’The Sandman’ Season 2: What to know amid Neil Gaiman cancellations

I've landed firmly in the other camp that I cannot separate the artist, once it's shown they are useless human garbage, from the outward false pretense of their art, made to make themselves appear other that what they truly are, and knowing what I do about the author, for me to celebrate their pretense makes me contemptible, pathetic, and conspiratory in continuing to celebrate their and it's perceived "brilliance", squarely in the face of those to whom they've harmed. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Not sure why you imply Heinlein is terrible as a person, he seems pretty benign, especially comping from a military background.

Just a reminder there's never been proof presented to that end.

Not to rationalise his alleged actions, though given how likely it is that he has had goth women with various kinds of kinks and personality disorders throwing themselves at him for several decades, it’s conceivable that he started as a perfectly decent guy and gradually got debauched by circumstance, gradually becoming a monster in imperceptible steps.

Kind of like the Buffy show being good with lead women actors and what not. It's been recognized as a strong feminist show, but the creator still treated the women he worked with like objects. You could kind of tell with Joss Whedon though when you see certain storylines with Xander as his fill-in character. And Joss working on more shows after Buffy helped confirm, through many sources, that he's an asshole.

At least I haven't heard that Joss crossed any line sexually though.

I am definitely pissed that he turned out to be that sort of person.

Sometimes people hold their own behavior to a different standard than they hold others, or don't internalize how profoundly weighted the power dynamic actually is.
If you don't see yourself as having as much power as you actually do in a dynamic, then you might behave in a way that's abusive without seeing it as such, even if you'd readily take issue with the same situation in circumstances where you did see the disparity.

Or just cynically playing a part for reputation. Neither excuses anything, but it can be helpful to know how some people find themselves doing bad things without thinking to themselves "today I'm gonna be a shit bag".

Joss Whedon energy.

I didn't either but here's the wikipedia page and here's a page with Death, she is written similarly to the Netflix character

What you didn't care for the random continuing gay fanfic almost seemingly unrelated to the first season that was written after the author who wrote the bulk of the original story deceased?

Yeah, I wish season 2 hadn't ended in a cliffhanger

That was always going to be a tricky pitch and I think the allegations have raised the bar too high on this.

Ellis is back working and we'll see what the reception is to his new projects but I suspect it just adds an extra bit of friction to the process, which will doom any adaptations. For now anyway.