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?

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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.

        spoiler

        GNU Terry Pratchett

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          Don’t forget all the blatant copying from other authors like Robert Jordan. Or refusing to call his work fantasy because he was an Objectivist and Mommy Rand said fantasy was a worthless genre, even going so far as to kill off a huge number of non-human characters off-screen in a later book so people couldn’t point at the creatures like dragons as evidence.

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      God. Sword of Truth was one of the first books I read when I was trying to get back into reading (I think I got it in some bundle)… And at first it was like, cool, I like wizards, great… and then it got really fucking weird and rapey and I was embarrassed to have read that book. I didn’t look into the author at all, but I would be so incredibly unsurprised for them to turn out to be a terrible person.