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notchainedtotrauma · 7 months ago

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Oh, by the way, Aldis Hodge is married and has a little girl. And that wife is puny because apparently "these women are ovaryacting" (if you're wondering where I got that last tidbit, his Sherri Sheppard's interview). He had a fiancee (his current wife) way before he started training for Hawkman, and one year after he started the 9bcollective (my interest in Aldis being about more of his others ventures, that is A. Hodge Ateliers, Hodge Productions, 9bcollective)

#stories from the void #moving gif #that Twitter screenshot that keeps being passed around #doesn't absolutely do any justice to the man #he went to college at fourteen #to study architecture #dropped out because he was fascinated by the engineering and design #and architecture #of watches #he got his big break simultaneously in Leverage #meanwhile he was struggling alongside his mother and sister to get his company off the ground #his mother #and sister #work in jewellry #mostly because of him #they act as a family business

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amsaro · 5 months ago

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I was going to put this in the tags, but it spiralled.

As well as cowardly, it is also such empty, transparent virtue signalling. The minute an artist, or any well-known figure, is revealed to have done awful things, someone always wants to pipe up smugly "I never liked them anyway."

As if it has anything to do with you. Or as if this makes you somehow a better person. Even if it's true. Even if that art never resonated with you.

If it didn't, that doesn't automatically mean it's poor quality. Your personal taste is not the ultimate test of quality. And neither is it proof positive of innocence or purity of the artist.

Other commenters here are right, to a large degree. When an artist is still living, still creating (or potentially doing so) and has done awful things, and may continue to do them, making no effort towards amends or change*, we are faced with the unsettling reality that our continued consumption of their art supports them as they do this, and may contribute towards promoting their ideas.

If you have loved that art, if it meant something to you, this hurts. Before anyone says it, I'm not comparing this to the suffering endured by the victims in these cases. But this is the fandom website. We know what it's like to have a fictional world matter to us.

If you step away from a story, or character, or world that you have loved, because you cannot in good conscience support it - or even really enjoy it anymore, now you know what you know - that is difficult. Saying you never liked it anyway is not difficult. And if you genuinely never connected with that art, then it is easy to maintain your distance.

tl;dr you are not a bad person for having genuinely enjoyed art made by an awful person, and anyone who tries to make you feel like you are is a coward. A smug coward.