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!)

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:

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.

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

Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Everyone knows about crazy ol' VB and the Bit-of-Earth scandal, right? Well, apparently he/she has returned to 'confess her sins'.

Is this for real? Only time will tell.

EDIT: elance (who claims to have founded the LotR slash fandom) blames VB for making the LOTR and LOTRPS fandom a byword and a joke that has scattered into tiny communities with no trust and no feeling of safety.

(And I want to know about the girl who was with VB and Blossom and whose virginity they wanted to give to Sean Bean because that's just guffaw worthy.) ETA: narcissam has the goods on that particular tidbit here.

EDITBOMBAHOY: Some of the replies are less than convinced about the sincerity of amy_player's 'confession.' Others seem genuinely glad to hear from him/her, if it indeed really IS him/her.

VB, however, has yet to reply to any more of the comments. Could this be the end?

EDITMONSTAH: Anonymousie 'Susan' who is apparently a former roommate of VB and OB's posts to say that the tone and blame going on in this LJ shows to me that the great manipulation of Amy Player and Abigail Stone continues. She then berates the two for using and scamming so many people.

EDITASAURUS: VB/Amy Player posts for what he/she says will be the last time.
( I am not getting drawn back into fandom )

Back on the other thread, amy_player/VB also posts explaining why he/she chose to use his/her old name of 'Amy Player' online and asks that all of his/her LotR artwork, stories, reviews, etc. be obliterated for good.

The End of one of the Wankiest Wanks of All Time?

Edit: thetrainshere, aka Amy's former roommate named Sue, expresses her disbelief towards the apology again under VB's latest post.
( Amy, we aren't so easily 'bought.' This time. )

On the other thread, ark002 aka Little Sam isn't convinced either.
( You're a damn loser, VB )

And, of course, there are plenty of opinions about the whole thing at turimel's journal.

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!

You know you've been reading too much fandom_wank when you pass a car with a "VB" sticker on the bumper, and your first thought is not "Virginia Beach," but "Victoria Bitter."

If any of you live in Portland Oregon, you may have heard of Willamette Week. For those of you outside said area, WW is a free semi-off-kilter paper distributed on the streets of Portland and the surrounding area.

This week's headline?

Hobbits Gone Wrong.

That's right, our darling of the Wank Circuit has hit the big time.

EDIT--Sorry, I had no idea this was posted before. I *checked*, I swear I did!

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.

No wank yet, but it's sure to start appearing as Jordan Wood is now in the HP fandom

I usually just lurk, but ran across this at Metafilter today, a (for those of you who haven't seen it) very varied website with around 17,000 members dealing with anything and everything (think of a higher-class version of Fark) and now, apparently, the entire Amy Player/Victoria Bitter/Jordon Wood broo-ha-ha. Not so many comments yet (many seem confused by the entire thing, understandably), but should be interesting to see what the responses are going to be.....

Once upon there were three two little girls who went to the police academy took the Lord of the Rings fandom for a wild ride.

And they were each assigned very hazardous duties.

But wank took them away from all that.

And now they work for me. My name...is Charlie.

It's Charlie, Angels. ( Time to go to work )