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The Good Omens Kickstarter was set up to fund the creation of a graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran of the Good Omens novel by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. A remarkably successful crowdfunding scheme, it raised £2,419,973 from 36,867 backers. The Terry Pratchett Estate, which runs the Good Omens Kickstarter, had offered refunds to donors after the original Tortoise Media allegations until last November. However, the estate now says that it "will no longer maintain this freeze in light of new articles and allegations. While we cannot speak further on the subject at present, we have chosen to reopen a short refund window for those who would no longer like to support the graphic novel until Friday, 7th February 2025."

They also state that "It has also been agreed that Neil Gaiman will not receive any proceeds from the graphic novel Kickstarter. Given the project management, production and all communication has always been under the jurisdiction of the Estate on behalf of Good Omens at large, this will not fundamentally change the project itself, however we can confirm the Kickstarter and PledgeManager will now fully be an entity run by, and financially connected to, the Terry Pratchett Estate only."

And for those who still want the book but might want to change the donor rewards, they say, "a number of tiers also come with author merchandise and books; we have been working on a system in the back end to remove or swap out particular rewards from tiers, should you wish to continue with the project, but not receive these specific items" and donors are encouraged to contact the Estate with their wishes. However, they state that those who received cameo appearances in the project cannot have them removed at this stage of the production process.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I want to make it clear before anyone reads further that that I am not passing judgement in this case. However, I did read that in all cases, the women involved presented themselves as willing to him, messaged him they couldn't wait to see him and they loved him, and voluntarily met up with him explicitly for sex (or whatever he calls it). IF that's true, I genuinely don't understand how he was supposed to know they didn't want to participate. If anyone resisted or declined at any point, of course, that's very different and would dramatically change my understanding of events, but that wasn't in the reports I read. I may be out of the loop, I haven't been reading updates in real time or anything.

[–] Skabby73 5 points 1 day ago

The allegations put forth are that they DID resist, and his defense is that he didn't abuse anyone. As usual it will be decided on who has the better lawyers.

Sure, if you believe that he was totally blindsided and all these women never once said no. I can see how you might be baffled.

However, the history and volume of these incidents suggests a pattern of behavior.

The point I was trying to make is that he might not suffer legal consequences, but it sucks that one of the "good ones" may be (or has been) a massive sex pest for a long time and now the world is a little darker for it