[ SECRET POST #2046 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2046 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #292.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - spam secret ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i46.tinypic.com/2vj4pih.jpg

[hornpile]

wow. he sounds like a great guy.

[(Anonymous)]

That reminds me of the Julie girl from Julie and Julia, who's second book was about cheating on her husband and how it was the best thing that she ever did, especially since he stayed with her. WTF, people!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not familiar with this author/series, but now I'm inclined to look him up. Douchebag or not, I enjoy seeing a successful trans person.

[(Anonymous)]

It was my impression that he and his partner agreed to try polyamory and it didn't work out. That's a bit different than just deciding to date someone else despite being in a longterm relationship.

[helenadax]

I love that book too but the author doesn't seem a great person. That happens, though. Being a good writer has nothing to so with being a nice person.

[(Anonymous)]

going anon for obvious reasons here-- I always felt like PZB was basically a yaoi fangirl. And then when she decided to get a sex change all I could think of was how many other yaoi fangirls had the same dream, and that her only real goal was so that she could have gay sex with men.

[murderershair.livejournal.com]

It is so, so depressing that I waded through this secret, terrified that there was going to be spiteful gender fail, and feel the need to give OP props just for referring to Billy as a man rather than a woman.

[(Anonymous)]

OP you forgot the really crappy 'ART' that he is selling one Ebay and the begging. Oh GOD the begging on his livejournal to buy his stuff on Ebay to pay normal living expenses. I just want to write 'get a job" over and over again but I am sure his fanboi's would lynch me.

If anyone is wondering why Chris left look back in Billy's journal to find his journal at fetlife. He posted about lots of dangerous behavior and being poly doesn't mean that you don't have to respect you main partner. And then Billy is surprised Chris left and quit supporting him. I have lost all respect for him and can't enjoy PZB books anymore either.

[femme_androgyne]

This is one of the reasons that I go out of my way to avoid knowing anything about creators whose works I admire. They almost always turn out to be dickbags.

Except Terry Pratchett. He's still cool.

[shahrizai]

Holy shitballs Poppy Z. Brite had a sex change?! I had no idea! I stopped paying attention when he started writing those foodie novels.

The story of how shahrizai was officially traumatized at the tender age of thirteen: I learned about Brite through yaoi fangirl channels and just mass ordered a bunch of her books without really looking at the descriptions. The day the shipment came in I decided to tackle the shortest one: Exquisite Corpse.

Needless to say, Jacqueline Carey and Anne Bishop didn't really disturb me when I got to them three years later.

[chocorate]

And this is why I have no drive to know anything about authors. I like some of his books though.

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations Billy, on giving men everywhere, ftm or otherwise, a bad name.

[blueonblue]

Some of the books I love were written by awful people. If you like The One and Future King or Brideshead Revisited, it's best to stay away from their authors. Based on Waugh's letters, I think he would have been an entertaining trainwreck of a blogger, bitchy and self-pitying.

Lost Souls is still one of my favorite vampire books. I really, really, really hope the author's financial problems don't lead to a sequel.

[(Anonymous)]

god he's ugly

[(Anonymous)]

Unsurprised at all this person went from female to male. They don't do a good job at passing.

[(Anonymous)]

omg, THIS.

I love Poppy Z Brite's work, but Billy's life is just one long lecture of being broke and poor me and annoying bitching. Trans folks, at least the ones I know, are pretty darn awesome--But every barrel has it's bruised apple. Male, female, whatever phenotype you put on for the day it doesn't matter, assholes are genderless.

[elialshadowpine]

Uhhhh... unless I missed something somewhere... Billy and his now ex were poly.

[(Anonymous)]

uh, they were in a poly relationship. he wasn't cheating. there were a LOT of factors in them splitting up and saying it was just about him transitioning and dating some one else is way oversimplifying it. he might complain a bit much and from what i've read of his journal i can never even tell if he wants to be with his husband or not, but i HATE seeing poly relationships treated like cheating.

[darkmanifest]

Damn it, I haven't even gotten a chance to read his books. Why are so many authors such failboats?

Maybe I'll forget I ever saw this by the time I actually get around to "Lost Souls" in my backlog of books.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, my favorite author and I had no clue.

[nailtek]

lol @ people just now realizing what a shit they are

It wasn't cheating, they were poly

[(Anonymous)]

They were both poly and the husband decided it wasn't working anymore. How is that Billy's fault?

[(Anonymous)]

So many of his blog posts around this time sound like "my partner has all these new friends and a new business and he's not paying enough attention to me (so I'm gonna get with this other dude)." And yeah, I get how poly relationships work, but there are still boundaries to adhere to (though I don't know what their specifics were), a hard and fast rule for me has always been don't treat your primary partner like shit.

[(Anonymous)]

I know nothing about any of the cheating stuff, but if it's true it doesn't surprise me. I remember starting to dislike him back when he started writing the fluffy food books and distancing himself from the earlier horror stuff.

Of course, I was just dismissed as a butthurt goth kid at the time, but Lost Souls is still one of my favorite books ever, and I genuinely love the two main characters, while I couldn't make myself care about the characters in the Liquor series at all. And it always bothered me that they had been together for like 15+ years I think and the book referred to them as "friends".