Victoria Bitter Wank
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Victoria Bitter is one of many pseuds used by fan Thanfiction.
Other pseuds are: VB, Amy Player, Jordan Wood, Mr Frodo, Voyagerbabe, Padawan Sidious, PadawanS, Strwriter, Chris the Marine, Rennie Gade, Andrew Blake, Andy Blake, and andythanfiction [1]
Starting in 1998, Victoria Bitter has been involved in much wank related but not limited to: fraud, Münchausen by Internet, sockpuppets, small birds, evil twins, pseuicide, channeling, murder, brainwashing, cults, and created languages, often in the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and more recently, Supernatural fandoms, as well as activities outside of fandom.
See Thanfiction for more.
Timeline
- "Andy Blake Timeline. Part 1". Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
- "Andy Blake Timeline. Part II". Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
One Overview
From "The 10 Best Tales of Online Drama from 10 Years of Fandom_Wank" (March 11, 2013):
Andrew Blake is an accused scam artist and alleged cult-leader who's been unleashing his intense, often expensive spiritual guidance on unsuspecting fans for over a decade.Andrew Blake was born Amy Player [2]. In the heyday of Lord of the Rings fandom, this charismatic fan was the center of a tiny group of friends who lived together as a dysfunctional mini-cult formed around Blake's belief that he could contact and connect with spirits from alternate realities. He was a multiple, or plural--someone who believes they can channel alternate fictional personas, a bit like the practice of recalling past lives.[3]
Sometimes the personas were fictional, like the female alter-ego known as "Victoria Bitter." Sometimes the personas were the imagined alter-egos of real people, such as "Jordan Wood," supposedly an alter-ego of the actual Hollywood actor Elijah Wood. As Jordan Wood, Blake claimed to be able to speak the language of Hobbits and communicate with characters from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, which supposedly existed in an alternate dimension. Or so he compelled his rapt circle of friends and admirers to believe.
"Jordan Wood" was Blake's primary identity when he decided to organize a fan convention [4] and tell everyone that Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood would be attending to raise money for charity. In the disaster that followed,[5] Blake allegedly scammed his fellow fans out of thousands of dollars, and duped three Lord of the Rings actors into coming to California for a convention that never happened, where they wound up having to awkwardly couch-crash as "Jordan"'s friends realized that he'd defrauded them. An even greater shock came when online fans realized that "Jordan" and "Victoria" were the same person: Victoria had supposedly committed suicide on the fan forum months before.
One of the fraud victims wrote a hilarious and jaw-droppingly bizarre account of her experiences: When a Fan Hits the Shit.
Blake (as Amy Player) was subsequently fined for fraud in Oregon, [6] but returned to fandom a few years later as Andrew Blake, the LiveJournal user "thanfiction." Thanfiction grew—what else?—-a devoted cult of fan followers [7] around his popular fanfic Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness. He held a fan meetup for himself,[8] and claimed various fictional identities, all while allegedly suffering from a strangely non-terminal terminal illness.
All of this is fun and games—like the part where he claimed to have lost "a son" in a fierce custody battle who turned out to be a bird — but it gets more disturbing when you learn that among the members of his early cultish household was a young teenage girl living unsupervised with Blake with the blessing of her blissfully ignorant parents. And in 2011, things took a horrific turn when Blake was involved [9] in events leading up to a double murder-suicide, [10] when the husband of a fan he had been rooming with shot and killed his wife and a fellow roommate before turning the gun on himself. Blake was shot in the ankle, and survived by hiding in the closet.
Last week, Blake once again made waves in fandom by arriving on Tumblr, [11] allegedly claiming to be "a vessel"[12] for the Supernatural character Castiel — exactly as he did ten years ago when he channeled the spirits of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and other Lord of the Rings actors and characters. [13]
External Links to Much Discussion
Undated, Multiple Dates, or General
- The Pit; archive link page 1; archive link page 2; archive link page 3; archive link page 4; archive link page 5; ("For all your Andy-related info-dumping needs. If there's information you'd like to archive, please post it here" -- various archived items such as blog posts, eulogies, interview links, newspaper clipping accounts, and more) (2015-2016)
- Thanfiction at the Fail-Fandomanon Wiki; WebCite
- Fandom Wank Wiki; WebCite
- Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock, 2004-2013; WebCite
- The Crazy Train, Kumquat's blog, WebCite
- Hiding In Plain Sight, Archived version
2002
- LJ Stuff, March 22, 2002, excerpts from VB's Livejournal, early history and the beginnings of a Lesbian Paladin ; WebCite
- Westron 101, May 22, 2002, The LJ of Kalimac Brandagamba, or Meriadoc Brandybuck, VB's channeling journal and primer to Westron; WebCite
2003
- For the edification of the masses, February 16, 2003; WebCite
2004
- The sordid tale of Victoria Bitter (VB), Fandom Wank, May 26, 2004; WebCite
- Amy Player / Victoria Bitter / Jordon Wood Update!, Fandom Wank, has four pages of comments, June 5, 2004; WebCite
- Even more Amy Player/Victoria Bitter/Jordon Wood, Fandom Wank, June 9, 2004; WebCite
- Warning for HP fans, Fandom Wank, June 13, 2004; WebCite
- the triumph of good over evil, Fandom Wank, June 18, 2004; WebCite
- The Titanic of Wanks continues, Fandom Wank, July 14, 2004; WebCite
- "Hobbits Gone Wrong". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. the newspaper article by Zach Dundas, July 14, 2004
- Hobbits gone wrong, Fandom Wank, July 14, 2004; WebCite
- Just an update on Teh One Wank, Fandom Wank, August 15, 2004; WebCite
- Gives "spirit fingers" a whole new meaning..., Fandom Wank, includes two pages of comments, September 17, 2004; WebCite
- Fighting wank with wank?, Fandom Wank, October 6, 2004; WebCite
- "It's just a movie. Like. Fucking. Hell.", Fandom Wank, November 11, 2004; WebCite
- You don't *get* it! And we're all jelouz! And fundamentally insecure!, Fandom Wank, includes two pages of comments, December 17, 2004; WebCite
2005
- The end of a wank era?, Fandom Wank, includes three pages of comments, February 2, 2005; WebCite
2007
- The return of Victoria Bitter/Amy Player/Jordan Wood/Mr. Frodo Fandom Wank, includes five pages of comment, March 7, 2007; WebCite
2009
- Victoria Bitter at Fandom Wank Wiki; WebCite
- Courtesy of wank_report....The not quite so triumphant return of Victoria Bitter., Fandom Wank, includes nine pages of comments, December 11, 2009; WebCite
- The Not So Triumphant Return of Victoria Bitter, aka thanfiction, part 2, Fandom Wank, includes six pages of comments, December 14, 2009; WebCite
- The Not So Triumphant Return of Victoria Bitter, aka thanfiction, part the third, Fandom Wank, includes five pages of comments, December 27, 2009; WebCite
2010
- cake or death?, Fandom Wank, includes three pages of comments, January 16, 2010; WebCite
- The DAYDverse: Hope Is Still Recruiting: An Important Announcement, Welcome to the Dyadverse, January 15, 2010; WebCite
2011
- The 100% True Story About Everything., post by turimel;, July 7, 2011; WebCite
- How Scientology resembles a broken role-playing game, Archived version, by Aja Romano, August 9, 2012
- The 'saga' of Amy Player and the fleecing of the LOTR fandom, September 2011
- A Letter To The DAYDians: My Life With Andrew Blake Laid Bare, by KumquatWriter, November 26, 2011; WebCite
- Operation Catch and Release Part 1, by KumquatWriter, November 2011
- Thoughts on Abbey's Letter to the DAYDians - Pt 1, Archived version, notadiamond, November 2011
- TV Tropes: And They Lived: Tales from a Lord Of the Rings Cult Survivor, December 4, 2011; WebCite
2012
- Trisha’s Take: How to apologize on the Internet, February 12, 2012; WebCite
2013
- See this guy? That’s tumblr user and Supernatural fan andythanfiction., posted in 2013; WebCite
- “AND I’M PROUDER OF THAT THAN IF I’D SIMPLY BEEN ‘GOOD’ FROM THE BEGINNING”: WHY I THINK ANDY BLAKE IS (STILL) DANGEROUS, April 26, 2013; WebCite
- Andythanfiction's Tumblr, Archived version
- So, I’ve got a lot of new followers lately. Nice to meet you all. , Welcome to the Dyadverse, posted May 2013; WebCite
- You're fucked in the head. What you did to those people... god., Welcome to the Dyadverse, posted 2013; WebCite
- i'm sorry to ask this, but is the post that is going around about you true? i mean, i have heard rumors and stuff before, but never laid down like that., posted 2013; WebCite
- a con artist in our midst?, February 25, 2013; WebCite
- No, I haven't gotten any messages from you. But I have posted my phone number all over my blog..., February 25, 2013; WebCite
- I'm not going to call you or Skype you., February 25, 2013; WebCite
- Okay, super freaked out right now about all this., February 25, 2013; WebCite
- psa: the return of andy blake/thanfiction , March 6, 2013; WebCite
- Placeholding Forever... - FFA Post #208, May 2, 2013; WebCite
- Amy Player / Victoria Bitter / Jordan Wood / Andy Blake in SPN, Fandom Wank, March 4, 2013; WebCite
- "Spork Commentary on (Thanfiction) Amy Player's "Apology Letter"". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17., June 13, 2013
- Victoria Bitter: The Embittering, Fandom Wank, December 31, 2013; WebCite
- You're fucked in the head. What you did to those people... god., Archived version, by Andythanfiction, 2013
2014
- Fandom History, Epic Wankers Edition: Victoria Bitter/Jordan Wood/Andy Blake – the fanthropologist, Archived version (an excellent overview) (July 7, 2014)
- SUPERNATURAL SEASON NINE FINALE APOCALARP CAMP OROUBOROS , Welcome to the Dyadverse, posted around February 2014; WebCite
- The Andypology: A Reader's Guide, Archived version, April 6, 2014
- “And I’m prouder of that than if I’d simply been ‘good’ from the beginning”: Why I Think Andy Blake is (still) Dangerous, Archived version, Hiding in Plain Sight, April 26, 2014
- Hiding in Plain Sight, Archived version, 2014
- Lights On, Curtains Off, Masks Off, Archived version, post by andythanfiction, June 3, 2014
- a response to Lights On, Curtains Off, Masks Off, thisspinsterlife; WebCite, June 3, 2014
- a response to Lights On, Curtains Off, Masks Off, captain-ameribun; WebCite, June 3, 2014
- a response to Lights On, Curtains Off, Masks Off, thetigerisariver; WebCite, June 3, 2014
- An Apology, Archived version, "apology" by thanfiction, the last post by thanfiction at "Daydverse Journal" (June 28, 2014)
- L.B. Lee, MST: Andy Blake, the Most Multi of Multis, Part 1 (part 2 here) Response to Blake's 2011 email to fan blogger Carlanime in which, among other improbable information, he claimed to have dissociative identity disorder. Lee, who is multiple, wrote a complete point-by-point rundown of Blake's email, enumerating the reasons why Blake's statements were BS.
2015
- The strange lives of Andrew Blake, Daily Dot article by Aja Romano, February 22, 2015
- [regarding Aja's notes]; WebCite (April or May 2015)
References
- ^ these pseuds are linked or confirmed in a number of places, some of which are: "tent moot crash - Had to share: I got my hush money, after all!". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17., "Spork Commentary on (Thanfiction) Amy Player's "Apology Letter"". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17., Andy Blake Timeline. Part 1; "Andy Blake Timeline. Part II". Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.; Archive; "Giving in at last". Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.
- ^ Amy Player is Andrew Blake, and an even bigger conning slimeball than Rob Granito UPDATED, by Colleen Doran on July 15th, 2011; WebCite
- ^ This is a misuse of "multiple" and "plural" which simply refer to having multiple personalities. Fan artist/writer L.B. Lee has been interviewed and written extensively about Blake's use of these experiences for manipulations and con games.
- ^ Bit of Earth: Tentmoot; WebCite
- ^ Hobbits Gone Wrong, by Zach Dundas, July 14, 2004; WebCite
- ^ turimel: Conviction vs. voluntary compliance, November 7, 2011; WebCite
- ^ turimel: Sigh... guess I better go into the Long Version, May 22, 2011; WebCite
- ^ Courtesy of wank_report.... The not quite so triumphant return of Victoria Bitter, December 11, 2009; WebCite
- ^ For The Fallen, by Andrew Blake on Monday, May 16, 2011; WebCite
- ^ Hate, extortion, lies underlie Fairfield murder-suicide, May 9, 2011; WebCite
- ^ Thanfiction, Archived version
- ^ Kuamquatwriter, February 26, 2013; WebCite
- ^ The 10 Best Tales of Online Drama from 10 Years of Fandom_Wank, by Aja Romano, posted to The Daily Dot, March 11, 2013; WebCite