It's alway very sad when someone passes away. I never knew of Carol Tacker's existence until today.
I believed I was talking to someone named Brian Hennessey last year when I was reading his stories Indifference,Gone and Swamp Fever. Today I found out that Brian Hennessey (along with his partner Randall Morgan and their son Todd) was just a creation. I cried alot mourning this couple and their son,and that's when I was told by a few people to re-read the post I had read (which was the post you gave a link to in your post here) which I then did and discovered about these people being a creation.
All day I felt aweful because of this,I cried a good few times,I felt angry,lied to and very hurt. Betrayed even.
It is very sad that this woman passed away (as it is always sad when anyone does),but I knew only of her creations Brian Hennessey, Randall Morgan and Todd, and those are the people I mourned today ~ Yvonne xx
I have to admit that I am struggling with it right now - but I suspect a lot of people feel the same way.
What is really going to piss me off is if it affects the way I feel about the stories.
Because Ran's Brian was so influential in how I read Brian Kinney, and I loved Brian Hen's stuff, and if that has been spoiled for me the whole "don't speak ill of the dead" thing is going to be very hard to manage.
It's so sad that she died so young. I was never involved in the Brian/BB thing because I wasn't interested in the fic, so I have no investment one way or the other. I'm sorry people are hurt, and I'm sorry CT felt the need to perpetrate this deception for whatever reason. But mostly I'm sorry that strokes continue to fell people at such young ages, since that's the part of all this that most bothers me. ...I suspect, however, it's probably not the one I'm going to focus on in the coming day or two, hah!
Many people spoke to Randall back when and I assume the same goes for Brian more recently, though I don't know. Phone voices are not reliable in terms of identifying gender. Hey, remember JT Leroy - people actually met him/her and were duped.
Recently Carol began posting television reviews in her own name, but using Brian's twitter account. Maybe she was getting ready to be herself, maybe she wanted a way for her fans to know the truth or maybe she just got sloppy.
It's possible that she wanted to get caught after all this time. It's exhausting enough to be a writer of all those fics (and don't I know it!), but even more so to keep up a ruse for that long.
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It's alway very sad when someone passes away. I never knew of Carol Tacker's existence until today.
I believed I was talking to someone named Brian Hennessey last year when I was reading his stories Indifference,Gone and Swamp Fever. Today I found out that Brian Hennessey (along with his partner Randall Morgan and their son Todd) was just a creation. I cried alot mourning this couple and their son,and that's when I was told by a few people to re-read the post I had read (which was the post you gave a link to in your post here) which I then did and discovered about these people being a creation.
All day I felt aweful because of this,I cried a good few times,I felt angry,lied to and very hurt. Betrayed even.
It is very sad that this woman passed away (as it is always sad when anyone does),but I knew only of her creations Brian Hennessey, Randall Morgan and Todd, and those are the people I mourned today ~ Yvonne xx
Rest in peace Carol and also her creations.
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Like many, I've been in online touch with Randall and Brian for years.
But I also had a couple of phone conversations with someone (and it sounded like a guy) who claimed to be Randall.
So ... now I am very very confused.
I'm not saying it's not right.
I'm saying that it's made me question every single communication I've had with either Brian or Randall in all that time.
I suspect I'm not the only one.
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but you aren't.
As I said, I will be posting on this issue later, but I
need to decide exactly what I'm going to say and
how I'm going to address it.
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I have to admit that I am struggling with it right now - but I suspect a lot of people feel the same way.
What is really going to piss me off is if it affects the way I feel about the stories.
Because Ran's Brian was so influential in how I read Brian Kinney, and I loved Brian Hen's stuff, and if that has been spoiled for me the whole "don't speak ill of the dead" thing is going to be very hard to manage.
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Recently Carol began posting television reviews in her own name, but using Brian's twitter account. Maybe she was getting ready to be herself, maybe she wanted a way for her fans to know the truth or maybe she just got sloppy.
https://twitter.com/screenspy/statuses/258259885303676928
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this time. It's exhausting enough to be a writer of
all those fics (and don't I know it!), but even more
so to keep up a ruse for that long.
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