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animals, baleeted post replacement, bitter so bitter, crazy people, enormous clusterfuck, fandom_wank's thoughts on yaoi, is sorchar uglycat or is uglycat sorchar, lying liar that lies, outraged mice, person: victoria bitter, stop giving strangers money you idiots, wankers who will not shut up

Courtesy of wank_report....
The not quite so triumphant return of Victoria Bitter.

In which we discover that VB is the writer of a very popular HP fanfic, and *GASP* is planning a con for fans of said fic to get together. By con, I mean "convention" and not "swindle" although, who knows, it could be one and the same again.

Did you know that VB, in his/her* new fandom persona, has "fought with three different paramilitias", "never thought about an ideal job outside of the military", "has a heart condition that gives me less than ten years to live", and is super chivalrous: "Even after coming nearer than I ever have to being destroyed by a woman I loved for almost seven long years, even after she took my son from me without so much as a goodbye and left me destitute for someone she'd been seeing behind my back, I still hold no grudge against womankind."

All these fun facts and more to be had here. Deleted, but screencapped here, and html here.

(Look, I know there's no wank yet, but it's VB and Turimel, so let's take a nice stroll down memory lane.)

*~~am not sure if VB is actually trans or if IDing as male is part of the scam, so covering my bases here.~~ ETA, again: Okay, folks, I've been away the whole day, and I've got back to an exploding inbox, and I haven't had the chance to go through the whole thing, but I wanted to address this issue.

I was trying to err on the side of caution in regards to past actions, but doesn't matter if I'm unsure or not, using female pronouns or referring to VB/thanfiction as "s/he" "it" or "s/h/it" is disrespectful and hurtful to other transfolk, and I apologize for this. I'm sorry that my choice of pronouns has cause people distress.

So please stick to the male pronouns. Regardless of if this is VB's identity or just another grift, it stands less of a chance of hurting people if you use the male pronouns.

Also, anons, tread carefully. I turned anon commenting on so everyone could play, so let's not ruin it, okay?

ETA, ONCE AGAIN: Anon commenting is off. And please read this. Thank you, white_serpent.

Male pronouns, please. No more transfail, thanks.

ETA: Oh boo, beat to the punch. Sorry, folks.

ETA #2: Other post deleted! Have fun here. Also, anon commenting is ON, since there was an anon at wank_report who seemed to have more details on this.

ETA: #3: More links, from the comments (thank you, lovely wankas!):

Fic comm and where planning for the con is happening

Screencap of Turimel's deleted FW post

Andrew/VB's Twilight artwork

Terry Boot's head is pastede on yay?

Tv Tropes (beware!) page for thanfictions's Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness

thanfiction on Twitter

Oh, as usual, dear

More details from luvscharlie - thanks,

luvscharlie! I don't suppose you have more to share, hmmm? :D

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I'm getting sick of this.

white_serpent
2009-12-13 11:02 am UTC (link)

In the apology post in 2007, VB said the following:

I have re-connected with my family, moved away from Hollywood, have and intend to have in the future no contact with any fandom of any kind, re-discovered God, changed my name, come to terms with myself as a transgender man, and am now seeking both gender reassignment surgery, normal employment, and a normal, healthy life.

In response to

turimel's inquiry about which pronoun was preferred, the following was said:

The masculine, please.

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	Re: I'm getting sick of this. wankismyfandom 2009-12-13 11:18 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for digging that up. Can has be done with transfail nao? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. white_serpent 2009-12-13 11:20 am UTC (link)
	I desperately hope so. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. seperis 2009-12-13 11:27 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. I was trying to remember if he'd ever made it clear he was trans or had held onto cismale identity. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. jupiterpluvius 2009-12-15 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	There's a lot of cis-essentialism in the thanfortune posts, along the lines of "us men are like this because of our bone structure" stuff. Which is kind of creepy coming from anyone, trans or cis, but (perhaps this is my limitation) especially surprising to me coming from someone trans. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: I'm getting sick of this.

syncopation
2009-12-13 11:55 am UTC (link)

Here, let me help out with that:

The masculine, please.

I really hope people get it this time. I cringed every single time I saw s/h/it and all I thought was "Shit. He. This disturbed wanker is a he."

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	Re: I'm getting sick of this. (Anonymous) 2009-12-13 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	Well, he is kind of a shit. Just, a male shit. And a male shit because he's a lying swindling repeat-offender, not because he's, you know. A male. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. bisclavret 2009-12-13 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	This is why we can't have nice things. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. syncopation 2009-12-13 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	this got to me: "...not because he's, you know. A male." :points to icon for a better understanding of my reaction: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: I'm getting sick of this.

blue_penguin
2009-12-14 04:43 am UTC (link)

I thought the mouse wasn't saying he wasn't a guy, just that his shittiness was not due to his being male. To me it looked like a badly-worded attempt at a joke plus (even more badly-worded) clarification that they weren't male-bashing or something rather than further questioning of VB's gender identity.

But I may be wearing rose-colored glasses over here, I don't know.

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	Re: I'm getting sick of this. syncopation 2009-12-14 04:54 am UTC (link)
	The problem, to me, is all about semantics, considering that someone else interpreted that phrase differently. I'm just happy to see this mouse gone. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: I'm getting sick of this.

kumquat_of_doom
2009-12-14 03:27 pm UTC (link)

I have to admit, I also read it this way. Essentially, I think, the mousey was saying that Thanfiction is a shit - but a male one (in other words, that using s/h/it to refer to Thanfiction is wrong - calling Thanfiction a shit isn't), and that all this had nothing to do with Thanfiction being trans and everything to do with Thanfiction being, well, a shit.

Which is a sentiment I can get behind, although perhaps it could have been worded more clearly.

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	Re: I'm getting sick of this. syncopation 2009-12-13 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	:sigh: Off with you. I won't see you on this thread again, thank goodness. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. sudaki 2009-12-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks, that ought to clear it up. I'm pretty sad about how the comments turned into unfunny city. It's VB, for chrissakes. (I'm not sure "normal employment" means what he thinks it means, though.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. finchbird 2009-12-13 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. ultimi_scopuli 2009-12-14 01:01 am UTC (link)
	THANK YOU. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. ivyblossom 2009-12-14 02:38 am UTC (link)
	Maybe God was harder to find than he expected. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm getting sick of this. dejana 2009-12-14 03:48 am UTC (link)
	I see turimel decided not to respect his "pronoun of choice" after all, then. Lovely. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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ETA, ONCE AGAIN: Anon commenting is off. And please read this. Thank you, white_serpent. Male pronouns, please. No more transfail, thanks.

The masculine, please.

ETA, ONCE AGAIN: Anon commenting is off. And please read this. Thank you, white_serpent.

Male pronouns, please. No more transfail, thanks.