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author entitlement, jkr doesn't know harry potter like i do, person: victoria bitter, please mommy make it stop, this is the wank that never ends

cake or death?
The swan song of one thanfiction aka Andy Blake/VB, etc. He is leaving the internets forver. Maybe. If he doesn't die from his mysterious heart condition--he's going to college. Yes, sir. But he is unlikely to ever give up the cancer sticks.

n.b.: Please use the pronoun he when refering to Andy or face the wrath of pretty much everyone, but especially those who can ban your ass along with the rest of you.

eta: I didn't bother posting a link to Turi's reaction post because it was even more boring than Andy's brave farewell. But some sockpuppet comments to defend Andy.

"These do not exist other than the usual complaints about a failed romance (between he and luvscharlie)."

WAIT WOT? All that frothing from luvscharlie was heart break? D:

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Re: Do ya think

sorchar
2010-01-17 05:48 am UTC (link)

He was. But he was female when most of us first heard of him, and most of us have made the switch to male pronouns just fine. I was holding out because I didn't know whether he was honestly trans or it was just part of another con - then I discovered that it didn't matter to the other trans folks around here, that it was offending them for people to still refer to Andy as "she" regardless of his motivations. So I switched.

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	Re: Do ya think cmdr_zoom 2010-01-17 07:19 am UTC (link)
	This, right here. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Do ya think feenix 2010-01-17 07:43 am UTC (link)
	Seconded. It took me a while, too, but hey, now I'm confused on how to refer to his past actions now. (Because it's just plain weird to go, "Victoria Bitter...he," "Amy Player...he," so on and so forth.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Do ya think

ari_o
2010-01-17 08:08 am UTC (link)

Actually this point was clarified in the first or second round of this most recent wank. You always refer to a transgendered person by the gender he or she is transitioning to because they have always been that gender even if they didn't completely know it themselves on a conscious level. They always knew something wasn't right. Referring to Andy as "she" when he was presenting as female is essentially saying the transgender is a choice and it is not.

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