Hello there, faithful readers.
You know, I've been watching with interest a comment-culture which seems to be developing, almost forum-esque out of AWF blog about yours truly. There seem to be a group of people intent on constantly spilling abuse and venting their own personal demons in my direction, and, to be honest, it's quite scary, strange and more than a little disturbing.
I genuinely don't get it. Even if all the nasty stated about me is true - that I'm a multiple personality fantasist with a penchant for abusing consenting women and a mover and shaker in the BDSM world... so what? Why does that effect anyone? Why is that soooo offensive? Surely just as - or in my opinion more - offensive is to constantly target a couple of individuals (or, by their logic ONE individual) and bombard them daily with vile, slanderous and unwarranted abuse? Isn't that worse than anything I have been accused of (and never proved of) doing? I'd reckon so.
AWF is unfortunately complicit in this, because he/they can easily reject those comments but they publish them, and, of course, that is well within their rights. Have to be careful of the liable laws there, but so far I get why. I know what it's about. And that's fine. To be fair, it's getting a bit boring now.
See, if anything else, it's done me a favour, faithful reader, because my mask is off. The nuclear bomb has been dropped, there's nothing else for anyone to hit me with, and it's a huge relief. The thing with the "masked" me kind of shows the hysteria that was whipped up around me, and, in a way, shines a light right into the faces of the brainless fuckwits leaving comments on AWF's blog. THOSE are the guys with the problem, guys who think the most offensive person in the world is me. Christ, I'm a nothing, I'm genuinely not worth their attention. But still, what is it, all you amateur psychologist who google conditions to give me? Displacement? Transferance? What? Do your wives not understand you? Are you left alone at night whilst she "works" or "visits her sister" and all you can do is think... right, I'm gonna let him have it, that bastard, that guy who, em, said he knew things about Doctor Who I didn't... how dare he... what a bastard, or something? Don't you have, like, lives? Why am I so offensive? Why am I so important to you? Even if I AM a liar, which I'm clearly not, who cares? And if you do, why? What's it hurting? Cos I'll tell you, I'm a self fulfilling prophecy. See, for me to have done something - anything - then it's shut the spoilers - and if I did that, well, then I'm genuine, and not a liar, and, well, em, then... oh, see? Paradox. Bit of a bastard that, eh? Never mind. I'm sure you'll find a dog to kick sometime. Maybe sometimes, when you're feeling particularly naughty, you go and have an extra biscuit, even though mother told you not to... wooo... you're like, soooo bad...
So there's this guy, posts anonomously in AWF's comments and says things like "Marty, m'lad" and "Bladdy yakkity yak" and people think he's Mr Dark. Now, people think I'm Mr Dark too. I'm not, of course, but the hard of thinking chin-dribblers can't tell that Dark and I have completely different writing styles - I mean, completely different, unfakeably different, but, never mind, the "not very brights but can lift heavy things" can't see that, they just go for it. So this guy, whoever he is, is sitting in the house - probably his mum's, to be honest - and decides to write "Darkesque" abuse to people and then watches all the puppets jump through his hoops. He must be giggling his mother fucking arse off at you guys, you are so easy to manipulate! To give credit where it's due, I reckon Martin clocked that, and backed off the conversation pretty swiftly. Good call there, MLock, your instincts serve you well.
Fandom, gawd help us, needs AWF, it needs the bite, and the satire and the cynicism. I contacted the place out of a genuine respect for it. My initial email which was reproduced must have shown that, but it all seems to have been forgotten. What it doesn't need - and neither does AWF's reputation - is the culture of poisonous hangers on who vent an unnatural anger at someone for doing, what? Honestly, what?
If I dish it out, I must be willing to take it back, and, as long as it's an online persona thing, I'm happy to do so. I'm a big boy, and can easy fend off intellectual halfwits with words and wit rather than fists. But see, there's another thing. In the real world, in a pub (and I know most of these guys aren't allowed to go to pubs) if you called someone a "cunt" you'd get punched square on the face. But here, if someone slaughters you and you say "Well, lets meet, and I'll leather you..." the same guy who just called you a cunt goes "Yeah, that's all you can do, violence..." and hides behind a bigger boy. It's the ultimate in cowardice.
And it's all very unnecessary. It's all a bit silly, really. The whole situation has shone a light on the culture at the moment and it doesn't look good. I have come across arrogant and petulant, and perhaps duplicitious, AWF I reckon knows he/they were a little disengenious with what was a geniune hand of friendship, and DWF is trying to remain aloof, and, to be fair, doing a not too bad job. The skittering little comment makers who get sooooo angry at the whole thing come across as anti-social sociopaths with shallow lives and a zero-tolerance for silly things. So we all look like arseholes. And it's all a bit daft.
The worst thing I've done - even if I'm a liar, and a fantasist, even if I've made everything up - is to highlight the spoilers and what they were doing to the programme, to try and protect some of the integrity of the people making the show and give them credit for the damn hard work they do. Spoilers are a very different creature now, and I have to say I'm a bit proud of that, whatever some people say. The anticipation of a new episode with little known about it is a GOOD thing, faithful reader. However it happened. That's all I've done. And before people have a pop about me, and my internet habits - true or not - why not have a look at your own? The pay-to-view porn or the dodgy late-night sites, the drunken google for something you normally wouldn't look at or the email from someone with contents that make you go "whoooahhh!". But no, all these comment-creatures are lilly white, former cherubs who are so outraged that people dare have some kind of life. Where as they, of course, do not.
I'm not going to go bashing AWF, it's important it gets back on track and does what it does best. It IS funny. And I'm not going to bash DWF, or any of its alumni, because it does an important job and it is very, very needed. Christ, lads, hasn't this all gone far enough? Points made, medicine dished out, yadda yadda. Even Steve at the Restoration Team had to close down his forum because of abuse. That's crazy. Those guys do us a favour every single day! It's insane.
I know I've taken a pounding for saying this, but I genuinely mean it. We're all meant to be fans of Doctor Who. The Doctor. Would he be happy with this behaviour? Would he be proud of US... all of us? No, he wouldn't, he'd be ashamed. And so am I.
Skaro won't turn anyone away. It won't censor or edit comments. Despite what the arseholes are saying. People with things to say should come there, and talk... people, talk. Like adults. Like humans. Like men.
Think we can?
Happy times and places
Eddie
You know, I've been watching with interest a comment-culture which seems to be developing, almost forum-esque out of AWF blog about yours truly. There seem to be a group of people intent on constantly spilling abuse and venting their own personal demons in my direction, and, to be honest, it's quite scary, strange and more than a little disturbing.
I genuinely don't get it. Even if all the nasty stated about me is true - that I'm a multiple personality fantasist with a penchant for abusing consenting women and a mover and shaker in the BDSM world... so what? Why does that effect anyone? Why is that soooo offensive? Surely just as - or in my opinion more - offensive is to constantly target a couple of individuals (or, by their logic ONE individual) and bombard them daily with vile, slanderous and unwarranted abuse? Isn't that worse than anything I have been accused of (and never proved of) doing? I'd reckon so.
AWF is unfortunately complicit in this, because he/they can easily reject those comments but they publish them, and, of course, that is well within their rights. Have to be careful of the liable laws there, but so far I get why. I know what it's about. And that's fine. To be fair, it's getting a bit boring now.
See, if anything else, it's done me a favour, faithful reader, because my mask is off. The nuclear bomb has been dropped, there's nothing else for anyone to hit me with, and it's a huge relief. The thing with the "masked" me kind of shows the hysteria that was whipped up around me, and, in a way, shines a light right into the faces of the brainless fuckwits leaving comments on AWF's blog. THOSE are the guys with the problem, guys who think the most offensive person in the world is me. Christ, I'm a nothing, I'm genuinely not worth their attention. But still, what is it, all you amateur psychologist who google conditions to give me? Displacement? Transferance? What? Do your wives not understand you? Are you left alone at night whilst she "works" or "visits her sister" and all you can do is think... right, I'm gonna let him have it, that bastard, that guy who, em, said he knew things about Doctor Who I didn't... how dare he... what a bastard, or something? Don't you have, like, lives? Why am I so offensive? Why am I so important to you? Even if I AM a liar, which I'm clearly not, who cares? And if you do, why? What's it hurting? Cos I'll tell you, I'm a self fulfilling prophecy. See, for me to have done something - anything - then it's shut the spoilers - and if I did that, well, then I'm genuine, and not a liar, and, well, em, then... oh, see? Paradox. Bit of a bastard that, eh? Never mind. I'm sure you'll find a dog to kick sometime. Maybe sometimes, when you're feeling particularly naughty, you go and have an extra biscuit, even though mother told you not to... wooo... you're like, soooo bad...
So there's this guy, posts anonomously in AWF's comments and says things like "Marty, m'lad" and "Bladdy yakkity yak" and people think he's Mr Dark. Now, people think I'm Mr Dark too. I'm not, of course, but the hard of thinking chin-dribblers can't tell that Dark and I have completely different writing styles - I mean, completely different, unfakeably different, but, never mind, the "not very brights but can lift heavy things" can't see that, they just go for it. So this guy, whoever he is, is sitting in the house - probably his mum's, to be honest - and decides to write "Darkesque" abuse to people and then watches all the puppets jump through his hoops. He must be giggling his mother fucking arse off at you guys, you are so easy to manipulate! To give credit where it's due, I reckon Martin clocked that, and backed off the conversation pretty swiftly. Good call there, MLock, your instincts serve you well.
Fandom, gawd help us, needs AWF, it needs the bite, and the satire and the cynicism. I contacted the place out of a genuine respect for it. My initial email which was reproduced must have shown that, but it all seems to have been forgotten. What it doesn't need - and neither does AWF's reputation - is the culture of poisonous hangers on who vent an unnatural anger at someone for doing, what? Honestly, what?
If I dish it out, I must be willing to take it back, and, as long as it's an online persona thing, I'm happy to do so. I'm a big boy, and can easy fend off intellectual halfwits with words and wit rather than fists. But see, there's another thing. In the real world, in a pub (and I know most of these guys aren't allowed to go to pubs) if you called someone a "cunt" you'd get punched square on the face. But here, if someone slaughters you and you say "Well, lets meet, and I'll leather you..." the same guy who just called you a cunt goes "Yeah, that's all you can do, violence..." and hides behind a bigger boy. It's the ultimate in cowardice.
And it's all very unnecessary. It's all a bit silly, really. The whole situation has shone a light on the culture at the moment and it doesn't look good. I have come across arrogant and petulant, and perhaps duplicitious, AWF I reckon knows he/they were a little disengenious with what was a geniune hand of friendship, and DWF is trying to remain aloof, and, to be fair, doing a not too bad job. The skittering little comment makers who get sooooo angry at the whole thing come across as anti-social sociopaths with shallow lives and a zero-tolerance for silly things. So we all look like arseholes. And it's all a bit daft.
The worst thing I've done - even if I'm a liar, and a fantasist, even if I've made everything up - is to highlight the spoilers and what they were doing to the programme, to try and protect some of the integrity of the people making the show and give them credit for the damn hard work they do. Spoilers are a very different creature now, and I have to say I'm a bit proud of that, whatever some people say. The anticipation of a new episode with little known about it is a GOOD thing, faithful reader. However it happened. That's all I've done. And before people have a pop about me, and my internet habits - true or not - why not have a look at your own? The pay-to-view porn or the dodgy late-night sites, the drunken google for something you normally wouldn't look at or the email from someone with contents that make you go "whoooahhh!". But no, all these comment-creatures are lilly white, former cherubs who are so outraged that people dare have some kind of life. Where as they, of course, do not.
I'm not going to go bashing AWF, it's important it gets back on track and does what it does best. It IS funny. And I'm not going to bash DWF, or any of its alumni, because it does an important job and it is very, very needed. Christ, lads, hasn't this all gone far enough? Points made, medicine dished out, yadda yadda. Even Steve at the Restoration Team had to close down his forum because of abuse. That's crazy. Those guys do us a favour every single day! It's insane.
I know I've taken a pounding for saying this, but I genuinely mean it. We're all meant to be fans of Doctor Who. The Doctor. Would he be happy with this behaviour? Would he be proud of US... all of us? No, he wouldn't, he'd be ashamed. And so am I.
Skaro won't turn anyone away. It won't censor or edit comments. Despite what the arseholes are saying. People with things to say should come there, and talk... people, talk. Like adults. Like humans. Like men.
Think we can?
Happy times and places
Eddie
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