#she1th

[huntypastellance]

Yeah, We’re talking about this now.

If you’ve been in the she1thdom for a while now & have followed popular she1th accounts, you’ll have noticed them occasionally posting something.....weird.

Posts vaguely complaining about a certain unnamed person who seems to despise the she1th fandom, use it for profit & doing all sorts of unsavory things behind the scenes in private DMs & discord servers.....

That person is Lee CA (Glossolalia on ao3), writer of those 2 fics that have invaded every she1th fan’s dash at some point in time (”Alien Sex Fiend” & “Picosecond”).

He’s the Cassandra Clare of the VLD fandom if CC had been caught being a creep & not just being a manipulative egotistical plagiarist obsessed with marketing.

Lee CA is about as much of a she1th fan as the infamous anti klanced is -- they ONLY care about it as a tool to boost their own popularity & will spend endless amounts of time bashing she1thers.

There’s a lot of posts about his whole sexual exploitation of naive minors & the whole thing blew up late February of 2019, but We’re here to talk about Lee’s entire history. (Notes: there will be some sources, but a lot of this is really old stuff or stuff only mentioned in private servers, so they’ve been lost to the sands of time or are just things heard through the grapevine.)

To preface all of this: NOBODY saw any of this coming. At worst, Lee was a narcissistic plagiarist high off the fumes of his own success, but his attitude at no point gave off any signs that he would exploit minors in that way. (Exploiting them for profit, though - that’s basically his whole shtick).

Lee was/is a very popular writer in the she1thdom (with fandom picking up the fanon “Shiro calls Keith ‘cherrybomb’” from his fics) & would charge professional rates for his works on his patreon, raking in around $1300 to $1600 PER MONTH for almost 2 YEARS on she1th fics alone (that isn’t counting his commissions either: he charges $125 for a 5000 word fic, $150 for a fic with porn). If he doesn’t hit his goal of $1600 a month, well, that’s clearly YOUR problem for not sponsoring him enough, not his.

Yeah, sure you could save $25 for the porn-free version, but reading a Lee work without any smut is like trying to eat a bowl of nails without any milk in it.

And then he would bitch & moan in DMs to other she1th creators about how “disgustingly underpaid he was”, “how ungrateful [she1th fans] are” or whine in she1th discords until his sympathizers ponied up enough money to pay him for another commission. Hell, he even admitted to MANY she1thers that he didn’t care about she1th, he didn’t like she1th & he was FURIOUS that how DARE not all his she1th fans were eager to throw their money at his original works (which forced him to go back to writing for she1th, even though he literally quit his dayjob to write fanfics full-time).

“Gruelingly underpaid” is apparently “professional rates for writing” so maybe Lee’s making a statement about the writing industry. Or maybe he’s just a dick.

As an ex-supporter of his patreon, We can tell you just how horrible his tiers are. And how tiring his whole gimmick of “I’m that edgy she1th writer! Sex workers! Drugs! Alcoholism! Cheating! Keith & Shiro hating each other but having sex! Christianity is evil & homophobic! -obligatory mention of Gucci because I’m trying to insert subliminal messages in my works to get my readers to buy me stuff!-” quickly got.

Essentially you’d have to pay $10 per month to see anything that wasn’t basically stuff you’d see on his twitter feed or tumblr. (”Pay me $5 a month & I’ll post my notes & let you know what I’m up to!”).

You also had to pay for updates to his she1th fic “Picosecond” if you wanted him to update at a speed faster than “1 chapter every 2-3 months” -- which is already stupid since it’s his fic, but if you’re unlucky & you “didn’t pay him enough”, he’d mention it on the post update that it’s YOUR fault that this chapter wasn’t longer*!

But it’s totally fine, because he said it in a joking tone & so that makes it okay to throw shade at his commissioner like that~!

*minor issue but he artificially inflates his own word count by waxing on about the scenery or filling the chapter with long monologues, so he was ripping people off even more while shilling how “deep” he was

Lee later threw a fit again about how ungrateful, uncaring & cruel the she1thdom was. Why? Because his newest fic about witch!Keith, paladin!Shiro & the cursed tree with crying baby heads for fruit didn’t get over 100 kudos within the span of three days.

And if you were a new fan to she1th & wanted fic recs? He’ll literally just rec his own fics & only his own fics! (Despite having connections to basically every she1th fic writer in the fandom).

Calling Lee a narcissist is a bit of an understatement.

He was also caught plagiarizing another she1ther’s band fic. And, key point here:

The original fic was posted for free on ao3.

Lee’s version was patreon-only until he posted it to ao3 (after ignoring his patreon subscribers who were like “hey what the fuck, i’ve read this before”).

You had to PAY to read Lee’s version (& this is just a personal opinion, but do you think you’d want to pay for a passionless uncaring version of the same fic? His whole disdain towards VLD & She1th leaks out all over his writing, but he’s so good at marketing his stuff that people don’t really notice it - they just think he’s being “dark & edgy”).

He then claimed to have no prior knowledge of the fic only for people to dig up his ao3 account & find out that not only had he bookmarked the original fic, but he had also kudosed it. (Yes, he’s deleted that bookmark by now. Can’t delete the kudos though!)

Lee tried to spin the whole thing as “fighting for the freedom to write whatever you want” just like how he tried to spin his condescending tweets about the Hanakotoba zine’s selection process as “rewarding those who worked hard at their writing” like it wasn’t just a blatant “im only picking me, my friends & popular folks & calling them the best the fandom has to offer” cash grab.

He eventually took down the fic but not before loudly insisting that he was in the right. The other author just wanted the drama to be over with so the entire incident was settled & forgotten without much fanfare.

And then someone spoke up & mentioned that Lee had begged for nudes from underaged fans. And a whole storm of threads poured forth, many of Lee’s whiteknights vanished into the wind & the she1th blogs who had been vaguing about him for years finally gave up on him (you can only avoid someone so much if they’re that popular & basically in every single she1th event promo & whatnot).

Essentially, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Or is it?

In the grand scheme of things, this hasn’t really changed much for Lee. People did write to his publisher, Oni Press, (as Lee was working on Dream Daddy with them) & while there was a response, there hasn’t been much information as to how it concluded.

His patreon follower count did drop quite a bit, but Lee still has many fans who will willingly throw tons of money at him. (Besides, he was already losing followers after VLD ended - tons of people lost interest in both the canon & in fan content).

So yeah, things haven’t really changed that much for Lee other than some people now refusing to support him financially or make art based on his works.

Twitter threads & posts about the whole incident:

http://archive.fo/HxI0H

http://archive.fo/N1thM

http://archive.fo/caVOs

http://archive.fo/YjBA5

http://archive.fo/2GgnG

http://archive.fo/454Ww

http://archive.fo/50f9A

http://archive.fo/EhBIQ

Fail-fandom threads about Lee CA’s attitude towards his own fans & his semi-illegal patreon (illegal in the sense that he never discloses on his account that he’s writing VLD fanfics for money):

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/265625.html?thread=1492373401#cmt1492373401

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/264405.html?thread=1485573845#cmt1485

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/321513.html?thread=1844915433#cmt1844915433

Lee CA’s plagiarism of another author:

http://archive.fo/TM25C

http://archive.fo/ioMRF

http://archive.fo/3kymS

http://archive.fo/yw6io

[cryptidflavored-archived-blog]

Ur so brave and right sheith really sucks

IT DOES

THEYRE BROTHERS

ITS INCEST

DO THESE PEOPLE WANT TO FUCK THEIR SIBLINGS??????? NO???????? ITS GROSS RIGHT???????? THEN WHY ARE YOU SHIPPING SIBLINGS

[huntypastellance]

I hate how s8 has brought the whole fandom together like this.

Klantis are now openly reblogging from shaladins, sheiths are openly reblogging from antis.

Plance shippers, normally lowkey, have started spouting crazy conspiracy theories about star formations. Shitllurans have made a comeback & Sheiths are teaming up with them (WHY).

VLD fandom just refuses to die quietly.....

[huntypastellance]

Kindasheithy is a lost cause. Just saw their convo with heymccree (takashishirogayne) the shallura hating sheither anti whose been going around harassing shallura shippers and the other people who have bi/pan Shiro headcanons. No wonder they’re using their own abuse as a shield against anything people try to tell them while calling other victims pedo apologists. Also they blatantly said we were attracted to the show because of Sheith being a “pedo ship”.

Submitted by an anonymous dear disciple

Man, that is some fucked up logic right there. Ugh, seeing sheithers who are antis leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But I guess that everyone makes exceptions for something & if there are antis who make exceptions for Shance or Lancelot, then there are certainly antis who make exceptions for Sheith.

......Even if that’s the second-worst hill to die on (worst hill to die on is an anti who makes an exception for Shidge).

[huntypastellance]

Can we just talk about this for a sec: the Sheith fandom raised over $20,000 for fucking charity. If this was any other fandom, the show-runners and staff would be screaming how fucking awesome their fandom is. But because of Klantis, the people who dedicated so much time and effort to showing love and compassion to others can’t even be recognized for it. What a fucking miserable fandom. Did anyone even tell the staff? Probably not—because even a tweet would cause klanti riots.

We’re no longer answering asks about the Hanakotoba zine because of reasons, but honestly, We haven’t seen any antis throw a fit over the zine.

Or even the Sheith wedding zine.

They seemed more pissed at the first Sheith charity zine (the one for a children’s hospital) & the Sheith months/big bang events. (They kept starting Klance or wlw/lesbian months to overshadow those Sheith events in 2017 & 2018. It was WEIRD.)

Not sure why though, you’d expect more outrage & things like antis trying to contact the charities & tell them that it’s “pedo money” (they did that with the first Sheith charity zine) but We didn’t hear anything about it if it did happen.

It does suck that fans aren’t allowed to talk about ship stuff to the staff anymore, lest they get crucified by the klantis for seemingly supporting any non-klance ship.

Although some of the staff seemed to have stopped caring, considering that Josh openly commented on the Yeehaw AU & Bex threatened to call the cops on antis.

Plus there’s that one Studio Mir animator who’s actually making Sheith tumblers & selling them online. But you didn’t hear that from Us.

[huntypastellance]

Hi! I don't believe you're in the Sheith Empire Server, so how do you have access to these things?

Sheith Empire Discord: omg we are so tightlipped & exclusive~

Also Sheith Empire Discord: -constantly gossips to everyone in their social circles about what happens in SED, vagueposts/vaguetweets about stuff happening in SED, etc.-

If you’re a Sheith shipper who even just occasionally hangs out in Sheith circles, then you’ll run across SED gossip sooner or later. And I have openly admitted to shipping Sheith.

Also, a lot of people tend to leave SED because they’re unhappy with it or because they got kicked. So you know, you could just ask those people. And a LOT of people left this time.

[huntypastellance]

https://gamesgeary-18.tumblr.com/post/174116406460/dchan87-real-talk-yeah-shiros-important-to/

Can’t seem to reblog your post (tumblr fucking up again?), but here’s what We had to say about it:

Well that’s unpleasant. @shalliekeith​ (or someone else, We forget) already gave Us a heads-up about dchan being an anti a while back.Don’t flood the ship tags with hate & remember to tag properly (use slashes or dashes, not spaces).

[huntypastellance]

cos Sheith fans can’t have fun on twitter ever. also all POC fans look white apparently 🤔🙃

Submitted by broganes--is--racist

Yeah, if there’s anything We learned from the whole “Lance cosplayers are brownfacing!” debacle, it’s that antis literally think that POC are white people covered in brown paint.

And see nothing wrong with accusing people of being white immediately.

Consequences? Critical thinking? Not being a racist tool who bases everything on appearances & biases? Never heard of them.