Stay away from Andy "Thanfiction" Blake!

floshie:

Just read a quote on instagram, that “depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character”.
Although this might sound exciting and encouraging, depression is a state of entrapment in negativity. Not a chemistry flaw. There is nothing wrong with your chemistry, you were made perfectly.
The world teaches us to fit in. When God teaches us to take the narrow path.
You are free to believe what you wish.
Chemistry flaw (basically calling it a night and maybe resorting to pills).
Or finding that you are deeply loved and no longer a prisoner to the evil in this world.
God bless, there is always hope in Christ.

“There is nothing wrong with your chemistry, you were made perfectly.” 

That’s not what the Bible says. There was only one person on Earth who was born perfect, remember? Everyone else is born in sin, which by definition is imperfection.

“You are free to believe what you wish. “

Wrong. Do you know your Bible? Then you should know that only Truth can make people free. Until people know the Truth of God, they are prisoners to sin. 

“Chemistry flaw (basically calling it a night and maybe resorting to pills).
Or finding that you are deeply loved and no longer a prisoner to the evil in this world.“

You present these as though they were necessarily one or the other. But that is not so. Don’t you remember your Gospels? Jesus BOTH loved AND healed people. Knowing that Jesus loved them was not enough to heal people, and He never expected anyone to heal from any ailment just from knowing He loved them. So why do you?

Also, what is wrong with pills? Jesus used mud to give sight to a blind man. Why not pills?

And finally, have you learned nothing from Job’s story? You can know that God loves you, and still be both extremely physically sick and extremely depressed. You can have faith in God and still feel miserable.

You are a false teacher. You don’t preach the Gospel of Jesus. You either don’t understand or acknowledge what it means to be born in sin, and to live in a fallen world. I urge you to shut up, because as you should know, Christ does not look kindly upon those who hurt others, and especially not upon the hypocrites who use His Word to harrass and torment those who are already suffering from hardships.

shinykari asked: No, you didn't misread it--it really depends! Cosplay is huge and diverse. Elaborate/complex costumes are more likely to be taken on by people who want a challenge or to show off their skills or enter contests, regardless of their feelings on the actual character. Competitive cosplay and "regular" cosplay are similar (and have lots of crossover) but have different focuses. Andy seems to be trying to horn in on the competitive cosplay niche.

theteablogger:

Also, a note that while cosplay is a very very heavily female fandom/niche, the competitive side has way more men. Forums like The RPF (Replica Prop Forum), where the goal is screen-accuracy, skews heavily male. It’s more about the building than the wearing, if that makes sense?

(I am by no means a cosplay expert, but this are my observations after several years cosplaying and participating in the cosplay community online.)

Sorry, I’ve been offline the last few days and missed these! More useful information to be taken into account with the cosplay post.

I also got a message from someone who asked me to rephrase rather than publish it:

Andy has a summer job in costuming at Busch Gardens. At first when he posted about it, he claimed that the shop wasn’t air-conditioned and that he was working 10-14 hour days, six days a week, often with no breaks–but he was learning so much and it was so awesome. Then TF-talk started discussing it and someone pointed out that Busch Gardens and other VA theme parks have very strict rules about breaks and working conditions because they employ so many teenagers. All of a sudden, Andy’s posting about how the AC has been fixed and his supervisor has realized he’s supposed to be getting more breaks and everything is wonderful!

Thanks, Anon!

If shinykari’s right, then Andy is making a strategic mistake in aiming for competitive cosplay. His goal is to gather young women around him, and apparently competitive cosplay is not where he’s most likely to find them. Coupled with the fact that Andy is fundamentally uninterested in properly learning any craft, so he’ll never be good enough at cosplay to win “true” competitions anyway (or attract the attention of the serious female competitors), I’m expecting him to drop out of that competitive side pretty soon. He’ll probably pretend that he doesn’t have enough time to engage into cosplay at that level, even though that’s pretty much exactly what he’s been doing lately…

And once again, I’m laughing at how Andy TOTALLY doesn’t read tf-talk and all the other places where he’s being discussed. Nope, not him, nuh-uh.

Anonymous asked: I don't know if anyone has already said this, but Andy has very recently started working his way into the Game of Thrones fandom (at least in terms of costuming at a major U.S. fandom convention).

capn-mactastic:

delwynmarch:

kumquatwriter:

delwynmarch:

Loved the whole post. Just want to comment on one thing:

theteablogger:

He’s done some other things related to Game of Thrones before, including a meal for a season premiere, a feast, and a whole bunch of posts about his thoughts on Brienne’s gender and sexuality. Now he’s made GoT cosplay for several people and has won an award for his own Viserys cosplay (a character choice that was a little too on the nose if you ask me). I don’t think that Andy’s necessarily trying to join the fandom, though. He has reached out to GoT cosplayers at least a couple of times on Facebook, but they read more as attempts to impress them than to become one of them.

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He’s also been selected for season two of Viva La Cosplay, which ought to be…interesting.

If I had to make a bet, I’d say that this is going to end up being a disastrous move for Andy. I can’t imagine that he will manage to keep his asshole side from showing all the way through. In other words, he’s going to make his own Andy Awareness Campaign in the cosplay community.

One question though: does anyone know if the people on that show are aware of Andy’s abusive ways? If they already knew about them when they chose to take him, then fine. But if they didn’t research him, then I don’t feel right letting them step into that trap without at least giving them a heads-up.

I also wondered if the show knew his history. I’m rather surprised he’d go for a show anyway, given his general affectation of hating the spotlight and his history of avoiding being televised (e.g. refusing every documentary on Hollywood Boulevard).

Re: “his general affectation of hating the spotlight“: the best part is that he wasn’t just accidentally selected to participate in that show. He volunteered for it.

So, uh, yeah.

It’s possible I’m being overly suspicious, but I wonder if he’s banking on someone bringing his past up with the producers and them dropping him - rather than ‘casting for the crazy’ - so he can play up that “persecution” is causing him to lose opportunities.

*snort* If that’s what he hopes for, then he’s being particularly pathetic.

Re: “being overly suspicious”: you can NEVER be overly suspicious where a Narcissist is concerned. Your suspicions can be wrong, of course, but they are never unfounded as long as they are based on 1) actual facts, and 2) recurrent behaviours previously observed in the Narcissist in question. In this case:

- Andy *has* volunteered to participate in the show;

- This is at odds with his decade-long habit of avoiding being filmed;

- He *has* claimed many times that people persecute him in real life, and he’s given many opportunities for people to do so (releasing loads of personal info, all but naming the college he’s going to and the art school he’s (was?) aiming for, and so on).

Given all this, I count your suspicion as a reasonably founded one. It may be completely wrong, but it’s not unfounded.

Anonymous asked: I don't know if anyone has already said this, but Andy has very recently started working his way into the Game of Thrones fandom (at least in terms of costuming at a major U.S. fandom convention).

lb-lee:

delwynmarch:

theteablogger:

He’s done some other things related to Game of Thrones before, including a meal for a season premiere, a feast, and a whole bunch of posts about his thoughts on Brienne’s gender and sexuality. Now he’s made GoT cosplay for several people and has won an award for his own Viserys cosplay (a character choice that was a little too on the nose if you ask me). I don’t think that Andy’s necessarily trying to join the fandom, though. He has reached out to GoT cosplayers at least a couple of times on Facebook, but they read more as attempts to impress them than to become one of them.

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I’m just deeply amused by him claiming he dislikes fantasy when he’s infamous for his bullshit in Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Supernatural fandom.  It’s like dude, you PORTRAY yourself as an urban fantasy anti-hero; you can’t exactly be very convincing in your dislike.

Yeah, I don’t know what he’s going for with that claim. I’m sure there must be a logical (Andy-logic, but logic anyway) reason for that, but I can’t be arsed to look for it. That reason will become obvious anyway sooner or later if he’s trying to hide something big with that lie. In the meantime, I’ll just keep LOLing at the stupidity of it all.

Anonymous asked: I don't know if anyone has already said this, but Andy has very recently started working his way into the Game of Thrones fandom (at least in terms of costuming at a major U.S. fandom convention).

kumquatwriter:

delwynmarch:

Loved the whole post. Just want to comment on one thing:

theteablogger:

He’s done some other things related to Game of Thrones before, including a meal for a season premiere, a feast, and a whole bunch of posts about his thoughts on Brienne’s gender and sexuality. Now he’s made GoT cosplay for several people and has won an award for his own Viserys cosplay (a character choice that was a little too on the nose if you ask me). I don’t think that Andy’s necessarily trying to join the fandom, though. He has reached out to GoT cosplayers at least a couple of times on Facebook, but they read more as attempts to impress them than to become one of them.

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He’s also been selected for season two of Viva La Cosplay, which ought to be…interesting.

If I had to make a bet, I’d say that this is going to end up being a disastrous move for Andy. I can’t imagine that he will manage to keep his asshole side from showing all the way through. In other words, he’s going to make his own Andy Awareness Campaign in the cosplay community.

One question though: does anyone know if the people on that show are aware of Andy’s abusive ways? If they already knew about them when they chose to take him, then fine. But if they didn’t research him, then I don’t feel right letting them step into that trap without at least giving them a heads-up.

I also wondered if the show knew his history. I’m rather surprised he’d go for a show anyway, given his general affectation of hating the spotlight and his history of avoiding being televised (e.g. refusing every documentary on Hollywood Boulevard).

Re: “his general affectation of hating the spotlight“: the best part is that he wasn’t just accidentally selected to participate in that show. He volunteered for it.

So, uh, yeah.

Anonymous asked: I don't know if anyone has already said this, but Andy has very recently started working his way into the Game of Thrones fandom (at least in terms of costuming at a major U.S. fandom convention).

Loved the whole post. Just want to comment on one thing:

theteablogger:

He’s done some other things related to Game of Thrones before, including a meal for a season premiere, a feast, and a whole bunch of posts about his thoughts on Brienne’s gender and sexuality. Now he’s made GoT cosplay for several people and has won an award for his own Viserys cosplay (a character choice that was a little too on the nose if you ask me). I don’t think that Andy’s necessarily trying to join the fandom, though. He has reached out to GoT cosplayers at least a couple of times on Facebook, but they read more as attempts to impress them than to become one of them.

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He’s also been selected for season two of Viva La Cosplay, which ought to be…interesting.

If I had to make a bet, I’d say that this is going to end up being a disastrous move for Andy. I can’t imagine that he will manage to keep his asshole side from showing all the way through. In other words, he’s going to make his own Andy Awareness Campaign in the cosplay community.

One question though: does anyone know if the people on that show are aware of Andy’s abusive ways? If they already knew about them when they chose to take him, then fine. But if they didn’t research him, then I don’t feel right letting them step into that trap without at least giving them a heads-up.

Anonymous asked: omg, so this just occurred to me but a while back on andy's tumblr someone asked him if any of the characters in the daydverse had abusive parents and I remember his answer skeeved me the fuck out. I'll look for the post, but he did this long spiel about how abuse "isn't clear cut" and is "hard to define". Had lines like "are Ernie MacMillan's parents abusive because they made him work 12 hour shifts on the farm from age 10 on?" and (1/2)

theteablogger:

 "is Derek’s dad abusive because he’ll kill Derek if Derek tells him he’s gay?“ AND A LOT of other weird examples that I looked at and was like, “uhhh yeah that is definitely child abuse????” that he was trying to paint as a “grey area”. I’ll try and find it (2/2)

FOUND IT!!! /post/15341747487/child-abuse-in-the-daydverse

Thanks for pointing that out, Anon! The post in question is from January 5, 2012, and…wow, there’s a lot to unpack there. I’m sure there are many things that I’ll miss or that I won’t be able to explore in detail because of my lack of expertise in this area (I’ve done a lot of reading for personal reasons, but that doesn’t make me an expert), so I hope that others who are more knowledgeable will add their input.

I’m going to go ahead and put this behind a read-more because it’s going to be long and possibly triggering for some people.

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An Anonymous DV Advocate’s Thoughts on It’s About Power

theteablogger:

An Anon e-mailed me earlier this week regarding Andy’s writing for the IAP website and has given me permission to share her message. As someone who works in domestic violence advocacy, she is able to comment from a much different perspective than I can as a layperson. It’s interesting to see the contrast between the way that the larger DV community approaches advocacy and the way that Andy writes about it. This Anon’s commentary shows that he did not bother to educate himself at all before trying to get attention as a knowledgeable advocate for survivors of abuse and domestic violence.

Thanks, Anon!

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