Between Dashcon and now this, it's a crappy week to work on Welcome to Night Vale.

(tw: mentions of rape)

Sodomquake is best known to WTNV fans as the co-writer of "Summer Reading Program", the episode that introduced fan-favorite character Tamika Flynn. She is also known among Persona 4 fans as the writer of "Sympathy Crime", a fanfic that features rape. Tumblr user teethforlunch points this out, and is quite critical about Sodomquake being a writer of "underage rape porn".

Then Persona fans who've read the fic speak up, pointing out the fic is victim-focused and doesn't fetishize rape at all

Sodomquake's tumblr is now password protected. ~~Teethforlunch has gutted their blog~~. (CORRECTION: Tumblr support actually did their job, teethforlunch's account was deleted, and a friend of sodomquake's has taken the URL to prevent them from getting it back) Cecilbaldwin-fan, the fan blogger that popularized the original post, has expressed her remorse over the matter. The creators of Night Vale are not happy, and Cecil Baldwin has decided to take a break from social media.

So, um...do your research, kids.

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	agent_hyatt 2014-07-17 12:25 am UTC (link)
	Odds that teethforlunch has a pre-existing grudge against Sodomquake and deliberately misrepresented her fics to get fans from another fandom riled up at her? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2014-07-17 12:31 am UTC (link)
	If that ends up being the case, that just makes things worse. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	agent_hyatt 2014-07-17 06:58 am UTC (link)
	Before teethforlunch's blog was removed and name-squatted so they can't come back, it sounds like the "Sodomquake writes kiddie rape porn" was the only post they'd made. Definitely stinks of socks. FFA (I think) also turned up links to attempted shit-stirring via anon asks before this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jyuu 2014-07-17 08:14 am UTC (link)
	After sodomquake deleted their blog, teethforlunch (or a conspirator) grabbed up her empty URL and had posted up a couple nasty things before support helped get it back. It definitely feels like a vendetta of some sort, rather than straight up SJW obliviousness. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eldritch 2014-07-17 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	It wouldn't surprise me. Sodomquake has been active in fandom for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS and has always seemed to be a really genuinely cool person, two things that are guaranteed to attract hate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2014-07-17 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	That's always kind of baffling to me. "Hey a popular person in the fandom that isn't an asshole! I HATE THEM SO MUCH." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eldritch 2014-07-17 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	It definitely makes you wonder what goes through people's heads that they get so much joy from tearing others down. Wait, no, I don't wonder at all. They've just mentally never left high school. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ekaterinv
2014-07-17 10:00 pm UTC (link)

1) They're popular, so criticism of them will likely get attention.
2) They're nice, so criticism of them will likely not involve huge amounts of blowback. (Though it did in this case, but even then it's not personal criticism or vendettas, simply a shutting down of one sock.)

I don't think the asshole even needs to dislike the target at all. The target is merely a stepping stone to the asshole's goals.

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	cmdr_zoom 2014-07-21 12:46 am UTC (link)
	Kill them, eat their heart, gain their BNF power. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	luthe 2014-07-23 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	See also: Ms. Scribe. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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