TORCHSONG! Oh, the hilarity.

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Yeah, so I dip my toes back into fandom and find this whole Torchsong hilarity on Fandom Wank. There are things I could say about this particular wank but sisterelwood has already been succinct enough to sum up my thoughts in the comments:

If you don't want something talked about then don't fucking tell a convention full of strangers. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. Additionally, anyone who dropped that much money on an event and didn't bother to understand the refund policy or make sure they were handing over money to a reputable group deserves to have their money stolen.

This whole thing isn't so much funny as a case study in fucking stupidity.

LOL. Comment of truth FTW!

Okay, actually I do have one or two things to say on the subject of Torchsong and -WAHEY!- John Barrowman. When do I ever not?

• There's a few comments at the anonmeme about John's behaviour, but I try not to read the anonmeme too much, if indeed at all, so I only skimmed over them. There was, however, a nice comparison somewhere between John Barrowman and a pedophile. Which was loltastic and very much to the point, the point being that this attitude of JB's of "I do special personal stuff for you convention guys! Stuff I don't do for ANYONE ELSE! Please keep it to yourself or they'll make me not do that special stuff anymore, so if you love me and want to be my special friend, you won't tell anyone about the special stuff we do together!" IS FUCKING CREEPY AND MANIPULATIVE AS FUCK. Seriously. CREEPY. In fact, I'm starting to think JB has some sort of narcissistic or histrionic personality disorder. I hope I didn't type that out loud just then.
  
  Really, though. Creepy. Creepy and weird, but mostly creepy.


• If John really wants to drag his non-celebrity other half and said other half's arse into the public eye, why doesn't he just do something REALLY tasteful like Celebrity Wife Swap or All Star Mr. and Mrs. or something like that? Maybe, now that the André's are splitting up, they could do a reality thing to replace Jordan and Peter Stateside on ITV 2. Or is it 3? (I mean, it's not like there's a Torchwood Season 4. We all know this.) It's obviously the sort of thing he's aiming for. TACKY!


• GDL uses Viagra? What drug habit is he compensating for, dudes? Answers on a postcard. (I'm guessing speed? Maybe coke?)

Crazy times, people. Crazy times.

Comments

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My strong hunch is it's just a thing he says, to engage his audience and create the illusion of intimacy, and create a buzz - because I find it really hard to believe he's naive enough to imagine an entire room full of hundreds of people are going to keep his secrets for him. Plus he told us a bit of "just between us!" stuff for at the Hub, and it wasn't actually secret stuff at all, just a few not-spoilers for s3, and in that situation was plainly a rhetorical device to hold our ccollective attentions.

Not that I think any less of him for doing that; it is actually his job in that sort of circumstance to be engaging to people at conventions.

Regarding misreported words, I don't know exactly what was said, and by whom, about what could and could not be recorded at this con since I didn't attend. I do, however, know a huge amount of the wank which surrounded the Hub was due to misreporting/misunderstandings of who had said what and why, so I'm inclined to suspect the same again, to a certain degree.