Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

  • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Terry Goodkind.

    Can’t separate the work from the author since both are pretty bad.

    It takes a special kind of person to require a pinned “please don’t celebrate deaths” reminder on Reddit when you die…

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        11 months ago

        No. He was a misogynistic piece of crap that wrote morally questionable material that was also disrespectful to his assistants, illustrators and fans.

        Allegedly, the “good” and the “kind” were stolen during the Great Battle of the Terry’s, where one Terry used the “good” to build a Temple, while the other Terry with a meteor sword used the “kind” to empower actual quality fiction.

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        GNU Terry Pratchett