What does fifteen year old Andy’s old Usenet posts have to do with the man of today?
When one considers that two defenses proposed for his atrocious behavior have been his tender, delicate age during Bit of Earth, and his growing psychosis that was tearing him APART inside(!!!), it’s direct evidence that in 1998, Blake was already skilled at being different people in order to get what he wanted, he lied constantly, and his intense productivity at the time shows he was coherent and capable of vast projects.
Research, get you some.
Under my same parameters, find things that show what he claims, a person slowly falling apart, fragmenting in a way that doesn’t make an easy story.
Show me something that isn’t Blake ret-conning his own past to fit his present in-universe characterization.
Well, when I put together a timeline based on what he told me, then his psychosis wouldn’t have been full-blown until the end of April 2002, and he would have had prodromal symptoms for a while before that (he said 16, which would be 1999, but his recall of ages is extremely unreliable).
There’s some stuff in the Seether LJ records that might back that up (and those were verified by Abbey and Andy); I also found these comments, but they are from 2004 and the contact info on them is old, so I haven’t been able to verify them, though andy said that some of the information is right and that it “sounded plausible.”
I’ve been looking to talk to anybody who knew him in person around this time because I think it could be pretty informative, but it was 12 years ago, so it’s hard to track people down.
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