Lost in the comments of the last post, julian_black tells us that idiomagic has spit out the kool-aid.

The evil twin is yesterday's news, people. Now there's an UNDEAD SHAMAN-WIZARD.

Yeah, I'll repeat that: UNDEAD SHAMAN-WIZARD.

I don't even know. Does it top channeling fictional hobbits? You decide.



ETA: HOLD THE PHONE: UNDEAD SHAMAN-WIZARD EMAILS HERE! All personal info redacted, of course. Thanks bacon_lover!

Also, idiomagic would like us to know that She never drank the kool-aid. She was *cue dramatic music* THE MOLE!

I dunno, there's a reason Deep Throat's identity was never revealed...





Reminder: please use male pronouns when referring to VB/thanfiction, and leave the transfail in the other post, thanks.

Just some links that might have got lost in the faily shuffle of the last post:

cesare finds thanfiction's icons interesting.

Guess the celebrity in thanfiction's "original" artwork.

FW's nemesis old friend FanHistory owner and Fandom's Public Enemy #1, Laura Hale joins the circus.

His son? A bird. (PROOF!)

Turimel updates her LJ with screencaps.

Famous last words. :( :( :(

ETA:

HOLD THE PHONE, IT JUST GOT BETTER! BLAME IT ON HIS EVIL TWIN SISTER!

Can this get any more ridiculous? I can't even imagine, but I'm sure VB will think of something.


ETA, again: Link courtesy of sockpuppeteer and luvscharlie: Witness Andrew Blake dressed up as Bill Weasley!




Reminder: please use male pronouns when referring to VB/thanfiction, and leave the transfail in the other post, thanks.

An old-time FW favorite is back back back, baby. And this time it may really be the end.

Turimel visits LA and confronts one of her Bit of Earth antagonists, Abby... and don't worry, she didn't forget about Amy either. Multiple postscripts abound and there's even a vacation slideshow. A tiny sample:

We became part of the freakshow. Those tourists really got their money's worth that day. At first Abby was the only one there, so Sue and I concentrated on her. There was just so much to say! Both of us had been pretty calm up to that point but there was just so much pent up rage my hands were shaking. We started out just kinda letting go, dishing out the insults, telling everyone around that she was a con artist, etc. Loosening up a little. I showed Flabby the book and said something like "I have the book I know you're dying to read" and she said, in just the OILIEST voice ever, "Why thank you" and started to take it...I snatched it back out of her hands and said, "Oh, but you've gotta pay for it."

This may be the last, the very very last, of the Bit of Earth saga, a Fandom_Wank classic. Enjoy the bittersweet dregs.

Remember Turimel? She was scammed by VB and OB, and has now written a book about it called "When a Fan Hits the Shit".

Unfortunately, none other than the Forces of Evil (capitalization mine) are at work to make Teh Book (capitalization hers) lose its battle against the evil hobbits. How? By writing bad reviews in Amazon.

( 'Are you guys so fundamentally insecure that the only way you can feel satisfied is to see my book fail?' )

And now I'm slightly sour because I don't have an Anne Rice icon.

ETA: Fixed the book's title. Ahem.

Uhhh ... whether me posting this is appropriate or not, I have no idea. So if it isn't, sorry.

It's just that I got my copy of "When a Fan Hits the Shit" in the mail a few days ago and even though I've read everything there is online about that wank that makes all other wanks look like wannabes (yes, after reading this book even the Crystal Apocalypse looks tame), I'm still desperately attempting to keep myself from hyperventilating with horrified laughter at some of the things in there.

Probably worst of all is the VB/OB chat transcript. How the ...? It boggles the mind.

Here's VB quoting her "Master" (don't ask me!! it's some sort of psychic channeling shit) after showing her footage of the actors:

I will give you my first impressions of the others for now, but remember, love, video tape is not the best means of this. I really should be meeting your boys if I am to be any more than accurate in the broadest strokes. [me: whatever the fuck that means.] Mr. McKellen seems to bear the spirit of Zeus, wise and a bit naughty. Mr. Wood needs nothing more than video tape, in truth. I could have done it from a photograph. His spirit is a pure Wood Elf stronger and truer than any I have seen in many an age. What he's doing here, I do not know. He does not belong. The stout fellow is of Baldir and the Great Mother, and Mr. Wood's two companions both carry streaks of Faerie wider than they are tall, that apparently not being much to say.

And after some dissection of this stunning spiritual analysis, VB effuses,

"It's just a movie. Like. Fucking. Hell. ... There are energies being tapped here that I can't even begin to comprehend, nor to fathom why."

And Abbey/OB replies "*tremuloulsy*" (her stupid spelling error, not mine) "If this is just a movie just a book .just. then I'm the Queen of Spain."

Maybe I'm sticking my neck out here, but isn't this at least if not more wanky as the subject material? The gloating is laid on a little thick, IMO, and the smug artwork is somewhat embarrassing. A more professional approach might have been a better idea, rather than making both sides look like sploogefests. Just my thoughts. Yours?

One of the last of the original Bagenders, Little Sam, has allowed a statement to be posted to Turimel's journal to give some more insight into the hobbit channeling and ( You are not gonna believe this... )

( And then there was Abbey... )

Jesus fucking Christ on a Wheat Thin, the rest of the story gets even worse. Seriously, go look at it yourself. Warning: sporfle alerts.

Turi's working away and has a question for some of y'all.

Many interesting things afoot actually, in the One Wank to Rule Them All. Go here for what's up now.

Edit:
Yes, Turi is writing a book about it and is also asking for help editing as well. I think that this is the first entry about it. Keep an eye on her journal for updates about where/when it'll be available. :)

Edit the second:
Dude, I was just trying to see if Turi's request to use quotes from the C&D would reach the right people. Wasn't quite expecting the wankplosion. Ah, well. Wank on, dudes!

Wank from VB beyond the grave--but not posted, no preciousss, sent to the attorney general's office:

In a March 5, 2004, email to DOJ investigator Fiona Harpster, Stone and Wood wrote, "We are very concerned to hear about the formalization of these accusations which had been previously maintained--where we feel they belong--only in the world of Internet rumor and gossip."

In the email to Harpster, Stone and Wood provided an account of some of Bit of Earth's finances but said they could not access many of their records due to computer problems. They prefaced the account with a disclaimer: "Most importantly, BitofEarth.net was not originally intended to be a charity organization."

Ass. Hats. You cannot TELL me that anything in HP tops this.

Read it all, see the art, at www.wweek.com

aww, never mind. I can't do this html stuff enough to make it point to the right entry anyway. Besides, I'm having terrible noobie guilt about posting to the main board.

Remember the trainwreck that two girls caused in the BitofEarth community, leaving behind a huge financial mess for other fans to clean up?

Well, it's not over yet.

This time, Turimel decides to wank Sean Astin after receiving no replies to her e-mails concerning the situation.

Everyone talks about what a saint Sean is. Well, you know what? People are like tea bags. You see what they're made of when they get in hot water. You take Sean out of a sea of adoring, complimentary fans, and put him in a difficult real-life situation, and you know what? Mr. Concern For Others can't be bothered to say "Thanks." Or, God forbid, offer to help resolve the situation.

Wait! That's not all! Let's see the comments posted to the LJ!

Notable ones:
How dare you chastize Sean Astin (and others, but most particualrly Sean) because they won't dance to your tune and align themselves with your neurotic witch hunt.

You need to get some kind of professional counseling to help you get past all this before it does even more damage to your life. Your problem, now, isn't Abby and Jordan. Your problem now is YOU.

And as far as dealing with difficult real-life situations, since you have no true understanding of what it is he actually goes through in his real life (and neither do I, for that matter), you have definitely misspoke about his ability to cope with what YOU have termed a "difficult real-life situation".

Wank on, LOTR.

Mostly this is just an update for those of us who were so amused by the fake C&D order sent to Turimel by Amy Player/Jordan Wood and Abby Stone.

Turns out that a) our faint hopes that it could be considered extortion have been squashed and b) the crooked accounting used by said ladies is even worse than previously believed.

Here's to hoping that the Oregon Attorney General puts his/her butt in gear to go after BoE as a fraudulent charity because, even as an uninvolved bystander, I'm personally getting pissed off by our injustice system.

Y'all remember the TentMoot crash and sundry fallout?

Well, Turimel has been doing a splendid job over at LiveJournal keeping track of/calling for evidence regarding the various cons that seem to have been perpetrated by Ms. Stone and Ms. Player.

Everything is going along well when Turimel receives this which is frankly too damn funny for words.

Please. Giggle and Point. Repeatedly.