25/04/2024
Dear Mandy,
I broke contact with you in October of 2023, when after many months of fielding problematic behavior from you personally and in the form of many complaints from members of a community in which we were both a part, I couldn't take it anymore.
I won't detail that behavior here, because one, I won't tell those people's stories. And two, I don't have the time it would take to detail it all in a way that would do the lunacy of it justice for our readers here.
Suffice it to say, after I attempted to ameliorate your many grievances with honesty and compassion in the form of a letter that honestly I'm pretty damn proud of for what it was attempting to express, you not only turned on me, but you had your husband send a letter back excoriating me instead, proving to me you were firmly lodged in your bedrock of denial, obsessive behavior, and instability.
I unfriended you after that. You were then banned from the FB group due to your appalling behavior re: another group member (though there were several others with stories). You continued to hang out in other ways, despite knowing you'd become persona non grata with several people for all the s**t you did. Nevertheless, I ignored you the best I could.
I started Vintage Villains and the associated Patreon in March of 2024, 5 months after the final debacle that had me throw down the iron curtain between you and me.
And lo and behold! You joined that Patreon! Once I got over the sheer amount of audacity you displayed in doing so (it only took a few seconds, because goddamn have I been experiencing a lot of audacity from a lot of motherf**kers recently), I immediately refunded your money and blocked you from Patreon.
Because guess what? You don't get to have a piece of ownership in yet another community after you spent so much energy spoiling the last one we were in together, ESPECIALLY after our last communication. Remember when I said you had a way of treating relationships transactionally? Here's a prime example of that. You so think you're entitled to buy access to people, even from those who set a firm boundary with you months ago. And when you can't buy that piece of them, you do this. You go into the reviews of my podcast, which only has 12 damn reviews and is barely getting started, and write petty, self-serving half-truths. In a place I can't reply. And you think you have the upper-hand somehow.
You say you're not vengeful? Oh I disagree. I have receipts. But you don't get to f**k with my bottom line without consequences.
So here I am now, setting it all straight in front of the world (don't worry, my response is on both of my Instagram accounts too and I might put it on Twitter for good measure, because f**k it). You were "blocked from supporting me" because you're a problematic person who stalks and harasses people. And you're apparently still a problematic person. I'm not even going to tag you, because I know you'll see this.
So let me just tell you one last thing to make it so super clear that you can't misinterpret it:
Leave me alone. Pretend you never heard of me. I don't want your patronage. And I hope to God whoever earns your fascination next has a really strong sense of boundaries, for both their sake and yours.
