How complete is the Andy timeline these days?
It’s…not. I’m still working on it, but very slowly, mostly because I have so much less free time and so much more going on in my life than I did when I started it.
The other reason for my glacially slow progress is that 2013-2015 was pretty intense. Andy was very prolific on Tumblr then, and I need to include a lot of his posts because they show the image(s) he was trying to project and the ways he used fandom and social justice issues to work on people. There’s also the posse to consider: it’s hard to balance respecting their privacy and leaving them out as much as possible with accurately portraying what Andy was up to during that time. I need to be careful not to drift too far into speculation about their individual relationships with Andy beyond what I see in Tumblr posts, so I end up having to edit quite a bit.
And more specifically, I’ve stalled for a while on things like the Wal-Mart-parking-lot-sex bullshit. I thought it would get easier to write about incidents like that over time, but no. It’s all just as repulsive as when I first heard about it, and it still makes me full-body shudder. He can be so exploitative and dehumanizing and…ugh.
It’ll get done, though. In the meantime, at least there’s an overview in my sidebar.
You do good work, Tea.
