’s very easy to fuck your relationship with up.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I get the impression that Eccleston is easy to fuck up your relationship with.
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Iron Spike
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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I want a not TERF source for the details, but the employee relationship looks pretty indisputable and is pretty dismaying in and of itself
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Just saw a pair of baby gay motorcycle dykes. The butch (who notably wasn’t the trans one) was rocking a Slayer tank and a motorcycle helmet with cat ears. This is the future anarchists want.
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Daniel Abraham
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One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period.
Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so.
variety.com/2024/tv/news...
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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It’s the explicit position of the podcast as I understand it
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Difficult to quite express my absolute rage at anyone who looks at a rich and powerful man initiating a sexual relationship with an employee who’s a third his age and goes “you know what’s really fucked up here? It was kinky sex.”
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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tfw you maybe should pay more attention to macro aggressions.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Ah, I see you’re a buzzkill fetishist.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Penn: Who’s Jacques Derrida? Me: French literary theorist. Invented deconstruction. Penn: What’s deconstruction? Me: Babe it is *way* too 2am for that question.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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That’s a tornado though. Tornados can get it.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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She wanted to “take him for walkies,” a phrase that apparently can be far hornier than I’d realized.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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It’s certainly not going to be a “get lots of venture capital” sort of approach, but also I think seeking venture capital is immoral.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Just talked to someone whose sole takeaway from the finale was “they didn’t have to make Sutekh so hot” and I have never felt more out of touch.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I think it’s probably not a good idea to focus that sort of effort on a new category of object that you also have to sell people on in the first place.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Really I suspect there’s a lot of money to be made in that basic pitch in general. An anti-enshittification brand.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I suspect there’s a lot of money to be had in a line of appliances aiming at middle of the road price point with the rough pitch of “no stupid features, but it’ll last twenty years.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/07...
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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I think it's significant, though, that both of those fetishes are, in fact, widely viewed as repulsive. Like, even if it's not what the fetishization is about, it still seems to be a requirement.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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OK. What do you view the core third rails as being?
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Mm! The fetishized object must be both repulsive and uncanny. Mundane repulsions don’t work. I like this theory.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Wind up dolls are clear objects of horror though. Just ask Jan Švankmajer.
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