"Urrrrghh. How does Thanfiction still have fans? D-:?" Remember what I said about hiding behind trans* status (as he does here)? He also hides behind claimed mental illness (as he does here), grossly libeling everyone who could testify as to his true nature (as he does here), and pleading that he was a poor misguided soul and he's not like that any more (as he does here). It's a perfect microcosm of all his public manipulations, really.
He's also a decent artist (I would say 'good', but he's also been caught out in tracing photos, so I don't know how much is his actual skill and how much is diligent copying) and a talented writer, which is how he gathers fans in the first place. And I will admit that he is a very good writer possessed of a particular gift for evoking sensory details... the only problem, which made so much more sense when I learned that he was the infamous Victoria Bitter/Jordan Wood/et cetera, was that he described emotions well, but... always slightly off. It was like his characters were made of beautifully crafted blocks, but the blocks were always assembled into larger structures in a disconcertingly mismatched manner, with the edges of adjacent blocks never properly aligned and the keystone of every arch always subtly misshapen.
At the time that I read a few chapters of DAYD, I put it down to my not being the target audience. Now, even that memory creeps me out... :S
Yeah, because trans* people are totally destined to become pathological liars. NOT. Yeah. I mean, look, I've known two FTM guys online who strongly identified with certain male characters, to the point where the boundaries kind of blurred... but NEITHER of them actually claimed to ***be*** those characters, neither of them were pathological liars, and neither of them freaking tried to run cults. So, no matter HOW much you narrow the options, Thanfiction is an aberrant outlier.
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I totally love male characters like that. <3 They're nice! I was just saying that they don't ***have*** to be that way, whereas female characters seem contractually obligated to show their ~true femininity~ at some point.
(Also, I disbelieve you are cold and unfeeling -- far from it -- Thank you! Very nice of you to say that... I've fooled you all! *cackles* More seriously, I admit that there may be a gap between how I perceive myself and how others actually perceive me. *shrug* I need to work on that.
but I DEFINITELY agree that it's irritating when female characters aren't judged as morally responsible individuals capable of both good and bad.) *nodnodnod* DEFINITELY.
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Remember what I said about hiding behind trans* status (as he does here)? He also hides behind claimed mental illness (as he does here), grossly libeling everyone who could testify as to his true nature (as he does here), and pleading that he was a poor misguided soul and he's not like that any more (as he does here). It's a perfect microcosm of all his public manipulations, really.
He's also a decent artist (I would say 'good', but he's also been caught out in tracing photos, so I don't know how much is his actual skill and how much is diligent copying) and a talented writer, which is how he gathers fans in the first place. And I will admit that he is a very good writer possessed of a particular gift for evoking sensory details... the only problem, which made so much more sense when I learned that he was the infamous Victoria Bitter/Jordan Wood/et cetera, was that he described emotions well, but... always slightly off. It was like his characters were made of beautifully crafted blocks, but the blocks were always assembled into larger structures in a disconcertingly mismatched manner, with the edges of adjacent blocks never properly aligned and the keystone of every arch always subtly misshapen.
At the time that I read a few chapters of DAYD, I put it down to my not being the target audience. Now, even that memory creeps me out... :S
Yeah. I mean, look, I've known two FTM guys online who strongly identified with certain male characters, to the point where the boundaries kind of blurred... but NEITHER of them actually claimed to ***be*** those characters, neither of them were pathological liars, and neither of them freaking tried to run cults. So, no matter HOW much you narrow the options, Thanfiction is an aberrant outlier.
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They're nice! I was just saying that they don't ***have*** to be that way, whereas female characters seem contractually obligated to show their ~true femininity~ at some point.
Thank you! Very nice of you to say that...
I've fooled you all! *cackles* More seriously, I admit that there may be a gap between how I perceive myself and how others actually perceive me. *shrug* I need to work on that.*nodnodnod* DEFINITELY.