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continuation of Matthew Boroson social media post, part three of four: Final part of Matthew Boroson's social media post on Neil Gaiman: He became rich and famous profiting from her ideas. People effused over his amazing imagination, when the ideas they praised him for were actually created by Tanith Lee. And, while he was building his name and fame, she was struggling. In the 1990s, toward the end of her life, she complained in an interview that magazines weren't buying her stories anymore. A simple, "if you like The Sandman, you should really read Tanith Lee's books" from Neil Gaiman would have meant so much to her career. To the livelihood of a struggling, less-privileged writer, whose amazing imagination was actively ripping off. People praised The Sandman comics for their depiction of gay and trans identities. Bu in the original material, Tanith Lee was far more progressive about LGBTQ+ identities, and that was twenty years earlier. I first read Tanith Lee's books _Night's Master_ (the first in the Flat Earth stories) in mabye 2005, ten years after first reading The Sandman. I looked to see if Gaiman had credited her for "his" ideas; as far as I could tell, he never had. And for the susequent 19 years, whenever I see a new Neil Gaiman interview, the first thing I do is search to see if he mentioned Tanith Lee. And he never has, that I've seen. I have no difficulty believing the accusations against him.