[ SECRET POST #6594 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6594 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Pratchett had a big blindspot when it came to other people and their sexual attractions. He married young, and he and Lyn were married married. If you see what I mean. It wasn't something he paid much attention to in others. He'd been burned a little in the Craig Charles thing earlier too, he used to be a friend of Charles and when the rape allegations (which turned out to be actually and genuinely false and malicious) came out, he let that friendship cool, and regretted rushing to judgement. I don't know if he knew about Gaiman, I suspect not. I suspect he didn't notice, because that was the sort of man he was, but if he did then I believe he would have probably kept his suspicions to himself because of his history with Craig Charles.

Disclaimer: I was never a close friend with Pratchett, just a nodding acquaintance, but I did meet him in social settings at conventions and other events outwith the stagemanaged portions of it. I visited him at his home twice, but always in the company of others and for developing projects. I wasn't just another fan in the crowd, but I wasn't a close part of his circle either. This is my impression of him.

I would back up the part of the opinion of the other Pratchett secret that Terry was definitely on the spectrum somewhere. You couldn't meet him and not know. His hyperfocuses, his oddball and occasionally rigid behaviours, and of course his outsiders view of humanity at large, all of which fascinated him and made him love it all the more, all spoke to that. I think he had quite a temper, or at least potential to have a temper, too, but that was one he turned inwards on himself rather than take out on those around him. He was a generous man, an intelligent man, but he had his faults and blindspots too. If he had his suspicions about Neil, I think based on the man I knew, he would be more likely to have been angry with himself for potentially seeing something he probably thought wasn't there.

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So I saw this this morning, and I’ve been out all day, so have been unable to fact check this yet, but in the comments of a tumblr post about NG plagiarising Tanith Lee, someone linked to a blog post quoting STP saying that NG was either a really lovely man or the most consummate actor. It also quoted Rob Rankin saying that STP told him he would never work with NG again, but refused to tell him why.