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forevagreeneart ([info]forevagreeneart) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-12-31 13:55:00


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Entry tags:cons, fandom: supernatural, person: victoria bitter

Victoria Bitter: The Embittering
Oh, how nice, someone's creating a little convention for the Supernatural fandom, and they're looking for staff members. Looks like the position of Event Director has already been filled, though, by one...

Andrew Blake. AKA thanfiction. AKA Victoria Bitter.

The event hasn't received much attention thus far, but everyone who's responded to the original post looks enthusiastic and willing to throw money at the idea.

Unsurprisingly, people from other corners of the fandom have begun to speak up, sharing stories of past exploits and linking to the book written by a previous VB/AB/TF victim.

Andy, aware of his reputation in fandom, has made several posts on his most recent Tumblr in the past few months, saying that the past is behind him and refuting the claims of people who are preemptively warning the SPN fandom about his exploits.

Only time will tell if he has really changed his ways, but all signs point to no.

One final note: misgendering is not cool. There are about 10 million reasons to mock Andrew Blake, but his gender identity is not one of them.

ETA: Now matured from "having just finished his 20s" to "30 with a lot of job experience", our hero has posted more details about the application process, explaining that everything might go wrong and that's just the way that cons work, and that pretty much all of the cool stuff mentioned thus far might be too expensive if they don't get enough participants. (thanks luxshine!)



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[info]themadscientist
2014-01-16 12:24 am UTC (link)
TBH as someone else said in one of those links - this time he's picked the perfect hunting ground.

Tumblr already is predisposed to support and rally around people who are openly confronting their mental health problems and also those who are non-cis. I don't know if he's talked about the latter but he posts often about the former. (Apparently he only got like, 25 hours of sleep all year.)

He also picked gold in supporting Destiel, where many of the fans already have a us versus them mentality. And the fact that he does artwork / writing doesn't hurt his case at all. And he still has his following from his massive HP fic.

In short - he's in the perfect place to work on a BNF following and the perfect platform wherein his flaws will be seen as a brave person sharing their struggles. And no one wants to think about what has been documented because OPEN MINDEDNESS AND FORGIVENESS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

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[info]rosehiptea
2014-01-16 01:18 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I really like tumblr and my non-cis son has found a lot of valuable support there. But people on there (and I include myself in this) generally are not big on fact-checking. And it gets even worse since Andy can spin this into being a situation without verifiable facts, even though it isn't.

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[info]argylespy
2014-01-16 04:32 am UTC (link)
I feel like Tumblr's gotten a little better at not immediately accepting everything they read outright (or at least my corner of it, I guess), but yeah. Of course it also seems like it's the younger set who are just starting to dip their toes into the social justice pool that don't quite have the tools to figure out when someone's legitimately seeking/offering help and when they're just out to use them.

Which, of course, isn't helped by an extremely talented and, by all accounts, charming and personable manipulator.

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