The strange thing about these weird little fen is that they proudly proclaim how different and unusual they are, then turn around and assume that everyone else must share their priorities and values. Their psychological issues are often apparent in the way they contradict themselves, not just over time, but often in the course of the same statement. Our Friend Damien is now theorizing, on the basis of his own extensive experience with psychological issues, that I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown… because I didn’t win a trophy? Which is particularly funny in light of McRapey’s recent multi-platform meltdown.
Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Well, if I’m any judge of mental breakdowns, Theodore Beale’s borderline personality disorder will be revving towards implosion around now.Geoffrey D. Wessel
Fuck him anyhow.Fred Kiesche @FredKiesche
@damiengwalter You sure about that? Because he seems to think this is all a good thing from the most recent tweet.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
If I’m any judge, yes 😉The Erudite Ogre @eruditeogre
That is fascinating.Fred Kiesche @FredKiesche
Especially given the results in the vote breakdown document. Western Union couldn’t have been clearer.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Also highlights how deluded he is. He genuinely believes he has thousands of “Ilk”, when it’s just a few dozen +Damien Walter @damiengwalter
+ bozos and berks who log on to his blog day after day to argue to rant about stuff they hate.The Erudite Ogre @eruditeogre
I peeked at his website. He’s going with a badge of honor strategy to interpret the results.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Of course. The real burn comes in a few weeks when we’ve all stopped talking about him.Fred Kiesche @FredKiesche
Wait, who?Damien Walter @damiengwalter
What? Did you say something?The Erudite Ogre @eruditeogre
He’s deep in his echo chamber right now. Once the adoration wears off he’ll write something utterly assholish.
Apparently the real burn has been postponed, as they’re still not done talking about the worthy winners of the Hugo Award. Oh, wait, no, they’re still talking about me.
Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Theo’s been absolutely and publicly humiliated by the community his pathology has fixated on. I genuinely hope he finds a good therapist.Arthur Chu @arthur_affect
I find this very doubtful. The whole narrative revolves around persecution & oppression, he publicly predicted he’d loseSFReviews.net/SFF180 @SFReviewsnet 10h
Meh, people like him have a remarkable skill at constructing narratives in which they come out on top no matter what happens.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Most likely he’ll ball up in bitter rage that will cripple the rest of his pitiful life. No change there then!Geoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel
I wonder if, perhaps, unilaterally, people paid him neither mind nor money? Then what?Arthur Chu @arthur_affect
Plenty of ppl already don’t. That’s why the escalationDamien Walter @damiengwalter
Give it a few weeks, the attention he needs will dissipate, and we’ll find out.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
Eventually people get bored of the story.Arthur Chu @arthur_affect
Vox didn’t get “purged” bc he suddenly decided to start being a racist. He’d been a racist for yearsArthur Chu @arthur_affect
He got “purged” bc for the 1st time he directed a racist screed at a specific person, & marked it to go on TwitterGeoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel
Yes, I know all that. 🙂 But ironically, it’s all this that got him the mass attention to begin with.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
That’s why borderlines are very difficult. They fixate on a group and will do anything to get attention from it.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
And his gang of halfwits will start losing interest now because he’s been shown to be weak.Geoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel
Well, either that, or the conspiracy moanings will ramp up. Either way, fuck him.john_zeleznik @john_zeleznik
Regretfully this plays into he and his goons narrative.john_zeleznik @john_zeleznik
A nitwit like Beale that has a ridiculous monicker like Vox Day is too ignorant to be humiliated.Damien Walter @damiengwalter
That’s what malformed personalities do, they create new identities in an attempt to belong somewhere.Geoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel
Self-fulfillig prophecies often do.
Isn’t it clever and witty when they pretend not to know who they are going on and on about? The remarkable thing about their bizarre attempts to psychoanalyze me is that all of this is the result of a single tweeted link. That’s how desperate for attention I was: I wrote a single blog post in response to a Vibrant American who was publicly lying about me, then tweeted the link. If that’s not attention-whoring, well, what is?
Spacebunny’s response to all this cracked me up: Have to leave @voxday alone for a couple of hours – better lock up the guns before I leave.
But I couldn’t be too down, as John Scalzi was, despite our many differences, gracious enough to review “Opera Vita Aeterna”. He was really too kind, writing: “It was like Gene Wolfe… easy to enjoy… deserving of award consideration.” I mean, wow! I can honestly say I never expected my writing to be compared to Gene Wolfe’s in any way, shape, or form. And by a Hugo Award winner, no less! It’s very heartening.
Anyhow, now that I have been shown to be less than massively popular among a small community of physically decrepit freaks weak, I will completely understand if you begin losing interest now.