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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackdaw McGraw" data-source="post: 8524544" data-attributes="member: 7021534">After the ugliness with Rowling, I've been operating under the assumption that any living artist/author/musician/etc. I like is just a tweet away from disappointing me. And any dead artist is just a 'discovered letter' or 'family tell-all' away from being a creep or worse.I think it's dangerous to assume an artist's views align with your own or are generally un-problematic until proven otherwise. The medium(s) create a sense of familiarity - of intimacy - that is an illusion. These people are (mostly) strangers to you and their work is only a facet. You don't know them. You can't know them.I'm nearly certain that there are people working in the TTRPG industry today, who are paragons of inclusiveness and progressiveness, who will one day slip up or be outed on their regressive ideas or personal failings. It is bound to happen, so I appraise the current wave if gaming content with hope and appreciation, but cynicism when it comes to the creators, all of them.As to financially supporting the estates of artists who are famously horrible; my own personal failing is I don't have the moral rectitude to evaluate my purchases that closely. I can safely say I avoid the obvious pitfalls (purchasing from their publishers, buying licensed products) but I'm not savvy enough to opt of out of the impacts that artist has had on the culture. I took the Pottermore quiz and know my Hogwarts house, I own a Cthulhu plushie, I own books I love by author's I despise, purchased from thrift stores.</blockquote>

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